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Hojatollah Vali

Hojatollah Vali

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
15595
World Ranking
5936
National Ranking
151

Hojatollah Vali 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 Hojatollah Vali sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 227 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hojatollah Vali 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 Hojatollah Vali sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hojatollah Vali is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and primarily conducts research in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry.

Their work is concentrated on several subfields, including:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biomaterials
  • Biomedical Engineering

The main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis
  • Chemical Synthesis and Reactions
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Recent publications by Hojatollah Vali include:

  • "Nanoscale characterization of the biomolecular corona by cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, and image simulation," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Sex as an important factor in nanomedicine," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Organizing principles of astrocytic nanoarchitecture in the mouse cerebral cortex," 2023, Current Biology
  • "Gold Nano/Micro-Islands Overcome the Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Limitations to Achieve Ultrasensitive Protein Detection," 2021, ACS Sensors
  • "Synergistic catalysis within core-shell Fe3O4@SiO2 functionalized with triethylene glycol (TEG)-imidazolium ionic liquid and tetramethylpiperidine N-oxyl (TEMPO) boosting selective aerobic oxidation of alcohols," 2020, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Frequently appearing publication venues for this researcher include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Scientific Reports
  • ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Catalysis Science & Technology

Their work frequently involves collaboration with several co-authors, including:

  • Babak Karimi
  • Kambiz Akbari Noghabi
  • Hossein Shahbani Zahiri
  • John F. Presley
  • Sara Sheibani

Best Publications

  • Search for past life on Mars: possible relic biogenic activity in martian meteorite ALH84001.

    David S. McKay;Everett K. Gibson;Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta;Hojatollah Vali

  • Occurrence of magnetic bacteria in soil

    J. W. E. Fassbinder;H. Stanjek;H. Vali;H. Vali

  • Elongated prismatic magnetite crystals in ALH84001 carbonate globules: Potential Martian magnetofossils

    Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta;Dennis A. Bazylinski;Joseph L. Kirschvink;Simon J. Clemett

  • Extracellular respiration of dimethyl sulfoxide by Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1

    Jeffrey A. Gralnick;Hojatollah Vali;Douglas P. Lies;Dianne K. Newman

  • Irreversible changes in protein conformation due to interaction with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles

    Morteza Mahmoudi;Mohammad A. Shokrgozar;Soroush Sardari;Mojgan K. Moghadam

  • Spherical Assemblies of Semiconductor Nanoparticles in Water-Soluble Block Copolymer Aggregates

    Matthew Moffitt;H. Vali;Adi Eisenberg

  • A highly water-dispersible/magnetically separable palladium catalyst based on a Fe3O4@SiO2 anchored TEG-imidazolium ionic liquid for the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reaction in water

    Babak Karimi;Fariborz Mansouri;Hojatollah Vali

  • Truncated hexa-octahedral magnetite crystals in ALH84001 : Presumptive biosignatures

    Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta;Simon J. Clemett;Dennis A. Bazylinski;Joseph L. Kirschvink

  • Cellular and molecular interactions between MC3T3-E1 pre-osteoblasts and nanostructured titanium produced by high-pressure torsion

    Shahab Faghihi;Fereshteh Azari;Alexander P. Zhilyaev;Jerzy A. Szpunar

  • BIOGEOCHEMICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN Fe BIOMINERALIZATION: MAGNETITE AND SIDERITE FORMATION

    Y. Roh;C.-L. Zhang;H. Vali;R. J. Lauf

  • Value-adding to grape waste: Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles

    Kiruba Krishnaswamy;Hojatollah Vali;Valérie Orsat

  • Chiral acidic amino acids induce chiral hierarchical structure in calcium carbonate

    Wenge Jiang;Michael S Pacella;Dimitra Athanasiadou;Valentin Nelea

  • Cadmium Sulphide Quantum Dots in Morphologically Tunable Triblock Copolymer Aggregates

    Nicolas Duxin;Futian Liu;Hojatollah Vali;Adi Eisenberg

  • Cellulose Nanocrystals as Chiral Inducers: Enantioselective Catalysis and Transmission Electron Microscopy 3D Characterization

    Madhu Kaushik;Kaustuv Basu;Charles Benoit;Ciprian M. Cirtiu

  • Metal reduction and iron biomineralization by a psychrotolerant Fe(III)-reducing bacterium, Shewanella sp. strain PV-4

    Yul Roh;Haichun Gao;Haichun Gao;Hojatollah Vali;David W. Kennedy

  • In vitro fibrillogenesis of tropocollagen type III in collagen type I affects its relative fibrillar topology and mechanics.

    Meisam Asgari;Neda Latifi;Hossein K. Heris;Hojatollah Vali

  • Cell “vision”: complementary factor of protein corona in nanotoxicology

    Morteza Mahmoudi;Morteza Mahmoudi;Seyyed N. Saeedi-Eslami;Mohammad A. Shokrgozar;Kayhan Azadmanesh

  • Quantitative analysis of macrophage apoptosis vs. necrosis induced by cobalt and chromium ions in vitro.

    Isabelle Catelas;Alain Petit;Hojatollah Vali;Cathy Fragiskatos

  • Influence of the physiochemical properties of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles on amyloid β protein fibrillation in solution.

    Morteza Mahmoudi;Fiona Quinlan-Pluck;Marco P. Monopoli;Sara Sheibani

  • Paleomagnetic Evidence of a Low-Temperature Origin of Carbonate in the Martian Meteorite ALH84001

    Joseph L. Kirschvink;Altair T. Maine;Hojatollah Vali

Frequent Co-Authors

Babak Karimi
Babak Karimi Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences
Morteza Mahmoudi
Morteza Mahmoudi Michigan State University
Joseph L. Kirschvink
Joseph L. Kirschvink California Institute of Technology
David S. McKay
David S. McKay Johnson Space Center
Jerzy A. Szpunar
Jerzy A. Szpunar University of Saskatchewan
Marc D. McKee
Marc D. McKee McGill University
Maryam Tabrizian
Maryam Tabrizian McGill University
Chuanlun L. Zhang
Chuanlun L. Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology
Kostas Pantopoulos
Kostas Pantopoulos McGill University
Reinhard Hesse
Reinhard Hesse McGill University

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