2026 Angus I. Kirkland: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	65	5637	5453	222	208	337	15108

Overview

Angus I. Kirkland is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, including Materials Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Physics and Astronomy. Their work engages with a diverse range of subfields such as Structural Biology, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Radiation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers main topics centered on advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. These include:

Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques
Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena

Angus I. Kirkland has published extensively in journals such as Microscopy and Microanalysis (37 publications), arXiv (Cornell University) (17 publications), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (10 publications), Ultramicroscopy (8 publications), and BIO Web of Conferences (7 publications). Their publication record includes notable recent papers:

"A fundamental look at electrocatalytic sulfur reduction reaction" (2020), Nature Catalysis
"Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using an organic combustion-synthesized Fe-Mn-K catalyst" (2020), Nature Communications
"Low-dose phase retrieval of biological specimens using cryo-electron ptychography" (2020), Nature Communications
"High Loading of Transition Metal Single Atoms on Chalcogenide Catalysts" (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
"Detectors-The ongoing revolution in scanning transmission electron microscopy and why this important to material characterization" (2020), APL Materials

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Amirafshar Moshtaghpour
Judy S. Kim
Chen Huang
Nigel D. Browning
Alex W. Robinson

Best Publications

General synthesis and definitive structural identification of MN4C4 single-atom catalysts with tunable electrocatalytic activities

Huilong Fei;Juncai Dong;Yexin Feng;Christopher S. Allen

1820
Citations
A fundamental look at electrocatalytic sulfur reduction reaction

Lele Peng;Ziyang Wei;Chengzhang Wan;Jing Li

771
Citations
Discrete Atom Imaging of One-Dimensional Crystals Formed Within Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Rüdiger R. Meyer;Jeremy Sloan;Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski;Angus I. Kirkland

516
Citations
Dislocation-driven deformations in graphene.

Jamie H. Warner;Elena Roxana Margine;Masaki Mukai;Alexander W. Robertson

436
Citations
Spatial control of defect creation in graphene at the nanoscale

Alex W. Robertson;Christopher S. Allen;Yimin A. Wu;Kuang He

407
Citations
Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using an organic combustion-synthesized Fe-Mn-K catalyst

Benzhen Yao;Tiancun Xiao;Ofentse A. Makgae;Xiangyu Jie

317
Citations
Nanogold: A Quantitative Phase Map

Amanda S. Barnard;Neil P. Young;Angus I. Kirkland;Marijn A. van Huis

286
Citations
Structural studies of trigonal lamellar particles of gold and silver

A. I. Kirkland;D. A. Jefferson;D. G. Duff;Peter Philip Edwards

273
Citations
Atomic Structure and Dynamics of Metal Dopant Pairs in Graphene

Zhengyu He;Kuang He;Alex W. Robertson;Angus I. Kirkland

271
Citations
Dynamics of single Fe atoms in graphene vacancies.

Alex W. Robertson;Barbara Montanari;Kuang He;Judy Kim

263
Citations
Integral atomic layer architectures of 1D crystals inserted into single walled carbon nanotubes

Jeremy Sloan;Angus I. Kirkland;John L. Hutchison;Malcolm L. H. Green

249
Citations
A new method for the determination of the wave aberration function for high resolution TEM

R.R Meyer;A.I Kirkland;W.O Saxton

201
Citations
An encapsulated helical one-dimensional cobalt iodide nanostructure

Eilidh Philp;Jeremy Sloan;Angus I. Kirkland;Rüdiger R. Meyer

196
Citations
Super-resolution by aperture synthesis: tilt series reconstruction in CTEM

A.I. Kirkland;W.O. Saxton;K.-L. Chau;K. Tsuno

187
Citations
Atomic Structure and Dynamics of Single Platinum Atom Interactions with Monolayer MoS2.

Huashan Li;Shanshan Wang;Hidetake Sawada;Hidetake Sawada;Grace G. D. Han

171
Citations
Structural reconstruction of the graphene monovacancy.

Alex W. Robertson;Barbara Montanari;Kuang He;Christopher S. Allen

168
Citations
Low-dose phase retrieval of biological specimens using cryo-electron ptychography.

Liqi Zhou;Jingdong Song;Judy S. Kim;Xudong Pei

166
Citations
High Loading of Transition Metal Single Atoms on Chalcogenide Catalysts.

Jianwei Zheng;Konstantin Lebedev;Simson Wu;Chen Huang

164
Citations
Influence of Shell Thickness and Surface Passivation on PbS/CdS Core/Shell Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells

Darren C. J. Neo;Cheng Cheng;Samuel D. Stranks;Simon M. Fairclough

160
Citations
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Branched Palladium Nanostructures

John Watt;Neil Young;Sarah Haigh;Angus Kirkland

152
Citations
Aberration-corrected imaging of active sites on industrial catalyst nanoparticles

Lionel Cervera Gontard;Lan Yun Chang;Crispin J.D. Hetherington;Angus I. Kirkland

147
Citations
A versatile double aberration-corrected, energy filtered HREM/STEM for materials science.

John L. Hutchison;John M. Titchmarsh;David J.H. Cockayne;Ron C. Doole

135
Citations