Miquel Salmerón

36.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
427 papers, 29.6k citations indexed

About

Miquel Salmerón is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Miquel Salmerón has authored 427 papers receiving a total of 29.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 259 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 199 papers in Materials Chemistry and 143 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Miquel Salmerón's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (111 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (109 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (103 papers). Miquel Salmerón is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (111 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (109 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (103 papers). Miquel Salmerón collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Germany. Miquel Salmerón's co-authors include D. Frank Ogletree, Hendrik Bluhm, Gábor A. Somorjai, Robert W. Carpick, Jeong Young Park, Guido Ketteler, Deborah H. Charych, Zhi Liu, Toshiyuki Mitsui and Jun Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Miquel Salmerón

423 papers receiving 29.0k 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.

Reaction-Driven Restructuring of Rh-Pd and Pt-Pd Core-Shell Nanoparticles

2008 1.1k citations Miquel Salmerón, Gábor A. Somorjai et al. Science profile →
Scratching the Surface: Fundamental Investigations of Tribology with Atomic Force Microscopy

1997 880 citations Miquel Salmerón et al. profile →
Electron Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solution Interfaces Reveals Surface Enhancement of Halides

2005 584 citations Hendrik Bluhm, D. Frank Ogletree et al. Science profile →
Molecular Structure of Water at Interfaces: Wetting at the Nanometer Scale

2006 504 citations G. M. Sacha, Hendrik Bluhm et al. profile →
The structure of interfacial water on gold electrodes studied by x-ray absorption spectroscopy

2014 444 citations Chenghao Wu, Jinghua Guo et al. Science profile →
Imaging the Condensation and Evaporation of Molecularly Thin Films of Water with Nanometer Resolution

1995 410 citations D. Frank Ogletree, Miquel Salmerón et al. Science profile →
Superlubric Sliding of Graphene Nanoflakes on Graphene

2013 377 citations Miquel Salmerón et al. ACS Nano profile →
Formation of active sites on transition metals through reaction-driven migration of surface atoms

2023 148 citations Gábor A. Somorjai, Miquel Salmerón et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Miquel Salmerón United States	89	16.0k	11.7k	8.9k	5.5k	4.6k	427	29.6k
John T. Yates United States	83	22.9k 1.4×	10.4k 0.9×	8.9k 1.0×	11.8k 2.1×	3.8k 0.8×	489	34.9k
Angelos Michaelides United Kingdom	74	15.5k 1.0×	8.4k 0.7×	5.3k 0.6×	4.3k 0.8×	3.5k 0.8×	234	25.1k
Christof Wöll Germany	101	24.1k 1.5×	7.5k 0.6×	14.4k 1.6×	4.5k 0.8×	7.7k 1.7×	661	38.7k
Charles T. Campbell United States	85	18.4k 1.1×	7.0k 0.6×	5.7k 0.6×	6.6k 1.2×	4.1k 0.9×	353	27.9k
Gianfranco Pacchioni Italy	96	27.8k 1.7×	8.7k 0.7×	8.8k 1.0×	11.6k 2.1×	2.1k 0.4×	641	37.2k
R. Jürgen Behm Germany	104	21.6k 1.3×	10.4k 0.9×	18.4k 2.1×	14.8k 2.7×	4.2k 0.9×	675	43.0k
Theodore E. Madey United States	71	9.9k 0.6×	8.5k 0.7×	5.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.4×	1.8k 0.4×	347	18.4k
Yves J. Chabal United States	96	20.4k 1.3×	8.1k 0.7×	17.6k 2.0×	2.3k 0.4×	6.7k 1.5×	477	34.7k
Erik Lægsgaard Denmark	76	11.0k 0.7×	7.8k 0.7×	6.4k 0.7×	3.7k 0.7×	4.9k 1.1×	238	19.6k
Gustaaf Van Tendeloo Belgium	97	23.6k 1.5×	3.4k 0.3×	9.5k 1.1×	5.1k 0.9×	5.8k 1.3×	946	38.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Miquel Salmerón

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Chen, Yizhen, Jiankang Zhao, Xiao Zhao, et al.. (2025). Stabilizing supported atom-precise low-nuclearity platinum cluster catalysts by nanoscale confinement. 2(1). 38–49. 19 indexed citations

