Alejandro Gil‐Villegas

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Alejandro Gil‐Villegas is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Gil‐Villegas has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 40 papers in Materials Chemistry and 34 papers in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Gil‐Villegas's work include Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (61 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (36 papers) and Thermodynamic properties of mixtures (32 papers). Alejandro Gil‐Villegas is often cited by papers focused on Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (61 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (36 papers) and Thermodynamic properties of mixtures (32 papers). Alejandro Gil‐Villegas collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United Kingdom and United States. Alejandro Gil‐Villegas's co-authors include George Jackson, Amparo Galindo, Andrew N. Burgess, Stuart J. Mills, Lowri A. Davies, Clare McCabe, Ana Laura Benavides, C. Lira-Galeana, Eduardo Buenrostro-González and Jianzhong Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B and The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Gil‐Villegas

92 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Statistical associating fluid theory for chain molecules with attractive potentials of variable range
    1997 887 citations Alejandro Gil‐Villegas, George Jackson et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Alejandro Gil‐Villegas 2.8k 1.8k 1.1k 906 471 96 3.7k
Felipe J. Blas 3.0k 1.1× 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 734 0.8× 480 1.0× 113 4.0k
Norman F. Carnahan 4.7k 1.7× 2.6k 1.4× 3.0k 2.8× 1.5k 1.6× 720 1.5× 21 6.9k
Joachim Groß 6.0k 2.1× 3.3k 1.8× 1.5k 1.4× 2.1k 2.3× 463 1.0× 160 7.7k
Christian Boned 3.2k 1.2× 2.8k 1.6× 1.0k 0.9× 2.1k 2.3× 264 0.6× 139 4.7k
J. H. Dymond 3.7k 1.3× 2.5k 1.4× 986 0.9× 1.6k 1.8× 613 1.3× 98 5.0k
Gustavo A. Iglesias‐Silva 2.0k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 431 0.4× 916 1.0× 178 0.4× 126 3.0k
Guillaume Galliéro 1.6k 0.6× 719 0.4× 607 0.6× 583 0.6× 215 0.5× 119 2.9k
Benjamin C.‐Y. Lu 3.8k 1.3× 2.8k 1.6× 790 0.7× 2.3k 2.5× 318 0.7× 281 4.9k
Andrew J. Haslam 1.0k 0.4× 550 0.3× 1.0k 0.9× 285 0.3× 179 0.4× 62 2.5k
H. D. Cochran 1.7k 0.6× 759 0.4× 943 0.9× 525 0.6× 874 1.9× 85 3.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Gil‐Villegas

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All Works

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Trejos, Víctor M., et al.. (2024). Predicting phase coexistence and adsorption isotherms of classical and quantum fluids using the microcanonical-ensemble perturbation theory (MEPT). Journal of Molecular Liquids. 411. 125708–125708. 1 indexed citations
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Gil‐Villegas, Alejandro, et al.. (2024). Semiclassical thermodynamic geometry. Physical review. E. 109(6). 64145–64145.
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Gil‐Villegas, Alejandro, et al.. (2022). Long-time relaxation dynamics in nematic and smectic liquid crystals of soft repulsive colloidal rods. Physical review. E. 105(1). 14703–14703. 4 indexed citations
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Heinen, Marco, et al.. (2020). Assessment of the Wolf method using the Stillinger–Lovett sum rules: From strong electrolytes to weakly charged colloidal dispersions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 153(23). 234901–234901. 11 indexed citations
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Gil‐Villegas, Alejandro, et al.. (2020). Wertheim Model for Quantum Associating Hard Spheres. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data. 65(12). 5933–5937. 1 indexed citations
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Haslam, Andrew J., et al.. (2019). Modelling adsorption using an augmented two-dimensional statistical associating fluid theory: 2D-SAFT-VR Mie. Molecular Physics. 117(23-24). 3770–3782. 12 indexed citations
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Gil‐Villegas, Alejandro, et al.. (2019). Theoretical equations of state for a charged fluid. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 150(14). 144507–144507. 9 indexed citations
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Sastre, Francisco, et al.. (2015). Microcanonical ensemble simulation method applied to discrete potential fluids. Physical Review E. 92(3). 33303–33303. 5 indexed citations
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Obregón, Octavio & Alejandro Gil‐Villegas. (2013). Generalized information entropies depending only on the probability distribution. Physical Review E. 88(6). 62146–62146. 16 indexed citations
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Gil‐Villegas, Alejandro, et al.. (2010). Phase transitions of granular disks with a magnetic dipole. Revista Mexicana de Física. 56(6). 435–440. 2 indexed citations
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Buenrostro-González, Eduardo, et al.. (2009). Predicting adsorption isotherms of asphaltenes in porous materials. Fluid Phase Equilibria. 286(2). 113–119. 47 indexed citations
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Cano, M. E., Ramón Castañeda-Priego, Alejandro Gil‐Villegas, et al.. (2008). Magnetic Properties of Synthetic Eumelanin—Preliminary Results†. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 84(3). 627–631. 10 indexed citations
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Ruiz‐García, J., B. I. Ivlev, Alejandro Gil‐Villegas, Enrique Dı́az-Herrera, & Eusebio Juaristi. (2008). Pattern formation and Interactions of Like-Charged Colloidal Particles at the Air∕Water Interface. AIP conference proceedings. 979. 138–155. 2 indexed citations
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Avendaño, Carlos, et al.. (2006). Molecular thermodynamics of primitive models of complex fluids. Revista Mexicana de Física. 52(5). 85–91. 4 indexed citations
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Dı́az-Herrera, Enrique, et al.. (2002). Orientational structure of dipolar hard-spherical colloids. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 65(3). 31401–31401. 8 indexed citations
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Fernández‐Guasti, M. & Alejandro Gil‐Villegas. (2002). Orthogonal functions invariant for the time-dependent harmonic oscillator. Physics Letters A. 292(4-5). 243–245. 19 indexed citations
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Benavides, Ana Laura, et al.. (2001). Perturbation theory for mixtures of discrete potential fluids. Molecular Physics. 99(9). 703–710. 43 indexed citations
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Fernández‐Guasti, M., et al.. (2000). Ermakov equation arising from electromagnetic fields propagating in 1D inhomogeneous media. Revista Mexicana de Física. 46(6). 530–535. 17 indexed citations
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McGrother, Simon C., Alejandro Gil‐Villegas, & George Jackson. (1998). The effect of dipolar interactions on the liquid crystalline phase transitions of hard spherocylinders with central longitudinal dipoles. Molecular Physics. 95(3). 657–673. 59 indexed citations
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Rı́o, Fernando del & Alejandro Gil‐Villegas. (1992). Collision frequencies and mean collision parameters in the Lennard-Jones system. Molecular Physics. 77(2). 223–238. 7 indexed citations

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