Alberto Vela

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
133 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Alberto Vela is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Vela has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 43 papers in Organic Chemistry and 31 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alberto Vela's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (72 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (35 papers) and Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure (14 papers). Alberto Vela is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (72 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (35 papers) and Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure (14 papers). Alberto Vela collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, Canada and United States. Alberto Vela's co-authors include José L. Gázquez, Gabriel Merino, Andrés Cedillo, Dennis R. Salahub, M.A. Mendéz-Rojas, Thomas Heine, Paul W. Ayers, Eliseo Ruíz, Marcelo Galván and S. B. Trickey and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Vela

131 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Electrodonating and Electroaccepting Powers

2007 633 citations José L. Gázquez, Alberto Vela et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A profile →
Conceptual density functional theory: status, prospects, issues

2020 302 citations Paul Geerlings, Frank De Proft et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alberto Vela Mexico	38	2.3k	2.1k	2.1k	1.1k	860	133	5.8k
Henry Chermette France	36	2.0k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	835 1.0×	227	5.9k
Nathan E. Schultz United States	17	2.4k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	846 1.0×	27	5.5k
Jon Baker United States	34	1.9k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	693 0.8×	79	5.3k
Wei Wu China	41	1.9k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	1.8k 1.7×	1.3k 1.5×	198	5.2k
A. Daniel Boese Austria	26	1.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	713 0.8×	70	5.0k
Wilfried Langenaeker Belgium	27	3.5k 1.5×	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	546 0.6×	44	6.4k
Jeng‐Da Chai Taiwan	27	1.6k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	843 1.0×	65	6.2k
Roberto Peverati United States	21	1.4k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	784 0.7×	595 0.7×	43	4.3k
David Danovich Israel	41	2.2k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.8×	137	6.0k
Jan Gerit Brandenburg Germany	29	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	718 0.8×	46	4.4k

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Gázquez, José L., et al.. (2025). Generalized quadratic model for charge transfer. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(21). 11318–11330.

Franco‐Pérez, Marco, Farnaz Heidar‐Zadeh, Paul W. Ayers, et al.. (2024). Temperature and external fields in conceptual density functional theory. Chemical Science. 15(48). 20090–20121. 5 indexed citations

Vela, Alberto, et al.. (2024). Macrocycle Unidirectional Transport Along a Linear Molecule by a Two‐Step Chemical Reaction Sequence. ChemistryOpen. 14(1). e202400244–e202400244. 1 indexed citations

Quintanar, Liliana, et al.. (2024). An N-terminal acidic β-sheet domain is responsible for the metal-accumulation properties of amyloid-β protofibrils: a molecular dynamics study. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 29(4). 407–425. 2 indexed citations

Garay, Erika, Adam H. Clark, Maarten Nachtegaal, et al.. (2022). Tryptophan regulatesDrosophilazinc stores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(16). 24 indexed citations

Quintanar, Liliana, et al.. (2021). Structural and electronic analysis of the octarepeat region of prion protein with four Cu ²⁺ by polarizable MD and QM/MM simulations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(38). 21568–21578. 3 indexed citations

Trickey, S. B., et al.. (2020). Generalized gradient approximations with local parameters. Physical review. B.. 102(3). 13 indexed citations

Franco‐Pérez, Marco, José L. Gázquez, Paul W. Ayers, & Alberto Vela. (2020). Temperature-Dependent Approach to Electronic Charge Transfer. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 124(26). 5465–5473. 6 indexed citations

Vela, Alberto, et al.. (2019). Natural orbital functional for spin-polarized periodic systems. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 31(16). 165501–165501. 5 indexed citations

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Gázquez, José L., et al.. (2018). Global and local charge transfer in electron donor-acceptor complexes. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 24(9). 250–250. 12 indexed citations

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Franco‐Pérez, Marco, et al.. (2017). New Fukui, dual and hyper-dual kernels as bond reactivity descriptors. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(24). 16095–16104. 16 indexed citations

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Franco‐Pérez, Marco, Farnaz Heidar‐Zadeh, Paul W. Ayers, José L. Gázquez, & Alberto Vela. (2017). Going beyond the three-state ensemble model: the electronic chemical potential and Fukui function for the general case. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(18). 11588–11602. 29 indexed citations

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Franco‐Pérez, Marco, Paul W. Ayers, José L. Gázquez, & Alberto Vela. (2017). Local chemical potential, local hardness, and dual descriptors in temperature dependent chemical reactivity theory. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(21). 13687–13695. 28 indexed citations

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Gázquez, José L., et al.. (2017). Donation and back-donation analyzed through a charge transfer model based on density functional theory. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 23(7). 207–207. 21 indexed citations

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Franco‐Pérez, Marco, José L. Gázquez, & Alberto Vela. (2015). Electronic chemical response indexes at finite temperature in the canonical ensemble. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 143(2). 24112–24112. 17 indexed citations

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Schepisi, Monica Sañé, Gina Gualano, Nazario Bevilacqua, et al.. (2013). Tuberculosis case finding based on symptom screening among immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Rome. BMC Public Health. 13(1). 872–872. 9 indexed citations

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Aquino, N., et al.. (2011). Energy eigenvalues for free and confined triple-well potentials. Revista Mexicana de Física. 57(1). 46–52. 2 indexed citations

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Flores‐Moreno, Roberto, et al.. (2006). Half‐numerical evaluation of pseudopotential integrals. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 27(9). 1009–1019. 23 indexed citations

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Geudtner, Gerald, Florian Janetzko, Andreas M. Köster, Alberto Vela, & Patrizia Calaminici. (2006). Parallelization of the deMon2k code. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 27(4). 483–490. 42 indexed citations

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Merino, Gabriel, Vladimir I. Bakhmutov, & Alberto Vela. (2002). Do Cooperative Proton−Hydride Interactions Explain the Gas−Solid Structural Difference of BH₃NH₃?. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 106(37). 8491–8494. 65 indexed citations

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