Leith Samad

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Leith Samad is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Leith Samad has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 5 papers in Materials Chemistry and 3 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Leith Samad's work include 2D Materials and Applications (4 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (4 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (3 papers). Leith Samad is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (4 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (4 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (3 papers). Leith Samad collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Taiwan. Leith Samad's co-authors include Song Jin, Jiecai Han, Quan Yuan, Ping Xu, Peng Zhang, Xingzhong Cao, Zhihua Zhang, Yumin Zhang, Xinghong Zhang and Bo Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Leith Samad

8 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Contributions of Phase, Sulfur Vacancies, and Edges to the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalytic Activity of Porous Molybdenum Disulfide Nanosheets

2016 1.1k citations Ying Yin, Jiecai Han et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leith Samad United States	8	1.5k	1.2k	1.1k	118	115	8	2.0k
Ik Seon Kwon South Korea	26	1.2k 0.8×	913 0.8×	854 0.8×	126 1.1×	99 0.9×	48	1.6k
Zhaojun Qin China	10	1.4k 1.0×	685 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	98 0.8×	156 1.4×	16	1.8k
Tangling Gao China	18	1.7k 1.1×	948 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	232 2.0×	206 1.8×	26	2.3k
Kimberly M. Papadantonakis United States	16	1.5k 1.0×	751 0.6×	993 0.9×	91 0.8×	196 1.7×	25	1.8k
Jingcong Hu China	17	735 0.5×	889 0.8×	783 0.7×	83 0.7×	62 0.5×	33	1.4k
In Hye Kwak South Korea	26	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	200 1.7×	249 2.2×	46	2.3k
Viet Q. Bui South Korea	20	1.3k 0.8×	877 0.8×	830 0.8×	96 0.8×	146 1.3×	51	1.7k
Purushothaman Varadhan Saudi Arabia	15	1000 0.7×	870 0.7×	691 0.6×	212 1.8×	47 0.4×	17	1.5k
Yurong An China	21	811 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	663 0.6×	140 1.2×	44 0.4×	39	1.5k
Zuhao Shi China	17	932 0.6×	645 0.6×	845 0.8×	94 0.8×	109 0.9×	32	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leith Samad

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Chen, Jie, Chung‐Li Dong, Daming Zhao, et al.. (2017). Molecular Design of Polymer Heterojunctions for Efficient Solar–Hydrogen Conversion. Advanced Materials. 29(21). 257 indexed citations

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Shearer, Melinda J., Leith Samad, Yi Zhang, et al.. (2017). Complex and Noncentrosymmetric Stacking of Layered Metal Dichalcogenide Materials Created by Screw Dislocations. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(9). 3496–3504. 100 indexed citations

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Samad, Leith, Yongho Joo, Austin J. Way, et al.. (2016). Synthesis of Molybdenum Disulfide Nanowire Arrays Using a Block Copolymer Template. Chemistry of Materials. 28(11). 4017–4023. 28 indexed citations

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Yin, Ying, Jiecai Han, Yumin Zhang, et al.. (2016). Contributions of Phase, Sulfur Vacancies, and Edges to the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalytic Activity of Porous Molybdenum Disulfide Nanosheets. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(25). 7965–7972. 1146 indexed citations breakdown →

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Samad, Leith, Qi Ding, Junqiao Zhuo, et al.. (2016). Layer-Controlled Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of MoS₂ Vertical Heterostructures via van der Waals Epitaxy. ACS Nano. 10(7). 7039–7046. 119 indexed citations

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Samad, Leith, et al.. (2015). Synthesis and characterization of barium silicide (BaSi₂) nanowire arrays for potential solar applications. Nanoscale. 7(41). 17450–17456. 20 indexed citations

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Zhuo, Junqiao, Miguel Cabán‐Acevedo, Hanfeng Liang, et al.. (2015). High-Performance Electrocatalysis for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Using Se-Doped Pyrite-Phase Nickel Diphosphide Nanostructures. ACS Catalysis. 5(11). 6355–6361. 264 indexed citations

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Samad, Leith, Miguel Cabán‐Acevedo, Melinda J. Shearer, et al.. (2015). Direct Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of Phase-Pure Iron Pyrite (FeS₂) Thin Films. Chemistry of Materials. 27(8). 3108–3114. 90 indexed citations

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