John Meurig Thomas

17.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
240 papers, 14.4k citations indexed

About

John Meurig Thomas is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, John Meurig Thomas has authored 240 papers receiving a total of 14.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Materials Chemistry, 111 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 53 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in John Meurig Thomas's work include Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (104 papers), Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (83 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (50 papers). John Meurig Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (104 papers), Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (83 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (50 papers). John Meurig Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. John Meurig Thomas's co-authors include Gopinathan Sankar, Robert Raja, Thomas Maschmeyer, Dewi W. Lewis, Brian F. G. Johnson, C. Richard A. Catlow, Fernando Rey, Robert G. Bell, Jie‐Sheng Chen and Richard H. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

John Meurig Thomas

235 papers receiving 13.7k 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.

Heterogeneous catalysts obtained by grafting metallocene complexes onto mesoporous silica

1995 1.1k citations Thomas Maschmeyer, Gopinathan Sankar et al. profile →
Single‐Site Heterogeneous Catalysts

2005 768 citations John Meurig Thomas, Robert Raja et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
High-Performance Nanocatalysts for Single-Step Hydrogenations

2002 508 citations John Meurig Thomas, Brian F. G. Johnson et al. profile →
Metal oxides as heterogeneous catalysts for oxygen evolution under photochemical conditions

1988 491 citations John Meurig Thomas et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Meurig Thomas United Kingdom	63	10.1k	6.2k	3.2k	2.8k	2.0k	240	14.4k
Gopinathan Sankar United Kingdom	58	8.6k 0.9×	4.3k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	2.9k 1.0×	2.3k 1.2×	266	12.2k
Robert A. Schoonheydt Belgium	66	10.7k 1.1×	5.7k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	5.6k 2.0×	1.6k 0.8×	262	14.9k
Larry Kevan United States	46	7.4k 0.7×	4.2k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	887 0.4×	690	13.2k
Giuseppe Spoto Italy	56	7.2k 0.7×	4.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	3.3k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	166	10.1k
Adriano Zecchina Italy	87	16.6k 1.6×	10.8k 1.7×	2.3k 0.7×	7.2k 2.6×	2.9k 1.5×	371	22.8k
Geoffrey A. Ozin Canada	57	9.8k 1.0×	2.9k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	162	13.6k
Jack H. Lunsford United States	66	12.7k 1.3×	5.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	9.9k 3.5×	1.4k 0.7×	239	15.6k
Joachim Sauer Germany	89	17.5k 1.7×	10.5k 1.7×	1.9k 0.6×	8.7k 3.1×	3.0k 1.5×	413	26.5k
J.L. Schlenker United States	21	9.7k 1.0×	5.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.3×	1.0k 0.4×	591 0.3×	35	11.5k
Helmut Knözinger Germany	60	9.5k 0.9×	3.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	5.8k 2.1×	1.3k 0.6×	254	12.6k

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Jacob, Daniel J., Dylan Jervis, Melissa P. Sulprizio, et al.. (2025). Worldwide inference of national methane emissions by inversion of satellite observations with UNFCCC prior estimates. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11004–11004.

Thomas, John Meurig, et al.. (2023). Thermal and structural properties of polyzwitterions: Effects of monomer chemistry and salt addition. Thermochimica Acta. 730. 179617–179617. 1 indexed citations

Thomas, John Meurig. (2004). Ultraschnelle Elektronenkristallographie: Anbruch einer neuen Ära. Angewandte Chemie. 116(20). 2658–2662. 5 indexed citations

Thomas, John Meurig. (2004). Argon und das nichtinerte Paar: Rayleigh und Ramsay. Angewandte Chemie. 116(47). 6578–6584. 3 indexed citations

Raja, Robert, et al.. (2003). Mechanistic Insights into the Conversion of Cyclohexene to Adipic Acid by H₂O₂ in the Presence of a TAPO‐5 Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 42(13). 1520–1523. 106 indexed citations

Meneau, Florian, Gopinathan Sankar, R. Winter, et al.. (2002). Following the formation of nanometer-sized clusters by time-resolved SAXS and EXAFS techniques. Faraday Discussions. 122. 203–210. 22 indexed citations

Aliev, Abil E., et al.. (2000). In Situ Monitoring of Solid-State Polymerization Reactions in Sodium Chloroacetate and Sodium Bromoacetate by 23Na and 13C Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. Chemistry - A European Journal. 6(7). 1120–1126. 8 indexed citations

Raja, Robert, Gopinathan Sankar, & John Meurig Thomas. (1999). Powerful Redox Molecular Sieve Catalysts for the Selective Oxidation of Cyclohexane in Air. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 121(50). 11926–11927. 191 indexed citations

Raja, Robert, John Meurig Thomas, & Gopinathan Sankar. (1999). Baeyer–Villiger oxidations with a difference: molecular sieve redox catalysts for the low-temperature conversion of ketones to lactones. Chemical Communications. 525–526. 58 indexed citations

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Sankar, Gopinathan, Robert Raja, & John Meurig Thomas. (1998). Redox solid catalysts for the selective oxidation of cyclohexane in air. Catalysis Letters. 55(1). 15–23. 97 indexed citations

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Oldroyd, Richard D., John Meurig Thomas, & Gopinathan Sankar. (1997). Engineering an atomically well defined active site for the catalytic epoxidation of alkenes. Chemical Communications. 2025–2026. 24 indexed citations

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Maschmeyer, Thomas, Richard D. Oldroyd, Gopinathan Sankar, et al.. (1997). Ein Co^III‐MCM 41‐Heterogenkatalysator für die selektive Niedertemperatur‐Oxidation von Cyclohexan zu Cyclohexanon. Angewandte Chemie. 109(15). 1713–1716. 14 indexed citations

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Shubin, Aleksandr A., C. Richard A. Catlow, John Meurig Thomas, & K. I. Zamaraev. (1994). A computational study of the adsorption of the isomers of butanol on silicalite and H-ZSM-5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 446(1928). 411–427. 16 indexed citations

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Catlow, C. Richard A., et al.. (1993). Simulating and predicting crystal structures. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 442(1914). 85–96. 16 indexed citations

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Liu, Xinsheng, et al.. (1992). The galliation of zeolite beta. Zeolites. 12(8). 936–942. 13 indexed citations

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Richard, Christian J., C. Richard A. Catlow, & John Meurig Thomas. (1992). Modelling of catalysts and its relation to experimental problems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences. 341(1661). 255–268. 7 indexed citations

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Thomas, John Meurig. (1990). New microcrystalline catalysts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences. 333(1629). 173–207. 74 indexed citations

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Jones, Richard H., et al.. (1989). A comparison of the catalytic performance of the layered oxychlorides of bismuth, lanthanum and samarium in the conversion of methane to ethylene. Catalysis Letters. 3(3). 247–255. 18 indexed citations

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Thomas, Noel W., S. Ramdas, & John Meurig Thomas. (1985). A new approach to the crystal engineering of organic compounds: application to a solid-state photoreactive system. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 400(1819). 219–227. 3 indexed citations

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Jefferson, David A. & John Meurig Thomas. (1978). High resolution electron microscopic and X-ray studies of non-random disorder in an unusual layered silicate (chloritoid). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 361(1707). 399–411. 12 indexed citations

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