Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Materials Chemistry, 32 papers in Catalysis and 30 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (35 papers), Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (33 papers) and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (25 papers). Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (35 papers), Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (33 papers) and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (25 papers). Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom. Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera's co-authors include Hero J. Heeres, J.L.G. Fierro, M. López Granados, Teddy Buntara, Johannes G. de Vries, Freek Kapteijn, Sébastien Noël, Pim Huat Phua, J. Wildschut and Kinga Góra‐Marek and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Energy & Environmental Science and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera

80 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Caprolactam from Renewable Resources: Catalytic Conversio... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
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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. Caprolactam from Renewable Resources: Catalytic Conversion of 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural into Caprolactone
    2011 409 citations Teddy Buntara, Sébastien Noël et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera Netherlands 30 1.7k 1.6k 1.3k 1.1k 581 82 3.4k
Lieven Gevers Belgium 26 1.3k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 964 0.9× 428 0.7× 39 3.5k
Song‐Hai Chai United States 30 2.3k 1.3× 1.2k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 594 0.6× 995 1.7× 46 3.5k
Jean‐Marc Clacens France 34 1.9k 1.1× 1.4k 0.9× 877 0.7× 432 0.4× 502 0.9× 77 3.5k
Yifeng Zhu China 31 2.6k 1.5× 2.1k 1.3× 1.6k 1.2× 2.4k 2.3× 669 1.2× 54 4.8k
Begoña Puértolas Spain 26 1.5k 0.8× 782 0.5× 625 0.5× 822 0.8× 526 0.9× 59 2.5k
Huanling Song China 29 2.0k 1.1× 716 0.4× 524 0.4× 1.6k 1.5× 437 0.8× 85 2.8k
Shouying Huang China 34 1.7k 1.0× 801 0.5× 678 0.5× 1.4k 1.3× 959 1.7× 135 3.2k
Marco A. Fraga Brazil 31 1.6k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 881 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 285 0.5× 78 2.7k
Ji Chul Jung South Korea 36 2.5k 1.4× 832 0.5× 732 0.6× 1.5k 1.4× 574 1.0× 152 3.8k
Putla Sudarsanam India 39 2.7k 1.5× 2.3k 1.4× 1.7k 1.3× 1.4k 1.3× 565 1.0× 98 5.0k

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All Works

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Rosa, Silvia Morales de la, Glen J. Smales, Joaquín Martínez‐Triguero, & Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera. (2024). On the successful pelletization of a fragile mesoporous material and its mechanical stability mechanism. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 381. 113322–113322.
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Melián‐Cabrera, Ignacio, et al.. (2024). Unpredicted porosity improvement upon thermal reactivation of a fouled multi-walled carbon nanotube. Materials Letters. 364. 136386–136386. 2 indexed citations
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Melián‐Cabrera, Ignacio, et al.. (2024). Unravelling a complex catalyst deactivation in which selectivity affects conversion: oxygen-assisted styrene synthesis at industrially-relevant conditions. Chemical Engineering Journal. 494. 152348–152348. 2 indexed citations
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Osadchii, Dmitrii, et al.. (2022). Organocatalyst reactivation with improved performance in O2-mediated styrene synthesis. Molecular Catalysis. 529. 112525–112525. 5 indexed citations
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Djanashvili, Kristina, et al.. (2020). Process Intensification of Mesoporous Material’s Synthesis by Microwave-Assisted Surfactant Removal. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 8(45). 16814–16822. 10 indexed citations
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Melián‐Cabrera, Ignacio. (2020). Temperature control in DRIFT cells used for in situ and operando studies: where do we stand today?. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(45). 26088–26092. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zheng, Kinga Góra‐Marek, Jonathan S. Watson, et al.. (2018). Recovering waste plastics using shape-selective nano-scale reactors as catalysts. Nature Sustainability. 2(1). 39–42. 74 indexed citations
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Tarach, Karolina A., et al.. (2018). Improved Catalytic Technology for Waste Plastic Processing: Toward Novel Remediation and Emission Control Measures. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 7(1). 129–133. 12 indexed citations
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Tarach, Karolina A., Kinga Góra‐Marek, Joaquín Martínez‐Triguero, & Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera. (2017). Acidity and accessibility studies of desilicated ZSM-5 zeolites in terms of their effectiveness as catalysts in acid-catalyzed cracking processes. Catalysis Science & Technology. 7(4). 858–873. 89 indexed citations
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Eck, Ernst R. H. van, et al.. (2015). On the hydrothermal stability of MCM-41. Evidence of capillary tension-induced effects. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 220. 88–98. 21 indexed citations
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Haveren, Jacco van, et al.. (2014). Base‐Free, One‐Pot Chemocatalytic Conversion of Glycerol to Methyl Lactate using Supported Gold Catalysts. ChemSusChem. 7(4). 1140–1147. 43 indexed citations
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Álvarez‐Galván, M. Consuelo, et al.. (2014). A hydrothermally stable transition alumina by condensation-enhanced self-assembly and pyrolysis crystallization: application in the steam reforming of methane. CrystEngComm. 16(29). 6775–6783. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zheng & Ignacio Melián‐Cabrera. (2014). Modifying the Hierarchical Porosity of SBA-15 via Mild-Detemplation Followed by Secondary Treatments. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 118(49). 28689–28698. 15 indexed citations
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Melián‐Cabrera, Ignacio, et al.. (2012). Oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene over alumina: effect of calcination. Catalysis Science & Technology. 3(2). 519–526. 30 indexed citations
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Buntara, Teddy, Sébastien Noël, Pim Huat Phua, et al.. (2011). Caprolactam from Renewable Resources: Catalytic Conversion of 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural into Caprolactone. Angewandte Chemie. 123(31). 7221–7225. 93 indexed citations
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Melián‐Cabrera, Ignacio, Freek Kapteijn, & Jacob A. Moulijn. (2005). One-pot catalyst preparation: combined detemplating and Fe ion-exchange of BEA through Fenton's chemistry. Chemical Communications. 2178–2180. 25 indexed citations
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Reyes, Patrício, et al.. (2002). Liquid phase hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde over bimetallic Rh-Sn/SiO2 catalysts. Applied Catalysis A General. 233(1-2). 183–196. 42 indexed citations

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