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D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
94
Citations
35067
World Ranking
1382
National Ranking
436

Chemistry

D-Index
99
Citations
39211
World Ranking
1319
National Ranking
236

Youyong Li 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 Youyong Li sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 482 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Youyong Li 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 Youyong Li sits on this spectrum.

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 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Youyong Li is affiliated with Soochow University in China and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research encompasses significant work in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Li's research topics include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties

The scientist has co-authored extensively with various colleagues, with the most frequent collaborators being:

  • Yujin Ji (122 publications)
  • Qi Shao (38 publications)
  • Lu Wang (36 publications)
  • Huilong Dong (34 publications)
  • Haiping Lin (28 publications)

Common publication venues for Youyong Li include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (29 publications)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database (19 publications)
  • Nature Communications (18 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (14 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (14 publications)

Some of the recent papers associated with their work are:

  • Polyamide nanofiltration membrane with highly uniform sub-nanometre pores for sub-1 Å precision separation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3d metal oxidation cycle energetics, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • Stabilizing Highly Active Ru Sites by Suppressing Lattice Oxygen Participation in Acidic Water Oxidation, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Regulating the Local Charge Distribution of Ni Active Sites for the Urea Oxidation Reaction, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Iridium metallene oxide for acidic oxygen evolution catalysis, 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Assessing the performance of the MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 1. The accuracy of binding free energy calculations based on molecular dynamics simulations.

    Tingjun Hou;Junmei Wang;Youyong Li;Wei Wang

  • Assessing the performance of the molecular mechanics/Poisson Boltzmann surface area and molecular mechanics/generalized Born surface area methods. II. the accuracy of ranking poses generated from docking

    Tingjun Hou;Junmei Wang;Youyong Li;Wei Wang

  • Comprehensive evaluation of ten docking programs on a diverse set of protein-ligand complexes: the prediction accuracy of sampling power and scoring power.

    Zhe Wang;Huiyong Sun;Xiaojun Yao;Dan Li

  • Polyamide nanofiltration membrane with highly uniform sub-nanometre pores for sub-1 Å precision separation.

    Yuanzhe Liang;Yuanzhe Liang;Yuzhang Zhu;Cheng Liu;Kueir-Rarn Lee

  • Assessing the performance of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 4. Accuracies of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methodologies evaluated by various simulation protocols using PDBbind data set

    Huiyong Sun;Huiyong Sun;Youyong Li;Sheng Tian;Lei Xu

  • High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3d metal oxidation cycle energetics

    Bo Zhang;Lie Wang;Zhen Cao;Sergey M. Kozlov

  • Promises of Main Group Metal–Based Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Formate

    Na Han;Pan Ding;Le He;Youyong Li

  • Assessing the performance of the MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 6. Capability to predict protein-protein binding free energies and re-rank binding poses generated by protein-protein docking.

    Fu Chen;Hui Liu;Huiyong Sun;Peichen Pan

  • Assessing the performance of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 5. Improved docking performance using high solute dielectric constant MM/GBSA and MM/PBSA rescoring

    Huiyong Sun;Huiyong Sun;Youyong Li;Mingyun Shen;Sheng Tian

  • Pyridinic-N-Dominated Doped Defective Graphene as a Superior Oxygen Electrocatalyst for Ultrahigh-Energy-Density Zn–Air Batteries

    Qichen Wang;Qichen Wang;Qichen Wang;Yujin Ji;Yongpeng Lei;Yongpeng Lei;Yaobing Wang

  • Single atom tungsten doped ultrathin α-Ni(OH)2 for enhanced electrocatalytic water oxidation

    Junqing Yan;Lingqiao Kong;Yujin Ji;Jai White

  • Stabilizing Highly Active Ru Sites by Suppressing Lattice Oxygen Participation in Acidic Water Oxidation.

    Yunzhou Wen;Peining Chen;Peining Chen;Lu Wang;Lu Wang;Shangyu Li

  • The application of in silico drug-likeness predictions in pharmaceutical research

    Sheng Tian;Junmei Wang;Youyong Li;Dan Li

  • Assessing the performance of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 3. The impact of force fields and ligand charge models.

    Lei Xu;Huiyong Sun;Youyong Li;Junmei Wang

  • Regulating the Local Charge Distribution of Ni Active Sites for the Urea Oxidation Reaction

    Liping Wang;Yajie Zhu;Yunzhou Wen;Shangyu Li

  • Hierarchical VS2 Nanosheet Assemblies: A Universal Host Material for the Reversible Storage of Alkali Metal Ions.

    Junhua Zhou;Lu Wang;Mingye Yang;Jinghua Wu

  • Unveiling the origin of boosted photocatalytic hydrogen evolution in simultaneously (S, P, O)-Codoped and exfoliated ultrathin g-C3N4 nanosheets

    Qinqin Liu;Jiyou Shen;Xiaohui Yu;Xiaofei Yang

  • Metal Nanoparticle/Carbon Quantum Dot Composite as a Photocatalyst for High-Efficiency Cyclohexane Oxidation

    Ruihua Liu;Hui Huang;Haitao Li;Yang Liu

  • On-surface synthesis of rylene-type graphene nanoribbons.

    Haiming Zhang;Haiping Lin;Kewei Sun;Long Chen

  • A rhodium/silicon co-electrocatalyst design concept to surpass platinum hydrogen evolution activity at high overpotentials.

    Lili Zhu;Haiping Lin;Youyong Li;Fan Liao

  • Alkaline Stable C2-Substituted Imidazolium-Based Anion-Exchange Membranes

    Bencai Lin;Huilong Dong;Youyong Li;Zhihong Si

  • Community-wide assessment of GPCR structure modelling and ligand docking: GPCR Dock 2008

    Mayako Michino;Enrique Abola;Charles L. Brooks;J. Scott Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Tingjun Hou
Tingjun Hou Zhejiang University
Huilong Dong
Huilong Dong Soochow University
Haiping Lin
Haiping Lin Soochow University, Taiwan
Shuit-Tong Lee
Shuit-Tong Lee Macau University of Science and Technology
Junmei Wang
Junmei Wang University of Pittsburgh
Lifeng Chi
Lifeng Chi Soochow University
Wanli Ma
Wanli Ma Soochow University
Jianyu Yuan
Jianyu Yuan Soochow University
Qingfeng Xu
Qingfeng Xu Soochow University
Jianmei Lu
Jianmei Lu Soochow University

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