Steve Tierney

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Steve Tierney is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Steve Tierney has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 19 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 3 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Steve Tierney's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (22 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (18 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (4 papers). Steve Tierney is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (22 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (18 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (4 papers). Steve Tierney collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Steve Tierney's co-authors include Martin Heeney, Iain McCulloch, Weimin Zhang, David Sparrowe, Maxim Shkunov, Clare Bailey, Kristijonas Genevičius, Michael L. Chabinyc, R. Joseph Kline and Robert Wagner and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Steve Tierney

23 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Liquid-crystalline semiconducting polymers with high charge-carrier mobility

2006 1.9k citations Iain McCulloch, Martin Heeney et al. Nature Materials profile →
Charge Carrier Formation in Polythiophene/Fullerene Blend Films Studied by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

2008 558 citations Hideo Ohkita, Steffan Cook et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steve Tierney United Kingdom	17	3.6k	2.7k	686	396	395	23	4.0k
David Sparrowe United Kingdom	14	3.0k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	584 0.9×	387 1.0×	368 0.9×	25	3.5k
Kristijonas Genevičius Lithuania	20	3.4k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	627 0.9×	235 0.6×	307 0.8×	53	3.7k
Chad M. Amb United States	23	3.7k 1.0×	3.5k 1.3×	903 1.3×	358 0.9×	395 1.0×	35	4.5k
Paul C. Ewbank United States	16	2.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	878 1.3×	609 1.5×	271 0.7×	18	3.3k
M. Granström Sweden	22	2.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	809 1.2×	197 0.5×	499 1.3×	32	3.3k
Luping Yu United States	22	3.2k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	745 1.1×	465 1.2×	295 0.7×	29	3.7k
David Hanifi United States	23	3.0k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	907 1.3×	418 1.1×	644 1.6×	28	3.9k
Zhuping Fei United Kingdom	42	5.2k 1.4×	4.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.7×	434 1.1×	735 1.9×	117	5.8k
Soichi Uchida Japan	17	3.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	423 1.1×	306 0.8×	44	3.5k
Jordan R. Quinn United States	14	3.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	520 0.8×	347 0.9×	538 1.4×	17	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Steve Tierney

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steve Tierney

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steve Tierney

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

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Berny, Stéphane, Nicolas Blouin, Andreas Distler, et al.. (2015). Solar Trees: First Large‐Scale Demonstration of Fully Solution Coated, Semitransparent, Flexible Organic Photovoltaic Modules. Advanced Science. 3(5). 1500342–1500342. 227 indexed citations

Menelaou, Christopher, Steve Tierney, Nicolas Blouin, et al.. (2014). Effect of Nanocrystalline Domains in Photovoltaic Devices with Benzodithiophene-Based Donor–Acceptor Copolymers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 118(31). 17351–17361. 9 indexed citations

Dibb, George F. A., Thomas Kirchartz, Sebastian Engmann, et al.. (2013). Influence of doping on charge carrier collection in normal and inverted geometry polymer:fullerene solar cells. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 66 indexed citations

Herlogsson, Lars, Xavier Crispin, Steve Tierney, & Magnus Berggren. (2011). Polyelectrolyte‐Gated Organic Complementary Circuits Operating at Low Power and Voltage. Advanced Materials. 23(40). 4684–4689. 84 indexed citations

Ballantyne, Amy M., Toby A. M. Ferenczi, Mariano Campoy‐Quiles, et al.. (2010). Understanding the Influence of Morphology on Poly(3-hexylselenothiophene):PCBM Solar Cells. Macromolecules. 43(3). 1169–1174. 90 indexed citations

Vilela, Filipe, Peter J. Skabara, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, et al.. (2010). Self-assembly and charge transport properties of a benzobisthiazole end-capped with dihexyl thienothiophene units. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 21(7). 2091–2097. 26 indexed citations

Savenije, Tom J., Martin Heeney, Steve Tierney, et al.. (2008). Relationship between Film Morphology, Optical, and Conductive Properties of Poly(thienothiophene): [6,6]-Phenyl C-61-Butyric Acid Methyl Ester Bulk Heterojunctions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 112(41). 15973–15979. 17 indexed citations

Ohkita, Hideo, Steffan Cook, Yeni Astuti, et al.. (2008). Charge Carrier Formation in Polythiophene/Fullerene Blend Films Studied by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(10). 3030–3042. 558 indexed citations breakdown →

Heeney, Martin, Weimin Zhang, D.J. Crouch, et al.. (2007). Regioregular poly(3-hexyl)selenophene: a low band gap organic hole transporting polymer. Chemical Communications. 5061–5061. 317 indexed citations

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McCulloch, Iain, Martin Heeney, Clare Bailey, et al.. (2006). Liquid-crystalline semiconducting polymers with high charge-carrier mobility. Nature Materials. 5(4). 328–333. 1876 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ohkita, Hideo, Steffan Cook, Yeni Astuti, et al.. (2006). Radical ion pair mediated triplet formation in polymer–fullerene blend films. Chemical Communications. 3939–3941. 46 indexed citations

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Hamilton, Rick, Clare Bailey, Warren Duffy, et al.. (2006). The influence of molecular weight on the microstructure and thin film transistor characteristics of pBTTT polymers.. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6336. 633611–633611. 8 indexed citations

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McCulloch, Iain, Clare Bailey, Mark Giles, et al.. (2005). Influence of Molecular Design on the Field-Effect Transistor Characteristics of Terthiophene Polymers. Chemistry of Materials. 17(6). 1381–1385. 90 indexed citations

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Heeney, Martin, Steve Tierney, Iain McCulloch, et al.. (2005). Stability in OTFT Gas Sensors. MRS Proceedings. 871. 4 indexed citations

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Heeney, Martin, Clare Bailey, Kristijonas Genevičius, et al.. (2005). Stable semiconducting thiophene polymers and their field effect transistor characteristics. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5940. 594007–594007. 2 indexed citations

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Heeney, Martin, Clare Bailey, Kristijonas Genevičius, et al.. (2005). Stable Polythiophene Semiconductors Incorporating Thieno[2,3-b]thiophene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(4). 1078–1079. 310 indexed citations

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Sonar, Prashant, Jingying Zhang, Andrew C. Grimsdale, et al.. (2004). 4-Hexylbithieno[3,2-b:2‘3‘-e]pyridine: An Efficient Electron-Accepting Unit in Fluorene and Indenofluorene Copolymers for Light-Emitting Devices. Macromolecules. 37(3). 709–715. 51 indexed citations

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Tierney, Steve, Martin Heeney, & Iain McCulloch. (2004). Microwave-assisted synthesis of polythiophenes via the Stille coupling. Synthetic Metals. 148(2). 195–198. 99 indexed citations

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Shkunov, Maxim, Weimin Zhang, Clare Bailey, et al.. (2004). Self-assembled liquid crystalline solution processable semiconductors. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5464. 60–60. 2 indexed citations

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Shkunov, Maxim, Weimin Zhang, David W. Graham, et al.. (2003). New liquid crystalline solution processible organic semiconductors and their performance in field effect transistors. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5217. 181–181. 5 indexed citations

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