Marc Robert

23.9k total citations · 13 hit papers
245 papers, 20.4k citations indexed

About

Marc Robert is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc Robert has authored 245 papers receiving a total of 20.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 66 papers in Materials Chemistry and 43 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Marc Robert's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (125 papers), Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (42 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (42 papers). Marc Robert is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (125 papers), Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (42 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (42 papers). Marc Robert collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and China. Marc Robert's co-authors include Cyrille Costentin, Jean‐Michel Savéant, Julien Bonin, Jean‐Michel Savéant, Samuel Drouet, Heng Rao, J. M. SAVEANT, Claudio Cometto, Tai‐Chu Lau and Antoine Maurin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Marc Robert

239 papers receiving 20.2k citations

Hit Papers

Catalysis of the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2012 2017 2019 2012 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Catalysis of the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide
    2012 1.4k citations Marc Robert et al. profile →
  2. A Local Proton Source Enhances CO 2 Electroreduction to CO by a Molecular Fe Catalyst
    2012 1.1k citations Marc Robert et al. profile →
  3. Visible-light-driven methane formation from CO2 with a molecular iron catalyst
    2017 865 citations Julien Bonin, Marc Robert et al. profile →
  4. Molecular electrocatalysts can mediate fast, selective CO 2 reduction in a flow cell
    2019 786 citations Shaoxuan Ren, Dorian Joulié et al. profile →
  5. Turnover Numbers, Turnover Frequencies, and Overpotential in Molecular Catalysis of Electrochemical Reactions. Cyclic Voltammetry and Preparative-Scale Electrolysis
    2012 715 citations Marc Robert et al. profile →
  6. Electrons, Photons, Protons and Earth-Abundant Metal Complexes for Molecular Catalysis of CO2 Reduction
    2016 597 citations Claudio Cometto, Marc Robert et al. profile →
  7. Through-Space Charge Interaction Substituent Effects in Molecular Catalysis Leading to the Design of the Most Efficient Catalyst of CO2-to-CO Electrochemical Conversion
    2016 554 citations Marc Robert et al. profile →
  8. Highlights and challenges in the selective reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol
    2021 482 citations Julien Bonin, Marc Robert et al. profile →
  9. Photocatalytic CO2 reduction
    2023 450 citations Marc Robert et al. profile →
  10. CO2 electrochemical catalytic reduction with a highly active cobalt phthalocyanine
    2019 402 citations Min Wang, Kristian Torbensen et al. Nature Communications profile →
  11. Strain enhances the activity of molecular electrocatalysts via carbon nanotube supports
    2023 303 citations Marc Robert et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  12. Best practices for experiments and reporting in photocatalytic CO2 reduction
    2023 223 citations Julien Bonin, Debashrita Sarkar et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  13. In-situ spectroscopic probe of the intrinsic structure feature of single-atom center in electrochemical CO/CO2 reduction to methanol
    2023 157 citations Xinyi Ren, Xuning Li et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marc Robert France 70 15.6k 6.6k 5.0k 4.4k 4.1k 245 20.4k
Clifford P. Kubiak United States 65 9.9k 0.6× 5.9k 0.9× 3.7k 0.7× 4.5k 1.0× 5.7k 1.4× 280 19.5k
Cyrille Costentin France 54 9.3k 0.6× 3.1k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 2.0k 0.5× 3.8k 0.9× 164 12.9k
Etsuko Fujita United States 67 12.2k 0.8× 5.6k 0.9× 3.2k 0.6× 6.1k 1.4× 2.8k 0.7× 223 17.8k
Jean‐Michel Savéant France 59 9.0k 0.6× 2.6k 0.4× 3.0k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 5.4k 1.3× 140 14.6k
Curtis P. Berlinguette Canada 67 13.4k 0.9× 6.1k 0.9× 4.1k 0.8× 1.2k 0.3× 6.8k 1.6× 213 18.3k
Jonas C. Peters United States 91 18.7k 1.2× 7.0k 1.1× 6.1k 1.2× 2.2k 0.5× 10.4k 2.5× 263 34.1k
Osamu Ishitani Japan 72 13.3k 0.9× 8.5k 1.3× 1.4k 0.3× 4.0k 0.9× 2.5k 0.6× 231 16.6k
Daniel L. DuBois United States 64 10.5k 0.7× 2.4k 0.4× 2.2k 0.4× 2.6k 0.6× 3.0k 0.7× 133 14.0k
James M. Mayer United States 75 7.7k 0.5× 6.6k 1.0× 1.8k 0.4× 955 0.2× 2.6k 0.6× 320 20.8k
Thomas B. Rauchfuss United States 70 11.5k 0.7× 4.7k 0.7× 1.6k 0.3× 1.7k 0.4× 3.3k 0.8× 408 21.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marc Robert

