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D-Index
82
Citations
29636
World Ranking
3044
National Ranking
73

Michal Borkovec 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 Michal Borkovec sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 258 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michal Borkovec 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 Michal Borkovec sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michal Borkovec is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of chemistry, with a focus on physical and theoretical chemistry as well as biomedical engineering and organic chemistry.

The research primarily centers on electrostatics and colloid interactions, surfactants and colloidal systems, and the characterization and applications of magnetic nanoparticles. Additional topics include iron oxide chemistry, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, coagulation and flocculation studies, and microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Michal Borkovec include:

  • Schulze-Hardy rule revisited, 2020, Colloid & Polymer Science
  • Heteroaggregation and Homoaggregation of Latex Particles in the Presence of Alkyl Sulfate Surfactants, 2020, Colloids and Interfaces
  • Forces between interfaces in concentrated nanoparticle suspensions and polyelectrolyte solutions, 2021, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
  • Heteroaggregation between Charged and Neutral Particles, 2020, Langmuir
  • Measuring slow heteroaggregation rates in the presence of fast homoaggregation, 2020, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Borkovec frequently publishes in several scientific journals, with sixteen publications in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) and multiple papers in "Colloids and Interfaces," "Langmuir," "Soft Matter," and "Colloid & Polymer Science."

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Gregor Trefalt
  • Plinio Maroni
  • Liam R. J. Scarratt
  • Tianchi Cao
  • Dominik Kosior

Best Publications

  • Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers

    Peter Hänggi;Peter Talkner;Michal Borkovec

  • ION BINDING TO NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER : COMPETITION, HETEROGENEITY, STOICHIOMETRY AND THERMODYNAMIC CONSISTENCY

    David G Kinniburgh;Willem H van Riemsdijk;Luuk K Koopal;Michal Borkovec

  • Mobile Subsurface Colloids and Their Role in Contaminant Transport

    Ruben Kretzschmar;Michal Borkovec;Daniel Grolimund;Menachem Elimelech

  • Coagulation Rate Measurements of Colloidal Particles by Simultaneous Static and Dynamic Light Scattering

    Helmut Holthoff;Stefan U. Egelhaaf;Michal Borkovec;Peter Schurtenberger

  • Aggregation and charging of colloidal silica particles: effect of particle size.

    Motoyoshi Kobayashi;Frédéric Juillerat;Paolo Galletto;Paul Bowen

  • Classical and modern methods in reaction rate theory

    Bruce J. Berne;Michal Borkovec;John E. Straub

  • Colloid-Facilitated Transport of Strongly Sorbing Contaminants in Natural Porous Media: A Laboratory Column Study

    Daniel Grolimund;Michal Borkovec;Kurt Barmettler;Hans Sticher

  • How to study microemulsions

    M. Kahlweit;R. Strey;D. Haase;H. Kunieda

  • Experimental determination of colloid deposition rates and collision efficiencies in natural porous media

    Ruben Kretzschmar;Kurt Barmettler;Daniel Grolimund;Yao-de Yan

  • Charging and Aggregation Properties of Carboxyl Latex Particles: Experiments versus DLVO Theory

    Sven Holger Behrens;Daniel Iso Christl;Rudi Emmerzael;and Peter Schurtenberger

  • Microscopic protonation equilibria of Poly(amidoamine) dendrimers from macroscopic titrations

    Dusko Cakara;Jörg Kleimann;Michal Borkovec

  • Polyelectrolyte adsorption, interparticle forces, and colloidal aggregation

    Istvan Szilagyi;Gregor Trefalt;Alberto Tiraferri;Plinio Maroni

  • Conductivity of water-in-oil microemulsions: a quantitative charge fluctuation model

    Hans Friedrich Eicke;Michal Borkovec;Bikram Das-Gupta

  • Transport of in Situ Mobilized Colloidal Particles in Packed Soil Columns

    Daniel Grolimund;Menachem Elimelech;Michal Borkovec;Kurt Barmettler

  • Charge Regulation in the Electrical Double Layer: Ion Adsorption and Surface Interactions

    Gregor Trefalt;Sven Holger Behrens;Michal Borkovec

  • Strict self-assembly of polymetallic helicates: the concepts behind the semantics

    Claude Piguet;Michal Borkovec;Josef Hamacek;Kornelia Zeckert

  • Coating of silica sand with goethite: preparation and analytical identification

    A. Scheidegger;M. Borkovec;H. Sticher

  • Absolute Aggregation Rate Constants of Hematite Particles in Aqueous Suspensions: A Comparison of Two Different Surface Morphologies

    M. Schudel;S.H. Behrens;S.H. Behrens;H. Holthoff;R. Kretzschmar

  • DLVO Interaction between Colloidal Particles: Beyond Derjaguin’s Approximation

    Subir Bhattacharjee;Menachem Elimelech;Michal Borkovec

  • Specific ion effects on particle aggregation induced by monovalent salts within the Hofmeister series.

    Tamas Oncsik;Gregor Trefalt;Michal Borkovec;Istvan Szilagyi

  • Determination of nonlinear adsorption isotherms from column experiments : an alternative to batch studies

    Christa S. Buergisser;Miroslav Cernik;Michal Borkovec;Hans Sticher

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce J. Berne
Bruce J. Berne Columbia University
Claude Piguet
Claude Piguet University of Geneva
Daniel Grolimund
Daniel Grolimund Paul Scherrer Institute
John E. Straub
John E. Straub Boston University
Alberto Tiraferri
Alberto Tiraferri Polytechnic University of Turin
Peter Schurtenberger
Peter Schurtenberger Lund University
Stefan Matile
Stefan Matile University of Geneva
Naomi Sakai
Naomi Sakai University of Geneva
Jurriaan Huskens
Jurriaan Huskens University of Twente

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