Arne Thomas

66.7k total citations · 33 hit papers
346 papers, 59.7k citations indexed

About

Arne Thomas is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Arne Thomas has authored 346 papers receiving a total of 59.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 264 papers in Materials Chemistry, 145 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 119 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Arne Thomas's work include Covalent Organic Framework Applications (149 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (110 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (96 papers). Arne Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Covalent Organic Framework Applications (149 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (110 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (96 papers). Arne Thomas collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United States. Arne Thomas's co-authors include Markus Antonietti, Xinchen Wang, Johan M. Carlsson, Kazunari Domen, Kazuhiko Maeda, Kazuhiro Takanabe, Gang Xin, Jens Peter Paraknowitsch, Pierre Kuhn and Frédéric Goettmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Arne Thomas

338 papers receiving 59.2k citations

Hit Papers

A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen product... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2008 2008 2008 2013 2009 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
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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.

  1. A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light
    2008 11.2k citations Arne Thomas et al. Nature Materials profile →
  2. Graphitic carbon nitride materials: variation of structure and morphology and their use as metal-free catalysts
    2008 3.1k citations Arne Thomas et al. profile →
  3. Porous, Covalent Triazine‐Based Frameworks Prepared by Ionothermal Synthesis
    2008 2.3k citations Arne Thomas et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  4. Doping carbons beyond nitrogen: an overview of advanced heteroatom doped carbons with boron, sulphur and phosphorus for energy applications
    2013 1.6k citations Arne Thomas et al. profile →
  5. Metal‐Containing Carbon Nitride Compounds: A New Functional Organic–Metal Hybrid Material
    2009 1.2k citations Arne Thomas et al. profile →
  6. Ionothermal Synthesis of Crystalline, Condensed, Graphitic Carbon Nitride
    2008 1.1k citations Arne Thomas et al. profile →
  7. Chemical Synthesis of Mesoporous Carbon Nitrides Using Hard Templates and Their Use as a Metal‐Free Catalyst for Friedel–Crafts Reaction of Benzene
    2006 908 citations Arne Thomas et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  8. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for electrochemical applications
    2021 888 citations Xiaojia Zhao, Pradip Pachfule et al. profile →
  9. From Melamine‐Cyanuric Acid Supramolecular Aggregates to Carbon Nitride Hollow Spheres
    2013 813 citations Arne Thomas et al. profile →
  10. Diacetylene Functionalized Covalent Organic Framework (COF) for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation
    2017 808 citations Pradip Pachfule, Amitava Acharjya et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  11. Activation of Carbon Nitride Solids by Protonation: Morphology Changes, Enhanced Ionic Conductivity, and Photoconduction Experiments
    2008 738 citations Arne Thomas et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  12. Functional Materials: From Hard to Soft Porous Frameworks
    2010 713 citations Arne Thomas Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  13. Catalyst-free Preparation of Melamine-Based Microporous Polymer Networks through Schiff Base Chemistry
    2009 618 citations Arne Thomas et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  14. A Generalized Synthesis of Metal Oxide Hollow Spheres Using a Hydrothermal Approach
    2006 588 citations Arne Thomas et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
  15. Triazine‐Based Graphitic Carbon Nitride: a Two‐Dimensional Semiconductor
    2014 580 citations Arne Thomas et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  16. Ionic Liquids as Precursors for Nitrogen‐Doped Graphitic Carbon
