Peter Ferrin

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Ferrin is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Ferrin has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Materials Chemistry, 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 5 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Peter Ferrin's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (4 papers). Peter Ferrin is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (4 papers). Peter Ferrin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Singapore. Peter Ferrin's co-authors include Manos Mavrikakis, Anand Udaykumar Nilekar, Jeffrey A. Herron, Shampa Kandoi, David C. Bell, Rui Si, Weiling Deng, Guowen Peng, Yanping Zhai and Howard Saltsburg and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Peter Ferrin

13 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Alkali-Stabilized Pt-OH x Species Catalyze Low-Temperat... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2012 200 400 600
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. Alkali-Stabilized Pt-OH x Species Catalyze Low-Temperature Water-Gas Shift Reactions
    2010 658 citations Yanping Zhai, Rui Si et al. Science profile →
  2. Hydrogen adsorption, absorption and diffusion on and in transition metal surfaces: A DFT study
    2012 420 citations Peter Ferrin, Shampa Kandoi et al. Surface Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Ferrin United States 12 1.7k 1.4k 929 539 291 13 2.4k
Stephanus Axnanda United States 24 1.8k 1.1× 962 0.7× 834 0.9× 557 1.0× 248 0.9× 48 2.5k
Farzad Behafarid United States 27 2.1k 1.3× 2.1k 1.6× 1.3k 1.4× 748 1.4× 450 1.5× 34 3.5k
David C. Grinter United Kingdom 27 2.6k 1.6× 1.1k 0.8× 1.6k 1.7× 466 0.9× 235 0.8× 76 3.2k
Matthew T. Darby United Kingdom 14 1.8k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 758 0.8× 434 0.8× 359 1.2× 15 2.5k
Felicia R. Lucci United States 20 2.3k 1.4× 1.6k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 327 0.6× 602 2.1× 27 3.0k
Hojin Jeong South Korea 20 1.6k 1.0× 995 0.7× 922 1.0× 464 0.9× 353 1.2× 48 2.2k
Matthew D. Marcinkowski United States 20 2.5k 1.5× 1.7k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 346 0.6× 666 2.3× 27 3.2k
Albert Bruix Spain 27 3.5k 2.1× 1.8k 1.3× 1.5k 1.6× 765 1.4× 454 1.6× 51 4.1k
Emily A. Lewis United States 16 1.4k 0.9× 874 0.6× 617 0.7× 318 0.6× 496 1.7× 25 2.1k
Andrzej Borodziński Poland 20 1.5k 0.9× 655 0.5× 724 0.8× 428 0.8× 471 1.6× 40 2.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Ferrin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Ferrin

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All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Roling, Luke T., et al.. (2016). Dimethyl ether electro-oxidation on platinum surfaces. Nano Energy. 29. 428–438. 16 indexed citations
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Herron, Jeffrey A., Peter Ferrin, & Manos Mavrikakis. (2015). Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Ammonia on Transition-Metal Surfaces: A First-Principles Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119(26). 14692–14701. 204 indexed citations
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Herron, Jeffrey A., Peter Ferrin, & Manos Mavrikakis. (2015). On the Structure Sensitivity of Dimethyl Ether Electro-oxidation on Eight FCC Metals: A First-Principles Study. Topics in Catalysis. 58(18-20). 1159–1173. 11 indexed citations
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Herron, Jeffrey A., Jessica Scaranto, Peter Ferrin, Sha Li, & Manos Mavrikakis. (2014). Trends in Formic Acid Decomposition on Model Transition Metal Surfaces: A Density Functional Theory study. ACS Catalysis. 4(12). 4434–4445. 203 indexed citations
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Herron, Jeffrey A., Peter Ferrin, & Manos Mavrikakis. (2014). First-Principles Mechanistic Analysis of Dimethyl Ether Electro-Oxidation on Monometallic Single-Crystal Surfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 118(42). 24199–24211. 24 indexed citations
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Rossmeisl, Jan, Peter Ferrin, Georgios A. Tritsaris, et al.. (2012). Bifunctional anode catalysts for direct methanol fuel cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 5(8). 8335–8335. 156 indexed citations
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Ferrin, Peter, Shampa Kandoi, Anand Udaykumar Nilekar, & Manos Mavrikakis. (2012). Hydrogen adsorption, absorption and diffusion on and in transition metal surfaces: A DFT study. Surface Science. 606(7-8). 679–689. 420 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhai, Yanping, Rui Si, Weiling Deng, et al.. (2010). Alkali-Stabilized Pt-OH x Species Catalyze Low-Temperature Water-Gas Shift Reactions. Science. 329(5999). 1633–1636. 658 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kandoi, Shampa, Peter Ferrin, & Manos Mavrikakis. (2010). Hydrogen on and in Selected Overlayer Near-Surface Alloys and the Effect of Subsurface Hydrogen on the Reactivity of Alloy Surfaces. Topics in Catalysis. 53(5-6). 384–392. 29 indexed citations
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Ferrin, Peter & Manos Mavrikakis. (2009). Structure Sensitivity of Methanol Electrooxidation on Transition Metals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(40). 14381–14389. 210 indexed citations
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Ferrin, Peter, Shampa Kandoi, Junliang Zhang, Radoslav R. Adžić, & Manos Mavrikakis. (2009). Molecular and Atomic Hydrogen Interactions with Au−Ir Near-Surface Alloys. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 113(4). 1411–1417. 28 indexed citations
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Ferrin, Peter, Dante Simonetti, Shampa Kandoi, et al.. (2009). Modeling Ethanol Decomposition on Transition Metals: A Combined Application of Scaling and Brønsted−Evans−Polanyi Relations. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(16). 5809–5815. 279 indexed citations
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Ferrin, Peter, Anand Udaykumar Nilekar, Jeff Greeley, Manos Mavrikakis, & Jan Rossmeisl. (2008). Reactivity descriptors for direct methanol fuel cell anode catalysts. Surface Science. 602(21). 3424–3431. 167 indexed citations

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