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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Materials Science 65 5558 5374 219 205 526 17753

Colin J. Lambert publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Colin J. Lambert between 1979 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Colin J. Lambert published across 47 years, from 1979 to 2025, averaging 14 papers a year. Output peaked at 44 publications in 2021. 27 of the 659 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1979 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 44. Peak 44 publications in 2021. 1979: 1 publication 1980: 3 publications 1981: 8 publications 1982: 1 publication 1983: 3 publications 1984: 4 publications 1985: 1 publication 1986: 7 publications 1987: 4 publications 1988: 2 publications 1989: 3 publications 1990: 7 publications 1991: 5 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 10 publications 1994: 16 publications 1995: 8 publications 1996: 12 publications 1997: 7 publications 1998: 10 publications 1999: 20 publications 2000: 13 publications 2001: 6 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 17 publications 2005: 11 publications 2006: 18 publications 2007: 14 publications 2008: 15 publications 2009: 15 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 14 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 11 publications 2014: 18 publications 2015: 29 publications 2016: 34 publications 2017: 29 publications 2018: 43 publications 2019: 38 publications 2020: 26 publications 2021: 44 publications 2022: 40 publications 2023: 35 publications 2024: 15 publications 2025: 12 publications
1979 2025

659 publications in total across all disciplines

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Colin J. Lambert: publications per year, 1979 to 2025
Year Publications
1979 1
1980 3
1981 8
1982 1
1983 3
1984 4
1985 1
1986 7
1987 4
1988 2
1989 3
1990 7
1991 5
1992 2
1993 10
1994 16
1995 8
1996 12
1997 7
1998 10
1999 20
2000 13
2001 6
2002 6
2003 3
2004 17
2005 11
2006 18
2007 14
2008 15
2009 15
2010 10
2011 14
2012 9
2013 11
2014 18
2015 29
2016 34
2017 29
2018 43
2019 38
2020 26
2021 44
2022 40
2023 35
2024 15
2025 12
Total 659
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Colin J. Lambert publications per year - data summary

  • Colin J. Lambert, a Materials Science scholar from Lancaster University, has 659 publications recorded across 47 years, from 1979 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1979 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2021, with 44 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1979, 1982 and 1985, with 1 publication each.
  • The rate of publication averages 14.0 papers per year over the whole span, or 14.0 per year counting only the 47 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 146 publications, 22% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1979-1994: 77 publications (4.8 per year); 1995-2010: 185 publications (11.6 per year); 2011-2025: 397 publications (26.5 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Colin J. Lambert publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin J. Lambert sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600 800
Bar chart with 57 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 50–69 to 1,163+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 891. Most scientists, 891, have 190–209 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 510–529 publications, is where this scientist sits. 50–69 publications: 28 scientists 70–89 publications: 152 scientists 90–109 publications: 356 scientists 110–129 publications: 487 scientists 130–149 publications: 723 scientists 150–169 publications: 835 scientists 170–189 publications: 850 scientists 190–209 publications: 891 scientists 210–229 publications: 862 scientists 230–249 publications: 766 scientists 250–269 publications: 726 scientists 270–289 publications: 665 scientists 290–309 publications: 593 scientists 310–329 publications: 537 scientists 330–349 publications: 477 scientists 350–369 publications: 440 scientists 370–389 publications: 356 scientists 390–409 publications: 321 scientists 410–429 publications: 256 scientists 430–449 publications: 246 scientists 450–469 publications: 216 scientists 470–489 publications: 212 scientists 490–509 publications: 174 scientists 510–529 publications: 194 scientists 530–549 publications: 162 scientists 550–569 publications: 131 scientists 570–589 publications: 111 scientists 590–609 publications: 103 scientists 610–629 publications: 99 scientists 630–649 publications: 77 scientists 650–669 publications: 92 scientists 670–689 publications: 56 scientists 690–709 publications: 53 scientists 710–729 publications: 53 scientists 730–749 publications: 38 scientists 750–769 publications: 52 scientists 770–789 publications: 43 scientists 790–809 publications: 38 scientists 810–829 publications: 34 scientists 830–849 publications: 25 scientists 850–869 publications: 18 scientists 870–889 publications: 20 scientists 890–909 publications: 24 scientists 910–929 publications: 27 scientists 930–949 publications: 20 scientists 950–969 publications: 17 scientists 970–989 publications: 10 scientists 990–1,009 publications: 16 scientists 1,010–1,029 publications: 13 scientists 1,030–1,049 publications: 12 scientists 1,050–1,069 publications: 9 scientists 1,070–1,089 publications: 8 scientists 1,090–1,109 publications: 7 scientists 1,110–1,129 publications: 9 scientists 1,130–1,149 publications: 2 scientists 1,150–1,162 publications: 5 scientists 1,163+ publications: 100 scientists
50–69 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 526 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

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Number of Materials Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 12,847 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
50–69 28
70–89 152
90–109 356
110–129 487
130–149 723
150–169 835
170–189 850
190–209 891
210–229 862
230–249 766
250–269 726
270–289 665
290–309 593
310–329 537
330–349 477
350–369 440
370–389 356
390–409 321
410–429 256
430–449 246
450–469 216
470–489 212
490–509 174
510–529 194 526
530–549 162
550–569 131
570–589 111
590–609 103
610–629 99
630–649 77
650–669 92
670–689 56
690–709 53
710–729 53
730–749 38
750–769 52
770–789 43
790–809 38
810–829 34
830–849 25
850–869 18
870–889 20
890–909 24
910–929 27
930–949 20
950–969 17
970–989 10
990–1,009 16
1,010–1,029 13
1,030–1,049 12
1,050–1,069 9
1,070–1,089 8
1,090–1,109 7
1,110–1,129 9
1,130–1,149 2
1,150–1,162 5
1,163+ 100
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Colin J. Lambert publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 12,847 Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 57 ranges running from 50–69 to 1,163+ publications.
  • Colin J. Lambert, a Materials Science scholar from Lancaster University, records 526 publications - the 88th percentile of the discipline.
  • 88% of ranked Materials Science scientists score the same or lower than Colin J. Lambert, and about 12% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 250–269 publications range, and Colin J. Lambert ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 190–209 publications, holding 891 scientists (7% of the field).
  • 70% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 330–349 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Colin J. Lambert D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin J. Lambert sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 165+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 667. Most scientists, 667, have 52–53 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 64–65 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 211 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 450 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 612 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 612 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 598 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 657 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 667 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 621 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 597 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 610 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 587 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 606 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 533 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 490 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 469 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 378 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 421 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 359 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 323 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 299 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 230 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 210 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 195 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 203 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 175 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 175 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 142 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 121 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 117 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 107 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 88 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 85 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 68 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 62 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 57 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 45 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 49 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 50 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 34 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 38 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 29 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 28 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 24 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 33 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 28 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 20 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 23 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 17 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 12 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 17 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 21 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 13 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 11 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 13 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 4 scientists 164 D-Index: 3 scientists 165+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40–41 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

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Number of Materials Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 12,847 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 211
42–43 450
44–45 612
46–47 612
48–49 598
50–51 657
52–53 667
54–55 621
56–57 597
58–59 610
60–61 587
62–63 606
64–65 533 65
66–67 490
68–69 469
70–71 378
72–73 421
74–75 359
76–77 323
78–79 299
80–81 230
82–83 210
84–85 195
86–87 203
88–89 175
90–91 175
92–93 142
94–95 121
96–97 117
98–99 107
100–101 88
102–103 85
104–105 68
106–107 62
108–109 57
110–111 45
112–113 49
114–115 50
116–117 34
118–119 38
120–121 37
122–123 29
124–125 28
126–127 24
128–129 33
130–131 28
132–133 21
134–135 20
136–137 23
138–139 17
140–141 12
142–143 17
144–145 21
146–147 13
148–149 11
150–151 14
152–153 13
154–155 9
156–157 10
158–159 7
160–161 4
162–163 4
164 3
165+ 98
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Colin J. Lambert D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 12,847 Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 64 ranges running from 40–41 to 165+ D-Index.
  • Colin J. Lambert, a Materials Science scholar from Lancaster University, records 65 D-Index - the 57th percentile of the discipline.
  • 57% of ranked Materials Science scientists score the same or lower than Colin J. Lambert, and about 43% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 62–63 D-Index range, and Colin J. Lambert ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 52–53 D-Index, holding 667 scientists (5% of the field).
  • 68% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 70–71 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more, 98 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Colin J. Lambert is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrochemistry.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics including Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Quantum and Electron Transport Phenomena, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Graphene Research and Applications, and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices.

Co-authorship is a key aspect of their research, with frequent collaborators including:

  • Richard J. Nichols
  • Songjun Hou
  • Qingqing Wu
  • Paul J. Low
  • Hatef Sadeghi

Lambert's publications appear extensively in prominent venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemical Science
  • Nanoscale Advances
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope of their research topics and publication activity:

  • "Bottom-up Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Porous Graphene Nanoribbons," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Room-temperature logic-in-memory operations in single-metallofullerene devices," 2022, Nature Materials
  • "Enhanced π-π Stacking between Dipole-Bearing Single Molecules Revealed by Conductance Measurement," 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Redox Control of Charge Transport in Vertical Ferrocene Molecular Tunnel Junctions," 2020, Chem
  • "Quantum interference enhances the performance of single-molecule transistors," 2024, Nature Nanotechnology

Lambert was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2005, reflecting a formal acknowledgment of their academic standing.

