Patrick Commins

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Patrick Commins is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Commins has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Materials Chemistry, 12 papers in Organic Chemistry and 10 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Patrick Commins's work include Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (6 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (6 papers) and Polymer composites and self-healing (6 papers). Patrick Commins is often cited by papers focused on Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (6 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (6 papers) and Polymer composites and self-healing (6 papers). Patrick Commins collaborates with scholars based in United Arab Emirates, United States and North Macedonia. Patrick Commins's co-authors include Pancě Naumov, Durga Prasad Karothu, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, Liang Li, Luca Catalano, Miguel A. Garcı́a-Garibay, Jad Mahmoud Halabi, Hideyuki Hara, Ejaz Ahmed and Israel Desta and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Commins

42 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

The Rise of the Dynamic Crystals 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
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. The Rise of the Dynamic Crystals
    2020 341 citations Pancě Naumov, Durga Prasad Karothu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick Commins United Arab Emirates 19 984 424 420 225 222 45 1.5k
С.А. Чижик Russia 13 927 0.9× 267 0.6× 331 0.8× 274 1.2× 226 1.0× 38 1.3k
Fei Tong China 22 1.1k 1.1× 423 1.0× 325 0.8× 153 0.7× 369 1.7× 68 1.5k
Nino Lomadze Germany 26 688 0.7× 537 1.3× 152 0.4× 252 1.1× 313 1.4× 77 1.7k
Olivier Lebel Canada 19 652 0.7× 227 0.5× 174 0.4× 373 1.7× 120 0.5× 47 1.2k
Dennis Cao United States 23 1.2k 1.2× 971 2.3× 320 0.8× 388 1.7× 422 1.9× 41 2.1k
Maria Angela Castriciano Italy 27 1.4k 1.4× 324 0.8× 159 0.4× 126 0.6× 288 1.3× 76 2.0k
Martin Presselt Germany 25 851 0.9× 226 0.5× 231 0.6× 160 0.7× 61 0.3× 68 1.6k
Masa‐aki Morikawa Japan 20 929 0.9× 378 0.9× 90 0.2× 134 0.6× 235 1.1× 52 1.5k
David Bialas Germany 25 1.5k 1.5× 705 1.7× 327 0.8× 171 0.8× 298 1.3× 41 2.5k
Etelvina de Matos Gomes Portugal 19 521 0.5× 192 0.5× 217 0.5× 491 2.2× 123 0.6× 89 1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick Commins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Commins

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All Works

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Commins, Patrick, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, & Pancě Naumov. (2025). Self-healing crystals. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 9(5). 343–355. 7 indexed citations
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Tang, Baolei, Bowen Jin, Patrick Commins, et al.. (2025). Cryogenically self-healing organic crystals. Nature Materials. 25(2). 285–293. 1 indexed citations
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Mattera, Giulio, Joseph Polden, Alessandra Caggiano, et al.. (2024). Anomaly Detection of Wire Arc Additively Manufactured Parts via Surface Tension Transfer through Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques. Procedia CIRP. 126. 686–691. 9 indexed citations
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Al‐Handawi, Marieh B., Patrick Commins, Ahmed S. Dalaq, et al.. (2024). Ferroelastic ionic organic crystals that self-heal to 95%. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8095–8095. 12 indexed citations
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Xiao, Yuntian, Ling Zhou, Patrick Commins, et al.. (2024). Current trends and advancements in crystallization and single-crystal structural analysis of small molecules. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 517. 216035–216035. 17 indexed citations
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Commins, Patrick, Arthi Ravi, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, et al.. (2024). A Self-Healing Crystal That Repairs Multiple Cracks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(39). 27100–27108. 18 indexed citations
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Commins, Patrick, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, Rachid Rezgui, et al.. (2023). Autonomous and directional flow of water and transport of particles across a subliming dynamic crystal surface. Nature Chemistry. 15(5). 677–684. 13 indexed citations
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Al‐Handawi, Marieh B., Patrick Commins, Stefan Schramm, et al.. (2022). Spectrochemistry of Firefly Bioluminescence. Chemical Reviews. 122(16). 13207–13234. 37 indexed citations
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Commins, Patrick, et al.. (2022). Autonomous and Directional Flow of Water and Transport of Particles across a Subliming Dynamic Crystal Surface. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Raj, Gijo, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Inhibitors for Middle Eastern Asphaltenes by Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation. Energy & Fuels. 36(16). 8786–8798. 8 indexed citations
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Solntsev, Kyril M., Na’il Saleh, Patrick Commins, et al.. (2021). Formation of Noncovalent Complexes between Complex Mixtures of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Asphaltenes) and Substituted Aromatics Studied by Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Energy & Fuels. 35(10). 8742–8755. 11 indexed citations
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Naumov, Pancě, Durga Prasad Karothu, Ejaz Ahmed, et al.. (2020). The Rise of the Dynamic Crystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(31). 13256–13272. 341 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schramm, Stefan, Durga Prasad Karothu, Patrick Commins, et al.. (2019). Thermochemiluminescent peroxide crystals. Nature Communications. 10(1). 997–997. 17 indexed citations
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Commins, Patrick, Durga Prasad Karothu, & Pancě Naumov. (2019). Ist ein gebogener Kristall immer noch ein Einkristall?. Angewandte Chemie. 131(30). 10154–10163. 29 indexed citations
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Catalano, Luca, Patrick Commins, Stefan Schramm, et al.. (2019). A filled organic crystal as a hybrid large-bandwidth optical waveguide. Chemical Communications. 55(34). 4921–4924. 35 indexed citations
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Raj, Gijo, et al.. (2019). In Situ Monitoring of the Inhibition of Asphaltene Adsorption by a Surfactant on Carbon Steel Surface. Energy & Fuels. 33(3). 2030–2036. 8 indexed citations
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Commins, Patrick, et al.. (2018). Reversible Multicolor Photochromism of Dihydroazulene Crystals. Chemistry - A European Journal. 25(1). 373–378. 22 indexed citations
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Commins, Patrick, Arunkumar Natarajan, Saeed I. Khan, et al.. (2015). Structure–Reactivity Correlations and Mechanistic Understanding of the Photorearrangement and Photosalient Effect of α-Santonin and Its Derivatives in Solutions, Crystals, and Nanocrystalline Suspensions. Crystal Growth & Design. 15(4). 1983–1990. 63 indexed citations
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Commins, Patrick. (1988). Integrated rural development. Journal of Rural Studies. 4(3). 301–302. 4 indexed citations

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