Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas's work include Graphene research and applications (11 papers), Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (3 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (2 papers). Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (11 papers), Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (3 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (2 papers). Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas's co-authors include Jiwoong Park, Mark Levendorf, David A. Muller, Pinshane Y. Huang, Arend M. van der Zande, Paul L. McEuen, Jonathan S. Alden, William S. Whitney, Ye Zhu and Joshua W. Kevek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas

13 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Grains and grain boundaries in single-layer graphene atom... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2012 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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. Grains and grain boundaries in single-layer graphene atomic patchwork quilts
    2011 1.7k citations Pinshane Y. Huang, Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas et al. Nature profile →
  2. Tailoring Electrical Transport Across Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Graphene
    2012 488 citations Adam W. Tsen, Lola Brown et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas United States 9 3.1k 1.3k 1.1k 783 276 13 3.6k
Nicola Bonini United Kingdom 24 3.9k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 690 0.6× 849 1.1× 336 1.2× 54 4.6k
T. Wágner Czechia 31 3.0k 1.0× 2.3k 1.7× 673 0.6× 425 0.5× 477 1.7× 220 3.8k
James C. Culbertson United States 28 2.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 660 0.6× 563 0.7× 714 2.6× 83 3.2k
Martin M. Frank United States 39 2.3k 0.7× 2.8k 2.1× 475 0.4× 944 1.2× 366 1.3× 97 4.0k
Christoph Tegenkamp Germany 30 2.3k 0.7× 1.6k 1.2× 752 0.7× 2.0k 2.6× 452 1.6× 201 4.1k
F. Gourbilleau France 32 2.7k 0.9× 2.1k 1.6× 1.1k 1.0× 583 0.7× 227 0.8× 204 3.2k
Zhenting Dai United States 12 3.1k 1.0× 1.5k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 1.1k 1.4× 422 1.5× 22 3.8k
Mário S. C. Mazzoni Brazil 26 2.7k 0.9× 743 0.6× 591 0.5× 652 0.8× 167 0.6× 69 3.0k
L. C. Lew Yan Voon United States 23 3.1k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 847 0.8× 2.0k 2.6× 286 1.0× 98 4.3k
Su Xu United States 8 2.5k 0.8× 1.9k 1.4× 500 0.5× 592 0.8× 323 1.2× 20 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas. Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Lee, Martin, Eric Whiteway, Yuning Zhang, et al.. (2019). From 2D to 3D: Graphene molding for transparent and flexible probes. eScholarship@McGill (McGill). 3 indexed citations
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Ruiz‐Vargas, Carlos, et al.. (2015). Contact transfer length investigation of a 2D nanoparticle network by scanning probe microscopy. Nanotechnology. 26(36). 365701–365701. 1 indexed citations
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Zheng, Zhikun, Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas, Thomas Bauer, et al.. (2013). Square‐Micrometer‐Sized, Free‐Standing Organometallic Sheets and Their Square‐Centimeter‐Sized Multilayers on Solid Substrates. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 34(21). 1670–1680. 66 indexed citations
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Payamyar, Payam, Khaled Kaja, Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas, et al.. (2013). Synthesis of a Covalent Monolayer Sheet by Photochemical Anthracene Dimerization at the Air/Water Interface and its Mechanical Characterization by AFM Indentation. Advanced Materials. 26(13). 2052–2058. 142 indexed citations
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Tsen, Adam W., Lola Brown, Mark Levendorf, et al.. (2012). Tailoring Electrical Transport Across Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Graphene. Science. 336(6085). 1143–1146. 488 indexed citations breakdown →
6.
Wang, Zenghui, David N. Hutchison, Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas, et al.. (2011). Graphene rubber band: suspended graphene sheets with controlled uniaxial strain. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2011. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Pinshane Y., Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas, Arend M. van der Zande, et al.. (2011). Grains and grain boundaries in single-layer graphene atomic patchwork quilts. Nature. 469(7330). 389–392. 1653 indexed citations breakdown →
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Havener, Robin W., Sang‐Yong Ju, Lola Brown, et al.. (2011). High-Throughput Graphene Imaging on Arbitrary Substrates with Widefield Raman Spectroscopy. ACS Nano. 6(1). 373–380. 49 indexed citations
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Ruiz‐Vargas, Carlos, Houlong Zhuang, Pinshane Y. Huang, et al.. (2011). Softened Elastic Response and Unzipping in Chemical Vapor Deposition Graphene Membranes. Nano Letters. 11(6). 2259–2263. 318 indexed citations
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Huang, Pinshane Y., Arend M. van der Zande, Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas, et al.. (2011). Imaging Grains and Grain Boundaries in Single-Layer Graphene: An Atomic Patchwork Quilt. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 17(S2). 1496–1497. 4 indexed citations
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Zande, Arend M. van der, Robert A. Barton, Jonathan S. Alden, et al.. (2010). Large-Scale Arrays of Single-Layer Graphene Resonators. Nano Letters. 10(12). 4869–4873. 339 indexed citations
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Park, Jiwoong, Y. H. Ahn, & Carlos Ruiz‐Vargas. (2009). Imaging of Photocurrent Generation and Collection in Single-Layer Graphene. Nano Letters. 9(5). 1742–1746. 295 indexed citations
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Levendorf, Mark, et al.. (2009). Transfer-Free Batch Fabrication of Single Layer Graphene Transistors. Nano Letters. 9(12). 4479–4483. 259 indexed citations

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