Zhou Yang

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Zhou Yang is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhou Yang has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 40 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 25 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhou Yang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (43 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (23 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (16 papers). Zhou Yang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (43 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (23 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (16 papers). Zhou Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and United States. Zhou Yang's co-authors include Meng Xiang, Shuang Dong, Gregory S. Hutchings, Qi Lu, Feng Jiao, John Q. Xiao, Jingguang G. Chen, Chengbin Yu, Hengfei Qin and Hui Jia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Zhou Yang

88 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Highly porous non-precious bimetallic electrocatalysts fo... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400
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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. Highly porous non-precious bimetallic electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution
    2015 479 citations Zhou Yang 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
Zhou Yang China 23 1.2k 944 643 269 200 90 1.9k
Xiaopeng Wang China 26 1.3k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 821 1.3× 311 1.2× 99 0.5× 68 2.3k
Zafar Khan Ghouri Qatar 27 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 1.1k 1.6× 437 1.6× 146 0.7× 66 2.3k
Jianhua Yu China 26 892 0.8× 1.2k 1.3× 707 1.1× 633 2.4× 140 0.7× 106 2.1k
Yajing Wang China 29 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 929 1.4× 247 0.9× 172 0.9× 114 2.3k
Yiseul Yu South Korea 25 1.4k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 1.2k 1.8× 332 1.2× 277 1.4× 43 2.4k
Hongtao Gao China 23 1.5k 1.3× 1.3k 1.4× 956 1.5× 199 0.7× 272 1.4× 95 2.4k
Liying Zhang China 26 730 0.6× 1.2k 1.3× 983 1.5× 325 1.2× 289 1.4× 111 2.4k
Yuanzhi Zhu China 30 1.8k 1.5× 1.4k 1.5× 1.7k 2.6× 324 1.2× 96 0.5× 91 3.1k
C. Manjunatha India 24 453 0.4× 637 0.7× 717 1.1× 284 1.1× 97 0.5× 118 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhou Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhou Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhou Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhou Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhou Yang 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 Zhou Yang. Zhou Yang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Yang, Linji, Zhou Yang, Libin Zhang, et al.. (2025). Efficient Ternary Organic Photovoltaic Films for Fast Exciton Separation to Generate Free Radicals for Wastewater Treatment. Exploration. 5(3). 270001–270001. 7 indexed citations
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Liu, Gen, et al.. (2025). Ruthenium-based medium-entropy alloy oxide for hydrogen evolution linked to biomass sucrose upcycling. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(23). 11638–11643. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qiang, et al.. (2024). Electrocatalytic oxidation of methane to low-carbon alcohol via stable Ni+/Ni0 interface. Molecular Catalysis. 563. 114234–114234. 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhou, et al.. (2024). SnO2/CoTeO3 heterojunction for smartly conducting hydrogen evolution linking to organics electrocatalytic oxidation. Journal of Power Sources. 609. 234692–234692. 14 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhou, Nan Jiang, Shaoyi Bei, et al.. (2024). Single-atom palladium on nonstoichiometric tungsten oxide as bifunctional electrocatalyst for zinc-air battery. Electrochimica Acta. 476. 143768–143768. 8 indexed citations
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Niu, Hongwei, Hui Jia, Zhou Yang, & Hengfei Qin. (2024). Ultralow palladium doped C4N as a potential bifunctional electrocatalyst for zinc-air battery. Materials Letters. 372. 136991–136991. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhou, Hongwei Niu, Le Li, et al.. (2023). Rare-earth europium heterojunction electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution linking to glycerol oxidation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 48(83). 32304–32312. 25 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhou, et al.. (2023). Amorphous/crystal hybrid cerium-based Mott-Schottky heterojunction as a bifunctional electrocatalyst. Ionics. 30(1). 617–621. 7 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhou, Yuan Gao, Zhong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Oxidation of amine-based pharmaceuticals with unactivated peroxymonosulfate: Kinetics, mechanisms, and elimination efficiency of NDMA formation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 463. 132961–132961. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Juan, Xiaoxiao Guo, Zhaoyuan Lyu, et al.. (2023). A novel tandem reactor design based on nano-Cu electrocatalysts and microbial biocatalysts for converting CO2 into ethylene and acetate. Green Chemistry. 25(14). 5712–5720. 10 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chunyong, et al.. (2023). SnO2/CoS1.097 heterojunction as a green electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution linking to assistant glycerol oxidation. Green Chemistry. 25(22). 9405–9412. 21 indexed citations
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Xiang, Meng, Hongwei Niu, Wei Lin, et al.. (2023). Composites Made of Waste Face Masks, Microplastics, and Carbon Nanotubes: Electromagnetic Shielding Properties. ACS Applied Engineering Materials. 1(9). 2407–2416. 4 indexed citations
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Xiang, Meng, Hongwei Niu, Sai Qin, et al.. (2022). Modification of graphene by polypyrrole and ionic liquids for dual-band electromagnetic interference shielding hydrogels. Journal of Materials Science. 57(24). 10983–10996. 24 indexed citations
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Xiang, Meng, Zhou Yang, Jianxiang Chen, et al.. (2021). Facile Approach to Fabricating Stretchable Conductors by Decorating Cheap Reduced Graphene Oxide with Silver Nanocrystals in Loofah Sponge Fibers. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 3(2). 912–920. 1 indexed citations
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Xiang, Meng, et al.. (2020). Polymeric Thermoelectric Composites by Polypyrrole and Cheap Reduced Graphene Oxide in Towel-Gourd Sponge Fibers. ACS Omega. 5(46). 29955–29962. 27 indexed citations
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Lyu, Zhaoyuan, Shichao Ding, Nan Zhang, et al.. (2020). Single-Atom Nanozymes Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Sensitive Detection of A β 1-40: A Biomarker of Alzheimer’s Disease. Research. 2020. 4724505–4724505. 73 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhou & Zhonghui Chen. (2019). Thermally doped polypyrrole nanotubes with sulfuric acid for flexible all-solid-state supercapacitors. Nanotechnology. 30(24). 245402–245402. 17 indexed citations

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