I.T. McGovern

10.8k citations

88 papers · 9.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 22

Impact in

Materials Chemistry top 0.5%
- Graphene research and applications
- 2D Materials and Applications
- Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
- MXene and MAX Phase Materials
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 2%
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication

Papers in ⓘ

Surfaces, Coatings and Films 35
- Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques 35
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 60
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies 35
- Surface and Thin Film Phenomena 24
- Semiconductor materials and interfaces 14

Co-authors: Jonathan N. Coleman (5 shared papers)Sukanta De (2 shared papers)Yenny Hernández (2 shared papers)Georg S. Duesberg (3 shared papers)Mustafa Lotya (2 shared papers)Valeria Nicolosi (3 shared papers)Fiona M. Blighe (2 shared papers)Yurii K. Gun’ko (2 shared papers)
Journals: Applied Surface Science (14 papers)Surface Science (13 papers)Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (10 papers)Vacuum (3 papers)Physical review. B, Condensed matter (3 papers)
Partner nations: Ireland United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

I.T. McGovern

87 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Oxygen Radical Functionalization of Boron Nitride Nanosheets 2012 · 494 citations

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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.

2012 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2009 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2008 Nature Nanotechnology

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1	High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite Nature Nanotechnology ·Yenny Hernández, Valeria Nicolosi, Mustafa Lotya, Fiona M. Blighe, Zhenyu Sun, Sukanta De, I.T. McGovern, B. N. Holland, Michele T. Byrne, Yurii K. Gun’ko, John J. Boland, Peter Niraj, Georg S. Duesberg, Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Robbie Goodhue, J. L. Hutchison, Vittorio Scardaci, Andrea C. Ferrari, Jonathan N. Coleman Hit paper breakdown →	2008	5176
2	Liquid Phase Production of Graphene by Exfoliation of Graphite in Surfactant/Water Solutions Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Mustafa Lotya, Yenny Hernández, Paul J. King, Ronan J. Smith, Valeria Nicolosi, Lisa Karlsson, Fiona M. Blighe, Sukanta De, Zhiming Wang, I.T. McGovern, Georg S. Duesberg, Jonathan N. Coleman Hit paper breakdown →	2009	1886
3	Oxygen Radical Functionalization of Boron Nitride Nanosheets Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Toby Sainsbury, Amro Satti, Peter May, Zhiming Wang, I.T. McGovern, Yurii K. Gun’ko, Jonathan N. Coleman Hit paper breakdown →	2012	494
4	Improving the mechanical properties of graphene oxide based materials by covalent attachment of polymer chains Carbon ·Manuela Cano, Umar Khan, Toby Sainsbury, Arlene O’Neill, Zhiming Wang, I.T. McGovern, Wolfgang K. Maser, Ana M. Benito, Jonathan N. Coleman	2012	231
5	Charge-Transfer and Non-Rigid-Band Effects in the Graphite Compound LiC6 Physical Review Letters ·W. Eberhardt, I.T. McGovern, E. W. Plummer, Julian Fisher	1980	156
6	Surface characterisation of indium phosphide Surface Science ·R. H. Williams, I.T. McGovern	1975	69
7	Bonding sites for Cl on Si(100)2 × 1 and Si(111)7 × 7 Surface Science ·G. Thornton, P.L. Wincott, R. McGrath, I.T. McGovern, Francis M. Quinn, D. Norman, D.D. Wedensky	1989	61
8	Photoelectron spectroscopy of solids and their surfaces Reports on Progress in Physics ·R. H. Williams, G. P. Srivastava, I.T. McGovern	1980	53
9	Metal–GaSe and metal–InP interfaces: Schottky barrier formation and interfacial reactions Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology ·R. H. Williams, Allan J. McKinley, G. Hughes, V. Montgomery, I.T. McGovern	1982	45
10	Soft X-ray photoemission spectroscopy of metal-molybdenum bisulphide interfaces Surface Science ·I.T. McGovern, E. Dietz, H.H. Rotermund, A. M. Bradshaw, W. Braun, W. Radlik, J. F. McGilp	1985	39
11	Metal-gallium selenide interfaces-observation of the true Schottky limit Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics ·G. Hughes, Allan J. McKinley, R. H. Williams, I.T. McGovern	1982	39
12	Surface states on gallium phosphide Physics Letters A ·D. Norman, I.T. McGovern, C. Norris	1977	30
13	The bandstructures of graphite and graphite intercalation compounds as determined by angle resolved photoemission using synchrotron radiation Physica B+C ·I.T. McGovern, W. Eberhardt, E. W. Plummer, J. E. Fischer	1980	29
14	A comparison of S-passivation of III–V (001) surfaces using (NH4)2Sx and S2Cl2 Applied Surface Science ·D. Gnoth, D. Wolfframm, A.J. Patchett, St. Hohenecker, Dietrich R. T. Zahn, A. Leslie, I.T. McGovern, D. A. Evans	1998	29
15	Growth and morphology of SnPc films on the S-GaAs(001) surface: a combined XPS, AFM and NEXAFS study Applied Surface Science ·A. R. Vearey-Roberts, H. Steiner, Stephen D. Evans, I Cerrilló, Javier Méndez, Grégory Cabailh, S O’Brien, Justin W. Wells, I.T. McGovern, D. A. Evans	2004	28
16	Electronic properties of cleaved molybdenum disulphide surfaces Surface Science ·I.T. McGovern, R. H. Williams, C. H. B. Mee	1974	26
17	Effect of annealing on the band bending and the overlayer morphology at Sb/III–V (110) interfaces Applied Surface Science ·N. Esser, Dietrich R. T. Zahn, Carsten Müller, W. Richter, C. Stephens, Robert R. Whittle, I.T. McGovern, Sudhir Kulkarni, W. Braun	1992	26
18	An Investigation of the Electronic Structure of GaSe and GaTe by Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Using a Synchrotron Source, and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy physica status solidi (b) ·R. H. Williams, I.T. McGovern, Rory O’Hara Murray, M. Howells	1976	24
19	The electronic structure of MoS₂and α-MoTe₂by photoelectron spectroscopy using line and synchrotron sources Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics ·I.T. McGovern, R. H. Williams, A W Parke	1979	23
20	Synchrotron radiation studies of the growth and beam damage of tin-phthalocyanine on GaAs(001)-1 × 6 substrates Applied Surface Science ·Grégory Cabailh, Justin W. Wells, I.T. McGovern, A. R. Vearey-Roberts, A. Bushell, D. A. Evans	2004	23

About I.T. McGovern

I.T. McGovern is a scholar working on Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Radiation, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 88 papers that have together received 9.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (35 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (35 papers), Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (24 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (16 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (15 papers), Semiconductor materials and interfaces (14 papers), X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (8 papers) and Graphene research and applications (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Materials Chemistry (7.1k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (1.5k citations), Biomedical Engineering (3.3k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (3.7k citations) and Surfaces, Coatings and Films (444 citations). I.T. McGovern has collaborated with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Jonathan N. Coleman, Sukanta De, Yenny Hernández, Georg S. Duesberg, Mustafa Lotya, Valeria Nicolosi, Fiona M. Blighe, Yurii K. Gun’ko, B. N. Holland and Satheesh Krishnamurthy. Their work appears in journals such as Applied Surface Science, Surface Science, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, Vacuum and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

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