Zhongxin Song

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Zhongxin Song is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhongxin Song has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 41 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 20 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhongxin Song's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (41 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (21 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (19 papers). Zhongxin Song is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (41 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (21 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (19 papers). Zhongxin Song collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and Australia. Zhongxin Song's co-authors include Xueliang Sun, Lei Zhang, Jing‐Li Luo, Xian‐Zhu Fu, Niancai Cheng, Yang Zhao, Ruying Li, Qian Sun, Xia Li and Mohammad Norouzi Banis and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhongxin Song

53 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Metal organic frameworks for energy storage and conversion

2015 540 citations Yang Zhao, Zhongxin Song et al. profile →
Atomic layer deposited Pt-Ru dual-metal dimers and identifying their active sites for hydrogen evolution reaction

2019 517 citations Lei Zhang, Keegan R. Adair et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhongxin Song China	29	2.1k	2.1k	1.4k	516	513	60	3.6k
Chenbao Lu China	31	2.3k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	412 0.8×	523 1.0×	81	3.4k
Jun Ren China	31	2.4k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	288 0.6×	511 1.0×	81	3.6k
Yuebin Lian China	32	3.0k 1.4×	2.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	438 0.8×	531 1.0×	78	4.0k
Lianli Zou China	21	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	835 1.6×	840 1.6×	46	3.3k
Li An China	35	3.2k 1.5×	2.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.8×	484 0.9×	618 1.2×	65	4.8k
Liting Yan China	30	2.1k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 2.1×	637 1.2×	76	3.9k
Song Lin Zhang China	26	2.8k 1.3×	2.9k 1.4×	1.5k 1.1×	337 0.7×	706 1.4×	48	4.6k
Huicong Xia China	24	2.1k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	994 0.7×	230 0.4×	743 1.4×	50	3.3k
Bingjun Zhu China	26	2.3k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	603 1.2×	1.1k 2.1×	44	3.9k
Yiyin Huang China	36	2.5k 1.2×	2.5k 1.2×	914 0.7×	212 0.4×	568 1.1×	93	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhongxin Song

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Sun, Lidan, et al.. (2025). Nanoconfinement and tandem catalysis over yolk-shell catalysts towards electrochemical reduction of CO2 to multi-carbon products. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 687. 733–741. 1 indexed citations

Liang, Weidong, Yong Zhang, Dongniu Wang, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the Activity Origin of M–N–C Supported Nanoparticles for Efficient Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(49). 12589–12595.

Zou, Jinshuo, Lidan Sun, Siqi Liu, et al.. (2025). Strong Electronic Interactions of the Abundant Cu/Ce Interfaces Stabilized Cu ₂ O for Efficient CO ₂ Electroreduction to C ₂₊ Products under Large Current Density. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(46). 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Jingyan, Zhongxin Song, Xiaozhang Yao, et al.. (2025). Precisely constructing asymmetric triple atoms for highly efficient electrocatalysis. Chem. 11(9). 102498–102498. 9 indexed citations

Lin, J.P., Zhongyao Zhang, J. F. Qiu, et al.. (2025). Synergy between single atom and nanoclusters promotes power and CO tolerant performance in PEMFCs. Chemical Engineering Journal. 506. 160156–160156. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Wenhui, Zhongxin Song, Lingna Sun, et al.. (2025). TiO₂/CoO_x heterostructure decorated MIL-100(Fe) by atomic layer deposition for enhanced photocatalytic oxygen production. Dalton Transactions. 54(8). 3467–3477. 2 indexed citations

Song, Zhongxin, Libo Deng, Lei Zhang, et al.. (2025). Synergistic spatial separation effect of internal electric field in ALD-generated BiFeO3/CuO@Co Z-type heterojunction for enhanced photocatalytic water oxidation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 684(Pt 2). 73–83. 1 indexed citations

Luo, Zhaoyan, Lei Zhang, Zhongxin Song, et al.. (2024). Synergistic M‐O Dual‐Atom Pairs Induced Interfacial Water Hydrogen Bonding Network for Boosting MoSe₂ Electrocatalytic Performance. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(44). 20 indexed citations

Song, Zhongxin, Chuang Xue, Xiaozhang Yao, et al.. (2024). Atomic Phosphorus Sites for Anchoring Platinum–Tungsten Dimers to Facilitate Proton Transfer in All‐pH Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(1). 10 indexed citations

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Yao, Xiaozhang, Zhongxin Song, Xue Yao, et al.. (2024). Synergistic Ni−W Dimer Sites Induced Stable Compressive Strain for Boosting the Performance of Pt as Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 136(21). 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhongyao, et al.. (2024). Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Pyridinic Nitrogen-Functionalized Carbon: Active Site Quantification and Effects of Lewis Basicity. ACS Catalysis. 15(1). 296–309. 14 indexed citations

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Song, Zhongxin, Qingfeng Zhang, Yuan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Regulating coordination environment of atomic dimer catalysts for high performance oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 365. 124970–124970. 6 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Munir, Jiahui Chen, Jianwen Liu, et al.. (2023). Metal‐organic framework‐based single‐atom electro‐/photocatalysts: Synthesis, energy applications, and opportunities. Carbon Energy. 6(1). 56 indexed citations

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Song, Zhongxin, Junjie Li, Qianling Zhang, et al.. (2023). Progress and perspective of single‐atom catalysts for membrane electrode assembly of fuel cells. Carbon Energy. 5(7). 36 indexed citations

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Song, Zhongxin, Kaixi Wang, Qian Sun, et al.. (2021). High‐Performance Ammonium Cobalt Phosphate Nanosheet Electrocatalyst for Alkaline Saline Water Oxidation. Advanced Science. 8(14). 2100498–2100498. 66 indexed citations

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Huo, Ge, Xuewan Wang, Zhongxin Song, et al.. (2020). γ-MnO2 nanorod-assembled hierarchical micro-spheres with oxygen vacancies to enhance electrocatalytic performance toward the oxygen reduction reaction for aluminum-air batteries. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 51. 81–89. 62 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lei, Yang Zhao, Mohammad Norouzi Banis, et al.. (2019). Rational design of porous structures via molecular layer deposition as an effective stabilizer for enhancing Pt ORR performance. Nano Energy. 60. 111–118. 69 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lei, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Mohammad Norouzi Banis, et al.. (2018). Selective atomic layer deposition of RuO_x catalysts on shape-controlled Pd nanocrystals with significantly enhanced hydrogen evolution activity. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(47). 24397–24406. 35 indexed citations

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Song, Zhongxin, Niancai Cheng, Mohammad Norouzi Banis, et al.. (2017). Origin of the high oxygen reduction reaction of nitrogen and sulfur co-doped MOF-derived nanocarbon electrocatalysts. Materials Horizons. 4(5). 900–907. 97 indexed citations

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Song, Zhongxin, Niancai Cheng, Andrew Lushington, & Xueliang Sun. (2016). Recent Progress on MOF-Derived Nanomaterials as Advanced Electrocatalysts in Fuel Cells. Catalysts. 6(8). 116–116. 111 indexed citations

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