David Écija

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

David Écija is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Écija has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Materials Chemistry, 79 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 67 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Écija's work include Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (79 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (59 papers) and Graphene research and applications (40 papers). David Écija is often cited by papers focused on Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (79 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (59 papers) and Graphene research and applications (40 papers). David Écija collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and Czechia. David Écija's co-authors include Johannes V. Barth, Willi Auwärter, Florian Klappenberger, Knud Seufert, Rodolfo Miranda, José M. Gallego, José I. Urgel, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Sushobhan Joshi and Felix Bischoff and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

David Écija

120 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Porphyrins at interfaces

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Author						Papers	Cites
David Écija	2.6k	2.4k	2.2k	1.5k	424	125	4.3k
Steven L. Tait	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	391 0.9×	77	3.3k
Albano Cossaro	2.1k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	308 0.7×	131	3.7k
Luca Floreano	2.8k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	2.8k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	394 0.9×	228	5.1k
Dingyong Zhong	3.1k 1.2×	1.6k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	896 0.6×	498 1.2×	120	4.9k
Christopher J. Baddeley	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	664 1.6×	96	3.8k
Dimas G. de Oteyza	3.2k 1.2×	2.4k 1.0×	3.1k 1.4×	2.1k 1.4×	458 1.1×	98	5.1k
Alberto Verdini	2.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	338 0.8×	144	3.7k
Magalı́ Lingenfelder	1.6k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	229 0.5×	51	3.3k
A. Morgante	3.0k 1.2×	1.4k 0.6×	2.6k 1.2×	2.3k 1.6×	374 0.9×	183	5.6k
Matthew O. Blunt	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	733 0.5×	403 1.0×	42	2.6k

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Stetsovych, Oleksandr, Benjamin Löwe, Zhiqiang Gao, et al.. (2025). Magnetic Ground State Discrimination of a Polyradical Nanographene Using Nickelocene-Functionalized Tips. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(43). 39072–39079.

Goudappagouda, Goudappagouda, Zhiqiang Gao, Koen Lauwaet, et al.. (2025). Strong magnetic exchange coupling of a dibenzo-fused rhomboidal nanographene and its homocoupling with tunable periodicities on a metal surface. Nanoscale. 17(30). 17769–17776. 1 indexed citations

Lauwaet, Koen, et al.. (2024). A Kagome Lattice of Lanthanide Atoms in a 2D Er‐Directed Metal‐Organic Coordination Network. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(5). e202403606–e202403606. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Qifan, Ji Ma, Jason Melidonie, et al.. (2024). On‐Surface Synthesis of Non‐Benzenoid Nanographenes Embedding Azulene and Stone‐Wales Topologies. Angewandte Chemie. 136(13). 3 indexed citations

Navío, Cristina, Manuel Valvidares, Miguel A. Valbuena, et al.. (2024). On‐Surface Synthesis of Organolanthanide Sandwich Complexes. Advanced Science. 11(24). e2308125–e2308125. 6 indexed citations

Gallardo, Aurelio, José Santos, Koen Lauwaet, et al.. (2024). Coronene‐Based 2D Networks by On‐Surface Skeletal Rearrangement of Sumanene Precursors. Angewandte Chemie. 137(2). 1 indexed citations

Urbani, Maxence, Koen Lauwaet, José M. Gallego, et al.. (2024). Coordinative Self‐assembly of π‐Electron Magnetic Porphyrins. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(9). e202420572–e202420572. 3 indexed citations

Gallardo, Aurelio, Oleksandr Stetsovych, Koen Lauwaet, et al.. (2024). Designing highly delocalized solitons by harnessing the structural parity of π-conjugated polymers. Nature Synthesis. 4(2). 233–242. 1 indexed citations

Pastor, Ernest, Zan Lian, Lu Xia, et al.. (2024). Complementary probes for the electrochemical interface. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 8(3). 159–178. 58 indexed citations

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Calbo, Joaquín, José I. Urgel, David Écija, et al.. (2023). Dimeric tetrabromo-p-quinodimethanes: synthesis and structural/electronic properties. Chemical Science. 14(37). 10112–10120. 2 indexed citations

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Santos, José, Koen Lauwaet, José I. Urgel, et al.. (2023). Stoichiometry‐Directed Two‐Level Hierarchical Growth of Lanthanide‐Based Supramolecular Nanoarchitectures. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(30). e202300461–e202300461. 6 indexed citations

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Jensen, Sigmund, Zhaozong Sun, Miguel Ángel Niño, et al.. (2023). Dewetting Transition of CoO/Pt(111) in CO Oxidation Conditions Observed In Situ by Ambient Pressure STM and XPS. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(18). 8547–8556. 5 indexed citations

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Mishra, Shantanu, Qiang Chen, Xuelin Yao, et al.. (2023). Steering Large Magnetic Exchange Coupling in Nanographenes near the Closed-Shell to Open-Shell Transition. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(5). 2968–2974. 34 indexed citations

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Lauwaet, Koen, Ana Sánchez‐Grande, José I. Urgel, et al.. (2022). Design and Manipulation of a Minimalistic Hydrocarbon Nanocar on Au(111). Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(6). e202212395–e202212395. 4 indexed citations

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Lauwaet, Koen, Ana Sánchez‐Grande, José I. Urgel, et al.. (2022). Design and Manipulation of a Minimalistic Hydrocarbon Nanocar on Au(111). Angewandte Chemie. 135(6). 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhaozong, Miguel Ángel Niño, David Écija, et al.. (2022). The cobalt oxidation state in preferential CO oxidation on CoO_x/Pt(111) investigated by operando X-ray photoemission spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(16). 9236–9246. 12 indexed citations

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Torre, Bruno de la, Adam Matěj, Ana Sánchez‐Grande, et al.. (2020). Tailoring π-conjugation and vibrational modes to steer on-surface synthesis of pentalene-bridged ladder polymers. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4567–4567. 70 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Fernández, Jonathan, Koen Lauwaet, David Écija, et al.. (2020). Metal-Coordination Network vs Charge Transfer Complex: The Importance of the Surface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 1 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Fernández, Jonathan, Koen Lauwaet, Alberto Martín‐Jiménez, et al.. (2017). Tuning Intermolecular Charge Transfer in Donor–Acceptor Two-Dimensional Crystals on Metal Surfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(42). 23505–23510. 14 indexed citations

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Vijayaraghavan, Saranyan, David Écija, Willi Auwärter, et al.. (2013). Supramolecular Assembly of Interfacial Nanoporous Networks with Simultaneous Expression of Metal–Organic and Organic‐Bonding Motifs. Chemistry - A European Journal. 19(42). 14143–14150. 54 indexed citations

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