    2009 560 citations Arne Thomas et al. profile →
  17. Metal‐Free Heterogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Chemistry
    2010 530 citations Arne Thomas et al. profile →
  18. Covalent organic frameworks
    2023 523 citations Samrat Ghosh, Arne Thomas et al. profile →
  19. Rational Extension of the Family of Layered, Covalent, Triazine‐Based Frameworks with Regular Porosity
    2010 513 citations Arne Thomas et al. profile →
  20. Strongly Reducing (Diarylamino)benzene-Based Covalent Organic Framework for Metal-Free Visible Light Photocatalytic H2O2 Generation
    2020 511 citations Pradip Pachfule, Jérôme Roeser et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  21. Quantifying the density and utilization of active sites in non-precious metal oxygen electroreduction catalysts
    2015 510 citations Ulrike I. Kramm, Julian Steinberg et al. Nature Communications profile →
  22. From Microporous Regular Frameworks to Mesoporous Materials with Ultrahigh Surface Area: Dynamic Reorganization of Porous Polymer Networks
    2008 505 citations Arne Thomas et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  23. Macro/Microporous Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient Electrocatalysis
    2019 462 citations Xiaojia Zhao, Pradip Pachfule et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  24. Functional Graphene Nanomaterials Based Architectures: Biointeractions, Fabrications, and Emerging Biological Applications
    2017 440 citations Chong Cheng, Shuang Li et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
  25. Trends and challenges for microporous polymers
    2017 437 citations Nicolas Chaoui, Matthias Trunk et al. profile →
  26. Oxygen-evolving catalytic atoms on metal carbides
    2021 386 citations Shuang Li, Bingbing Chen et al. Nature Materials profile →
  27. Protonated Imine‐Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
    2021 345 citations Jin Yang, Amitava Acharjya et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  28. Ultralight covalent organic framework/graphene aerogels with hierarchical porosity
    2020 318 citations Changxia Li, Jin Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  29. Integrating Bifunctionality and Chemical Stability in Covalent Organic Frameworks via One-Pot Multicomponent Reactions for Solar-Driven H2O2 Production
    2023 265 citations Jérôme Roeser, Sarah Vogl et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  30. A Covalent Organic Framework/Graphene Dual-Region Hydrogel for Enhanced Solar-Driven Water Generation
    2022 255 citations Changxia Li, Jin Yang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  31. Constitutional isomerism of the linkages in donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks and its impact on photocatalysis
    2022 203 citations Jin Yang, Samrat Ghosh et al. Nature Communications profile →
  32. Solar Light Driven H2O2 Production and Selective Oxidations Using a Covalent Organic Framework Photocatalyst Prepared by a Multicomponent Reaction
    2023 157 citations Jérôme Roeser, Arne Thomas et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  33. Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalysis
    2024 82 citations Bikash Mishra, Akhtar Alam et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Arne Thomas Germany 112 43.8k 34.0k 19.3k 15.4k 7.2k 346 59.7k
Hai‐Long Jiang China 127 41.1k 0.9× 26.7k 0.8× 14.2k 0.7× 35.5k 2.3× 7.6k 1.1× 329 65.3k
Yushan Yan United States 112 18.6k 0.4× 21.3k 0.6× 21.3k 1.1× 9.4k 0.6× 4.2k 0.6× 514 44.4k
Qiang Xü Japan 147 45.0k 1.0× 25.0k 0.7× 24.1k 1.2× 29.8k 1.9× 14.1k 2.0× 649 79.2k
Chen Chen China 103 23.3k 0.5× 32.1k 0.9× 22.8k 1.2× 4.8k 0.3× 4.0k 0.6× 773 51.0k
Xin Wang China 130 31.8k 0.7× 42.7k 1.3× 39.0k 2.0× 4.9k 0.3× 11.7k 1.6× 1.1k 73.8k
Dingsheng Wang China 152 41.0k 0.9× 53.8k 1.6× 29.6k 1.5× 6.3k 0.4× 6.3k 0.9× 807 79.3k
Xinchen Wang China 151 78.8k 1.8× 85.4k 2.5× 38.7k 2.0× 9.4k 0.6× 8.9k 1.2× 532 101.2k
Ruqiang Zou China 98 15.2k 0.3× 15.0k 0.4× 16.9k 0.9× 11.7k 0.8× 9.0k 1.2× 352 37.7k
Hermenegildo Garcı́a Spain 121 42.3k 1.0× 21.0k 0.6× 7.9k 0.4× 25.8k 1.7× 7.0k 1.0× 954 66.9k
Stefan Kaskel Germany 121 27.0k 0.6× 8.5k 0.2× 20.3k 1.1× 20.9k 1.4× 12.9k 1.8× 793 54.3k

