Elijah Thimsen

6.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
67 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Elijah Thimsen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Elijah Thimsen has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Materials Chemistry, 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Elijah Thimsen's work include Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (15 papers), Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (15 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (15 papers). Elijah Thimsen is often cited by papers focused on Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (15 papers), Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (15 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (15 papers). Elijah Thimsen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Australia. Elijah Thimsen's co-authors include Scott C. Warren, Michaël Grätzel, Adriana Paracchino, Vincent Laporte, Kevin Sivula, Uwe Kortshagen, Lorenzo Mangolini, Pratim Biswas, Florian Le Formal and Alex B. F. Martinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Elijah Thimsen

64 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Highly active oxide photocathode for photoelectrochemical water reduction

2011 1.9k citations Adriana Paracchino, Vincent Laporte et al. Nature Materials profile →
Plasmonic solar water splitting

2011 755 citations Scott C. Warren, Elijah Thimsen Energy & Environmental Science profile →
High-Yield Plasma Synthesis of Luminescent Silicon Nanocrystals

2005 612 citations Lorenzo Mangolini, Elijah Thimsen et al. Nano Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elijah Thimsen United States	24	4.6k	2.7k	1.8k	800	613	67	5.7k
Zhijun Zhang China	41	4.8k 1.1×	1.5k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	678 0.8×	552 0.9×	214	5.8k
Rowan K. Leary United Kingdom	24	1.9k 0.4×	1.7k 0.6×	677 0.4×	765 1.0×	448 0.7×	48	3.6k
Hu Xu China	48	4.8k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	3.3k 1.9×	807 1.0×	676 1.1×	261	7.7k
Can K. Erdonmez United States	20	4.1k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	2.9k 1.6×	654 0.8×	1.6k 2.6×	24	6.4k
Kim Kisslinger United States	37	2.4k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	3.2k 1.8×	621 0.8×	1000 1.6×	220	6.0k
Hyun Soo Han South Korea	30	3.4k 0.7×	3.9k 1.5×	2.7k 1.5×	494 0.6×	360 0.6×	62	6.0k
Petr Lazar Czechia	36	3.0k 0.7×	910 0.3×	1.5k 0.8×	737 0.9×	421 0.7×	90	4.2k
Ying‐Bing Jiang United States	32	2.8k 0.6×	666 0.2×	2.3k 1.3×	778 1.0×	784 1.3×	85	5.0k
Shery L. Y. Chang Australia	32	2.3k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	918 1.1×	836 1.4×	128	4.6k
Amarjyoti Choudhury India	31	2.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	536 0.7×	412 0.7×	61	4.1k

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Thimsen, Elijah, et al.. (2025). Stabilization of III-nitrides at high temperatures using nitrogen plasma. Applied Physics Letters. 126(15). 2 indexed citations

Niedzwiedzki, Dariusz M., et al.. (2023). Synthesis of Ultrafine Aluminum-Rich Corundum Nanocrystals. Crystal Growth & Design. 23(10). 7189–7197. 1 indexed citations

Thimsen, Elijah, et al.. (2022). Stationary states of hydrogen‐producing reactions in nonequilibrium plasma. AIChE Journal. 69(4). 5 indexed citations

Yatom, Shurik, et al.. (2022). Characterization of plasma in RF jet interacting with water: Thomson scattering versus spectral line broadening. Plasma Sources Science and Technology. 31(3). 35018–35018. 8 indexed citations

Kushner, Mark J., et al.. (2022). Design Considerations for Controlling Silicon Nanoparticle Nucleation and Growth in a Nonthermal Plasma. Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing. 43(1). 225–245. 3 indexed citations

Thimsen, Elijah, et al.. (2021). Particle charge distributions in the effluent of a flow-through atmospheric pressure low temperature plasma. Plasma Sources Science and Technology. 30(7). 75030–75030. 17 indexed citations

Parker, Kimberly M., et al.. (2020). Electrochemical characterization of the plasma-water interface. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 53(16). 165202–165202. 9 indexed citations

Thimsen, Elijah, et al.. (2020). Phase mixing in GaSb nanocrystals synthesized by nonequilibrium plasma aerotaxy. Plasma Processes and Polymers. 17(5). 4 indexed citations

Thimsen, Elijah, et al.. (2019). Nonequilibrium plasma aerotaxy of size controlled GaN nanocrystals. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 53(9). 95201–95201. 24 indexed citations

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Vazquez‐Pufleau, Miguel, Nilantha Bandara, Cedric Mpoy, et al.. (2018). Aerosol-synthesized siliceous nanoparticles: impact of morphology and functionalization on biodistribution. International Journal of Nanomedicine. Volume 13. 7375–7393. 6 indexed citations

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Thimsen, Elijah. (2018). Beyond equilibrium thermodynamics in the low temperature plasma processor. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena. 36(4). 14 indexed citations

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Thimsen, Elijah, Uwe Kortshagen, & Eray S. Aydil. (2014). Plasma synthesis of stoichiometric Cu2S nanocrystals stabilized by oleylamine. Chemical Communications. 50(61). 8346–8346. 18 indexed citations

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Baryshev, Sergey V., Sergey Antipov, Alexei Kanareykin, et al.. (2014). Metal Plasmonic Nanostructures Functionalized by Atomic Layer Deposition of MgO for Photocathode Applications. JACOW. 739–741. 1 indexed citations

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Paracchino, Adriana, Vincent Laporte, Kevin Sivula, Michaël Grätzel, & Elijah Thimsen. (2011). Highly active oxide photocathode for photoelectrochemical water reduction. Nature Materials. 10(6). 456–461. 1853 indexed citations breakdown →

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Warren, Scott C. & Elijah Thimsen. (2011). Plasmonic solar water splitting. Energy & Environmental Science. 5(1). 5133–5146. 755 indexed citations breakdown →

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An, Woo-Jin, Elijah Thimsen, & Pratim Biswas. (2009). Aerosol-Chemical Vapor Deposition Method For Synthesis of Nanostructured Metal Oxide Thin Films With Controlled Morphology. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 1(1). 249–253. 81 indexed citations

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Thimsen, Elijah, et al.. (2009). Impact of Different Electrolytes on Photocatalytic Water Splitting. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 156(5). H346–H346. 44 indexed citations

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Thimsen, Elijah. (2009). Metal Oxide Semiconductors for Solar Energy Harvesting. Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis). 4 indexed citations

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Mangolini, Lorenzo, Elijah Thimsen, & Uwe Kortshagen. (2005). High-Yield Plasma Synthesis of Luminescent Silicon Nanocrystals. Nano Letters. 5(4). 655–659. 612 indexed citations breakdown →

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Anthony, Rebecca, Elijah Thimsen, J. W. Johnson, Stephen A. Campbell, & Uwe Kortshagen. (2005). Fast High-Density Low-Pressure Plasma Synthesis of GaN Nanocrystals. MRS Proceedings. 892. 8 indexed citations

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