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Richard A. Jones

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
13219
World Ranking
8477
National Ranking
2436

Richard A. Jones 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 Richard A. Jones sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 495 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard A. Jones 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 Richard A. Jones sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% 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

  • 1985 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Richard A. Jones is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Materials Science, with a concentration on Materials Chemistry. Additional subfields include Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Richard A. Jones include:

  • Construction of 14-metal lanthanide nanorings with NIR luminescence response to ions, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • Construction of a High-Nuclearity Elliptical Yb(III) Nanoring: NIR Luminescent Response to Metal Ions and Nitro Explosives, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Antibacterial thiamine inspired silver (I) and gold (I) N-heterocyclic carbene compounds, 2020, Inorganica Chimica Acta
  • Construction of Chiral "Triple-Decker" Nd(III) Nanocluster with High NIR Luminescence Sensitivity toward Co(II), 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Incorporation of spin-crossover cobalt(II) complexes into conducting metallopolymers: Towards redox-controlled spin change, 2021, Polymer

Richard A. Jones frequently collaborates with several researchers including:

  • Orhi Esarte Palomero
  • Minh T. Nguyen
  • Bradley J. Holliday
  • Xiaoping Yang
  • Yanan Ma

The scientist has published extensively in these scholarly venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Chemical Communications
  • Inorganica Chimica Acta

In addition to journal articles, Richard A. Jones has authored a book published by Hamilton eBooks, titled Memoirs of a Black Philosopher, released in 2024.

Award recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Continuous-flow electroreduction of carbon dioxide

    Balázs Endrődi;G. Bencsik;F. Darvas;R. Jones

  • Single‐Source III/V Precursors: A New Approach to Gallium Arsenide and Related Semiconductors

    Alan H. Cowley;Richard A. Jones

  • Synthesis and x-ray crystal structures of hexakis(trimethylphosphine)tris-.mu.-methylene-diruthenium(III) and its mono- and dicationic derivatives

    Michael B. Hursthouse;Richard A. Jones;K. M. Abdul Malik;Geoffrey Wilkinson

  • Anion dependent self-assembly of "tetra-decker" and "triple-decker"luminescent Tb(III) salen complexes.

    Xiaoping Yang;Richard A. Jones

  • Heterobimetallic Zn(II)-Ln(III) phenylene-bridged schiff base complexes, computational studies, and evidence for singlet energy transfer as the main pathway in the sensitization of near-infrared Nd3+ luminescence.

    Wing Kit Lo;Wai Kwok Wong;Wai Yeung Wong;Jianping Guo

  • Luminescent 4f and d-4f polynuclear complexes and coordination polymers with flexible salen-type ligands

    Xiaoping Yang;Xiaoping Yang;Richard A. Jones;Shaoming Huang

  • Multinuclear luminescent Schiff-base Zn-Nd sandwich complexes.

    Wai Kwok Wong;Xiaoping Yang;Richard A Jones;Joseph H. Rivers

  • Reaction of nickelocene with 1,3-dimesitylimidazolium chloride

    Colin D Abernethy;Alan H;Cowley;Richard A Jones

  • Low-temperature synthesis of amorphous FeP2 and its use as anodes for Li ion batteries.

    Justin W. Hall;Nellymar Membreno;Jing Wu;Hugo Celio

  • Design and synthesis of a near infra-red luminescent hexanuclear Zn–Nd prism

    Xiao Ping Yang;Richard A Jones;Wai Kwok Wong;Vincent M Lynch

  • Anion-dependent self-assembly of near-infrared luminescent 24- and 32-metal Cd-Ln complexes with drum-like architectures.

    Xiaoping Yang;Desmond Schipper;Richard A. Jones;Lauren A. Lytwak

  • Synthesis and near infrared luminescence of a tetrametallic Zn2Yb2 architecture from a trinuclear Zn3L2 Schiff base complex

    Xiaoping Yang;Richard A Jones;Vince Lynch;Michael M. Oye

  • Reactions of Transition-Metal Metallocenes with Stable Carbenes

    Colin D. Abernethy;Jason A. C. Clyburne;and Alan H. Cowley;Richard A. Jones

  • Tris(2-pyridyl)phosphine complexes of ruthenium(II) and rhodium(I). Hydroformylation of hex-1-ene by rhodium complexes

    Kurti Kurtev;Dominique Ribola;Richard A. Jones;David J. Cole-Hamilton

  • Arene Complexes of Al(C6F5)3. Relationship to a Déjà Vu Silylium Ion

    Gregory S. Hair;Alan H. Cowley;Richard A. Jones;Brian G. McBurnett

  • Niedermolekulare III/V‐Komplexe, ein möglicher neuer Weg zu Galliumarsenid und verwandten Halbleitern

    Alan H. Cowley;Richard A. Jones

  • AN ALKYL-SUBSTITUTED INDIUM(I) TETRAMER

    Rodney D. Schluter;Alan H. Cowley;David A. Atwood;Richard A. Jones

  • Use of the 2,4,6-tris(trifluoromethyl)phenyl ligand to stabilize indium-indium and gallium-gallium bonds

    Rodney D. Schluter;Alan H. Cowley;David A. Atwood;Richard A. Jones

  • Pentanuclear tetra-decker luminescent lanthanide Schiff base complexes

    Xiaoping Yang;Richard A Jones;Wai Kwok Wong

  • Self-Assembly of Luminescent Hexanuclear Lanthanide Salen Complexes

    Sen Liao;Sen Liao;Xiaoping Yang;Richard A. Jones

  • 510. The synthesis and stereochemistry of quinolizidine and the monomethylquinolizidines, and of their salts and quaternary salts

    T. M. Moynehan;K. Schofield;Richard A. Y. Jones;A. R. Katritzky

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan H. Cowley
Alan H. Cowley The University of Texas at Austin
Wai-Kwok Wong
Wai-Kwok Wong Hong Kong Baptist University
Alan R. Katritzky
Alan R. Katritzky University of Florida
Jerry L. Atwood
Jerry L. Atwood University of Missouri
John G. Ekerdt
John G. Ekerdt The University of Texas at Austin
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Geoffrey Wilkinson Imperial College London
Simon G. Bott
Simon G. Bott University of Houston
William E. Hunter
William E. Hunter University of Alabama
Shaoming Huang
Shaoming Huang Guangdong University of Technology
Claire J. Carmalt
Claire J. Carmalt University College London

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