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All Works

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Vogl, Sarah, et al.. (2025). Imidazolium‐Derived Porous Organic Polymer as Robust Platform for Rhodium‐Catalyzed N 2 O Hydrogenation and Alcohol Oxygenation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(46). e202511917–e202511917.
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Li, Zixuan, Qun Li, Di Zhang, et al.. (2025). Modulating the Polarity of Imine Bonds in Donor–Acceptor Covalent Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Photocatalytic H 2 Production. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(30). e202509444–e202509444. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Zixuan, Qun Li, Di Zhang, et al.. (2025). Modulating the Polarity of Imine Bonds in Donor–Acceptor Covalent Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Photocatalytic H 2 Production. Angewandte Chemie. 137(30). 3 indexed citations
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Alam, Akhtar, Bidhan Kumbhakar, Avanti Chakraborty, et al.. (2024). Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Generation. ACS Materials Letters. 6(5). 2007–2049. 71 indexed citations
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Yan, Rui, Bikash Mishra, Michael Traxler, et al.. (2023). A Thiazole‐linked Covalent Organic Framework for Lithium‐Sulphur Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 135(32). 3 indexed citations
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Dũng, Nguyễn Anh, Nuria Romero, Elisabetta Benazzi, et al.. (2021). Insights into the light-driven hydrogen evolution reaction of mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride decorated with Pt or Ru nanoparticles. Dalton Transactions. 51(2). 731–740. 5 indexed citations
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Gioria, Esteban, et al.. (2021). Palladium nanoparticles on modified cellulose as a novel catalyst for low temperature gas reactions. Cellulose. 28(14). 9135–9147. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Shuang, Zhenyang Zhao, Tian Ma, Pradip Pachfule, & Arne Thomas. (2021). Superstructures of Organic–Polyoxometalate Co‐crystals as Precursors for Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysts. Angewandte Chemie. 134(3). 13 indexed citations
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Li, Shuang, Bingbing Chen, Yi Wang, et al.. (2021). Oxygen-evolving catalytic atoms on metal carbides. Nature Materials. 20(9). 1240–1247. 386 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chaoui, Nicolas, Jan Dirk Epping, Johannes Schmidt, et al.. (2020). Immobilization of an Iridium Pincer Complex in a Microporous Polymer for Application in Room‐Temperature Gas Phase Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie. 132(45). 20002–20006. 3 indexed citations
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Chaoui, Nicolas, Jan Dirk Epping, Johannes Schmidt, et al.. (2020). Immobilization of an Iridium Pincer Complex in a Microporous Polymer for Application in Room‐Temperature Gas Phase Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(45). 19830–19834. 11 indexed citations
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Li, Changxia, Jin Yang, Pradip Pachfule, et al.. (2020). Ultralight covalent organic framework/graphene aerogels with hierarchical porosity. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4712–4712. 318 indexed citations breakdown →
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Luo, Fang, Stephan Wagner, Sören Selve, et al.. (2020). Surface site density and utilization of platinum group metal (PGM)-free Fe–NC and FeNi–NC electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. Chemical Science. 12(1). 384–396. 54 indexed citations
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Acharjya, Amitava, Pradip Pachfule, Jérôme Roeser, Franz‐Josef Schmitt, & Arne Thomas. (2019). Vinylene‐Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks by Base‐Catalyzed Aldol Condensation. Angewandte Chemie. 131(42). 15007–15012. 43 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiaojia, Pradip Pachfule, Shuang Li, et al.. (2019). Silica-Templated Covalent Organic Framework-Derived Fe–N-Doped Mesoporous Carbon as Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalyst. Chemistry of Materials. 31(9). 3274–3280. 127 indexed citations
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Luo, Fang, Chang Hyuck Choi, Mathias Primbs, et al.. (2019). Accurate Evaluation of Active-Site Density (SD) and Turnover Frequency (TOF) of PGM-Free Metal–Nitrogen-Doped Carbon (MNC) Electrocatalysts using CO Cryo Adsorption. ACS Catalysis. 9(6). 4841–4852. 99 indexed citations
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Pachfule, Pradip, Amitava Acharjya, Jérôme Roeser, et al.. (2017). Diacetylene Functionalized Covalent Organic Framework (COF) for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(4). 1423–1427. 808 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cheng, Chong, Shuang Li, Arne Thomas, Nicholas A. Kotov, & Rainer Haag. (2017). Functional Graphene Nanomaterials Based Architectures: Biointeractions, Fabrications, and Emerging Biological Applications. Chemical Reviews. 117(3). 1826–1914. 440 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chan‐Thaw, Carine E., Alberto Villa, Di Wang, et al.. (2015). Modulation of palladium activity and stability by a covalent triazine framework. ChemCatChem. 7(14). 17 indexed citations
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Panchal, C. B., et al.. (1983). Convective boiling of ammonia and Freon 22 in plate heat exchangers. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N. 83. 34257. 14 indexed citations

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