John R. Varcoe

15.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
155 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

John R. Varcoe is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John R. Varcoe has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 93 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 44 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in John R. Varcoe's work include Fuel Cells and Related Materials (121 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (87 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (83 papers). John R. Varcoe is often cited by papers focused on Fuel Cells and Related Materials (121 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (87 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (83 papers). John R. Varcoe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. John R. Varcoe's co-authors include Robert C. T. Slade, William E. Mustain, Simon D. Poynton, Lianqin Wang, Tongwen Xu, Dario R. Dekel, Feng Zhao, Xiong Peng, Andrew M. Herring and Keith Scott and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

John R. Varcoe

151 papers receiving 13.2k 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.

Anion-exchange membranes in electrochemical energy systems

2014 1.8k citations John R. Varcoe, William E. Mustain et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Prospects for Alkaline Anion‐Exchange Membranes in Low Temperature Fuel Cells

2004 1.1k citations John R. Varcoe, Robert C. T. Slade profile →
High-performing commercial Fe–N–C cathode electrocatalyst for anion-exchange membrane fuel cells

2021 346 citations Abolfazl Shakouri, Noor Ul Hassan et al. Nature Energy profile →
Aryl ether-free polymer electrolytes for electrochemical and energy devices

2024 93 citations Eun Joo Park, Patric Jannasch et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John R. Varcoe United Kingdom	60	12.0k	7.0k	5.2k	1.3k	1.0k	155	13.3k
Shanfu Lu China	52	6.8k 0.6×	4.7k 0.7×	2.0k 0.4×	2.2k 1.7×	191 0.2×	206	8.8k
Yi‐Ming Yan China	49	4.8k 0.4×	3.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.2×	2.1k 1.6×	240 0.2×	172	7.6k
Vincenzo Baglio Italy	54	8.0k 0.7×	6.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.2×	2.3k 1.7×	87 0.1×	238	9.5k
Kee Shyuan Loh Malaysia	38	3.4k 0.3×	2.1k 0.3×	905 0.2×	1.5k 1.1×	204 0.2×	144	4.8k
Carlo Santoro Italy	50	5.6k 0.5×	2.4k 0.3×	936 0.2×	658 0.5×	4.8k 4.7×	165	7.5k
Suqin Ci China	42	4.2k 0.4×	3.6k 0.5×	257 0.0×	1.3k 1.0×	593 0.6×	86	5.8k
Gaopeng Jiang Canada	48	5.2k 0.4×	4.0k 0.6×	735 0.1×	1.7k 1.2×	64 0.1×	92	7.1k
Haiqun Chen China	49	3.9k 0.3×	4.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.3×	4.9k 3.7×	49 0.0×	234	9.5k
Xian‐Fa Zhang China	51	7.0k 0.6×	834 0.1×	3.3k 0.6×	2.6k 2.0×	70 0.1×	288	8.6k
Yongjin Zou China	45	3.8k 0.3×	1.5k 0.2×	554 0.1×	2.4k 1.8×	583 0.6×	220	6.7k

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Avignone–Rossa, Claudio, et al.. (2025). Cost-effective and stable biosensing of biochemical oxygen demand in wastewater treatment: Exsolved rhodium-titanate perovskite catalyst in microbial fuel cell-based biosensors. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(2). 115692–115692. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Qiucheng, Kasper Enemark‐Rasmussen, Arun Prakash Periasamy, et al.. (2025). Advancing the Synthesis for Perdeuterated Small Organic Chemicals via Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. ACS Catalysis. 15(2). 1038–1045. 2 indexed citations

Cui, Yingdan, Mohammed Al-Murisi, John R. Varcoe, et al.. (2025). Application of multi-layer graphene (MLG) in the anion exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of Power Sources. 660. 238558–238558.

