Jim A. Thomas

7.7k citations

150 papers · 6.8k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 43

Impact in

Oncology top 0.5%
- Metal complexes synthesis and properties
Organic Chemistry top 0.5%
- Ferrocene Chemistry and Applications

Papers in

Oncology 80
- Metal complexes synthesis and properties 80
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 36
- Magnetism in coordination complexes 35

Co-authors: Martin R. Gill Clive Metcalfe Carl Smythe Harry Adams Giuseppe Battaglia Anthony J. H. M. Meijer Simon J. Foster Sreejesh Sreedharan
Journals: Chemical Communications (19 papers)Chemistry - A European Journal (15 papers)Inorganic Chemistry (12 papers)Dalton Transactions (11 papers)Angewandte Chemie International Edition (8 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom India United States

In The Last Decade

Jim A. Thomas

150 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Ruthenium(ii) polypyridyl complexes and DNA—from structural probes to cellular imaging and therapeutics 2012 · 683 citations

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

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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 Chemical Society Reviews
2003 Chemical Society Reviews

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1	In Vitro and In Vivo Studies on a Mononuclear Ruthenium Complex Reveals It is a Highly Effective, Fast-Acting, Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial in Physiologically Relevant Conditions ACS Infectious Diseases ·Danica Radic, Kirsty L. Smitten, Hannah M. Southam, Simon D. Fairbanks, Craig C. Robertson, Jim A. Thomas, Samantha McLean	2024	2
2	From Chemotherapy to Phototherapy – Changing the Therapeutic Action of a Metallo‐Intercalating Ru^II‐Re^I Luminescent System by Switching its Sub‐Cellular Location Chemistry - A European Journal ·Hiwa K. Saeed, Paul J. Jarman, Sreejesh Sreedharan, Sai Srinivas Divvela, Anthony Bolívar, Adrien A. P. Chauvet, Carl Smythe, Jorge Bernardino de la Serna, Jim A. Thomas	2023	6
3	An ¹¹¹In-labelled bis-ruthenium(ii) dipyridophenazine theranostic complex: mismatch DNA binding and selective radiotoxicity towards MMR-deficient cancer cells Chemical Science ·Martin R. Gill, Michael G. Walker, Sarah Able, Ole Tietz, S Mondido, Rachel Anderson, R. Chalk, Afaf H. El‐Sagheer, Tom Brown, Jim A. Thomas, Katherine A. Vallis	2020	13
4	A dinuclear ruthenium(ii) phototherapeutic that targets duplex and quadruplex DNA Chemical Science ·Stuart A. Archer, Ahtasham Raza, Cláudio Batista Dutra, Craig C. Robertson, Anthony Bolívar, Dimitri Chekulaev, Julia A. Weinstein, Theo Keane, Anthony J. H. M. Meijer, John W. Haycock, Sheila MacNeil, Jim A. Thomas	2019	65
5	Making the Right Link to Theranostics: The Photophysical and Biological Properties of Dinuclear Ru^II–Re^I dppz Complexes Depend on Their Tether Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Hiwa K. Saeed, Sreejesh Sreedharan, Paul J. Jarman, Stuart A. Archer, Simon D. Fairbanks, S.P. Foxon, Anthony Bolívar, Dimitri Chekulaev, Theo Keane, Anthony J. H. M. Meijer, Julia A. Weinstein, Carl Smythe, Jorge Bernardino de la Serna, Jim A. Thomas	2019	46
6	Mitochondria-localising DNA-binding biscyclometalated phenyltriazole iridium(iii) dipyridophenazene complexes: syntheses and cellular imaging properties Dalton Transactions ·Sreejesh Sreedharan, Alessandro Sinopoli, Paul J. Jarman, Darren Robinson, 博方南, Paul A. Scattergood, Craig R. Rice, Carl Smythe, Jim A. Thomas, Paul I. P. Elliott	2018	18
7	¹¹¹In-labelled polymeric nanoparticles incorporating a ruthenium-based radiosensitizer for EGFR-targeted combination therapy in oesophageal cancer cells Nanoscale ·Martin R. Gill, Jyothi U. Menon, Paul J. Jarman, Joshua Owen, J. Houston Banks, Sarah Able, Jim A. Thomas, Robert Carlisle, Katherine A. Vallis	2018	62
8	A three-in-one-bullet for oesophageal cancer: replication fork collapse, spindle attachment failure and enhanced radiosensitivity generated by a ruthenium(ii) metallo-intercalator Chemical Science ·Martin R. Gill, Paul J. Jarman, Swagata Halder, Michael G. Walker, Hiwa K. Saeed, Jim A. Thomas, Carl Smythe, Kristijan Ramadan, Katherine A. Vallis	2017	38
