Smaranda C. Marinescu

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
52 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

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Smaranda C. Marinescu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Smaranda C. Marinescu has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 18 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 15 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Smaranda C. Marinescu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (20 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (13 papers). Smaranda C. Marinescu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (20 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (13 papers). Smaranda C. Marinescu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Smaranda C. Marinescu's co-authors include Courtney A. Downes, Jay R. Winkler, Harry B. Gray, Joseph W. Yoo, Andrew J. Clough, Ralf Haiges, Matthew Mecklenburg, James R. McKone, Bruce S. Brunschwig and Richard R. Schrock and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Smaranda C. Marinescu

48 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Earth-abundant hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts

2013 655 citations James R. McKone, Smaranda C. Marinescu et al. Chemical Science profile →
Two-Dimensional Metal–Organic Surfaces for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution from Water

2014 550 citations Andrew J. Clough, Smaranda C. Marinescu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Smaranda C. Marinescu United States	30	2.2k	1.3k	1.1k	1.1k	1.1k	52	3.9k
Monte L. Helm United States	30	3.0k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	647 0.6×	709 0.7×	73	4.1k
Mårten S. G. Ahlquist Sweden	39	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	732 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	2.3k 2.2×	126	4.9k
Jean Talarmin France	33	3.2k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	910 0.8×	820 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	129	4.0k
Marc Beley France	29	1.2k 0.6×	419 0.3×	793 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	74	3.2k
Wai‐Lun Man Hong Kong	30	980 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	335 0.3×	921 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	91	2.8k
Jun Tae Song Japan	26	1.5k 0.7×	392 0.3×	658 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	98	3.1k
M. Rakowski DuBois United States	37	5.5k 2.5×	2.2k 1.7×	1.8k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.9×	107	7.4k
Craig A. Grapperhaus United States	26	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	414 0.4×	598 0.5×	785 0.7×	109	2.8k
Xavier Sala Spain	34	3.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	899 0.8×	106	4.6k
Annette‐Enrica Surkus Germany	31	1.5k 0.7×	2.2k 1.7×	400 0.4×	2.0k 1.9×	3.5k 3.3×	58	5.3k

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Gil‐Sepulcre, Marcos, et al.. (2025). Electrodeposited Films of Manganese–Bipyridine Complexes for Aqueous Electrochemical CO ₂ Reduction. ACS Catalysis. 15(21). 18804–18816.

Pham, Thong Le Minh, et al.. (2025). Tunable electrocatalytic H ₂ evolution activity of nickel-dithiolene coordination polymers. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 9(21). 5869–5881.

Gish, Melissa K., et al.. (2025). Design Strategies for Coupling CO₂ Reduction Molecular Electrocatalysts to Silicon Photocathodes. ACS Materials Au. 5(3). 569–579. 1 indexed citations

Marinescu, Smaranda C., et al.. (2025). Electronic structure and mechanistic understanding of electrochemical H2 evolving activity of metal-bis(dithiolenes). Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 535. 216586–216586. 5 indexed citations

Marinescu, Smaranda C., et al.. (2024). The Positional Effect of an Immobilized Re Tricarbonyl Catalyst for CO₂ Reduction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(38). 50534–50549. 7 indexed citations

Fan, Sicheng, et al.. (2024). Electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction to formate by a cobalt phosphino–thiolate complex. Chemical Science. 15(17). 6385–6396. 7 indexed citations

Orchanian, Nicholas M., et al.. (2022). Electronically-coupled redox centers in trimetallic cobalt complexes. Dalton Transactions. 51(14). 5660–5672. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Keying, Debmalya Ray, Michael E. Ziebel, et al.. (2021). Cu[Ni(2,3-pyrazinedithiolate)₂] Metal–Organic Framework for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(29). 34419–34427. 29 indexed citations

Haiges, Ralf, et al.. (2021). Influence of Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding Interactions on the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ to CO by 6,6′‐Amine Substituted Rhenium Bipyridine Complexes. ChemElectroChem. 8(10). 1864–1872. 12 indexed citations

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Orchanian, Nicholas M., et al.. (2019). Immobilized Molecular Wires on Carbon-Cloth Electrodes Facilitate CO₂ Electrolysis. ACS Catalysis. 9(10). 9393–9397. 20 indexed citations

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Downes, Courtney A. & Smaranda C. Marinescu. (2017). Understanding Variability in the Hydrogen Evolution Activity of a Cobalt Anthracenetetrathiolate Coordination Polymer. ACS Catalysis. 7(12). 8605–8612. 34 indexed citations

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Downes, Courtney A. & Smaranda C. Marinescu. (2017). Electrocatalytic Metal–Organic Frameworks for Energy Applications. ChemSusChem. 10(22). 4374–4392. 198 indexed citations

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Chapovetsky, Alon, et al.. (2016). Proton-Assisted Reduction of CO₂ by Cobalt Aminopyridine Macrocycles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(18). 5765–5768. 199 indexed citations

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McKone, James R., Smaranda C. Marinescu, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Jay R. Winkler, & Harry B. Gray. (2013). Earth-abundant hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts. Chemical Science. 5(3). 865–878. 655 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marinescu, Smaranda C., et al.. (2012). Syntheses of Variations of Stereogenic-at-Metal Imido Alkylidene Complexes of Molybdenum. Organometallics. 31(17). 6336–6343. 10 indexed citations

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Marinescu, Smaranda C., Daniel S. Levine, Yu Zhao, Richard R. Schrock, & Amir H. Hoveyda. (2011). Isolation of Pure Disubstituted E Olefins through Mo-Catalyzed Z-Selective Ethenolysis of Stereoisomeric Mixtures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(30). 11512–11514. 70 indexed citations

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Marinescu, Smaranda C., Richard R. Schrock, Péter Müller, Michael K. Takase, & Amir H. Hoveyda. (2011). Room-Temperature Z-Selective Homocoupling of α-Olefins by Tungsten Catalysts. Organometallics. 30(7). 1780–1782. 67 indexed citations

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Keith, John A., Douglas C. Behenna, Justin T. Mohr, et al.. (2007). The Inner-Sphere Process in the Enantioselective Tsuji Allylation Reaction with (S)-t-Bu-phosphinooxazoline Ligands. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129(39). 11876–11877. 125 indexed citations

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Marinescu, Smaranda C., Theodor Agapie, Michael W. Day, & John E. Bercaw. (2007). Group 3 Dialkyl Complexes with Tetradentate (L, L, N, O; L = N, O, S) Monoanionic Ligands: Synthesis and Reactivity. Organometallics. 26(5). 1178–1190. 39 indexed citations

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Marinescu, Smaranda C., Theodor Agapie, Michael W. Day, & John E. Bercaw. (2007). Group 3 Dialkyl Complexes with Tetradentate (L, L, N, O; L = N, O, S) Monoanionic Ligands: Synthesis and Reactivity.. Organometallics. 26(13). 3264–3264. 1 indexed citations

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