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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Chemistry 67 7029 6371 2089 1728 202 13913

Pengfei Duan publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Pengfei Duan between 2006 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Pengfei Duan published across 20 years, from 2006 to 2025, averaging 24.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 58 publications in 2017. 81 of the 496 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
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Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2006 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 58. Peak 58 publications in 2017. 2006: 1 publication 2007: 1 publication 2008: 0 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 56 publications 2016: 33 publications 2017: 58 publications 2018: 55 publications 2019: 57 publications 2020: 28 publications 2021: 32 publications 2022: 24 publications 2023: 23 publications 2024: 34 publications 2025: 47 publications
2006 2025

496 publications in total across all disciplines

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Pengfei Duan: publications per year, 2006 to 2025
Year Publications
2006 1
2007 1
2008 0
2009 3
2010 6
2011 11
2012 8
2013 6
2014 13
2015 56
2016 33
2017 58
2018 55
2019 57
2020 28
2021 32
2022 24
2023 23
2024 34
2025 47
Total 496
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Pengfei Duan publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pengfei Duan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
250 500 750 1,000 1,250
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 61–80 to 1,295+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 1,350. Most scientists, 1,350, have 161–180 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 201–220 publications, is where this scientist sits. 61–80 publications: 66 scientists 81–100 publications: 302 scientists 101–120 publications: 623 scientists 121–140 publications: 918 scientists 141–160 publications: 1,218 scientists 161–180 publications: 1,350 scientists 181–200 publications: 1,344 scientists 201–220 publications: 1,281 scientists 221–240 publications: 1,216 scientists 241–260 publications: 1,100 scientists 261–280 publications: 979 scientists 281–300 publications: 939 scientists 301–320 publications: 764 scientists 321–340 publications: 643 scientists 341–360 publications: 628 scientists 361–380 publications: 522 scientists 381–400 publications: 459 scientists 401–420 publications: 397 scientists 421–440 publications: 327 scientists 441–460 publications: 270 scientists 461–480 publications: 265 scientists 481–500 publications: 252 scientists 501–520 publications: 201 scientists 521–540 publications: 185 scientists 541–560 publications: 148 scientists 561–580 publications: 148 scientists 581–600 publications: 132 scientists 601–620 publications: 114 scientists 621–640 publications: 104 scientists 641–660 publications: 91 scientists 661–680 publications: 92 scientists 681–700 publications: 73 scientists 701–720 publications: 57 scientists 721–740 publications: 54 scientists 741–760 publications: 67 scientists 761–780 publications: 45 scientists 781–800 publications: 46 scientists 801–820 publications: 39 scientists 821–840 publications: 32 scientists 841–860 publications: 36 scientists 861–880 publications: 29 scientists 881–900 publications: 26 scientists 901–920 publications: 24 scientists 921–940 publications: 14 scientists 941–960 publications: 23 scientists 961–980 publications: 28 scientists 981–1,000 publications: 15 scientists 1,001–1,020 publications: 29 scientists 1,021–1,040 publications: 12 scientists 1,041–1,060 publications: 19 scientists 1,061–1,080 publications: 12 scientists 1,081–1,100 publications: 6 scientists 1,101–1,120 publications: 8 scientists 1,121–1,140 publications: 12 scientists 1,141–1,160 publications: 5 scientists 1,161–1,180 publications: 6 scientists 1,181–1,200 publications: 14 scientists 1,201–1,220 publications: 7 scientists 1,221–1,240 publications: 2 scientists 1,241–1,260 publications: 6 scientists 1,261–1,280 publications: 4 scientists 1,281–1,294 publications: 6 scientists 1,295+ publications: 100 scientists
61–80 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 202 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

