Geoffrey W. Coates

41.7k total citations · 19 hit papers
319 papers, 35.1k citations indexed

About

Geoffrey W. Coates is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Geoffrey W. Coates has authored 319 papers receiving a total of 35.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 200 papers in Organic Chemistry, 135 papers in Process Chemistry and Technology and 110 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Geoffrey W. Coates's work include Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (135 papers), Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (114 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (108 papers). Geoffrey W. Coates is often cited by papers focused on Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (135 papers), Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (114 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (108 papers). Geoffrey W. Coates collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and China. Geoffrey W. Coates's co-authors include Emil B. Lobkovsky, David R. Moore, Tina M. Ovitt, Yutan D. Y. L. Getzler, Robert M. Waymouth, Phillip D. Hustad, Anne M. LaPointe, Ming Cheng, Ming Cheng and Robert H. Grubbs and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Geoffrey W. Coates

310 papers receiving 34.6k citations

Hit Papers

Chemical rec... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2020 2000 2001 2004 2014 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Chemical recycling to monomer for an ideal, circular polymer economy
    2020 1.2k citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. profile →
  2. Precise Control of Polyolefin Stereochemistry Using Single-Site Metal Catalysts
    2000 1.1k citations Geoffrey W. Coates profile →
  3. Polymerization of Lactide with Zinc and Magnesium β-Diiminate Complexes:  Stereocontrol and Mechanism
    2001 1.1k citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Discrete Metal‐Based Catalysts for the Copolymerization of CO2 and Epoxides: Discovery, Reactivity, Optimization, and Mechanism
    2004 1.0k citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. profile →
  5. Suppression of Lithium Dendrite Growth Using Cross-Linked Polyethylene/Poly(ethylene oxide) Electrolytes: A New Approach for Practical Lithium-Metal Polymer Batteries
    2014 763 citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  6. Stereochemistry of Lactide Polymerization with Chiral Catalysts:  New Opportunities for Stereocontrol Using Polymer Exchange Mechanisms
    2002 643 citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  7. Living alkene polymerization: New methods for the precision synthesis of polyolefins
    2007 591 citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. Progress in Polymer Science profile →
  8. Single-Site Catalysts for Ring-Opening Polymerization:  Synthesis of Heterotactic Poly(lactic acid) from rac-Lactide
    1999 542 citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  9. Catalysts for the Living Insertion Polymerization of Alkenes: Access to New Polyolefin Architectures Using Ziegler–Natta Chemistry
    2002 539 citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. profile →
  10. Oscillating Stereocontrol: A Strategy for the Synthesis of Thermoplastic Elastomeric Polypropylene
    1995 498 citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. Science profile →
  11. Ring-Opening Copolymerization of Epoxides and Cyclic Anhydrides with Discrete Metal Complexes: Structure–Property Relationships
    2016 495 citations Maria J. Sanford, Geoffrey W. Coates et al. profile →
  12. Combining polyethylene and polypropylene: Enhanced performance with PE/ i PP multiblock polymers
    2017 487 citations James M. Eagan, Jun Xu et al. Science profile →
  13. Phenyl−Perfluorophenyl Stacking Interactions:  Topochemical [2+2] Photodimerization and Photopolymerization of Olefinic Compounds
    1998 467 citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  14. Phosphonium-Functionalized Polyethylene: A New Class of Base-Stable Alkaline Anion Exchange Membranes
    2012 437 citations Kevin J. T. Noonan, Kristina M. Hugar et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  15. Phenyl–Perfluorophenyl Stacking Interactions: A New Strategy for Supermolecule Construction
    1997 410 citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. profile →
  16. Stereoselective Epoxide Polymerization and Copolymerization
    2014 407 citations Anne M. LaPointe, Geoffrey W. Coates et al. profile →
  17. Catalytic upcycling of high-density polyethylene via a processive mechanism
    2020 393 citations Akalanka Tennakoon, Xun Wu et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  18. Chemically recyclable thermoplastics from reversible-deactivation polymerization of cyclic acetals
    2021 371 citations Brooks A. Abel, Rachel L. Snyder et al. Science profile →
  19. α-Agostic Interactions and Olefin Insertion in Metallocene Polymerization Catalysts
    1996 280 citations Geoffrey W. Coates et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Geoffrey W. Coates United States 99 19.9k 16.0k 14.1k 5.0k 4.8k 319 35.1k
Marc A. Hillmyer United States 110 21.7k 1.1× 7.7k 0.5× 15.8k 1.1× 3.9k 0.8× 13.0k 2.7× 499 42.2k
Robert M. Waymouth United States 83 20.0k 1.0× 9.7k 0.6× 10.2k 0.7× 655 0.1× 3.1k 0.6× 318 28.0k
Bernhard Rieger Germany 68 13.1k 0.7× 8.9k 0.6× 4.9k 0.3× 939 0.2× 2.3k 0.5× 499 22.0k
Stefan Mecking Germany 70 13.1k 0.7× 6.4k 0.4× 4.1k 0.3× 1.0k 0.2× 3.4k 0.7× 356 19.2k
Donald J. Darensbourg United States 70 10.1k 0.5× 14.3k 0.9× 8.5k 0.6× 444 0.1× 1.6k 0.3× 435 22.0k
Andrew P. Dove United Kingdom 74 10.2k 0.5× 5.9k 0.4× 10.0k 0.7× 449 0.1× 2.6k 0.5× 237 17.2k
Xiao‐Bing Lu China 68 6.2k 0.3× 10.8k 0.7× 5.9k 0.4× 175 0.0× 1.4k 0.3× 318 14.5k
Jean‐François Carpentier France 69 13.2k 0.7× 8.6k 0.5× 7.9k 0.6× 339 0.1× 656 0.1× 412 17.3k
Hans R. Kricheldorf Germany 57 8.5k 0.4× 5.3k 0.3× 9.8k 0.7× 800 0.2× 6.5k 1.4× 697 17.5k
William R. Dichtel United States 87 5.2k 0.3× 910 0.1× 2.1k 0.1× 3.5k 0.7× 4.2k 0.9× 228 26.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Geoffrey W. Coates

