Benny G. Johnson

7.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
57 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Benny G. Johnson is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benny G. Johnson has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 10 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Benny G. Johnson's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (23 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (15 papers) and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning (15 papers). Benny G. Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (23 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (15 papers) and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning (15 papers). Benny G. Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Canada. Benny G. Johnson's co-authors include Peter M. W. Gill, John A. Pople, Michael J. Frisch, Jan Florián, Martin Head‐Gordon, Christopher A. White, Michael Fisch, Krishnan Raghavachari, Fred Phillips and Gábor I. Csonka and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Benny G. Johnson

56 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

The performance of a family of density functional methods 1992 2026 2003 2014 1993 1992 1992 1993 1994 500 1000 1.5k
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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. The performance of a family of density functional methods
    1993 1.7k citations Benny G. Johnson, Peter M. W. Gill et al. profile →
  2. The performance of the Becke—Lee—Yang—Parr (B—LYP) density functional theory with various basis sets
    1992 878 citations Peter M. W. Gill, Benny G. Johnson et al. Chemical Physics Letters profile →
  3. Kohn—Sham density-functional theory within a finite basis set
    1992 424 citations John A. Pople, Peter M. W. Gill et al. Chemical Physics Letters profile →
  4. A standard grid for density functional calculations
    1993 413 citations Peter M. W. Gill, Benny G. Johnson et al. Chemical Physics Letters profile →
  5. A density functional study of the simplest hydrogen abstraction reaction. Effect of self-interaction correction
    1994 310 citations Benny G. Johnson, Peter M. W. Gill et al. Chemical Physics Letters profile →

Peers

Benny G. Johnson
Jon Baker United States
Umpei Nagashima Japan
Joop H. van Lenthe Netherlands
Michael Filatov South Korea
Guntram Rauhut Germany
Andreas Köhn Germany
Olav Vahtras Sweden
Henry Chermette France
Svein Sæbø United States
Philippe Y. Ayala United States
Jon Baker United States
Benny G. Johnson
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All Works

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Johnson, Benny G., et al.. (2024). Are Students Reading? How Formative Practice Impacts Student Reading Behaviors in Etextbooks. 383–387. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, Benny G., et al.. (2024). An Investigation of Automatically Generated Feedback on Student Behavior and Learning. 850–856. 4 indexed citations
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Johnson, Benny G., et al.. (2024). Automatic Question Generation for Spanish Textbooks: Evaluating Spanish Questions Generated with the Parallel Construction Method. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 35(3). 1044–1063. 4 indexed citations
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Johnson, Benny G., et al.. (2024). AI-Generated Practice for Textbooks: An Exploratory Analysis From the Classroom. 313–320. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Benny G., et al.. (2023). The Doer Effect at Scale: Investigating Correlation and Causation Across Seven Courses. 357–365. 8 indexed citations
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Johnson, Benny G., et al.. (2021). The Doer Effect: Replicating Findings that Doing Causes Learning. 1–6. 7 indexed citations
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Johnson, Benny G., et al.. (2021). Transforming Textbooks into Learning by Doing Environments: An Evaluation of Textbook-Based Automatic Question Generation.. 60–73. 12 indexed citations
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Johnson, Benny G. & Carol Springer Sargent. (2013). Impact of Formulas, Language and Instruction on Student Performance on Cost-Volume-Profit Problems. Accounting Education. 23(1). 22–41. 9 indexed citations
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Moss, Connie M., et al.. (2002). Quantitative Impact of a Cognitive Modeling Intelligent Tutoring System on Student Performance in Balancing Chemical Equations. The Chemical Educator. 7(6). 379–383. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Jian, Leif A. Eriksson, Benny G. Johnson, & Russell J. Boyd. (1996). Electron Densities of Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules As Calculated from Density Functional Theory. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 100(13). 5274–5280. 18 indexed citations
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White, Christopher A., Benny G. Johnson, Peter M. W. Gill, & Martin Head‐Gordon. (1996). Comment on “a generalized fast multipole approach for Hartree-Fock and density functional computations”. Chemical Physics Letters. 248(5-6). 482–483. 8 indexed citations
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White, Christopher A., Benny G. Johnson, Peter M. W. Gill, & Martin Head‐Gordon. (1996). Linear scaling density functional calculations via the continuous fast multipole method. Chemical Physics Letters. 253(3-4). 268–278. 238 indexed citations
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Johnson, Benny G., Peter M. W. Gill, & John A. Pople. (1994). A rotationally invariant procedure for density functional calculations. Chemical Physics Letters. 220(6). 377–384. 36 indexed citations
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Johnson, Benny G., et al.. (1994). A density functional study of the simplest hydrogen abstraction reaction. Effect of self-interaction correction. Chemical Physics Letters. 221(1-2). 100–108. 310 indexed citations breakdown →
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White, Christopher A., Benny G. Johnson, Peter M. W. Gill, & Martin Head‐Gordon. (1994). The continuous fast multipole method. Chemical Physics Letters. 230(1-2). 8–16. 331 indexed citations
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Gill, Peter M. W., Benny G. Johnson, & John A. Pople. (1993). A standard grid for density functional calculations. Chemical Physics Letters. 209(5-6). 506–512. 413 indexed citations breakdown →
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Johnson, Benny G., Peter M. W. Gill, & John A. Pople. (1993). The efficient transformation of (0|0) to ( | ) two-electron repulsion integrals. Chemical Physics Letters. 206(1-4). 229–238. 24 indexed citations
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Halleý, J. W., S. T. Pratt, & Benny G. Johnson. (1983). Ab initio calculation of electron transfer rates in a model of the metal-electrolyte interface. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 150(1-2). 355–363. 3 indexed citations

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