Thomas Bligaard

55.0k total citations · 19 hit papers
134 papers, 45.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Bligaard is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Bligaard has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 45.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Materials Chemistry, 54 papers in Catalysis and 41 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Thomas Bligaard's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (68 papers), Machine Learning in Materials Science (37 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (31 papers). Thomas Bligaard is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (68 papers), Machine Learning in Materials Science (37 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (31 papers). Thomas Bligaard collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Iceland. Thomas Bligaard's co-authors include Jens K. Nørskov, Jan Rossmeisl, Á. Logadóttir, John R. Kitchin, Frank Abild‐Pedersen, Hannes Jónsson, Felix Studt, Claus H. Christensen, Laura Louise Lindqvist and Ulrich Stimming and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Bligaard

125 papers receiving 45.3k citations

Hit Papers

Origin of the Overpotential for Oxygen Reduction at a Fue... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2004 2005 2009 2011 2015 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
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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. Origin of the Overpotential for Oxygen Reduction at a Fuel-Cell Cathode
    2004 10.4k citations Jens K. Nørskov, Jan Rossmeisl et al. profile →
  2. Trends in the Exchange Current for Hydrogen Evolution
    2005 4.9k citations Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas Bligaard et al. profile →
  3. Towards the computational design of solid catalysts
    2009 3.4k citations Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas Bligaard et al. profile →
  4. Density functional theory in surface chemistry and catalysis
    2011 2.0k citations Jens K. Nørskov, Frank Abild‐Pedersen et al. profile →
  5. From the Sabatier principle to a predictive theory of transition-metal heterogeneous catalysis
    2015 1.7k citations Andrew J. Medford, Aleksandra Vojvodić et al. Journal of Catalysis profile →
  6. The Brønsted–Evans–Polanyi relation and the volcano curve in heterogeneous catalysis
    2004 1.4k citations Thomas Bligaard, Jens K. Nørskov et al. Journal of Catalysis profile →
  7. Scaling Properties of Adsorption Energies for Hydrogen-Containing Molecules on Transition-Metal Surfaces
    2007 1.4k citations Frank Abild‐Pedersen, Felix Studt et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  8. A theoretical evaluation of possible transition metal electro-catalysts for N2reduction
    2011 1.4k citations Egill Skúlason, Thomas Bligaard et al. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics profile →
  9. Density functionals for surface science: Exchange-correlation model development with Bayesian error estimation
    2012 1.2k citations Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas Bligaard et al. profile →
  10. Universality in Heterogeneous Catalysis
    2002 1.1k citations Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas Bligaard et al. Journal of Catalysis profile →
  11. Modeling the Electrochemical Hydrogen Oxidation and Evolution Reactions on the Basis of Density Functional Theory Calculations
    2010 1.1k citations Egill Skúlason, Sigríður Guðmundsdóttir et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C profile →
  12. Identification of Non-Precious Metal Alloy Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene
    2008 1.0k citations Felix Studt, Frank Abild‐Pedersen et al. profile →
  13. Density functional theory calculations for the hydrogen evolution reaction in an electrochemical double layer on the Pt(111) electrode
    2007 748 citations Egill Skúlason, Jan Rossmeisl et al. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics profile →
  14. The nature of the active site in heterogeneous metal catalysis
    2008 705 citations Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas Bligaard et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
  15. First principles calculations and experimental insight into methane steam reforming over transition metal catalysts
    2008 557 citations Jesper Kleis, Jan Rossmeisl et al. Journal of Catalysis profile →
  16. Ligand effects in heterogeneous catalysis and electrochemistry
    2007 540 citations Thomas Bligaard, Jens K. Nørskov profile →
  17. To address surface reaction network complexity using scaling relations machine learning and DFT calculations
    2017 476 citations Zachary W. Ulissi, Andrew J. Medford et al. Nature Communications profile →
  18. Fundamental Concepts in Heterogeneous Catalysis
    2014 475 citations Jens K. Nørskov, Felix Studt et al. profile →
  19. A benchmark database for adsorption bond energies to transition metal surfaces and comparison to selected DFT functionals
    2015 452 citations Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas Bligaard et al. profile →

