Javier Catalán

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
241 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

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Javier Catalán is a scholar working on Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Javier Catalán has authored 241 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 127 papers in Organic Chemistry and 85 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Javier Catalán's work include Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (140 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (51 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (47 papers). Javier Catalán is often cited by papers focused on Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (140 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (51 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (47 papers). Javier Catalán collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Germany. Javier Catalán's co-authors include Juan Carlos del Valle, José Elguero, Cristina Dı́az, Pilar Pérez, J. L. G. DE PAZ, Michael Kasha, Rosa M. Claramunt, José Palomar, A. Ulises Acuña and José Luis García de Paz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Javier Catalán

240 papers receiving 7.3k citations

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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.

Toward a Generalized Treatment of the Solvent Effect Based on Four Empirical Scales: Dipolarity (SdP, a New Scale), Polarizability (SP), Acidity (SA), and Basicity (SB) of the Medium

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Javier Catalán Spain	48	4.0k	3.9k	2.6k	2.0k	1.4k	241	7.6k
J.‐L. M. Abboud Spain	29	2.9k 0.7×	3.8k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	89	7.3k
Klaas A. Zachariasse Germany	45	4.2k 1.1×	2.5k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	116	6.4k
Haridas Pal India	58	4.2k 1.1×	5.1k 1.3×	4.3k 1.6×	1.6k 0.8×	3.0k 2.2×	253	9.9k
G. Zhao China	42	5.6k 1.4×	4.1k 1.1×	4.5k 1.7×	2.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	149	9.3k
Yirong Mo United States	50	3.0k 0.8×	3.7k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.5×	1.6k 1.2×	243	8.3k
V. Ramamurthy United States	49	2.9k 0.7×	5.4k 1.4×	4.6k 1.7×	840 0.4×	2.3k 1.7×	278	9.9k
Abderrazzak Douhal Spain	48	3.8k 1.0×	2.2k 0.5×	4.4k 1.7×	2.1k 1.1×	993 0.7×	215	8.2k
Juana J. Silber Argentina	42	1.7k 0.4×	3.1k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	814 0.4×	762 0.6×	195	6.0k
Helmut Görner Germany	44	2.1k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	681 0.3×	629 0.5×	218	5.9k
Éric A. Perpète Belgium	46	3.3k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	4.0k 1.5×	2.3k 1.2×	821 0.6×	164	9.2k

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Catalán, Javier. (2025). On the Thermal Transformation of All-trans-1,6-Diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (All-trans-DPH) into Its s-cis Conformer (s-cis-DPH) in Solution. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 3–3. 1 indexed citations

Martín‐Sómer, Ana & Javier Catalán. (2024). Origin of the vibrational structure of the first absorption band of cis/trans isomeric 1,6-diphenylhexatrienes by (TD)DFT calculations. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 161(12). 1 indexed citations

Catalán, Javier. (2022). On the temperature‐dependent isomerization of all‐trans‐1,6‐diphenyl‐1,3,5‐hexatriene in solution: A reappraisal. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 35(6). 4 indexed citations

Catalán, Javier. (2021). On the empirical scales of organic solvents established using probe/homomorph pairs. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 34(8). 9 indexed citations

Catalán, Javier. (2020). Carbon disulfide solvent, helping to clarify the Stokes shift in diphenylpolyenes. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 34(3). 2 indexed citations

Catalán, Javier. (2020). On the photophysics of a polyene dissolved in n‐alkanes when the temperature drops from 293 to 77 K. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 33(10). 1 indexed citations

Civera, Concepción, Juan Carlos del Valle, M. Elorza, et al.. (2020). Solvatochromism in urea/water and urea-derivative/water solutions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(43). 25165–25176. 6 indexed citations

Catalán, Javier. (2019). On the mirror symmetry between the absorption and emission of complex molecules in solution. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 33(3). 3 indexed citations

Catalán, Javier. (2019). On the photo‐activation of the S₀ → S₁ transition in polyenes. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 32(5). 3 indexed citations

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Valle, Juan Carlos del & Javier Catalán. (2019). Kasha's rule: a reappraisal. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(19). 10061–10069. 135 indexed citations

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Catalán, Javier & Juan Carlos del Valle. (2018). Molecule 1-Methyl-5-nitroindoline Probes the Structural Change of Liquid Water with Temperature. ACS Omega. 3(12). 18930–18934. 8 indexed citations

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Catalán, Javier & Henning Hopf. (2018). Existence of Two Fluorescence Bands in all-trans-Polyenes with Six and Seven Double Bonds. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 122(31). 6391–6395. 3 indexed citations

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Catalán, Javier, et al.. (2018). On the dual fluorescence of α,ω‐diphenylpolyenes from five to seven polyene double bonds. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 32(3). 2 indexed citations

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Catalán, Javier. (2017). On the photophysical model for polyenes: Experimental evidence of the 1,8‐diphenylocta‐1,3,5,7‐tetraene molecule dissolved in n‐octane, cyclooctane, and 2,2,4‐trimethylpentane. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 31(5). 6 indexed citations

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Catalán, Javier. (2017). Inversion of the 1¹B_uand 2¹A_gelectronic states of all-trans-1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in carbon disulfide. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(39). 27099–27104. 7 indexed citations

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Catalán, Javier. (2017). Spectroscopy of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) dissolved in three hexane structural isomers, and its consequences on the photophysical model of polyenes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(16). 10657–10662. 8 indexed citations

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Catalán, Javier & C. L. Reichardt. (2017). Solvation by Glycerol at Temperatures from 353 to 77 K: Its Solvatochromic Characterization and Use to Block the Molecular Structure of Conformationally Flexible Structures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 121(38). 7114–7120. 8 indexed citations

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Catalán, Javier. (2002). On the Evidence Obtained by Exciting 7-Azaindole at 320 nm in 10^-2 M Solutions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 106(29). 6738–6742. 18 indexed citations

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Catalán, Javier & Cristina Dı́az. (1998). Induction of Triplet-State Emission of the Transient Proton-Transfer Keto Form of Methyl Salicylate by Heavy-Atom Perturbation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 102(2). 323–328. 36 indexed citations

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Catalán, Javier, et al.. (1992). Photophysical properties of some 2-(2'-hydroxyaryl)benzotriazoles: dramatic effect of an ortho-located bulky tert-butyl group. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 114(3). 964–966. 29 indexed citations

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