Fran Smith

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 907 citations indexed

About

Fran Smith is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Water Science and Technology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Fran Smith has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 907 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Organic Chemistry, 2 papers in Water Science and Technology and 2 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Fran Smith's work include Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (2 papers), Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (2 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (2 papers). Fran Smith is often cited by papers focused on Environmental remediation with nanomaterials (2 papers), Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (2 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (2 papers). Fran Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and India. Fran Smith's co-authors include Charles U. Pittman, Henry Gong, Philip H. Steele, María Alexandre-Franco, Javeed Mohammad, M Bricka, Benjamin Yancey, V. Gómez-Serrano, Dinesh Mohan and Blanca Calderón and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Fran Smith

6 papers receiving 878 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Sorption of arsenic, cadmium, and lead by chars produced from fast pyrolysis of wood and bark during bio-oil production

2007 818 citations Dinesh Mohan, Charles U. Pittman et al. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fran Smith United States	5	555	311	216	174	170	7	907
Chung‐Yu Guan Taiwan	19	319 0.6×	199 0.6×	260 1.2×	152 0.9×	160 0.9×	40	1.0k
Yanli Kong China	17	677 1.2×	169 0.5×	223 1.0×	156 0.9×	194 1.1×	42	1.0k
Di Fang China	20	397 0.7×	182 0.6×	398 1.8×	285 1.6×	173 1.0×	61	1.1k
Weiyu Liang China	15	317 0.6×	374 1.2×	332 1.5×	139 0.8×	106 0.6×	34	926
Xiaolian Wu China	14	392 0.7×	288 0.9×	197 0.9×	112 0.6×	135 0.8×	25	1.1k
Weiguo Gao China	10	823 1.5×	220 0.7×	533 2.5×	175 1.0×	106 0.6×	12	1.2k
Jiang Wan China	12	303 0.5×	245 0.8×	282 1.3×	93 0.5×	57 0.3×	21	689
Luciana Mesquita Brazil	11	722 1.3×	140 0.5×	200 0.9×	56 0.3×	111 0.7×	22	938
Kyung-Min Poo South Korea	9	503 0.9×	193 0.6×	157 0.7×	33 0.2×	189 1.1×	14	833
Magdalena Stefaniuk Poland	9	435 0.8×	264 0.8×	725 3.4×	97 0.6×	130 0.8×	10	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Fran Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fran Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Fran Smith. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Fran Smith. The network helps show where Fran Smith may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fran Smith

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fran Smith. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fran Smith based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fran Smith. Fran Smith is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Calderón, Blanca, Fran Smith, Ignacio Aracil, & Andrés Fullana. (2018). Green Synthesis of Thin Shell Carbon-Encapsulated Iron Nanoparticles via Hydrothermal Carbonization. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 6(6). 7995–8002. 41 indexed citations

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Mech, L. David, et al.. (2017). Studies of wolf x coyote hybridization via artificial insemination. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0184342–e0184342. 14 indexed citations

3.

Calderón, Blanca, Fran Smith, Ignacio Aracil, & Andrés Fullana. (2016). Synthesis of Carbon Encapsulated Iron Nanoparticles from Olive Mill Wastewater for Water Remediation. 2 indexed citations

4.

Young, Jay, et al.. (2012). SCAIL: An integrated Starcraft AI system. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 438–445. 12 indexed citations

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Jones, Bonnie M., et al.. (2009). San Francisco's Vision for the Future: An Integrated Urban Wastewater Management Plan. Water Practice & Technology. 4(1).

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Mohan, Dinesh, Charles U. Pittman, M Bricka, et al.. (2007). Sorption of arsenic, cadmium, and lead by chars produced from fast pyrolysis of wood and bark during bio-oil production. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 310(1). 57–73. 818 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smith, Fran, et al.. (1993). Obsolescence of music literature. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 44(2). 101–112. 20 indexed citations

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