Electrochemical water splitting has been considered a promising approach for green and sustainable hydrogen as a future energy carrier. However, the lack of high performance and inexpensive electrocatalysts for kinetically sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) hinder the practical application. Here, the noteworthy enhancement of electrodeposited cobalt boride (CoB) nanosheets from the combined effect of using gadolinium as a dopant and thin film of gold as prudent support is demonstrated. The free-standing Gd-CoB@Au exhibits remarkable electrochemical performance, high intrinsic activity, and lower reaction resistance, which are confirmed by lower onset potential, small charge transfer resistance, lower Tafel slope value, and high turnover frequency. Furthermore, the post-OER characterization signpost, no observable change in the chemical structure or morphology of nanosheets during the long-lasting oxidation process. Because of the inexpensive, facile, and scalable one-step preparation processes, the catalyst is highly encouraging for large-scale practical applications.in pursuing toward viable electrochemical water splitting module. [1] The HER follows a relatively simple mechanism and various cost-effective and efficient metal/ alloy-based catalysts have been developed to produce hydrogen at fairly low overpotential. [2] A serious challenge, however, is the slow rate of multistep OER, which requires high activation energy and thus large overpotential to break OH bond, and to form an OO bond and transfer 04 electrons essentially required for oxygen evolution from two water molecules at the same time. [3] The slow rate of OER in turn adversely affects the overall rate of water splitting for hydrogen production. [4] It is, therefore, essentially required to develop stable, economical, and effective electrocatalysts for OER for the feasible production of H 2 by water splitting. Currently, IrO 2 and RuO 2 are the benchmark OER catalysts to significantly improve slow kinetics of oxygen evolution at the anode. These electrocatalysts are made up of expensive precious metals, and their supply is not sustainable and is, therefore, not much suitable for large-scale applications in water oxidation systems. [5] Besides precious metals, several costeffective nanoscale materials including layer double hydroxides, perovskite, amorphous/crystalline metal hydroxides have been extensively explored for OER. [6][7][8] Hence, it is well established, that nano-structuring is one of the widely adopted strategies to enhance the catalytic properties and selectivity, toward the OER for practical application. [9] However, low mass loading of catalyst, mechanical and chemical instability, less exposed surface area, reproducibility, potentially induced phase/electronic transformation during catalysis, surface leaching of the catalyst due to the low adhesion of catalyst are still serious concerns that need to be addressed. [10] Also, the use of powder nanomaterials traditionally needs various binders (Nafion/polymers) for the fabricati...