Pedro Serna

8.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
75 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Pedro Serna is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Pedro Serna has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Materials Chemistry, 36 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 33 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Pedro Serna's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (36 papers), Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (25 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (24 papers). Pedro Serna is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (36 papers), Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (25 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (24 papers). Pedro Serna collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Italy. Pedro Serna's co-authors include Avelino Corma, Patricia Concepción, Bruce C. Gates, José J. Calvino, Manuel Moliner, Randall J. Meyer, Francesc Illas, Silvia González, Mercè Boronat and Kimberly T. Dinh and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Pedro Serna

72 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Chemoselective Hydrogenation of Nitro Compounds with Supp... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2007 2008 2016 2020 400 800 1.2k
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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. Chemoselective Hydrogenation of Nitro Compounds with Supported Gold Catalysts
    2006 1.4k citations Avelino Corma, Pedro Serna Science profile →
  2. A Different Reaction Pathway for the Reduction of Aromatic Nitro Compounds on Gold Catalysts
    2007 529 citations Avelino Corma, Patricia Concepción et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  3. Transforming Nonselective into Chemoselective Metal Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of Substituted Nitroaromatics
    2008 527 citations Avelino Corma, Pedro Serna et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Reversible Transformation of Pt Nanoparticles into Single Atoms inside High-Silica Chabazite Zeolite
    2016 409 citations Manuel Moliner, Chris E. Kliewer et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. Structural modulation and direct measurement of subnanometric bimetallic PtSn clusters confined in zeolites
    2020 291 citations Lichen Liu, Miguel López‐Haro et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pedro Serna Spain 37 4.9k 4.1k 2.3k 2.2k 1.6k 75 6.9k
Marga‐Martina Pohl Germany 41 4.0k 0.8× 3.9k 1.0× 2.2k 1.0× 2.6k 1.1× 2.2k 1.3× 88 7.5k
Gianvito Vilé Italy 35 4.1k 0.8× 2.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 2.4k 1.5× 88 6.0k
Shinya Furukawa Japan 43 3.6k 0.7× 1.7k 0.4× 2.0k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 2.0k 1.3× 140 6.1k
Jabor Rabeah Germany 40 4.3k 0.9× 2.7k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 2.5k 1.1× 2.8k 1.7× 157 7.3k
Ursula Bentrup Germany 41 3.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.3× 2.4k 1.1× 1.7k 0.8× 957 0.6× 177 5.4k
Vasant R. Choudhary India 47 4.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.3× 3.2k 1.4× 1.8k 0.8× 736 0.5× 171 6.2k
Sanjay Kumar Singh India 36 2.6k 0.5× 1.7k 0.4× 1.2k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 1000 0.6× 157 5.3k
Katsuomi Takehira Japan 51 5.7k 1.2× 1.7k 0.4× 4.0k 1.8× 1.2k 0.5× 538 0.3× 184 7.2k
Takashi Toyao Japan 44 5.0k 1.0× 1.4k 0.3× 2.3k 1.0× 2.6k 1.2× 2.5k 1.5× 216 7.2k
Mark A. Keane United Kingdom 51 4.4k 0.9× 3.6k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 631 0.4× 192 7.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Millán, Reisel, Alejandro Vidal‐Moya, Randall J. Meyer, et al.. (2025). Resolving Complex K–Pt–Sn Interactions in PtSn@K-MFI Catalysts for Alkane Dehydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(15). 12833–12844. 3 indexed citations
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Rojas‐Buzo, Sergio, Davide Salusso, Yu Xia, et al.. (2025). Overcoming activity/stability tradeoffs in CO oxidation catalysis by Pt/CeO2. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7451–7451. 2 indexed citations
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Batista, Lucas S., et al.. (2024). Influence of the addition of sisal fibers on the physical and mechanical properties of mortars. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 403. 2007–2007.
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Concepción, Patricia, et al.. (2024). Highly Stable Subnanometric Pt Clusters in All Silica K-Doped Zeolites: Implications for the CO Oxidation Reaction. ACS Catalysis. 15(2). 608–615. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Chengeng, Randall J. Meyer, Elaine Gomez, et al.. (2024). Highly Stable Subnanometric PtIn Clusters for the Selective Dehydrogenation of Alkanes. ChemSusChem. 18(2). e202401284–e202401284. 3 indexed citations
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Boronat, Mercedes, María J. Climent, Patricia Concepción, et al.. (2022). A Career in Catalysis: Avelino Corma. ACS Catalysis. 12(12). 7054–7123. 16 indexed citations
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Serna, Pedro, et al.. (2021). Single‐Site vs. Cluster Catalysis in High Temperature Oxidations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(29). 15954–15962. 36 indexed citations
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Serna, Pedro, et al.. (2021). Single‐Site vs. Cluster Catalysis in High Temperature Oxidations. Angewandte Chemie. 133(29). 16090–16098. 9 indexed citations
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He, Xin, Kimberly T. Dinh, Tianyang Chen, et al.. (2020). Cerium(IV) Enhances the Catalytic Oxidation Activity of Single-Site Cu Active Sites in MOFs. ACS Catalysis. 10(14). 7820–7825. 68 indexed citations
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Moliner, Manuel, et al.. (2018). Trapping of Metal Atoms and Metal Clusters by Chabazite under Severe Redox Stress. ACS Catalysis. 8(10). 9520–9528. 56 indexed citations
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Serna, Pedro, et al.. (2014). Selective Reductive Coupling of Nitro Compounds with Aldehydes to Nitrones in H2 Using Carbon‐Supported and ‐Decorated Platinum Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(35). 9306–9310. 42 indexed citations
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Serna, Pedro & Bruce C. Gates. (2011). A Bifunctional Mechanism for Ethene Dimerization: Catalysis by Rhodium Complexes on Zeolite HY in the Absence of Halides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(24). 5528–5531. 50 indexed citations
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Santos, Laura L., Pedro Serna, & Avelino Corma. (2009). Chemoselective Synthesis of Substituted Imines, Secondary Amines, and β‐Amino Carbonyl Compounds from Nitroaromatics through Cascade Reactions on Gold Catalysts. Chemistry - A European Journal. 15(33). 8196–8203. 73 indexed citations
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Baumes, Laurent A., Rémi Gaudin, Pedro Serna, Nicolas Nicoloyannis, & Avelino Corma. (2008). Integrating Chemists Preferences for Shape-Similarity Clustering of Series. Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening. 11(4). 266–282. 4 indexed citations
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Serra, José M., Laurent A. Baumes, Manuel Moliner, Pedro Serna, & Avelino Corma. (2007). Zeolite Synthesis Modelling with Support Vector Machines: A Combinatorial Approach. Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening. 10(1). 13–24. 46 indexed citations
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Corma, Avelino & Pedro Serna. (2006). Chemoselective Hydrogenation of Nitro Compounds with Supported Gold Catalysts. Science. 313(5785). 332–334. 1366 indexed citations breakdown →
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Corma, Avelino & Pedro Serna. (2006). Preparation of substituted anilines from nitro compounds by using supported gold catalysts. Nature Protocols. 1(6). 2590–2595. 41 indexed citations
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Valero, Soledad, Estefanía Argente, José M. Serra, et al.. (2004). A soft computing technique applied to industrial catalysis. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 17(7). 765–769. 1 indexed citations

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