Alaa Abdul‐Sada

4.6k citations

77 papers · 3.5k · 3 hit papers · h-index 28

Impact in

Insect Science top 0.5%
- Insect and Pesticide Research
Organic Chemistry top 1%
- Fullerene Chemistry and Applications

Papers in

Organic Chemistry 42
- Fullerene Chemistry and Applications 28
Materials Chemistry 31
- Carbon Nanotubes in Composites 13
- Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research 8
- Graphene research and applications 7

Co-authors: Roger Taylor (24 shared papers)Elizabeth M. Hill (15 shared papers)Harold W. Kroto (8 shared papers)J. P. Hare (4 shared papers)Arthur David (7 shared papers)Dave Goulson (4 shared papers)Cristina Botías (3 shared papers)Elizabeth Nicholls (2 shared papers)
Journals: Dalton Transactions (4 papers)Environmental Science & Technology (4 papers)Chemical Communications (3 papers)Chemistry - A European Journal (3 papers)Inorganic Chemistry (3 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Greece Russia

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Alaa Abdul‐Sada

76 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Alaa Abdul‐Sada's Hit Papers

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Widespread contamination of wildflower and bee-collected pollen with complex mixtures of neonicotinoids and fungicides commonly applied to crops 2016 · 305 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Environment International
2015 Environmental Science & Technology
1990 Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications

