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Variational Principles for Describing Chemical Reactions:  The Fukui Function and Chemical Har... 2000 2026 2008 2017 748
  1. Variational Principles for Describing Chemical Reactions:  The Fukui Function and Chemical Hardness Revisited (2000)
    Paul W. Ayers, Robert G. Parr Journal of the American Chemical Society
  2. Critical analysis and extension of the Hirshfeld atoms in molecules (2007)
    Patrick Bultinck, Christian Van Alsenoy et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics
  3. Conceptual density functional theory: status, prospects, issues (2020)
    Paul Geerlings, Eduardo Chamorro et al. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

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9 by Nobel laureates 14 from Science/Nature 119 standout
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Paul W. Ayers 8168 5708 4584 358 15.1k
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Frank De Proft 5653 10396 5469 426 19.2k
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Shubin Liu 3771 7428 4545 285 17.0k
C. David Sherrill 10130 4980 5270 215 19.8k
Paul L. A. Popelier 5061 4830 3795 262 14.3k
Kenichi Fukui 4873 8728 6223 472 20.3k
Andreas Hansen 4974 4720 5303 103 15.0k
R. F. W. Bader 6460 5645 4262 116 15.4k
Frank Jensen 5809 4308 3398 223 13.7k

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