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All Works

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Hu, Jenny, et al.. (2025). Designing Polymers with Molecular Weight Distribution-Based Machine Learning. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(12). 10238–10246. 5 indexed citations
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Yang-Neyerlin, Ami C., Danielle Markovich, Brett P. Fors, et al.. (2024). Comparing Ammonium and Tetraaminophosphonium Anion-Exchange Membranes Derived from Vinyl-Addition Polynorbornene Copolymers. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7(4). 1517–1526. 11 indexed citations
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Sansalone, Gabriele, Stephen Wroe, Geoffrey W. Coates, Marie R. G. Attard, & Carmelo Fruciano. (2024). Unexpectedly uneven distribution of functional trade-offs explains cranial morphological diversity in carnivores. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3275–3275. 9 indexed citations
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Balsara, Nitash P., et al.. (2024). Random Copolymerization of Substituted Dioxolanes: Rational Design of High-Performance Polymer Electrolytes. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 6(21). 12941–12946.
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Coates, Geoffrey W.. (2023). Imidazoles and imidazolium cations with exceptional alkaline stability. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).
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Choo, Youngwoo, et al.. (2022). Complete Electrochemical Characterization and Limiting Current of Polyacetal Electrolytes. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169(2). 20538–20538. 5 indexed citations
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Gao, Kevin W., Rachel L. Snyder, Brooks A. Abel, et al.. (2022). Relationship between Ion Transport and Phase Behavior in Acetal-Based Polymer Blend Electrolytes Studied by Electrochemical Characterization and Neutron Scattering. Macromolecules. 55(24). 11023–11033. 10 indexed citations
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Halat, David M., Rachel L. Snyder, Youngwoo Choo, et al.. (2021). Modifying Li+ and Anion Diffusivities in Polyacetal Electrolytes: A Pulsed-Field-Gradient NMR Study of Ion Self-Diffusion. Chemistry of Materials. 33(13). 4915–4926. 33 indexed citations
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Halat, David M., Youngwoo Choo, Rachel L. Snyder, et al.. (2021). Exploring the Ion Solvation Environments in Solid-State Polymer Electrolytes through Free-Energy Sampling. Macromolecules. 54(18). 8590–8600. 12 indexed citations
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Swisher, Jordan H., et al.. (2021). Chirality-Directed Regioselectivity: An Approach for the Synthesis of Alternating Poly(Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(11). 4119–4124. 67 indexed citations
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Tennakoon, Akalanka, Xun Wu, Alexander L. Paterson, et al.. (2020). Catalytic upcycling of high-density polyethylene via a processive mechanism. Nature Catalysis. 3(11). 893–901. 393 indexed citations breakdown →
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You, Wei, Kristina M. Hugar, Ryan Selhorst, et al.. (2020). Degradation of Organic Cations under Alkaline Conditions. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 86(1). 254–263. 106 indexed citations
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You, Wei, Kevin J. T. Noonan, & Geoffrey W. Coates. (2019). Alkaline-stable anion exchange membranes: A review of synthetic approaches. Progress in Polymer Science. 100. 101177–101177. 335 indexed citations
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Xu, Jun, James M. Eagan, Sung‐Soo Kim, et al.. (2018). Compatibilization of Isotactic Polypropylene (iPP) and High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) with iPP–PE Multiblock Copolymers. Macromolecules. 51(21). 8585–8596. 152 indexed citations
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Yu, Xiaopeng, Junteng Jia, Shu Xu, et al.. (2018). Unraveling substituent effects on the glass transition temperatures of biorenewable polyesters. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2880–2880. 77 indexed citations
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Liu, Chunming, Endian Wang, Kyu‐Sung Han, et al.. (2017). Single polymer growth dynamics. Science. 358(6361). 352–355. 69 indexed citations
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Eagan, James M., Jun Xu, Rocco Di Girolamo, et al.. (2017). Combining polyethylene and polypropylene: Enhanced performance with PE/ i PP multiblock polymers. Science. 355(6327). 814–816. 487 indexed citations breakdown →
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Trigg, Edward B., et al.. (2017). High Morphological Order in a Nearly Precise Acid-Containing Polymer and Ionomer. ACS Macro Letters. 6(9). 947–951. 23 indexed citations
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Coates, Geoffrey W., et al.. (2012). Chain polymerization of vinyl monomers. Elsevier eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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