OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACS Catalysis is 117. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction to C2+ Products	468
Tailoring the d-Band Centers Endows (Ni_xFe_1–x)₂P Nanosheets with Efficient Oxygen Evolution Catalysis	426
Insights into the Influence of CeO₂Crystal Facet on CO₂Hydrogenation to Methanol over Pd/CeO₂Catalysts	404
Perovskite Oxide Based Materials for Energy and Environment-Oriented Photocatalysis	393
Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioselective Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions	363
Defect Chemistry in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Recognition, Understanding, and Utilization	329
High-Entropy Alloys as a Platform for Catalysis: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities	313
Updates on the Roadmap for Photocatalysis	298
Electrocatalysis of Single-Atom Sites: Impacts of Atomic Coordination	278
Enhanced Photocatalytic H₂O₂ Production over Carbon Nitride by Doping and Defect Engineering	277
Nickel-Catalyzed Dicarbofunctionalization of Alkenes	276
Trimetallic NiCoFe-Layered Double Hydroxides Nanosheets Efficient for Oxygen Evolution and Highly Selective Oxidation of Biomass-Derived 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural	276
Rational Catalyst Design for N₂ Reduction under Ambient Conditions: Strategies toward Enhanced Conversion Efficiency	274
Supported Metal Clusters: Fabrication and Application in Heterogeneous Catalysis	269
Computational Redesign of a PETase for Plastic Biodegradation under Ambient Condition by the GRAPE Strategy	266
A Review on Challenges and Successes in Atomic-Scale Design of Catalysts for Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide	259
Metal–Organic Frameworks as a Good Platform for the Fabrication of Single-Atom Catalysts	241
MXenes: New Horizons in Catalysis	240
Atomically Dispersed Fe–Co Dual Metal Sites as Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable and Flexible Zn–Air Batteries	238
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Organic Reactions under Visible Light: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives	227
Engineering Lower Coordination Atoms onto NiO/Co₃O₄ Heterointerfaces for Boosting Oxygen Evolution Reactions	227
Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Glycerol to Formic Acid by CuCo₂O₄ Spinel Oxide Nanostructure Catalysts	221
N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Based Catalysis Enabling Cross-Coupling Reactions	219
Recycling Carbon Dioxide through Catalytic Hydrogenation: Recent Key Developments and Perspectives	218
Selective Organic Transformations over Cadmium Sulfide-Based Photocatalysts	212

NiCo-Based Electrocatalysts for the Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction: A Review	208
Densely Isolated FeN₄ Sites for Peroxidase Mimicking	208
Fully Conjugated Donor–Acceptor Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Oxidative Amine Coupling and Thioamide Cyclization	207
Open Catalyst 2020 (OC20) Dataset and Community Challenges	205
Photocatalytic CO₂Reduction: A Review of Ab Initio Mechanism, Kinetics, and Multiscale Modeling Simulations	201
CO₂ Hydrogenation to Methanol over In₂O₃-Based Catalysts: From Mechanism to Catalyst Development	201
Structure Sensitivity of Pd Facets for Enhanced Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia	198
Spin-State-Dependent Peroxymonosulfate Activation of Single-Atom M–N Moieties via a Radical-Free Pathway	197
Embedding CdS@Au into Ultrathin Ti_3–xC₂T_y to Build Dual Schottky Barriers for Photocatalytic H₂ Production	197
Revealing the CO Coverage-Driven C–C Coupling Mechanism for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction on Cu₂O Nanocubes via Operando Raman Spectroscopy	195
Single Electron Transfer-Induced Redox Processes Involving N-(Acyloxy)phthalimides	194
Metal-Mediated and Metal-Catalyzed Reactions Under Mechanochemical Conditions	192
Density Functional Theory Calculations for Insight into the Heterocatalyst Reactivity and Mechanism in Persulfate-Based Advanced Oxidation Reactions	190
Embracing Nature’s Catalysts: A Viewpoint on the Future of Biocatalysis	189
Advances in the Design of Heterogeneous Catalysts and Thermocatalytic Processes for CO₂ Utilization	186
Improved Activity and SO₂ Resistance by Sm-Modulated Redox of MnCeSmTiO_x Mesoporous Amorphous Oxides for Low-Temperature NH₃-SCR of NO	184
Transition Metal Catalyzed Enantioselective C(sp²)–H Bond Functionalization	182
4-Nitrophenol Reduction: Probing the Putative Mechanism of the Model Reaction	182
