Ifan E. L. Stephens

29.5k citations

168 papers · 23.1k indexed · 14 hit papers · h-index 57

Impact in

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.01%
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Catalysis top 0.1%
- Ionic liquids properties and applications

Papers in

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 134
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion 121
- CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts 31
Electrochemistry 36
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications 36

Co-authors: Ib Chorkendorff Jan Rossmeisl Jens K. Nørskov Thomas F. Jaramillo Alexander S. Bondarenko Paolo Malacrida T. P. Johansson Rasmus Frydendal
Journals: ACS Catalysis (11 papers)ACS Energy Letters (10 papers)Energy & Environmental Science (8 papers)Journal of the American Chemical Society (8 papers)Angewandte Chemie International Edition (7 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Denmark United States

In The Last Decade

Ifan E. L. Stephens

158 papers receiving 22.8k citations

Hit Papers

14 papers align trajectories log scale

Unravelling the effects of active site density and energetics on the water oxidation activity of iridium oxides 2024 · 99 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Catalysis
2023 Sustainable Energy & Fuels
2021 Advanced Energy Materials
2020 Nature Catalysis
2019 Chemical Reviews
2019 Advanced Materials
2018 ACS Catalysis
2016 Science
2015 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2014 Nano Letters
2013 Nature Materials
2012 Energy & Environmental Science
2011 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2009 Nature Chemistry

