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Keith S. Murray

Keith S. Murray

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Chemistry
Australia
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
95
Citations
33901
World Ranking
1617
National Ranking
44

Keith S. Murray 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 Keith S. Murray sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 678 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Keith S. Murray 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 Keith S. Murray sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Keith S. Murray is affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with specific work found predominantly within Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Additional subfields include Inorganic Chemistry and Spectroscopy.

Their recent scholarly output comprises studies published mainly between 2020 and covers topics related to spin crossover phenomena, redox activity, and framework magnetism. Notable papers include:

  • Spin Crossover in Iron(III) Quinolylsalicylaldiminates: The Curious Case of [Fe(qsal-F)2](Anion), 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Controlling Spin Switching with Anionic Supramolecular Frameworks, 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • Three-Way Switchable Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Solvatomorphic Spin Crossover in a Molecular Cocrystal, 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • Effects of Mixed Valency in an Fe-Based Framework: Coexistence of Slow Magnetic Relaxation, Semiconductivity, and Redox Activity, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Tuning Charge-State Localization in a Semiconductive Iron(III)-Chloranilate Framework Magnet Using a Redox-Active Cation, 2020, Chemistry of Materials

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors who have contributed extensively alongside them. These colleagues are Wasinee Phonsri, Phimphaka Harding, Michael C. Pfrunder, Aaron S. Micallef, and Jack K. Clegg.

Keith S. Murray has published extensively in several established scientific venues. The most frequent ones include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemistry of Materials

Their main topics of scholarly investigation include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Organic and Molecular Conductors Research

The body of work reflects a strong emphasis on understanding structural properties and behaviors of coordination complexes and molecular frameworks through crystallographic techniques and magnetic studies.

Best Publications

  • PHI: A powerful new program for the analysis of anisotropic monomeric and exchange‐coupled polynuclear d‐ and f‐block complexes

    Nicholas Frederick Chilton;Russell Paul Anderson;Lincoln David Turner;Alessandro Soncini

  • Guest-Dependent Spin Crossover in a Nanoporous Molecular Framework Material

    Gregory J. Halder;Cameron J. Kepert;Boujemaa Moubaraki;Keith S. Murray

  • Structure and magnetism of coordination polymers containing dicyanamide and tricyanomethanide

    Stuart R Batten;Keith S Murray

  • Dynamic interplay between spin-crossover and host-guest function in a nanoporous metal-organic framework material.

    Peter D Southon;Lang Liu;Elizabeth A Fellows;David J Price

  • Binuclear oxo-bridged iron(iii) complexes

    K.S. Murray

  • A {CrIII2DyIII2} Single‐Molecule Magnet: Enhancing the Blocking Temperature through 3d Magnetic Exchange

    Stuart Langley;Daniel P Wielechowski;Veacheslav Vieru;Nicholas Frederick Chilton

  • Structure and molecular magnetism of the rutile-related compounds M(dca)2, M = CoII, NiII, CuII, dca = dicyanamide, N(CN)2–

    Stuart R. Batten;Richard Robson;Paul Jensen;Boujemaa Moubaraki

  • Magnetic properties and zero-field splitting in high-spin manganese(III) complexes. 1. Mononuclear and polynuclear Schiff-base chelates

    Brendan J. Kennedy;Keith S. Murray

  • Molecular coolers: The case for [CuII5GdIII4]

    Stuart K. Langley;Nicholas F. Chilton;Boujemaa Moubaraki;Thomas Hooper

  • Advances in Polynuclear Iron(II), Iron(III) and Cobalt(II) Spin‐Crossover Compounds

    Keith Spencer Murray

  • Structure and Magnetism of a Bimetallic Pentanuclear Cluster [(Ni(bpm)2)3(Fe(CN)6)2]·7H2O (bpm = Bis(1-pyrazolyl)methane)). The Role of the Hydrogen-Bonded 7H2O “Cluster” in Long-Range Magnetic Ordering

    K Van Langenberg;Stuart R Batten;Kevin J Berry;David C R Hockless

  • Cooperativity in spin crossover systems: memory, magnetism and microporosity

    Keith S. Murray;Cameron J. Kepert

  • Syntheses, structures and magnetism of α-Mn(dca)2, [Mn(dca)2(H2O)2]·H2O, [Mn(dca)2(C2H5OH)2]·(CH3)2CO, [Fe(dca)2(CH3OH)2] and [Mn(dca)2(L)2], where L = pyridine, CH3OH or DMF and dca– = dicyanamide, N(CN)2–†

    Stuart R. Batten;Paul Jensen;Cameron J. Kepert;Mohamedally Kurmoo

  • Single molecule magnetism in a family of mononuclear β-diketonate lanthanide(III) complexes: rationalization of magnetic anisotropy in complexes of low symmetry

    Nicholas Frederick Chilton;Stuart Langley;Boujemaa Moubaraki;Alessandro Soncini

  • Single-crystal to single-crystal structural transformation and photomagnetic properties of a porous iron(II) spin-crossover framework.

    Suzanne M Neville;Gregory J Halder;Karena Chapman;Martin Duriska

  • Heterometallic Tetranuclear [LnIII2CoIII2] Complexes Including Suppression of Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization in the [DyIII2CoIII2] Single Molecule Magnet

    Stuart Langley;Nicholas Frederick Chilton;Liviu Ungur;Boujemaa Moubaraki

  • Spin crossover in iron(III) Schiff-base 1-D chain complexes

    Tamsyn Maree Ross;Suzanne M Neville;David S Innes;David Roger Turner

  • Guest tunable structure and spin crossover properties in a nanoporous coordination framework material.

    Suzanne M Neville;Gregory J Halder;Karena Chapman;Martin Duriska

  • Self‐Penetration—A Structural Compromise between Single Networks and Interpenetration: Magnetic Properties and Crystal Structures of [Mn(dca)2(H2O)] and [M(dca)(tcm)], M=Co, Ni, Cu, dca=Dicyanamide, N(CN)2−, tcm=Tricyanomethanide, C(CN)3−

    Paul Jensen;David J. Price;Stuart R. Batten;Boujemaa Moubaraki

  • Magnetic interactions in metal complexes of binucleating ligands. 2. Synthesis and properties of binuclear copper(II) compounds containing exogenous ligands that bridge through two atoms. Crystal and molecular structure of a binuclear .mu.-pyrazolato-N,N'-bridged dicopper(II) complex of 1,3-bis(salicylideneamino)propan-2-ol

    Waldemar Mazurek;Brendan J. Kennedy;Keith S. Murray;Maxwell J. O'Connor

Frequent Co-Authors

Boujemaa Moubaraki
Boujemaa Moubaraki Monash University
Stuart Robert Batten
Stuart Robert Batten Monash University
Nicholas F. Chilton
Nicholas F. Chilton University of Manchester
Leone Spiccia
Leone Spiccia Monash University
Gopalan Rajaraman
Gopalan Rajaraman Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Sally Brooker
Sally Brooker MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Cameron J. Kepert
Cameron J. Kepert University of Sydney
Guy N. L. Jameson
Guy N. L. Jameson University of Melbourne
Richard Robson
Richard Robson University of Melbourne
Brendan J. Kennedy
Brendan J. Kennedy University of Sydney

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