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Cell Reports Physical Science
H-index 69

Cell Reports Physical Science

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Materials Science 84 971 821 62

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1742
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1324
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 80
SCIMAGO H-index: 66
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.098
Impact Factor: 7.3

Top Publications

  • Techno-economic Analysis of Hydrogen Electrolysis from Off-Grid Stand-Alone Photovoltaics Incorporating Uncertainty Analysis

    Jonathon Yates;Rahman Daiyan;Robert Patterson;Renate Egan

    (2020)
    274 Citations
  • End-of-life or second-life options for retired electric vehicle batteries

    Juner Zhu;Ian Mathews;Ian Mathews;Dongsheng Ren;Wei Li

    (2021)
    273 Citations
  • Pressure-Driven Interface Evolution in Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries

    Xin Zhang;Q. Jane Wang;Katharine L. Harrison;Scott A. Roberts

    (2020)
    219 Citations
  • Ultrastable Mesoporous Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework-Based Fiber Composites toward Mustard Gas Detoxification

    Kaikai Ma;Kaikai Ma;Peng Li;John H. Xin;Yongwei Chen

    (2020)
    208 Citations
  • Engineering Materials at the Nanoscale for Triboelectric Nanogenerators

    Yihao Zhou;Weili Deng;Jing Xu;Jun Chen

    (2020)
    206 Citations
  • Complete Reconstruction of Hydrate Pre-Catalysts for Ultrastable Water Electrolysis in Industrial-Concentration Alkali Media

    Xiong Liu;Jiashen Meng;Kun Ni;Ruiting Guo

    (2020)
    205 Citations
  • Design Principles of Artificial Solid Electrolyte Interphases for Lithium-Metal Anodes

    Zhiao Yu;Yi Cui;Yi Cui;Zhenan Bao

    (2020)
    197 Citations
  • Electrosynthesis of urea from nitrite and CO2 over oxygen vacancy-rich ZnO porous nanosheets

    Nannan Meng;Yanmei Huang;Yang Liu;Yifu Yu

    (2021)
    177 Citations
  • Emerging polymeric carbon nitride Z-scheme systems for photocatalysis

    Guangfu Liao;Chunxue Li;Xinzheng Li;Baizeng Fang

    (2021)
    169 Citations
  • Photoresponsive Materials for Antibacterial Applications

    Yawei Ren;Hanpeng Liu;Xiangmei Liu;Yufeng Zheng

    (2020)
    155 Citations

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