Owain Vaughan

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Owain Vaughan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Owain Vaughan has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 17 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Owain Vaughan's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (14 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (14 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers). Owain Vaughan is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (14 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (14 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers). Owain Vaughan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands. Owain Vaughan's co-authors include Richard M. Lambert, Mintcho S. Tikhov, Mark Turner, Vladimir B. Golovko, Pavel Abdulkin, Brian F. G. Johnson, Ángel Berenguer‐Murcia, Federico J. Williams, Georgios Kyriakou and Norman Macleod and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Owain Vaughan

46 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

  1. Selective oxidation with dioxygen by gold nanoparticle catalysts derived from 55-atom clusters
    2008 1.2k citations Mark Turner, Vladimir B. Golovko et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Owain Vaughan United Kingdom 16 1.5k 470 381 344 343 49 1.9k
Russ Renzas United States 11 1.8k 1.2× 499 1.1× 557 1.5× 1.1k 3.1× 243 0.7× 15 2.4k
Jessi E. S. van der Hoeven Netherlands 21 1.0k 0.7× 281 0.6× 364 1.0× 410 1.2× 206 0.6× 52 1.3k
Elad Gross Israel 27 943 0.6× 759 1.6× 255 0.7× 467 1.4× 652 1.9× 73 2.3k
Matthew J. Kale United States 12 1.6k 1.1× 215 0.5× 436 1.1× 967 2.8× 322 0.9× 13 2.1k
Artem V. Kuklin Sweden 24 2.1k 1.4× 290 0.6× 373 1.0× 740 2.2× 391 1.1× 83 2.8k
Duy Le United States 24 2.2k 1.4× 158 0.3× 330 0.9× 582 1.7× 221 0.6× 85 2.6k
Arup K. Chakraborty United States 27 960 0.6× 280 0.6× 200 0.5× 450 1.3× 231 0.7× 52 1.9k
Jun Yamasaki Japan 23 719 0.5× 521 1.1× 165 0.4× 248 0.7× 430 1.3× 88 1.8k
Wencai Yi China 28 1.6k 1.1× 133 0.3× 182 0.5× 488 1.4× 379 1.1× 88 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Owain Vaughan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Owain Vaughan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Owain Vaughan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Owain Vaughan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Owain Vaughan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Owain Vaughan. Owain Vaughan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vaughan, Owain. (2023). A history of memristors in five covers. Nature Electronics. 6(1). 7–7. 9 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Owain. (2019). Working on the edge. Nature Electronics. 2(1). 2–3. 12 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Owain. (2014). Grown from seed. Nature Nanotechnology. 1 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Owain. (2009). From nanotubes to nanoribbons. Nature Nanotechnology. 4(5). 283–283. 1 indexed citations
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Turner, Mark, Owain Vaughan, Georgios Kyriakou, et al.. (2009). Deprotection, Tethering, and Activation of a One-Legged Metalloporphyrin on a Chemically Active Metal Surface: NEXAFS, Synchrotron XPS, and STM Study of [SAc]P−Mn(III)Cl on Ag(100). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(41). 14913–14919. 23 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Owain. (2009). A closer look at the atoms in a molecule. Nature Nanotechnology. 4(10). 620–620. 1 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Owain. (2009). Universal growth. Nature Nanotechnology. 1 indexed citations
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Turner, Mark, Vladimir B. Golovko, Owain Vaughan, et al.. (2008). Selective oxidation with dioxygen by gold nanoparticle catalysts derived from 55-atom clusters. Nature. 454(7207). 981–983. 1171 indexed citations breakdown →
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Turner, Mark, Owain Vaughan, & Richard M. Lambert. (2008). Partial oxidations with NO2 catalyzed by large gold particles. Chemical Communications. 2316–2316. 16 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Owain, et al.. (2008). Dipole Amplification: A Principle for the Self‐Assembly of Asymmetric Monomers on Metal Surfaces. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(13). 2422–2426. 17 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Owain. (2008). Why size matters. Nature Nanotechnology.
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Vaughan, Owain. (2008). An organized union. Nature Nanotechnology. 3 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Owain, Federico J. Williams, Nick Bampos, & Richard M. Lambert. (2006). A Chemically Switchable Molecular Pinwheel. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45(23). 3779–3781. 61 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Owain, et al.. (2006). Direct Observation of Surface-Mediated Thioacetyl Deprotection:  Covalent Tethering of a Thiol-Terminated Porphyrin to the Ag(100) Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128(30). 9578–9579. 15 indexed citations
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Urquhart, Andrew J., Federico J. Williams, Owain Vaughan, Rachael L. Cropley, & Richard M. Lambert. (2005). Adsorbate conformation determines catalytic chemoselectivity: crotonaldehyde on the Pt(111) surface. Chemical Communications. 1977–1977. 22 indexed citations
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Vaughan, Owain, Georgios Kyriakou, Norman Macleod, Mintcho S. Tikhov, & Richard M. Lambert. (2005). Copper as a selective catalyst for the epoxidation of propene. Journal of Catalysis. 236(2). 401–404. 170 indexed citations
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Cropley, Rachael L., Federico J. Williams, Owain Vaughan, et al.. (2005). Copper is highly effective for the epoxidation of a “difficult” alkene, whereas silver is not. Surface Science. 578(1-3). L85–L88. 26 indexed citations
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Williams, Federico J., Rachael L. Cropley, Owain Vaughan, et al.. (2005). Critical Influence of Adsorption Geometry in the Heterogeneous Epoxidation of “Allylic” Alkenes:  Structure and Reactivity of Three Phenylpropene Isomers on Cu(111). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(48). 17007–17011. 24 indexed citations
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Williams, Federico J., Owain Vaughan, Kerry J. Knox, Nick Bampos, & Richard M. Lambert. (2004). First observation of capping/uncapping by a ligand of a Zn porphyrin adsorbed on Ag(100). Chemical Communications. 1688–1688. 54 indexed citations
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Roeterdink, Wim G., et al.. (2003). Coulomb explosion in femtosecond laser ablation of Si(111). Applied Physics Letters. 82(23). 4190–4192. 74 indexed citations

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