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Researcher · Shanghai Polytechnic University · China

Wei Yu

Wei Yu publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, on topics such as Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods, Polymer crystallization and properties and Thermal properties of materials.

ORCID 0000-0002-0536-5637 OpenAlex
World rank
#232,221
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in China
#24,220
of 978,568
Works
840
Citations
23k
Citations per work
27.8
h-index
75
i10-index 367Top 0.7% in Materials Chemistry
Wei Yu

What does Wei Yu research?

Wei Yu's work is mostly in Engineering (26%), Materials Science (23%), Energy (9%).

Physical Sciences: 489 works · 58.2% of their workEngineering: 220 works · 26.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 93 works · 11.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 68 works · 8.1% of their workMechanical Engineering: 59 works · 7.0% of their workMaterials Science: 192 works · 22.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 120 works · 14.3% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 71 works · 8.5% of their workEnergy: 77 works · 9.2% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 77 works · 9.2% of their workEverything else: 351 works · 41.8% of their workTHEIR WORKWei Yu840works
Physical Sciences58%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering22026.2%
    2. Materials Science19222.8%
    3. Energy779.2%
  2. Everything else35141.8%
  1. 1Materials Chemistry14% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering11% of their works
  3. 3Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment9% of their works
  4. 4Polymers and Plastics8% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wei Yu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanoparticles, Rheology, Thermal Conductivity, Phase Change Materials, Heat Transfer, Solar Desalination, Water Scarcity and Polymer Blends.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanoparticles1532 topics
  2. Rheology1332 topics
  3. Thermal Conductivity1172 topics
  4. Phase Change Materials1052 topics
  5. Heat Transfer902 topics
  6. Solar Desalination771 topic
  7. Water Scarcity771 topic
  8. Polymer Blends761 topic
  9. Polymer Crystallization761 topic
  10. Graphene681 topic
  11. Nanocomposites681 topic
  12. Photovoltaic/Thermal Hybrid Technology641 topic
  13. Solar Thermal Collectors641 topic
  14. Complex Fluids571 topic
  15. Polymers571 topic
  16. Organometal Halide Perovskites551 topic
  17. Perovskite Solar Cells551 topic
  18. Convective Transport491 topic
  19. Nanofluids491 topic
  20. Building Applications411 topic
  21. Thermal Energy Storage411 topic

Where does Wei Yu work?

Wei Yu's main affiliation in the publication record is Shanghai Polytechnic University, China.

How many publications and citations does Wei Yu have?

OpenAlex counts 840 works and 23,383 citations for Wei Yu, an h-index of 75, ranking #232,221 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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