China: Top Cited Paper Award
Top Cited Papers from China are being recognised by an award from IOP Publishing
Congratulations to the 2024 Top Cited Paper Award winners from China. These awards are presented to the top 10 papers in the top one per cent of the most-cited articles, recently published in our journals* with corresponding authors based in China. We congratulate all the authors on this outstanding achievement.
You can find the full list of top cited papers for each subject category below.
*We use data from Web of Science to identify the top cited papers during the period of 2021 to 2023.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Photometric Study and Absolute Parameter Estimation of Six Totally Eclipsing Contact Binaries | The Astronomical Journal | Kai Li, Qi-Qi Xia, Chun-Hwey Kim, Xing Gao, Shao-Ming Hu, Di-Fu Guo, Dong-Yang Gao, Xu Chen, and Ya-Ni Guo |
| Gaia EDR3 Proper Motions of Milky Way Dwarfs. I. 3D Motions and Orbits | The Astrophysical Journal | Hefan Li, Francois Hammer, Carine Babusiaux, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Yanbin Yang, Frederic Arenou, Cuihua Du, and Jianling Wang |
| Modeling the Sgr A* Black Hole Immersed in a Dark Matter Spike | The Astrophysical Journal | Sourabh Nampalliwar, Saurabh Kumar, Kimet Jusufi, Qiang Wu, Mubasher Jamil, and Paolo Salucci |
| Evolution of LMXBs under Different Magnetic Braking Prescriptions | The Astrophysical Journal | Zhu-Ling Deng, Xiang-Dong Li, Zhi-Fu Gao, and Yong Shao |
| Population Synthesis of Black Hole Binaries with Compact Star Companions | The Astrophysical Journal | Yong Shao and Xiang-Dong Li |
| An Extended Halo-based Group/Cluster Finder: Application to the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR8 | The Astrophysical Journal | Xiaohu Yang, Haojie Xu, Min He, Yizhou Gu, Antonios Katsianis, Jiacheng Meng, Feng Shi, Hu Zou, Youcai Zhang, Chengze Liu, Zhaoyu Wang, Fuyu Dong, Yi Lu, Qingyang Li, Yangyao Chen, Huiyuan Wang, Houjun Mo, Jian Fu, Hong Guo, Alexie Leauthaud, Yu Luo, Jun Zhang, and Ying Zu. |
| Fast Radio Bursts and Their High-energy Counterparts from Magnetar Magnetospheres | The Astrophysical Journal | Yuan-Pei Yang and Bing Zhang |
| Neutron Star Mergers in Active Galactic Nucleus Accretion Disks: Cocoon and Ejecta Shock Breakouts | Astrophysical Journal Letters | Jin-Ping Zhu, Bing Zhang, Yun-Wei Yu, and He Gao |
| Searching for the Nano-Hertz Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array Data Release I | Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics | Heng Xu, Siyuan Chen, Yanjun Guo, Jinchen Jiang, Bojun Wang, Jiangwei Xu, Zihan Xue, R. Nicolas Caballero, Jianping Yuan, Yonghua Xu, Jingbo Wang, Longfei Hao, Jingtao Luo, Kejia Lee, Jinlin Han, Peng Jiang, Zhiqiang Shen, Min Wang, Na Wang, Renxin Xu, Xiangping Wu, Richard Manchester, Lei Qian, Xin Guan, Menglin Huang, Chun Sun, and Yan Zhu |
| Quantum cosmology in f(Q) theory | Classical and Quantum Gravity | N. Dimakis, A. Paliathanasis, and T. Christodoulakis |
Biosciences
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Investigating EEG-based functional connectivity patterns for multimodal emotion recognition | Journal of Neural Engineering | Xun Wu, Wei-Long Zheng, Ziyi Li and Bao-Liang Lu |
| Towards real-life EEG applications: novel superporous hydrogel-based semi-dry EEG electrodes enabling automatically ‘charge-discharge’ electrolyte | Journal of Neural Engineering | Guangli Li, Sizhe Wang, Mingzhe Li and Yanwen Y Duan |
| COVID-19 screening using breath-borne volatile organic compounds | Journal of Breath Research | Haoxuan Chen, Xiao Qi, Lu Zhang, Xinyue Li, Jianxin Ma, Chunyang Zhang, Huasong Feng, and Maosheng Yao |
| EEGdenoiseNet: a benchmark dataset for deep learning solutions of EEG denoising | Journal of Neural Engineering | Haoming Zhang, Mingqi Zhao, Chen Wei, Dante Mantini, Zherui Li, and Quanying Liu. |
