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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Materials Science 51 9716 9379 2341 2171 204 20394

Wanyi Nie publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Wanyi Nie between 2011 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Wanyi Nie published across 15 years, from 2011 to 2025, averaging 14.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 38 publications in 2017. 23 of the 217 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2011 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 38. Peak 38 publications in 2017. 2011: 2 publications 2012: 2 publications 2013: 0 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 12 publications 2016: 22 publications 2017: 38 publications 2018: 19 publications 2019: 10 publications 2020: 15 publications 2021: 17 publications 2022: 20 publications 2023: 30 publications 2024: 9 publications 2025: 14 publications
2011 2025

217 publications in total across all disciplines

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Wanyi Nie: publications per year, 2011 to 2025
Year Publications
2011 2
2012 2
2013 0
2014 7
2015 12
2016 22
2017 38
2018 19
2019 10
2020 15
2021 17
2022 20
2023 30
2024 9
2025 14
Total 217
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Wanyi Nie publications per year - data summary

  • Wanyi Nie, a Materials Science scholar from Los Alamos National Laboratory, has 217 publications recorded across 15 years, from 2011 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 2011 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2017, with 38 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 2011 and 2012, with 2 publications each.
  • 1 of the 15 years in the span carries no publications at all (2013).
  • The rate of publication averages 14.5 papers per year over the whole span, or 15.5 per year counting only the 14 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 90 publications, 41% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 2011-2015: 23 publications (4.6 per year); 2016-2020: 104 publications (20.8 per year); 2021-2025: 90 publications (18.0 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Wanyi Nie 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 Wanyi Nie 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: 204 publications — 32nd percentile

32% 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
190–209 891 204
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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Wanyi Nie 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.
  • Wanyi Nie, a Materials Science scholar from Los Alamos National Laboratory, records 204 publications - the 32nd percentile of the discipline.
  • 32% of ranked Materials Science scientists score the same or lower than Wanyi Nie, and about 68% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 250–269 publications range, and Wanyi Nie 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).

Wanyi Nie 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 Wanyi Nie 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, 50–51 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: 51 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% 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 51
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
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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Wanyi Nie 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.
  • Wanyi Nie, a Materials Science scholar from Los Alamos National Laboratory, records 51 D-Index - the 24th percentile of the discipline.
  • 24% of ranked Materials Science scientists score the same or lower than Wanyi Nie, and about 76% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 62–63 D-Index range, and Wanyi Nie 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

Wanyi Nie is affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States and specializes in research spanning Engineering and Materials Science. Their scientific work predominantly focuses on Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Materials Chemistry, with significant contributions to the subfields of Polymers and Plastics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their research concentrates on several main topics, including:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials
  • Ga2O3 and related materials

Nie has published frequently in a range of scientific venues, with notable recurring appearances in:

  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Wanyi Nie include:

  • A fabrication process for flexible single-crystal perovskite devices (2020, Nature)
  • A sensitive and robust thin-film x-ray detector using 2D layered perovskite diodes (2020, Science Advances)
  • Bright and stable light-emitting diodes made with perovskite nanocrystals stabilized in metal-organic frameworks (2021, Nature Photonics)
  • Determination of X-ray detection limit and applications in perovskite X-ray detectors (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Perovskite superlattices with efficient carrier dynamics (2022, Nature)

Frequent co-authors in Nie's publications include:

  • Hsinhan Tsai
  • Sergei Tretiak
  • Shreetu Shrestha
  • Dibyajyoti Ghosh
  • Leeyih Wang

Best Publications

  • High-efficiency solution-processed perovskite solar cells with millimeter-scale grains

    Wanyi Nie;Hsinhan Tsai;Reza Asadpour;Jean Christophe Blancon

  • High-efficiency two-dimensional Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite solar cells

    Hsinhan Tsai;Hsinhan Tsai;Wanyi Nie;Jean Christophe Blancon;Constantinos C. Stoumpos

  • Extremely efficient internal exciton dissociation through edge states in layered 2D perovskites

    Jean Christophe Robert Blancon;Hsinhan Tsai;Hsinhan Tsai;Wanyi Nie;Costas C. Stoumpos

  • PEDOT:PSS for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics: Modifications, Strategies, and Applications

    Xi Fan;Wanyi Nie;Hsinhan Tsai;Naixiang Wang

  • Light-activated photocurrent degradation and self-healing in perovskite solar cells

    Wanyi Nie;Jean Christophe Blancon;Amanda J. Neukirch;Kannatassen Appavoo

  • Scaling law for excitons in 2D perovskite quantum wells.

