Zhijie Chen

10.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
242 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Zhijie Chen is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhijie Chen has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 69 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 49 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhijie Chen's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (48 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (44 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (23 papers). Zhijie Chen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (48 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (44 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (23 papers). Zhijie Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Belgium. Zhijie Chen's co-authors include Bing‐Jie Ni, Wei Wei, Xiaoguang Duan, Shaobin Wang, Hong Chen, Renji Zheng, Xiaoqing Liu, Xingdong Shi, Yiwen Liu and Lan Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Zhijie Chen

226 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

Recent advances in transition metal-based electrocatalyst... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2024 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. Recent advances in transition metal-based electrocatalysts for alkaline hydrogen evolution
    2019 634 citations Zhijie Chen, Wei Wei et al. profile →
  2. Work Function‐Guided Electrocatalyst Design
    2024 112 citations Zhijie Chen, Tianyi Ma 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
Zhijie Chen China 52 3.6k 2.6k 2.0k 1.1k 1.1k 242 8.0k
Jia Liu China 50 1.7k 0.5× 3.2k 1.2× 1.2k 0.6× 1.5k 1.3× 879 0.8× 254 8.3k
Liang Wang China 51 3.3k 0.9× 1.5k 0.6× 2.2k 1.1× 2.6k 2.3× 983 0.9× 345 9.9k
Dan Chen China 53 2.0k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 3.8k 1.9× 1.7k 1.5× 840 0.8× 423 9.9k
Jie Ding China 60 6.1k 1.7× 3.0k 1.1× 4.2k 2.1× 1.5k 1.3× 2.0k 1.8× 308 12.9k
Hongtao Liu China 55 2.1k 0.6× 4.8k 1.8× 2.5k 1.3× 1.2k 1.0× 511 0.5× 333 9.9k
Yang Mu China 55 3.0k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 1.9k 1.0× 2.9k 2.5× 2.0k 1.8× 217 10.2k
Yuting Zhang China 50 2.6k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 2.7k 1.4× 2.2k 1.9× 873 0.8× 379 9.4k
Amani Al–Othman United Arab Emirates 44 1.5k 0.4× 2.1k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 1.6k 1.4× 515 0.5× 147 6.0k
Yunxia Zhang China 65 4.8k 1.3× 3.6k 1.4× 4.8k 2.4× 2.4k 2.1× 605 0.5× 289 12.5k
Hong Liu China 56 3.5k 1.0× 8.5k 3.2× 2.1k 1.1× 1.9k 1.6× 1.4k 1.3× 241 14.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhijie Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhijie Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhijie Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhijie Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhijie Chen 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 Zhijie Chen. Zhijie Chen 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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Dong, Shengyang, Jingyuan Zhang, Xiaozhi Bao, et al.. (2025). High-entropy oxides: Emergent materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 227. 192–215. 13 indexed citations
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Liu, Yufei, Jian Zhang, Wenshan Guo, et al.. (2024). Fate and mitigation of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in microbial fuel cell and coupled systems. The Science of The Total Environment. 938. 173530–173530. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhijie, et al.. (2024). Sulfurization of transition metal inorganic electrocatalysts in Li–S batteries. Chemical Communications. 61(2). 207–219. 8 indexed citations
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Huang, Zhibin, Huaiyu Wu, Jing Zheng, et al.. (2024). Deep learning combined with attention mechanisms to assist radiologists in enhancing breast cancer diagnosis: a study on photoacoustic imaging. Biomedical Optics Express. 15(8). 4689–4689. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhijie, Xudong Dong, Xingda An, et al.. (2024). Hierarchical Carbon Nanocages as Superior Supports for Photothermal CO2 Catalysis. ACS Nano. 5 indexed citations
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Wei, Wei, Lan Wu, Xiaoqing Liu, et al.. (2024). Electron Donor-Driven Microalgae Upgrading into High-Value Fatty Acids via a Microbial Platform. ACS ES&T Engineering. 4(12). 3080–3091. 3 indexed citations
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Zahmatkesh, Sasan, et al.. (2023). Combination of coagulation and adsorption technologies for advanced wastewater treatment for potable water reuse: By ANN, NSGA-II, and RSM. Journal of Environmental Management. 349. 119429–119429. 49 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhijie, Renji Zheng, Teng Bao, et al.. (2023). Dual-Doped Nickel Sulfide for Electro-Upgrading Polyethylene Terephthalate into Valuable Chemicals and Hydrogen Fuel. Nano-Micro Letters. 15(1). 210–210. 65 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jiaqi, Zhijie Chen, Yiwen Liu, Wei Wei, & Bing‐Jie Ni. (2023). Removal of emerging contaminants (ECs) from aqueous solutions by modified biochar: A review. Chemical Engineering Journal. 479. 147615–147615. 56 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhijie, Wei Zuo, Kun Zhou, et al.. (2023). Multi-objective optimization of proton exchange membrane fuel cells by RSM and NSGA-II. Energy Conversion and Management. 277. 116691–116691. 93 indexed citations
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Han, Ning, Junjie Shi, Mohamed A. Habila, et al.. (2023). Red mud-derived iron carbon catalyst for the removal of organic pollutants in wastewater. Chemosphere. 337. 139211–139211. 10 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhijie, Wei Wei, Yansong Shen, & Bing‐Jie Ni. (2023). Defective nickel sulfide hierarchical structures for efficient electrochemical conversion of plastic waste to value-added chemicals and hydrogen fuel. Green Chemistry. 25(15). 5979–5988. 39 indexed citations
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Qian, Jin, Yichu Zhang, Zhijie Chen, Yufei Du, & Bing‐Jie Ni. (2023). NiCo layered double hydroxides/NiFe layered double hydroxides composite (NiCo-LDH/NiFe-LDH) towards efficient oxygen evolution in different water matrices. Chemosphere. 345. 140472–140472. 43 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhijie, Renji Zheng, Haiyuan Zou, et al.. (2023). Amorphous iron-doped nickel boride with facilitated structural reconstruction and dual active sites for efficient urea electrooxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 465. 142684–142684. 51 indexed citations
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Lai, Qiang & Zhijie Chen. (2023). Grid-scroll memristive chaotic system with application to image encryption. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 170. 113341–113341. 94 indexed citations

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