Stefan Borsley

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Stefan Borsley is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Borsley has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Organic Chemistry, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Stefan Borsley's work include Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (16 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (8 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (6 papers). Stefan Borsley is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (16 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (8 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (6 papers). Stefan Borsley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Stefan Borsley's co-authors include David A. Leigh, Benjamin M. W. Roberts, Scott L. Cockroft, Gary S. Nichol, Euan R. Kay, Qingshu Zheng, Elisabeth Kreidt, Zhanhu Sun, Shuntaro Amano and Fernanda Duarte and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Borsley

35 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Molecular Ratchets and Kinetic Asymmetry: Giving Chemistr... 2024 2026 2025 2024 20 40 60
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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. Molecular Ratchets and Kinetic Asymmetry: Giving Chemistry Direction
    2024 67 citations Stefan Borsley, David A. Leigh et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stefan Borsley United Kingdom 20 513 369 278 234 204 38 1.2k
Víctor García‐López United States 14 548 1.1× 231 0.6× 412 1.5× 249 1.1× 142 0.7× 33 1.1k
Salma Kassem United States 10 776 1.5× 303 0.8× 504 1.8× 316 1.4× 288 1.4× 16 1.3k
Jake L. Greenfield United Kingdom 21 666 1.3× 201 0.5× 686 2.5× 128 0.5× 231 1.1× 42 1.3k
Peter Štacko Netherlands 21 768 1.5× 247 0.7× 759 2.7× 331 1.4× 310 1.5× 46 1.5k
Monika Lubomska Netherlands 11 538 1.0× 177 0.5× 499 1.8× 158 0.7× 195 1.0× 18 1.1k
Yuanning Feng United States 23 952 1.9× 231 0.6× 817 2.9× 172 0.7× 328 1.6× 48 1.7k
M.K.J.Ter Wiel Netherlands 13 623 1.2× 150 0.4× 433 1.6× 248 1.1× 242 1.2× 19 1.1k
Sergey N. Semenov Israel 23 500 1.0× 569 1.5× 419 1.5× 326 1.4× 73 0.4× 48 1.9k
Richard A. Silva United States 7 645 1.3× 164 0.4× 334 1.2× 168 0.7× 231 1.1× 8 943
Nopporn Ruangsupapichat Thailand 9 479 0.9× 118 0.3× 461 1.7× 216 0.9× 147 0.7× 15 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefan Borsley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Borsley

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All Works

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Roberts, Benjamin M. W., et al.. (2025). In Situ Quantification of Directional Rotation by a Catalysis-Driven Azaindole-N-Oxide–Phenoic Acid Molecular Motor. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(32). 29534–29541. 1 indexed citations
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Borsley, Stefan, et al.. (2025). Structural Influence of the Chemical Fueling System on a Catalysis-Driven Rotary Molecular Motor. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(10). 8785–8795. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Peng‐Lai, et al.. (2025). A Catalysis-Driven Dual Molecular Motor. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(12). 10690–10697. 4 indexed citations
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Penocchio, Emanuele, et al.. (2025). Catalysis‐driven Active Transport Across a Liquid Membrane. Angewandte Chemie. 137(15).
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Penocchio, Emanuele, et al.. (2025). Catalysis‐driven Active Transport Across a Liquid Membrane. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(15). e202421234–e202421234. 3 indexed citations
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Roberts, Sean T., et al.. (2025). What is a fuel?. Supramolecular chemistry. 36(3-4). 58–66.
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Wang, Peng‐Lai, et al.. (2025). Transducing chemical energy through catalysis by an artificial molecular motor. Nature. 637(8046). 594–600. 17 indexed citations
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Borsley, Stefan. (2024). Membrane Transport, Molecular Machines, and Maxwell's Demon. ChemSystemsChem. 6(3). 5 indexed citations
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Borsley, Stefan, et al.. (2023). The role of kinetic asymmetry and power strokes in an information ratchet. Chem. 9(10). 2902–2917. 38 indexed citations
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Borsley, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Ratcheting synthesis. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 8(1). 8–29. 31 indexed citations
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Roberts, Benjamin M. W., et al.. (2023). Conformational selection accelerates catalysis by an organocatalytic molecular motor. Chem. 10(3). 855–866. 34 indexed citations
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Borsley, Stefan, Elisabeth Kreidt, David A. Leigh, & Benjamin M. W. Roberts. (2022). Autonomous fuelled directional rotation about a covalent single bond. Nature. 604(7904). 80–85. 97 indexed citations
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Borsley, Stefan, David A. Leigh, & Benjamin M. W. Roberts. (2022). Chemical fuels for molecular machinery. Nature Chemistry. 14(7). 728–738. 108 indexed citations
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Borsley, Stefan, David A. Leigh, Benjamin M. W. Roberts, & Íñigo J. Vitórica‐Yrezábal. (2022). Tuning the Force, Speed, and Efficiency of an Autonomous Chemically Fueled Information Ratchet. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(37). 17241–17248. 34 indexed citations
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Amano, Shuntaro, Stefan Borsley, David A. Leigh, & Zhanhu Sun. (2021). Chemical engines: driving systems away from equilibrium through catalyst reaction cycles. Nature Nanotechnology. 16(10). 1057–1067. 97 indexed citations
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Borsley, Stefan, David A. Leigh, & Benjamin M. W. Roberts. (2021). A Doubly Kinetically-Gated Information Ratchet Autonomously Driven by Carbodiimide Hydration. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(11). 4414–4420. 83 indexed citations
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Borsley, Stefan, Flavio della Sala, Jonathan Clayden, et al.. (2020). Switchable foldamer ion channels with antibacterial activity. Chemical Science. 11(27). 7023–7030. 48 indexed citations
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Muchowska, Kamila B., Dominic J. Pascoe, Stefan Borsley, et al.. (2020). Reconciling Electrostatic and n→π* Orbital Contributions in Carbonyl Interactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(34). 14602–14608. 38 indexed citations
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Borsley, Stefan, et al.. (2019). Synthetically Diversified Protein Nanopores: Resolving Click Reaction Mechanisms. ACS Nano. 13(4). 4101–4110. 36 indexed citations
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Zheng, Qingshu, Stefan Borsley, Gary S. Nichol, Fernanda Duarte, & Scott L. Cockroft. (2019). The Energetic Significance of Metallophilic Interactions. Angewandte Chemie. 131(36). 12747–12753. 15 indexed citations

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