Spillover in Heterogeneous Catalysis: New Insights and Opportunities	179
Investigation into the Catalytic Roles of Various Oxygen Species over Different Crystal Phases of MnO₂ for C₆H₆ and HCHO Oxidation	175
Recent Advances in Noncontact External-Field-Assisted Photocatalysis: From Fundamentals to Applications	174
The Critical Impacts of Ligands on Heterogeneous Nanocatalysis: A Review	173
Synergistic Effects for Enhanced Catalysis in a Dual Single-Atom Catalyst	173
Enhanced Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Activity over NH₂-MIL-125(Ti) by Facet Regulation	172
Copper-Catalyzed Borylative Difunctionalization of π-Systems	171
Essential Role of the Support for Nickel-Based CO₂ Methanation Catalysts	167
Fundamentals of Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction on Single-Metal-Atom Catalysts	165
Metal–Support Interactions in Metal/Oxide Catalysts and Oxide–Metal Interactions in Oxide/Metal Inverse Catalysts	162
Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Organic Transformation Reactions Using Conjugated Polymers-Based Materials	162
Tandem Catalysis for Hydrogenation of CO and CO₂ to Lower Olefins with Bifunctional Catalysts Composed of Spinel Oxide and SAPO-34	157
Theoretical Insights into Superior Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia Performance of Copper Catalysts	157
Selective Activation of Benzyl Alcohol Coupled with Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation via a Radical Relay Strategy	157
Single Atomic Cerium Sites with a High Coordination Number for Efficient Oxygen Reduction in Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells	156
Platinum Single Atoms Anchored on a Covalent Organic Framework: Boosting Active Sites for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution	153
Visible-Light-Driven Catalytic Reductive Carboxylation with CO₂	152
Origin of the Enhanced Reusability and Electron Transfer of the Carbon-Coated Mn₃O₄ Nanocube for Persulfate Activation	150
Ceria-Based Materials for Thermocatalytic and Photocatalytic Organic Synthesis	150
Atomic Fe Dispersed Hierarchical Mesoporous Fe–N–C Nanostructures for an Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction	149
Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia on Low-Cost Ultrathin CoO_x Nanosheets	149
Challenges and Opportunities in Multicatalysis	148
Size Dependence of Pt Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation: from Atomically Dispersed to Nanoparticles	147
Recent Advances in Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation with Formic Acid over Heterogeneous Transition Metal Catalysts	147
Hydrogenation of CO₂ to Methanol on a Au^δ+–In₂O_3–x Catalyst	145
Spontaneous Formation of Asymmetric Oxygen Vacancies in Transition-Metal-Doped CeO₂ Nanorods with Improved Activity for Carbonyl Sulfide Hydrolysis	143
Boosted Photocatalytic Oxidation of Toluene into Benzaldehyde on CdIn₂S₄-CdS: Synergetic Effect of Compact Heterojunction and S-Vacancy	143
Nanocarbon-Based Catalytic Ozonation for Aqueous Oxidation: Engineering Defects for Active Sites and Tunable Reaction Pathways	143
A Thiadiazole-Based Covalent Organic Framework: A Metal-Free Electrocatalyst toward Oxygen Evolution Reaction	143
Pore-Edge Tailoring of Single-Atom Iron–Nitrogen Sites on Graphene for Enhanced CO₂ Reduction	140
Insight on Reaction Pathways of Photocatalytic CO₂ Conversion	139
Mechanism of Ce-Modified Birnessite-MnO₂ in Promoting SO₂ Poisoning Resistance for Low-Temperature NH₃-SCR	139

Ultrahigh Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity Achieved Using Ir Single Atoms on Amorphous CoO_x Nanosheets	138
Constructing a Hetero-interface Composed of Oxygen Vacancy-Enriched Co₃O₄ and Crystalline–Amorphous NiFe-LDH for Oxygen Evolution Reaction	137
Direct Attack and Indirect Transfer Mechanisms Dominated by Reactive Oxygen Species for Photocatalytic H₂O₂ Production on g-C₃N₄ Possessing Nitrogen Vacanci	135
Morphology Effects of CeO₂ Nanomaterials on the Catalytic Combustion of Toluene: A Combined Kinetics and Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Study	134
Elucidating the Facet-Dependent Selectivity for CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethanol of Cu–Ag Tandem Catalysts	134
Fundamental Studies of Planar Single-Crystalline Oxide Model Electrodes (RuO₂, IrO₂) for Acidic Water Splitting	133
Operando Methods in Electrocatalysis	132
Insights into the Oxygen Vacancy Filling Mechanism in CuO/CeO₂ Catalysts: A Key Step Toward High Selectivity in Preferential CO Oxidation	131
