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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Materials Science 53 9157 8842 2222 2061 199 11433

Dongsheng Li publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Dongsheng Li between 2001 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Dongsheng Li published across 26 years, from 2001 to 2026, averaging 22.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 107 publications in 2022. 97 of the 579 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
25 50 75 100
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2001 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 107. Peak 107 publications in 2022. 2001: 3 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 13 publications 2011: 13 publications 2012: 22 publications 2013: 19 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 16 publications 2020: 19 publications 2021: 16 publications 2022: 107 publications 2023: 88 publications 2024: 87 publications 2025: 95 publications 2026: 2 publications
2001 2026

579 publications in total across all disciplines

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Dongsheng Li: publications per year, 2001 to 2026
Year Publications
2001 3
2002 3
2003 4
2004 2
2005 7
2006 4
2007 2
2008 6
2009 8
2010 13
2011 13
2012 22
2013 19
2014 13
2015 8
2016 6
2017 10
2018 6
2019 16
2020 19
2021 16
2022 107
2023 88
2024 87
2025 95
2026 2
Total 579
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Dongsheng Li publications per year - data summary

  • Dongsheng Li, a Materials Science scholar from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has 579 publications recorded across 26 years, from 2001 to 2026.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 2001 and the most recent to 2026.
  • The most productive year is 2022, with 107 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 2004, 2007 and 2026, with 2 publications each.
  • The rate of publication averages 22.3 papers per year over the whole span, or 22.3 per year counting only the 26 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2022-2026) hold 379 publications, 65% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 2001-2009: 39 publications (4.3 per year); 2010-2018: 110 publications (12.2 per year); 2019-2026: 430 publications (53.8 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Dongsheng Li publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dongsheng Li sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600 800
Bar chart with 57 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 50–69 to 1,163+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 891. Most scientists, 891, have 190–209 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 190–209 publications, is where this scientist sits. 50–69 publications: 28 scientists 70–89 publications: 152 scientists 90–109 publications: 356 scientists 110–129 publications: 487 scientists 130–149 publications: 723 scientists 150–169 publications: 835 scientists 170–189 publications: 850 scientists 190–209 publications: 891 scientists 210–229 publications: 862 scientists 230–249 publications: 766 scientists 250–269 publications: 726 scientists 270–289 publications: 665 scientists 290–309 publications: 593 scientists 310–329 publications: 537 scientists 330–349 publications: 477 scientists 350–369 publications: 440 scientists 370–389 publications: 356 scientists 390–409 publications: 321 scientists 410–429 publications: 256 scientists 430–449 publications: 246 scientists 450–469 publications: 216 scientists 470–489 publications: 212 scientists 490–509 publications: 174 scientists 510–529 publications: 194 scientists 530–549 publications: 162 scientists 550–569 publications: 131 scientists 570–589 publications: 111 scientists 590–609 publications: 103 scientists 610–629 publications: 99 scientists 630–649 publications: 77 scientists 650–669 publications: 92 scientists 670–689 publications: 56 scientists 690–709 publications: 53 scientists 710–729 publications: 53 scientists 730–749 publications: 38 scientists 750–769 publications: 52 scientists 770–789 publications: 43 scientists 790–809 publications: 38 scientists 810–829 publications: 34 scientists 830–849 publications: 25 scientists 850–869 publications: 18 scientists 870–889 publications: 20 scientists 890–909 publications: 24 scientists 910–929 publications: 27 scientists 930–949 publications: 20 scientists 950–969 publications: 17 scientists 970–989 publications: 10 scientists 990–1,009 publications: 16 scientists 1,010–1,029 publications: 13 scientists 1,030–1,049 publications: 12 scientists 1,050–1,069 publications: 9 scientists 1,070–1,089 publications: 8 scientists 1,090–1,109 publications: 7 scientists 1,110–1,129 publications: 9 scientists 1,130–1,149 publications: 2 scientists 1,150–1,162 publications: 5 scientists 1,163+ publications: 100 scientists
50–69 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 199 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