    J.-C. Blancon;A. V. Stier;H. Tsai;H. Tsai;W. Nie

  • Light-induced lattice expansion leads to high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

    Hsinhan Tsai;Hsinhan Tsai;Reza Asadpour;Jean Christophe Blancon;Constantinos C. Stoumpos

  • New Type of 2D Perovskites with Alternating Cations in the Interlayer Space, (C(NH2)3)(CH3NH3)nPbnI3n+1: Structure, Properties, and Photovoltaic Performance.

    Chan Myae Myae Soe;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Mikaël Kepenekian;Boubacar Traoré

  • Advances and Promises of Layered Halide Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductors.

    Laurent Pedesseau;Daniel Sapori;Boubacar Traore;Roberto Robles

  • High Members of the 2D Ruddlesden-Popper Halide Perovskites: Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Solar Cells of (CH3(CH2)3NH3)2(CH3NH3)4Pb5I16

    Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Chan Myae Myae Soe;Chan Myae Myae Soe;Hsinhan Tsai;Hsinhan Tsai;Wanyi Nie

  • A fabrication process for flexible single-crystal perovskite devices

    Yusheng Lei;Yimu Chen;Ruiqi Zhang;Yuheng Li

  • Understanding Film Formation Morphology and Orientation in High Member 2D Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskites for High-Efficiency Solar Cells

    Chan Myae Myae Soe;Chan Myae Myae Soe;Wanyi Nie;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Hsinhan Tsai

  • Structural and thermodynamic limits of layer thickness in 2D halide perovskites

    Chan Myae Myae Soe;Chan Myae Myae Soe;G. P. Nagabhushana;Radha Shivaramaiah;Hsinhan Tsai

  • Stable Light-Emitting Diodes Using Phase-Pure Ruddlesden-Popper Layered Perovskites.

    Hsinhan Tsai;Hsinhan Tsai;Wanyi Nie;Jean Christophe Blancon;Constantinos C. Stoumpos

  • Polaron Stabilization by Cooperative Lattice Distortion and Cation Rotations in Hybrid Perovskite Materials.

    Amanda J. Neukirch;Wanyi Nie;Jean-Christophe Blancon;Kannatassen Appavoo

  • Phase Transition Control for High Performance Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Solar Cells

    Xu Zhang;Xu Zhang;Xu Zhang;Rahim Munir;Zhuo Xu;Yucheng Liu

  • High Open‐Circuit Voltages in Tin‐Rich Low‐Bandgap Perovskite‐Based Planar Heterojunction Photovoltaics

    Baodan Zhao;Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi;Maxim Tabachnyk;Hugh Glass

  • Role of Organic Counterion in Lead- and Tin-Based Two-Dimensional Semiconducting Iodide Perovskites and Application in Planar Solar Cells

    Lingling Mao;Hsinhan Tsai;Hsinhan Tsai;Wanyi Nie;Lin Ma

  • Critical Role of Interface and Crystallinity on the Performance and Photostability of Perovskite Solar Cell on Nickel Oxide

    Wanyi Nie;Hsinhan Tsai;Hsinhan Tsai;Jean Christophe Blancon;Fangze Liu

  • Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskites Incorporating Straight Chain Symmetric Diammonium Ions, (NH3CmH2mNH3)(CH3NH3)n−1PbnI3n+1 (m = 4–9; n = 1–4)

    Xiaotong Li;Justin Hoffman;Weijun Ke;Michelle Chen

  • Extremely efficient internal exciton dissociation through edge-states in layered 2D perovskites for high-efficiency optoelectronic devices

    Jean-Christophe Blancon;Hsinhan Tsai;Wanyi Nie;Andreas Stier

Frequent Co-Authors

Hsinhan Tsai
Hsinhan Tsai University of California, Berkeley
Aditya D. Mohite
Aditya D. Mohite Rice University
Sergei Tretiak
Sergei Tretiak Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jacky Even
Jacky Even University of Rennes
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis Northwestern University
Claudine Katan
Claudine Katan University of Rennes
Constantinos C. Stoumpos
Constantinos C. Stoumpos University of Crete
Gautam Gupta
Gautam Gupta University of Louisville
Pulickel M. Ajayan
Pulickel M. Ajayan Rice University
David L. Carroll
David L. Carroll Wake Forest University

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