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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Materials Science 73 3754 3632 1201 1195 326 26942
Chemistry 71 5427 4931 1006 994 318 26623

Yingping Zou publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Yingping Zou between 1994 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Yingping Zou published across 32 years, from 1994 to 2025, averaging 12.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 52 publications in 2020. 60 of the 406 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1994 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 52. Peak 52 publications in 2020. 1994: 1 publication 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 0 publications 2001: 0 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 0 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 10 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 10 publications 2012: 10 publications 2013: 13 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 12 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 23 publications 2018: 19 publications 2019: 33 publications 2020: 52 publications 2021: 48 publications 2022: 37 publications 2023: 24 publications 2024: 33 publications 2025: 27 publications
1994 2025

406 publications in total across all disciplines

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Yingping Zou: publications per year, 1994 to 2025
Year Publications
1994 1
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 0
1999 1
2000 0
2001 0
2002 0
2003 0
2004 3
2005 3
2006 3
2007 4
2008 10
2009 10
2010 12
2011 10
2012 10
2013 13
2014 11
2015 12
2016 7
2017 23
2018 19
2019 33
2020 52
2021 48
2022 37
2023 24
2024 33
2025 27
Total 406
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Yingping Zou 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 Yingping Zou 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, 310–329 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: 326 publications — 65th percentile

65% 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
310–329 537 326
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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Yingping Zou 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 Yingping Zou 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, 72–73 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: 73 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% 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 73
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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Overview

Yingping Zou is affiliated with Central South University in China and has a substantial research record in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with particular emphasis on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on topics related to Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, and Perovskite Materials and Applications. Additional areas of interest include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Thin-Film Transistor Technologies, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials.

Yingping Zou has frequently published in a variety of scientific journals. The most common venues include:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Solar RRL
  • Science China Chemistry
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of Central South University

Among their notable papers are the following publications:

  • High-efficiency organic solar cells with low non-radiative recombination loss and low energetic disorder, 2020, Nature Photonics
  • Delocalization of exciton and electron wavefunction in non-fullerene acceptor molecules enables efficient organic solar cells, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science), 2021, Science China Chemistry
  • Tuning the electron-deficient core of a non-fullerene acceptor to achieve over 17% efficiency in a single-junction organic solar cell, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Fine-Tuning Energy Levels via Asymmetric End Groups Enables Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 17%, 2020, Joule

Yingping Zou frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among whom are:

  • Jun Yuan (80 joint publications)
  • Qingya Wei (38 joint publications)
  • Yunbin Hu (23 joint publications)
  • Lihui Jiang (23 joint publications)
  • Xinhui Lu (22 joint publications)

The combined focus of Zou's work centers on the development and enhancement of organic solar cells, polymer solar cells, and related materials and device technologies within organic electronics and photovoltaics. Their research outputs contribute to the broader scientific understanding of energy conversion and materials engineering.

Best Publications

  • Single-Junction Organic Solar Cell with over 15% Efficiency Using Fused-Ring Acceptor with Electron-Deficient Core

    Jun Yuan;Yunqiang Zhang;Liuyang Zhou;Liuyang Zhou;Guichuan Zhang

  • Alkyl Chain Tuning of Small Molecule Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

    Kui Jiang;Kui Jiang;Qingya Wei;Joshua Yuk Lin Lai;Zhengxing Peng

  • A thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione-based copolymer for efficient solar cells.

    Yingping Zou;Ahmed Najari;Philippe Berrouard;Serge Beaupré

  • Conjugated Polymer Photovoltaic Materials with Broad Absorption Band and High Charge Carrier Mobility

    Yongfang Li;Yingping Zou

  • Delocalization of exciton and electron wavefunction in non-fullerene acceptor molecules enables efficient organic solar cells

    Guichuan Zhang;Xian Kai Chen;Xian Kai Chen;Jingyang Xiao;Philip C.Y. Chow

  • Ultrafast fluorescence imaging in vivo with conjugated polymer fluorophores in the second near-infrared window

    Guosong Hong;Yingping Zou;Alexander L. Antaris;Shuo Diao

  • Enabling low voltage losses and high photocurrent in fullerene-free organic photovoltaics

    Jun Yuan;Tianyi Huang;Pei Cheng;Yingping Zou

  • A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

    Xian-Kai Chen;Deping Qian;Yuming Wang;Thomas Kirchartz;Thomas Kirchartz

  • Tuning the electron-deficient core of a non-fullerene acceptor to achieve over 17% efficiency in a single-junction organic solar cell

    Can Zhu;Jun Yuan;Fangfang Cai;Lei Meng

  • Fine-Tuning Energy Levels via Asymmetric End Groups Enables Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 17%

    Zhenghui Luo;Ruijie Ma;Tao Liu;Jianwei Yu

  • Biological Imaging Using Nanoparticles of Small Organic Molecules with Fluorescence Emission at Wavelengths Longer than 1000 nm

    Zhimin Tao;Guosong Hong;Chihiro Shinji;Changxin Chen

  • Fused Benzothiadiazole: A Building Block for n-Type Organic Acceptor to Achieve High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

    Jun Yuan;Yunqiang Zhang;Liuyang Zhou;Liuyang Zhou;Chujun Zhang

  • Barrierless Free Charge Generation in the High-Performance PM6:Y6 Bulk Heterojunction Non-Fullerene Solar Cell

    Lorena Perdigon-Toro;Huotian Zhang;Anastaa si Markina;Jun Yuan

  • A High-Mobility Low-Bandgap Poly(2,7-carbazole) Derivative for Photovoltaic Applications

    Yingping Zou;David Gendron;Réda Badrou-Aïch;Ahmed Najari

  • Reducing Voltage Losses in the A-DA′D-A Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells

    Jun Yuan;Huotian Zhang;Rui Zhang;Yuming Wang

  • Low-Bandgap Non-fullerene Acceptors Enabling High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

    Wei Liu;Xiang Xu;Jun Yuan;Mario Leclerc

  • Synthesis and Characterization of New Thieno[3,4‐c]pyrrole‐4,6‐dione Derivatives for Photovoltaic Applications

    Ahmed Najari;Serge Beaupré;Philippe Berrouard;Yingping Zou

  • Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells based on a New Polymer Acceptor Achieving 10.3% Power Conversion Efficiency

    Huatong Yao;Fujin Bai;Huawei Hu;Lingeswaran Arunagiri

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Yuan
Jun Yuan University of York
Yongfang Li
Yongfang Li Soochow University
Yuehui He
Yuehui He Central South University
Mario Leclerc
Mario Leclerc Université Laval
Feng Gao
Feng Gao Linköping University
He Yan
He Yan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Alexei R. Khokhlov
Alexei R. Khokhlov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Kechao Zhou
Kechao Zhou Central South University
Pei Cheng
Pei Cheng University of California, Los Angeles
Xinhui Lu
Xinhui Lu Chinese University of Hong Kong

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