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D-Index
57
Citations
9816
World Ranking
8063
National Ranking
1993

James J. Watkins 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 James J. Watkins sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 300 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James J. Watkins 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 James J. Watkins sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

James J. Watkins is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, focusing on several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, and Surfaces, Coatings and Films.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics related to materials and energy, with main research areas highlighted as Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, and Block Copolymer Self-Assembly.

James J. Watkins has frequently published in several scientific venues, the most notable being:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • Macromolecules

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this scientist include:

  • Vincent J. Einck
  • Ayush Bhardwaj
  • Uzodinma Okoroanyanwu
  • Hua-Feng Fei
  • Sravya Nuguri

Some recent publications demonstrating the scope of their work are:

  • Scalable Nanoimprint Lithography Process for Manufacturing Visible Metasurfaces Composed of High Aspect Ratio TiO2 Meta-Atoms, 2021, ACS Photonics
  • Printed microfluidic sweat sensing platform for cortisol and glucose detection, 2021, Lab on a Chip
  • Exceptional electromagnetic shielding efficiency of silver coated carbon fiber fabrics via a roll-to-roll spray coating process, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Rapid Preparation and Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications of Silicon Carbide and Silicon Oxycarbide Ceramic/Carbon Nanocomposites Derived Via Flash Photothermal Pyrolysis of Organosilicon Preceramic Polymers, 2021, Chemistry of Materials
  • Bimodal Mesoporous Carbon Spheres with Small and Ultra-Large Pores Fabricated Using Amphiphilic Brush Block Copolymer Micelle Templates, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Deposition of conformal copper and nickel films from supercritical carbon dioxide.

    Jason M. Blackburn;David P. Long;Albertina Cabañas;James J. Watkins

  • Mesoporous silicates prepared using preorganized templates in supercritical fluids.

    Rajaram A. Pai;Raashina Humayun;Michelle T. Schulberg;Archita Sengupta

  • Polymer/Metal Nanocomposite Synthesis in Supercritical CO2

    James J. Watkins;Thomas J. McCarthy

  • Polymerization in supercritical fluid-swollen polymers : a new route to polymer blends

    James J. Watkins;Thomas J. McCarthy

  • Method of chemically depositing material onto a substrate

    James J. Watkins;Thomas J. McCarthy

  • Chemical Fluid Deposition: Reactive Deposition of Platinum Metal from Carbon Dioxide Solution

    James J. Watkins;Jason M. Blackburn;Thomas J. McCarthy

  • Bioinspired Photocatalytic Shark-Skin Surfaces with Antibacterial and Antifouling Activity via Nanoimprint Lithography.

    Feyza Dundar Arisoy;Kristopher W. Kolewe;Benjamin Homyak;Irene S. Kurtz

  • POLYMERIZATION OF STYRENE IN SUPERCRITICAL CO2-SWOLLEN POLY(CHLOROTRIFLUOROETHYLENE)

    James J. Watkins;Thomas J. McCarthy

  • Additive-Driven Self-Assembly of Well Ordered Mesoporous Carbon/Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Composites for Supercapacitors

    Ying Lin;Xinyu Wang;Gang Qian;James J. Watkins

  • Nanoparticle-driven assembly of block copolymers: a simple route to ordered hybrid materials.

    Ying Lin;Vikram K Daga;Eric R Anderson;Samuel P Gido

  • Chemical Fluid Deposition: A Hybrid Technique for Low‐Temperature Metallization

    D. P. Long;J. M. Blackburn;J. J. Watkins

  • Mesoporous material and method

    Rajaram Pai;James J Watkins;パイ、ラジャラム;ジェイ. ワトキンス、ジェームズ

  • Relating chemical structure to device performance via morphology control in diketopyrrolopyrrole-based low band gap polymers.

    Feng Liu;Cheng Wang;Jayanta K. Baral;Lei Zhang

  • Deposition of gold films and nanostructures from supercritical carbon dioxide

    Albertina Cabanas;David P. Long;James J. Watkins

  • Block Copolymer Nanocomposites with High Refractive Index Contrast for One-Step Photonics

    Dong-Po Song;Cheng Li;Wenhao Li;James J. Watkins

  • Scalable Nanoimprint Lithography Process for Manufacturing Visible Metasurfaces Composed of High Aspect Ratio TiO2 Meta-Atoms

    Vincent J. Einck;Mahsa Torfeh;Andrew McClung;Dae Eon Jung

  • Additive-Driven Assembly of Block Copolymer-Nanoparticle Hybrid Materials for Solution Processable Floating Gate Memory

    Qingshuo Wei;Ying Lin;Eric Anderson;Alejandro Briseno

  • Supercritical Fluids for the Fabrication of Semiconductor Devices: Emerging or Missed Opportunities?

    Alvin H. Romang;James J. Watkins

  • Deposition of Cu films from supercritical fluids using Cu(I) β-diketonate precursors

    Albertina Cabañas;Jason M. Blackburn;James J. Watkins

  • Cross-Linked Block Copolymer/Ionic Liquid Self-Assembled Blends for Polymer Gel Electrolytes with High Ionic Conductivity and Mechanical Strength

    Daniel F. Miranda;Craig Versek;Mark T. Tuominen;Thomas P. Russell

  • Cooperative Assembly of Hydrogen-Bonded Diblock Copolythiophene/Fullerene Blends for Photovoltaic Devices with Well-Defined Morphologies and Enhanced Stability

    Ying Lin;Jung Ah Lim;Qingshuo Wei;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kenneth R. Carter
Kenneth R. Carter University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alejandro L. Briseno
Alejandro L. Briseno University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bryan D. Vogt
Bryan D. Vogt Pennsylvania State University
H. Henning Winter
H. Henning Winter University of Massachusetts Amherst
Samuel P. Gido
Samuel P. Gido University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eric K. Lin
Eric K. Lin National Institute of Standards and Technology
Christopher K. Ober
Christopher K. Ober Cornell University
Thomas J. McCarthy
Thomas J. McCarthy University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cyril Aymonier
Cyril Aymonier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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