Alex James

439 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 353 citations indexed

About

Alex James is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex James has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 353 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Materials Chemistry, 7 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 2 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alex James's work include Covalent Organic Framework Applications (9 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers) and Membrane Separation and Gas Transport (2 papers). Alex James is often cited by papers focused on Covalent Organic Framework Applications (9 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers) and Membrane Separation and Gas Transport (2 papers). Alex James collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Alex James's co-authors include Robert Dawson, Thomas J. Robshaw, Mark D. Ogden, Andrew I. Cooper, Haofan Yang, John W. Ward, Zhongfu Pang, Boyu Li, Wei Zhao and Lunjie Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemical Communications and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

In The Last Decade

Alex James

9 papers receiving 350 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Using sound to synthesize covalent organic frameworks in water

2022 201 citations Wei Zhao, Peiyao Yan et al. Nature Synthesis profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex James United Kingdom	5	287	243	125	53	35	9	353
Honghan Long China	9	331 1.2×	274 1.1×	90 0.7×	39 0.7×	51 1.5×	16	383
Zhenpeng Cui China	7	221 0.8×	212 0.9×	129 1.0×	109 2.1×	47 1.3×	12	347
Yingdi Zou China	10	390 1.4×	324 1.3×	109 0.9×	34 0.6×	56 1.6×	23	448
Pengliang Liang China	6	327 1.1×	300 1.2×	227 1.8×	85 1.6×	53 1.5×	13	474
Fei‐Jian Chen China	10	328 1.1×	345 1.4×	46 0.4×	65 1.2×	49 1.4×	18	452
Satyam Saurabh India	8	258 0.9×	313 1.3×	46 0.4×	115 2.2×	33 0.9×	10	399
Jinyang Kang China	10	257 0.9×	265 1.1×	91 0.7×	77 1.5×	59 1.7×	18	361
Julia G. Knapp United States	10	257 0.9×	298 1.2×	51 0.4×	24 0.5×	44 1.3×	18	358
Yushan Zhao China	6	119 0.4×	101 0.4×	77 0.6×	49 0.9×	35 1.0×	12	280
Yaping Jian China	8	317 1.1×	237 1.0×	201 1.6×	109 2.1×	39 1.1×	11	454

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex James

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex James. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex James based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alex James. Alex James is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Dutta, Biswanath, Rob Clowes, Alex James, et al.. (2025). Accelerated Porosity Screening Using a Multichannel Colorimetric Array. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(40). e202510400–e202510400. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Wei, Peiyao Yan, Haofan Yang, et al.. (2022). Using sound to synthesize covalent organic frameworks in water. Nature Synthesis. 1(1). 87–95. 201 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Spackman, Peter R., Marc A. Little, Luca Catalano, et al.. (2022). Targeted design of porous materials without strong, directional interactions. Chemical Communications. 58(95). 13254–13257. 3 indexed citations

4.

James, Alex, et al.. (2021). Heterogenisation of a carbonylation catalyst on dispersible microporous polymer nanoparticles. Catalysis Science & Technology. 12(2). 664–673. 2 indexed citations

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James, Alex, et al.. (2021). A Pressure Swing Approach to Selective CO2 Sequestration Using Functionalized Hypercrosslinked Polymers. Materials. 14(7). 1605–1605. 10 indexed citations

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Robshaw, Thomas J., et al.. (2020). Calcium-loaded hydrophilic hypercrosslinked polymers for extremely high defluoridation capacity via multiple uptake mechanisms. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(15). 7130–7144. 20 indexed citations

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James, Alex & Robert Dawson. (2020). Efficient and Tunable White‐Light Emission Using a Dispersible Porous Polymer. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 41(12). e2000176–e2000176. 4 indexed citations

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James, Alex, et al.. (2019). Dispersible microporous diblock copolymer nanoparticlesviapolymerisation-induced self-assembly. Polymer Chemistry. 10(28). 3879–3886. 7 indexed citations

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James, Alex, et al.. (2019). Selective Environmental Remediation of Strontium and Cesium Using Sulfonated Hyper-Cross-Linked Polymers (SHCPs). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(25). 22464–22473. 105 indexed citations

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