Gerardo Vitale

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Gerardo Vitale is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerardo Vitale has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Materials Chemistry, 18 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 12 papers in Analytical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gerardo Vitale's work include Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies (17 papers), Petroleum Processing and Analysis (12 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (11 papers). Gerardo Vitale is often cited by papers focused on Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies (17 papers), Petroleum Processing and Analysis (12 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (11 papers). Gerardo Vitale collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Palestinian Territory. Gerardo Vitale's co-authors include Nashaat N. Nassar, Pedro Pereira‐Almao, Azfar Hassan, Afif Hethnawi, Anthony K. Cheetham, Lucy M. Bull, Abdallah D. Manasrah, Carlos E. Scott, Caroline F. Mellot and Nedal N. Marei and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B and Macromolecules.

In The Last Decade

Gerardo Vitale

51 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

An active, stable cubic molybdenum carbide catalyst for the high-temperature reverse water-gas shift reaction

2024 120 citations Milad Ahmadi Khoshooei, Xijun Wang et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerardo Vitale Canada	23	651	383	328	313	292	53	1.6k
Vincenzo Calemma Italy	25	705 1.1×	915 2.4×	499 1.5×	420 1.3×	199 0.7×	54	2.1k
Carmen Martos Spain	22	574 0.9×	230 0.6×	238 0.7×	286 0.9×	49 0.2×	42	1.2k
Christopher Leon United States	9	566 0.9×	280 0.7×	150 0.5×	107 0.3×	522 1.8×	15	1.4k
Isabelle Beurroies France	30	1.3k 2.1×	514 1.3×	145 0.4×	1.2k 3.9×	209 0.7×	62	2.7k
Boyko Tsyntsarski Bulgaria	20	655 1.0×	433 1.1×	92 0.3×	154 0.5×	267 0.9×	73	1.4k
T. Zaki Egypt	23	838 1.3×	523 1.4×	64 0.2×	388 1.2×	163 0.6×	50	1.8k
Chunling Li China	30	1.4k 2.2×	283 0.7×	106 0.3×	146 0.5×	265 0.9×	129	2.7k
Sili Ren China	29	686 1.1×	390 1.0×	597 1.8×	118 0.4×	645 2.2×	107	2.5k
Helena Wachowska Poland	26	604 0.9×	524 1.4×	135 0.4×	74 0.2×	505 1.7×	62	2.3k
Eugène Papírer France	28	1.1k 1.7×	292 0.8×	192 0.6×	144 0.5×	196 0.7×	81	2.9k

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Khoshooei, Milad Ahmadi, Xijun Wang, Gerardo Vitale, et al.. (2024). An active, stable cubic molybdenum carbide catalyst for the high-temperature reverse water-gas shift reaction. Science. 384(6695). 540–546. 120 indexed citations breakdown →

Vitale, Gerardo, et al.. (2023). Directional anisotropy of diffuse solar irradiance: impact assessment on the solar transmittance of common glazings. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 18.

Montoya, Tatiana, Azadeh Amrollahi, Gerardo Vitale, Negahdar Hosseinpour, & Nashaat N. Nassar. (2020). Size Effects of NiO Nanoparticles on the Competitive Adsorption of Quinolin-65 and Violanthrone-79: Implications for Oil Upgrading and Recovery. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 3(6). 5311–5326. 7 indexed citations

Hethnawi, Afif, et al.. (2020). Metformin Removal from Water Using Fixed-bed Column of Silica-Alumina Composite. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 597. 124814–124814. 28 indexed citations

Hethnawi, Afif, et al.. (2019). Silica-alumina composite as an effective adsorbent for the removal of metformin from water. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 7(3). 102994–102994. 54 indexed citations

Sagala, Farad, Tatiana Montoya, Afif Hethnawi, Gerardo Vitale, & Nashaat N. Nassar. (2019). Nanopyroxene-Based Nanofluids for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Sandstone Cores at Reservoir Temperature. Energy & Fuels. 33(2). 877–890. 48 indexed citations

Hassan, Azfar, et al.. (2019). O-exchange evidenced in Ce-Ni-MFI catalysts during water gas shift reaction: Use of isotopic water (50% H218O - 50% H216O). Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 263. 118365–118365. 1 indexed citations

Manasrah, Abdallah D., Gerardo Vitale, & Nashaat N. Nassar. (2019). Catalytic oxy-cracking of petroleum coke on copper silicate for production of humic acids. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 264. 118472–118472. 17 indexed citations

Lemos, Sherlan G., Gerardo Vitale, Nashaat N. Nassar, et al.. (2019). A comparison study of cleanup techniques for oil spill treatment using magnetic nanomaterials. Journal of Environmental Management. 242. 362–371. 41 indexed citations

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Vitale, Gerardo, et al.. (2018). Development and characterization of novel combinations of Ce‐Ni‐MFI solids for water gas shift reaction. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 97(1). 140–151. 10 indexed citations

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Vitale, Gerardo, Afif Hethnawi, Azfar Hassan, et al.. (2018). Mechanism of Hierarchical Porosity Development in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanocrystalline Microstructures for Biomedical and Industrial Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 1(9). 4491–4501. 9 indexed citations

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Hethnawi, Afif, et al.. (2018). Magnetic Nanostructured White Graphene for Oil Spill and Water Cleaning. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 57(39). 13065–13076. 15 indexed citations

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El‐Qanni, Amjad, Nashaat N. Nassar, & Gerardo Vitale. (2017). Experimental and computational modeling studies on silica-embedded NiO/MgO nanoparticles for adsorptive removal of organic pollutants from wastewater. RSC Advances. 7(23). 14021–14038. 19 indexed citations

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Marei, Nedal N., Nashaat N. Nassar, Maryam Hmoudah, et al.. (2017). Nanosize effects of NiO nanosorbcats on adsorption and catalytic thermo‐oxidative decomposition of vacuum residue asphaltenes. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 95(10). 1864–1874. 26 indexed citations

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Hassan, Azfar, et al.. (2017). Catalytic Steam Gasification of Athabasca Visbroken Residue by NiO–Kaolin-Based Catalysts in a Fixed-Bed Reactor. Energy & Fuels. 31(7). 7396–7404. 1 indexed citations

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Vitale, Gerardo, et al.. (2017). Nanopyroxene Grafting with β-Cyclodextrin Monomer for Wastewater Applications. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(48). 42393–42407. 18 indexed citations

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El‐Qanni, Amjad, Nashaat N. Nassar, Gerardo Vitale, & Azfar Hassan. (2015). Maghemite nanosorbcats for methylene blue adsorption and subsequent catalytic thermo-oxidative decomposition: Computational modeling and thermodynamics studies. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 461. 396–408. 51 indexed citations

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Vitale, Gerardo, et al.. (2015). Hydrotalcite type materials as catalyst precursors for the Catalytic Steam Cracking of toluene. Fuel. 154. 71–79. 19 indexed citations

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Nassar, Nashaat N., et al.. (2015). Adsorptive removal of dyes from synthetic and real textile wastewater using magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: Thermodynamic and mechanistic insights. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 93(11). 1965–1974. 49 indexed citations

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Vitale, Gerardo, et al.. (2011). Low temperature synthesis of cubic molybdenum carbide catalysts via pressure induced crystallographic orientation of MoO3 precursor. Applied Catalysis A General. 400(1-2). 221–229. 38 indexed citations

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