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Robert, Marc, et al.. (2025). Self‐Photosensitizing Cobalt Complexes for Photocatalytic CO 2 Reduction Coupled with CH 3 OH Oxidation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(26). e202506060–e202506060. 4 indexed citations
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Anxolabéhère‐Mallart, Elodie, et al.. (2025). Catalytic Oxygen Atom Transfer Through Photochemical and Electrochemical Activation of O2 or H2O. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1(1).
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Bonin, Julien, et al.. (2024). Four-electron reduction of CO 2 : from formaldehyde and acetal synthesis to complex transformations. Chemical Science. 15(37). 15023–15086. 9 indexed citations
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Choubrac, Léo, Garen Suna, Debashrita Sarkar, et al.. (2024). Hybrid CIGS‐Cobalt Quaterpyridine Photocathode with Backside Illumination: A New Paradigm for Solar Fuel Production. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(8). e202423727–e202423727.
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Cheah, Mun Hon, et al.. (2024). Operando Spectroelectrochemistry Unravels the Mechanism of CO2 Electrocatalytic Reduction by an Fe Porphyrin. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(51). e202412417–e202412417. 9 indexed citations
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Wenger, Oliver S., et al.. (2023). A CuICoII cryptate for the visible light-driven reduction of CO2. Chemical Science. 14(44). 12774–12783. 6 indexed citations
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Paul, Sourav, Sougata Sarkar, Dependu Dolui, et al.. (2023). 1D/2D interface engineering of a CoPc–C3N4 heterostructure for boosting the nitrogen reduction reaction to NH3. Dalton Transactions. 52(42). 15360–15364. 23 indexed citations
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Ren, Xinyi, Xuning Li, Junming Shao, et al.. (2023). In-situ spectroscopic probe of the intrinsic structure feature of single-atom center in electrochemical CO/CO2 reduction to methanol. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3401–3401. 157 indexed citations breakdown →
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Robert, Marc, et al.. (2022). Electrification of a Milstein-type catalyst for alcohol reformation. Chemical Science. 13(44). 13220–13224. 6 indexed citations
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Pati, Palas Baran, Etienne Boutin, Stéphane Diring, et al.. (2020). Photocathode functionalized with a molecular cobalt catalyst for selective carbon dioxide reduction in water. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3499–3499. 74 indexed citations
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Torbensen, Kristian, Dorian Joulié, Shaoxuan Ren, et al.. (2020). Molecular Catalysts Boost the Rate of Electrolytic CO2 Reduction. ACS Energy Letters. 5(5). 1512–1518. 63 indexed citations
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Campos, Jesús, et al.. (2020). MnI complex redox potential tunability by remote lewis acid interaction. Dalton Transactions. 49(46). 16623–16626. 5 indexed citations
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Cheng, Shun‐Cheung, Shek-Man Yiu, Wai‐Lun Man, et al.. (2020). Precious-metal free photocatalytic production of an NADH analogue using cobalt diimine–dioxime catalysts under both aqueous and organic conditions. Chemical Communications. 56(54). 7491–7494. 9 indexed citations
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Chen, Lingjing, Gui Chen, Zhenguo Guo, et al.. (2020). A highly active and robust iron quinquepyridine complex for photocatalytic CO2 reduction in aqueous acetonitrile solution. Chemical Communications. 56(46). 6249–6252. 25 indexed citations
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Noël, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2020). Electrocatalytic O2 Activation by Fe Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin in Acidic Organic Media. Evidence of High-Valent Fe Oxo Species. Inorganic Chemistry. 59(16). 11577–11583. 13 indexed citations
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Guo, Zhenguo, Gui Chen, Claudio Cometto, et al.. (2019). Publisher Correction: Selectivity control of CO versus HCOO− production in the visible-light-driven catalytic reduction of CO2 with two cooperative metal sites. Nature Catalysis. 2(9). 830–830. 4 indexed citations
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Guo, Zhenguo, Gui Chen, Claudio Cometto, et al.. (2019). Selectivity control of CO versus HCOO− production in the visible-light-driven catalytic reduction of CO2 with two cooperative metal sites. Nature Catalysis. 2(9). 801–808. 222 indexed citations
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Anxolabéhère‐Mallart, Elodie, Julien Bonin, Claire Fave, & Marc Robert. (2019). Small-molecule activation with iron porphyrins using electrons, photons and protons: some recent advances and future strategies. Dalton Transactions. 48(18). 5869–5878. 16 indexed citations
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Cometto, Claudio, Lingjing Chen, Elodie Anxolabéhère‐Mallart, et al.. (2018). Molecular Electrochemical Catalysis of the CO2-to-CO Conversion with a Co Complex: A Cyclic Voltammetry Mechanistic Investigation. Organometallics. 38(6). 1280–1285. 29 indexed citations

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