Robert Raja

10.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
189 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Robert Raja is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Raja has authored 189 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Materials Chemistry, 76 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 64 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Robert Raja's work include Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (69 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (58 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (40 papers). Robert Raja is often cited by papers focused on Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (69 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (58 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (40 papers). Robert Raja collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Robert Raja's co-authors include John Meurig Thomas, Gopinathan Sankar, John Meurig Thomas, Brian F. G. Johnson, Dewi W. Lewis, Robert G. Bell, P. Ratnasamy, Paul A. Midgley, Gopinathan Sankar and Sophie Hermans and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Robert Raja

187 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Single‐Site Heterogeneous Catalysts

2005 768 citations John Meurig Thomas, Robert Raja et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
High-Performance Nanocatalysts for Single-Step Hydrogenations

2002 508 citations John Meurig Thomas, Brian F. G. Johnson et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Robert Raja	5.4k	3.4k	3.4k	1.8k	1.2k	189	8.6k
Mercedes Boronat	5.0k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	3.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	128	7.7k
Ive Hermans	6.0k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	3.2k 0.9×	3.7k 2.1×	1.3k 1.1×	179	9.5k
P. Ratnasamy	5.7k 1.1×	1.8k 0.5×	3.9k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	933 0.7×	131	9.1k
Bernard Coq	6.6k 1.2×	2.3k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	2.9k 1.7×	756 0.6×	163	8.8k
Donald M. Camaioni	2.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	135	6.5k
Saim Özkâr	10.2k 1.9×	4.2k 1.2×	2.7k 0.8×	5.7k 3.2×	2.2k 1.8×	297	13.4k
R. Tom Baker	3.8k 0.7×	3.9k 1.1×	2.7k 0.8×	2.5k 1.4×	354 0.3×	108	8.1k
Jason B. Love	3.1k 0.6×	2.7k 0.8×	4.1k 1.2×	644 0.4×	777 0.6×	173	7.2k
Rajamani Gounder	5.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.3×	4.3k 1.3×	3.2k 1.8×	747 0.6×	124	7.9k
J.C. Védrine	5.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.4×	3.1k 0.9×	3.4k 1.9×	801 0.6×	175	7.9k

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Potter, Matthew E., et al.. (2025). Experimental and computational optimisation of methanol dehydration to dimethyl ether. Catalysis Science & Technology. 15(10). 3216–3225. 1 indexed citations

Armstrong, Lindsay‐Marie, et al.. (2024). Rationalising catalytic performance using a unique correlation matrix. Chemical Communications. 60(75). 10314–10317. 1 indexed citations

Raja, Robert, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the methanol yield of industrial-scale fixed bed reactors using computational fluid dynamics models. Fuel. 368. 131511–131511. 6 indexed citations

Gao, Li, Massimo Delle Piane, Marta Corno, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of amine derivatives from furoin and furil over a Ru/Al₂O₃ catalyst. Catalysis Science & Technology. 14(9). 2593–2599.

Potter, Matthew E., Nienke L. Visser, Johannes D. Meeldijk, et al.. (2024). Exploring the influence of mesoporosity in hard carbon-templated hierarchical SAPO-5 for ethanol dehydration. RSC Applied Interfaces. 1(6). 1360–1370. 1 indexed citations

Verma, Priyanka, Kohsuke Mori, Yasutaka Kuwahara, et al.. (2023). Amine Functionalization Within Hierarchically‐Porous Zeotype Framework for Plasmonic Catalysis over PdAu Nanoparticles. ChemCatChem. 15(4). 9 indexed citations

Raja, Robert, et al.. (2023). Hydrodynamic Profiles Of Computed Tomography-Scanned Polydispersed Beds Produced By Sieving. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations

Raja, Robert, et al.. (2023). Synthesis and characterization of Al2O3 nanoparticles by using co-precipitation method. AIP conference proceedings. 2861. 20008–20008. 2 indexed citations

Verma, Priyanka, Maela Manzoli, G. Cerrato, et al.. (2023). Au_xPd_y‐based Heterogeneous Nanocatalysts for Plasmon‐mediated Enhanced Catalysis under Visible Light Irradiation. ChemNanoMat. 9(6). 4 indexed citations

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Potter, Matthew E., Marina Carravetta, Stephen M. King, et al.. (2023). Using small angle neutron scattering to explore porosity, connectivity and accessibility, towards optimised hierarchical solid acid catalysts. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(42). 22822–22834. 3 indexed citations

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Wells, Peter P., et al.. (2015). Utilizing Benign Oxidants for Selective Aerobic Oxidations Using Heterogenized Platinum Nanoparticle Catalysts. ChemPlusChem. 80(8). 1226–1230. 3 indexed citations

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Potter, Matthew E., et al.. (2013). Investigating site-specific interactions and probing their role in modifying the acid-strength in framework architectures. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(32). 13288–13288. 14 indexed citations

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Berlier, Gloria, et al.. (2010). The role of isolated active centres in high-performance bioinspired selective oxidation catalysts. Chemical Communications. 46(16). 2805–2805. 7 indexed citations

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Gianotti, Enrica, Vasudev N. Shetti, Maela Manzoli, et al.. (2010). Synergistic Behavior of Bimetallic Rhenium Cluster Catalysts: Spectroscopic Investigation into the Nature of the Active Site. Chemistry - A European Journal. 16(27). 8202–8209. 12 indexed citations

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Thomas, John Meurig, Juan Carlos Hernández‐Garrido, Robert Raja, & Robert G. Bell. (2009). Nanoporous oxidic solids: the confluence of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11(16). 2799–2799. 52 indexed citations

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Hungría, Ana B., Robert Raja, Richard D. Adams, et al.. (2006). Single‐Step Conversion of Dimethyl Terephthalate into Cyclohexanedimethanol with Ru₅PtSn, a Trimetallic Nanoparticle Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45(29). 4782–4785. 145 indexed citations

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Ratnasamy, P., Robert Raja, & D. Srinivas. (2005). Novel, benign, solid catalysts for the oxidation of hydrocarbons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 363(1829). 1001–1012. 12 indexed citations

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Raja, Robert, et al.. (2005). Highly efficient one-step conversion of cyclohexane to adipic acid using single-site heterogeneous catalysts. Chemical Communications. 448–450. 52 indexed citations

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Thomas, John Meurig, Robert Raja, Sophie Hermans, Matthew D. Jones, & T. Khimyak. (2003). The relevance of bimetallic clusters for the hydrogen economy. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 42. 3 indexed citations

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Jones, Matthew D., Robert Raja, John Meurig Thomas, et al.. (2003). Enhancing the Enantioselectivity of Novel Homogeneous Organometallic Hydrogenation Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 42(36). 4326–4331. 151 indexed citations

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