Leighton O. Jones

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Leighton O. Jones is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Leighton O. Jones has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 25 papers in Materials Chemistry and 15 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Leighton O. Jones's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (18 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (14 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (12 papers). Leighton O. Jones is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (18 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (14 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (12 papers). Leighton O. Jones collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Leighton O. Jones's co-authors include George C. Schatz, Martín A. Mosquera, Charlotte L. Stern, Mark A. Ratner, J. Fraser Stoddart, Stephen Whitaker, Tobin J. Marks, Michael R. Wasielewski, Kevin L. Kohlstedt and Huang Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Leighton O. Jones

63 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Crystallography, Morphology, Electronic Structure, and Tr... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Crystallography, Morphology, Electronic Structure, and Transport in Non-Fullerene/Non-Indacenodithienothiophene Polymer:Y6 Solar Cells
    2020 294 citations Weigang Zhu, S. Mukherjee et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leighton O. Jones United States 24 1.1k 755 678 396 203 63 2.1k
Shuhao Wen China 27 1.0k 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 574 0.8× 297 0.8× 205 1.0× 44 2.6k
Weidong Zhang China 28 877 0.8× 1.3k 1.8× 321 0.5× 586 1.5× 244 1.2× 98 2.6k
P. Raghunath Taiwan 26 856 0.8× 1.3k 1.7× 284 0.4× 218 0.6× 287 1.4× 95 2.4k
Tadaaki Ikoma Japan 26 740 0.7× 920 1.2× 196 0.3× 507 1.3× 102 0.5× 109 2.0k
Frédèric Labat France 31 1.2k 1.1× 2.2k 3.0× 259 0.4× 206 0.5× 136 0.7× 88 3.1k
Pavel Janda Czechia 25 975 0.9× 1.2k 1.6× 286 0.4× 285 0.7× 96 0.5× 72 2.2k
Zongrui Wang China 25 2.0k 1.9× 1.8k 2.4× 1.0k 1.5× 506 1.3× 237 1.2× 48 3.3k
Xin Ai China 29 2.1k 1.9× 2.7k 3.5× 480 0.7× 471 1.2× 131 0.6× 84 4.1k
Rongxing He China 36 3.0k 2.8× 2.0k 2.6× 714 1.1× 532 1.3× 118 0.6× 237 4.7k
Juan Aragó Spain 31 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 627 0.9× 902 2.3× 325 1.6× 106 2.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leighton O. Jones

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Guoping, S. Mukherjee, Leighton O. Jones, et al.. (2025). Green Solvent-Processable Trifluoromethylated π-Extended Non-Fullerene Acceptors for High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells. Energy & Fuels. 39(14). 7012–7020. 2 indexed citations
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Kratish, Yosi, Yiqi Liu, Jiaqi Li, et al.. (2025). Atomic-resolution imaging as a mechanistic tool for studying single-site heterogeneous catalysis. Chem. 11(8). 102541–102541. 2 indexed citations
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Sadhukhan, Tumpa, Leighton O. Jones, Rafael López‐Arteaga, et al.. (2024). Trifluoromethylation of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: A Mild Functionalization and Tunable p‐Type Doping Method. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(22). e202403494–e202403494. 6 indexed citations
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Jones, Leighton O. & George C. Schatz. (2023). Excited State Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics of Hot Electron Addition to Water Clusters in the Ultrafast Femtosecond Regime. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(14). 3521–3526. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yu, Huang Wu, Leighton O. Jones, et al.. (2023). Color-Tunable Upconversion-Emission Switch Based on Cocrystal-to-Cocrystal Transformation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(3). 1855–1865. 68 indexed citations
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Garci, Amine, Seifallah Abid, Arthur H. G. David, et al.. (2023). Exciplex Emission and Förster Resonance Energy Transfer in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Based Bischromophoric Cyclophanes and Homo[2]catenanes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(33). 18391–18401. 21 indexed citations
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Zhu, Weigang, Guoping Li, S. Mukherjee, et al.. (2023). Quantitative relationships between film morphology, charge carrier dynamics, and photovoltaic performance in bulk-heterojunction binary vs. ternary acceptor blends. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(3). 1234–1250. 13 indexed citations
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Garci, Amine, Ryan M. Young, Masoud Kazem‐Rostami, et al.. (2022). Mechanically interlocked pyrene-based photocatalysts. Nature Catalysis. 5(6). 524–533. 60 indexed citations
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Liu, Yiqi, Jiaqi Li, Hacksung Kim, et al.. (2021). Synthesis and Structure–Activity Characterization of a Single-Site MoO2 Catalytic Center Anchored on Reduced Graphene Oxide. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(51). 21532–21540. 26 indexed citations
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Wu, Huang, Yu Wang, Bo Song, et al.. (2021). A contorted nanographene shelter. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5191–5191. 17 indexed citations
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Liu, Wenqi, Yu Tan, Leighton O. Jones, et al.. (2021). PCage: Fluorescent Molecular Temples for Binding Sugars in Water. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(38). 15688–15700. 39 indexed citations
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Li, Guoping, Liang‐Wen Feng, S. Mukherjee, et al.. (2021). Non-fullerene acceptors with direct and indirect hexa-fluorination afford >17% efficiency in polymer solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(2). 645–659. 92 indexed citations
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Jones, Leighton O., et al.. (2021). Late to the Party: Synthesis and Characterization of Tellurium and Selenium Half-Sandwich Complexes. Organometallics. 40(24). 4104–4109. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Hongliang, Vitor Brasiliense, Jingshan Mo, et al.. (2021). Single-Molecule Charge Transport through Positively Charged Electrostatic Anchors. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(7). 2886–2895. 63 indexed citations
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Wu, Huang, Yu Wang, Leighton O. Jones, et al.. (2021). Selective Separation of Hexachloroplatinate(IV) Dianions Based on Exo‐Binding with Cucurbit[6]uril. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(32). 17587–17594. 45 indexed citations
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Li, Guoping, Xiaohua Zhang, Leighton O. Jones, et al.. (2021). Systematic Merging of Nonfullerene Acceptor π-Extension and Tetrafluorination Strategies Affords Polymer Solar Cells with >16% Efficiency. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(16). 6123–6139. 171 indexed citations
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Jones, Leighton O., et al.. (2021). Synthesis and Characterization of Tellurium Catecholates and Their N-Oxide Adducts. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(5). 3460–3470. 12 indexed citations
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Wu, Huang, Yu Wang, Leighton O. Jones, et al.. (2020). Ring-in-Ring(s) Complexes Exhibiting Tunable Multicolor Photoluminescence. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(39). 16849–16860. 72 indexed citations
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Jones, Leighton O., Martín A. Mosquera, Yishu Jiang, et al.. (2020). Thermodynamics and Mechanism of a Photocatalyzed Stereoselective [2 + 2] Cycloaddition on a CdSe Quantum Dot. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(36). 15488–15495. 15 indexed citations
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Wang, Yu, Huang Wu, Penghao Li, et al.. (2020). Two-photon excited deep-red and near-infrared emissive organic co-crystals. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4633–4633. 130 indexed citations

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