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Morales-Vidal, JAuthorGarcia-Muelas, RAuthor
March 15, 2021
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Defects as catalytic sites for the oxygen evolution reaction in Earth-abundant MOF-74 revealed by DFT

Publicated to: Catalysis Science & Technology. 11 (4): 1443-1450 - 2021-02-21 11(4), DOI: 10.1039/d0cy02163f

Authors: Morales-Vidal, J; García-Muelas, R; Ortuño, MA

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Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol BIST, Inst Chem Res Catalonia ICIQ, Av Paisos Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain - Author
Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) - Author

Abstract

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the bottleneck of hydrogen productionviawater splitting and using efficient electrocatalysts becomes paramount to render this process viable. Metal-organic framework (MOF) catalysts, which are porous solid materials at the frontier between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, have emerged as promising candidates. Earth-abundant MOF-74 materials have recently shown great performance towards the OER, but the true nature of their active sites remains unclear. Here, we employ density functional theory (DFT +U) to elucidate the reaction mechanism and rationalize the electrocatalytic activity of Fe-MOF-74. Our results demonstrate that the open metal sites of the pristine catalyst do not promote the OER; instead, metal sites associated with defective structures do. This study provides new insights into guiding the rational synthesis and post-synthetic engineering of MOFs for electrocatalysis.

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Catalysis Science & Technology due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Catalysis.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-11-29:

  • Open Alex: 22
  • Google Scholar: 17
  • WoS: 19
  • Scopus: 1

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-11-29:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 27.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 27 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 16.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 9 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Morales Vidal, Jordi) and Last Author (Ortuno, MA).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Ortuno, MA.