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1	Isolation, separation and characterisation of the fullerenes C60 and C70: the third form of carbon Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications ·Roger Taylor, J. P. Hare, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Harold W. Kroto Hit paper breakdown →	1990	655
2	Neonicotinoid Residues in Wildflowers, a Potential Route of Chronic Exposure for Bees Environmental Science & Technology ·Cristina Botías, Arthur David, Julia Horwood, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Elizabeth Nicholls, Elizabeth M. Hill, Dave Goulson Hit paper breakdown →	2015	351
3	Widespread contamination of wildflower and bee-collected pollen with complex mixtures of neonicotinoids and fungicides commonly applied to crops Environment International ·Arthur David, Cristina Botías, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Elizabeth Nicholls, Ellen L. Rotheray, Elizabeth M. Hill, Dave Goulson Hit paper breakdown →	2016	305
4	Isolation of Two Seven-Membered Ring C ₅₈ Fullerene Derivatives: C ₅₈ F ₁₇ CF ₃ and C ₅₈ F ₁₈ Science ·Pavel A. Troshin, Anthony G. Avent, Adam D. Darwish, Natalia Martsinovich, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Joan M. Street, Roger Taylor	2005	134
5	Upon the structure of room temperature halogenoaluminate ionic liquids Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications ·Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Anthony M. Greenway, Peter B. Hitchcock, Thamer J. Mohammed, Kenneth R. Seddon, Jalal A. Zora	1986	128
6	Ornamental plants on sale to the public are a significant source of pesticide residues with implications for the health of pollinating insects Environmental Pollution ·Andrea Lentola, Arthur David, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Andrea Tapparo, Dave Goulson, Elizabeth M. Hill	2017	78
7	Polyhydrogenation of [60]- and [70]-fullerenes Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2 ·Adam D. Darwish, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, G. John Langley, Harold W. Kroto, Roger Taylor, David R. M. Walton	1995	77
8	Heteronuclear 3 d/Dy^III Coordination Clusters as Catalysts in a Domino Reaction Chemistry - A European Journal ·Kieran Griffiths, Christopher W. D. Gallop, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Alfredo Vargas, Oscar Navarro, George E. Κostakis	2015	76
9	A fast atom bombardment mass spectrometric study of room‐temperature 1‐ethyl‐3‐methylimidazolium chloroaluminate(III) ionic liquids. Evidence for the existence of the decachlorotrialuminate(III) anion Organic Mass Spectrometry ·Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Anthony M. Greenway, Kenneth R. Seddon, Tom Welton	1993	74
10	Sensitive determination of mixtures of neonicotinoid and fungicide residues in pollen and single bumblebees using a scaled down QuEChERS method for exposure assessment Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry ·Arthur David, Cristina Botías, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Dave Goulson, Elizabeth M. Hill	2015	72
11	The involvement of dityrosine crosslinking in α-synuclein assembly and deposition in Lewy Bodies in Parkinson’s disease Scientific Reports ·Youssra K. Al‐Hilaly, Luca Biasetti, Ben J. F. Blakeman, Saskia J. Pollack, Shahin Zibaee, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Julian R. Thorpe, Wei‐Feng Xue, Louise C. Serpell	2016	70
12	A new approach for plasma (xeno)metabolomics based on solid-phase extraction and nanoflow liquid chromatography-nanoelectrospray ionisation mass spectrometry Journal of Chromatography A ·Arthur David, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Anke Lange, Charles R. Tyler, Elizabeth M. Hill	2014	58
13	Tetranuclear Zn/4f coordination clusters as highly efficient catalysts for Friedel–Crafts alkylation Chemical Communications ·Kieran Griffiths, Prashant Kumar, Geoffrey R. Akien, Nicholas F. Chilton, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Graham J. Tizzard, Simon J. Coles, George E. Κostakis	2016	58
14	The Yeast P5 Type ATPase, Spf1, Regulates Manganese Transport into the Endoplasmic Reticulum PLoS ONE ·Yifat Cohen, Márton Megyeri, Oscar C. W. Chen, Giuseppe Condomitti, Isabelle Riezman, Ursula Loizides‐Mangold, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Nitzan Rimon, Howard Riezman, Frances M. Platt, Anthony H. Futerman, Maya Schuldiner	2013	54
15	The Xenometabolome and Novel Contaminant Markers in Fish Exposed to a Wastewater Treatment Works Effluent Environmental Science & Technology ·Raghad Al-Salhi, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Anke Lange, Charles R. Tyler, Elizabeth M. Hill	2012	53
16	Efficient Ni^II₂Ln^III₂ Electrocyclization Catalysts for the Synthesis of trans-4,5-Diaminocyclopent-2-enones from 2-Furaldehyde and Primary or Secondary Amines Inorganic Chemistry ·Kieran Griffiths, Prashant Kumar, James D. Mattock, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Mateusz B. Pitak, Simon J. Coles, Oscar Navarro, Alfredo Vargas, George E. Κostakis	2016	52
17	Cu(II) Coordination Polymers as Vehicles in the A³ Coupling Inorganic Chemistry ·Edward Loukopoulos, Michael G. Kallitsakis, Nikolaos Tsoureas, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Nicholas F. Chilton, Ioannis N. Lykakis, George E. Κostakis	2017	51
18	3d/4f Coordination Clusters as Cooperative Catalysts for Highly Diastereoselective Michael Addition Reactions Inorganic Chemistry ·Kieran Griffiths, Athanassios C. Tsipis, Prashant Kumar, Oliver P. E. Townrow, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Geoffrey R. Akien, Amgalanbaatar Baldansuren, Alan C. Spivey, George E. Κostakis	2017	43
19	Methodology for profiling anti-androgen mixtures in river water using multiple passive samplers and bioassay-directed analyses Water Research ·Camilla Liscio, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, Raghad Al-Salhi, Michael H. Ramsey, Elizabeth M. Hill	2014	43
20	Use of a pre-analysis osmolality normalisation method to correct for variable urine concentrations and for improved metabolomic analyses Journal of Chromatography A ·Andrew J. Chetwynd, Alaa Abdul‐Sada, S. Holt, Elizabeth M. Hill	2015	43

About Alaa Abdul‐Sada

Alaa Abdul‐Sada is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, having authored 77 papers that have together received 3.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (28 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (13 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (13 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (11 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (10 papers), Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (8 papers), Graphene research and applications (7 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Insect Science (747 citations), Organic Chemistry (1.7k citations), Catalysis (256 citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (669 citations) and Materials Chemistry (1.3k citations). Alaa Abdul‐Sada has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Greece and Russia. Frequent co-authors include Roger Taylor, Elizabeth M. Hill, Harold W. Kroto, J. P. Hare, Arthur David, Dave Goulson, Cristina Botías, Elizabeth Nicholls, George E. Κostakis and Kenneth R. Seddon. Their work appears in journals such as Dalton Transactions, Environmental Science & Technology, Chemical Communications, Chemistry - A European Journal and Inorganic Chemistry.

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