| Implementing a calibration-free SSVEP-based BCI system with 160 targets | Journal of Neural Engineering | Yonghao Chen, Chen Yang, Xiaochen Ye, Xiaogang Chen, Yijun Wang, and Xiaorong Gao. |
| A novel training-free recognition method for SSVEP-based BCIs using dynamic window strategy | Journal of Neural Engineering | Yonghao Chen, Chen Yang, Xiaogang Chen, Yijun Wang and Xiaorong Gao |
| Motor imagery recognition with automatic EEG channel selection and deep learning | Journal of Neural Engineering | Han Zhang, Xing Zhao, Zexu Wu, Biao Sun and Ting Li |
| Growth differentiation factor-5-gelatin methacryloyl injectable microspheres laden with adipose-derived stem cells for repair of disc degeneration | Biofabrication | Haibin Xu, Miao Sun, Chenggui Wang, Kaishun Xia, Shining Xiao, Ye Wang, Liwei Ying, Chao Yu, Quanming Yang, Yong He, An Liu and Linwei Chen |
Energy Materials
Environmental Sciences
Machine Learning
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Local and global stimuli in reinforcement learning | New Journal of Physics | Danyang Jia, Hao Guo, Zhao Song, Lei Shi, Xinyang Deng, Matjaž Perc and Zhen Wang |
| Cooperator driven oscillation in a time-delayed feedback-evolving game | New Journal of Physics | Fang Yan, Xiaojie Chen, Zhipeng Qiu and Attila Szolnoki |
| Speeding up quantum dissipative dynamics of open systems with kernel methods | New Journal of Physics | Arif Ullah and Pavlo O. Dral |
Materials
| Article Title | Journal | Author list |
| Study on current discrepancy and redistribution of HTS non-insulation closed-loop coils during charging/discharging and subsequent transient process toward steady-state operation | Superconductor Science and Technology | Li Lu, Wei Wu, Yusong Gao, Chengyun Pan, Xin Yu, Chao Zhang, and Zhijian Jin. |
| Electromagnetic-thermal-mechanical behaviors of a no-insulation double-pancake coil induced by a quench in the self field and the high field | Superconductor Science and Technology | Donghui Liu, Dongke Li, Weiwei Zhang, Huadong Yong, and Youhe Zhou. |
| Database of the effect of stabilizer on the resistivity and thermal conductivity of 20 different commercial REBCO tapes | Superconductor Science and Technology | Huimin Zhang, Hongli Suo, Lei Wang, Lin Ma, Jianhua Liu, Zili Zhang, and Qiuliang Wang. |
| High performance Li-ion capacitor fabricated with dual graphene-based materials | Nanotechnology | Dong Sui, Manman Wu, Yiyang Liu, Yanliang Yang, Hongtao Zhang, Yanfeng Ma, Long Zhang, and Yongsheng Chen. |
| Ni/Ni3Al interface-dominated nanoindentation deformation and pop-in events | Nanotechnology | Jinjie Zhou, Yingle He, Jinchuan Shen, F A Essa and Jingui Yu |
| Synergic realization of electrical insulation and mechanical strength in liquid nitrogen for high-temperature superconducting tapes with ultra-thin acrylic resin coating | Superconductor Science and Technology | Chunjiang Guo, Zhiwei Zhang, Yue Wu, Yawei Wang, Guangtong Ma, Jiangtao Shi, Zhuoyan Zhong, Zhiyong Hong, Zhijian Jin, and Yue Zhao. |
| Intelligent design of large-size HTS magnets for SMES and high-field applications: using a self-programmed GUI tool | Superconductor Science and Technology | Xiaoyuan Chen, Zhou Pang, Huayu Gou, Qi Xie, Ruibin Zhao, Zhanghai Shi, and Boyang Shen |
| Numerical analysis of the electromechanical behavior of high-field REBCO coils in all-superconducting magnets | Superconductor Science and Technology | Mengdie Niu, Jing Xia and Huadong Yong |
| A graphene-coated silk-spandex fabric strain sensor for human movement monitoring and recognition | Nanotechnology | Xian Song, Xiaoting Liu, Yuxin Peng, Zhen Xu, Wenming Liu, Kai Pang, Jianxiang Wang, Liang Zhong, Qiang Yang, and Jun Meng. |
| Optical tunable multifunctional slow light device based on double monolayer graphene grating-like metamaterial | New Journal of Physics | Hui Xu, Xiaojing Wang, Zhiquan Chen, Xuelei Li, Longhui He, Yulan Dong, Guozheng Nie, and Zhihui He. |
Mathematical Sciences
