2026 Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	122	440	422	3	3	721	86673
Chemistry	119	505	448	2	2	669	83179

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Materials Science

122

440

422

721

86673

Chemistry

119

505

448

669

83179

Materials Science

D-Index

122

Citations

86673

World Ranking

440

National Ranking

Chemistry

D-Index

119

Citations

83179

World Ranking

505

National Ranking

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Austria Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Austria Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Austria Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Austria Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
2012 - Wittgenstein Award
2010 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci is affiliated with Johannes Kepler University of Linz in Austria and has contributed extensively to the fields of materials science and engineering. Their research primarily focuses on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Electrochemistry.

The scientist's main research topics include:

Conducting polymers and applications
Perovskite Materials and Applications
Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
Advanced battery technologies research
Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Frequent publication venues for their work encompass:

The Cambridge Structural Database
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Israel Journal of Chemistry
Advanced Materials
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Sariciftci and their teams include:

Flexible quasi-2D perovskite solar cells with high specific power and improved stability for energy-autonomous drones, 2024, Nature Energy
Low Band Gap Conjugated Semiconducting Polymers, 2021, Advanced Materials Technologies
Impedance Spectroscopy of Perovskite Solar Cells: Studying the Dynamics of Charge Carriers Before and After Continuous Operation, 2020, physica status solidi (a)
Designing Ultraflexible Perovskite X-Ray Detectors through Interface Engineering, 2020, Advanced Science
Are Polyaniline and Polypyrrole Electrocatalysts for Oxygen (O₂) Reduction to Hydrogen Peroxide (H₂O₂)?, 2020, ACS Applied Energy Materials

Sariciftci has collaborated frequently with researchers including Cigdem Yumusak, Markus C. Scharber, Felix Mayr, Mihai Irimia-Vladu, and Jozef Krajčovič.

Their contributions have been recognized with awards such as the Wittgenstein Award in 2012 and designation as an SPIE Fellow in 2010.

Best Publications

Conjugated polymer-based organic solar cells

Serap Gunes;Helmut Neugebauer;Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

7888
Citations
Photoinduced electron transfer from a conducting polymer to buckminsterfullerene.

N. S. Sariciftci;L. Smilowitz;A. J. Heeger;F. Wudl

5930
Citations
Plastic Solar Cells

C. J. Brabec;N. S. Sariciftci;J. C. Hummelen

5469
Citations
2.5% efficient organic plastic solar cells

Sean E. Shaheen;Christoph J. Brabec;N. Serdar Sariciftci;Franz Padinger

3747
Citations
Organic solar cells: An overview

Harald Hoppe;Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

3683
Citations
Effects of Postproduction Treatment on Plastic Solar Cells

F. Padinger;R.S. Rittberger;N.S. Sariciftci

2741
Citations
Origin of the Open Circuit Voltage of Plastic Solar Cells

C. J. Brabec;A. Cravino;D. Meissner;N. S. Sariciftci

2455
Citations
Ultrathin and lightweight organic solar cells with high flexibility

Martin Kaltenbrunner;Matthew S. White;Eric D. Głowacki;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tsuyoshi Sekitani

1928
Citations
Morphology of polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

Harald Hoppe;Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

1819
Citations
Semiconducting polymer‐buckminsterfullerene heterojunctions: Diodes, photodiodes, and photovoltaic cells

N. S. Sariciftci;David Braun;C. Zhang;V. I. Srdanov

1508
Citations
Efficiency of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

M.C. Scharber;N.S. Sariciftci

1354
Citations
Effect of LiF/metal electrodes on the performance of plastic solar cells

Christoph J. Brabec;Sean E. Shaheen;Christoph Winder;N. Serdar Sariciftci

1335
Citations
Organic solar cells with carbon nanotube network electrodes

Michael W. Rowell;Mark A. Topinka;Michael D. McGehee;Hans-Jürgen Prall

1329
Citations
Flexible high power-per-weight perovskite solar cells with chromium oxide–metal contacts for improved stability in air

Martin Kaltenbrunner;Getachew Adam;Eric Daniel Głowacki;Michael Drack

1073
Citations
Ultrathin, highly flexible and stretchable PLEDs

Matthew S. White;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Eric D. Głowacki;Kateryna Gutnichenko

998
Citations
Nanoscale Morphology of Conjugated Polymer/Fullerene-Based Bulk- Heterojunction Solar Cells†

H. Hoppe;M. Niggemann;C. Winder;J. Kraut

973
Citations
Low bandgap polymers for photon harvesting in bulk heterojunction solar cells

Christoph Winder;Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

940
Citations
Organic Photovoltaics : Mechanisms, Materials, and Devices

Sam-Shajing Sun;Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

840
Citations
A review of charge transport and recombination in polymer/fullerene organic solar cells

A. Pivrikas;N. S. Sariciftci;G. Juška;R. Österbacka

745
Citations
A low-bandgap semiconducting polymer for photovoltaic devices and infrared emitting diodes

CJ Brabec;C Winder;NS Sariciftci;JC Jan Hummelen

695
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