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Co-authors

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All Works

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1	Data for article "Key Role of Oxidising Species Driving Water Oxidation Revealed by Time Resolved Optical and X-ray Spectroscopies" Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·J.M. Yang, P.L. Xu, Benjamin Moss, Santosh Kumar, Stella Yovebi Hutabarat, D. C. Boaden, И.А. Мазурок, Verónica Celorrio, G. A. Fedoseev, Douglas A. Ludwick, E. Martinez-Rivera, 송기상, Brett Holman, 祐二大籠, Georg Held, Sarah J. Haigh, José Luis Priosti Batista, Ifan E. L. Stephens, James R. Durrant, Mika Onishi	2026	1
2	In situ spectroscopy reveals how water-driven SEI formation controls selectivity in Li-mediated N ₂ reduction Energy & Environmental Science ·Harlin Sudario, Ju.F. Zhuravlev, Olivia Westhead, 雄一河原, Rayssa Rizério, H. Mulyani, James O. Douglas, S. Conroy, Yasuyuki Kondo, Yuki Yamada, Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Yu Katayama	2025	0
3	The Role of Ethanol in Lithium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Olivia Westhead, 隆夫山路, James O. Douglas, Michele Conroy, 武奥藤, R P Bird, Charles Darwin, Harlin Sudario, Javonda Williams, Mary P. Ryan, Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Rhodri Jervis, Ifan E. L. Stephens	2025	2
4	Bridging Outer- and Inner-Sphere Electrosynthesis from Biomass-Derived Furfural Using Single Atom Catalysts The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Sihang Liu, Prima Endang S, Angus Pedersen, Jesús Barrio, Muhammad Zulfahmi Febriansyah, Helen E.J. Tyrrell, Sarah J. Haigh, Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Georg Kastlunger	2025	4
5	Recent advances in metal-mediated electrochemical ammonia synthesis towards commercialization Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry ·雄一河原, Suzanne Z. Andersen, Jesús Barrio, Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Mattia Saccoccio	2024	1
6	An alternative to petrochemicals: biomass electrovalorization Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·Prima Endang S, Søren B. Scott, Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Ifan E. L. Stephens	2024	1
7	Comparative techno-economic and life-cycle analysis of precious versus non-precious metal electrocatalysts: the case of PEM fuel cell cathodes Green Chemistry ·Angus Pedersen, Anine Rud, Grazia Leonzio, Alexey Serov, Andrea Bernardi, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Camille Petit, Benoît Chachuat	2023	34
8	Probing Degradation in Lithium Ion Batteries with On‐Chip Electrochemistry Mass Spectrometry** Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·知至城崎, 武奥藤, Søren B. Scott, Ainara Aguadero, Mary P. Ryan, Ifan E. L. Stephens	2023	14
9	Impact of impurities on water electrolysis: a review Sustainable Energy & Fuels ·Hans Becker, James Murawski, Dipak V. Shinde, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Gareth Hinds, Graham T. Smith Hit paper breakdown →	2023	165
10	Near ambient N2 fixation on solid electrodes versus enzymes and homogeneous catalysts Nature Reviews Chemistry ·Olivia Westhead, Jesús Barrio, Alexander Bagger, James W. Murray, Jan Rossmeisl, Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Rhodri Jervis, Andrea Fantuzzi, Andrew E. Ashley, Ifan E. L. Stephens	2023	64
11	Furfural electrovalorisation using single-atom molecular catalysts Energy & Environmental Science ·Prima Endang S, Sihang Liu, Angus Pedersen, Jesús Barrio, Sarah Fearn, Saurav Ch. Sarma, Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Søren B. Scott, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Karen Chan, Stefano Mezzavilla	2023	36
12	Spectroelectrochemistry of Water Oxidation Kinetics in Molecular versus Heterogeneous Oxide Iridium Electrocatalysts Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Carlota Bozal‐Ginesta, Reshma R. Rao, Camilo A. Mesa, Yuanxing Wang, Yanyan Zhao, Gongfang Hu, Daniel Antón‐García, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Erwin Reisner, Gary W. Brudvig, Dunwei Wang, James R. Durrant	2022	35
13	The role of ion solvation in lithium mediated nitrogen reduction Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Olivia Westhead, Harlin Sudario, Alexander Bagger, Zonghao Shen, Hossein Yadegari, Silvia Favero, 隆夫山路, Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Mary P. Ryan, Rhodri Jervis, Yu Katayama, Ainara Aguadero, Anna Regoutz, Alexis Grimaud, Ifan E. L. Stephens	2022	51
14	Probing Crossover Degradation Effects in Nickel-Rich LiNi_xMn_yCo_zO₂ Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes with Ultrasensitive on-Chip Electrochemistry Mass Spectrometry ECS Meeting Abstracts ·知至城崎, Bethan Davies, Søren B. Scott, Zonghao Shen, Ainara Aguadero, Varun Chivukula -, Ifan E. L. Stephens	2022	3
15	Methods for nitrogen activation by reduction and oxidation Nature Reviews Methods Primers ·Haldrian Iriawan, Suzanne Z. Andersen, Xilun Zhang, Benjamin M. Comer, Jesús Barrio, Ping Chen, Andrew J. Medford, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Ib Chorkendorff, Yang Shao‐Horn	2021	218
16	Redox-State Kinetics in Water-Oxidation IrO _x Electrocatalysts Measured by Operando Spectroelectrochemistry ACS Catalysis ·Carlota Bozal‐Ginesta, Reshma R. Rao, Camilo A. Mesa, Xinyi Liu, Sam A. J. Hillman, Ifan E. L. Stephens, James R. Durrant	2021	41
17	Operando identification of site-dependent water oxidation activity on ruthenium dioxide single-crystal surfaces Nature Catalysis ·Reshma R. Rao, Manuel J. Kolb, Livia Giordano, Anders Filsøe Pedersen, Yu Katayama, Jonathan Hwang, Apurva Mehta, Hoydoo You, Jaclyn R. Lunger, Hua Zhou, Niels Bendtsen Halck, Tejs Vegge, Ib Chorkendorff, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Yang Shao‐Horn Hit paper breakdown →	2020	291
18	Concentrated Electrolytes for Enhanced Stability of Al-Alloy Negative Electrodes in Li-Ion Batteries Journal of The Electrochemical Society ·A CIONI, Ryoichi Tatara, Shuting Feng, Pınar Karayaylalı, Jeffrey Lopez, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Yang Shao‐Horn	2019	30
19	Elucidation of the Oxygen Reduction Volcano in Alkaline Media using a Copper–Platinum(111) Alloy Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Kim Degn Jensen, Jakub Tymoczko, Jan Rossmeisl, Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka, Ib Chorkendorff, Marı́a Escudero-Escribano, Ifan E. L. Stephens	2018	82
20	Determination of Core–Shell Structures in Pd‐Hg Nanoparticles by STEM‐EDX ChemCatChem ·Davide Deiana, Arnau Verdaguer‐Casadevall, Paolo Malacrida, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Ib Chorkendorff, Jakob Birkedal Wagner, Thomas W. Hansen	2015	8

About Ifan E. L. Stephens

Ifan E. L. Stephens is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrochemistry, Catalysis, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry, having authored 168 papers that have together received 23.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (121 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (63 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (44 papers), Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (36 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (31 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (25 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (25 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (20.5k citations), Catalysis (4.6k citations), Electrochemistry (3.8k citations), Process Chemistry and Technology (861 citations) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (13.0k citations). Ifan E. L. Stephens has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and United States. Frequent co-authors include Ib Chorkendorff, Jan Rossmeisl, Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas F. Jaramillo, Alexander S. Bondarenko, Paolo Malacrida, T. P. Johansson, Rasmus Frydendal, Heine Anton Hansen and Arnau Verdaguer‐Casadevall. Their work appears in journals such as ACS Catalysis, ACS Energy Letters, Energy & Environmental Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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