Simon R. Dawson

777 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 664 citations indexed

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Simon R. Dawson is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon R. Dawson has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 664 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Materials Chemistry, 5 papers in Catalysis and 4 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Simon R. Dawson's work include Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (5 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (5 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (3 papers). Simon R. Dawson is often cited by papers focused on Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (5 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (5 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (3 papers). Simon R. Dawson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Simon R. Dawson's co-authors include Christopher J. Kiely, Li Lu, Simon J. Freakley, Simon A. Kondrat, Graham J. Hutchings, Grazia Malta, Peter Johnston, David Morgan, Peter P. Wells and Wilm Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, ACS Catalysis and Nature Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Simon R. Dawson

8 papers receiving 656 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.

Identification of single-site gold catalysis in acetylene hydrochlorination

2017 429 citations Grazia Malta, Simon A. Kondrat et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon R. Dawson United Kingdom	6	540	272	264	230	101	8	664
Shipeng Wu China	11	418 0.8×	144 0.5×	196 0.7×	216 0.9×	102 1.0×	22	586
Shuangfeng Xing China	6	339 0.6×	183 0.7×	150 0.6×	176 0.8×	74 0.7×	11	524
Mi Xiong China	6	416 0.8×	237 0.9×	159 0.6×	241 1.0×	82 0.8×	11	620
Anuj Raj Japan	7	474 0.9×	142 0.5×	168 0.6×	267 1.2×	151 1.5×	10	639
Johnny Zhu Chen United States	14	520 1.0×	389 1.4×	84 0.3×	264 1.1×	99 1.0×	15	709
Mengyao Ouyang United States	13	533 1.0×	276 1.0×	103 0.4×	395 1.7×	60 0.6×	15	668
Alexander G. R. Howe United Kingdom	8	389 0.7×	276 1.0×	72 0.3×	189 0.8×	74 0.7×	12	567

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon R. Dawson

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Montague, G.A., et al.. (2023). Industrial implementation of an inline near infrared process control system for the production of caramel. Journal of Food Engineering. 361. 111717–111717. 1 indexed citations

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Pattisson, Samuel, Simon R. Dawson, Grazia Malta, et al.. (2022). Lowering the Operating Temperature of Gold Acetylene Hydrochlorination Catalysts Using Oxidized Carbon Supports. ACS Catalysis. 12(22). 14086–14095. 13 indexed citations

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Dawson, Simon R., Samuel Pattisson, Grazia Malta, et al.. (2021). Sulfur Promotion in Au/C Catalyzed Acetylene Hydrochlorination. Small. 17(16). e2007221–e2007221. 25 indexed citations

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Sun, Xi, Simon R. Dawson, Tanja E. Parmentier, et al.. (2020). Facile synthesis of precious-metal single-site catalysts using organic solvents. Nature Chemistry. 12(6). 560–567. 138 indexed citations

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Malta, Grazia, Simon R. Dawson, Samuel Pattisson, et al.. (2020). Can Gold be an Effective Catalyst for the Deacon Reaction?. Catalysis Letters. 150(10). 2991–2995. 5 indexed citations

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Malta, Grazia, Simon A. Kondrat, Simon J. Freakley, et al.. (2017). Identification of single-site gold catalysis in acetylene hydrochlorination. Science. 355(6332). 1399–1403. 429 indexed citations breakdown →

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Parmentier, Tanja E., Simon R. Dawson, Grazia Malta, et al.. (2017). Homocoupling of Phenylboronic Acid using Atomically Dispersed Gold on Carbon Catalysts: Catalyst Evolution Before Reaction. ChemCatChem. 10(8). 1853–1859. 13 indexed citations

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Sankar, Meenakshisundaram, Qian He, Simon R. Dawson, et al.. (2016). Supported bimetallic nano-alloys as highly active catalysts for the one-pot tandem synthesis of imines and secondary amines from nitrobenzene and alcohols. Catalysis Science & Technology. 6(14). 5473–5482. 40 indexed citations

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