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D-Index
56
Citations
12749
World Ranking
11524
National Ranking
1843

Qilong Shen 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 Qilong Shen sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 149 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Qilong Shen 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 Qilong Shen sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Qilong Shen is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on chemistry. Their publications amount to over 90 works within the field of chemistry, with significant contributions to pharmacology, toxicology, and pharmaceutics as well.

The scientist's main subfields include:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Pharmaceutical Science
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Shen's research topics cover a range of areas, particularly emphasizing fluorine chemistry. The key topics are:

  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions

Recent notable papers include:

  • "A Fruitful Decade of Organofluorine Chemistry: New Reagents and Reactions," 2022, CCS Chemistry
  • "C(sp3)-CF3 Reductive Elimination from a Five-Coordinate Neutral Copper(III) Complex," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Oxidative addition of an alkyl halide to form a stable Cu(III) product," 2023, Science
  • "Well-defined organometallic Copper(III) complexes: Preparation, characterization and reactivity," 2021, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • "Difluoromethylthiolator: A Toolbox of Reagents for Difluoromethylthiolation," 2021, Accounts of Chemical Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shen are:

  • Xuebing Leng (24 publications)
  • Zehai Lu (9 publications)
  • Long Lü (8 publications)
  • Jian Wu (6 publications)
  • Songsong Xu (6 publications)

The main publication venues where Shen's research frequently appears include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (12 publications)
  • Chinese Journal of Chemistry (7 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (5 publications)
  • Organic Letters (5 publications)
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Mechanically-induced chemical changes in polymeric materials

    Mary M. Caruso;Douglas A. Davis;Qilong Shen;Susan A. Odom

  • A general and long-lived catalyst for the palladium-catalyzed coupling of aryl halides with thiols.

    Manuel A Fernández-Rodríguez;Qilong Shen;John F Hartwig

  • Highly reactive, general and long-lived catalysts for palladium-catalyzed amination of heteroaryl and aryl chlorides, bromides, and iodides: scope and structure-activity relationships

    Qilong Shen;Tokutaro Ogata;John F. Hartwig

  • An Electrophilic Hypervalent Iodine Reagent for Trifluoromethylthiolation

    Xinxin Shao;Xueqiang Wang;Tao Yang;Long Lu

  • Palladium-catalyzed coupling of ammonia and lithium amide with aryl halides.

    Qilong Shen;John F. Hartwig

  • Shelf-stable electrophilic reagents for trifluoromethylthiolation.

    Xinxin Shao;Chunfa Xu;Long Lu;Qilong Shen

  • Highly Reactive, General, and Long-Lived Catalysts for Coupling Heteroaryl and Aryl Chlorides with Primary Nitrogen Nucleophiles

    Qilong Shen;Shashank Shekhar;James P. Stambuli;John F. Hartwig

  • Copper-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylation of Aryl and Vinyl Boronic Acids with An Electrophilic Trifluoromethylating Reagent

    Tianfei Liu;Qilong Shen

  • N‐Trifluoromethylthiosaccharin: An Easily Accessible, Shelf‐Stable, Broadly Applicable Trifluoromethylthiolating Reagent

    Chunfa Xu;Bingqing Ma;Qilong Shen

  • Highly efficient and functional-group-tolerant catalysts for the palladium-catalyzed coupling of aryl chlorides with thiols.

    Manuel A. Fernández-Rodríguez;Qilong Shen;John F. Hartwig

  • A Fruitful Decade of Organofluorine Chemistry: New Reagents and Reactions

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  • Cooperative dual palladium/silver catalyst for direct difluoromethylation of aryl bromides and iodides

    Yang Gu;Xuebing Leng;Qilong Shen

  • Enantioselective electrophilic trifluoromethylthiolation of β-ketoesters: a case of reactivity and selectivity bias for organocatalysis.

    Xueqiang Wang;Tao Yang;Xiaolin Cheng;Qilong Shen

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylthiolation of Aryl C–H Bonds

    Chunfa Xu;Qilong Shen

  • Highly Selective Trifluoromethylation of 1,3-Disubstituted Arenes through Iridium-Catalyzed Arene Borylation

    Tianfei Liu;Xinxin Shao;Yaming Wu;Qilong Shen

  • Lewis Acid Acceleration of C–N Bond-Forming Reductive Elimination from Heteroarylpalladium Complexes and Catalytic Amidation of Heteroaryl Bromides

    Qilong Shen;John F. Hartwig

  • N-Trifluoromethylthio-dibenzenesulfonimide: A Shelf-Stable, Broadly Applicable Electrophilic Trifluoromethylthiolating Reagent.

    Panpan Zhang;Man Li;Xiao-Song Xue;Chunfa Xu

  • Silver-catalyzed decarboxylative trifluoromethylthiolation of aliphatic carboxylic acids in aqueous emulsion.

    Feng Hu;Xinxin Shao;Dianhu Zhu;Long Lu

  • [(CyPF-(t)Bu)PdCl2]: an air-stable, one-component, highly efficient catalyst for amination of heteroaryl and aryl halides.

    Qilong Shen;John F. Hartwig

  • PhSO2SCF2H: A Shelf‐Stable, Easily Scalable Reagent for Radical Difluoromethylthiolation

    Dianhu Zhu;Xinxin Shao;Xin Hong;Long Lu

  • Copper-mediated aerobic fluoroalkylation of arylboronic acids with fluoroalkyl iodides at room temperature.

    Qingqing Qi;Qilong Shen;Long Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig University of California, Berkeley
Yu Lan
Yu Lan Zhengzhou University
Jeffrey S. Moore
Jeffrey S. Moore University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yu-Cheng Gu
Yu-Cheng Gu Syngenta (Switzerland)
Véronique Gouverneur
Véronique Gouverneur University of Oxford
Scott R. White
Scott R. White University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chuanfa Ni
Chuanfa Ni Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yoshinori Yamamoto
Yoshinori Yamamoto Tohoku University
Nancy R. Sottos
Nancy R. Sottos University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wei Zhang
Wei Zhang University of Massachusetts Boston

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