David Contreras

3.5k total citations
157 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

David Contreras is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Contreras has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Materials Chemistry, 42 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 28 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Contreras's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (37 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (27 papers) and TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (24 papers). David Contreras is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (37 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (27 papers) and TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (24 papers). David Contreras collaborates with scholars based in Chile, Mexico and India. David Contreras's co-authors include Héctor D. Mansilla, Juanita Freer, Victoria Melín, Jaime Rodrı́guez, Pablo Salgado, Adolfo Henríquez, Ramalinga Viswanathan Mangalaraja, Jorge Yáñez, Katherine Márquez and Jaime Baeza and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

David Contreras

152 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Contreras Chile 31 742 704 613 596 470 157 2.8k
Amal M. Al‐Mohaimeed Saudi Arabia 29 661 0.9× 1.3k 1.8× 510 0.8× 544 0.9× 855 1.8× 156 3.5k
Hao Cheng China 32 1.0k 1.4× 1.1k 1.5× 787 1.3× 777 1.3× 829 1.8× 158 3.4k
Fei Pan China 31 1.0k 1.4× 893 1.3× 714 1.2× 1.1k 1.9× 398 0.8× 117 3.4k
Yongqiang Ma China 29 349 0.5× 905 1.3× 467 0.8× 405 0.7× 603 1.3× 117 3.0k
Lei Cheng China 28 804 1.1× 1.0k 1.4× 524 0.9× 376 0.6× 523 1.1× 74 2.6k
Jūratė Virkutytė Finland 22 430 0.6× 697 1.0× 552 0.9× 656 1.1× 855 1.8× 51 2.6k
Xianchuan Xie China 29 835 1.1× 761 1.1× 258 0.4× 736 1.2× 354 0.8× 103 2.8k
Abbas Rezaee Iran 31 685 0.9× 431 0.6× 521 0.8× 1.1k 1.8× 339 0.7× 154 2.8k
Ping Xiong China 18 578 0.8× 757 1.1× 509 0.8× 407 0.7× 601 1.3× 45 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by David Contreras

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Contreras

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Contreras

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

All Works

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Melín, Victoria, Cecilia C. Torres, Cristian H. Campos, et al.. (2025). Hybrid Material TiO2-TPA@porous Activated Carbon and Its Activity in the Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceutical Pollutants in Water. ACS ES&T Water. 5(2). 772–785. 2 indexed citations
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Melín, Victoria, J.C. Murillo-Sierra, Jorge A. Donadelli, et al.. (2025). Metal-free photocatalyst based on highly porous activated carbon obtained from agro-industrial residues. Characterization and photocatalytic evaluation. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 462. 116247–116247. 2 indexed citations
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Jiménez, Verónica A., Joaquín Manzo-Merino, Victoria Melín, et al.. (2025). Visible light-activated mesoporous black titania nanorods for enhanced chemo-photodynamic cancer therapy. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology. 106. 106713–106713. 1 indexed citations
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Henríquez, Adolfo, Victoria Melín, R. Romero, et al.. (2025). Visible-Light activated self-cleaning glass using BiOI/TiO2 nanocomposites. Surfaces and Interfaces. 65. 106481–106481.
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Pandiyarajan, T., Arunachalam Arulraj, Héctor Váldes, et al.. (2024). Tailored engineering of rod-shaped core@shell ZnO@CeO2 nanostructures as an optical stimuli-responsive in sunscreen cream. Materials Today Communications. 38. 107959–107959. 4 indexed citations
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Romero, Romina, et al.. (2024). Organic radicals stabilization in natural rubber: Discerning the influence of thermo-oxidation using chemically modified or unmodified lignin as antioxidant. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 137. 435–447. 4 indexed citations
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Murillo-Sierra, J.C., Jorge A. Donadelli, Victoria Melín, et al.. (2024). Visible Light Absorption Is Not Always Related to N-Doped TiO2 and High Photocatalytic Activity in Materials Synthesized by the Sol–Gel Method Using Urea and Ammonia as Precursors. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(13). 5597–5610. 3 indexed citations
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Serván‐Mori, Edson, et al.. (2023). Increase of catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures in Mexico associated to policy changes and the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Global Health. 13. 6044–6044. 6 indexed citations
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Radojkovic, Claudia, Luís Bustamante, Victoria Melín, et al.. (2023). Berberis microphylla G. Forst Intake Reduces the Cardiovascular Disease Plasmatic Markers Associated with a High-Fat Diet in a Mice Model. Antioxidants. 12(2). 304–304. 1 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Amauri Pereira de, et al.. (2021). A Study of UVER in Santiago, Chile Based on Long-Term In Situ Measurements (Five Years) and Empirical Modelling. Energies. 14(2). 368–368. 7 indexed citations
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Carrillo-Varela, Isabel, Regis Teixeira Mendonça, Miguel Pereira, Pablo Reyes, & David Contreras. (2021). Methylene blue adsorption onto hydrogels made from different Eucalyptus dissolving pulps. Cellulose. 29(1). 445–468. 12 indexed citations
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Pandiyarajan, T., Ramalinga Viswanathan Mangalaraja, B. Karthikeyan, et al.. (2021). Influence of RE (Pr3+, Er3+, Nd3+) doping on structural, vibrational and enhanced persistent photocatalytic properties of ZnO nanostructures. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 268. 120679–120679. 16 indexed citations
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Fuentes, Ricardo, et al.. (2021). Behavioural Fever Promotes an Inflammatory Reflex Circuit in Ectotherms. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(16). 8860–8860. 10 indexed citations
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Rodriguez, Pedro Ortiz, Maurício Isaacs, Natalia P. Martínez, et al.. (2020). Highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction, plasmon-enhanced by AuNP-l-TiO2NP photocatalysts. New Journal of Chemistry. 44(38). 16491–16500. 6 indexed citations
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Raj, Michael Ruby, Ramalinga Viswanathan Mangalaraja, David Contreras, et al.. (2019). Perylenedianhydride-Based Polyimides as Organic Cathodes for Rechargeable Lithium and Sodium Batteries. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(1). 240–252. 44 indexed citations
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Márquez, Katherine, David Contreras, Pablo Salgado, & Claudia Mardones. (2018). Production of hydroxyl radicals and their relationship with phenolic compounds in white wines. Food Chemistry. 271. 80–86. 26 indexed citations
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Suresh, R., R. Udayabhaskar, Ramalinga Viswanathan Mangalaraja, et al.. (2018). Effect of reduced graphene oxide on the structural, optical, adsorption and photocatalytic properties of iron oxide nanoparticles. New Journal of Chemistry. 42(11). 8485–8493. 34 indexed citations
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Salgado, Pablo, David Contreras, Héctor D. Mansilla, et al.. (2017). Experimental and computational investigation of the substituent effects on the reduction of Fe3+by 1,2-dihydroxybenzenes. New Journal of Chemistry. 41(21). 12685–12693. 12 indexed citations

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