Joseph Moran

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
105 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Joseph Moran is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Moran has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Organic Chemistry, 26 papers in Molecular Biology and 23 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Joseph Moran's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (21 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (21 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (18 papers). Joseph Moran is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (21 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (21 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (18 papers). Joseph Moran collaborates with scholars based in France, Canada and United States. Joseph Moran's co-authors include Edward Richmond, Sreejith J. Varma, Kamila B. Muchowska, Michael J. Krische, Marian Dryzhakov, Cyriaque Genet, Thomas W. Ebbesen, Vuk D. Vuković, Anoop Thomas and David Lebœuf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Moran

103 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Tilting a ground-state reactivity landscape by vibrational strong coupling

2019 596 citations Anoop Thomas, Lucas Lethuillier‐Karl et al. Science profile →
Ground‐State Chemical Reactivity under Vibrational Coupling to the Vacuum Electromagnetic Field

2016 388 citations Anoop Thomas, Jino George et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joseph Moran France	39	2.9k	1.3k	1.3k	1.0k	853	105	6.0k
Stephen P. Fletcher United Kingdom	37	3.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	206 0.2×	844 0.8×	528 0.6×	116	5.3k
Pierre Laszlo Belgium	43	3.7k 1.3×	959 0.7×	417 0.3×	1.0k 1.0×	41 0.0×	241	6.4k
Philippe Renaud Switzerland	53	8.3k 2.9×	1.3k 1.0×	889 0.7×	812 0.8×	36 0.0×	334	12.5k
Hans Kuhn Germany	40	827 0.3×	2.0k 1.6×	2.4k 1.8×	94 0.1×	344 0.4×	191	6.3k
Ismael Díez‐Pérez Spain	46	537 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	2.1k 1.6×	254 0.2×	56 0.1×	106	6.5k
Wolfram Sander Germany	42	4.7k 1.6×	482 0.4×	2.4k 1.9×	881 0.9×	121 0.1×	350	8.1k
István Hargittai Hungary	37	2.1k 0.7×	310 0.2×	2.0k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	59 0.1×	427	5.7k
Dilip Kondepudi United States	26	432 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	518 0.4×	159 0.2×	2.0k 2.3×	88	4.1k
Euan R. Kay United Kingdom	26	3.9k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	677 0.5×	260 0.3×	81 0.1×	49	6.0k
Robert R. Birge United States	50	619 0.2×	3.3k 2.5×	2.2k 1.7×	309 0.3×	80 0.1×	192	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Joseph Moran

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Moran

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Moran, Joseph, et al.. (2025). Abiotic Ribonucleoside Formation in Aqueous Microdroplets: Mechanistic Exploration, Acidity, and Electric Field Effects. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 3(2). 3 indexed citations

Moran, Joseph, et al.. (2025). The Diels–Alder Reaction as a Mechanistic Probe for Vibrational Strong Coupling. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(36). e202509391–e202509391.

Mayer, Robert J. & Joseph Moran. (2024). Metal ions turn on a stereoselective nonenzymatic reduction of keto acids by the coenzyme NADH. Chem. 10(8). 2564–2576. 11 indexed citations

Mayer, Robert J., et al.. (2024). Triflic Acid‐Catalyzed Dehydrative Amination of 2‐Arylethanols with Weak N‐Nucleophiles in Hexafluoroisopropanol. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(5). e202417089–e202417089. 7 indexed citations

Mayer, Robert J., et al.. (2024). Measuring Kinetics under Vibrational Strong Coupling: Testing for a Change in the Nucleophilicity of Water and Alcohols. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(49). e202410770–e202410770. 4 indexed citations

Moran, Joseph, et al.. (2024). Iron(II)‐Catalyzed 1,2‐Diamination of Styrenes Installing a Terminal NH₂ Group Alongside Unprotected Amines. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(45). 10 indexed citations

Moran, Joseph, et al.. (2024). Nonenzymatic Hydration of Phosphoenolpyruvate: General Conditions for Hydration in Protometabolism by Searching Across Pathways. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(2). e202410698–e202410698. 2 indexed citations

Kaur, Harpreet, et al.. (2024). A prebiotic Krebs cycle analog generates amino acids with H2 and NH3 over nickel. Chem. 10(5). 1528–1540. 17 indexed citations

Mayer, Robert J., et al.. (2024). Measuring Kinetics under Vibrational Strong Coupling: Testing for a Change in the Nucleophilicity of Water and Alcohols. Angewandte Chemie. 136(49). 5 indexed citations

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Mayer, Robert J., et al.. (2023). A single phosphorylation mechanism in early metabolism – the case of phosphoenolpyruvate. Chemical Science. 14(48). 14100–14108. 6 indexed citations

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Farès, Christophe, et al.. (2023). Ambient temperature CO2 fixation to pyruvate and subsequently to citramalate over iron and nickel nanoparticles. Nature Communications. 14(1). 570–570. 38 indexed citations

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Mayer, Robert J. & Joseph Moran. (2022). Quantifizierung der Reduktiven Aminierung in Nichtenzymatischer Aminosäuresynthese. Angewandte Chemie. 134(48). 2 indexed citations

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Preiner, Martina, Kensuke Igarashi, Kamila B. Muchowska, et al.. (2020). A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(4). 534–542. 158 indexed citations

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Thomas, Anoop, Lucas Lethuillier‐Karl, Kalaivanan Nagarajan, et al.. (2019). Tilting a ground-state reactivity landscape by vibrational strong coupling. Science. 363(6427). 615–619. 596 indexed citations breakdown →

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Muchowska, Kamila B., et al.. (2019). Recreating ancient metabolic pathways before enzymes. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 27(12). 2292–2297. 34 indexed citations

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Richmond, Edward, et al.. (2018). Ring-opening hydroarylation of monosubstituted cyclopropanes enabled by hexafluoroisopropanol. Chemical Science. 9(30). 6411–6416. 70 indexed citations

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Varma, Sreejith J., et al.. (2018). Native iron reduces CO2 to intermediates and end-products of the acetyl-CoA pathway. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(6). 1019–1024. 159 indexed citations

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Muchowska, Kamila B., et al.. (2017). Metals promote sequences of the reverse Krebs cycle. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(11). 1716–1721. 152 indexed citations

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Holmes, Amanda, Joseph Moran, Marianna D. Eddy, et al.. (2015). Direct current stimulation of the left temporoparietal junction modulates dynamic humor appreciation. Neuroreport. 26(16). 988–993. 11 indexed citations

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Moran, Joseph, Gagan S. Wig, Reginald B. Adams, Petr Janata, & William M. Kelley. (2004). Neural correlates of humor detection and appreciation. NeuroImage. 21(3). 1055–1060. 168 indexed citations

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