Róbert Pál

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
115 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Róbert Pál is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Róbert Pál has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Materials Chemistry, 45 papers in Spectroscopy and 30 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Róbert Pál's work include Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (59 papers), Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (40 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (29 papers). Róbert Pál is often cited by papers focused on Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (59 papers), Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (40 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (29 papers). Róbert Pál collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Hong Kong. Róbert Pál's co-authors include David Parker, Lewis E. MacKenzie, Benjamin S. Murray, Elizabeth J. New, Craig P. Montgomery, Brian K. McMahon, Stephen J. Butler, Patrycja Stachelek, Lars‐Olof Pålsson and Ga‐Lai Law and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Róbert Pál

111 papers receiving 5.3k citations

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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.

Cell-Penetrating Metal Complex Optical Probes: Targeted and Responsive Systems Based on Lanthanide Luminescence

2009 632 citations Benjamin S. Murray, Róbert Pál et al. profile →
Circularly polarized lanthanide luminescence for advanced security inks

2020 471 citations Lewis E. MacKenzie, Róbert Pál profile →
Circularly polarised luminescence laser scanning confocal microscopy to study live cell chiral molecular interactions

2022 191 citations Patrycja Stachelek, Lewis E. MacKenzie et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Róbert Pál United Kingdom	38	4.1k	1.7k	1.5k	1.1k	709	115	5.3k
Adelheid Godt Germany	39	4.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	721 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	2.0k 2.9×	115	7.6k
Olivier Maury France	57	7.5k 1.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	3.9k 3.4×	1.5k 2.2×	261	9.9k
Chong Zheng United States	39	3.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.7×	3.3k 4.7×	220	7.5k
James W. Canary United States	41	1.6k 0.4×	2.5k 1.5×	1.7k 1.1×	438 0.4×	632 0.9×	122	5.1k
Imma Ratera Spain	36	1.8k 0.4×	752 0.5×	994 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	317 0.4×	118	4.6k
Íñigo J. Vitórica‐Yrezábal United Kingdom	41	2.3k 0.6×	760 0.5×	2.3k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	1.8k 2.6×	180	5.1k
Brian H. Northrop United States	36	2.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	3.5k 2.3×	644 0.6×	1.2k 1.6×	69	5.3k
Daniel Häußinger Switzerland	38	1.2k 0.3×	763 0.5×	2.1k 1.3×	393 0.3×	535 0.8×	147	4.4k
Olav Schiemann Germany	42	2.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	590 0.4×	1.6k 1.4×	306 0.4×	142	5.6k
Ronald J. Clark United States	40	3.3k 0.8×	660 0.4×	2.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	144	6.9k

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Zwijnenburg, Martijn A., et al.. (2025). A Bis‐Perylene Diimide Macrocycle Chiroptical Switch. Angewandte Chemie. 137(15). 2 indexed citations

Appleby, Martin V., Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Dimitri Chekulaev, et al.. (2025). Circular Dichroism and Multiphoton Circularly Polarized Luminescence Switching Using a Bis‐perylene Diimide Macrocycle. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(53). e01734–e01734.

Djoko, Karrera Y., Benjamin J. Hofmann, Jennifer M. Hunter, et al.. (2025). Copper pyrithione complexes with endoplasmic reticulum localisation showing anticancer activity via ROS generation. Chemical Science. 16(44). 21104–21110.