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Solution landscape of a reduced Landau-de Gennes model on a hexagon | Nonlinearity | Yucen Han, Jianyuan Yin, Pingwen Zhang, Apala Majumda and Lei Zhang |
| Bearing fault diagnosis using transfer learning and optimized deep belief network | Measurement Science and Technology | Huimin Zhao, Xiaoxu Yang, Baojie Chen, Huayue Chen and Wu Deng |
| A fractional-order CNN hyperchaotic system for image encryption algorithm | Physica Scripta | Yanzhang Wang and Feifei Yang |
| Nonlocal robust tensor recovery with nonconvex regularization* | Inverse Problems | Duo Qiu, Minru Bai, Michael K Ng and Xiongjun Zhang |
| Higher-order rogue wave solutions of the Sasa-Satsuma equation | Journal of Physics A – Mathematical and Theoretical | Bao-Feng Feng, Changyan Shi, Guangxiong Zhang and Chengfa Wu |
| On a local geometric property of the generalized elastic transmission eigenfunctions and application | Inverse Problems | Huaian Diao, Hongyu Liu and Baiyi Sun |
Nanosciences
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| A robust all-inorganic hybrid energy harvester for synergistic energy collection from sunlight and raindrops | Nanotechnology | Xiaolan Liu, Peng Cui, Jingjing Wang, Wanyu Shang, Song Zhang, Junmeng Guo, Guangqin Gu, Bao Zhang, Gang Cheng, and Zuliang Du. |
| MOF-derived porous carbon nanofibers wrapping Sn nanoparticles as flexible anodes for lithium/sodium ion batteries | Nanotechnology | Shaoqing Zhu, Aoming Huang, Qian Wang and Ye Xu |
| Tuning electronic, magnetic and catalytic behaviors of biphenylene network by atomic doping | Nanotechnology | Kai Ren, Huabing Shu, Wenyi Huo, Zhen Cui and Yujing Xu |
| Simultaneous measurement of refractive index and temperature of seawater based on surface plasmon resonance in a dual D-type photonic crystal fiber | Materials Research Express | Yingyue Zhang, Hailiang Chen, Mingyue Wang, Yundong Liu, Xiaoya Fan, Qiang Chen, and Biao Wu. |
| Ultrahigh hydrogen storage capacity of holey graphyne | Nanotechnology | Yan Gao, Huanian Zhang, Hongzhe Pan, Qingfang Li, and Jijun Zhao. |
| Stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing of carbon fiber-graphene oxide (CF-GO) reinforced polymer lattices | Nanotechnology | Ran Xiao, Mingyang Ding, Yuejiao Wang, Libo Gao, Rong Fan, and Yang Lu. |
| Silver-decorated black phosphorus: a synergistic antibacterial strategy | Nanotechnology | Fang Deng, Ping Wu, Guowen Qian, Yang Shuai, Lemin Zhang, Shuping Peng, Cijun Shuai, and Guoyong Wang. |
| Significant perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in room-temperature layered ferromagnet of Cr-intercalated CrTe2 | 2D Materials | Meng Huang, Zongwei Ma, Sheng Wang, Si Li, Miao Li, Junxiang Xiang, Ping Liu, Guojing Hu, Zengming Zhang, Zhe Sun, Yalin Lu, Zhigao Sheng, Gong Chen, Yu-Lun Chueh, Shengyuan A Yang, and Bin Xiang. |
| Paclitaxel-loaded lignin particle encapsulated into electrospun PVA/PVP composite nanofiber for effective cervical cancer cell inhibition | Nanotechnology | Baoe Li, Xiaomei Xia, Jiatian Chen, Dan Xia, Ruodan Xu, Xianrui Zou, Hongshui Wang, and Chunyong Liang. |
| Graphdiyne based GDY/CuI/NiO parallel double S-scheme heterojunction for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution | 2D Materials | Zhiliang Jin, Xiangyi Wang, Xuqiang Hao, Guorong Wang, Xin Guo, and Kai Wang. |
Physics
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Soliton fusion and fission for the high-order coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system in fiber lasers | Chinese Physics B | Tian-Yi Wang (王天一), Qin Zhou (周勤) and Wen-Jun Liu (刘文军) |
| The dynamics of a memristor-based Rulkov neuron with fractional-order difference | Chinese Physics B | Yan-Mei Lu (卢艳梅), Chun-Hua Wang (王春华), Quan-Li Deng (邓全利) and Cong Xu (徐聪) |
