Ian Dance

11.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
291 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Ian Dance is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Dance has authored 291 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Materials Chemistry, 113 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 92 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ian Dance's work include Crystallography and molecular interactions (64 papers), Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (56 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (46 papers). Ian Dance is often cited by papers focused on Crystallography and molecular interactions (64 papers), Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (56 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (46 papers). Ian Dance collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Canada and United Kingdom. Ian Dance's co-authors include M.L. Scudder, Keith J. Fisher, G.R. Lewis, Gary D. Willett, D.C. Craig, Susan Lorenzo, John C. McMurtrie, Donald C. Craig, Anna Choy and Rodney J. Blanch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ian Dance

288 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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. The structural chemistry of metal thiolate complexes
    1986 565 citations Ian Dance profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ian Dance 3.8k 3.7k 3.3k 2.3k 2.0k 291 9.8k
Oliver Treutler 3.4k 0.9× 3.4k 0.9× 4.1k 1.2× 1.4k 0.6× 772 0.4× 11 10.5k
Victor G. Young 4.9k 1.3× 7.9k 2.1× 6.7k 2.0× 3.0k 1.3× 2.7k 1.4× 394 15.3k
Carol Creutz 3.8k 1.0× 1.8k 0.5× 2.5k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 2.3k 1.2× 117 10.5k
Roberto Gobetto 3.5k 0.9× 2.4k 0.6× 2.9k 0.9× 742 0.3× 992 0.5× 353 8.8k
Shigeyoshi Sakaki 4.0k 1.0× 5.9k 1.6× 6.6k 2.0× 1.4k 0.6× 683 0.3× 426 13.2k
Max C. Holthausen 3.2k 0.8× 4.5k 1.2× 5.5k 1.7× 977 0.4× 935 0.5× 172 10.8k
Brendan Twamley 4.1k 1.1× 3.5k 0.9× 5.6k 1.7× 1.2k 0.5× 833 0.4× 389 11.5k
Dirk Andrae 2.8k 0.7× 2.8k 0.7× 3.9k 1.2× 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 44 8.3k
D. Michael P. Mingos 5.5k 1.4× 5.7k 1.5× 8.2k 2.5× 2.6k 1.1× 1.7k 0.8× 332 15.0k
Jacques Pécaut 6.0k 1.6× 5.4k 1.5× 2.9k 0.9× 3.1k 1.4× 1.4k 0.7× 284 11.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ian Dance

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Dance

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All Works

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Dance, Ian. (2025). Understanding non-reducible N2 in the mechanism of Mo–nitrogenase. Dalton Transactions. 54(7). 3013–3026. 3 indexed citations
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Dance, Ian. (2024). The activating capture of N2 at the active site of Mo–nitrogenase. Dalton Transactions. 53(34). 14193–14211. 5 indexed citations
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Dance, Ian. (2024). The mechanism of Mo-nitrogenase: from N2 capture to first release of NH3. Dalton Transactions. 53(48). 19360–19377. 5 indexed citations
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Dance, Ian. (2013). A molecular pathway for the egress of ammonia produced by nitrogenase. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 3237–3237. 29 indexed citations
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Dance, Ian. (2011). Calculated vibrational frequencies for FeMo-co, the active site of nitrogenase, bearing hydrogen atoms and carbon monoxide. Dalton Transactions. 40(24). 6480–6480. 17 indexed citations
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Dance, Ian. (2011). How does vanadium nitrogenase reduce CO to hydrocarbons?. Dalton Transactions. 40(20). 5516–5516. 33 indexed citations
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Dance, Ian. (2007). Elucidating the Coordination Chemistry and Mechanism of Biological Nitrogen Fixation. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 2(8). 936–946. 52 indexed citations
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Lucas, Nigel T., Andrew M. McDonagh, Ian Dance, Stephen B. Colbran, & Donald C. Craig. (2006). cis-[PtBr2{PPh2(4-catechol)}2]: synthesis, crystal structure, and computational modelling of its binding to nanocrystalline TiO2. Dalton Transactions. 680–680. 9 indexed citations
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Igarashi, Robert Y., Patricia C. Dos Santos, Walter G. Niehaus, et al.. (2004). Localization of a Catalytic Intermediate Bound to the FeMo-cofactor of Nitrogenase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(33). 34770–34775. 61 indexed citations
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Dance, Ian. (2003). The consequences of an interstitial N atom in the FeMo cofactor of nitrogenase. Chemical Communications. 324–325. 86 indexed citations
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Scudder, M.L. & Ian Dance. (2002). Dimorphic Intra- and Intermolecular Aryl Motifs in Symmetrical Hexafaceted Molecules (ArnX)3Y-Z-Y(XArn)3. Chemistry - A European Journal. 8(23). 5456–5468. 27 indexed citations
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Hasselgren, Catrin, Susan Jagner, & Ian Dance. (2002). Three-Coordinate [CuIIX3]− (X=Cl, Br), Trapped in a Molecular Crystal. Chemistry - A European Journal. 8(6). 1269–1278. 36 indexed citations
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Dance, Ian, Eric Wenger, & Hugh H. Harris. (2002). Towards Rational Syntheses of the Elusive Metallocarbohedrenes: Density Functional Prescriptions for Electronic and Geometric Structures. Chemistry - A European Journal. 8(15). 3497–3497. 5 indexed citations
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Pickering, Ingrid J., Roger C. Prince, Graham N. George, et al.. (1999). X-ray absorption spectroscopy of cadmium phytochelatin and model systems. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1429(2). 351–364. 76 indexed citations
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Dance, Ian & M.L. Scudder. (1996). Supramolecular Motifs: Concerted Multiple Phenyl Embraces between Ph4P+ Cations Are Attractive and Ubiquitous. Chemistry - A European Journal. 2(5). 481–486. 210 indexed citations
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Craig, D.C., Ian Dance, & Rob Garbutt. (1986). The Three‐Dimensionally Non‐Molecular Polyadamantanoid Structure of Cd(SPh)2. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 25(2). 165–166. 49 indexed citations

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