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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
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Materials Science 62 6499 6284 1953 1946 157 13459

Zheng Tang publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Zheng Tang between 2012 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Zheng Tang published across 14 years, from 2012 to 2025, averaging 24.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 60 publications in 2025. 111 of the 339 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2012 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 60. Peak 60 publications in 2025. 2012: 7 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 17 publications 2020: 24 publications 2021: 40 publications 2022: 48 publications 2023: 47 publications 2024: 51 publications 2025: 60 publications
2012 2025

339 publications in total across all disciplines

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Zheng Tang: publications per year, 2012 to 2025
Year Publications
2012 7
2013 4
2014 11
2015 5
2016 10
2017 6
2018 9
2019 17
2020 24
2021 40
2022 48
2023 47
2024 51
2025 60
Total 339
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Zheng Tang 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 Tang 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, 150–169 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: 157 publications — 16th percentile

16% 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
150–169 835 157
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
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 Tang 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 Tang 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, 62–63 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: 62 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% 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 62
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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Zheng Tang is affiliated with Donghua University in China and has made significant contributions to the fields of engineering and materials science. Their research primarily focuses on organic electronics and photovoltaics, with an emphasis on conducting polymers, perovskite materials, and solar cell technologies.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Within these broad fields, their subfields of study are concentrated in:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering

Zheng Tang's research extensively covers these main topics:

  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Thin-Film Transistor Technologies
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies

They have published numerous papers in prominent venues, with the most frequent publication sources being:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Energy Materials

Notable recent papers by Zheng Tang include:

  • Single-layered organic photovoltaics with double cascading charge transport pathways: 18% efficiencies, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Binary Organic Solar Cells Breaking 19% via Manipulating the Vertical Component Distribution, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science), 2021, Science China Chemistry
  • Efficient Organic Solar Cell with 16.88% Efficiency Enabled by Refined Acceptor Crystallization and Morphology with Improved Charge Transfer and Transport Properties, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part II device engineering), 2022, Science China Chemistry

Zheng Tang frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors. The most common coauthors in their work are:

  • Zaifei Ma
  • Zhishan Bo
  • Wei Ma
  • Weiwei Li
  • Na Yu

Best Publications

  • Binary Organic Solar Cells Breaking 19% via Manipulating the Vertical Component Distribution

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  • Single-layered organic photovoltaics with double cascading charge transport pathways: 18% efficiencies

    Ming Zhang;Lei Zhu;Guanqing Zhou;Tianyu Hao

  • Efficient Organic Solar Cell With 16.88% Efficiency Enabled by Refined Acceptor Crystallization and Morphology With Improved Charge Transfer and Transport Properties

    Lei Zhu;Lei Zhu;Ming Zhang;Guanqing Zhou;Tianyu Hao

  • Noncovalently fused-ring electron acceptors with near-infrared absorption for high-performance organic solar cells.

    Hao Huang;Qingxin Guo;Shiyu Feng;Cai'e. Zhang

  • All-polymer organic solar cells with nano-to-micron hierarchical morphology and large light receiving angle

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  • Vertically optimized phase separation with improved exciton diffusion enables efficient organic solar cells with thick active layers

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  • Achieving Record-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells upon Tuning the Conformation of Solid Additives

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  • A Fully Non-fused Ring Acceptor with Planar Backbone and Near-IR Absorption for High Performance Polymer Solar Cells.

    Ya-Nan Chen;Miao Li;Yunzhi Wang;Jing Wang

  • Quantification of Quantum Efficiency and Energy Losses in Low Bandgap Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells with High Open-Circuit Voltage

    Koen Vandewal;Zaifei Ma;Jonas Bergqvist;Zheng Tang

  • Ethanedithiol Treatment of Solution-Processed ZnO Thin Films: Controlling the Intragap States of Electron Transporting Interlayers for Efficient and Stable Inverted Organic Photovoltaics

    Sai Bai;Yizheng Jin;Xiaoyong Liang;Zhizhen Ye

  • Over 19.2% Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Precisely Tuning the Charge Transfer State Via Donor Alloy Strategy

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  • Hot Hydrocarbon-Solvent Slot-Die Coating Enables High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells with Temperature-Dependent Aggregation Behavior

    Heng Zhao;Hafiz Bilal Naveed;Baojun Lin;Xiaobo Zhou

  • Light trapping in thin film organic solar cells

    Zheng Tang;Wolfgang Tress;Olle Inganäs

  • Polymer:Fullerene Bimolecular Crystals for Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Photodetectors.

    Zheng Tang;Zaifei Ma;Antonio Sánchez-Díaz;Sascha Ullbrich

  • High-efficiency organic solar cells with low voltage loss induced by solvent additive strategy

    Jiali Song;Lei Zhu;Chao Li;Jinqiu Xu

  • Simple Nonfused Ring Electron Acceptors with 3D Network Packing Structure Boosting the Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells to 15.44

    Xiaodong Wang;Hao Lu;Yahui Liu;Andong Zhang

  • Ternary Strategy Enabling High-Efficiency Rigid and Flexible Organic Solar Cells with Reduced Non-radiative Voltage Loss

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  • Polymerized Small Molecular Acceptor with Branched Side Chains for All Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency over 16.7%

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  • Influences of Surface Roughness of ZnO Electron Transport Layer on the Photovoltaic Performance of Organic Inverted Solar Cells

    Zaifei Ma;Zheng Tang;Ergang Wang;Mats R. Andersson

  • Enhancing the Performance of a Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor by Unidirectional Extension

    Boyu Jia;Jing Wang;Yao Wu;Mingyu Zhang

  • Thermal-Driven Phase Separation of Double-Cable Polymers Enables Efficient Single-Component Organic Solar Cells

    Guitao Feng;Junyu Li;Yakun He;Wenyu Zheng

  • A facile strategy for third-component selection in non-fullerene acceptor-based ternary organic solar cells

    Yun Li;Yunhao Cai;Yuanpeng Xie;Junhua Song

  • Semi-Transparent Tandem Organic Solar Cells with 90% Internal Quantum Efficiency

    Zheng Tang;Zandra George;Zaifei Ma;Jonas Bergqvist

  • Interlayer for Modified Cathode in Highly Efficient Inverted ITO‐Free Organic Solar Cells

    Zheng Tang;L. Mattias Andersson;Zandra George;Koen Vandewal

  • Structure–property relationships of oligothiophene–isoindigo polymers for efficient bulk-heterojunction solar cells

    Zaifei Ma;Wenjun Sun;Scott Himmelberger;Koen Vandewal

  • Simple Nonfused-Ring Electron Acceptors with Noncovalently Conformational Locks for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Solar Cells Enabled by End-Group Engineering

    Congqi Li;Xin Zhang;Na Yu;Xiaobin Gu

  • A novel wide-bandgap small molecule donor for high efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells with small non-radiative energy losses

    Yulong Wang;Yang Wang;Lei Zhu;Haiqin Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zaifei Ma
Zaifei Ma Donghua University
Olle Inganäs
Olle Inganäs Linköping University
Wei Ma
Wei Ma Xi'an Jiaotong University
Weiwei Li
Weiwei Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhishan Bo
Zhishan Bo Beijing Normal University
Mats Andersson
Mats Andersson Flinders University
Jenq-Neng Hwang
Jenq-Neng Hwang University of Washington
Koen Vandewal
Koen Vandewal Hasselt University
Fengling Zhang
Fengling Zhang Linköping University
Feng Liu
Feng Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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