| Chapter 1 LHAASO Instruments and Detector technology * | CHINESE PHYSICS C | Xin-Hua Ma (马欣华), Yu-Jiang Bi (毕玉江), Zhen Cao (曹臻), Ming-Jun Chen (陈明君), Song-Zhan Chen (陈松战), Yao-Dong Cheng (程耀东), Guang-Hua Gong (龚光华), Min-Hao Gu (顾旻皓), Hui-Hai He (何会海), Chao Hou (侯超), Wen-Hao Huang (黄文昊), Xing-Tao Huang (黄性涛), Cheng Liu (刘成), Oleg Shchegolev, Xiang-Dong Sheng (盛祥东), Yuri Stenkin, Chao-Yong Wu (吴超勇), Han-Rong Wu (吴含荣), Sha Wu (武莎), Gang Xiao (肖刚), Zhi-Guo Yao (姚志国), Shou-Shan Zhang (张寿山), Yi Zhang (张毅), and Xiong Zuo (左雄) |
| Large Room-Temperature Magnetoresistance in van der Waals Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Junctions | Chinese Physics Letters | Wenkai Zhu, Shihong Xie, Hailong Lin, Gaojie Zhang, Hao Wu, Tiangui Hu, Ziao Wang, Xiaomin Zhang, Jiahan Xu, Yujing Wang, Yuanhui Zheng, Faguang Yan, Jing Zhang, Lixia Zhao, Amalia Patané, Jia Zhang, Haixin Chang, and Kaiyou Wang |
| Momentum Space Quantum Monte Carlo on Twisted Bilayer Graphene | Chinese Physics Letters | Xu Zhang (张栩), Gaopei Pan (潘高培), Yi Zhang (张燚), Jian Kang (康健) and Zi Yang Meng (孟子杨) |
| Active tunable terahertz bandwidth absorber based on single layer graphene | Communications in Theoretical Physics | Wenxin Li, Yingting Yi, Hua Yang, Shubo Cheng, Wenxing Yang, Huafeng Zhang, Zao Yi, Yougen Yi and Hailiang Li |
| Dynamic behaviors of the lump solutions and mixed solutions to a (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear model | Communications in Theoretical Physics | Si-Jia Chen, Xing Lü and Yu-Hang Yin |
| Few shot cross equipment fault diagnosis method based on parameter optimization and feature mertic | Measurement Science and Technology | Hongfeng Tao, Long Cheng, Jier Qiu and Vladimir Stojanovic |
| Universal coupled theory for metamaterial bound states in the continuum | New Journal of Physics | Wei Huang, Songyi Liu, Yu Cheng, Jiaguang Han, Shan Yin and Wentao Zhang |
Quantum
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Magnetic Feshbach resonances in collisions of (NaK)-Na-23-K-40 with K-40 | New Journal of Physics | Xin-Yao Wang, Matthew D Frye, Zhen Su, Jin Cao, Lan Liu, De-Chao Zhang, Huan Yang, Jeremy M Hutson, Bo Zhao, Chun-Li Bai, and Jian-Wei Pan. |
| Chiral quantum network with giant atoms | Quantum Science and Technology | Xin Wang and Hong-Rong Li |
| Optical tunable multifunctional slow light device based on double monolayer graphene grating-like metamaterial | New Journal of Physics | Hui Xu, Xiaojing Wang, Zhiquan Chen, Xuelei Li, Longhui He, Yulan Dong, Guozheng Nie, and Zhihui He. |
| Generation of generalized hybrid entanglement in cavity electro–optic systems | Quantum Science and Technology | Feng-Yang Zhang and Chui-Ping Yang |
| Finite-key analysis for quantum conference key agreement with asymmetric channels | Quantum Science and Technology | Zhao Li, Xiao-Yu Cao, Chen-Long Li, Chen-Xun Weng, Jie Gu, Hua-Lei Yin, and Zeng-Bing Chen |
Sustainability
Reviews
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Review-Corrosion-Resistant High-Entropy Alloy Coatings: A Review | Journal of the Electrochemical Society | Hongxu Cheng, Zhimin Pan, Yu Fu, Xuefei Wang, Ya Wei, Hong Luo and Xiaogang Li |
| From contact electrification to triboelectric nanogenerators | Reports on Progress in Physics | Zhong Lin Wang |
| Ground-level ozone pollution in China: a synthesis of recent findings on influencing factors and impacts | Environmental Research Letters | Tao Wang, Likun Xue, Zhaozhong Feng, Jianing Dai, Yingnan Zhang and Yue Tan |
| Recent development in friction of 2D materials: from mechanisms to applications | Nanotechnology | Yanbao Guo, Xuanli Zhou, Kyungjun Lee, Hyun Chul Yoon, Quan Xu and Deguo Wang |
| A review on the low external quantum efficiency and the remedies for GaN-based micro-LEDs | Journal of Physics D – Applied Physics | Sheng Hang, Chia-Ming Chuang, Yonghui Zhang, Chunshuang Chu, Kangkai Tian, Quan Zheng, Tingzhu Wu, Zhaojun Liu, Zi-Hui Zhang, Qing Li and Hao-Chung Kuo |
| Development of compact electronic noses: a review | Measurement Science and Technology | Lu Cheng, Qing-Hao Meng, Achim J Lilienthal and Pei-Feng Qi |
