Bernardo de Souza

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Bernardo de Souza is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernardo de Souza has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 17 papers in Materials Chemistry and 12 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Bernardo de Souza's work include Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (13 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (12 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (9 papers). Bernardo de Souza is often cited by papers focused on Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (13 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (12 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (9 papers). Bernardo de Souza collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Germany and France. Bernardo de Souza's co-authors include Frank Neese, Róbert Izsák, Giliandro Farias, Benjamin Helmich‐Paris, Ademir Neves, Iolanda Cruz Vieira, Ivan H. Bechtold, Cristian A. M. Salla, Adaı́lton J. Bortoluzzi and Daniela Brondani and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bernardo de Souza

46 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

An improved chain of spheres for exchange algorithm

2021 238 citations Benjamin Helmich‐Paris, Bernardo de Souza et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
GOAT: A Global Optimization Algorithm for Molecules and Atomic Clusters

2025 22 citations Bernardo de Souza Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernardo de Souza Brazil	22	676	485	452	266	241	46	1.6k
Stephan Kupfer Germany	28	996 1.5×	438 0.9×	477 1.1×	254 1.0×	225 0.9×	128	2.2k
Hirdyesh Mishra India	26	968 1.4×	399 0.8×	496 1.1×	146 0.5×	157 0.7×	98	1.9k
Olivier Siri France	26	1.0k 1.5×	383 0.8×	858 1.9×	263 1.0×	350 1.5×	129	2.2k
Ming‐Kang Tsai Taiwan	21	747 1.1×	556 1.1×	358 0.8×	257 1.0×	324 1.3×	50	2.1k
Raphael Horvath United Kingdom	23	488 0.7×	281 0.6×	361 0.8×	211 0.8×	145 0.6×	49	1.3k
Enrico Benassi Russia	24	927 1.4×	402 0.8×	578 1.3×	83 0.3×	230 1.0×	151	1.9k
James Raftery United Kingdom	28	815 1.2×	440 0.9×	822 1.8×	279 1.0×	448 1.9×	95	2.2k
Elena Jakubı́ková United States	23	928 1.4×	334 0.7×	488 1.1×	281 1.1×	451 1.9×	81	2.0k
В. А. Минаева Ukraine	24	694 1.0×	389 0.8×	627 1.4×	116 0.4×	135 0.6×	82	1.4k
Anders Lennartson Sweden	23	891 1.3×	347 0.7×	579 1.3×	203 0.8×	514 2.1×	70	1.9k

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Souza, Bernardo de. (2025). GOAT: A Global Optimization Algorithm for Molecules and Atomic Clusters. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(18). e202500393–e202500393. 22 indexed citations breakdown →

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Souza, Bernardo de, et al.. (2023). Including vibrational effects in magnetic circular dichroism spectrum calculations in the framework of excited state dynamics. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(15). 6 indexed citations

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Izsák, Róbert, Christoph Riplinger, Nick S. Blunt, et al.. (2022). Quantum computing in pharma: A multilayer embedding approach for near future applications. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 44(3). 406–421. 2 indexed citations

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Souza, Bernardo de, et al.. (2022). Can domain-based local pair natural orbitals approaches accurately predict phosphorescence energies?. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(23). 14228–14241. 7 indexed citations

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Farias, Giliandro, Cristian A. M. Salla, Luís Gustavo Teixeira Alves Duarte, et al.. (2021). Speeding‐up Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Cu(I) Complexes Using Aminophosphine Ligands. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2021(31). 3177–3184. 15 indexed citations

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Farias, Giliandro, Cristian A. M. Salla, Luís Gustavo Teixeira Alves Duarte, et al.. (2021). Enhancing the phosphorescence decay pathway of Cu(i) emitters – the role of copper–iodide moiety. Dalton Transactions. 51(3). 1008–1018. 10 indexed citations

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Helmich‐Paris, Benjamin, Bernardo de Souza, Frank Neese, & Róbert Izsák. (2021). An improved chain of spheres for exchange algorithm. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 155(10). 104109–104109. 238 indexed citations breakdown →

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Salla, Cristian A. M., Giliandro Farias, Mathieu Rouzières, et al.. (2019). Persistent Solid‐State Phosphorescence and Delayed Fluorescence at Room Temperature by a Twisted Hydrocarbon. Angewandte Chemie. 131(21). 7056–7060. 24 indexed citations

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Salla, Cristian A. M., Giliandro Farias, Mathieu Rouzières, et al.. (2019). Persistent Solid‐State Phosphorescence and Delayed Fluorescence at Room Temperature by a Twisted Hydrocarbon. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(21). 6982–6986. 100 indexed citations

10.

Souza, Bernardo de, Giliandro Farias, Frank Neese, & Róbert Izsák. (2019). Efficient simulation of overtones and combination bands in resonant Raman spectra. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 150(21). 214102–214102. 28 indexed citations

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Farias, Giliandro, Paloma L. dos Santos, Ahmed Bentaleb, et al.. (2019). An unusual plank-shaped nematogen with a graphene nanoribbon core. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 7(39). 12080–12085. 8 indexed citations

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Pereira, Cláudia Maria, Giliandro Farias, Gerhard Schenk, et al.. (2019). Guanidine- and purine-functionalized ligands of FeIIIZnII complexes: effects on the hydrolysis of DNA. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 24(5). 675–691. 20 indexed citations

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Sen, Avijit, Bernardo de Souza, Lee Huntington, et al.. (2018). An efficient pair natural orbital based configuration interaction scheme for the calculation of open-shell ionization potentials. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 149(11). 114108–114108. 10 indexed citations

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Salla, Cristian A. M., Hugo C. Braga, Welber G. Quirino, et al.. (2017). Photocurrent response enhanced by spin-orbit coupling on ruthenium(II) complexes with heavy atom ligands. Dyes and Pigments. 140. 346–353. 6 indexed citations

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Silva, Marcos Paulo da, et al.. (2016). Dopamine polymerization promoted by a catecholase biomimetic Cu^II(μ-OH)Cu^II complex containing a triazine-based ligand. Dalton Transactions. 45(39). 15294–15297. 14 indexed citations

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Souza, Bernardo de, Adaı́lton J. Bortoluzzi, Tiago Bortolotto, et al.. (2015). Synthesis, characterization, hydrolase and catecholase activity of a dinuclear iron(III) complex: Catalytic promiscuity. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 146. 77–88. 46 indexed citations

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Brondani, Daniela, Bernardo de Souza, Bruno S. Souza, Ademir Neves, & Iolanda Cruz Vieira. (2012). PEI-coated gold nanoparticles decorated with laccase: A new platform for direct electrochemistry of enzymes and biosensingapplications. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 42. 242–247. 88 indexed citations

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Neves, Ademir, Adaı́lton J. Bortoluzzi, Rosely A. Peralta, et al.. (2010). Catalytic promiscuity: catecholase-like activity and hydrolytic DNA cleavage promoted by a mixed-valence FeIII FeII complex. Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society. 21(7). 1201–1212. 20 indexed citations

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Souza, Bernardo de, Fernando R. Xavier, Rosely A. Peralta, et al.. (2010). Oxygen-independent photonuclease activity of a new iron(ii) complex. Chemical Communications. 46(19). 3375–3375. 21 indexed citations

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Souza, Bernardo de, Adaı́lton J. Bortoluzzi, Tiago Bortolotto, et al.. (2009). DNA photonuclease activity of four new copper(ii) complexes under UV and red light: theoretical/experimental correlations with active species generation. Dalton Transactions. 39(8). 2027–2035. 25 indexed citations

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