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D-Index
51
Citations
9786
World Ranking
13903
National Ranking
782

Scott J. Dalgarno 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 Scott J. Dalgarno sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 288 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Scott J. Dalgarno 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 Scott J. Dalgarno sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% 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

  • 2010 - Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Scott J. Dalgarno is affiliated with Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a strong emphasis on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Inorganic Chemistry, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers several specialized topics, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemical Communications
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Scott J. Dalgarno illustrate the diversity of their research interests:

  • "Conjugated porous polymers: incredibly versatile materials with far-reaching applications," 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "One-Pot Fabrication of Hollow Porphyrinic MOF Nanoparticles with Ultrahigh Drug Loading toward Controlled Delivery and Synergistic Cancer Therapy," 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "A {Gd12Na6} Molecular Quadruple-Wheel with a Record Magnetocaloric Effect at Low Magnetic Fields and Temperatures," 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Self-Assembly of a Semiconductive and Photoactive Heterobimetallic Metal-Organic Capsule," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Engineered MOF-Enzyme Nanocomposites for Tumor Microenvironment-Activated Photodynamic Therapy with Self-Luminescence and Oxygen Self-Supply," 2023, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Scott J. Dalgarno has collaborated extensively with several researchers, the most frequent co-authors being:

  • Euan K. Brechin
  • Dominic Taylor
  • Filipe Vilela
  • Martin J. Paterson
  • Adilet Zhakeyev

The scientist's contributions include over 204 publications in Materials Science and 69 in Chemistry. They have a notable record of publications in materials chemistry subfields and have contributed to crystallography-based studies extensively.

Scott J. Dalgarno received the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Metallo-supramolecular capsules

    Scott J. Dalgarno;Scott J. Dalgarno;Nicholas P. Power;Jerry L. Atwood

  • Engineering void space in organic van der Waals crystals: calixarenes lead the way

    Scott J Dalgarno;Praveen K Thallapally;Leonard J Barbour;Jerry L Atwood

  • Flexible (Breathing) Interpenetrated Metal−Organic Frameworks for CO2 Separation Applications

    Praveen K. Thallapally;Jian Tian;Motkuri Radha Kishan;Carlos A. Fernandez

  • [MnIII4LnIII4] Calix[4]arene Clusters as Enhanced Magnetic Coolers and Molecular Magnets

    Georgios Karotsis;Stuart Kennedy;Simon J. Teat;Christine M. Beavers

  • A single crystalline porphyrinic titanium metal-organic framework.

    Shuai Yuan;Tian Fu Liu;Dawei Feng;Jian Tian

  • A calix[4]arene 3d/4f magnetic cooler

    Georgios Karotsis;Marco Evangelisti;Scott J. Dalgarno;Euan K. Brechin

  • Mixed metal-organic nanocapsules

    Ping Jin;Scott J. Dalgarno;Jerry L. Atwood

  • Conjugated porous polymers: incredibly versatile materials with far-reaching applications.

    Dominic Taylor;Scott J. Dalgarno;Zhengtao Xu;Filipe Vilela

  • Gas-induced transformation and expansion of a non-porous organic solid

    Praveen K. Thallapally;B. Peter McGrail;Scott J. Dalgarno;Scott J. Dalgarno;Herbert T. Schaef

  • Fluorescent Guest Molecules Report Ordered Inner Phase of Host Capsules in Solution

    Scott J. Dalgarno;Sheryl A. Tucker;Daniel B. Bassil;Jerry L. Atwood

  • One-Pot Fabrication of Hollow Porphyrinic MOF Nanoparticles with Ultrahigh Drug Loading toward Controlled Delivery and Synergistic Cancer Therapy.

    Xin Sun;Guihua He;Chuxiao Xiong;Chenyuan Wang

  • Amorphous Molecular Organic Solids for Gas Adsorption

    Jian Tian;Praveen K. Thallapally;Scott J. Dalgarno;Peter B. McGrail

  • Flexible metal–organic supramolecular isomers for gas separation

    Motkuri Radha Kishan;Jian Tian;Praveen K. Thallapally;Carlos A. Fernandez

  • Sulfonatocalixarenes: molecular capsule and ‘Russian doll’ arrays to structures mimicking viral geometry

    Scott J. Dalgarno;Jerry L. Atwood;Colin L. Raston

  • Toward mimicking viral geometry with metal-organic systems.

    Jerry L Atwood;Leonard J Barbour;Scott J Dalgarno;Michaele J Hardie

  • Selective Metal Cation Capture by Soft Anionic Metal–Organic Frameworks via Drastic Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformations

    Jian Tian;Laxmikant V. Saraf;Birgit Schwenzer;Stephanie M. Taylor

  • Capture of di-protonated [2.2.2]cryptand in the cavity of two p-sulfonated calixarenes as part of 2-D bi-layer lanthanide coordination polymers

    Scott J. Dalgarno;Colin L. Raston

  • Calix[4]arene‐Based Single‐Molecule Magnets

    Georgios Karotsis;Simon J. Teat;Wolfgang Wernsdorfer;Stergios Piligkos

  • pH-dependent formation of molecular capsules and coordination polymers

    Scott J. Dalgarno;Michaele J. Hardie;Colin L. Raston

  • Toward the isolation of functional organic nanotubes.

    Scott J. Dalgarno;Gareth W. V. Cave;Gareth W. V. Cave;Jerry L. Atwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerry L. Atwood
Jerry L. Atwood University of Missouri
Euan K. Brechin
Euan K. Brechin University of Edinburgh
Simon J. Teat
Simon J. Teat Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Colin L. Raston
Colin L. Raston Flinders University
Leslie D. Field
Leslie D. Field University of New South Wales
Praveen K. Thallapally
Praveen K. Thallapally Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jian Tian
Jian Tian Shandong University of Science and Technology
John E. Warren
John E. Warren University of Manchester
Michaele J. Hardie
Michaele J. Hardie University of Leeds
Charles L. Barnes
Charles L. Barnes University of Missouri

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