Joshua Wicks

11.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
39 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Joshua Wicks is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Wicks has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 17 papers in Catalysis and 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Joshua Wicks's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (31 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (17 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (12 papers). Joshua Wicks is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (31 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (17 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (12 papers). Joshua Wicks collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and South Korea. Joshua Wicks's co-authors include Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton, Fengwang Li, Dae‐Hyun Nam, Cao‐Thang Dinh, Xue Wang, Ziyun Wang, Yuhang Wang, Yuguang Li and Jun Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Wicks

38 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

CO ₂ electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm ⁻²

2020 1.2k citations F. Pelayo Garcı́a de Arquer, Cao‐Thang Dinh et al. profile →
Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper–Nickel Alloys via Tuning of Intermediate Adsorption

2020 1.1k citations Yuhang Wang, Aoni Xu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Binding Site Diversity Promotes CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethanol

2019 481 citations Yuguang Li, Ziyun Wang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Gas diffusion electrodes, reactor designs and key metrics of low-temperature CO2 electrolysers

2022 473 citations David Wakerley, Sarah Lamaison et al. Nature Energy profile →
High carbon utilization in CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products in acidic media

2022 454 citations Yi Xie, Pengfei Ou et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
Chloride-mediated selective electrosynthesis of ethylene and propylene oxides at high current density

2020 363 citations Wan Ru Leow, Yanwei Lum et al. profile →
Can sustainable ammonia synthesis pathways compete with fossil-fuel based Haber–Bosch processes?

2021 342 citations Joshua Wicks, Cao‐Thang Dinh et al. profile →
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers

2022 226 citations Adnan Ozden, F. Pelayo Garcı́a de Arquer et al. profile →
Supramolecular tuning of supported metal phthalocyanine catalysts for hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis

2023 210 citations Byoung‐Hoon Lee, Heejong Shin et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua Wicks Canada	33	6.5k	4.5k	2.0k	2.0k	961	39	7.7k
Peng Han China	37	3.4k 0.5×	1.8k 0.4×	3.1k 1.5×	2.1k 1.0×	220 0.2×	105	6.5k
Xunyu Lu Australia	51	8.6k 1.3×	1.9k 0.4×	2.8k 1.4×	6.4k 3.2×	192 0.2×	97	10.6k
Zechao Zhuang China	52	5.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.4×	3.9k 1.9×	3.9k 1.9×	143 0.1×	154	8.6k
Junxiang Chen China	53	6.8k 1.1×	1.6k 0.4×	3.5k 1.7×	6.0k 3.0×	297 0.3×	123	9.9k
Zengxi Wei China	49	5.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.4×	3.3k 1.7×	6.8k 3.4×	115 0.1×	102	10.6k
Chunshuang Yan China	38	3.6k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	2.9k 1.4×	4.5k 2.3×	80 0.1×	74	8.0k
Chenliang Ye China	34	3.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.3×	2.3k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	141 0.1×	72	4.8k
Xinyi Tan China	34	2.2k 0.3×	1.4k 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	148 0.2×	77	3.9k
Wenjie Zang Singapore	40	4.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.3×	2.1k 1.1×	3.4k 1.7×	81 0.1×	74	6.3k
Adnan Ozden Canada	39	6.6k 1.0×	3.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	3.0k 1.5×	1.0k 1.1×	65	7.3k

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Zheng, Anmin, et al.. (2025). Cascading the Electrochemical Reduction of CO ₂ with Bioprocesses for the Production of Reduced-Carbon-Intensity Chemicals. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 13(46). 19937–19950.

