Simon Thiele

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
180 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Simon Thiele is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Energy Engineering and Power Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Thiele has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 101 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 37 papers in Energy Engineering and Power Technology. Recurrent topics in Simon Thiele's work include Fuel Cells and Related Materials (123 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (96 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (56 papers). Simon Thiele is often cited by papers focused on Fuel Cells and Related Materials (123 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (96 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (56 papers). Simon Thiele collaborates with scholars based in Germany, South Africa and Canada. Simon Thiele's co-authors include Roland Zengerle, Serhiy Cherevko, Thomas Böhm, Matthias Klingele, Matthias Breitwieser, Chuyen Van Pham, Markus Bierling, Karl J. J. Mayrhofer, Retha Peach and Severin Vierrath and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Simon Thiele

168 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

Anion-Exchange Membrane W... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers
    2022 638 citations Simon Thiele et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Simon Thiele 5.2k 3.4k 1.3k 1.3k 1.1k 180 6.4k
Félix N. Büchi 7.1k 1.4× 4.0k 1.2× 2.3k 1.7× 1.4k 1.1× 1.5k 1.3× 170 7.9k
Jürgen Mergel 4.6k 0.9× 3.7k 1.1× 1.7k 1.3× 2.4k 1.9× 929 0.8× 63 6.3k
Xiao‐Zi Yuan 6.2k 1.2× 3.5k 1.0× 1.5k 1.1× 527 0.4× 1.6k 1.4× 116 7.1k
Ken S. Chen 4.8k 0.9× 3.4k 1.0× 1.5k 1.2× 289 0.2× 681 0.6× 41 5.5k
Marcelo Carmo 7.0k 1.4× 5.0k 1.5× 2.6k 2.0× 4.1k 3.3× 1.5k 1.4× 106 9.8k
Ahmet Kusoglu 7.8k 1.5× 4.9k 1.4× 1.8k 1.4× 357 0.3× 1.1k 1.0× 116 8.9k
Shawn Litster 5.3k 1.0× 4.3k 1.3× 1.8k 1.4× 198 0.2× 655 0.6× 150 6.5k
K.C. Neyerlin 6.0k 1.2× 5.9k 1.7× 1.7k 1.3× 256 0.2× 429 0.4× 105 7.1k
Zhigang Shao 10.5k 2.0× 8.4k 2.5× 3.2k 2.4× 786 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 321 12.4k
Ke Sun 3.8k 0.7× 4.3k 1.3× 2.7k 2.0× 221 0.2× 650 0.6× 83 7.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Thiele

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Thiele

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simon Thiele. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simon Thiele 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 Simon Thiele. Simon Thiele is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Piehler, Jacob, et al.. (2025). Investigation of the Electrocatalytic reduction of simple ketones in alkaline media. Electrochemistry Communications. 172. 107880–107880.
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Strauß, Alexander, Simon Thiele, Tobias Haist, et al.. (2025). Bimodal tissue differentiation using hyperspectral imaging and elastographic Fourier transform profilometry. Light Advanced Manufacturing. 6(4). 1–1.
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Hirsch, D., et al.. (2025). Microwave-assisted synthesis of polyfluorenes and their modification to ionomers for proton exchange membranes. Materials Today Advances. 26. 100591–100591.
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Hutzler, Andreas, Thomas Böhm, Valentín Briega‐Martos, et al.. (2025). Unveiling Iridium Degradation Pathways during Intermittent Operation of a Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzer. ChemRxiv.
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Wagner, Maximilian, et al.. (2025). Ionomer Dispersions: Solvent Addition Sequence Matters. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(13). 9256–9267. 1 indexed citations
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Kerres, Jochen, et al.. (2025). Influence of 1-propanol/water ratio in catalyst inks for doctor-blade coated H2-PEMFC electrodes. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 138. 1057–1065. 1 indexed citations
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Escalera‐López, Daniel, Christian Iffelsberger, Matej Zlatar, et al.. (2024). Allotrope-dependent activity-stability relationships of molybdenum sulfide hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3601–3601. 31 indexed citations
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Wagner, Richard, et al.. (2024). Guidance for targeted degradation analysis of OER kinetics of low-loading iridium-based catalysts in PEM water electrolysis cells. Electrochimica Acta. 510. 145360–145360. 2 indexed citations
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Schroeder, Melanie, et al.. (2024). Pyridine-Containing Polyhydroxyalkylation-Based Polymers for Use in Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7(23). 10834–10845. 1 indexed citations
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Freiberg, Anna T.S., et al.. (2024). Continuous Graded Catalyst Layers for PEM Fuel Cells with Improved Humidity Range Tolerance. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 171(11). 114503–114503. 3 indexed citations
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Böhm, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Review—Graded Catalyst Layers in Hydrogen Fuel Cells - A Pathway to Application-Tailored Cells. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 171(9). 94503–94503. 8 indexed citations
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Kumar, Kavita, Andreas Hutzler, Moulay Tahar Sougrati, et al.. (2024). Impact of Carbon Corrosion and Denitrogenation on the Deactivation of Fe–N–C Catalysts in Alkaline Media. ACS Catalysis. 14(11). 8576–8591. 16 indexed citations
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Hutzler, Andreas, et al.. (2024). Applicability of Graphene Oxide Interlayers in PEMs for Reducing Crossover in Electrochemical Acetone Hydrogenation Reactors. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 171(10). 104502–104502. 2 indexed citations
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Morales, A., Markus Bierling, Konrad Ehelebe, et al.. (2024). Be aware of the effect of electrode activation and morphology on its performance in gas diffusion electrode setups. Journal of Power Sources. 623. 235352–235352. 5 indexed citations
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Wagner, Maximilian, Anja Krieger‐Liszkay, Birk Fritsch, et al.. (2023). Nanophase-Separated Block-co-Polymers Based on Phosphonated Pentafluorostyrene and Octylstyrene for Proton-Exchange Membranes. ACS Materials Letters. 5(8). 2039–2046. 6 indexed citations
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Rothammer, Benedict, Max Marian, Marcel Bartz, et al.. (2021). Amorphous Carbon Coatings for Total Knee Replacements—Part I: Deposition, Cytocompatibility, Chemical and Mechanical Properties. Polymers. 13(12). 1952–1952. 33 indexed citations
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Lettenmeier, Philipp, Svenja Kolb, Noriko Sata, et al.. (2017). Comprehensive investigation of novel pore-graded gas diffusion layers for high-performance and cost-effective proton exchange membrane electrolyzers. Energy & Environmental Science. 10(12). 2521–2533. 235 indexed citations
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