Ritesh Kumar

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ritesh Kumar is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ritesh Kumar has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 10 papers in Materials Chemistry and 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ritesh Kumar's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (7 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (7 papers). Ritesh Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (7 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (7 papers). Ritesh Kumar collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Chile. Ritesh Kumar's co-authors include Abhishek K. Singh, Deya Das, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, Nirmal Kumar Katiyar, Krishanu Biswas, Arko Parui, Sudhanshu Sharma, Subramanian Nellaiappan, K.G. Pradeep and Kirtiman Deo Malviya and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ritesh Kumar

25 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

High-Entropy Alloys as Catalysts for the CO₂ and CO Reduction Reactions: Experimental Realization

2020 353 citations Nirmal Kumar Katiyar, Ritesh Kumar et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
Modulating water hydrogen bonding within a non-aqueous environment controls its reactivity in electrochemical transformations

2024 100 citations Ritesh Kumar, Bidushi Sarkar et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ritesh Kumar India	16	980	872	509	372	188	26	1.6k
Haibo Yuan China	8	623 0.6×	633 0.7×	216 0.4×	381 1.0×	126 0.7×	9	1.1k
Shi‐Long Xu China	15	1.0k 1.0×	698 0.8×	712 1.4×	232 0.6×	101 0.5×	39	1.5k
Peng Yin China	18	1.4k 1.4×	838 1.0×	986 1.9×	288 0.8×	124 0.7×	31	1.8k
Zijian Lv China	20	325 0.3×	499 0.6×	460 0.9×	359 1.0×	220 1.2×	49	1.3k
Shaoyun Hao China	20	2.0k 2.1×	699 0.8×	1.4k 2.7×	305 0.8×	129 0.7×	37	2.5k
Shi He China	17	749 0.8×	591 0.7×	493 1.0×	132 0.4×	97 0.5×	45	1.4k
Rong Liu China	17	264 0.3×	866 1.0×	299 0.6×	140 0.4×	162 0.9×	53	1.2k
Zhijun Zuo China	21	253 0.3×	777 0.9×	492 1.0×	345 0.9×	149 0.8×	73	1.5k
Menglong Sun China	20	822 0.8×	658 0.8×	682 1.3×	101 0.3×	130 0.7×	55	1.4k
Chaoran Jiang China	17	2.0k 2.0×	1.5k 1.8×	918 1.8×	105 0.3×	181 1.0×	28	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ritesh Kumar

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kumar, Ritesh, et al.. (2025). Water Clustering Modulates Activity and Enables Hydrogenated Product Formation during Carbon Monoxide Electroreduction in Aprotic Media. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(22). 18445–18459. 2 indexed citations

Kumar, Ritesh, et al.. (2025). Electrolytomics: A Unified Big Data Approach for Electrolyte Design and Discovery. Chemistry of Materials. 37(8). 2720–2734. 7 indexed citations

Kumar, Ritesh, et al.. (2025). Active learning accelerates electrolyte solvent screening for anode-free lithium metal batteries. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8396–8396. 2 indexed citations

Mirmira, Priyadarshini, et al.. (2024). Phase Morphology Dependence of Ionic Conductivity and Oxidative Stability in Fluorinated Ether Solid-State Electrolytes. Chemistry of Materials. 36(10). 5063–5076. 7 indexed citations

Kumar, Ritesh, et al.. (2024). Modulating water hydrogen bonding within a non-aqueous environment controls its reactivity in electrochemical transformations. Nature Catalysis. 7(6). 689–701. 100 indexed citations breakdown →

Kumar, Ritesh, et al.. (2023). Fluorination promotes lithium salt dissolution in borate esters for lithium metal batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(4). 2479–2490. 10 indexed citations

Kumar, Ritesh, et al.. (2023). A Big Data Approach to Rational Design and Discovery of Electrolytes. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2023-01(1). 435–435.

Sarma, Prasad V., Ritesh Kumar, Guanhui Gao, et al.. (2022). Growth of highly crystalline ultrathin two-dimensional selenene. 2D Materials. 9(4). 45004–45004. 18 indexed citations

Das, Risov, Shreya Sarkar, Ritesh Kumar, et al.. (2021). Noble-Metal-Free Heterojunction Photocatalyst for Selective CO₂ Reduction to Methane upon Induced Strain Relaxation. ACS Catalysis. 12(1). 687–697. 86 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Sakshi, et al.. (2021). Rational Design of Single-Atom Catalysts for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction Reaction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(23). 12585–12593. 30 indexed citations

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Kumar, Ritesh & Abhishek K. Singh. (2021). Chemical hardness-driven interpretable machine learning approach for rapid search of photocatalysts. npj Computational Materials. 7(1). 88 indexed citations

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Kumar, Ritesh & Abhishek K. Singh. (2020). Electronic Structure Based Intuitive Design Principle of Single‐Atom Catalysts for Efficient Electrolytic Nitrogen Reduction. ChemCatChem. 12(21). 5456–5464. 20 indexed citations

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Nandan, Ravi, et al.. (2020). Inner Sphere Electron Transfer Promotion on Homogeneously Dispersed Fe-N_x Centers for Energy-Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(32). 36026–36039. 53 indexed citations

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Katiyar, Nirmal Kumar, Ritesh Kumar, Krishanu Biswas, et al.. (2020). Multi-component (Ag–Au–Cu–Pd–Pt) alloy nanoparticle-decorated p-type 2D-molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) for enhanced hydrogen sensing. Nanoscale. 12(22). 11830–11841. 61 indexed citations

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Kumar, Ritesh, Deya Das, Enrique Muñoz, & Abhishek K. Singh. (2019). Critical Sublattice Symmetry Breaking: A Universal Criterion for Dirac Cone Splitting. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(37). 23082–23088. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, Ritesh, Deya Das, & Abhishek K. Singh. (2018). C2N/WS2 van der Waals type-II heterostructure as a promising water splitting photocatalyst. Journal of Catalysis. 359. 143–150. 284 indexed citations

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Balan, Aravind Puthirath, Sruthi Radhakrishnan, Ritesh Kumar, et al.. (2018). A Non-van der Waals Two-Dimensional Material from Natural Titanium Mineral Ore Ilmenite. Chemistry of Materials. 30(17). 5923–5931. 98 indexed citations

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Modak, Jayant M., et al.. (1995). Dissolution of particles of pyrite mineral by direct attachment of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Hydrometallurgy. 38(2). 175–187. 36 indexed citations

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Kumar, Ritesh, et al.. (1991). Role of cell attachment in leaching of chalcopyrite mineral by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 36(2). 278–282. 45 indexed citations

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Kumar, Ritesh, et al.. (1988). Enhancement of organic phase controlled extraction of copper by activated carbon. Hydrometallurgy. 20(2). 273–278. 2 indexed citations

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