Brian Stankus

987 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 669 citations indexed

About

Brian Stankus is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Radiation and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Stankus has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 669 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 11 papers in Radiation and 7 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Brian Stankus's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (10 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (8 papers) and X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (8 papers). Brian Stankus is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (10 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (8 papers) and X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (8 papers). Brian Stankus collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Brian Stankus's co-authors include Peter Weber, Adam Kirrander, Michael P. Minitti, Joseph S. Robinson, Thomas J. Lane, James Budarz, Haiwang Yong, Nikola Zotev, Jennifer M. Ruddock and Daniel Ratner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Brian Stankus

23 papers receiving 660 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.

Imaging Molecular Motion: Femtosecond X-Ray Scattering of an Electrocyclic Chemical Reaction

2015 216 citations Michael P. Minitti, James Budarz et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Stankus United States	13	462	245	128	112	109	23	669
Haiwang Yong United States	13	332 0.7×	151 0.6×	79 0.6×	67 0.6×	61 0.6×	30	477
Daniel Healion United States	10	313 0.7×	151 0.6×	89 0.7×	59 0.5×	49 0.4×	12	435
Sebastian Eckert Germany	16	334 0.7×	254 1.0×	111 0.9×	43 0.4×	106 1.0×	40	641
Kirsten Schnorr Germany	14	469 1.0×	153 0.6×	204 1.6×	49 0.4×	106 1.0×	33	619
Andrés Moreno Carrascosa United Kingdom	14	278 0.6×	150 0.6×	66 0.5×	48 0.4×	44 0.4×	18	392
Gildas Goldsztejn France	16	566 1.2×	330 1.3×	142 1.1×	34 0.3×	75 0.7×	46	732
S. Nelson United States	15	375 0.8×	435 1.8×	97 0.8×	193 1.7×	82 0.8×	27	937
Christopher Arrell Switzerland	13	464 1.0×	81 0.3×	137 1.1×	32 0.3×	92 0.8×	27	659
Nikola Zotev United Kingdom	10	239 0.5×	135 0.6×	57 0.4×	50 0.4×	52 0.5×	13	353
Yoshihiro Ogi Japan	14	416 0.9×	115 0.5×	243 1.9×	43 0.4×	116 1.1×	38	734

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Du, Wenpeng, Haiwang Yong, Brian Stankus, et al.. (2025). Revealing the reaction path of UVC bond rupture in cyclic disulfides with ultrafast x-ray scattering. Science Advances. 11(3). eadp9175–eadp9175. 1 indexed citations

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Du, Wenpeng, et al.. (2021). Ultrafast conformational dynamics of Rydberg-excited N-methyl piperidine. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(48). 27417–27427. 3 indexed citations

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Du, Wenpeng, Andrés Moreno Carrascosa, Brian Stankus, et al.. (2021). Transient Symmetry Controls Photo Dynamics near Conical Intersections. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(38). 9220–9225. 4 indexed citations

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Yong, Haiwang, Andrés Moreno Carrascosa, Brian Stankus, et al.. (2020). Determination of excited state molecular structures from time-resolved gas-phase X-ray scattering. Faraday Discussions. 228(0). 104–122. 12 indexed citations

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Yong, Haiwang, Nikola Zotev, Jennifer M. Ruddock, et al.. (2020). Observation of the molecular response to light upon photoexcitation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2157–2157. 42 indexed citations

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Stankus, Brian, Haiwang Yong, Jennifer M. Ruddock, et al.. (2020). Advances in ultrafast gas-phase x-ray scattering. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 53(23). 234004–234004. 22 indexed citations

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Ruddock, Jennifer M., Haiwang Yong, Brian Stankus, et al.. (2019). A deep UV trigger for ground-state ring-opening dynamics of 1,3-cyclohexadiene. Science Advances. 5(9). eaax6625–eaax6625. 43 indexed citations

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Ruddock, Jennifer M., Nikola Zotev, Brian Stankus, et al.. (2019). Simplicity Beneath Complexity: Counting Molecular Electrons Reveals Transients and Kinetics of Photodissociation Reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(19). 6371–6375. 28 indexed citations

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Yong, Haiwang, Jennifer M. Ruddock, Brian Stankus, et al.. (2019). Scattering off molecules far from equilibrium. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 151(8). 84301–84301. 16 indexed citations

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Ruddock, Jennifer M., Nikola Zotev, Brian Stankus, et al.. (2019). Simplicity Beneath Complexity: Counting Molecular Electrons Reveals Transients and Kinetics of Photodissociation Reactions. Angewandte Chemie. 131(19). 6437–6441. 5 indexed citations

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Stankus, Brian, Haiwang Yong, Nikola Zotev, et al.. (2019). Ultrafast X-ray scattering reveals vibrational coherence following Rydberg excitation. Nature Chemistry. 11(8). 716–721. 70 indexed citations

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Stankus, Brian, et al.. (2019). Effective and Inexpensive HPLC Analogue for First-Year Students: Buret Chromatography of Food Dyes in Drinks. Journal of Chemical Education. 96(4). 739–744. 10 indexed citations

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Yong, Haiwang, Nikola Zotev, Brian Stankus, et al.. (2018). Determining Orientations of Optical Transition Dipole Moments Using Ultrafast X-ray Scattering. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(22). 6556–6562. 38 indexed citations

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Stankus, Brian, et al.. (2018). Ultrafast photodissociation dynamics of 1,4-diiodobenzene. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 148(19). 194306–194306. 6 indexed citations

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Skov, Anders B., et al.. (2018). Cover Feature: Putting the Disulfide Bridge at Risk: How UV‐C Radiation Leads to Ultrafast Rupture of the S‐S Bond (ChemPhysChem 21/2018). ChemPhysChem. 19(21). 2805–2805. 1 indexed citations

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Skov, Anders B., et al.. (2018). Putting the Disulfide Bridge at Risk: How UV‐C Radiation Leads to Ultrafast Rupture of the S‐S Bond. ChemPhysChem. 19(21). 2829–2834. 7 indexed citations

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Kingon, Angus I., Theodore F. Morse, Peter Weber, et al.. (2018). Demonstration of a high resolution x-ray detector for medical imaging. C 120. 11–11. 2 indexed citations

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Stankus, Brian, James Budarz, Adam Kirrander, et al.. (2016). Femtosecond photodissociation dynamics of 1,4-diiodobenzene by gas-phase X-ray scattering and photoelectron spectroscopy. Faraday Discussions. 194. 525–536. 23 indexed citations

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Minitti, Michael P., James Budarz, Adam Kirrander, et al.. (2015). Imaging Molecular Motion: Femtosecond X-Ray Scattering of an Electrocyclic Chemical Reaction. Physical Review Letters. 114(25). 255501–255501. 216 indexed citations breakdown →

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Minitti, Michael P., James Budarz, Adam Kirrander, et al.. (2014). Toward structural femtosecond chemical dynamics: imaging chemistry in space and time. Faraday Discussions. 171. 81–91. 45 indexed citations

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