José J. Plata

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

José J. Plata is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, José J. Plata has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Materials Chemistry, 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in José J. Plata's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (20 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (13 papers) and Machine Learning in Materials Science (11 papers). José J. Plata is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (20 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (13 papers) and Machine Learning in Materials Science (11 papers). José J. Plata collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Japan. José J. Plata's co-authors include Javier Fdez. Sanz, Antonio M. Márquez, Stefano Curtarolo, Cormac Toher, Maarten de Jong, Mark Asta, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Ohad Levy, Gerbrand Ceder and Thomas Angsten and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemistry of Materials and Physical Review B.

In The Last Decade

José J. Plata

44 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline compounds

2015 792 citations Maarten de Jong, Wei Chen et al. Scientific Data profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
José J. Plata Spain	20	1.9k	472	353	337	302	47	2.3k
Matthew K. Horton United States	26	1.5k 0.8×	606 1.3×	205 0.6×	165 0.5×	248 0.8×	51	2.1k
Christina Ertural Germany	11	1.1k 0.6×	541 1.1×	135 0.4×	285 0.8×	249 0.8×	16	1.6k
Donny Winston United States	16	1.3k 0.7×	743 1.6×	245 0.7×	366 1.1×	155 0.5×	22	2.1k
Aaron M. Holder United States	25	1.4k 0.7×	703 1.5×	133 0.4×	599 1.8×	209 0.7×	45	2.2k
Cai Cheng China	26	1.3k 0.7×	514 1.1×	328 0.9×	147 0.4×	234 0.8×	85	2.0k
Nadi Braidy Canada	21	1.2k 0.6×	303 0.6×	250 0.7×	200 0.6×	210 0.7×	63	1.8k
Wei Song China	23	1.2k 0.6×	507 1.1×	136 0.4×	504 1.5×	478 1.6×	117	1.9k
Richard Tran United States	12	1.1k 0.6×	415 0.9×	314 0.9×	257 0.8×	127 0.4×	22	1.6k
Quan Zhuang China	22	797 0.4×	456 1.0×	300 0.8×	114 0.3×	119 0.4×	79	1.5k
Mazharul M. Islam Germany	25	1.1k 0.6×	740 1.6×	137 0.4×	278 0.8×	190 0.6×	66	1.8k

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Posligua, Víctor, et al.. (2025). Photoinduced Local Symmetry Breakage in SrTiO₃ and Potential Pathways to Ferroelectricity. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129(5). 2663–2671. 1 indexed citations

Caballero‐Calero, Olga, José J. Plata, Antonio M. Márquez, et al.. (2025). Thermoelectric performance boost by chemical order in epitaxial L2₁ (100) and (110) oriented undoped Fe₂VAl thin films: an experimental and theoretical study. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(30). 24716–24726.

Márquez, Antonio M., et al.. (2025). Decoupling electronic transport properties: A combined physical and chemical pressure approach for boosting thermoelectric performance in skutterudites. Materials Today Physics. 59. 101912–101912.

Durá, Óscar J., Erik Fransson, José J. Plata, et al.. (2024). Challenges Reconciling Theory and Experiments in the Prediction of Lattice Thermal Conductivity: The Case of Cu-Based Sulvanites. Chemistry of Materials. 36(18). 8704–8713. 2 indexed citations

Posligua, Víctor, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the thermoelectric figure of merit of BiN via polymorphism, pressure, and nanostructuring. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(1). 220–229. 1 indexed citations

Posligua, Víctor, et al.. (2024). Design Principles Guided by DFT Calculations and High-Throughput Frameworks for the Discovery of New Diamond-like Chalcogenide Thermoelectric Materials. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(22). 28590–28598. 9 indexed citations

Izquierdo‐Ruiz, Fernando, Antonio M. Márquez, J. M. Recio, et al.. (2024). Thermodynamics of solids including anharmonicity through quasiparticle theory. npj Computational Materials. 10(1). 4 indexed citations

Márquez, Antonio M., et al.. (2024). High-Throughput Prediction of the Thermal and Electronic Transport Properties of Large Physical and Chemical Spaces Accelerated by Machine Learning: Charting the ZT of Binary Skutterudites. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(4). 4606–4617. 11 indexed citations

Plata, José J., et al.. (2023). Harnessing the unusually strong improvement of thermoelectric performance of AgInTe₂ with nanostructuring. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(31). 16734–16742. 11 indexed citations

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Posligua, Víctor, José J. Plata, Antonio M. Márquez, Javier Fdez. Sanz, & Ricardo Grau‐Crespo. (2023). Theoretical Investigation of the Lattice Thermal Conductivities of II–IV–V₂ Pnictide Semiconductors. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 6(5). 2951–2959. 8 indexed citations

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Plata, José J., et al.. (2022). Unraveling the role of chemical composition in the lattice thermal conductivity of oxychalcogenides as thermoelectric materials. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(37). 19941–19952. 13 indexed citations

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Plata, José J., Víctor Posligua, Antonio M. Márquez, Javier Fdez. Sanz, & Ricardo Grau‐Crespo. (2022). Charting the Lattice Thermal Conductivities of I–III–VI ₂ Chalcopyrite Semiconductors. Chemistry of Materials. 34(6). 2833–2841. 45 indexed citations

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Plata, José J., et al.. (2021). Catalytic activity of PtCu intermetallic compound for CO oxidation: A theoretical insight. Catalysis Today. 383. 339–344. 7 indexed citations

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Plata, José J., et al.. (2019). Photo-sensitizing thin-film ferroelectric oxides using materials databases and high-throughput calculations. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(48). 27323–27333. 12 indexed citations

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Plata, José J., et al.. (2019). Understanding the Photocatalytic Properties of Pt/CeO_x/TiO₂: Structural Effects on Electronic and Optical Properties. ChemPhysChem. 20(12). 1624–1629. 8 indexed citations

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Plata, José J., Francisca Romero‐Sarria, Antonio M. Márquez, et al.. (2018). Improving the activity of gold nanoparticles for the water-gas shift reaction using TiO₂–Y₂O₃: an example of catalyst design. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(34). 22076–22083. 8 indexed citations

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Plata, José J., et al.. (2017). Ag₂S Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells by First Principles: The Effect of Capping Ligands and Linkers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 121(38). 7290–7296. 17 indexed citations

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Plata, José J., et al.. (2017). Effects of the capping ligands, linkers and oxide surface on the electron injection mechanism of copper sulfide quantum dot-sensitized solar cells. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(22). 14580–14587. 10 indexed citations

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Plata, José J., Pinku Nath, Demet Usanmaz, et al.. (2017). An efficient and accurate framework for calculating lattice thermal conductivity of solids: AFLOW—AAPL Automatic Anharmonic Phonon Library. npj Computational Materials. 3(1). 56 indexed citations

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Jong, Maarten de, Wei Chen, Thomas Angsten, et al.. (2015). Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline compounds. Scientific Data. 2(1). 150009–150009. 792 indexed citations breakdown →

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