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Shoushan Fan

Shoushan Fan

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Materials Science 110 698 664 213 210 766 54029

Shoushan Fan publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Shoushan Fan between 1990 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Shoushan Fan published across 36 years, from 1990 to 2025, averaging 22.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 63 publications in 2009. 25 of the 806 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1990 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 63. Peak 63 publications in 2009. 1990: 1 publication 1991: 1 publication 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 2 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 7 publications 1998: 4 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 11 publications 2001: 13 publications 2002: 8 publications 2003: 8 publications 2004: 10 publications 2005: 23 publications 2006: 35 publications 2007: 38 publications 2008: 61 publications 2009: 63 publications 2010: 51 publications 2011: 36 publications 2012: 41 publications 2013: 34 publications 2014: 38 publications 2015: 59 publications 2016: 36 publications 2017: 40 publications 2018: 35 publications 2019: 27 publications 2020: 31 publications 2021: 26 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 18 publications 2024: 14 publications 2025: 11 publications
1990 2025

806 publications in total across all disciplines

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Shoushan Fan: publications per year, 1990 to 2025
Year Publications
1990 1
1991 1
1992 0
1993 0
1994 1
1995 2
1996 5
1997 7
1998 4
1999 7
2000 11
2001 13
2002 8
2003 8
2004 10
2005 23
2006 35
2007 38
2008 61
2009 63
2010 51
2011 36
2012 41
2013 34
2014 38
2015 59
2016 36
2017 40
2018 35
2019 27
2020 31
2021 26
2022 11
2023 18
2024 14
2025 11
Total 806
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Shoushan Fan 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 Shoushan Fan 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, 750–769 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: 766 publications — 96th percentile

96% 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
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 52 766
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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Shoushan Fan 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 Shoushan Fan 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, 110–111 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: 110 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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
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 45 110
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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Shoushan Fan is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and specializes in research primarily within Engineering and Materials Science. Their work encompasses a broad range of topics related to materials chemistry and electronic engineering, with significant contributions in fields such as biomedical engineering and polymer science.

Their main research topics include:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials

Shoushan Fan has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Nano Research
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Carbon
  • Nano Letters
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Their recent scholarly papers include:

  • A survey of hybrid energy devices based on supercapacitors, 2022, Green Energy & Environment
  • Ultrafast self-heating synthesis of robust heterogeneous nanocarbides for high current density hydrogen evolution reaction, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Progress and challenges of flexible lithium ion batteries, 2020, Journal of Power Sources
  • Monolayer MoS2 Synaptic Transistors for High-Temperature Neuromorphic Applications, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Programmable graded doping for reconfigurable molybdenum ditelluride devices, 2023, Nature Electronics

Shoushan Fan collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Qunqing Li
  • Jiaping Wang
  • Kaili Jiang
  • Hengcai Wu
  • Yufeng Luo

Their research contributions span interdisciplinary applications across materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and biomedical engineering, highlighting a diverse approach to modern materials science.

In recognition of their contributions to science, Shoushan Fan has been named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences since 2010.

Best Publications

  • Self-Oriented Regular Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes and Their Field Emission Properties

    Shoushan Fan;Michael G. Chapline;Nathan R. Franklin;Thomas W. Tombler

  • Synthesis of Gallium Nitride Nanorods Through a Carbon Nanotube-Confined Reaction

    Weiqiang Han;Shoushan Fan;Qunqing Li;Yongdan Hu

  • Nanotechnology: spinning continuous carbon nanotube yarns.

    Kaili Jiang;Qunqing Li;Shoushan Fan

  • Synthesis and characterization of carbide nanorods

    Hongjie Dai;Eric W. Wong;Yuan Z. Lu;Shoushan Fan

  • Highly Flexible and All-Solid-State Paperlike Polymer Supercapacitors

    Chuizhou Meng;Changhong Liu;Luzhuo Chen;Chunhua Hu

  • Fabrication of Ultralong and Electrically Uniform Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Clean Substrates

    Xueshen Wang;Qunqing Li;Jing Xie;Zhong Jin

  • Experimental observation of topological Fermi arcs in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2

    Ke Deng;Guoliang Wan;Peng Deng;Kenan Zhang

  • Aligned Carbon Nanotube Composite Films for Thermal Management

    Hua Huang;Changhong Liu;Yang Wu;Shoushan Fan

  • High-density, ordered ultraviolet light-emitting ZnO nanowire arrays

    Changhong Liu;Juan Antonio Zapien;Yuan Yao;Xiangmin Meng

  • Spinning and processing continuous yarns from 4-inch wafer scale super-aligned carbon nanotube arrays

    Xiaobo Zhang;Kaili Jiang;Chen Feng;Peng Liu

  • Flexible, stretchable, transparent carbon nanotube thin film loudspeakers.

    Lin Xiao;Zhuo Chen;Chen Feng;Liang Liu

  • Grain-boundary-dependent CO2 electroreduction activity.

    Xiaofeng Feng;Kaili Jiang;Shoushan Fan;Matthew W. Kanan

  • Cross‐Stacked Carbon Nanotube Sheets Uniformly Loaded with SnO2 Nanoparticles: A Novel Binder‐Free and High‐Capacity Anode Material for Lithium‐Ion Batteries

    Hao-Xu Zhang;Chen Feng;Yong-Chao Zhai;Kai-Li Jiang

  • A Promising Approach to Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties Using Carbon Nanotube Networks

    Chuizhou Meng;Changhong Liu;Shoushan Fan

  • Superaligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays, Films, and Yarns: A Road to Applications

    Kaili Jiang;Jiaping Wang;Qunqing Li;Liang Liu

  • Highly oriented carbon nanotube papers made of aligned carbon nanotubes

    Ding Wang;Pengcheng Song;Changhong Liu;Wei Wu

  • Self-oriented bundles of carbon nanotubes and method of making same

    Hongjie Dai;Shoushan Fan;Michael Chapline;Nathan Franklin

  • Lorentz-violating type-II Dirac fermions in transition metal dichalcogenide PtTe 2

    Mingzhe Yan;Huaqing Huang;Kenan Zhang;Eryin Wang

  • A Direct Grain-Boundary-Activity Correlation for CO Electroreduction on Cu Nanoparticles

    Xiaofeng Feng;Kaili Jiang;Shoushan Fan;Matthew W. Kanan

  • Controlled Chemical Routes to Nanotube Architectures, Physics, and Devices

    Hongjie Dai;Jing Kong;Chongwu Zhou;Nathan Franklin

  • Flexible, Stretchable, Transparent Conducting Films Made from Superaligned Carbon Nanotubes

    Chen Feng;Kai Liu;Jeah-Sheng Wu;Liang Liu

  • Controlled fabrication of high-quality carbon nanoscrolls from monolayer graphene.

    Xu Xie;Long Ju;Xiaofeng Feng;Yinghui Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaili Jiang
Kaili Jiang Tsinghua University
Qunqing Li
Qunqing Li Tsinghua University
Jiaping Wang
Jiaping Wang Tsinghua University
Kai Liu
Kai Liu Tsinghua University
Yang Wu
Yang Wu Tsinghua University
Yuegang Zhang
Yuegang Zhang Tsinghua University
Jin Zhang
Jin Zhang Peking University
Ke Wang
Ke Wang Tsinghua University
Wenhui Duan
Wenhui Duan Tsinghua University
Hongjie Dai
Hongjie Dai University of Hong Kong

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