Chan, Emory M., et al.. (2024). Direct Observation of Morphological and Chemical Changes during the Oxidation of Model Inorganic Ligand-Capped Particles. ACS Nano. 19(1). 418–426. 4 indexed citations

Hua, Mutian, Zhengxing Peng, Rishabh D. Guha, et al.. (2024). Mechanochemically accelerated deconstruction of chemically recyclable plastics. Science Advances. 10(38). eadq3801–eadq3801. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Luning, Zhigang Song, Shuchen Zhang, et al.. (2023). Ternary NiMo-Bi liquid alloy catalyst for efficient hydrogen production from methane pyrolysis. Science. 381(6660). 857–861. 116 indexed citations

Chen, Hao, Lorenz J. Falling, Heath Kersell, et al.. (2023). Elucidating the active phases of CoOx films on Au(111) in the CO oxidation reaction. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6889–6889. 24 indexed citations

Yang, Yao, Julian Feijóo, Valentín Briega‐Martos, et al.. (2023). Operando methods: A new era of electrochemistry. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 42. 101403–101403. 47 indexed citations

Zhao, Xiao, Zhiyuan Qi, Yi‐Hsien Lu, et al.. (2022). Chloride-Assisted Corrosion of Copper and Protection by Benzotriazole. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(4). 6093–6101. 8 indexed citations

Chen, Luning, Pragya Verma, Kai-Peng Hou, et al.. (2022). Reversible dehydrogenation and rehydrogenation of cyclohexane and methylcyclohexane by single-site platinum catalyst. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1092–1092. 127 indexed citations

Zhao, Xiao, Yi‐Hsien Lu, Edward S. Barnard, et al.. (2022). Nature of the Electrical Double Layer on Suspended Graphene Electrodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(29). 13327–13333. 22 indexed citations

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Luna, Mónica, Mariam Barawi, G. M. Sacha, et al.. (2021). Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Trapping on Single Gold Metal Nanoparticles on TiO₂. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(42). 50531–50538. 22 indexed citations

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Spronsen, M. A. Van, Xiao Zhao, Carlos Escudero, et al.. (2021). Interface Sensitivity in Electron/Ion Yield X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy: The TiO₂–H₂O Interface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(41). 10212–10217. 16 indexed citations

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Lu, Yi‐Hsien, Xiao Zhao, M. A. Van Spronsen, et al.. (2020). Ultrathin Free-Standing Oxide Membranes for Electron and Photon Spectroscopy Studies of Solid–Gas and Solid–Liquid Interfaces. Nano Letters. 20(9). 6364–6371. 24 indexed citations

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Lu, Yi‐Hsien, Jonathan M. Larson, Artem Baskin, et al.. (2019). Infrared Nanospectroscopy at the Graphene–Electrolyte Interface. Nano Letters. 19(8). 5388–5393. 69 indexed citations

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Yim, Chi Ming, Ji Chen, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2018). Visualization of Water-Induced Surface Segregation of Polarons on Rutile TiO₂(110). The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(17). 4865–4871. 37 indexed citations

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Wu, Chenghao, Chang Liu, Dong Su, et al.. (2018). Bimetallic synergy in cobalt–palladium nanocatalysts for CO oxidation. Nature Catalysis. 2(1). 78–85. 249 indexed citations

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Eren, Baran, Heath Kersell, Robert S. Weatherup, et al.. (2017). Structure of the Clean and Oxygen-Covered Cu(100) Surface at Room Temperature in the Presence of Methanol Vapor in the 10–200 mTorr Pressure Range. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(2). 548–554. 23 indexed citations

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Eren, Baran, Danylo Zherebetskyy, Laerte L. Patera, et al.. (2016). One-dimensional nanoclustering of the Cu(100) surface under CO gas in the mbar pressure range. Surface Science. 651. 210–214. 39 indexed citations

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Cheng, Chun, Deyi Fu, Kai Liu, et al.. (2015). Directly Metering Light Absorption and Heat Transfer in Single Nanowires Using Metal–Insulator Transition in VO₂. Advanced Optical Materials. 3(3). 336–341. 22 indexed citations

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Liu, Wei-Tao, et al.. (2010). Nonlinear photoluminescence from graphene. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010. 2 indexed citations

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Bluhm, Hendrik, D. Frank Ogletree, C. S. Fadley, Miquel Salmerón, & Z. Hussain. (2001). The premelting of ice. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 14(8). 1 indexed citations

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