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Number of Chemistry scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 17,934 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
61–80 66
81–100 302
101–120 623
121–140 918
141–160 1,218
161–180 1,350
181–200 1,344
201–220 1,281 202
221–240 1,216
241–260 1,100
261–280 979
281–300 939
301–320 764
321–340 643
341–360 628
361–380 522
381–400 459
401–420 397
421–440 327
441–460 270
461–480 265
481–500 252
501–520 201
521–540 185
541–560 148
561–580 148
581–600 132
601–620 114
621–640 104
641–660 91
661–680 92
681–700 73
701–720 57
721–740 54
741–760 67
761–780 45
781–800 46
801–820 39
821–840 32
841–860 36
861–880 29
881–900 26
901–920 24
921–940 14
941–960 23
961–980 28
981–1,000 15
1,001–1,020 29
1,021–1,040 12
1,041–1,060 19
1,061–1,080 12
1,081–1,100 6
1,101–1,120 8
1,121–1,140 12
1,141–1,160 5
1,161–1,180 6
1,181–1,200 14
1,201–1,220 7
1,221–1,240 2
1,241–1,260 6
1,261–1,280 4
1,281–1,294 6
1,295+ 100
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Pengfei Duan D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

No. of scientists
250 500 750 1,000
Bar chart with 61 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 159+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 1,051. Most scientists, 1,051, have 56–57 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 66–67 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40–41 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

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Number of Chemistry scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 17,934 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 289
42–43 612
44–45 808
46–47 776
48–49 835
50–51 861
52–53 872
54–55 933
56–57 1,051
58–59 930
60–61 882
62–63 834
64–65 731
66–67 775 67
68–69 683
70–71 646
72–73 561
74–75 501
76–77 437
78–79 388
80–81 354
82–83 292
84–85 275
86–87 254
88–89 235
90–91 185
92–93 192
94–95 155
96–97 163
98–99 125
100–101 105
102–103 105
104–105 112
106–107 88
108–109 68
110–111 69
112–113 65
114–115 79
116–117 61
118–119 44
120–121 37
122–123 40
124–125 33
126–127 26
128–129 34
130–131 35
132–133 25
134–135 27
136–137 17
138–139 16
140–141 20
142–143 20
144–145 15
146–147 9
148–149 9
150–151 16
152–153 11
154–155 9
156–157 3
158 3
159+ 98
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Overview

Pengfei Duan is affiliated with the Center for Excellence in Education in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, engineering, and chemistry, with a significant contribution in the subfields of materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and electrical and electronic engineering. Their expertise extends to electronic, optical, and magnetic materials as well as biomaterials.

The scientist's publications emphasize luminescence and fluorescent materials, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, and supramolecular self-assembly in materials. They have also contributed to research in liquid crystal advancements, luminescence properties of advanced materials, polydiacetylene-based materials and applications, and organic light-emitting diodes research.

Pengfei Duan has authored multiple papers in various high-impact journals and research venues. Some of the recent notable publications include:

  • Frontiers in circularly polarized luminescence: molecular design, self-assembly, nanomaterials, and applications (2021, Science China Chemistry)
  • New Perspectives to Trigger and Modulate Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Complex and Aggregated Systems: Energy Transfer, Photon Upconversion, Charge Transfer, and Organic Radical (2020, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • Electric-Field-Regulated Energy Transfer in Chiral Liquid Crystals for Enhancing Upconverted Circularly Polarized Luminescence through Steering the Photonic Bandgap (2020, Advanced Materials)
  • Sequentially amplified circularly polarized ultraviolet luminescence for enantioselective photopolymerization (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Recent Progress of Circularly Polarized Luminescence Materials from Chinese Perspectives (2023, CCS Chemistry)

Their frequent coauthors include Xue Jin, Tonghan Zhao, Jianlei Han, Minghua Liu, and Yonghong Shi, indicating collaboration across multiple projects.

The scientist's works have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Nanoscale
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Nano

Best Publications

  • Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Nanoassemblies: Generation, Amplification, and Application.

    Yutao Sang;Jianlei Han;Tonghan Zhao;Tonghan Zhao;Pengfei Duan;Pengfei Duan

  • Chirality and energy transfer amplified circularly polarized luminescence in composite nanohelix

    Dong Yang;Pengfei Duan;Li Zhang;Minghua Liu

  • New Perspectives to Trigger and Modulate Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Complex and Aggregated Systems: Energy Transfer, Photon Upconversion, Charge Transfer, and Organic Radical

    Tonghan Zhao;Tonghan Zhao;Jianlei Han;Pengfei Duan;Pengfei Duan;Minghua Liu;Minghua Liu

  • Self‐Assembled Luminescent Quantum Dots To Generate Full‐Color and White Circularly Polarized Light

    Shengwei Huo;Shengwei Huo;Pengfei Duan;Tifeng Jiao;Qiuming Peng

  • Photon upconversion in supramolecular gel matrixes: spontaneous accumulation of light-harvesting donor-acceptor arrays in nanofibers and acquired air stability.

