Nirala Singh

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Nirala Singh is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Nirala Singh has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 25 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 18 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Nirala Singh's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (41 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (15 papers). Nirala Singh is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (41 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (15 papers). Nirala Singh collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Nirala Singh's co-authors include Bryan R. Goldsmith, Danielle Richards, Syed Mubeen, Joun Lee, Martin Moskovits, Galen D. Stucky, Stephan Krämer, Jin‐Xun Liu, Eric W. McFarland and Charles T. Campbell and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Nirala Singh

65 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

An autonomous photosynthetic device in which all charge c... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2019 250 500 750 1000
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. An autonomous photosynthetic device in which all charge carriers derive from surface plasmons
    2013 1.0k citations Syed Mubeen, Nirala Singh et al. profile →
  2. Activity and Selectivity Trends in Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction on Transition Metals
    2019 664 citations Nirala Singh, Bryan R. Goldsmith et al. ACS Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nirala Singh United States 28 2.9k 1.8k 1.4k 968 870 70 4.5k
Ji Yang China 29 3.0k 1.0× 2.8k 1.5× 1.6k 1.1× 1.3k 1.3× 525 0.6× 52 5.0k
Ranjit Thapa India 43 3.2k 1.1× 3.6k 2.0× 1.3k 0.9× 2.9k 3.0× 448 0.5× 234 6.5k
Pei Chen China 41 3.8k 1.3× 2.0k 1.1× 735 0.5× 3.1k 3.2× 703 0.8× 240 6.1k
Chao Cai China 37 3.3k 1.1× 2.0k 1.1× 908 0.6× 2.7k 2.8× 396 0.5× 80 5.0k
Uttam Kumar Ghorai India 36 1.6k 0.6× 2.8k 1.5× 1.2k 0.9× 1.5k 1.5× 506 0.6× 151 4.5k
Baihai Li China 35 2.9k 1.0× 2.7k 1.4× 1.8k 1.3× 1.8k 1.9× 192 0.2× 93 5.1k
Yuanmin Zhu China 37 2.5k 0.9× 2.3k 1.2× 801 0.6× 3.0k 3.1× 295 0.3× 132 5.6k
Xiongwu Kang China 43 3.2k 1.1× 2.1k 1.1× 733 0.5× 2.7k 2.8× 250 0.3× 112 5.2k
Chaozheng He China 48 3.0k 1.0× 4.6k 2.5× 1.7k 1.2× 2.4k 2.5× 449 0.5× 190 6.6k
Peter C. K. Vesborg Denmark 43 5.8k 2.0× 4.4k 2.4× 1.9k 1.4× 3.4k 3.5× 409 0.5× 104 8.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nirala Singh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nirala Singh

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All Works

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Ye, Rong, et al.. (2025). Distinctive Kinetic Signatures of Surface Segregation Processes in Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(31). 27777–27789.
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Bai, Jianping, et al.. (2025). Recent Advances in Microenvironment Engineering for Selective Electrochemical C–N Coupling. ChemSusChem. 18(20). e202501366–e202501366.
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Das, Chayanika, et al.. (2025). Optimizing Sputtered Iridium Electrocatalysts for Acidic Oxygen Evolution Using Design of Experiments. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129(41). 18391–18405.
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Sweeney, Donald W., Muzhi Li, Max Shtein, et al.. (2025). Multilayer Formation, Interfacial Binding, and Stability of Self-Assembled Molecules in Perovskite Solar Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(52). 48136–48146. 1 indexed citations
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Singh, Nirala, et al.. (2024). Synergistic effects in organic mixtures for enhanced catalytic hydrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation. Chem Catalysis. 4(12). 101135–101135.
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Singh, Nirala, et al.. (2024). Coordination, hydration, and diffusion of vanadyl cations in negatively charged polymer membranes. Chemical Engineering Journal. 499. 155942–155942. 3 indexed citations
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Souza, João Batista, et al.. (2024). Role of Structural and Compositional Changes of Cu2O Nanocubes in Nitrate Electroreduction to Ammonia. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7(19). 9034–9044. 12 indexed citations
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Araújo, João Pessoa, et al.. (2023). Tracking Copper Oxidation State during Nitrate Electrochemical Reduction Reaction. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2023-01(39). 2300–2300. 1 indexed citations
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Yao, Libo, et al.. (2023). Translating Catalyst–Polymer Composites from Liquid to Gas-Fed CO2 Electrolysis: A CoPc-P4VP Case Study. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(26). 31438–31448. 9 indexed citations
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Singh, Nirala, et al.. (2023). Electrode Treatments for Redox Flow Batteries: Translating Our Understanding from Vanadium to Aqueous‐Organic. Advanced Science. 11(1). e2307209–e2307209. 17 indexed citations
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Saleheen, Mohammad, et al.. (2022). Liquid-Phase Effects on Adsorption Processes in Heterogeneous Catalysis. JACS Au. 2(9). 2119–2134. 22 indexed citations
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Gutiérrez, Oliver Y., et al.. (2022). Explaining the structure sensitivity of Pt and Rh for aqueous-phase hydrogenation of phenol. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 156(10). 104703–104703. 12 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Soumen, Mirza Galib, Ba L. Tran, et al.. (2022). Near-Quantitative Predictions of the First-Shell Coordination Structure of Hydrated First-Row Transition Metal Ions Using K-Edge X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(27). 6323–6330. 13 indexed citations
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Campbell, Charles T., et al.. (2021). Effects of Solvents on Adsorption Energies: A General Bond-Additivity Model. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(44). 24371–24380. 19 indexed citations
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Goldsmith, Bryan R., et al.. (2020). Adsorption Energies of Oxygenated Aromatics and Organics on Rhodium and Platinum in Aqueous Phase. ACS Catalysis. 10(9). 4929–4941. 45 indexed citations
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Akhade, Sneha A., Nirala Singh, Oliver Y. Gutiérrez, et al.. (2020). Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Biomass-Derived Organics: A Review. Chemical Reviews. 120(20). 11370–11419. 315 indexed citations

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