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Number of Materials Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 12,847 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
50–69 28
70–89 152
90–109 356
110–129 487
130–149 723
150–169 835
170–189 850
190–209 891 199
210–229 862
230–249 766
250–269 726
270–289 665
290–309 593
310–329 537
330–349 477
350–369 440
370–389 356
390–409 321
410–429 256
430–449 246
450–469 216
470–489 212
490–509 174
510–529 194
530–549 162
550–569 131
570–589 111
590–609 103
610–629 99
630–649 77
650–669 92
670–689 56
690–709 53
710–729 53
730–749 38
750–769 52
770–789 43
790–809 38
810–829 34
830–849 25
850–869 18
870–889 20
890–909 24
910–929 27
930–949 20
950–969 17
970–989 10
990–1,009 16
1,010–1,029 13
1,030–1,049 12
1,050–1,069 9
1,070–1,089 8
1,090–1,109 7
1,110–1,129 9
1,130–1,149 2
1,150–1,162 5
1,163+ 100
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Dongsheng Li publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 12,847 Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 57 ranges running from 50–69 to 1,163+ publications.
  • Dongsheng Li, a Materials Science scholar from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, records 199 publications - the 30th percentile of the discipline.
  • 30% of ranked Materials Science scientists score the same or lower than Dongsheng Li, and about 70% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 250–269 publications range, and Dongsheng Li ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 190–209 publications, holding 891 scientists (7% of the field).
  • 70% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 330–349 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Dongsheng Li D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dongsheng Li sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 165+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 667. Most scientists, 667, have 52–53 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 52–53 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 211 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 450 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 612 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 612 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 598 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 657 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 667 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 621 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 597 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 610 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 587 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 606 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 533 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 490 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 469 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 378 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 421 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 359 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 323 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 299 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 230 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 210 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 195 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 203 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 175 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 175 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 142 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 121 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 117 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 107 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 88 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 85 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 68 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 62 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 57 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 45 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 49 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 50 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 34 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 38 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 29 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 28 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 24 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 33 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 28 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 20 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 23 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 17 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 12 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 17 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 21 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 13 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 11 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 13 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 4 scientists 164 D-Index: 3 scientists 165+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40–41 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

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Number of Materials Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 12,847 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 211
42–43 450
44–45 612
46–47 612
48–49 598
50–51 657
52–53 667 53
54–55 621
56–57 597
58–59 610
60–61 587
62–63 606
64–65 533
66–67 490
68–69 469
70–71 378
72–73 421
74–75 359
76–77 323
78–79 299
80–81 230
82–83 210
84–85 195
86–87 203
88–89 175
90–91 175
92–93 142
94–95 121
96–97 117
98–99 107
100–101 88
102–103 85
104–105 68
106–107 62
108–109 57
110–111 45
112–113 49
114–115 50
116–117 34
118–119 38
120–121 37
122–123 29
124–125 28
126–127 24
128–129 33
130–131 28
132–133 21
134–135 20
136–137 23
138–139 17
140–141 12
142–143 17
144–145 21
146–147 13
148–149 11
150–151 14
152–153 13
154–155 9
156–157 10
158–159 7
160–161 4
162–163 4
164 3
165+ 98
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Dongsheng Li D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 12,847 Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 64 ranges running from 40–41 to 165+ D-Index.
  • Dongsheng Li, a Materials Science scholar from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, records 53 D-Index - the 30th percentile of the discipline.
  • 30% of ranked Materials Science scientists score the same or lower than Dongsheng Li, and about 70% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 62–63 D-Index range, and Dongsheng Li ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 52–53 D-Index, holding 667 scientists (5% of the field).
  • 68% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 70–71 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more, 98 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Overview

Dongsheng Li is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States and has a significant body of research output primarily in the fields of engineering and materials science. Their work spans subfields including materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, inorganic chemistry, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as advanced photocatalysis techniques, metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advancements in battery materials, advanced battery technologies research, crystallization and solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

Frequent publication venues for Dongsheng Li include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of Solid State Chemistry

They have collaborated closely with several coauthors, notably:

  • Ya-Pan Wu
  • Xue-Qian Wu
  • Tao Wu
  • Rui Zhou
  • Wen-Wen Dong

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Dongsheng Li illustrate the areas of their research interests and developments:

  • "Covalent-Organic Frameworks: Advanced Organic Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries," 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Long-Term Stability Challenges and Opportunities in Acidic Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis," 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Visible-light-driven solvent-free photocatalytic CO2 reduction to CO by Co-MOF/Cu2O heterojunction with superior selectivity," 2022, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Interfacial Molecule Engineering for Reversible Zn Electrochemistry," 2023, ACS Energy Letters
  • "DFT-Guided Design and Fabrication of Carbon-Nitride-Based Materials for Energy Storage Devices: A Review," 2020, Nano-Micro Letters

The breadth of Dongsheng Li's research includes detailed studies on advanced battery materials, the synthesis and application of metal-organic frameworks, and catalysis for energy conversion processes. This extends into computational design methods applied to materials chemistry and renewable energy solutions.

Best Publications

  • Direction-Specific Interactions Control Crystal Growth by Oriented Attachment

    Dongsheng Li;Michael H. Nielsen;Michael H. Nielsen;Jonathan R. I. Lee;Cathrine Frandsen

  • Enhancement of thermal and electrical properties of carbon nanotube polymer composites by magnetic field processing

    E. S. Choi;J. S. Brooks;D. L. Eaton;M. S. Al-Haik

  • Dye-Sensitized Core/Active Shell Upconversion Nanoparticles for Optogenetics and Bioimaging Applications.

