Esmail Doustkhah

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Esmail Doustkhah is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Esmail Doustkhah has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Materials Chemistry, 40 papers in Organic Chemistry and 24 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Esmail Doustkhah's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (17 papers) and Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (16 papers). Esmail Doustkhah is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (17 papers) and Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (16 papers). Esmail Doustkhah collaborates with scholars based in Iran, Japan and Türkiye. Esmail Doustkhah's co-authors include Sadegh Rostamnia, Yusuke Ide, Behzad Zeynizadeh, Alireza Khataee, M. Hussein N. Assadi, Rafael Luque, Ramin Hassandoost, Ali Baghban, Yusuke Yamauchi and Mohammad Heidarizadeh and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Langmuir.

In The Last Decade

Esmail Doustkhah

90 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Defect engineering of oxide perovskites for catalysis and energy storage: synthesis of chemistry and materials science

2021 244 citations Hamidreza Arandiyan, Sajjad S. Mofarah et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Esmail Doustkhah Iran	39	1.8k	1.5k	825	666	617	98	3.8k
Qun Chen China	36	2.2k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	1.7k 2.5×	695 1.1×	271	5.0k
Mehran Ghiaci Iran	36	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	616 0.7×	501 0.8×	691 1.1×	141	3.9k
Majid Masteri‐Farahani Iran	34	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	432 0.5×	836 1.3×	368 0.6×	147	3.2k
Qi Xu China	32	1.6k 0.9×	694 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	456 0.7×	703 1.1×	86	3.4k
Xiantai Zhou China	34	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.7×	274 0.4×	120	3.4k
Ezzat Rafiee Iran	33	1.5k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	425 0.5×	558 0.8×	369 0.6×	170	3.5k
Alina M. Balu Spain	39	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	735 0.9×	593 0.9×	483 0.8×	145	4.7k
Jiangbo Xi China	35	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	365 0.5×	1.4k 2.2×	82	3.7k
S. Sugunan India	30	1.6k 0.9×	748 0.5×	533 0.6×	501 0.8×	537 0.9×	187	3.2k
Arindam Modak India	38	2.2k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	951 1.2×	1.3k 2.0×	384 0.6×	77	4.8k

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Giordana, Alessia, Emanuele Priola, Ghodrat Mahmoudi, et al.. (2025). Exploring coinage bonding interactions in [Au(CN)₄]⁻ assemblies with silver and zinc complexes: a structural and theoretical study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(10). 5395–5402. 2 indexed citations

Moreno, José Julio Gutiérrez, et al.. (2025). Interlayer Atomic Voids by Partial Cesium Defect in Layered Titanate Activate Photo(electro)catalytic H ₂ and O ₂ Generation. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(20). 15079–15091.

Jurowska, Anna, Maciej Hodorowicz, Ghodrat Mahmoudi, et al.. (2024). Structural and theoretical insights into the influence of thiocyanate ligands on divalent metal complexes with terpyridine derivatives. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1322. 140459–140459. 1 indexed citations

Mahmoudi, Ghodrat, Isabel García‐Santos, Rosa M. Gomila, et al.. (2024). Structural diversity and tetrel bonding significance in lead(ii) complexes with pyrazoylisonicotinoylhydrazone and varied anionic co-ligands. CrystEngComm. 26(19). 2526–2535.

Doustkhah, Esmail, Nao Tsunoji, Shinya Mine, et al.. (2024). Feeble Single-Atom Pd Catalysts for H₂ Production from Formic Acid. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(8). 10251–10259. 12 indexed citations

Zhang, Yingying, Longlong Fan, Qinghong Geng, et al.. (2024). A highly efficient metal-free electrocatalyst of nitrogen-doped porous carbon nanoflowers toward oxygen electroreduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(4). 2650–2657.

Doustkhah, Esmail, Nao Tsunoji, M. Hussein N. Assadi, & Yusuke Ide. (2023). Pd Thickness Optimization on Silicate Sheets for Improving Catalytic Activity. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 10(4). 9 indexed citations

Xue, Kaili, Sajjad S. Mofarah, Esmail Doustkhah, et al.. (2023). Composition-driven morphological evolution of BaTiO3 nanowires for efficient piezocatalytic hydrogen production. Chemosphere. 338. 139337–139337. 24 indexed citations

Arandiyan, Hamidreza, Sajjad S. Mofarah, Charles C. Sorrell, et al.. (2021). Defect engineering of oxide perovskites for catalysis and energy storage: synthesis of chemistry and materials science. Chemical Society Reviews. 50(18). 10116–10211. 244 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moradi, Rasoul, et al.. (2021). Nanoarchitectonics for Abused‐Drug Biosensors. Small. 18(10). e2104847–e2104847. 28 indexed citations

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Mofarah, Sajjad S., Claudio Cazorla, Xiaoran Zheng, et al.. (2021). Highly catalytically active CeO_2−x-based heterojunction nanostructures with mixed micro/meso-porous architectures. Nanoscale. 13(14). 6764–6771. 19 indexed citations

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Esmat, Mohamed, Hamed Mohtasham, Yasser GadelHak, et al.. (2020). 2D Mesoporous Channels of PMO; a Platform for Cluster-Like Pt Synthesis and Catalytic Activity in Nitrophenol Reduction. Catalysts. 10(2). 167–167. 19 indexed citations

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Pesyan, Nader Noroozi, et al.. (2020). Diaza crown-type macromocycle (kryptofix 22) functionalised carbon nanotube for efficient Ni2+ loading; A unique catalyst for cross-coupling reactions. Molecular Catalysis. 494. 111117–111117. 8 indexed citations

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Doustkhah, Esmail, Yusuke Yamauchi, Asghar Taheri‐Kafrani, et al.. (2019). Template-oriented synthesis of hydroxyapatite nanoplates for 3D bone printing. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 7(45). 7228–7234. 22 indexed citations

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Fathi, Zahra, et al.. (2019). Noncovalent Immobilization of Yarrowia lipolytica Lipase on Dendritic-Like Amino Acid-Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles. Biomolecules. 9(9). 502–502. 13 indexed citations

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Fathi, Zahra, et al.. (2018). Interaction of Yarrowia lipolytica lipase with dithiocarbamate modified magnetic carbon Fe3O4@C-NHCS2H core-shell nanoparticles. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 117. 218–224. 40 indexed citations

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Doustkhah, Esmail, Sadegh Rostamnia, Nao Tsunoji, et al.. (2018). Templated synthesis of atomically-thin Ag nanocrystal catalysts in the interstitial space of a layered silicate. Chemical Communications. 54(35). 4402–4405. 42 indexed citations

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Doustkhah, Esmail, Jianjian Lin, Sadegh Rostamnia, et al.. (2018). Development of Sulfonic‐Acid‐Functionalized Mesoporous Materials: Synthesis and Catalytic Applications. Chemistry - A European Journal. 25(7). 1614–1635. 147 indexed citations

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Doustkhah, Esmail, Sadegh Rostamnia, Masataka Imura, et al.. (2017). Thiourea bridged periodic mesoporous organosilica with ultra-small Pd nanoparticles for coupling reactions. RSC Advances. 7(89). 56306–56310. 61 indexed citations

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Rostamnia, Sadegh & Esmail Doustkhah. (2016). Sulfonic-based precursors (SAPs) for silica mesostructures: Advances in synthesis and applications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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