Hèctor Prats

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Hèctor Prats is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Hèctor Prats has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Materials Chemistry, 20 papers in Catalysis and 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Hèctor Prats's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (22 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (12 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers). Hèctor Prats is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (22 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (12 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers). Hèctor Prats collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and United States. Hèctor Prats's co-authors include Karen Chan, Francesc Illas, R. Sayós, Ib Chorkendorff, Jakob Kibsgaard, Niklas Mørch Secher, Pablo Gamallo, Francesc Viñes, Michail Stamatakis and José A. Rodríguez and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

In The Last Decade

Hèctor Prats

35 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Is There Anything Better than Pt for HER? 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Is There Anything Better than Pt for HER?
    2021 563 citations Hèctor Prats, Niklas Mørch Secher et al. ACS Energy Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hèctor Prats Spain 18 819 806 426 419 249 38 1.4k
Chanyeon Kim South Korea 17 652 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 736 1.7× 388 0.9× 145 0.6× 24 1.5k
Jérémie Zaffran France 18 678 0.8× 749 0.9× 430 1.0× 480 1.1× 148 0.6× 29 1.3k
Zan Lian China 23 984 1.2× 896 1.1× 565 1.3× 582 1.4× 71 0.3× 33 1.7k
Roberto Schimmenti United States 13 541 0.7× 754 0.9× 292 0.7× 389 0.9× 55 0.2× 21 1.1k
Chubai Chen United States 17 687 0.8× 1.4k 1.8× 914 2.1× 398 0.9× 143 0.6× 20 1.9k
Fangqi Yang China 19 517 0.6× 1.2k 1.4× 722 1.7× 484 1.2× 121 0.5× 41 1.7k
Junguo Ma China 17 930 1.1× 672 0.8× 915 2.1× 243 0.6× 195 0.8× 20 1.5k
Jinrong Huo China 20 1.0k 1.3× 818 1.0× 659 1.5× 334 0.8× 137 0.6× 58 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Hèctor Prats

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hèctor Prats

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hèctor Prats

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hèctor Prats. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hèctor Prats 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 Hèctor Prats. Hèctor Prats is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Coutiño‐González, Eduardo, Jacob Andrade‐Arvizu, Maxim Guc, et al.. (2025). Engineering 3D-printed molybdenum carbide catalysts for selective CO2 reduction to CO. Chemical Engineering Journal. 520. 166134–166134. 1 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor, et al.. (2025). Supported Vanadium Carbide Catalysts for Reverse Water Gas Shift and Methanol Steam Reforming: Activity, Stability, and Coking Pathways. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(49). 66595–66607.
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Prats, Hèctor & Michail Stamatakis. (2025). First-Principles Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations for Single-Cluster Catalysis: Study of CO2 and CH4 Conversion on Pt/HfC. ACS Catalysis. 15(4). 2904–2915. 3 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor, et al.. (2025). A General Stiffness-Scaling Framework for Accelerating Graph-Theoretical Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 21(23). 12262–12277.
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Prats, Hèctor. (2025). ZacrosTools: A Python Library for Automated Preparation, Analysis, and Visualization of Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations with Zacros. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 129(29). 6608–6614. 1 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor, Francesc Viñes, Pilar Ramı́rez de la Piscina, et al.. (2024). On the Capabilities of Transition Metal Carbides for Carbon Capture and Utilization Technologies. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(22). 28505–28516. 3 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor & Michail Stamatakis. (2024). Transition Metal Carbides as Supports for Catalytic Metal Particles: Recent Progress and Opportunities. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(12). 3450–3460. 11 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor, et al.. (2023). Limitations of free energy diagrams to predict the catalytic activity: The reverse water gas shift reaction catalyzed by Ni/TiC. Journal of Catalysis. 425. 203–211. 13 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor, Yiyang Li, Ping-Luen Ho, et al.. (2023). Molecular layer-by-layer re-stacking of MoS2–In2Se3 by electrostatic means: assembly of a new layered photocatalyst. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 7(5). 937–945.
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Prats, Hèctor & Michail Stamatakis. (2023). Breaking linear scaling relationships with transition metal carbides. Catalysis Science & Technology. 13(16). 4635–4639. 4 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor & Michail Stamatakis. (2023). Stability and reactivity of metal nanoclusters supported on transition metal carbides. Nanoscale Advances. 5(12). 3214–3224. 5 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor, et al.. (2022). Selectivity Trends and Role of Adsorbate–Adsorbate Interactions in CO Hydrogenation on Rhodium Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 12(13). 7907–7917. 17 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor & Karen Chan. (2021). The determination of the HOR/HER reaction mechanism from experimental kinetic data. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(48). 27150–27158. 110 indexed citations
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Alonso, Gerard, et al.. (2021). Zeolite-encapsulated single-atom catalysts for efficient CO2 conversion. Journal of CO2 Utilization. 54. 101777–101777. 18 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor, et al.. (2021). Assessing the Activity of Ni Clusters Supported on TiC(001) toward CO2 and H2 Dissociation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(22). 12019–12027. 16 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor, et al.. (2021). Is There Anything Better than Pt for HER?. ACS Energy Letters. 6(4). 1175–1180. 563 indexed citations breakdown →
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Prats, Hèctor, et al.. (2020). Ultra-high selectivity biogas upgrading through porous MXenes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(25). 12296–12300. 25 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor, Gerard Alonso, R. Sayós, & Pablo Gamallo. (2020). Transition metal atoms encapsulated within microporous Silicalite-1 zeolite: A systematic computational study. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 308. 110462–110462. 9 indexed citations
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Prats, Hèctor, et al.. (2019). Assessing the usefulness of transition metal carbides for hydrogenation reactions. Chemical Communications. 55(85). 12797–12800. 45 indexed citations
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Alonso, Gérard, Hèctor Prats, Daniel Bahamón, et al.. (2016). Nous mètodes de captura i separació de CO2 aplicables a processos industrials. Estudis Romànics (Institut d'Estudis Catalans). 21–30. 2 indexed citations

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