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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Materials Science 78 2921 2823 941 936 349 26400

Zheng Hu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Zheng Hu between 1988 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Zheng Hu published across 38 years, from 1988 to 2025, averaging 13.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 55 publications in 2025. 78 of the 496 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1988 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 55. Peak 55 publications in 2025. 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 3 publications 1992: 5 publications 1993: 7 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 1 publication 1996: 4 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 1 publication 2001: 3 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 15 publications 2004: 10 publications 2005: 12 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 9 publications 2008: 13 publications 2009: 18 publications 2010: 23 publications 2011: 18 publications 2012: 23 publications 2013: 15 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 22 publications 2016: 25 publications 2017: 21 publications 2018: 22 publications 2019: 24 publications 2020: 35 publications 2021: 28 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 19 publications 2024: 23 publications 2025: 55 publications
1988 2025

496 publications in total across all disciplines

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Zheng Hu: publications per year, 1988 to 2025
Year Publications
1988 1
1989 0
1990 1
1991 3
1992 5
1993 7
1994 1
1995 1
1996 4
1997 0
1998 2
1999 1
2000 1
2001 3
2002 3
2003 15
2004 10
2005 12
2006 9
2007 9
2008 13
2009 18
2010 23
2011 18
2012 23
2013 15
2014 13
2015 22
2016 25
2017 21
2018 22
2019 24
2020 35
2021 28
2022 11
2023 19
2024 23
2025 55
Total 496
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Zheng Hu publications per year - data summary

  • Zheng Hu, a Materials Science scholar from Nanjing University, has 496 publications recorded across 38 years, from 1988 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1988 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2025, with 55 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1988, 1990, 1994, 1995 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 2 of the 38 years in the span carry no publications at all (1989 and 1997).
  • The rate of publication averages 13.1 papers per year over the whole span, or 13.8 per year counting only the 36 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 136 publications, 27% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1988-2000: 27 publications (2.1 per year); 2001-2013: 171 publications (13.2 per year); 2014-2025: 298 publications (24.8 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Zheng Hu 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 Zheng Hu 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, 330–349 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: 349 publications — 70th percentile

70% 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
330–349 477 349
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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Zheng Hu 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.
  • Zheng Hu, a Materials Science scholar from Nanjing University, records 349 publications - the 70th percentile of the discipline.
  • 70% of ranked Materials Science scientists score the same or lower than Zheng Hu, and about 30% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 250–269 publications range, and Zheng Hu ranks above 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).

Zheng Hu 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 Zheng Hu 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, 78–79 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: 78 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% 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 78
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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Zheng Hu 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.
  • Zheng Hu, a Materials Science scholar from Nanjing University, records 78 D-Index - the 77th percentile of the discipline.
  • 77% of ranked Materials Science scientists score the same or lower than Zheng Hu, and about 23% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 62–63 D-Index range, and Zheng Hu ranks above 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

Zheng Hu is affiliated with Nanjing University in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering, Energy, and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Catalysis.

The core topics of Zheng Hu's work focus on electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced battery technologies research, advancements in battery materials, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, catalytic processes in materials science, and fuel cells and related materials.

Among Zheng Hu's recent publications are:

  • Dislocation-Strained IrNi Alloy Nanoparticles Driven by Thermal Shock for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Heterogeneous lamellar-edged Fe-Ni(OH)2/Ni3S2 nanoarray for efficient and stable seawater oxidation, 2020, Nano Research
  • Two-Dimensional Amorphous SnOx from Liquid Metal: Mass Production, Phase Transfer, and Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction toward Formic Acid, 2020, Nano Letters
  • Electrochemical conversion of CO2 to syngas with a wide range of CO/H2 ratio over Ni/Fe binary single-atom catalysts, 2020, Nano Research
  • Engineering Ag-Nx Single-Atom Sites on Porous Concave N-Doped Carbon for Boosting CO2 Electroreduction, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Zheng Hu has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Nano Research
  • Advanced Materials
  • Chinese Chemical Letters
  • Materials Letters
  • Nano Letters

Key collaborators in Zheng Hu's work include Shi Hu, Wei Zhou, Hui Li, Wenbo Zhao, and Yishu Qiu.

Best Publications

  • Boron-doped carbon nanotubes as metal-free electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction.