Peers

Thomas Bligaard
Manos Mavrikakis United States
Frank Abild‐Pedersen United States
Ib Chorkendorff Denmark
Jan Rossmeisl Denmark
R. Jürgen Behm Germany
Jingguang G. Chen United States
Marc T. M. Koper Netherlands
Martin Muhler Germany
Bjørk Hammer Denmark
Shi‐Gang Sun China
Manos Mavrikakis United States
Thomas Bligaard
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Abild‐Pedersen, Frank, Thomas Bligaard, Jan Rossmeisl, & Jeffrey Greeley. (2025). Tribute to Jens K. Nørskov. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129(2). 1025–1026.
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Liu, Sihang, et al.. (2024). Benchmarking water adsorption on metal surfaces with ab initio molecular dynamics. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(24). 11 indexed citations
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Villoro, Ruben Bueno, Christian Kisielowski, Peter C. K. Vesborg, et al.. (2024). Imaging Atomic Processes in Catalysts using a New High-Order Imaged-Corrected Environmental-TEM. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 129. 5023–5023.
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Xu, Qiucheng, Aoni Xu, Sahil Garg, et al.. (2022). Enriching Surface‐Accessible CO2 in the Zero‐Gap Anion‐Exchange‐Membrane‐Based CO2 Electrolyzer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(3). e202214383–e202214383. 35 indexed citations
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Xu, Qiucheng, Aoni Xu, Sahil Garg, et al.. (2022). Enriching Surface‐Accessible CO2 in the Zero‐Gap Anion‐Exchange‐Membrane‐Based CO2 Electrolyzer. Angewandte Chemie. 135(3). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Tao, Xinjiang Cui, Kirsten T. Winther, et al.. (2021). Theory-Aided Discovery of Metallic Catalysts for Selective Propane Dehydrogenation to Propylene. ACS Catalysis. 11(10). 6290–6297. 31 indexed citations
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Kaappa, Sami, et al.. (2020). Machine learning with bond information for local structure optimizations in surface science. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 12 indexed citations
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Hamamoto, Yuji, Kouji Inagaki, Frank Abild‐Pedersen, et al.. (2020). Enhanced CO tolerance of Pt clusters supported on graphene with lattice vacancies. Physical review. B.. 102(7). 21 indexed citations
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Mamun, Osman, Kirsten T. Winther, Jacob R. Boes, & Thomas Bligaard. (2020). A Bayesian framework for adsorption energy prediction on bimetallic alloy catalysts. npj Computational Materials. 6(1). 64 indexed citations
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Jennings, Paul C., Steen Lysgaard, Jens S. Hummelshøj, Tejs Vegge, & Thomas Bligaard. (2019). Genetic algorithms for computational materials discovery accelerated by machine learning. npj Computational Materials. 5(1). 177 indexed citations
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Torres, José Antonio Garrido, Paul C. Jennings, Martin Hangaard Hansen, Jacob R. Boes, & Thomas Bligaard. (2019). Low-Scaling Algorithm for Nudged Elastic Band Calculations Using a Surrogate Machine Learning Model. Physical Review Letters. 122(15). 156001–156001. 131 indexed citations
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Ulissi, Zachary W., Andrew J. Medford, Thomas Bligaard, & Jens K. Nørskov. (2017). To address surface reaction network complexity using scaling relations machine learning and DFT calculations. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14621–14621. 476 indexed citations breakdown →
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Medford, Andrew J., Aleksandra Vojvodić, Jens S. Hummelshøj, et al.. (2015). From the Sabatier principle to a predictive theory of transition-metal heterogeneous catalysis. Journal of Catalysis. 328. 36–42. 1722 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nørskov, Jens K., Felix Studt, Frank Abild‐Pedersen, & Thomas Bligaard. (2014). Fundamental Concepts in Heterogeneous Catalysis. 475 indexed citations breakdown →
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Skúlason, Egill, Thomas Bligaard, Sigríður Guðmundsdóttir, et al.. (2013). A Theoretical Evaluation of Possible Transition Metal Electro-catalysts for N-2 Reduction. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 10 indexed citations
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Susi, Toma, Albert G. Nasibulin, Paola Ayala, et al.. (2011). Mechanism of the initial stages of nitrogen-doped single-walled carbon nanotube growth. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(23). 11303–11303. 15 indexed citations
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Skúlason, Egill, Thomas Bligaard, Sigríður Guðmundsdóttir, et al.. (2011). A theoretical evaluation of possible transition metal electro-catalysts for N2reduction. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(3). 1235–1245. 1382 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hansen, Heine Anton, Isabela C. Man, Felix Studt, et al.. (2009). Electrochemical chlorine evolution at rutile oxide (110) surfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 12(1). 283–290. 347 indexed citations
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Fernández, Eva M., Poul Georg Moses, Anja Toftelund, et al.. (2008). Scaling Relationships for Adsorption Energies on Transition Metal Oxide, Sulfide, and Nitride Surfaces. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(25). 4683–4686. 304 indexed citations
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Nørskov, Jens K., Thomas Bligaard, Britt Hvolbæk, et al.. (2008). The nature of the active site in heterogeneous metal catalysis. Chemical Society Reviews. 37(10). 2163–2163. 705 indexed citations breakdown →

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