Raja Shahid Ashraf

11.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
97 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Raja Shahid Ashraf is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Raja Shahid Ashraf has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 70 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 12 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Raja Shahid Ashraf's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (78 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (69 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (32 papers). Raja Shahid Ashraf is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (78 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (69 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (32 papers). Raja Shahid Ashraf collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Raja Shahid Ashraf's co-authors include Iain McCulloch, James R. Durrant, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Christian B. Nielsen, Bob C. Schroeder, Martin Heeney, Hugo Bronstein, Sarah Holliday, Henning Sirringhaus and Alberto Salleo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Raja Shahid Ashraf

96 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer sola... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2016 2016 2011 2010 2011 250 500 750 1000
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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. High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor
    2016 1.1k citations Sarah Holliday, Raja Shahid Ashraf et al. profile →
  2. Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells
    2016 937 citations Derya Baran, Raja Shahid Ashraf et al. profile →
  3. Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene−Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Containing Polymers for High-Performance Organic Field-Effect Transistors and Organic Photovoltaic Devices
    2011 826 citations Hugo Bronstein, Zhuoying Chen et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Indacenodithiophene Semiconducting Polymers for High-Performance, Air-Stable Transistors
    2010 535 citations Weimin Zhang, Jeremy Smith et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. High‐Performance Ambipolar Diketopyrrolopyrrole‐Thieno[3,2‐b]thiophene Copolymer Field‐Effect Transistors with Balanced Hole and Electron Mobilities
    2011 517 citations Zhuoying Chen, Mi Jung Lee et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  6. Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages
    2016 461 citations Derya Baran, Thomas Kirchartz et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  7. A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics
    2014 443 citations Sarah Holliday, Raja Shahid Ashraf 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
Raja Shahid Ashraf United Kingdom 46 9.4k 8.0k 1.4k 884 643 97 10.3k
Erjun Zhou China 61 10.6k 1.1× 9.0k 1.1× 1.8k 1.3× 927 1.0× 497 0.8× 290 11.6k
Jung Hwa Seo South Korea 42 7.9k 0.8× 6.0k 0.8× 2.1k 1.5× 574 0.6× 827 1.3× 151 8.8k
Chengmei Zhong China 33 8.9k 0.9× 7.4k 0.9× 1.7k 1.2× 527 0.6× 626 1.0× 56 9.6k
Chunhui Duan China 49 8.0k 0.8× 6.7k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 488 0.6× 553 0.9× 163 8.7k
Serge Beaupré Canada 40 9.5k 1.0× 8.2k 1.0× 1.7k 1.2× 1.1k 1.3× 605 0.9× 68 10.6k
Chang He China 44 8.3k 0.9× 6.8k 0.9× 2.0k 1.4× 548 0.6× 559 0.9× 107 9.5k
Lijun Huo China 60 15.0k 1.6× 13.3k 1.7× 1.7k 1.2× 1.3k 1.5× 687 1.1× 138 15.9k
Laurence Lutsen Belgium 48 6.7k 0.7× 5.2k 0.7× 2.0k 1.4× 979 1.1× 742 1.2× 228 8.0k
Jun Gao Canada 30 11.2k 1.2× 9.0k 1.1× 2.4k 1.7× 1.2k 1.4× 926 1.4× 103 12.3k
Tsz‐Ki Lau Hong Kong 40 12.2k 1.3× 10.1k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 708 0.8× 481 0.7× 67 12.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shahid, Munazza, Muhammad Altaf, Ayman Nafady, et al.. (2025). Bimetallic metal-organic frameworks as versatile electrocatalysts for water splitting in neutral and alkaline environments. Fuel. 397. 135488–135488. 3 indexed citations
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Shahid, Munazza, Muhammad Altaf, Jie Min, et al.. (2025). Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 13(2). 867–880. 1 indexed citations
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Haider, Ali, et al.. (2025). THE CHEMISTRY OF 2D MATERIALS FROM GRAPHENE TO BEYOND. 2(1). 197–221. 2 indexed citations
