Georg Held

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
172 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Georg Held is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Georg Held has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 88 papers in Materials Chemistry and 42 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Georg Held's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (78 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (45 papers) and Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (31 papers). Georg Held is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (78 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (45 papers) and Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (31 papers). Georg Held collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Georg Held's co-authors include D. Menzel, Hans‐Peter Steinrück, H. Pfnür, M. J. Gladys, Andrey Shavorskiy, M. Lindroos, Tugce Eralp, David A. King, Alexander I. Large and Shik Chi Edman Tsang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Georg Held

165 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Dispersed surface Ru ensembles on MgO(111) for catalytic ammonia decomposition

2023 178 citations Alexander I. Large, Georg Held et al. Nature Communications profile →
Electrolyte-assisted polarization leading to enhanced charge separation and solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of seawater splitting

2024 122 citations Yiyang Li, Hui Zhou et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Georg Held United Kingdom	37	2.5k	2.0k	1.1k	1.1k	999	172	4.6k
Jun Yoshinobu Japan	34	2.5k 1.0×	2.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	644 0.6×	617 0.6×	209	4.4k
Niklas Nilius Germany	44	5.3k 2.1×	2.2k 1.1×	1.8k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	192	7.1k
Sebastian Günther Germany	37	3.3k 1.3×	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	693 0.6×	494 0.5×	134	4.7k
Alessandro Baraldi Italy	41	4.8k 1.9×	2.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	746 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	199	6.1k
Brian E. Hayden United Kingdom	45	3.2k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.6×	1.8k 1.7×	1.1k 1.1×	149	5.5k
Joachim Bansmann Germany	31	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	531 0.5×	625 0.6×	695 0.7×	154	3.4k
Giovanni Comelli Italy	42	5.5k 2.2×	2.8k 1.4×	1.9k 1.7×	1.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.7×	209	7.3k
M. Bäumer Germany	45	5.4k 2.2×	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.6×	98	6.4k
Wilfred T. Tysoe United States	41	3.9k 1.6×	3.1k 1.5×	1.4k 1.2×	548 0.5×	1.7k 1.7×	299	6.7k
G.A. Somorjai United States	39	2.6k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	973 0.9×	749 0.7×	714 0.7×	89	4.4k

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All Works

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Held, Georg. (2025). Structure determination by low-energy electron diffraction—A roadmap to the future. Surface Science. 754. 122696–122696.

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Chen, Lu, Xuze Guan, Shusaku Hayama, et al.. (2025). Lowering the Cu-O bond energy in CuO nanocatalysts enhances the efficiency of NH3 oxidation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9412–9412.

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Al‐Mahboob, Abdullah, Marc Armbrüster, Georg Held, et al.. (2024). Atomic structure of different surface terminations of polycrystalline ZnPd. Physical Review Materials. 8(10).

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Li, Yiyang, Hui Zhou, Songhua Cai, et al.. (2024). Electrolyte-assisted polarization leading to enhanced charge separation and solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of seawater splitting. Nature Catalysis. 7(1). 77–88. 122 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kafizas, Andreas, Soranyel González‐Carrero, David C. Grinter, et al.. (2024). Effects of Phosphorus Doping on Amorphous Boron Nitride’s Chemical, Sorptive, Optoelectronic, and Photocatalytic Properties. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(31). 13249–13263. 2 indexed citations

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Ferrer, Pilar, David C. Grinter, Santosh Kumar, et al.. (2024). Spinel ferrites MFe₂O₄ (M = Co, Cu, Zn) for photocatalysis: theoretical and experimental insights. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(43). 29645–29656. 13 indexed citations

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Liu, Longxiang, Liqun Kang, Arunabhiram Chutia, et al.. (2023). Spectroscopic Identification of Active Sites of Oxygen‐Doped Carbon for Selective Oxygen Reduction to Hydrogen Peroxide. Angewandte Chemie. 135(21). 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Longxiang, Liqun Kang, Arunabhiram Chutia, et al.. (2023). Spectroscopic Identification of Active Sites of Oxygen‐Doped Carbon for Selective Oxygen Reduction to Hydrogen Peroxide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(21). e202303525–e202303525. 60 indexed citations

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Artz, Jens, Chalachew Mebrahtu, Alexander Meledin, et al.. (2022). On the Stability of Isolated Iridium Sites in N‐Rich Frameworks Against Agglomeration Under Reducing Conditions. ChemCatChem. 14(9). 12 indexed citations

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Arrigo, Rosa, Raoul Blume, Alexander I. Large, et al.. (2022). Dynamics over a Cu–graphite electrode during the gas-phase CO₂ reduction investigated by APXPS. Faraday Discussions. 236(0). 126–140. 8 indexed citations

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Bennett, Roger A., Alexander I. Large, Georg Held, et al.. (2022). Resonant X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: identification of atomic contributions to valence states. Faraday Discussions. 236(0). 389–411. 4 indexed citations

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Large, Alexander I., Wilson Quevedo, Kanak Roy, et al.. (2021). Operando characterisation of alumina-supported bimetallic Pd–Pt catalysts during methane oxidation in dry and wet conditions. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(17). 174006–174006. 8 indexed citations

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Henderson, Zoë, Andrew G. Thomas, Adam J. Greer, et al.. (2021). Near-Ambient Pressure XPS and NEXAFS Study of a Superbasic Ionic Liquid with CO₂. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(41). 22778–22785. 9 indexed citations

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Grinter, David C., et al.. (2021). Identification of Adsorbed Species and Surface Chemical State on Ag(111) in the Presence of Ethylene and Oxygen Studied with Infrared and X-ray Spectroscopies. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). 259–271. 4 indexed citations

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Byrne, Conor, David C. Grinter, Kanak Roy, et al.. (2021). A combined laboratory and synchrotron in-situ photoemission study of the rutile TiO₂ (110)/water interface. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(19). 194001–194001. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Molly Meng‐Jung, Hanbo Zou, Jianwei Zheng, et al.. (2020). Methanol Synthesis at a Wide Range of H₂/CO₂ Ratios over a Rh‐In Bimetallic Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie. 132(37). 16173–16180. 20 indexed citations

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Li, Molly Meng‐Jung, Hanbo Zou, Jianwei Zheng, et al.. (2020). Methanol Synthesis at a Wide Range of H₂/CO₂ Ratios over a Rh‐In Bimetallic Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(37). 16039–16046. 81 indexed citations

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Large, Alexander I., Sebastian Wahl, Salvatore Abate, et al.. (2020). Investigations of Carbon Nitride-Supported Mn3O4 Oxide Nanoparticles for ORR. Catalysts. 10(11). 1289–1289. 23 indexed citations

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Gattinoni, Chiara, David A. Duncan, Tod A. Pascal, et al.. (2019). Adsorption Behavior of Organic Molecules: A Study of Benzotriazole on Cu(111) with Spectroscopic and Theoretical Methods. Langmuir. 35(4). 882–893. 25 indexed citations

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Held, Georg, et al.. (1998). Determination of adsorption sites of pure and coadsorbed CO on Ni(111) by high resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Surface Science. 398(1-2). 154–171. 102 indexed citations

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