Zhenxian Liu

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
194 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Zhenxian Liu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Geophysics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhenxian Liu has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Materials Chemistry, 68 papers in Geophysics and 49 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Zhenxian Liu's work include High-pressure geophysics and materials (66 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (24 papers) and Crystallography and molecular interactions (19 papers). Zhenxian Liu is often cited by papers focused on High-pressure geophysics and materials (66 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (24 papers) and Crystallography and molecular interactions (19 papers). Zhenxian Liu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Zhenxian Liu's co-authors include Russell J. Hemley, Yang Song, Ho‐kwang Mao, Alexander F. Goncharov, Oleksandr O. Kurakevych, Artem R. Oganov, Jiuhua Chen, Yanming Ma, Tony Yu and Carlo Gatti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Zhenxian Liu

186 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Ionic high-pressure form of elemental boron 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Ionic high-pressure form of elemental boron
    2009 724 citations Zhenxian Liu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhenxian Liu United States 42 4.0k 1.9k 1.5k 1.1k 996 194 7.0k
Sandro Scandolo Italy 42 3.4k 0.9× 2.0k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 556 0.5× 2.0k 2.0× 154 6.5k
Marco Bernasconi Italy 48 5.4k 1.4× 1.1k 0.6× 2.5k 1.6× 661 0.6× 2.3k 2.3× 213 8.0k
Vladimir Dmitriev France 42 4.0k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 638 0.4× 1.2k 1.2× 770 0.8× 201 5.9k
A. Marco Saitta France 44 3.5k 0.9× 975 0.5× 1.3k 0.8× 591 0.6× 1.9k 1.9× 108 6.2k
Henry E. Fischer France 43 4.0k 1.0× 899 0.5× 639 0.4× 823 0.8× 1.2k 1.2× 231 6.5k
Gastón Garbarino France 43 2.4k 0.6× 2.5k 1.3× 494 0.3× 1.6k 1.6× 501 0.5× 253 6.1k
G. Vaughan France 52 4.4k 1.1× 477 0.2× 1.1k 0.7× 1.5k 1.4× 412 0.4× 243 8.5k
Stewart F. Parker United Kingdom 47 5.0k 1.2× 513 0.3× 978 0.6× 780 0.7× 1.9k 1.9× 402 9.7k
Alessandro Erba Italy 34 3.5k 0.9× 945 0.5× 1.0k 0.7× 1.2k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 114 5.6k
Victor Milman Germany 37 4.8k 1.2× 1.4k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 1.4k 1.4× 1.0k 1.0× 200 7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhenxian Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhenxian Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhenxian Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhenxian Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhenxian Liu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Zhenxian Liu. Zhenxian Liu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Musfeldt, J. L., Sobhit Singh, Xianghan Xu, et al.. (2025). Pressure-Driven Polar Orthorhombic to Tetragonal Phase Transition in Hafnia at Room Temperature. Chemistry of Materials. 37(5). 1820–1825. 1 indexed citations
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Gramsch, Stephen A., et al.. (2025). Vibrational Dynamics and Phase Transitions of Hydrazine to 50 GPa. ACS Omega. 10(8). 7999–8008.
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Wang, Sicheng, Bin Wang, Zhenxian Liu, et al.. (2025). Pressure‐Modulated Luminescence Enhancement and Quenching in a Hydrogen‐Bonded Organic Framework. Small. 21(11). e2411362–e2411362. 6 indexed citations
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Mandrus, David, et al.. (2025). Symmetry progression and band vs Mott character of CdPS3 under pressure. APL Materials. 13(7). 1 indexed citations
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Li, Jiayi, J. Hofmann, Robert M. Stolz, et al.. (2025). Suppressing Phase Transitions and High-Pressure Amorphization through Tethered Organic Cations in Organochalcogenide-Halide Perovskites. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(22). 19026–19038. 1 indexed citations
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Musfeldt, J. L., Sobhit Singh, Shiyu Fan, et al.. (2024). Structural phase purification of bulk HfO 2 :Y through pressure cycling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(5). e2312571121–e2312571121. 7 indexed citations
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Huang, Mingming, Gaofeng Wei, Zhenxian Liu, et al.. (2023). Numerical study of the effect of pressure on the combustion characteristics of ammonia/coal-derived syngas mixture under gas turbine operating conditions. Fuel. 347. 128463–128463. 18 indexed citations
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Yang, Hanjun, Wenwu Shi, Yasutaka Nagaoka, et al.. (2023). Access and Capture of Layered Double Perovskite Polytypic Phase through High-Pressure Engineering. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(5). 2407–2415. 10 indexed citations
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Lu, Yi, Zhirui Liu, Chao Liu, et al.. (2023). Transition metal-free electrochemical fluorotrifluoromethylation of Styrenes. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 10(5). 1283–1288. 11 indexed citations
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Musfeldt, J. L., David Mandrus, & Zhenxian Liu. (2023). Insulator–metal transition in CrSiTe3 triggered by structural distortion under pressure. npj 2D Materials and Applications. 7(1). 8 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhenxian, et al.. (2022). From Outer Space to the Center of the Earth: How NSLS-II Capabilities Enable Geoscience Studies. Synchrotron Radiation News. 35(6). 2–7. 1 indexed citations
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Clune, Amanda, et al.. (2021). Pressure-induced phase transition and phonon softening in h−Lu0.6Sc0.4FeO3. Physical review. B.. 104(9). 6 indexed citations
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Hughey, Kendall D., Kenneth R. O’Neal, Amanda Clune, et al.. (2020). Spin–Lattice Coupling Across the Magnetic Quantum-Phase Transition in Copper-Containing Coordination Polymers. Inorganic Chemistry. 59(4). 2127–2135. 10 indexed citations
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Clune, Amanda, Kenneth R. O’Neal, Kendall D. Hughey, et al.. (2020). Developing the Pressure–Temperature–Magnetic Field Phase Diagram of Multiferroic [(CH3)2NH2]Mn(HCOO)3. Inorganic Chemistry. 59(14). 10083–10090. 18 indexed citations
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Zhu, Feng, et al.. (2019). Metallic iron limits silicate hydration in Earth’s transition zone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(45). 22526–22530. 20 indexed citations
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Zhang, Huafang, Quanjun Li, Fei Wang, et al.. (2018). Pressure-Induced Reversible Phase Transitions in a New Metastable Phase of Vanadium Dioxide. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(1). 955–962. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Huafang, Benyuan Cheng, Quanjun Li, et al.. (2017). Optical properties and structural phase transitions of W-doped VO2(R) under pressure. RSC Advances. 7(50). 31597–31602. 7 indexed citations
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Kronenberg, A. K., et al.. (2017). Synchrotron FTIR imaging of OH in quartz mylonites. Solid Earth. 8(5). 1025–1045. 15 indexed citations
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Zhuravlev, K. K., et al.. (2010). Raman and infrared spectroscopy of pyridine under high pressure. Physical Review B. 82(6). 54 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhenxian, et al.. (2010). La 2 Zr 2 O 7 パイロクロアにおける圧力誘起無秩序化と異常格子膨張. Physical Review Letters. 105(1). 1–15503. 28 indexed citations

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