Stachelek, Patrycja, et al.. (2025). A switch-on luminescent europium( iii ) probe for selective and time-resolved detection of adenosine diphosphate (ADP). Chemical Science. 16(13). 5602–5612. 3 indexed citations

Pál, Róbert, et al.. (2025). Two‐photon Excitation of Bright Diaza[4]Helicenes for Isotropic and Circularly Polarized Emission. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(32). e202501212–e202501212. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Yan, Dongyang Chen, Sen Wu, et al.. (2025). Accelerating Reverse Intersystem Crossing by Bridging Two Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters with [2.2]Paracyclophane. CCS Chemistry. 7(12). 3635–3649. 1 indexed citations

Stachelek, Patrycja, et al.. (2024). Circularly Polarized Luminescence Bioimaging Using Chiral BODIPYs: A Model Scaffold for Advancing Unprecedented CPL Microscopy Using Small Full-Organic Probes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(49). 67246–67254. 23 indexed citations

Stachelek, Patrycja, et al.. (2023). 1‐Azathioxanthone Appended Lanthanide(III) DO3A Complexes That Luminesce Following Excitation at 405 nm**. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 26(24). 3 indexed citations

El-Zubir, Osama, Gema Durá, Fabio Cucinotta, et al.. (2023). Hierarchical self-assembly in an RNA-based coordination polymer hydrogel. Dalton Transactions. 52(17). 5545–5551. 5 indexed citations

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Waddell, Paul G., William McFarlane, Thomas J. Penfold, et al.. (2022). Synthesis and Structural Diversification of Circularly Polarised Luminescence Active, Helically Chiral, “Confused” N,N,O,C‐BODIPYs**. ChemPhotoChem. 7(1). 10 indexed citations

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El-Zubir, Osama, Gema Durá, Thomas Pope, et al.. (2022). Circularly polarised luminescence in an RNA-based homochiral, self-repairing, coordination polymer hydrogel. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(18). 7329–7335. 12 indexed citations

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Jiménez, Josué, Ruth Prieto‐Montero, Patrycja Stachelek, et al.. (2022). BINOL blocks as accessible triplet state modulators in BODIPY dyes. Chemical Communications. 58(44). 6385–6388. 9 indexed citations

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MacKenzie, Lewis E., Lars‐Olof Pålsson, David Parker, Andrew Beeby, & Róbert Pál. (2020). Rapid time-resolved Circular Polarization Luminescence (CPL) emission spectroscopy. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1676–1676. 77 indexed citations

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Galbadage, Thushara, Dongdong Liu, Lawrence B. Alemany, et al.. (2019). Molecular Nanomachines Disrupt Bacterial Cell Wall, Increasing Sensitivity of Extensively Drug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae to Meropenem. ACS Nano. 13(12). 14377–14387. 60 indexed citations

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Yeung, Chi‐Tung, Ho-Yin Wong, Róbert Pál, et al.. (2017). Chiral transcription in self-assembled tetrahedral Eu4L6 chiral cages displaying sizable circularly polarized luminescence. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1128–1128. 136 indexed citations

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Pál, Róbert & Andrew Beeby. (2014). Simple and versatile modifications allowing time gated spectral acquisition, imaging and lifetime profiling on conventional wide-field microscopes. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence. 2(3). 37001–37001. 15 indexed citations

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Butler, Stephen J., Brian K. McMahon, Róbert Pál, David Parker, & James W. Walton. (2013). Bright Mono‐aqua Europium Complexes Based on Triazacyclononane That Bind Anions Reversibly and Permeate Cells Efficiently. Chemistry - A European Journal. 19(29). 9511–9517. 59 indexed citations

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Evans, Nicholas H., Rachel Carr, Martina Delbianco, et al.. (2013). Complete stereocontrol in the synthesis of macrocyclic lanthanide complexes: direct formation of enantiopure systems for circularly polarised luminescence applications. Dalton Transactions. 42(44). 15610–15610. 27 indexed citations

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Walton, James W., Adrien Bourdolle, Stephen J. Butler, et al.. (2013). Very bright europium complexes that stain cellular mitochondria. Chemical Communications. 49(16). 1600–1600. 127 indexed citations

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Pålsson, Lars‐Olof, Róbert Pál, Benjamin S. Murray, David Parker, & Andrew Beeby. (2007). Two-photon absorption and photoluminescence of europium based emissive probes for bioactive systems. Dalton Transactions. 5726–5726. 79 indexed citations

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