Herbert Over

12.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
236 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Herbert Over is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Herbert Over has authored 236 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Materials Chemistry, 110 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 78 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Herbert Over's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (126 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (90 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (67 papers). Herbert Over is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (126 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (90 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (67 papers). Herbert Over collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and France. Herbert Over's co-authors include Ari P. Seitsonen, G. Ertl, Kai S. Exner, Edvin Lundgren, Marcus Knapp, Stefan Wendt, Timo Jacob, W. Moritz, S. Schwegmann and Y. D. Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Herbert Over

232 papers receiving 10.8k 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.

Atomic-Scale Structure and Catalytic Reactivity of the RuO₂(110) Surface

2000 818 citations Herbert Over, Ari P. Seitsonen et al. profile →
Surface Chemistry of Ruthenium Dioxide in Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electrocatalysis: From Fundamental to Applied Research

2012 621 citations Herbert Over profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Herbert Over Germany	57	7.1k	3.9k	3.3k	3.3k	3.3k	236	10.9k
Jörg Libuda Germany	61	10.2k 1.4×	3.8k 1.0×	2.6k 0.8×	5.5k 1.7×	2.2k 0.7×	317	13.1k
Yoshitada Morikawa Japan	49	4.9k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	3.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.4×	3.2k 1.0×	249	8.3k
Edvin Lundgren Sweden	61	8.8k 1.2×	2.0k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	3.4k 1.0×	4.3k 1.3×	330	11.7k
John T. Yates United States	56	11.2k 1.6×	6.8k 1.7×	5.0k 1.5×	2.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	202	15.7k
Peter Zapol United States	52	7.5k 1.0×	5.4k 1.4×	4.7k 1.4×	1.8k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	168	12.8k
Alfred B. Anderson United States	57	5.4k 0.8×	4.3k 1.1×	4.4k 1.3×	1.3k 0.4×	3.1k 0.9×	248	10.8k
Mark A. Barteau United States	69	12.0k 1.7×	5.3k 1.4×	3.3k 1.0×	6.0k 1.8×	3.0k 0.9×	247	16.2k
Jan Hrbek United States	52	9.3k 1.3×	3.5k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	4.3k 1.3×	2.1k 0.6×	214	11.8k
L. B. Hansen Denmark	13	5.8k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	16	8.9k
Catherine Stampfl Australia	61	10.2k 1.4×	2.1k 0.5×	3.7k 1.1×	1.7k 0.5×	3.2k 1.0×	294	13.8k

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Over, Herbert & Wei Wang. (2025). Incorporated Hydrogen into Mixed Oxides Provides A Novel and Versatile Concept to Promote Catalytic Oxidation Reactions. ChemCatChem. 17(12). 1 indexed citations

Abbondanza, Giuseppe, Ann‐Christin Dippel, Nikolay A. Vinogradov, et al.. (2025). In Situ Grazing Incidence X-ray Total Scattering Reveals the Effect of the “Two-Step” Method for the Anodization of Aluminum Surfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(33). 46887–46898.

Wang, Yu, Paul Paciok, Min Ding, et al.. (2025). Boosting Ru atomic efficiency of LaFe_0.97Ru_0.03O₃via knowledge-driven synthesis design. Chemical Science. 16(18). 7739–7750. 1 indexed citations

Larsson, Alfred, Sabrina M. Gericke, Xiaoqi Yue, et al.. (2024). Dynamics of early-stage oxide formation on a Ni-Cr-Mo alloy. npj Materials Degradation. 8(1). 8 indexed citations

Wang, Wei, Yuejun Wang, Tim Weber, et al.. (2023). Inserted hydrogen promotes oxidation catalysis of mixed Ru _0.3 Ti _0.7 O ₂ as exemplified with total propane oxidation and the HCl oxidation reaction. Catalysis Science & Technology. 13(5). 1395–1408. 7 indexed citations