Xu, Qiucheng, Nishithan C. Kani, T. Wilson, et al.. (2025). Electrolyte Effects in Membrane‐Electrode‐Assembly CO Electrolysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(22). e202501505–e202501505. 3 indexed citations

Kani, Nishithan C., Asger Barkholt Moss, Sahil Garg, et al.. (2024). Insights into zero-gap CO ₂ electrolysis at elevated temperatures. EES Catalysis. 2(3). 850–861. 19 indexed citations

Park, Eun Joo, Patric Jannasch, Kenji Miyatake, et al.. (2024). Aryl ether-free polymer electrolytes for electrochemical and energy devices. Chemical Society Reviews. 53(11). 5704–5780. 93 indexed citations breakdown →

Brückner, Sven, Daniel K. Whelligan, Liang Liang, et al.. (2023). Design of NiNC single atom catalyst layers and AEM electrolyzers for stable and efficient CO2-to-CO electrolysis: Correlating ionomer and cell performance. Electrochimica Acta. 461. 142613–142613. 10 indexed citations

Moss, Asger Barkholt, et al.. (2023). Influence of Headgroups in Ethylene-Tetrafluoroethylene-Based Radiation-Grafted Anion Exchange Membranes for CO₂ Electrolysis. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(4). 1508–1517. 23 indexed citations

Xu, Qiucheng, Fabrizia Foglia, Keenan Smith, et al.. (2023). Radiation-grafted anion-exchange membranes for CO₂ electroreduction cells: an unexpected effect of using a lower excess of N-methylpiperidine in their fabrication. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(38). 20724–20740. 4 indexed citations

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Garg, Sahil, et al.. (2022). How membrane characteristics influence the performance of CO₂ and CO electrolysis. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(11). 4440–4469. 77 indexed citations

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Foglia, Fabrizia, Quentin Berrod, Adam J. Clancy, et al.. (2022). Disentangling water, ion and polymer dynamics in an anion exchange membrane. Nature Materials. 21(5). 555–563. 78 indexed citations

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Shakouri, Abolfazl, Noor Ul Hassan, John R. Varcoe, et al.. (2021). High-performing commercial Fe–N–C cathode electrocatalyst for anion-exchange membrane fuel cells. Nature Energy. 6(8). 834–843. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liang, Xian, Xiaolin Ge, Yubin He, et al.. (2021). 3D‐Zipped Interface: In Situ Covalent‐Locking for High Performance of Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells. Advanced Science. 8(22). e2102637–e2102637. 31 indexed citations

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Peng, Xiong, Devashish Kulkarni, Ying Huang, et al.. (2020). Using operando techniques to understand and design high performance and stable alkaline membrane fuel cells. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3561–3561. 163 indexed citations

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Varcoe, John R., et al.. (2020). Thread-Based Sensors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 22–22. 1 indexed citations

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Peng, Xiong, Andrew Shum, Dinesh C. Sabarirajan, et al.. (2019). Improving the Long-Term Operational Stability (>1000h) of AEMFCS By Understanding Water Dynamics through in-Situ Neutron Imaging and X-Ray Computed Tomography. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2019-02(32). 1439–1439. 1 indexed citations

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Herranz, D., Lianqin Wang, Rachida Bance‐Soualhi, et al.. (2018). ETFE-based anion-exchange membrane ionomer powders for alkaline membrane fuel cells: a first performance comparison of head-group chemistry. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(47). 24330–24341. 73 indexed citations

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Omasta, Travis J, Jacob M. LaManna, Yufeng Zhang, et al.. (2018). Beyond catalysis and membranes: visualizing and solving the challenge of electrode water accumulation and flooding in AEMFCs. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(3). 551–558. 260 indexed citations

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Namor, Angela F. Danil de, et al.. (2015). A ditopic calix[4]pyrrole amide derivative: highlighting the importance of fundamental studies and the use of NaPh₄B as additive in the design and applications of mercury(ii) ion selective electrodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 3(24). 13016–13030. 11 indexed citations

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Varcoe, John R., et al.. (2006). An alkaline polymer electrochemical interface: a breakthrough in application of alkaline anion-exchange membranes in fuel cells. Chemical Communications. 1428–1428. 229 indexed citations

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