Kirill Kovnir

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
225 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Kirill Kovnir is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kirill Kovnir has authored 225 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Materials Chemistry, 102 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 56 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kirill Kovnir's work include Iron-based superconductors research (52 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (50 papers) and Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (45 papers). Kirill Kovnir is often cited by papers focused on Iron-based superconductors research (52 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (50 papers) and Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (45 papers). Kirill Kovnir collaborates with scholars based in United States, Portugal and Russia. Kirill Kovnir's co-authors include Yury V. Kolen’ko, Marc Armbrüster, Jian Wang, Yuri Grin, Аndrei V. Shevelkov, Robert Schlögl, Kathleen Lee, Michael Shatruk, Lifeng Liu and Xiaoguang Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Kirill Kovnir

218 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

One‐Step Synthesis of Self‐Supported Nickel Phosphide Nanosheet Array Cathodes for Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Generation

2015 528 citations Yury V. Kolen’ko, Kirill Kovnir et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kirill Kovnir	4.9k	2.2k	2.1k	2.0k	1.2k	225	8.1k
Andrei L. Tchougréeff	5.0k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	100	7.5k
Edward Sanville	7.5k 1.5×	3.8k 1.7×	1.2k 0.6×	2.2k 1.1×	867 0.7×	17	10.4k
Stuart Turner	6.0k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	2.3k 2.0×	190	8.7k
Jianqi Li	3.4k 0.7×	2.8k 1.3×	1.8k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	423 0.4×	187	7.2k
Sung Wng Kim	8.9k 1.8×	3.1k 1.4×	2.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	581 0.5×	183	11.5k
Peter V. Sushko	5.0k 1.0×	4.2k 1.9×	1.7k 0.8×	950 0.5×	554 0.5×	215	9.1k
Weiping Ding	6.4k 1.3×	2.5k 1.1×	3.5k 1.7×	2.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	300	10.3k
Nobuo Iyi	7.9k 1.6×	2.9k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	173	10.6k
M. S. Hegde	7.3k 1.5×	2.6k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	2.5k 1.3×	623 0.5×	262	11.6k
Anton Kokalj	7.2k 1.5×	2.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.5×	829 0.4×	416 0.3×	133	9.5k

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Liu, Jifeng, et al.. (2026). CaCd ₂ P ₂ : A Visible‐Light Absorbing Zintl Phosphide Stable Under Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation. Advanced Energy Materials. 16(10).

Kovnir, Kirill, et al.. (2025). Tuning thermal expansion and phase transition temperature with Mg substitution in Zn2V2O7. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 347. 125296–125296. 1 indexed citations

Hautzinger, Matthew P., Shaham Quadir, Andrew G. Norman, et al.. (2025). Synthesis and Characterization of Zintl-Phase BaCd₂P₂ Quantum Dots for Optoelectronic Applications. ACS Nano. 19(12). 12345–12353. 2 indexed citations

Viswanathan, Gayatri, Emma Ross, Ajay Kumar, et al.. (2025). To Substitute Rather Than Intercalate: Chimie douce Approach to Induce Ferromagnetism in Metastable Pt_0.8M_0.2Se₂ (M = Cr, Co, Ni). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(36). 33193–33208.

Tang, Ling, et al.. (2025). Synthesis challenges, thermodynamic stability, and growth kinetics of La–Si–P ternary compounds. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(46). 39982–39991.

Owens‐Baird, Bryan, Weiran Zheng, Yury V. Kolen’ko, et al.. (2025). Facet-Dependent Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on M ₂ P (M = Ni, Co, Fe) Single Crystals. ACS Catalysis. 15(21). 18723–18737.

Sousa, V., Masahiro Goto, Marcel S. Claro, et al.. (2024). PbSe Quantum Dot Superlattice Thin Films for Thermoelectric Applications. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(49). 7 indexed citations

Lee, Shannon, Andrew P. Porter, Gayatri Viswanathan, et al.. (2024). FeSi₄P₄ and CoSi₃P₃: Hidden Gems of Ternary Tetrel Pnictides with Outstanding Nonlinear Optical Properties. Chemistry of Materials. 5 indexed citations

Yox, Philip, et al.. (2024). Organizing Chaos: Boosting Thermoelectric Properties by Ordering the Clathrate Framework of Ba₈Cu₁₆As₃₀. Chemistry of Materials. 36(8). 3925–3932. 2 indexed citations

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Yox, Philip, et al.. (2024). A Recipe for a Great Meal: A Benchtop Route from Elemental Se to Superior Thermoelectric β-Ag₂Se. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 10 indexed citations

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Lee, Shannon, et al.. (2023). IrSi₃As₃: a first transition metal arsenide non-linear optical material. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(22). 11767–11772. 3 indexed citations

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Viswanathan, Gayatri, et al.. (2023). BaCu₂SiS₄: A New Member of the A^IIB^I₂M^IVQ₄ Chalcogenide Family with a Chiral Crystal Structure. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie. 649(21). 4 indexed citations

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Wolski, Łukasz, Oleg I. Lebedev, Kirill Kovnir, et al.. (2021). Unraveling the Origin of Photocatalytic Deactivation in CeO₂/Nb₂O₅ Heterostructure Systems during Methanol Oxidation: Insight into the Role of Cerium Species. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(23). 12650–12662. 8 indexed citations

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Chauhan, Nagendra S., Oleg I. Lebedev, L. Marques, et al.. (2021). Compositional Fluctuations Mediated by Excess Tellurium in Bismuth Antimony Telluride Nanocomposites Yield High Thermoelectric Performance. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(37). 20184–20194. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Jian, Juli‐Anna Dolyniuk, J. L. Niedziela, et al.. (2020). Clathrate BaNi₂P₄: An Interplay of Heat and Charge Transport Due to Strong Host–Guest Interactions. Chemistry of Materials. 32(18). 7932–7940. 9 indexed citations

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Dragulescu‐Andrasi, Alina, Oleksandr Hietsoi, Paul W. Dunk, et al.. (2019). Dicyanometalates as Building Blocks for Multinuclear Iron(II) Spin-Crossover Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 58(18). 11920–11926. 8 indexed citations

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Piotrowski, Marek, V. Sousa, Francis Leonard Deepak, et al.. (2018). Probing of Thermal Transport in 50 nm Thick PbTe Nanocrystal Films by Time-Domain Thermoreflectance. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(48). 27127–27134. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Jian, Yuping He, Natalia E. Mordvinova, Oleg I. Lebedev, & Kirill Kovnir. (2018). The Smaller the Better: Hosting Trivalent Rare-Earth Guests in Cu–P Clathrate Cages. Chem. 4(6). 1465–1475. 36 indexed citations

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Shevelkov, Аndrei V. & Kirill Kovnir. (2011). Zintl Clathrates: PRINCIPLES AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS. 139. 97–142. 24 indexed citations

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Shatruk, Michael, Kirill Kovnir, Аndrei V. Shevelkov, & B. A. Popovkin. (2000). A new zintl phase Sn19.3Cu4.7P22I8 with a structure of the clathrate-I type: Directional synthesis and structure. 45(2). 203–209. 3 indexed citations

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