David Casanova

15.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
183 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

David Casanova is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Casanova has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Materials Chemistry, 66 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 62 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in David Casanova's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (42 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (39 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (38 papers). David Casanova is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (42 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (39 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (38 papers). David Casanova collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and China. David Casanova's co-authors include Santiago Álvarez, Pere Alemany, Miquel Llunell, Martin Head‐Gordon, David Avnir, Jordi Cirera, Anna I. Krylov, Franziska Bell, Paul M. Zimmerman and María Eugenia Sandoval‐Salinas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

David Casanova

174 papers receiving 8.8k 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.

Shape maps and polyhedral interconversion paths in transition metal chemistry

2005 968 citations Santiago Álvarez, Pere Alemany et al. profile →
The Rich Stereochemistry of Eight‐Vertex Polyhedra: A Continuous Shape Measures Study

2005 799 citations David Casanova, Pere Alemany et al. profile →
Theoretical Modeling of Singlet Fission

2018 372 citations David Casanova profile →
Reversible spin-optical interface in luminescent organic radicals

2023 118 citations Sebastian Gorgon, Jeannine Grüne et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Casanova Spain	45	4.9k	3.0k	2.3k	2.0k	1.8k	183	8.8k
Marek Samoć Poland	58	6.9k 1.4×	4.6k 1.5×	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	2.3k 1.3×	388	11.8k
James K. McCusker United States	49	3.8k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	2.4k 1.3×	92	8.9k
Majed Chergui Switzerland	58	4.8k 1.0×	1.9k 0.6×	2.3k 1.0×	5.4k 2.7×	1.1k 0.6×	333	12.5k
Mark E. Casida France	25	3.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	2.0k 0.8×	3.6k 1.8×	2.3k 1.3×	54	9.0k
Celestino Angeli Italy	33	2.4k 0.5×	2.1k 0.7×	952 0.4×	3.5k 1.7×	800 0.4×	122	7.0k
Valera Veryazov Sweden	26	3.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	645 0.3×	3.5k 1.7×	962 0.5×	60	7.8k
Juan J. Novoa Spain	49	2.2k 0.5×	3.6k 1.2×	802 0.3×	1.6k 0.8×	2.2k 1.2×	240	7.7k
Daisuke Shiomi Japan	44	3.4k 0.7×	4.2k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	4.0k 2.2×	285	8.8k
Takayoshi Nakamura Japan	51	5.3k 1.1×	4.1k 1.4×	2.6k 1.1×	594 0.3×	1.7k 0.9×	380	10.5k
Boris Le Guennic France	57	7.7k 1.6×	5.8k 1.9×	1.1k 0.5×	724 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	312	10.4k

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Xu, Zhen, Brian O. Patrick, Keng C. Chou, et al.. (2025). A New Class of Diarylethene Compounds that Exhibit Turn‐On Emission: From Aggregation‐Induced Emission to Anti‐Kasha Emission. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(24).

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Wang, Bipeng, et al.. (2024). Photocatalytic activity of dual defect modified graphitic carbon nitride is robust to tautomerism: machine learning assisted ab initio quantum dynamics. Nanoscale. 16(18). 8986–8995. 14 indexed citations

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Cho, Hwan‐Hee, Sebastian Gorgon, Giacomo Londi, et al.. (2024). Efficient near-infrared organic light-emitting diodes with emission from spin doublet excitons. Nature Photonics. 18(9). 905–912. 22 indexed citations

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Climent, Clàudia, et al.. (2024). Predictive Guidelines for Electrocyclization of Dithienylethenes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(31). 8042–8048. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Tao, Alejandro Berdonces‐Layunta, Andrej Jančařík, et al.. (2023). Tuning the Diradical Character of Pentacene Derivatives via Non-Benzenoid Coupling Motifs. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(18). 10333–10341. 11 indexed citations

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Gorgon, Sebastian, Jeannine Grüne, Bluebell H. Drummond, et al.. (2023). Reversible spin-optical interface in luminescent organic radicals. Nature. 620(7974). 538–544. 118 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vilas‐Varela, Manuel, Jan Patrick Calupitan, Niklas Friedrich, et al.. (2023). On‐Surface Synthesis and Characterization of a High‐Spin Aza‐[5]‐Triangulene. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(41). e202307884–e202307884. 19 indexed citations

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Vilas‐Varela, Manuel, Jan Patrick Calupitan, Niklas Friedrich, et al.. (2023). On‐Surface Synthesis and Characterization of a High‐Spin Aza‐[5]‐Triangulene. Angewandte Chemie. 135(41). 6 indexed citations

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Sandoval‐Salinas, María Eugenia, Gaetano Ricci, Á. J. Pérez‐Jiménez, et al.. (2023). Correlation vs. exchange competition drives the singlet–triplet excited-state inversion in non-alternant hydrocarbons. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(39). 26417–26428. 26 indexed citations

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Climent, Clàudia, David Casanova, Johannes Feist, & F. J. Garcı́a-Vidal. (2022). Not dark yet for strong light-matter coupling to accelerate singlet fission dynamics. Cell Reports Physical Science. 3(4). 100841–100841. 26 indexed citations

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Prieto‐Montero, Ruth, Alejandro Prieto‐Castañeda, Andrea Tabero, et al.. (2022). Halogen-free photosensitizers based on meso-enamine-BODIPYs for bioimaging and photodynamic therapy. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 11(1). 169–179. 17 indexed citations

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Casanova, David, et al.. (2022). Intermolecular Interactions and Charge Resonance Contributions to Triplet and Singlet Exciton States of Oligoacene Aggregates. Molecules. 28(1). 119–119. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhen, et al.. (2021). Switching between TADF and RTP: anion-regulated photoluminescence in organic salts and co-crystals. Materials Advances. 2(17). 5777–5784. 8 indexed citations

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Casanova, David, et al.. (2019). Improvement of the electrochemical and singlet fission properties of anthraquinones by modification of the diradical character. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(15). 7941–7952. 7 indexed citations

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Frederickson, Conerd K., José L. Zafra, Carlos J. Gómez‐García, et al.. (2019). Fluoreno[2,1-a]fluorene: an ortho-naphthoquinodimethane-based system with partial diradical character. Chemical Communications. 55(94). 14186–14189. 18 indexed citations

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Climent, Clàudia, Peter R. Christensen, Eric L. Chronister, et al.. (2019). Using sulfur bridge oxidation to control electronic coupling and photochemistry in covalent anthracene dimers. Chemical Science. 10(32). 7561–7573. 17 indexed citations

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Ye, Huanqing, Guangfeng Liu, Sheng Liu, et al.. (2018). Molecular‐Barrier‐Enhanced Aromatic Fluorophores in Cocrystals with Unity Quantum Efficiency. Angewandte Chemie. 130(7). 1946–1950. 25 indexed citations

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Climent, Clàudia, Mario Barbatti, Michael O. Wolf, Christopher J. Bardeen, & David Casanova. (2017). The photophysics of naphthalene dimers controlled by sulfur bridge oxidation. Chemical Science. 8(7). 4941–4950. 15 indexed citations

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Casanova, David, et al.. (2017). Theoretical design of conjugated diradicaloids as singlet fission sensitizers: quinones and methylene derivatives. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(44). 30227–30238. 31 indexed citations

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Pinsky, Mark, David Casanova, Pere Alemany, et al.. (2007). Symmetry operation measures. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 29(2). 190–197. 54 indexed citations

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