Shirzadi, Erfan, Jin Qiu, Ali Shayesteh Zeraati, et al.. (2024). Ligand-modified nanoparticle surfaces influence CO electroreduction selectivity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2995–2995. 32 indexed citations

Lee, Byoung‐Hoon, Heejong Shin, Armin Sedighian Rasouli, et al.. (2023). Supramolecular tuning of supported metal phthalocyanine catalysts for hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis. Nature Catalysis. 6(3). 234–243. 210 indexed citations breakdown →

Dorakhan, Roham, Ivan Grigioni, Byoung‐Hoon Lee, et al.. (2023). A silver–copper oxide catalyst for acetate electrosynthesis from carbon monoxide. Nature Synthesis. 2(5). 448–457. 49 indexed citations

Xie, Yi, Pengfei Ou, Xue Wang, et al.. (2022). High carbon utilization in CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products in acidic media. Nature Catalysis. 5(6). 564–570. 454 indexed citations breakdown →

Wakerley, David, Sarah Lamaison, Joshua Wicks, et al.. (2022). Gas diffusion electrodes, reactor designs and key metrics of low-temperature CO2 electrolysers. Nature Energy. 7(2). 130–143. 473 indexed citations breakdown →

Hung, Sung‐Fu, Aoni Xu, Xue Wang, et al.. (2022). A metal-supported single-atom catalytic site enables carbon dioxide hydrogenation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 819–819. 161 indexed citations

Liu, Guoqiang, Yuan Yang, Yi Li, et al.. (2021). Boosting photoelectrochemical efficiency by near-infrared-active lattice-matched morphological heterojunctions. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4296–4296. 45 indexed citations

Wicks, Joshua, Melinda L. Jue, V. A. Beck, et al.. (2021). 3D‐Printable Fluoropolymer Gas Diffusion Layers for CO₂ Electroreduction. Advanced Materials. 33(7). e2003855–e2003855. 94 indexed citations

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Li, Jun, Adnan Ozden, Mingyu Wan, et al.. (2021). Silica-copper catalyst interfaces enable carbon-carbon coupling towards ethylene electrosynthesis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2808–2808. 154 indexed citations

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Xu, Yi, Fengwang Li, Aoni Xu, et al.. (2021). Low coordination number copper catalysts for electrochemical CO2 methanation in a membrane electrode assembly. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2932–2932. 169 indexed citations

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Wang, Xue, Pengfei Ou, Joshua Wicks, et al.. (2021). Gold-in-copper at low *CO coverage enables efficient electromethanation of CO2. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3387–3387. 131 indexed citations

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Rasouli, Armin Sedighian, Xue Wang, Joshua Wicks, et al.. (2020). CO₂ Electroreduction to Methane at Production Rates Exceeding 100 mA/cm². ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 8(39). 14668–14673. 52 indexed citations

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Nam, Dae‐Hyun, Osama Shekhah, Geonhui Lee, et al.. (2020). Intermediate Binding Control Using Metal–Organic Frameworks Enhances Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(51). 21513–21521. 195 indexed citations

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Saidaminov, Makhsud I., Ioannis Spanopoulos, Jehad Abed, et al.. (2020). Conventional Solvent Oxidizes Sn(II) in Perovskite Inks. ACS Energy Letters. 5(4). 1153–1155. 207 indexed citations

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Li, Yuhang, Aoni Xu, Yanwei Lum, et al.. (2020). Promoting CO2 methanation via ligand-stabilized metal oxide clusters as hydrogen-donating motifs. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6190–6190. 127 indexed citations

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Lum, Yanwei, Jianan Erick Huang, Ziyun Wang, et al.. (2020). Tuning OH binding energy enables selective electrochemical oxidation of ethylene to ethylene glycol. Nature Catalysis. 3(1). 14–22. 207 indexed citations

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Lee, Seungjin, Min‐Jae Choi, Geetu Sharma, et al.. (2020). Orthogonal colloidal quantum dot inks enable efficient multilayer optoelectronic devices. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4814–4814. 73 indexed citations

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Luo, Mingchuan, Ziyun Wang, Yuguang Li, et al.. (2019). Hydroxide promotes carbon dioxide electroreduction to ethanol on copper via tuning of adsorbed hydrogen. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5814–5814. 325 indexed citations

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Chen, Hao, Lei Guo, Joshua Wicks, et al.. (2016). Quickly promoting angiogenesis by using a DFO-loaded photo-crosslinked gelatin hydrogel for diabetic skin regeneration. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 4(21). 3770–3781. 107 indexed citations

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