Simone Piccinin

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
78 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Simone Piccinin is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Piccinin has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Materials Chemistry, 42 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 18 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Simone Piccinin's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (35 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (28 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (22 papers). Simone Piccinin is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (35 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (28 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (22 papers). Simone Piccinin collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and Australia. Simone Piccinin's co-authors include Travis E. Jones, Robert Schlögl, Axel Knop‐Gericke, Detre Teschner, Catherine Stampfl, Stefano Fabris, Michael Hävecker, Michael Scherzer, Verena Pfeifer and Rosa Arrigo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simone Piccinin

77 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution

2020 676 citations Hong Nhan Nong, Lorenz J. Falling et al. Nature profile →
Free-atom-like d states in single-atom alloy catalysts

2018 492 citations Mark Greiner, Travis E. Jones et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Piccinin Italy	33	3.4k	3.0k	2.0k	1.1k	629	78	5.2k
Anand Udaykumar Nilekar United States	18	3.7k 1.1×	3.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	666 1.1×	21	5.9k
José Gracia Spain	29	2.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	2.2k 1.1×	567 0.5×	597 0.9×	78	4.4k
Lei Shi China	37	3.4k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	2.6k 1.3×	634 0.6×	415 0.7×	193	6.4k
Johannes Voss United States	21	2.0k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	837 0.8×	223 0.4×	42	4.4k
Mårten E. Björketun Denmark	27	2.9k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	716 0.7×	738 1.2×	35	4.4k
Travis E. Jones Germany	39	5.6k 1.7×	3.3k 1.1×	3.8k 2.0×	1.2k 1.1×	1.3k 2.0×	123	7.8k
Hong‐Gang Liao China	45	2.6k 0.8×	3.1k 1.1×	3.6k 1.8×	529 0.5×	644 1.0×	128	7.3k
Junfeng Gao China	43	3.8k 1.1×	5.1k 1.7×	3.1k 1.6×	457 0.4×	431 0.7×	155	7.6k
Y. L. Soo Taiwan	38	2.6k 0.8×	3.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	146 0.2×	136	5.5k
Jakub Drnec France	35	3.5k 1.0×	1.8k 0.6×	2.7k 1.4×	605 0.6×	717 1.1×	145	4.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Camellone, Matteo Farnesi, et al.. (2025). Influence of Local Chemical Environment on the Catalytic Properties of Ir ₁ /CeO ₂ Single-Atom Catalysts in CO Oxidation. ACS Catalysis. 15(7). 5806–5824. 1 indexed citations

Camellone, Matteo Farnesi, Tomáš Škála, Nataliya Tsud, et al.. (2024). Atomistic picture of electronic metal support interaction and the role of water. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(6). 3258–3264. 4 indexed citations

Camellone, Matteo Farnesi, Marta Boaro, Luca Braglia, et al.. (2024). Low‐Temperature Methane Activation Reaction Pathways over Mechanochemically‐Generated Ce ⁴⁺ /Cu ⁺ Interfacial Sites. Small. 20(42). e2403028–e2403028.

Jones, Travis E., Detre Teschner, & Simone Piccinin. (2024). Toward Realistic Models of the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Chemical Reviews. 124(15). 9136–9223. 71 indexed citations

Camellone, Matteo Farnesi, et al.. (2023). CO Oxidation over Platinum Nanoclusters: Unraveling the Role of the Cluster Size and the Supporting Surface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(43). 21132–21149. 6 indexed citations

Camellone, Matteo Farnesi, et al.. (2022). Oxidation of Gas-Phase and Supported Pt Nanoclusters: An Ab Initio Investigation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(26). 10880–10888. 9 indexed citations

Lebègue∥, Sébastien, et al.. (2021). Structure and Energetics of Dye-Sensitized NiO Interfaces in Water from Ab Initio MD and Large-Scale GW Calculations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 17(8). 5225–5238. 9 indexed citations

Elliott, Joshua D., et al.. (2021). CuFeO₂–Water Interface under Illumination: Structural, Electronic, and Catalytic Implications for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ACS Catalysis. 11(4). 1897–1910. 29 indexed citations

Nong, Hong Nhan, Lorenz J. Falling, Arno Bergmann, et al.. (2021). Publisher Correction: Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution. Nature. 589(7842). E8–E8. 11 indexed citations

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Jones, Travis E., Milivoj Plodinec, Albert G. F. Machoke, et al.. (2020). Nanocatalysts Unravel the Selective State of Ag. ChemCatChem. 12(11). 2977–2988. 13 indexed citations

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Elliott, Joshua D., et al.. (2020). Establishing best practices to model the electronic structure of CuFeO2 from first principles. Physical review. B.. 101(15). 9 indexed citations

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Nong, Hong Nhan, Lorenz J. Falling, Arno Bergmann, et al.. (2020). Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution. Nature. 587(7834). 408–413. 676 indexed citations breakdown →

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Elliott, Joshua D., et al.. (2019). Thermodynamic Stability and Native Point Defects of CuFeO₂ Photocathodes in Dry and Electrochemical Environments. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(49). 29589–29598. 19 indexed citations

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Jones, Travis E., Regina Wyrwich, Sebastian Böcklein, et al.. (2018). The Selective Species in Ethylene Epoxidation on Silver. ACS Catalysis. 8(5). 3844–3852. 78 indexed citations

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Wyrwich, Regina, Travis E. Jones, Sebastian Günther, et al.. (2018). LEED-I(V) Structure Analysis of the (7 × √3)rect SO₄ Phase on Ag(111): Precursor to the Active Species of the Ag-Catalyzed Ethylene Epoxidation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(47). 26998–27004. 15 indexed citations

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Greiner, Mark, Travis E. Jones, Sebastian Beeg, et al.. (2018). Free-atom-like d states in single-atom alloy catalysts. Nature Chemistry. 10(10). 1008–1015. 492 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jones, Travis E., Túlio C. R. Rocha, Axel Knop‐Gericke, et al.. (2014). Adsorbate induced vacancy formation on silver surfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(19). 9002–9002. 22 indexed citations

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Fronzi, Marco, Simone Piccinin, B. Delley, Enrico Traversa, & Catherine Stampfl. (2009). Water adsorption on the stoichiometric and reduced CeO2(111) surface: a first-principles investigation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11(40). 9188–9188. 232 indexed citations

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Piccinin, Simone, Ralph Gebauer, & Roberto Car. (2005). Electron transport in molecular devices. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Gebauer, Ralph, Simone Piccinin, & Roberto Car. (2005). Quantum Collision Current in Electronic Circuits. ChemPhysChem. 6(9). 1727–1730. 12 indexed citations

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