Drew Higgins

20.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
154 papers, 17.4k citations indexed

About

Drew Higgins is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Drew Higgins has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 17.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 102 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 40 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Drew Higgins's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (107 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (62 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (52 papers). Drew Higgins is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (107 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (62 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (52 papers). Drew Higgins collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Drew Higgins's co-authors include Zhongwei Chen, Aiping Yu, Thomas F. Jaramillo, Christopher Hahn, Jiujun Zhang, Edward H. Sargent, Shaffiq A. Jaffer, Phil De Luna, Lei Zhang and Xingcheng Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Drew Higgins

148 papers receiving 17.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

What would it take for renewably powered electrosynthesis to displace petrochemical processes?

2019 2.3k citations Christopher Hahn, Drew Higgins et al. profile →
A review on non-precious metal electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells

2011 1.6k citations Zhongwei Chen, Drew Higgins et al. profile →
Direct atomic-level insight into the active sites of a high-performance PGM-free ORR catalyst

2017 1.4k citations Drew Higgins et al. profile →
A review of graphene and graphene oxide sponge: material synthesis and applications to energy and the environment

2014 985 citations Drew Higgins, Xingcheng Xiao et al. profile →
Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: A New Paradigm

2018 499 citations Drew Higgins, Christopher Hahn et al. profile →
Zinc-ion batteries for stationary energy storage

2023 290 citations Storm Gourley, Brian D. Adams et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Drew Higgins Canada	57	13.0k	11.0k	4.6k	2.8k	2.7k	154	17.4k
Min‐Rui Gao China	68	17.8k 1.4×	13.5k 1.2×	6.7k 1.4×	2.9k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	158	21.6k
Shuangming Chen China	76	15.8k 1.2×	11.0k 1.0×	11.3k 2.4×	3.0k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	223	22.5k
Shoujie Liu China	65	12.5k 1.0×	6.8k 0.6×	7.1k 1.5×	3.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.4×	234	17.2k
Dehui Deng China	58	14.7k 1.1×	9.6k 0.9×	10.4k 2.2×	4.1k 1.5×	1.8k 0.7×	132	21.7k
Zhiyi Lu China	58	13.7k 1.1×	12.3k 1.1×	5.5k 1.2×	1.0k 0.4×	3.1k 1.1×	149	18.5k
Guangxu Chen China	47	7.4k 0.6×	6.5k 0.6×	6.3k 1.4×	1.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	122	13.9k
Yuqin Zou China	69	13.8k 1.1×	10.1k 0.9×	6.3k 1.4×	2.5k 0.9×	3.3k 1.2×	165	18.9k
Wei Zhou China	65	12.1k 0.9×	7.0k 0.6×	9.0k 1.9×	3.2k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	298	16.7k
Chung‐Li Dong Taiwan	76	19.4k 1.5×	12.3k 1.1×	12.1k 2.6×	2.9k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	431	25.6k
Guoxiong Wang China	67	14.9k 1.1×	7.5k 0.7×	8.4k 1.8×	6.2k 2.2×	1.7k 0.6×	244	19.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Drew Higgins

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Alnoush, Wajdi, et al.. (2025). Mitigating cobalt nanoparticles in pyrolyzed Co-ZIF-derived oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysts in alkaline media. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 384. 126121–126121.

Ashour, A., A.M. Abdel-Mohsen, Ghada E. Khedr, et al.. (2025). Tuning C–C Coupling and Selectivity in CO ₂ Electrochemical Reduction Reaction via Pyramidal Dilute Sn–Cu Alloy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(47). 64687–64698.

Gourley, Storm, Kevin J. Sanders, Liu Ze-yuan, et al.. (2025). A tert-butyl functionalized quinone as active material for rechargeable aqueous zinc-ion batteries exhibiting high round-trip efficiency. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100092–100092.

Vafaie, Maral, Roham Dorakhan, Amin Morteza Najarian, et al.. (2025). Direct Electrosynthesis of C ₃₊ Hydrocarbons from CO ₂ via Size-Controlled Nickel Nanoislands on a Carbon Support. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(44). 40454–40465.

