Nathan A. Romero

8.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
19 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Nathan A. Romero is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan A. Romero has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Organic Chemistry, 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 5 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Nathan A. Romero's work include Conducting polymers and applications (4 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (3 papers) and Radical Photochemical Reactions (3 papers). Nathan A. Romero is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (4 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (3 papers) and Radical Photochemical Reactions (3 papers). Nathan A. Romero collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Saudi Arabia. Nathan A. Romero's co-authors include David A. Nicewicz, Kaila A. Margrey, Nicholas E. S. Tay, Timothy M. Swager, Carolyn E. Anderson, Sibo Lin, Yifan Li, Alberto Concellón, Wallace O. Parker and Hu Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Nathan A. Romero

16 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

Organic Photoredox Catalysis 2015 2026 2018 2022 2016 2015 2015 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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. Organic Photoredox Catalysis
    2016 5.1k citations Nathan A. Romero, David A. Nicewicz Chemical Reviews profile →
  2. Site-selective arene C-H amination via photoredox catalysis
    2015 786 citations Nathan A. Romero, Kaila A. Margrey et al. Science profile →
  3. Experimental and Calculated Electrochemical Potentials of Common Organic Molecules for Applications to Single-Electron Redox Chemistry
    2015 632 citations David A. Nicewicz, Nathan A. Romero et al. Synlett profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nathan A. Romero United States 9 6.1k 1.1k 892 717 424 19 7.0k
Jack Twilton United States 10 4.4k 0.7× 920 0.8× 609 0.7× 546 0.8× 411 1.0× 11 5.0k
Jagan M. R. Narayanam United States 11 6.4k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 728 0.8× 812 1.1× 438 1.0× 12 7.0k
Megan H. Shaw United Kingdom 11 4.9k 0.8× 882 0.8× 569 0.6× 498 0.7× 432 1.0× 12 5.5k
Kirsten Zeitler Germany 37 5.3k 0.9× 629 0.6× 683 0.8× 420 0.6× 585 1.4× 80 6.1k
Jinshuai Song China 43 4.0k 0.6× 788 0.7× 405 0.5× 552 0.8× 762 1.8× 101 5.0k
Michael A. Ischay United States 14 4.2k 0.7× 1.0k 1.0× 745 0.8× 454 0.6× 273 0.6× 17 4.9k
Wujiong Xia China 42 5.2k 0.9× 353 0.3× 443 0.5× 806 1.1× 693 1.6× 174 6.0k
Durga Prasad Hari Switzerland 25 5.2k 0.8× 435 0.4× 437 0.5× 558 0.8× 312 0.7× 46 5.6k
Juana Du United States 7 3.8k 0.6× 918 0.8× 714 0.8× 432 0.6× 321 0.8× 8 4.4k
Yu Kawamata United States 28 6.1k 1.0× 1.6k 1.5× 425 0.5× 543 0.8× 820 1.9× 53 7.5k

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Romero, Nathan A., et al.. (2025). Electrochemical C–H Functionalization and Defunctionalization of Polystyrene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(41). 37272–37279.
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Romero, Nathan A., et al.. (2025). Renewable Terephthalates and Aromatic Diisocyanates from Galactose. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(15). e202421540–e202421540. 1 indexed citations
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Blau, Rachel, et al.. (2024). Photography-Inspired Patterned Vapor Phase Polymerization of Conductive PEDOT on Rigid and Stretchable Substrates. ACS Materials Letters. 6(7). 2738–2747. 3 indexed citations
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Romero, Nathan A., et al.. (2024). Synthesis and Photochemical Uncaging of Alkene-Protected, Polymer-Bound Vicinal Frustrated Lewis Pairs. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(36). 24764–24769. 6 indexed citations
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Romero, Nathan A., et al.. (2024). Silylimidazolium Hexafluorophosphate Salts as Synthetic Precursors to N-Heterocyclic Carbene Pentafluorophosphorus Adducts. Organic Letters. 26(22). 4750–4755. 1 indexed citations
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Swager, Timothy M., et al.. (2022). Thiapillar[6]arene: Synthesis, Functionalization, and Properties. Synlett. 33(15). 1532–1538. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Alexander X., Allison Lim, Xuyi Luo, et al.. (2022). Increasing the Strength, Hardness, and Survivability of Semiconducting Polymers by Crosslinking. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 10(3). 15 indexed citations
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Romero, Nathan A., et al.. (2021). Polymerization and Depolymerization of Photoluminescent Polyarylene Chalcogenides. Macromolecules. 54(14). 6698–6704. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Yifan, et al.. (2020). Thiophene-fused polyaromatics: synthesis, columnar liquid crystal, fluorescence and electrochemical properties. Chemical Science. 11(18). 4695–4701. 33 indexed citations
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Romero, Nathan A., Wallace O. Parker, & Timothy M. Swager. (2019). Functional, Redox-Responsive Poly(phenylene sulfide)-Based Gels. Macromolecules. 52(21). 8256–8265. 15 indexed citations
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Swager, Timothy M. & Nathan A. Romero. (2018). New Compounds Departing Trifluoromethoxylation Station. Synfacts. 14(8). 814–814.
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Swager, Timothy M. & Nathan A. Romero. (2018). Cage Compounds Sprout New Rings. Synfacts. 14(3). 247–247. 3 indexed citations
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Romero, Nathan A. & David A. Nicewicz. (2016). Organic Photoredox Catalysis. Chemical Reviews. 116(17). 10075–10166. 5107 indexed citations breakdown →
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Romero, Nathan A., Kaila A. Margrey, Nicholas E. S. Tay, & David A. Nicewicz. (2015). Site-selective arene C-H amination via photoredox catalysis. Science. 349(6254). 1326–1330. 786 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nicewicz, David A., et al.. (2015). Experimental and Calculated Electrochemical Potentials of Common Organic Molecules for Applications to Single-Electron Redox Chemistry. Synlett. 27(5). 714–723. 632 indexed citations breakdown →
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Romero, Nathan A. & David A. Nicewicz. (2014). Mechanistic Insight into the Photoredox Catalysis of Anti-Markovnikov Alkene Hydrofunctionalization Reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(49). 17024–17035. 316 indexed citations
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Romero, Nathan A., et al.. (2012). Au(III)-Catalyzed Tandem Amination–Hydration of Alkynes: Synthesis of α-(N-2-Pyridonyl)ketones. Organic Letters. 14(3). 874–877. 39 indexed citations

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