Ina Vollmer

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Ina Vollmer is a scholar working on Pollution, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ina Vollmer has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Pollution, 15 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 13 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ina Vollmer's work include Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (15 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (15 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (10 papers). Ina Vollmer is often cited by papers focused on Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (15 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (15 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (10 papers). Ina Vollmer collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and United States. Ina Vollmer's co-authors include Bert M. Weckhuysen, Florian Meirer, Robin J. White, G. van der Laan, Jos T. F. Keurentjes, P.J. de Wild, Mark Roelands, Toon van Harmelen, Jorge Gascón and Freek Kapteijn and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ina Vollmer

35 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Beyond Mechanical Recycling: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste

2020 1.3k citations Ina Vollmer, Mark Roelands et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ina Vollmer Netherlands	17	918	843	685	658	636	40	2.5k
Pavel A. Kots United States	21	876 1.0×	922 1.1×	330 0.5×	461 0.7×	458 0.7×	44	2.1k
Luca Rosi Italy	29	382 0.4×	541 0.6×	387 0.6×	358 0.5×	303 0.5×	94	2.6k
Mingyu Chu China	24	383 0.4×	365 0.4×	137 0.2×	984 1.5×	203 0.3×	52	2.1k
Lucas D. Ellis United States	12	492 0.5×	386 0.5×	108 0.2×	340 0.5×	429 0.7×	16	1.4k
Shengbo Zhang China	31	307 0.3×	284 0.3×	359 0.5×	1.7k 2.5×	148 0.2×	79	3.2k
Marco Frediani Italy	27	326 0.4×	470 0.6×	223 0.3×	338 0.5×	349 0.5×	74	2.1k
Xingchen Jiao China	36	543 0.6×	485 0.6×	436 0.6×	5.4k 8.2×	187 0.3×	70	9.1k
Priyanka Bhattacharya United States	29	792 0.9×	364 0.4×	91 0.1×	1.0k 1.5×	310 0.5×	42	8.7k
Cheng Du China	41	348 0.4×	306 0.4×	175 0.3×	1.3k 2.0×	293 0.5×	109	4.8k
Beatriz de Rivas Spain	34	273 0.3×	363 0.4×	234 0.3×	2.6k 4.0×	348 0.5×	67	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Ina Vollmer

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Ina Vollmer's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Ina Vollmer with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Ina Vollmer more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Ina Vollmer

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ina Vollmer. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ina Vollmer. The network helps show where Ina Vollmer may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ina Vollmer

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Welzel, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Mechano-catalytic conversion of polypropylene over zeolite-based materials. Catalysis Science & Technology. 15(24). 7525–7538.

Olazabal, Ion, et al.. (2025). Toward a Circular Economy of Heteroatom Containing Plastics: A Focus on Heterogeneous Catalysis in Recycling. Langmuir. 41(10). 6429–6456. 1 indexed citations

Popp, Sebastian, et al.. (2025). Homolytic fracture of inorganic crystalline materials enhances the mechano-chemical degradation of polypropylene. Chemical Science. 16(36). 16511–16521. 2 indexed citations

Chang, Y. A., et al.. (2025). Stages of Mechanochemical Depolymerization of Poly(styrene) Powder in Oxidative and Inert Atmospheres. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 13(44). 18970–18982.

Tomović, Željko, et al.. (2024). Surface-Activated Mechano-Catalysis for Ambient Conversion of Plastic Waste. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(38). 26139–26147. 19 indexed citations

Vollmer, Ina, et al.. (2024). Influence of ball milling parameters on the mechano-chemical conversion of polyolefins. PubMed. 2(2). 263–272. 12 indexed citations

Vollmer, Ina, et al.. (2024). Unravelling potential reaction intermediates during catalytic pyrolysis of polypropylene with microscopy and spectroscopy. Catalysis Science & Technology. 14(4). 894–902. 12 indexed citations

Chang, Y. A., Van Son Nguyen, Jan Meisner, et al.. (2024). Thermodynamic limits of the depolymerization of poly(olefin)s using mechanochemistry. PubMed. 1(5). 504–513. 9 indexed citations

Vollmer, Ina, et al.. (2024). Operando UV–Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy insights into the methane dehydroaromatization reaction over Mo/H-ZSM-5 catalysts. Journal of Catalysis. 436. 115619–115619. 1 indexed citations

10.

Chang, Y. A., et al.. (2024). Leveraging mechanochemistry for sustainable polymer degradation. Polymer Journal. 56(4). 249–268. 47 indexed citations

11.

Mandemaker, Laurens D. B., et al.. (2024). Green Additives in Chitosan‐based Bioplastic Films: Long‐term Stability Assessment and Aging Effects. ChemSusChem. 17(13). e202301426–e202301426. 5 indexed citations

12.

Waal, Jan C. van der, et al.. (2024). Catalytic Pyrolysis of Polyethylene with Microporous and Mesoporous Materials: Assessing Performance and Mechanistic Understanding. ChemSusChem. 18(7). e202401141–e202401141. 4 indexed citations

13.

Mandemaker, Laurens D. B., et al.. (2023). Green Additives in Chitosan‐Based Bioplastic Films: Physical, Mechanical, and Chemical Properties. ChemSusChem. 16(20). e202300585–e202300585. 10 indexed citations

14.

Vollmer, Ina, et al.. (2023). Transport limitations in polyolefin cracking at the single catalyst particle level. Chemical Science. 14(37). 10068–10080. 29 indexed citations

15.

Vollmer, Ina, et al.. (2023). Conduction Band Tuning by Controlled Alloying of Fe into Cs₂AgBiBr₆ Double Perovskite Powders. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(50). 13 indexed citations

16.

Vollmer, Ina, et al.. (2021). Plastic Waste Conversion over a Refinery Waste Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(29). 16101–16108. 137 indexed citations

17.

Have, Iris C. ten, et al.. (2021). Photoinduced Force Microscopy as an Efficient Method Towards the Detection of Nanoplastics. Chemistry - Methods. 1(5). 204–204.

18.

Vollmer, Ina, Mark Roelands, Robin J. White, et al.. (2020). Beyond Mechanical Recycling: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(36). 15402–15423. 1278 indexed citations breakdown →

19.

Vollmer, Ina, Edy Abou‐Hamad, Jorge Gascón, & Freek Kapteijn. (2019). Aromatization of Ethylene – Main Intermediate for MDA?. ChemCatChem. 12(2). 544–549. 23 indexed citations

20.

Yarulina, Irina, Kristof De Wispelaere, Simon Bailleul, et al.. (2018). Structure–performance descriptors and the role of Lewis acidity in the methanol-to-propylene process. Nature Chemistry. 10(8). 804–812. 251 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact