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D-Index
102
Citations
40934
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1152
National Ranking
60

Leroy Cronin 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 Leroy Cronin sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 584 publications — 92nd percentile

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

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

Leroy Cronin 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 Leroy Cronin sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 102 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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

  • 2018 - Interdisciplinary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2012 - Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Leroy Cronin is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry. The scientist's work spans several subfields including biomedical engineering, molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, and spectroscopy.

The main topics covered by Leroy Cronin include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
  • Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications

Leroy Cronin has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Nicola L. Bell, De-Liang Long, Weimin Xuan, Eduard Garrido Ribó, and S. Hessam M. Mehr.

The scientist has published extensively in multiple venues. Frequent publication venues include The Cambridge Structural Database, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Nature Communications.

Selected recent papers by Leroy Cronin include:

  • A universal system for digitization and automatic execution of the chemical synthesis literature, 2020, Science
  • Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry, 2021, Nature Communications
  • An artificial intelligence enabled chemical synthesis robot for exploration and optimization of nanomaterials, 2022, Science Advances
  • A nanomaterials discovery robot for the Darwinian evolution of shape programmable gold nanoparticles, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution, 2023, Nature

The scientist has received notable awards such as the Interdisciplinary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2018 and the Corday-Morgan Prize from the same society in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Polyoxometalates: Building Blocks for Functional Nanoscale Systems

    De-Liang Long;Ryo Tsunashima;Leroy Cronin

  • Polyoxometalate clusters, nanostructures and materials: From self assembly to designer materials and devices

    De-Liang Long;Eric Burkholder;Leroy Cronin

  • Engineering polyoxometalates with emergent properties.

    Haralampos N. Miras;Jun Yan;De-Liang Long;Leroy Cronin

  • Decoupled catalytic hydrogen evolution from a molecular metal oxide redox mediator in water splitting

    Benjamin Rausch;Mark D. Symes;Greig Chisholm;Leroy Cronin

  • Controlling an organic synthesis robot with machine learning to search for new reactivity

    Jarosław M. Granda;Liva Donina;Vincenza Dragone;De-Liang Long

  • Integrated 3D-printed reactionware for chemical synthesis and analysis

    Mark D. Symes;Philip J. Kitson;Jun Yan;Craig J. Richmond

  • Metal bis-1,2-dithiolene complexes in conducting or magnetic crystalline assemblies

    Neil Robertson;Leroy Cronin

  • Configurable 3D-Printed millifluidic and microfluidic 'lab on a chip' reactionware devices.

    Philip J. Kitson;Mali H. Rosnes;Victor Sans;Vincenza Dragone

  • Decoupling hydrogen and oxygen evolution during electrolytic water splitting using an electron-coupled-proton buffer.

    Mark D. Symes;Leroy Cronin

  • Organic synthesis in a modular robotic system driven by a chemical programming language

    Sebastian Steiner;Jakob Wolf;Stefan Glatzel;Anna Andreou

  • From serendipity to design of polyoxometalates at the nanoscale, aesthetic beauty and applications

    Leroy Cronin;Achim Müller

  • Polyoxometalate based open-frameworks (POM-OFs)

    Haralampos N. Miras;Laia Vilà-Nadal;Leroy Cronin

  • Design and fabrication of memory devices based on nanoscale polyoxometalate clusters

    Christoph Busche;Laia Vilà-Nadal;Jun Yan;Haralampos N. Miras

  • Self-Assembly of Organic−Inorganic Hybrid Amphiphilic Surfactants with Large Polyoxometalates as Polar Head Groups

    Jie Zhang;Yu-Fei Song;Leroy Cronin;Tianbo Liu

  • Polyoxometallate als Bausteine für funktionelle Nanosysteme

    De-Liang Long;Ryo Tsunashima;Leroy Cronin

  • Observation of Fe(V)=O using variable-temperature mass spectrometry and its enzyme-like C–H and C=C oxidation reactions

    Irene Prat;Jennifer S. Mathieson;Mireia Güell;Xavi Ribas

  • From Chemical Gardens to Chemobrionics

    Laura M. Barge;Silvana S. S. Cardoso;Julyan H. E. Cartwright;Geoffrey J. T. Cooper

  • Unveiling the Transient Template in the Self-Assembly of a Molecular Oxide Nanowheel

    Haralampos N. Miras;Geoffrey J. T. Cooper;De-Liang Long;Hartmut Bögge

  • Polyoxometalate-Mediated Self-Assembly of Single-Molecule Magnets: {[XW9O34]2[MnIII4MnII2O4(H2O)4]}12−

    Chris Ritchie;Alan Ferguson;Hiroyuki Nojiri;Haralampos N. Miras

  • Face-directed self-assembly of an electronically active Archimedean polyoxometalate architecture

    Scott G. Mitchell;Carsten Streb;Haralampos N. Miras;Thomas Boyd

  • A self optimizing synthetic organic reactor system using real-time in-line NMR spectroscopy

    Victor Sans;Luzian Porwol;Vincenza Dragone;Leroy Cronin

Frequent Co-Authors

De-Liang Long
De-Liang Long University of Glasgow
Haralampos N. Miras
Haralampos N. Miras University of Glasgow
Paul Kögerler
Paul Kögerler RWTH Aachen University
Carsten Streb
Carsten Streb University of Ulm
Tianbo Liu
Tianbo Liu University of Akron
Euan K. Brechin
Euan K. Brechin University of Edinburgh
Takayoshi Nakamura
Takayoshi Nakamura Hokkaido University
Hiroyuki Nojiri
Hiroyuki Nojiri Tohoku University
Josep M. Poblet
Josep M. Poblet Rovira i Virgili University
Asen Asenov
Asen Asenov University of Glasgow

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