Sebastian Ott

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Ott is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Ott has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 8 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 2 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Ott's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (7 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (4 papers). Sebastian Ott is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (7 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (4 papers). Sebastian Ott collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Israel. Sebastian Ott's co-authors include Peter Strasser, Fabio Dionigi, Alin Orfanidi, Björn Anke, Ulrich Gernert, Martin Lerch, Henrike Schmies, Hong Nhan Nong, Jessica Hübner and Manuel Gliech and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Materials and Journal of The Electrochemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Ott

9 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Ionomer distribution control in porous carbon-supported catalyst layers for high-power and low Pt-loaded proton exchange membrane fuel cells

2019 570 citations Sebastian Ott, Alin Orfanidi et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastian Ott Germany	7	952	917	271	86	68	9	1.1k
Fanxing Xi Germany	13	666 0.7×	482 0.5×	327 1.2×	102 1.2×	83 1.2×	16	815
Björn Anke Germany	9	805 0.8×	728 0.8×	341 1.3×	58 0.7×	63 0.9×	11	903
Won Suk Jung South Korea	17	676 0.7×	634 0.7×	241 0.9×	62 0.7×	73 1.1×	50	866
Ya‐Qian Ye China	5	930 1.0×	684 0.7×	341 1.3×	120 1.4×	80 1.2×	5	1.0k
Alin Orfanidi Germany	17	1.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.4×	393 1.5×	123 1.4×	83 1.2×	21	1.5k
Soo-Kil Kim South Korea	14	728 0.8×	750 0.8×	209 0.8×	124 1.4×	67 1.0×	17	906
Erno Kemppainen Germany	9	688 0.7×	458 0.5×	278 1.0×	110 1.3×	44 0.6×	15	776
Ishwar Kumar Mishra United States	10	1.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	267 1.0×	180 2.1×	100 1.5×	11	1.3k
Wenqiang Hou China	15	801 0.8×	869 0.9×	185 0.7×	154 1.8×	102 1.5×	26	1.0k
Madeleine Odgaard Denmark	19	774 0.8×	775 0.8×	254 0.9×	86 1.0×	69 1.0×	32	908

Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Ott

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Sebastian Ott's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Sebastian Ott with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Sebastian Ott more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Sebastian Ott

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sebastian Ott. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sebastian Ott. The network helps show where Sebastian Ott may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Ott

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sebastian Ott. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sebastian Ott based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sebastian Ott. Sebastian Ott is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

9 of 9 papers shown

1.

Merzdorf, Thomas, An Guo, Elisabeth Hornberger, et al.. (2025). High surface area mesoporous carbon nanodendrites – detonation synthesis, characterization and use as a novel electrocatalyst support material. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(18). 13126–13134. 2 indexed citations

2.

Brückner, Sven, Quanchen Feng, Wen Ju, et al.. (2024). Design and diagnosis of high-performance CO2-to-CO electrolyzer cells. 1(3). 229–239. 23 indexed citations

3.

Merzdorf, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Carbon Corrosion Behavior of Carbon Support Materials for PGM-Based Catalysts in PEM Fuel Cells. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2023-02(40). 1982–1982. 1 indexed citations

4.

Ott, Sebastian, Fengmin Du, Mauricio López Luna, et al.. (2022). Understanding the Performance Increase of Catalysts Supported on N-Functionalized Carbon in PEMFC Catalyst Layers. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169(5). 54520–54520. 20 indexed citations

5.

Ott, Sebastian, Fengmin Du, Mauricio López Luna, et al.. (2022). Property-reactivity relations of N-doped PEM fuel cell cathode catalyst supports. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 306. 121118–121118. 29 indexed citations

6.

Sun, Yanyan, Shlomi Polani, Fang Luo, et al.. (2021). Advancements in cathode catalyst and cathode layer design for proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5984–5984. 260 indexed citations

7.

Ott, Sebastian, Andreas Bauer, Fengmin Du, et al.. (2021). Impact of Carbon Support Meso‐Porosity on Mass Transport and Performance of PEMFC Cathode Catalyst Layers. ChemCatChem. 13(22). 4759–4769. 40 indexed citations

8.

Ott, Sebastian, Alin Orfanidi, Henrike Schmies, et al.. (2019). Ionomer distribution control in porous carbon-supported catalyst layers for high-power and low Pt-loaded proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Nature Materials. 19(1). 77–85. 570 indexed citations breakdown →

9.

Pan, Lujin, Sebastian Ott, Fabio Dionigi, & Peter Strasser. (2019). Current challenges related to the deployment of shape-controlled Pt alloy oxygen reduction reaction nanocatalysts into low Pt-loaded cathode layers of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 18. 61–71. 123 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact