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Materials Science

D-Index
70
Citations
20651
World Ranking
4373
National Ranking
1168

Chemistry

D-Index
73
Citations
22519
World Ranking
4894
National Ranking
1534

Sean Parkin publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sean Parkin sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 453 publications — 83rd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Sean Parkin D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sean Parkin sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sean Parkin is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a significant emphasis on Materials Chemistry within these areas.

The scientist's work focuses on several key topics, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Crystal structures of chemical compounds
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Organometallic Compounds Synthesis and Characterization

Sean Parkin has contributed to substantial publication output in various research venues. The most frequent venues for their published work include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Acta Crystallographica Section E Crystallographic Communications
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • RSC Advances
  • Crystal Growth & Design

Their research collaborations often involve several frequent co-authors, such as:

  • Sihui Long
  • Yunping Zhoujin
  • Tonglei Li
  • H.S. Yathirajan
  • John E. Anthony

Among Sean Parkin's recent published papers are:

  • Metastable Dion-Jacobson 2D structure enables efficient and stable perovskite solar cells (2022), published in Science
  • Toward Optimal Ru(II) Photocages: Balancing Photochemistry, Stability, and Biocompatibility Through Fine Tuning of Steric, Electronic, and Physiochemical Features (2020), published in Inorganic Chemistry
  • Rational Functionalization of a C70 Buckybowl To Enable a C70:Buckybowl Cocrystal for Organic Semiconductor Applications (2020), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Bis-tridentate N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ru(II) Complexes are Promising New Agents for Photodynamic Therapy (2020), published in Inorganic Chemistry
  • Cancer cell-selective modulation of mitochondrial respiration and metabolism by potent organogold(iii) dithiocarbamates (2020), published in Chemical Science

Best Publications

  • Functionalized Pentacene: Improved Electronic Properties from Control of Solid-State Order

    John E. Anthony;James S. Brooks;and David L. Eaton;Sean R. Parkin

  • Organic field-effect transistors from solution-deposited functionalized acenes with mobilities as high as 1 cm2/V x s.

    Marcia M. Payne;Sean R. Parkin;John E. Anthony;Chung Chen Kuo

  • A road map to stable, soluble, easily crystallized pentacene derivatives.

    Anthony Je;Eaton Dl;Parkin

  • Framework-catenation isomerism in metal-organic frameworks and its impact on hydrogen uptake.

    Shengqian Ma;Daofeng Sun;Michael Ambrogio;Jacqueline A Fillinger

  • XABS2: an empirical absorption correction program

    S. Parkin;B. Moezzi;H. Hope

  • Contact-induced crystallinity for high-performance soluble acene-based transistors and circuits.

    D. J. Gundlach;J. E. Royer;S. K. Park;S. Subramanian

  • Functionalized higher acenes: hexacene and heptacene.

    Marcia M. Payne;Sean R. Parkin;John E. Anthony

  • Metastable Dion-Jacobson 2D structure enables efficient and stable perovskite solar cells.

    Fei Zhang;So Yeon Park;Canglang Yao;Haipeng Lu

  • Chromophore fluorination enhances crystallization and stability of soluble anthradithiophene semiconductors.

    Sankar Subramanian;Sung Kyu Park;Sean R. Parkin;Vitaly Podzorov

  • Synthesis and characterization of electron-deficient pentacenes.

    Christopher R. Swartz;Sean R. Parkin;Joseph E. Bullock;John E. Anthony

  • Light-activated ruthenium complexes photobind DNA and are cytotoxic in the photodynamic therapy window.

    Erin Wachter;David K. Heidary;Brock S. Howerton;Sean Parkin

  • A mesoporous metal-organic framework with permanent porosity.

    Xi-Sen Wang;Shengqian Ma;Daofeng Sun;Sean Parkin

  • Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Crystalline Nonacenes

    Balaji Purushothaman;Matthew Bruzek;Sean R. Parkin;Anne-Frances Miller

  • (.eta.2-C70)Ir(CO)Cl(PPh3)2: the synthesis and structure of an iridium organometallic derivative of a higher fullerene

    Alan L. Balch;Vincent J. Catalano;Joong W. Lee;Marilyn M. Olmstead

  • Stable, Crystalline Acenedithiophenes with up to Seven Linearly Fused Rings

    Marcia M Payne;Susan A Odom;Sean R Parkin;John E Anthony

  • An S = 6 Cyanide-Bridged Octanuclear FeIII4NiII4 Complex that Exhibits Slow Relaxation of the Magnetization

    Dongfeng Li;Sean Parkin;Guangbin Wang;Gordon T. Yee

  • Exciton delocalization drives rapid singlet fission in nanoparticles of acene derivatives.

    Ryan D. Pensack;Andrew J. Tilley;Sean R. Parkin;Tia S. Lee

  • High current density, long duration cycling of soluble organic active species for non-aqueous redox flow batteries

    Jarrod D. Milshtein;Aman Preet Kaur;Matthew D. Casselman;Jeffrey A. Kowalski

  • Alkaloids from the antarctic sponge Kirkpatrickia varialosa.

    Nigel B. Perry;Laurent Ettouati;Marc Litaudon;John W. Blunt

  • Tetracene derivatives as potential red emitters for organic LEDs.

    Susan A. Odom;Sean R. Parkin;John E. Anthony

  • Single-molecule magnets constructed from cyanometalates: {[Tp*Fe(III)(CN)3M(II)(DMF)4]2[OTf]2} x 2DMF (M(II) = Co, Ni).

    Dongfeng Li;Sean Parkin;Guangbin Wang;Gordon T. Yee

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Crooks
Peter A. Crooks University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
John E. Anthony
John E. Anthony University of Kentucky
Hans-Joachim Lehmler
Hans-Joachim Lehmler University of Iowa
Chad Risko
Chad Risko University of Kentucky
Larry W. Robertson
Larry W. Robertson University of Iowa
Alejandro L. Briseno
Alejandro L. Briseno University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hakon Hope
Hakon Hope University of California, Davis
Faquan Yu
Faquan Yu Wuhan Institute of Technology
Maxime A. Siegler
Maxime A. Siegler Johns Hopkins University
Oana D. Jurchescu
Oana D. Jurchescu Wake Forest University

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