Ernest Pastor

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ernest Pastor is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ernest Pastor has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 15 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ernest Pastor's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (9 papers). Ernest Pastor is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (9 papers). Ernest Pastor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Ernest Pastor's co-authors include James R. Durrant, Camilo A. Mesa, Laia Francàs, Michael Sachs, Andreas Kafizas, Shababa Selim, Michaël Grätzel, Erwin Reisner, Artem A. Bakulin and Florian Le Formal and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ernest Pastor

38 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Electronic defects in metal oxide photocatalysts

2022 336 citations Ernest Pastor, Michael Sachs et al. profile →
Water-hydroxide trapping in cobalt tungstate for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis

2024 240 citations Ranit Ram, Lu Xia et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ernest Pastor United Kingdom	25	2.7k	1.8k	1.2k	380	248	38	3.4k
Laia Francàs Spain	32	3.2k 1.2×	2.1k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	442 1.2×	460 1.9×	53	4.0k
Maytal Caspary Toroker Israel	30	2.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	430 1.1×	99 0.4×	109	3.5k
Stafford W. Sheehan United States	26	3.4k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	305 0.8×	255 1.0×	43	4.2k
Coleman X. Kronawitter United States	26	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	837 0.7×	212 0.6×	108 0.4×	54	2.4k
Zijun Sun China	40	4.6k 1.7×	3.6k 2.0×	2.5k 2.1×	451 1.2×	238 1.0×	103	5.7k
Simon Trudel Canada	23	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	2.2k 1.8×	626 1.6×	206 0.8×	71	4.1k
Stephanie R. Pendlebury United Kingdom	18	4.1k 1.5×	2.5k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	352 0.9×	102 0.4×	19	4.4k
Shuxian Wei China	32	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	882 0.7×	157 0.4×	385 1.6×	141	3.0k
Arnold J. Forman United States	17	4.9k 1.8×	3.6k 2.0×	2.1k 1.7×	219 0.6×	145 0.6×	22	6.0k
Gonghu Li United States	31	3.2k 1.2×	2.7k 1.5×	694 0.6×	95 0.3×	324 1.3×	60	4.2k

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Sachs, Michael, Ernest Pastor, Benjamin Moss, et al.. (2025). Metal-centred states control carrier lifetimes in transition metal oxide photocatalysts. Nature Chemistry. 17(9). 1348–1355. 2 indexed citations

Ram, Ranit, Lu Xia, H. Benzidi, et al.. (2024). Water-hydroxide trapping in cobalt tungstate for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis. Science. 384(6702). 1373–1380. 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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

Johnson, Allan S., Ernest Pastor, H. Benzidi, et al.. (2024). All-optical seeding of a light-induced phase transition with correlated disorder. Nature Physics. 20(6). 970–975. 10 indexed citations

Mesa, Camilo A., Michael Sachs, Ernest Pastor, et al.. (2024). Correlating activities and defects in (photo)electrocatalysts using in-situ multi-modal microscopic imaging. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3908–3908. 13 indexed citations

Dong, Jinwei, Dongbin Shin, Ernest Pastor, et al.. (2023). Electronic dispersion, correlations and stacking in the photoexcited state of 1T-TaS₂. 2D Materials. 10(4). 45001–45001. 5 indexed citations

Correa, Alfredo A., Shan Yang, Olivier Delaire, et al.. (2023). Ultrafast lattice disordering can be accelerated by electronic collisional forces. Nature Physics. 19(10). 1489–1494. 18 indexed citations

Meng, Zhu, Ernest Pastor, Shababa Selim, et al.. (2023). Operando IR Optical Control of Localized Charge Carriers in BiVO₄ Photoanodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(32). 17700–17709. 19 indexed citations

Mesa, Camilo A., Ernest Pastor, Gianluigi Marra, et al.. (2023). Improved Photoelectrochemical Performance of WO₃/BiVO₄ Heterojunction Photoanodes via WO₃ Nanostructuring. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(45). 52436–52447. 7 indexed citations

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Pastor, Ernest, Allan S. Johnson, Cuixiang Wang, et al.. (2022). Nonthermal breaking of magnetic order via photogenerated spin defects in the spin-orbit coupled insulator Sr3Ir2O7. Physical review. B.. 105(6). 4 indexed citations

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Mesa, Camilo A., Ernest Pastor, & Laia Francàs. (2022). UV–Vis operando spectroelectrochemistry for (photo)electrocatalysis: Principles and guidelines. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 35. 101098–101098. 25 indexed citations

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Johnson, Allan S., Mariela Menghini, Jean‐Pierre Locquet, et al.. (2022). Ultrafast Loss of Lattice Coherence in the Light-Induced Structural Phase Transition of V2O3. Physical Review Letters. 129(25). 255701–255701. 7 indexed citations

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Pastor, Ernest, et al.. (2022). The role of crystal facets and disorder on photo-electrosynthesis. Nanoscale. 14(42). 15596–15606. 9 indexed citations

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Francàs, Laia, Shababa Selim, Sacha Corby, et al.. (2021). Water oxidation kinetics of nanoporous BiVO ₄ photoanodes functionalised with nickel/iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts. Chemical Science. 12(21). 7442–7452. 48 indexed citations

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Francàs, Laia, Sacha Corby, Shababa Selim, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Spectroelectrochemical study of water oxidation on nickel and iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts. Nature Communications. 11(1). 410–410. 1 indexed citations

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Francàs, Laia, Sacha Corby, Shababa Selim, et al.. (2019). Spectroelectrochemical study of water oxidation on nickel and iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5208–5208. 165 indexed citations

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Pastor, Ernest, Ji‐Sang Park, Ludmilla Steier, et al.. (2019). In situ observation of picosecond polaron self-localisation in α-Fe2O3 photoelectrochemical cells. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3962–3962. 107 indexed citations

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Mesa, Camilo A., Laia Francàs, Ke Yang, et al.. (2019). Multihole water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes revealed by operando spectroelectrochemistry and DFT. Nature Chemistry. 12(1). 82–89. 244 indexed citations

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Pastor, Ernest, Florian Le Formal, Matthew T. Mayer, et al.. (2017). Spectroelectrochemical analysis of the mechanism of (photo)electrochemical hydrogen evolution at a catalytic interface. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14280–14280. 95 indexed citations

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Ma, Yimeng, Camilo A. Mesa, Ernest Pastor, et al.. (2016). Rate Law Analysis of Water Oxidation and Hole Scavenging on a BiVO₄ Photoanode. ACS Energy Letters. 1(3). 618–623. 91 indexed citations

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