Colin L. Raston

25.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
717 papers, 21.2k citations indexed

About

Colin L. Raston is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin L. Raston has authored 717 papers receiving a total of 21.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 421 papers in Organic Chemistry, 221 papers in Materials Chemistry and 214 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Colin L. Raston's work include Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (134 papers), Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (112 papers) and Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics (107 papers). Colin L. Raston is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (134 papers), Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (112 papers) and Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics (107 papers). Colin L. Raston collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Colin L. Raston's co-authors include Jerry L. Atwood, Allan H. White, Michaele J. Hardie, Janet L. Scott, Scott J. Dalgarno, Joshua Britton, Gareth W. V. Cave, K. Swaminathan Iyer, Brian W. Skelton and Mohamed Makha and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Colin L. Raston

710 papers receiving 20.6k 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.

Green chemistry and the health implications of nanoparticles

2006 552 citations Colin L. Raston et al. profile →
Purification of C60 and C70 by selective complexation with calixarenes

1994 540 citations Colin L. Raston et al. profile →
Multi-step continuous-flow synthesis

2017 445 citations Colin L. Raston et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin L. Raston Australia	64	11.2k	7.4k	5.5k	3.4k	2.8k	717	21.2k
Frank R. Fronczek United States	60	8.7k 0.8×	8.8k 1.2×	6.7k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	3.6k 1.3×	1.0k	21.1k
Kenneth R. Seddon United Kingdom	90	14.5k 1.3×	8.6k 1.2×	5.1k 0.9×	7.8k 2.3×	2.6k 0.9×	408	47.5k
Alan J. Lough Canada	79	18.1k 1.6×	5.7k 0.8×	13.6k 2.5×	2.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	810	27.1k
G. K. Surya Prakash United States	89	15.8k 1.4×	6.3k 0.9×	8.3k 1.5×	2.7k 0.8×	2.8k 1.0×	892	37.3k
Anthony K. Rappé United States	38	3.7k 0.3×	7.4k 1.0×	4.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	101	17.2k
J. C. Scaiano Canada	77	13.5k 1.2×	9.1k 1.2×	1.7k 0.3×	3.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	771	27.2k
Vincent M. Lynch United States	88	12.4k 1.1×	13.7k 1.8×	5.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	10.3k 3.7×	564	26.4k
Carolyn B. Knobler United States	65	7.9k 0.7×	9.7k 1.3×	12.3k 2.2×	1.1k 0.3×	2.6k 0.9×	351	22.6k
Christopher A. Hunter United Kingdom	68	10.9k 1.0×	8.7k 1.2×	4.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.4×	5.4k 1.9×	316	23.6k
William Jones United Kingdom	81	4.7k 0.4×	16.1k 2.2×	6.0k 1.1×	3.4k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	477	26.4k

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Heydari, Amir, et al.. (2025). Methylene blue degradation using vortex fluidic device under UV irradiation: Comparison of response surface methodology and artificial neural network. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 38. 104127–104127. 1 indexed citations

Ling, Irene, Thomas E. Clark, Adam D. Martin, et al.. (2025). Phosphonated calixarenes: structural and self-assembly behaviour governed by the cavity size. CrystEngComm. 27(46). 7547–7561.

Cao, Xuejiao, Shan He, Xuan Luo, et al.. (2024). Stability and Cleansing Function Enhancement of Organic Shampoo by a Vortex Fluidic Device. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 12(14). 5533–5543. 2 indexed citations

Luo, Xuan, Kasturi Vimalanathan, Abdulrahman S. Alotabi, et al.. (2024). Vortex mediated fabrication of 2D antimonene sheets from antimony powder. 1(5). 432–436. 3 indexed citations

Luo, Xuan, Wenjin Xing, Amir Heydari, et al.. (2023). Printable Hydrogel Arrays for Portable and High-Throughput Shear-Mediated Assays. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(26). 31114–31123. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Qiang, et al.. (2023). High Shear Thin Film Synthesis of Partially Oxidized Gallium and Indium Composite 2D Sheets. Small. 20(39). e2300577–e2300577. 3 indexed citations

Chuah, Clarence, Xuan Luo, Javad Tavakoli, Youhong Tang, & Colin L. Raston. (2023). Thin‐film flow technology in controlling the organization of materials and their properties. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 11 indexed citations

Luo, Xuan, Wanling Cai, Kasturi Vimalanathan, et al.. (2022). Magnetite Nanoparticle/Copper Phosphate Nanoflower Composites for Fenton-like Organic Dye Degradation. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 5(2). 2875–2884. 8 indexed citations

Cai, Wanling, Xuan Luo, Kasturi Vimalanathan, et al.. (2022). Vortex-Fluidic-Mediated Fabrication of Polysulfone Ultrafiltration Membranes Incorporating Graphene Oxide. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 4(6). 4131–4143. 4 indexed citations

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Alharbi, Thaar M. D., Xuan Luo, Kasturi Vimalanathan, et al.. (2021). Sub-micron moulding topological mass transport regimes in angled vortex fluidic flow. Nanoscale Advances. 3(11). 3064–3075. 48 indexed citations

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Vimalanathan, Kasturi, Irene Ling, Sait Elmas, et al.. (2021). High shear in situ exfoliation of 2D gallium oxide sheets from centrifugally derived thin films of liquid gallium. Nanoscale Advances. 3(20). 5785–5792. 8 indexed citations

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Luo, Xuan, Keith A. Stubbs, Peng Su, et al.. (2020). Vortex Fluidic-Mediated Fabrication of Fast Gelated Silica Hydrogels with Embedded Laccase Nanoflowers for Real-Time Biosensing under Flow. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(46). 51999–52007. 31 indexed citations

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Tavakoli, Javad, Ni Xie, Jian G. Qin, et al.. (2019). Tuning aggregation-induced emission nanoparticle properties under thin film formation. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 4(2). 537–545. 25 indexed citations

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He, Shan, et al.. (2019). Vortex fluidic mediated food processing. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0216816–e0216816. 13 indexed citations

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Sitepu, Eko K., D. B. Jones, Youhong Tang, et al.. (2018). Continuous flow biodiesel production from wet microalgae using a hybrid thin film microfluidic platform. Chemical Communications. 54(85). 12085–12088. 16 indexed citations

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Mo, Jingxin, Xiaojia Huang, Bing Lu, et al.. (2017). Multifunctional nanoparticles for co-delivery of paclitaxel and carboplatin against ovarian cancer by inactivating the JMJD3-HER2 axis. Nanoscale. 9(35). 13142–13152. 42 indexed citations

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Raston, Colin L., et al.. (2016). Transition‐Metal‐Free Cross‐Coupling Reactions in Dynamic Thin Films To Access Pyrimidine and Quinoxaline Analogues. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2016(36). 5957–5963. 10 indexed citations

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Mo, Jingxin, Paul K. Eggers, Xianjue Chen, et al.. (2015). Shear induced carboplatin binding within the cavity of a phospholipid mimic for increased anticancer efficacy. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 10414–10414. 34 indexed citations

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Lauto, Antonio, L. John R. Foster, Alberto Avolio, et al.. (2008). Sutureless Nerve Repair with Laser-Activated Chitosan Adhesive: A Pilot in Vivo Study. Photomedicine and Laser Surgery. 26(3). 227–234. 46 indexed citations

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Raston, Colin L.. (2004). Versatility of 'Alternative' Reaction Media: Solventless Organic Synthesis. 71(4). 10. 2 indexed citations

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