    Xiang Wu;Yuanwei Zhang;Kendra Takle;Osman Bilsel

  • Direct Aqueous-Phase Synthesis of Sub-10 nm "Luminous Pearls" with Enhanced in Vivo Renewable Near-Infrared Persistent Luminescence.

    Zhanjun Li;Yuanwei Zhang;Xiang Wu;Ling Huang

  • Microwave-polyol process for Pt and Ag nanoparticles

    Sridhar Komarneni;Dongsheng Li;Bharat Newalkar;Hiraoki Katsuki

  • Self‐Assembled Fe–N‐Doped Carbon Nanotube Aerogels with Single‐Atom Catalyst Feature as High‐Efficiency Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts

    Chengzhou Zhu;Shaofang Fu;Junhua Song;Qiurong Shi

  • Porous Platinum Nanotubes for Oxygen Reduction and Methanol Oxidation Reactions

    Shaun M. Alia;Gang Zhang;David Kisailus;Dongsheng Li

  • Hydrothermally Stable Ordered Hexagonal Mesoporous Aluminosilicates Assembled from a Triblock Copolymer and Preformed Aluminosilicate Precursors in Strongly Acidic Media

    Yu Han;Shuo Wu;Yinyong Sun;Dongsheng Li

  • Oriented attachment induces fivefold twins by forming and decomposing high-energy grain boundaries

    Miao Song;Gang Zhou;Ning Lu;Jaewon Lee;Jaewon Lee

  • Air-plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings that are resistant to high-temperature attack by glassy deposits

    Julie M. Drexler;Kentaro Shinoda;Angel L. Ortiz;Dongsheng Li

  • Towards data-driven next-generation transmission electron microscopy.

    Steven R. Spurgeon;Colin Ophus;Lewys Jones;Amanda Petford-Long

  • Polymer‐Mediated Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes under High Magnetic Fields

    H. Garmestani;M.S. Al-Haik;K. Dahmen;R. Tannenbaum

  • MoS2-reduced graphene oxide composites via microwave assisted synthesis for sodium ion battery anode with improved capacity and cycling performance

    Wei Qin;Taiqiang Chen;Likun Pan;Lengyuan Niu

  • Microwave‐Assisted Polyol Process for Synthesis of Ni Nanoparticles

    Dongsheng Li;Sridhar Komarneni

  • Realization of an intrinsic ferromagnetic topological state in MnBi8Te13

    Chaowei Hu;Lei Ding;Kyle N. Gordon;Barun Ghosh

  • Metal-organic framework derived porous CuO/Cu2O composite hollow octahedrons as high performance anode materials for sodium ion batteries.

    Xiaojie Zhang;Wei Qin;Dongsheng Li;Dong Yan

  • TiO2-x/CoOx photocatalyst sparkles in photothermocatalytic reduction of CO2 with H2O steam

    Yingying Li;Changhua Wang;Miao Song;Dongsheng Li

  • Construction of Ti3C2 MXene/O-doped g-C3N4 2D-2D Schottky-junction for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

    Peiyao Lin;Jun Shen;Xiaohui Yu;Qinqin Liu

  • A new smoothed particle hydrodynamics non-Newtonian model for friction stir welding: Process modeling and simulation of microstructure evolution in a magnesium alloy

    Wenxiao Pan;Dongsheng Li;Alexandre M. Tartakovsky;Said Ahzi;Said Ahzi

  • Predicting plastic flow and irradiation hardening of iron single crystal with mechanism-based continuum dislocation dynamics

    Dongsheng Li;Hussein Zbib;Hussein Zbib;Xin Sun;Mohammad Khaleel

  • Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution in Neutral pHSolutions: Dual-Phase Synergy

    Xiaohong Xie;Miao Song;Luguang Wang;Mark H. Engelhard

Frequent Co-Authors

Hamid Garmestani
Hamid Garmestani Georgia Institute of Technology
Mohammad A. Khaleel
Mohammad A. Khaleel Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Said Ahzi
Said Ahzi University of Strasbourg
David Kisailus
David Kisailus University of California, Irvine
Likun Pan
Likun Pan East China Normal University
James J. De Yoreo
James J. De Yoreo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Hussein M. Zbib
Hussein M. Zbib Washington State University
Ting Lu
Ting Lu East China Normal University
Nitin P. Padture
Nitin P. Padture Brown University
Mark H. Engelhard
Mark H. Engelhard Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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