Stabilizing Cu⁺ in Cu/SiO₂ Catalysts with a Shattuckite-Like Structure Boosts CO₂ Hydrogenation into Methanol	131
Atomically Dispersed Co Catalyst for Efficient Hydrodeoxygenation of Lignin-Derived Species and Hydrogenation of Nitroaromatics	131
Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction on Oxide-Derived Silver with Tunable Selectivity to Nitrite and Ammonia	130
Recent Developments in Enantioselective Transition Metal Catalysis Featuring Attractive Noncovalent Interactions between Ligand and Substrate	129
Efficient Photoredox-Mediated C–C Coupling Organic Synthesis and Hydrogen Production over Engineered Semiconductor Quantum Dots	129
Phosphorus-Induced Activation of Ruthenium for Boosting Hydrogen Oxidation and Evolution Electrocatalysis	129
Recent Advances in Homogeneous Catalysts for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Heteroarenes	128
Interfacial Electrolyte Effects on Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction	128
The Confined Interlayer Growth of Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Fe₃O₄ Nanosheets with Enriched Oxygen Vacancies for Peroxymonosulfate Activation	128
Engineering Local and Global Structures of Single Co Atoms for a Superior Oxygen Reduction Reaction	127
Mesoporous Carbon Hollow Spheres as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction to Hydrogen Peroxide in Neutral Electrolytes	126
Recent Advances in the Understanding of Nickel-Based Catalysts for the Oxidation of Hydrogen-Containing Fuels in Alkaline Media	126
Recent Progress on Rational Design of Bimetallic Pd Based Catalysts and Their Advanced Catalysis	125
Elucidation of the Active Sites in Single-Atom Pd₁/CeO₂ Catalysts for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation	124
Atomically Dispersed Ni/Cu Dual Sites for Boosting the CO₂ Reduction Reaction	124
Theoretical Inspection of M₁/PMA Single-Atom Electrocatalyst: Ultra-High Performance for Water Splitting (HER/OER) and Oxygen Reduction Reactions (OER)	123
Atomically Dispersed MnN₄ Catalysts via Environmentally Benign Aqueous Synthesis for Oxygen Reduction: Mechanistic Understanding of Activity and Stability Improvements	123
Lattice Strain Induced by Linker Scission in Metal–Organic Framework Nanosheets for Oxygen Evolution Reaction	123
Engineering Cobalt Oxide with Coexisting Cobalt Defects and Oxygen Vacancies for Enhanced Catalytic Oxidation of Toluene	123
Polyoxometalate@Metal–Organic Framework Composites as Effective Photocatalysts	123
Hydrophobic Copper Interfaces Boost Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Ethylene in Water	122
Visible-Light-Responsive Anthraquinone Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks for Metal-Free Selective Oxidation of Sulfides: Effects of Morphology and Structure	122
W–N Bonds Precisely Boost Z-Scheme Interfacial Charge Transfer in g-C₃N₄/WO₃ Heterojunctions for Enhanced Photocatalytic H₂ Evolution	121
Step-by-Step Mechanism Insights into the TiO₂/Ce₂S₃ S-Scheme Photocatalyst for Enhanced Aniline Production with Water as a Proton Source	121
Chemical Vapor Deposition for N/S-Doped Single Fe Site Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells	121
Triple Functions of Ni(OH)₂ on the Surface of WN Nanowires Remarkably Promoting Electrocatalytic Activity in Full Water Splitting	121
A Complete Multisite Reaction Mechanism for Low-Temperature NH₃-SCR over Cu-CHA	119
Liquid–Solid Boundaries Dominate Activity of CO₂ Reduction on Gas-Diffusion Electrodes	119
Highly Efficient Hydrogenation of Nitrobenzene to Aniline over Pt/CeO₂ Catalysts: The Shape Effect of the Support and Key Role of Additional Ce³⁺ Sites	119
Co Single Atoms in ZrO₂ with Inherent Oxygen Vacancies for Selective Hydrogenation of CO₂ to CO	118
Visible-Light Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Using Metal-Organic Framework Derived Ni(OH)₂ Nanocages: A Synergy from Multiple Light Reflection, Static Charge Transfer, and Oxygen V	117
Perovskite Oxide Based Electrodes for the Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions: The Underlying Mechanism	117
Light-Promoted CO₂ Conversion from Epoxides to Cyclic Carbonates at Ambient Conditions over a Bi-Based Metal–Organic Framework	117
Mn-Catalyzed Electrochemical Radical Cascade Cyclization toward the Synthesis of Benzo[4,5]imidazo[2,1-a]isoquinolin-6(5H)-one Derivatives	117
Engineering the Local Microenvironment over Bi Nanosheets for Highly Selective Electrocatalytic Conversion of CO₂ to HCOOH in Strong Acid	117
Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Coupled with 4-Nitrophenol Hydrogenation in a Water System	117