Cephas E. Small

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Cephas E. Small is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Cephas E. Small has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 8 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Cephas E. Small's work include Conducting polymers and applications (7 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (7 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (4 papers). Cephas E. Small is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (7 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (7 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (4 papers). Cephas E. Small collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Cephas E. Small's co-authors include Franky So, Jegadesan Subbiah, John R. Reynolds, Song Chen, Chad M. Amb, Sai‐Wing Tsang, Tzung‐Han Lai, Kenneth R. Graham, M. A. Noginov and Guohua Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Applied Physics Letters and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Cephas E. Small

17 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

High-efficiency inverted dithienogermole–thienopyrrolodione-based polymer solar cells

2011 872 citations Cephas E. Small, Song Chen et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Dithienogermole As a Fused Electron Donor in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

2011 598 citations Chad M. Amb, Song Chen et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cephas E. Small United States	11	2.0k	1.6k	575	403	273	17	2.6k
Guodong Zhou China	27	1.0k 0.5×	504 0.3×	917 1.6×	487 1.2×	115 0.4×	48	2.6k
Jong‐Cheol Lee South Korea	27	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	509 0.9×	91 0.2×	154 0.6×	106	2.5k
Keigo Sato Japan	12	2.6k 1.3×	361 0.2×	1.9k 3.3×	107 0.3×	70 0.3×	66	3.1k
Ting Li China	22	663 0.3×	284 0.2×	298 0.5×	241 0.6×	105 0.4×	83	1.3k
Y. Z. Wang United States	18	887 0.4×	811 0.5×	322 0.6×	210 0.5×	26 0.1×	23	1.5k
Hsin‐Fei Meng Taiwan	40	4.5k 2.3×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 2.3×	1.5k 3.7×	533 2.0×	226	5.3k
Yongbing Long China	26	1.2k 0.6×	532 0.3×	334 0.6×	439 1.1×	279 1.0×	92	1.8k
Mayumi Uno Japan	26	1.8k 0.9×	655 0.4×	805 1.4×	519 1.3×	99 0.4×	82	2.7k
А. S. Komolov Russia	20	649 0.3×	183 0.1×	386 0.7×	201 0.5×	232 0.8×	115	1.1k
Guangwei Xu China	30	2.5k 1.3×	922 0.6×	2.6k 4.6×	230 0.6×	109 0.4×	162	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Cephas E. Small

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Cephas E. Small's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Cephas E. Small with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Cephas E. Small more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Cephas E. Small

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cephas E. Small. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Cephas E. Small. The network helps show where Cephas E. Small may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cephas E. Small

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cephas E. Small. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cephas E. Small 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 Cephas E. Small. Cephas E. Small is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

17 of 17 papers shown

Small, Cephas E., et al.. (2017). Particle plasmon‐induced charge trapping at heterointerfaces in PCDTBT:PC₇₀BM blends. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 55(12). 940–947. 2 indexed citations

Small, Cephas E., Sai‐Wing Tsang, Song Chen, et al.. (2013). Loss Mechanisms in Thick‐Film Low‐Bandgap Polymer Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 3(7). 909–916. 53 indexed citations

Chen, Song, Cephas E. Small, Chad M. Amb, et al.. (2012). Solar Cells: Inverted Polymer Solar Cells with Reduced Interface Recombination (Adv. Energy Mater. 11/2012). Advanced Energy Materials. 2(11). 1281–1281. 3 indexed citations

Small, Cephas E., Sai‐Wing Tsang, Junji Kido, Shu Kong So, & Franky So. (2012). Origin of Enhanced Hole Injection in Inverted Organic Devices with Electron Accepting Interlayer. Advanced Functional Materials. 22(15). 3261–3266. 69 indexed citations

Chen, Song, Sai‐Wing Tsang, Cephas E. Small, John R. Reynolds, & Franky So. (2012). Inverted Polymer Solar Cells. IEEE photonics journal. 4(2). 625–628. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Song, Cephas E. Small, Chad M. Amb, et al.. (2012). Inverted Polymer Solar Cells with Reduced Interface Recombination. Advanced Energy Materials. 2(11). 1333–1337. 216 indexed citations

Small, Cephas E., Song Chen, Jegadesan Subbiah, et al.. (2011). High-efficiency inverted dithienogermole–thienopyrrolodione-based polymer solar cells. Nature Photonics. 6(2). 115–120. 872 indexed citations breakdown →

Amb, Chad M., Song Chen, Kenneth R. Graham, et al.. (2011). Dithienogermole As a Fused Electron Donor in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(26). 10062–10065. 598 indexed citations breakdown →

Irfan, Irfan, Huanjun Ding, Yongli Gao, et al.. (2010). Energy level evolution of air and oxygen exposed molybdenum trioxide films. Applied Physics Letters. 96(24). 192 indexed citations

10.

Zhu, G., Cephas E. Small, & M. A. Noginov. (2008). Single- and two-photon excitation of a GaAs random laser. Optics Letters. 33(9). 920–920. 15 indexed citations

11.

Zhu, Guohua, Cephas E. Small, & M. A. Noginov. (2007). Control of gain and amplification in random lasers. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 24(9). 2129–2129. 8 indexed citations

12.

Noginov, M. A., Guohua Zhu, M. Bahoura, et al.. (2006). Enhancement of surface plasmons in an Ag aggregate by optical gain in a dielectric medium. Optics Letters. 31(20). 3022–3022. 195 indexed citations

13.

Noginov, M. A., Guohua Zhu, M. Bahoura, et al.. (2006). Enhancement of spontaneous and stimulated emission of a rhodamine 6G dye by an Ag aggregate. Physical Review B. 74(18). 42 indexed citations

14.

Noginov, M. A., Guohua Zhu, M. Bahoura, et al.. (2006). The effect of gain and absorption on surface plasmons in metal nanoparticles. Applied Physics B. 86(3). 455–460. 236 indexed citations

15.

Noginov, M. A., Guohua Zhu, Cephas E. Small, & Jakub Novák. (2006). Neodymium random laser with external mirrors. Applied Physics B. 84(1-2). 269–273. 6 indexed citations

16.

Noginov, M. A., Guohua Zhu, & Cephas E. Small. (2005). Anti-Stokes solid-state random laser. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

17.

Small, Cephas E. & S Bloom. (2004). Gut hormones and the control of appetite. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 15(6). 259–263. 92 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact