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D-Index
96
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38015
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1524
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31

Francesc Illas publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesc Illas sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 694 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Francesc Illas D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesc Illas sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2009 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Francesc Illas is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research work primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Energy, with significant contributions in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including:

  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Francesc Illas has authored numerous papers, with recent notable publications including:

  • "MXenes: New Horizons in Catalysis", 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • "Challenges of modeling nanostructured materials for photocatalytic water splitting", 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "A Semiempirical Method to Detect and Correct DFT-Based Gas-Phase Errors and Its Application in Electrocatalysis", 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • "Artificial-intelligence-driven discovery of catalyst genes with application to CO2 activation on semiconductor oxides", 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Facile Heterogeneously Catalyzed Nitrogen Fixation by MXenes", 2020, ACS Catalysis

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with common coauthors including Francesc Viñes, Ángel Morales-García, Federico Calle-Vallejo, Ling Meng, and Kai S. Exner.

Publications by Francesc Illas appear predominantly in journals such as:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Throughout their career, Francesc Illas has received recognition such as being named a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2009 and a Member of Academia Europaea in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Support nanostructure boosts oxygen transfer to catalytically active platinum nanoparticles

    Georgi N. Vayssilov;Yaroslava Lykhach;Annapaola Migani;Thorsten Staudt

  • A new type of strong metal-support interaction and the production of H2 through the transformation of water on Pt/CeO2(111) and Pt/CeO(x)/TiO2(110) catalysts.

    Albert Bruix;José A. Rodriguez;Pedro J. Ramírez;Sanjaya D. Senanayake

  • First-principles LDA + U and GGA + U study of cerium oxides: Dependence on the effective U parameter

    Christoph Loschen;Javier Carrasco;Konstantin M. Neyman;Konstantin M. Neyman;Francesc Illas

  • A Molecular mechanism for the chemoselective hydrogenation of substituted nitroaromatics with nanoparticles of gold on TiO2 catalysts: a cooperative effect between gold and the support.

    Mercè Boronat;Patricia Concepción;Avelino Corma;Silvia González

  • Origin of the Large N 1s Binding Energy in X-ray Photoelectron Spectra of Calcined Carbonaceous Materials

    Jordi Casanovas;Josep Manel Ricart;Jaime Rubio;Francesc Illas

  • Maximum noble-metal efficiency in catalytic materials: atomically dispersed surface platinum.

    Albert Bruix;Yaroslava Lykhach;Iva Matolínová;Armin Neitzel

  • Effect of Fock exchange on the electronic structure and magnetic coupling in NiO

    Ibério de P. R. Moreira;Francesc Illas;Richard L. Martin

  • MXenes: New Horizons in Catalysis

    Ángel Morales-García;Federico Calle-Vallejo;Francesc Illas

  • Mechanisms responsible for chemical shifts of core-level binding energies and their relationship to chemical bonding

    Paul S Bagus;Francesc Illas;Gianfranco Pacchioni;Fulvio Parmigiani

  • Ab Initio Cluster Model Calculations on the Chemisorption of CO2 and SO2 Probe Molecules on MgO and CaO (100) Surfaces. A Theoretical Measure of Oxide Basicity

    Gianfranco Pacchioni;Josep M. Ricart;Francesc Illas

  • Magnetic coupling in biradicals, binuclear complexes and wide-gap insulators: a survey of ab initio wave function and density functional theory approaches

    Francesc Illas;Ibério P. R. Moreira;Coen de Graaf;Vincenzo Barone

  • Bulk Properties of Transition Metals: A Challenge for the Design of Universal Density Functionals

    Patanachai Janthon;Patanachai Janthon;Patanachai Janthon;Sijie Andy Luo;Sergey M Kozlov;Francesc Viñes

  • Antiferromagnetic Exchange Interactions from Hybrid Density Functional Theory

    Richard L. Martin;Francesc Illas

  • An Empirical, yet Practical Way To Predict the Band Gap in Solids by Using Density Functional Band Structure Calculations

    Ángel Morales-García;Rosendo Valero;Francesc Illas

  • Performance of the M06 family of exchange-correlation functionals for predicting magnetic coupling in organic and inorganic molecules.

    Rosendo Valero;Ramon Costa;Ibério de P. R. Moreira;Donald G. Truhlar

  • Establishing the Accuracy of Broadly Used Density Functionals in Describing Bulk Properties of Transition Metals.

    Patanachai Janthon;Sergey M. Kozlov;Francesc Viñes;Jumras Limtrakul

  • CO2 hydrogenation on Au/TiC, Cu/TiC, and Ni/TiC catalysts: Production of CO, methanol, and methane

    José A. Rodriguez;Jaime Evans;Leticia Feria;Alba B. Vidal;Alba B. Vidal

  • The bending machine: CO2 activation and hydrogenation on δ-MoC(001) and β-Mo2C(001) surfaces

    Sergio Posada-Pérez;Francesc Viñes;Pedro J. Ramirez;Pedro J. Ramirez;Alba B. Vidal;Alba B. Vidal

  • Atomic and electronic structure of molybdenum carbide phases: bulk and low Miller-index surfaces.

    José Roberto dos Santos Politi;José Roberto dos Santos Politi;Francesc Viñes;Jose A. Rodriguez;Francesc Illas

  • Dramatic reduction of the oxygen vacancy formation energy in ceria particles: a possible key to their remarkable reactivity at the nanoscale

    Annapaola Migani;Georgi N. Vayssilov;Stefan T. Bromley;Stefan T. Bromley;Francesc Illas

  • Decomposition of the chemisorption bond by constrained variations: Order of the variations and construction of the variational spaces

    Paul S. Bagus;Francesc Illas

  • A unified view of the theoretical description of magnetic coupling in molecular chemistry and solid state physics.

    Ibério de P. R. Moreira;Francesc Illas

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianfranco Pacchioni
Gianfranco Pacchioni University of Milano-Bicocca
Stefan T. Bromley
Stefan T. Bromley University of Barcelona
José R. B. Gomes
José R. B. Gomes University of Aveiro
Núria López
Núria López University of Barcelona
Konstantin M. Neyman
Konstantin M. Neyman University of Barcelona
Paul S. Bagus
Paul S. Bagus University of North Texas
Javier Carrasco
Javier Carrasco Spanish National Research Council
Marcos Fernández-García
Marcos Fernández-García Spanish National Research Council
Jose Rodriguez
Jose Rodriguez San Sebastián University
Jumras Limtrakul
Jumras Limtrakul Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology

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