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Shah, Syed Shoaib Ahmad, Manzar Sohail, Raja Shahid Ashraf, et al.. (2024). Optimizing electrochemical power generation: Harnessing synergies and surface innovation in NiTe-modified MOF nanoarchitectures. Journal of Power Sources. 612. 234827–234827. 5 indexed citations
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Ali, Liaqat, et al.. (2023). Quinoxaline derivatives as attractive electron-transporting materials. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 19. 1694–1712. 14 indexed citations
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Khan, Ammar Ahmed, et al.. (2023). All organic double cable polymers of a polythiophene donor with rhodanine and perylene diimide acceptors and evaluation of photocurrent generation. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11(45). 16037–16048. 2 indexed citations
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Khan, Jafar I., Maha A. Alamoudi, Neha Chaturvedi, et al.. (2021). Impact of Acceptor Quadrupole Moment on Charge Generation and Recombination in Blends of IDT‐Based Non‐Fullerene Acceptors with PCE10 as Donor Polymer. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(28). 39 indexed citations
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Shafiq, Iqrash, Murid Hussain, Sumeer Shafique, et al.. (2021). Systematic Assessment of Visible-Light-Driven Microspherical V2O5 Photocatalyst for the Removal of Hazardous Organosulfur Compounds from Diesel. Nanomaterials. 11(11). 2908–2908. 31 indexed citations
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Baran, Derya, Thomas Kirchartz, Scot Wheeler, et al.. (2016). Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages. Energy & Environmental Science. 9(12). 3783–3793. 461 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schroeder, Bob C., Mindaugas Kirkus, Christian B. Nielsen, Raja Shahid Ashraf, & Iain McCulloch. (2015). Dithienosilolothiophene: A New Polyfused Donor for Organic Electronics. Macromolecules. 48(16). 5557–5562. 3 indexed citations
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Schroeder, Bob C., Zhe Li, Michael A. Brady, et al.. (2014). Enhancing Fullerene‐Based Solar Cell Lifetimes by Addition of a Fullerene Dumbbell. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(47). 12870–12875. 78 indexed citations
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Schroeder, Bob C., Zhe Li, Michael A. Brady, et al.. (2014). Enhancing Fullerene‐Based Solar Cell Lifetimes by Addition of a Fullerene Dumbbell. Angewandte Chemie. 126(47). 13084–13089. 6 indexed citations
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Holliday, Sarah, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Christian B. Nielsen, et al.. (2014). A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(2). 898–904. 443 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rumer, Joseph W., Sheng‐Yao Dai, Young-Ju Kim, et al.. (2013). Dihydropyrroloindoledione-based copolymers for organic electronics. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 1(15). 2711–2711. 19 indexed citations
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Ashraf, Raja Shahid, Bob C. Schroeder, Hugo Bronstein, et al.. (2013). The Influence of Polymer Purification on Photovoltaic Device Performance of a Series of Indacenodithiophene Donor Polymers. Advanced Materials. 25(14). 2029–2034. 126 indexed citations
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Bansal, Neha, Luke X. Reynolds, Andrew MacLachlan, et al.. (2013). Influence of Crystallinity and Energetics on Charge Separation in Polymer–Inorganic Nanocomposite Films for Solar Cells. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 1531–1531. 81 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xinran, Lee J. Richter, Dean M. DeLongchamp, et al.. (2011). Molecular Packing of High-Mobility Diketo Pyrrolo-Pyrrole Polymer Semiconductors with Branched Alkyl Side Chains. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(38). 15073–15084. 371 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhuoying, Mi Jung Lee, Raja Shahid Ashraf, et al.. (2011). High‐Performance Ambipolar Diketopyrrolopyrrole‐Thieno[3,2‐b]thiophene Copolymer Field‐Effect Transistors with Balanced Hole and Electron Mobilities. Advanced Materials. 24(5). 647–652. 517 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bronstein, Hugo, Dong‐Seok Leem, Richard Hamilton, et al.. (2011). Indacenodithiophene-co-benzothiadiazole Copolymers for High Performance Solar Cells or Transistors via Alkyl Chain Optimization. Macromolecules. 44(17). 6649–6652. 169 indexed citations

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