A. D. McLean

17.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
115 papers, 15.6k citations indexed

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A. D. McLean is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, A. D. McLean has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 15.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 46 papers in Spectroscopy and 28 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in A. D. McLean's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (75 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (29 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (24 papers). A. D. McLean is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (75 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (29 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (24 papers). A. D. McLean collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. A. D. McLean's co-authors include G. S. Chandler, M. Yoshimine, D. J. DeFrees, E. Clementi, Yoon S. Lee, Sergio A. Maluendes, B. Liu, Eric Herbst, Y. Ellinger and Sheldon Green and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

A. D. McLean

113 papers receiving 15.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Contracted Gaussian basis sets for molecular calculations. I. Second row atoms, Z=11–18

1980 8.7k citations A. D. McLean et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
Accurate calculation of the attractive interaction of two ground state helium atoms

1973 506 citations A. D. McLean et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
Molecular orbital predictions of the vibrational frequencies of some molecular ions

1985 376 citations D. J. DeFrees, A. D. McLean The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. D. McLean United States	44	8.4k	4.2k	3.7k	3.5k	2.9k	115	15.6k
Sigeru Huzinaga Canada	44	11.0k 1.3×	2.7k 0.7×	3.4k 0.9×	2.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.0×	113	14.2k
W.J. Orville-Thomas United Kingdom	35	4.4k 0.5×	3.7k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	4.4k 1.3×	2.8k 1.0×	176	14.6k
R. Krishnan United States	16	8.5k 1.0×	7.0k 1.7×	3.8k 1.0×	4.9k 1.4×	3.9k 1.3×	18	19.8k
Rolf Seeger United States	18	6.2k 0.7×	6.6k 1.6×	3.0k 0.8×	4.8k 1.4×	3.6k 1.2×	29	17.5k
Werner Kutzelnigg Germany	66	12.1k 1.5×	3.0k 0.7×	4.6k 1.2×	2.2k 0.6×	2.7k 0.9×	232	15.9k
Jan Almløf United States	50	7.5k 0.9×	2.7k 0.6×	2.8k 0.7×	4.7k 1.3×	1.7k 0.6×	167	13.1k
Rick A. Kendall United States	21	10.3k 1.2×	2.9k 0.7×	4.5k 1.2×	3.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	32	15.3k
John I. Brauman United States	58	5.4k 0.6×	4.3k 1.0×	4.0k 1.1×	3.2k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	335	13.3k
David Feller United States	64	10.8k 1.3×	4.2k 1.0×	4.5k 1.2×	4.1k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	186	16.9k
J.N. Murrell United Kingdom	53	7.6k 0.9×	3.0k 0.7×	3.6k 1.0×	2.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	311	12.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Maluendes, Sergio A. & A. D. McLean. (1992). Ab initio predictions on the rotational spectra of carbon-chain carbene molecules. Chemical Physics Letters. 200(5). 511–517. 37 indexed citations

Green, Sheldon, D. J. DeFrees, & A. D. McLean. (1991). Calculations of H2O microwave line broadening in collisions with He atoms: Sensitivity to potential energy surfaces. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 94(2). 1346–1359. 40 indexed citations

Pauzat, F., Y. Ellinger, & A. D. McLean. (1991). Is interstellar detection of higher members of the linear radicals CnCH and CnN feasible?. The Astrophysical Journal. 369. L13–L13. 62 indexed citations

McLean, A. D., et al.. (1989). The interacting correlated fragments model for weak interactions, basis set superposition error, and the helium dimer potential. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 91(4). 2348–2359. 148 indexed citations

Lee, Yoon Sup, Kyoung Koo Baeck, & A. D. McLean. (1989). Basis set selections for relativistic self‐consistent field calculations. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 10(1). 112–117. 11 indexed citations

Palma, Amedeo, Sheldon Green, D. J. DeFrees, & A. D. McLean. (1988). Collisional excitation of interstellar water. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 68. 287–287. 26 indexed citations

Lee, Yoon Sup & A. D. McLean. (1987). Relativistic Effects on Orbital Energies in AgH and AuH ; A Clue to the Origin of Relativistic Correlation Effects. Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society. 8(2). 122–126. 1 indexed citations

DeFrees, D. J., et al.. (1987). Collisional excitation of interstellar cyclopropenylidene. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 65(1). 175–175. 8 indexed citations

Herbst, Eric, D. J. DeFrees, & A. D. McLean. (1987). A detailed investigation of proposed gas-phase syntheses of ammonia in dense interstellar clouds. The Astrophysical Journal. 321(2 Pt 1). 898–898. 34 indexed citations

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Luke, Brian T., Gilda H. Loew, & A. D. McLean. (1986). A theoretical examination of substituent effects on the detoxification reaction between glutathione and halogenated methanes. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 29(4). 883–896. 4 indexed citations

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DeFrees, D. J. & A. D. McLean. (1986). Ab initio determination of the proton affinities of small neutral and anionic molecules. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 7(3). 321–333. 72 indexed citations

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DeFrees, D. J., A. D. McLean, & Eric Herbst. (1985). Theoretical investigation of the interstellar CH3NC/CH3CN ratio. The Astrophysical Journal. 293(1). 236–236. 39 indexed citations

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DeFrees, D. J. & A. D. McLean. (1984). Basis set limit geometries for ammonia at the SCF and MP2 levels of theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 81(7). 3353–3355. 23 indexed citations

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DeFrees, D. J., Gilda H. Loew, & A. D. McLean. (1982). The rotational spectra of HOCO/plus/, HOCN, HN3, and HNCO from quantum mechanical calculations. The Astrophysical Journal. 254. 405–405. 41 indexed citations

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McLean, A. D., et al.. (1981). Roothaan-Hartree-Fock atomic wave functions Slater basis-set expansions for Z = 55–92. Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables. 26(3-4). 197–381. 340 indexed citations

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Herman, Frank, A. D. McLean, & R. K. Nesbet. (1973). Computational methods for large molecules and localized states in solids : proceedings of a symposium, held May 15-17, 1972, at the IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, California. Plenum Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Yoshimine, M., et al.. (1973). Band strengths for electric dipole transitions from ab initio computation: Lio (X 2Π −X 2Π), (A 2Σ+−A 2Σ+), (X 2Π − A 2Σ+); AlO (X 2Σ+−X 2Σ+), (A 2Π −A 2Π), (X 2Σ+−A 2Π), (B 2Σ+−B 2Σ+), (X 2Σ+−B 2Σ+). The Journal of Chemical Physics. 58(10). 4412–4429. 77 indexed citations

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Brewer, Richard G. & A. D. McLean. (1968). Distortion of Molecules in Intense Electric Fields. Physical Review Letters. 21(5). 271–274. 11 indexed citations

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McLean, A. D. & M. Yoshimine. (1967). Theory of Molecular Polarizabilities. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 47(6). 1927–1935. 323 indexed citations

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McLean, A. D., Bernard J. Ransil, & Robert S. Mulliken. (1960). Charge Distribution, Hybridization, and Bonding in Acetylene and Carbon Dioxide. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 32(6). 1873–1873. 7 indexed citations

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