Best Publications

  • Towards molecular spintronics.

    Alexandre R. Rocha;Vi­ctor M. García-suárez;Steve W. Bailey;Colin J. Lambert

  • Basic concepts of quantum interference and electron transport in single-molecule electronics

    C. J. Lambert

  • Single Molecular Conductance of Tolanes: Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Junction Evolution Dependent on the Anchoring Group

    Wenjing Hong;David Zsolt Manrique;Pavel Moreno-García;Pavel Moreno-García;Murat Gulcur

  • Long-range electron tunnelling in oligo-porphyrin molecular wires

    Gita Sedghi;Víctor M. García-Suárez;Víctor M. García-Suárez;Louisa J. Esdaile;Harry L. Anderson

  • Precision control of single-molecule electrical junctions.

    Wolfgang Haiss;Changsheng Wang;Iain Grace;Andrei S. Batsanov

  • GOLLUM:a next-generation simulation tool for electron, thermal and spin transport

    J. Ferrer;J. Ferrer;Colin Lambert;V. M. Garcia-Suarez;V. M. Garcia-Suarez;D. Zs Manrique

  • Correlations between molecular structure and single-junction conductance: a case study with oligo(phenylene-ethynylene)-type wires.

    Veerabhadrarao Kaliginedi;Pavel Moreno-García;Pavel Moreno-García;Hennie Valkenier;Wenjing Hong

  • Single-molecule conductance of functionalized oligoynes:length dependence and junction evolution

    Pavel Moreno-García;Murat Gulcur;David Zsolt Manrique;Thomas Pope

  • Phase-coherent transport in hybrid superconducting nanostructures

    C. J. Lambert;Roberto Raimondi

  • Magnetic edge states and coherent manipulation of graphene nanoribbons

    Michael Slota;Ashok Keerthi;William K. Myers;Evgeny Tretyakov

  • General Green’s-function formalism for transport calculations with spd Hamiltonians and giant magnetoresistance in Co- and Ni-based magnetic multilayers

    S. Sanvito;C. J. Lambert;J. H. Jefferson;A. M. Bratkovsky

  • Anti-resonance features of destructive quantum interference in single-molecule thiophene junctions achieved by electrochemical gating

    Jie Bai;Abdalghani Daaoub;Sara Sangtarash;Xiaohui Li

  • Oligoyne Single Molecule Wires

    Changsheng Wang;Andrei S. Batsanov;Martin R. Bryce;Santiago Martin

  • Fractional quantum conductance in carbon nanotubes.

    Stefano Sanvito;Stefano Sanvito;Young Kyun Kwon;David Tománek;Colin J. Lambert

  • Engineering the Thermopower of C60 Molecular Junctions

    Charalambos Evangeli;Katalin Gillemot;Edmund Leary;M. Teresa González

  • A quantum circuit rule for interference effects in single-molecule electrical junctions

    David Zsolt Manrique;Cancan Huang;Masoud Baghernejad;Xiaotao Zhao

  • An MCBJ case study: The influence of π-conjugation on the single-molecule conductance at a solid/liquid interface.

    Wenjing Hong;Hennie Valkenier;Gabor Meszaros;Gabor Meszaros;David Zsolt Manrique

  • Functionalization mediates heat transport in graphene nanoflakes

    Haoxue Han;Yong Zhang;Nan Wang;Majid Kabiri Samani

  • Room-temperature logic-in-memory operations in single-metallofullerene devices

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  • Control of electron transport through Fano resonances in molecular wires

    T. A. Papadopoulos;I. M. Grace;C. J. Lambert

  • Identifying Diversity in Nanoscale Electrical Break Junctions

    Santiago Martín;Iain Grace;Martin R. Bryce;Changsheng Wang

  • Theory of snake states in graphene

    L. Oroszlany;P. Rakyta;A. Kormanyos;Colin Lambert

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Nichols
Richard J. Nichols University of Liverpool
Simon J. Higgins
Simon J. Higgins University of Liverpool
Martin R. Bryce
Martin R. Bryce Durham University
Wenjing Hong
Wenjing Hong Xiamen University
Stefano Sanvito
Stefano Sanvito Trinity College Dublin
Nicolás Agraït
Nicolás Agraït Autonomous University of Madrid
Thomas Wandlowski
Thomas Wandlowski University of Bern
Lesley F. Cohen
Lesley F. Cohen Imperial College London
Vladimir I. Fal'ko
Vladimir I. Fal'ko University of Manchester
Andrei S. Batsanov
Andrei S. Batsanov Durham University

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