    Pengfei Duan;Nobuhiro Yanai;Nobuhiro Yanai;Hisanori Nagatomi;Nobuo Kimizuka

  • Full-Color Tunable Circularly Polarized Luminescent Nanoassemblies of Achiral AIEgens in Confined Chiral Nanotubes

    Jianlei Han;Jianlei Han;Jing You;Xianggao Li;Pengfei Duan

  • Endowing Perovskite Nanocrystals with Circularly Polarized Luminescence.

    Yonghong Shi;Yonghong Shi;Pengfei Duan;Shengwei Huo;Yuangang Li

  • Cooperative Chirality and Sequential Energy Transfer in a Supramolecular Light-Harvesting Nanotube

    Lukang Ji;Yutao Sang;Guanghui Ouyang;Dong Yang

  • Photon upconverting liquids: matrix-free molecular upconversion systems functioning in air.

    Pengfei Duan;Nobuhiro Yanai;Nobuo Kimizuka

  • Amplification of Circularly Polarized Luminescence through Triplet–Triplet Annihilation-Based Photon Upconversion

    Jianlei Han;Jianlei Han;Pengfei Duan;Xianggao Li;Ming Hua Liu;Ming Hua Liu

  • Gelation induced supramolecular chirality: chirality transfer, amplification and application.

    Pengfei Duan;Hai Cao;Li Zhang;Minghua Liu

  • Electric-Field-Regulated Energy Transfer in Chiral Liquid Crystals for Enhancing Upconverted Circularly Polarized Luminescence through Steering the Photonic Bandgap.

    Xuefeng Yang;Xuefeng Yang;Minghao Zhou;Yafei Wang;Pengfei Duan;Pengfei Duan

  • Enhanced Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Emissive Charge-Transfer Complexes.

    Jianlei Han;Dong Yang;Xue Jin;Yuqian Jiang

  • Sequentially amplified circularly polarized ultraviolet luminescence for enantioselective photopolymerization.

    Dongxue Han;Xuefeng Yang;Jianlei Han;Jin Zhou

  • Two-Photon Absorption-Based Upconverted Circularly Polarized Luminescence Generated in Chiral Perovskite Nanocrystals.

    Wenjie Chen;Wenjie Chen;Shuai Zhang;Shuai Zhang;Minghao Zhou;Tonghan Zhao;Tonghan Zhao

  • Observation of Zc (3900)0 in e+e- →π0π0J/ψ

    M. Ablikim;M. N. Achasov;X. C. Ai;O. Albayrak

  • Boosting the circularly polarized luminescence of small organic molecules via multi-dimensional morphology control

    Kai Ma;Kai Ma;Wenjie Chen;Wenjie Chen;Tifeng Jiao;Xue Jin

  • Evidence of Two Resonant Structures in e+e- π+π−hc

    M. Ablikim;M. N. Achasov;S. Ahmed;X. C. Ai

  • Optically Active Upconverting Nanoparticles with Induced Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Enantioselectively Triggered Photopolymerization.

    Xue Jin;Yutao Sang;Yonghong Shi;Yuangang Li

  • Multiresponsive Chiroptical Switch of an Azobenzene-Containing Lipid: Solvent, Temperature, and Photoregulated Supramolecular Chirality

    Pengfei Duan;Yuangang Li;Liangchun Li;Jingen Deng

  • Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Achiral Cyanine Molecules Assembled on DNA Templates.

    Qiao Jiang;Xuehui Xu;Ping-An Yin;Ping-An Yin;Kai Ma;Kai Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Minghua Liu
Minghua Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nobuhiro Yanai
Nobuhiro Yanai University of Tokyo
Dong Yang
Dong Yang Fudan University
Nobuo Kimizuka
Nobuo Kimizuka Kyushu University
Tifeng Jiao
Tifeng Jiao Yanshan University
Xuefeng Zhu
Xuefeng Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Baoquan Ding
Baoquan Ding National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Feng Li
Feng Li Shandong University
Ben Zhong Tang
Ben Zhong Tang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Tsuyoshi Kawai
Tsuyoshi Kawai Nara Institute of Science and Technology

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