    Lijun Yang;Shujuan Jiang;Yu Zhao;Lei Zhu

  • Can Boron and Nitrogen Co-doping Improve Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity of Carbon Nanotubes?

    Yu Zhao;Lijun Yang;Sheng Chen;Xizhang Wang

  • Carbon-Based Metal-Free ORR Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells: Past, Present, and Future.

    Lijun Yang;Jianglan Shui;Lei Du;Yuyan Shao

  • Hydrophilic Hierarchical Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Nanocages for Ultrahigh Supercapacitive Performance

    Jin Zhao;Hongwei Lai;Zhiyang Lyu;Yufei Jiang

  • Nitrogen-doped carbon nanocages as efficient metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction.

    Sheng Chen;Jiyu Bi;Yu Zhao;Lijun Yang

  • A new user similarity model to improve the accuracy of collaborative filtering

    Haifeng Liu;Zheng Hu;Ahmad Mian;Hui Tian

  • Significant Contribution of Intrinsic Carbon Defects to Oxygen Reduction Activity

    Yufei Jiang;Lijun Yang;Tao Sun;Jin Zhao

  • Carbon Nanocages as Supercapacitor Electrode Materials

    Ke Xie;Xingtai Qin;Xizhang Wang;Yangnian Wang

  • miR-34a inhibits migration and invasion by down-regulation of c-Met expression in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells

    Na Li;Hanjiang Fu;Yi Tie;Zheng Hu

  • Porous 3D Few-Layer Graphene-like Carbon for Ultrahigh-Power Supercapacitors with Well-Defined Structure-Performance Relationship.

    Jin Zhao;Yufei Jiang;Hao Fan;Meng Liu

  • Synthesis and characterization of faceted hexagonal aluminum nitride nanotubes.

    Qiang Wu;Zheng Hu;Xizhang Wang;Yinong Lu

  • Recent advances in understanding of the mechanism and control of Li2O2 formation in aprotic Li–O2 batteries

    Zhiyang Lyu;Yin Zhou;Wenrui Dai;Xinhang Cui

  • Compressing Carbon Nanocages by Capillarity for Optimizing Porous Structures toward Ultrahigh-Volumetric-Performance Supercapacitors.

    Yongfeng Bu;Tao Sun;Yuejin Cai;Lingyu Du

  • The simplest construction of single-site catalysts by the synergism of micropore trapping and nitrogen anchoring

    Zhiqi Zhang;Yugang Chen;Liqi Zhou;Chi Chen

  • Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes: high electrocatalytic activity toward the oxidation of hydrogen peroxide and its application for biosensing.

    Xuan Xu;Shujuan Jiang;Zheng Hu;Songqin Liu

  • One-pot synthesis of heterogeneous Co3O4-nanocube/Co(OH)2-nanosheet hybrids for high-performance flexible asymmetric all-solid-state supercapacitors

    Huan Pang;Xinran Li;Qunxing Zhao;Huaiguo Xue

  • Vapor-solid growth and characterization of aluminum nitride nanocones

    Chun Liu;Zheng Hu;Qiang Wu;Xizhang Wang

  • From Carbon-Based Nanotubes to Nanocages for Advanced Energy Conversion and Storage.

    Qiang Wu;Lijun Yang;Xizhang Wang;Zheng Hu

  • A glucose biosensor based on direct electrochemistry of glucose oxidase immobilized on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes.

    Shengyuan Deng;Guoqiang Jian;Jianping Lei;Zheng Hu

  • Design and Manufacture of 3D-Printed Batteries

    Zhiyang Lyu;Zhiyang Lyu;Gwendolyn J.H. Lim;J. Justin Koh;Yi Li

  • Single Cobalt Atom and N Codoped Carbon Nanofibers as Highly Durable Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Qingqing Cheng;Lijun Yang;Liangliang Zou;Zhiqing Zou

Frequent Co-Authors

Xizhang Wang
Xizhang Wang Nanjing University
Lijun Yang
Lijun Yang Nanjing University
Yanwen Ma
Yanwen Ma Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Hui Tian
Hui Tian Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Kaifu Huo
Kaifu Huo Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Yi Shi
Yi Shi Nanjing University
Wei Huang
Wei Huang Northwestern Polytechnical University
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh University of Sydney
Tao Sun
Tao Sun University of Virginia
Fan Zhang
Fan Zhang Fudan University

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