Ali Saad

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Ali Saad is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Saad has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 20 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ali Saad's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (29 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers). Ali Saad is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (29 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers). Ali Saad collaborates with scholars based in China, India and France. Ali Saad's co-authors include Ghulam Yasin, Anuj Kumar, Mohammad Tabish, Xingke Cai, Shumaila Ibraheem, Muhammad Mushtaq, Saira Ajmal, Tiju Thomas, Jiacheng Wang and Sajjad Ali and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ali Saad

60 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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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.

Simultaneously Engineering the Synergistic-Effects and Coordination-Environment of Dual-Single-Atomic Iron/Cobalt-sites as a Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalyst for Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries

2023 196 citations Ghulam Yasin, Sajjad Ali et al. profile →
A Metal Coordination Number Determined Catalytic Performance in Manganese Borides for Ambient Electrolysis of Nitrogen to Ammonia

2024 82 citations Muhammad Mushtaq, Anuj Kumar et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ali Saad China	31	1.8k	1.3k	976	371	360	61	2.6k
Xin Ge China	28	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	400 1.1×	229 0.6×	54	2.7k
Mingpeng Chen China	34	2.5k 1.5×	2.3k 1.7×	1.3k 1.3×	413 1.1×	438 1.2×	104	3.8k
Lizhi Sun China	30	1.5k 0.8×	795 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	488 1.3×	276 0.8×	53	2.2k
Chunming Yang China	34	2.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	453 1.2×	269 0.7×	96	3.2k
Vinoth Ramalingam India	24	1.9k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.7×	391 1.1×	228 0.6×	42	2.8k
Tongwei Yuan China	19	2.5k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.7×	531 1.4×	202 0.6×	35	3.6k
Zuyun He China	22	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	898 0.9×	438 1.2×	213 0.6×	31	2.3k
Jesús Barrio United Kingdom	27	2.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	1.8k 1.9×	445 1.2×	242 0.7×	79	3.0k
Xuefeng Ren China	30	2.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	1.7k 1.8×	883 2.4×	316 0.9×	98	3.6k
Byoung‐Hoon Lee South Korea	20	2.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.7×	374 1.0×	203 0.6×	47	3.5k

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Ezugwu, Chizoba I., et al.. (2025). Activating PFAS for efficient photocatalytic defluorination using ultralow-dose Ti-doped bismuth coordination catalysts with unsaturated metal sites. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 384. 126230–126230.

Saad, Ali, et al.. (2025). Ultrasound-enhanced alkaline water splitting with fast bubble release and sustained Ni catalysts. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 370. 125152–125152. 7 indexed citations

Yasin, Ghulam, Mohammad Tabish, Saira Ajmal, et al.. (2025). Single atom horizons for shaping the future of catalysis and sustainability: the next frontiers in energy conversion and storage. Progress in Materials Science. 155. 101525–101525. 9 indexed citations

Juve, Jan-Max Arana, Zhiqun Xie, Yanan Shang, et al.. (2024). Size-selective trapping and photocatalytic degradation of PFOA in Fe-modified zeolite frameworks. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 349. 123885–123885. 30 indexed citations

Mehmood, Andleeb, Ghulam Yasin, Muhammad Arif, et al.. (2024). Advancing the Development of Hollow Micro/nanostructured Materials for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting: Current State, Challenges, and Perspectives. ACS Materials Letters. 6(7). 3090–3111. 31 indexed citations

Mushtaq, Muhammad, Anuj Kumar, Wei Liu, et al.. (2024). A Metal Coordination Number Determined Catalytic Performance in Manganese Borides for Ambient Electrolysis of Nitrogen to Ammonia. Advanced Materials. 36(21). e2313086–e2313086. 82 indexed citations breakdown →

Yasin, Ghulam, Anuj Kumar, Saira Ajmal, et al.. (2023). Advances and perspectives on heteronuclear dual-atomic catalysts for prevailing the linear scaling relationship in electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 501. 215589–215589. 44 indexed citations

Mushtaq, Muhammad, Muhammad Arif, Ghulam Yasin, et al.. (2023). Recent developments in heterogeneous electrocatalysts for ambient nitrogen reduction to ammonia: Activity, challenges, and future perspectives. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 176. 113197–113197. 92 indexed citations

Ajmal, Saira, Ghulam Yasin, Anuj Kumar, et al.. (2023). A disquisition on CO2 electroreduction to C2H4: An engineering and design perspective looking beyond novel choosy catalyst materials. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 485. 215099–215099. 35 indexed citations

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Xie, Zhiqun, Ali Saad, Yanan Shang, et al.. (2023). Enhanced degradation of micropollutants by visible light photocatalysts with strong oxygen activation ability. Water Research. 247. 120785–120785. 38 indexed citations

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Zong, Kai, Dongqing Liu, Andleeb Mehmood, et al.. (2022). Bridging 1D Inorganic and Organic Synthesis to Fabricate Ultrathin Bismuth‐Based Nanotubes with Controllable Size as Anode Materials for Secondary Li Batteries. Small. 18(39). e2204236–e2204236. 5 indexed citations

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Saad, Ali, Khouloud Jlassi, Manef Abderrabba, & Mohamed M. Chehimi. (2022). Dimethoxytriazine-Triazole Linked Mesoporous Silica Hybrid Sorbent for Cationic Dyes Adsorption. Chemistry Africa. 6(1). 191–203. 4 indexed citations

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Najam, Tayyaba, Syed Shoaib Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Sufyan Javed, et al.. (2022). Modulating the electronic structure of zinc single atom catalyst by P/N coordination and Co2P supports for efficient oxygen reduction in Zn-Air battery. Chemical Engineering Journal. 440. 135928–135928. 41 indexed citations

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Yasin, Ghulam, Shumaila Ibraheem, Sajjad Ali, et al.. (2021). Defects-engineered tailoring of tri-doped interlinked metal-free bifunctional catalyst with lower gibbs free energy of OER/HER intermediates for overall water splitting. Materials Today Chemistry. 23. 100634–100634. 119 indexed citations

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Wang, Miao, Ali Saad, Xiaoguang Li, et al.. (2021). Solid-state synthesis of single-phase nickel monophosphosulfide for the oxygen evolution reaction. Dalton Transactions. 50(37). 12870–12878. 9 indexed citations

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Liang, Shuqin, Meizan Jing, Erum Pervaiz, et al.. (2020). Nickel–Iron Nitride–Nickel Sulfide Composites for Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(37). 41464–41470. 58 indexed citations

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Saad, Ali, Hangjia Shen, Zhixing Cheng, et al.. (2020). Mesoporous Ternary Nitrides of Earth-Abundant Metals as Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst. Nano-Micro Letters. 12(1). 79–79. 75 indexed citations

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Saad, Ali, et al.. (2017). Triazole/Triazine-Functionalized Mesoporous Silica As a Hybrid Material Support for Palladium Nanocatalyst. Langmuir. 33(28). 7137–7146. 26 indexed citations

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Saad, Ali, Frédéric Barrière, Eric Levillain, et al.. (2010). Persistent Mixed‐Valence [(TTF)₂]^+. Dyad of a Chiral Bis(binaphthol)–tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) Derivative. Chemistry - A European Journal. 16(27). 8020–8028. 35 indexed citations

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Saad, Ali, et al.. (2008). Studies of Surface Area and Pore Structure on Portland Cement Produced in Bajil and Amran, Yemen. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13. 13–13. 1 indexed citations

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