Ismail, Fatma, Wajdi Alnoush, Ahmed Abdellah, et al.. (2025). Boosting Electrochemical Conversion of CO₂ to CO in a Membrane Electrode Assembly Using Nickel–Nitrogen/Carbon Supported Nickel–Zinc Carbide Particle Catalyst. ACS electrochemistry.. 1(7). 1141–1153. 2 indexed citations

Hitchcock, Adam P., et al.. (2024). In Situ Studies of Cu Catalyzed CO2 Electro-Reduction by Soft X-ray Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy and Soft X-ray Spectro-Ptychography. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations

Higgins, Drew, et al.. (2024). Tunable layered Mn oxides for oxygen electrocatalysis. Nature Catalysis. 7(5). 469–471. 5 indexed citations

Singh, Siddhant, et al.. (2024). Chemical activation of atom-precise Pd₃ nanoclusters on γ-Al₂O₃ supports for transfer hydrogenation reactions. Nanoscale. 16(42). 19763–19774. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Chun‐yang, et al.. (2023). In Situ Studies of Copper-Based CO ₂ Reduction Electrocatalysts by Scanning Transmission Soft X-ray Microscopy. ACS Nano. 17(21). 21337–21348. 11 indexed citations

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Ismail, Fatma, et al.. (2022). Atomically Isolated Nickel–Nitrogen–Carbon Electrocatalysts Derived by the Utilization of Mg²⁺ ions as Spacers in Bimetallic Ni/Mg–Metal–Organic Framework Precursors for Boosting the Electroreduction of CO₂. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 5(8). 9408–9417. 10 indexed citations

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Landers, Alan, Hong‐Jie Peng, David M. Koshy, et al.. (2021). Dynamics and Hysteresis of Hydrogen Intercalation and Deintercalation in Palladium Electrodes: A Multimodal In Situ X-ray Diffraction, Coulometry, and Computational Study. Chemistry of Materials. 33(15). 5872–5884. 15 indexed citations

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Scott, Søren B., et al.. (2020). CO as a Probe Molecule to Study Surface Adsorbates during Electrochemical Oxidation of Propene. ChemElectroChem. 8(1). 250–256. 18 indexed citations

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Shi, Qiurong, Sooyeon Hwang, Haipeng Yang, et al.. (2020). Supported and coordinated single metal site electrocatalysts. Materials Today. 37. 93–111. 89 indexed citations

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Farmand, Maryam, Alan Landers, John C. Lin, et al.. (2019). Electrochemical flow cell enabling operando probing of electrocatalyst surfaces by X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(10). 5402–5408. 48 indexed citations

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Batmaz, Rasim, Fathy M. Hassan, Drew Higgins, et al.. (2018). Highly durable 3D conductive matrixed silicon anode for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Power Sources. 407. 84–91. 27 indexed citations

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Chen, Shucheng, Zhihua Chen, Samira Siahrostami, et al.. (2017). Defective Carbon-Based Materials for the Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 6(1). 311–317. 303 indexed citations

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Higgins, Drew, Chen Zhu, Dong Un Lee, & Zhongwei Chen. (2012). Activated and nitrogen-doped exfoliated graphene as air electrodes for metal–air battery applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 1(7). 2639–2639. 78 indexed citations

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Zhu, Shaomin, Zhu Chen, Bing Li, et al.. (2011). Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes as air cathode catalysts in zinc-air battery. Electrochimica Acta. 56(14). 5080–5084. 101 indexed citations

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Higgins, Drew, et al.. (2010). Nitrogen doped carbon nanotubes synthesized from aliphatic diamines for oxygen reduction reaction. Electrochimica Acta. 56(3). 1570–1575. 119 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhu, et al.. (2010). Electrocatalytic activity of nitrogen doped carbon nanotubes with different morphologies for oxygen reduction reaction. Electrochimica Acta. 55(16). 4799–4804. 92 indexed citations

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