9	Tuning the Excited State of Water‐Soluble Ir^III‐Based DNA Intercalators that are Isostructural with [Ru^II(NN)₂(dppz)] Light‐Switch Complexes Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Blanca Michelle Rojas Munoz, Mick Lennon, (unknown), Mandy Gentleman, Ashley B. Wragg, Anthony J. H. M. Meijer, Jim A. Thomas	2015	33
10	Serum Albumin Binding Inhibits Nuclear Uptake of Luminescent Metal‐Complex‐Based DNA Imaging Probes Chemistry - A European Journal ·Ashley B. Wragg, Martin R. Gill, Luke K. McKenzie, Jörg Gölzhäuser, Sai Srinivas Divvela, Julia A. Weinstein, Xiaodi Su, Carl Smythe, Jim A. Thomas	2015	29
11	Dinuclear Ruthenium(II) Complexes as Two‐Photon, Time‐Resolved Emission Microscopy Probes for Cellular DNA Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Elizabeth Baggaley, Martin R. Gill, Nicola Green, David R. Turton, Igor V. Sazanovich, Stanley W. Botchway, Carl Smythe, John W. Haycock, Julia A. Weinstein, Jim A. Thomas	2014	171
12	Dinuclear Ruthenium(II) Complexes as Two‐Photon, Time‐Resolved Emission Microscopy Probes for Cellular DNA Angewandte Chemie ·Elizabeth Baggaley, Martin R. Gill, Nicola Green, David R. Turton, Igor V. Sazanovich, Stanley W. Botchway, Carl Smythe, John W. Haycock, Julia A. Weinstein, Jim A. Thomas	2014	24
13	Targeting the endoplasmic reticulum with a membrane-interactive luminescent ruthenium(ii) polypyridyl complex Chemical Science ·Martin R. Gill, Denis Cecchin, Michael G. Walker, Gengxiao Man, Giuseppe Battaglia, Carl Smythe, Jim A. Thomas	2013	119
14	Live Cell Luminescence Imaging As a Function of Delivery Mechanism ChemBioChem ·Xiaohe Tian, Martin R. Gill, Irene Cantón, Jim A. Thomas, Giuseppe Battaglia	2011	36
15	Metal ion directed self-assembly of sensors for ions, molecules and biomolecules Dalton Transactions ·Jim A. Thomas	2011	66
16	DNA binding and cleavage properties of a newly synthesised Ru(II)-polypyridyl complex Dalton Transactions ·Amrita Ghosh, Carlos Eduardo Pimenta, D. Krishna Kumar, Narendra Singh Yadav, Tamal Kanti Ghosh, Bhavanath Jha, Jim A. Thomas, Amitava Das	2009	41
17	A dinuclear ruthenium(ii) complex that functions as a label-free colorimetric sensor for DNA Chemical Communications ·Verónica González, T. D. Wilson, Y. M. Abo Essa, CEMRE ÖZÇELİK, Jim A. Thomas, Joe Otsuki	2008	37
18	Dinuclear Monointercalating Ru^II Complexes That Display High Affinity Binding to Duplex and Quadruplex DNA Chemistry - A European Journal ·Annalisa Giusiano, Ramunė Rutkaitė, Linda Swanson, Ihtshamul Haq, Jim A. Thomas	2006	210
19	Electrochemical properties of dinuclear [Ru([n]aneS₄)] complexes of 2,3-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrazine Dalton Transactions ·Apostolos Zografos, Jim A. Thomas	2005	15
20	A convenient synthetic route to half-sandwich rhodium(iii) complexes of the tripodal ligand tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)methane Dalton Transactions ·Verónica González, Harry Adams, Jim A. Thomas	2004	4

About Jim A. Thomas

Jim A. Thomas is a scholar working on Oncology, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology and Biophysics, having authored 150 papers that have together received 6.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Metal complexes synthesis and properties (80 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (49 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (35 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (33 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (14 papers), Ferrocene Chemistry and Applications (13 papers), Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (13 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oncology (3.3k citations), Organic Chemistry (2.6k citations), Inorganic Chemistry (918 citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (1.0k citations) and Spectroscopy (807 citations). Jim A. Thomas has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and United States. Frequent co-authors include Martin R. Gill, Clive Metcalfe, Carl Smythe, Harry Adams, Giuseppe Battaglia, Anthony J. H. M. Meijer, Simon J. Foster, Sreejesh Sreedharan, Ihtshamul Haq and Jorge Garcı́a-Lara. Their work appears in journals such as Chemical Communications, Chemistry - A European Journal, Inorganic Chemistry, Dalton Transactions and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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