Heß, Franziska & Herbert Over. (2023). Coordination Inversion of the Tetrahedrally Coordinated Ru_4f Surface Complex on RuO₂(100) and Its Decisive Role in the Anodic Corrosion Process. ACS Catalysis. 13(5). 3433–3443. 35 indexed citations

Abbondanza, Giuseppe, Alfred Larsson, Dmitry Dzhigaev, et al.. (2023). Hydride formation and dynamic phase changes during template-assisted Pd electrodeposition. Nanotechnology. 34(50). 505605–505605. 6 indexed citations

Jacobse, Leon, R. Schuster, Johannes Pfrommer, et al.. (2022). A combined rotating disk electrode–surface x-ray diffraction setup for surface structure characterization in electrocatalysis. Review of Scientific Instruments. 93(6). 2 indexed citations

Heß, Franziska, et al.. (2022). Evidence of a Tetrahedrally Coordinated RuO₄ Surface Complex on RuO₂(100): Density Functional Theory and Beyond. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(2). 946–956. 9 indexed citations

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Weber, Tim, Johannes Pfrommer, Marcus Rohnke, et al.. (2019). Potential-Induced Pitting Corrosion of an IrO₂(110)-RuO₂(110)/Ru(0001) Model Electrode under Oxygen Evolution Reaction Conditions. ACS Catalysis. 9(7). 6530–6539. 48 indexed citations

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Weber, Tim, Daniel Escalera‐López, Boris Mogwitz, et al.. (2019). Visualizing Potential‐Induced Pitting Corrosion of Ultrathin Single‐Crystalline IrO₂(110) Films on RuO₂(110)/Ru(0001) under Electrochemical Water Splitting Conditions. ChemCatChem. 12(3). 855–866. 29 indexed citations

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Cop, Pascal, Jörg Schörmann, Cédric Boissière, et al.. (2019). Atomic Layer Deposition of Titania in Ordered Mesoporous Cerium Zirconium Oxide Thin Films: A Case Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(20). 12851–12861. 8 indexed citations

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Wei, Wei, Ying Dai, Baibiao Huang, et al.. (2015). Density Functional Characterization of the Electronic Structures and Band Bending of Rutile RuO₂/TiO₂(110) Heterostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119(22). 12394–12399. 19 indexed citations

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Falta, J., et al.. (2015). Insights into the gas phase oxidation of Ru(0001) on the mesoscopic scale using molecular oxygen. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 17(21). 13895–13903. 14 indexed citations

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Exner, Kai S., J. Anton, Timo Jacob, & Herbert Over. (2014). Controlling Selectivity in the Chlorine Evolution Reaction over RuO₂‐Based Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(41). 11032–11035. 216 indexed citations

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Aßmann, J., Vijay S. Narkhede, N. Breuer, et al.. (2008). Heterogeneous oxidation catalysis on ruthenium: bridging the pressure and materials gaps and beyond. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 20(18). 184017–184017. 77 indexed citations

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Over, Herbert, Martin Muhler, & Ari P. Seitsonen. (2007). Comment on “CO oxidation on ruthenium: The nature of the active catalytic surface” by D.W. Goodman, C.H.F. Peden, M.S. Chen. Surface Science. 601(23). 5659–5662. 40 indexed citations

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Over, Herbert. (2005). Nanophysics and Nanotechnology. An Introduction to Modern Concepts in Nanoscience. By Edward L. Wolf.. ChemPhysChem. 6(8). 1661–1661. 1 indexed citations

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Renzi, Valentina De, A. Morgante, S. Schwegmann, et al.. (1998). Electronic properties of Cs+CO coadsorbed on the Ru(0001) surface. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 108(2). 774–799. 12 indexed citations

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Over, Herbert, et al.. (1994). Magnetic Bloch analysis and Bochner Laplacians. Journal of Geometry and Physics. 13(3). 275–288. 6 indexed citations

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