Chérif F. Matta

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
141 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Chérif F. Matta is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Chérif F. Matta has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 54 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 40 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Chérif F. Matta's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (50 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (30 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (17 papers). Chérif F. Matta is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (50 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (30 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (17 papers). Chérif F. Matta collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Mexico. Chérif F. Matta's co-authors include Richard F. W. Bader, Russell J. Boyd, Jesús Hernández‐Trujillo, Alya A. Arabi, Norberto Castillo, Ting‐Hua Tang, Lou Massa, Shahin Sowlati‐Hashjin, Hugo J. Bohórquez and Lulu Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Chérif F. Matta

134 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

The Quantum theory of atoms in molecules : from solid state to DNA and drug design

2007 702 citations Chérif F. Matta, Russell J. Boyd CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
Hydrogen–Hydrogen Bonding: A Stabilizing Interaction in Molecules and Crystals

2003 673 citations Chérif F. Matta, Jesús Hernández‐Trujillo et al. Chemistry - A European Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chérif F. Matta Canada	39	2.4k	2.1k	1.8k	1.4k	976	141	5.7k
Steven E. Wheeler United States	44	2.1k 0.9×	4.0k 1.9×	1.4k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	121	7.6k
Éric Cancès France	13	2.3k 0.9×	4.5k 2.1×	1.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.5×	1.0k 1.0×	23	8.8k
Nathan E. Schultz United States	17	1.1k 0.5×	2.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	1.8k 1.3×	846 0.9×	27	5.5k
David Danovich Israel	41	1.7k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	137	6.0k
Mutasem Omar Sinnokrot United States	16	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	542 0.6×	36	4.2k
Yirong Mo United States	50	3.0k 1.3×	3.7k 1.7×	2.9k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	243	8.3k
Michal Pitoňák Slovakia	25	1.5k 0.6×	956 0.4×	2.5k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	687 0.7×	50	4.8k
Kevin E. Riley United States	35	4.3k 1.8×	2.0k 0.9×	3.0k 1.6×	2.1k 1.5×	1.9k 2.0×	70	7.7k
Alberto Vela Mexico	38	1.1k 0.5×	2.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	2.1k 1.5×	860 0.9×	133	5.8k
Masuhiro Mikami Japan	42	2.0k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	2.4k 1.3×	2.2k 1.5×	747 0.8×	107	7.6k

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Elmehrath, Ahmed O., et al.. (2025). Alteration of metabolic activity regulates mitochondrial temperature in diagnosis in HepG2 hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 41155–41155.

Azzouz, Lahcene, Michel Rérat, & Chérif F. Matta. (2025). Electronic and magnetic properties of diluted magnetic semiconducting NaY1-xCexSe2alloys. Structural Chemistry. 36(6). 2151–2165.

Matta, Chérif F., et al.. (2025). Origin‐Dependence of Dipole Moments of Charged Proteins: Theoretical Foundations and Implications, Revisited. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 46(25). e70207–e70207. 1 indexed citations

Vernier, P. Thomas, et al.. (2025). Electrical homeostasis of the inner mitochondrial membrane potential. Physical Biology. 22(2). 26001–26001. 1 indexed citations

Matta, Chérif F., et al.. (2025). Rotational dynamics of ATP synthase: mechanical constraints and energy dissipative channels. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 97(10). 1277–1290. 1 indexed citations

Davoodi, Jamal, et al.. (2024). Electrodialysis desalination: Borophene membrane for ion separation using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 396. 123945–123945. 5 indexed citations

Matta, Chérif F., Paul W. Ayers, & Ronald L. Cook. (2024). Electron Localization-Delocalization Matrices. 8 indexed citations

Dong, Zhongmin, et al.. (2024). Exploring the Chemical Space of Mycobacterial Oxidative Phosphorylation Inhibitors Using Molecular Modeling. ChemMedChem. 19(22). e202400303–e202400303. 1 indexed citations

Matta, Chérif F., et al.. (2023). Are size and mitochondrial power of cells inter-determined?. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 572. 111565–111565. 2 indexed citations

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Matta, Chérif F., Lulu Huang, & L. J. Massa. (2023). Quantum Crystallography. 5 indexed citations

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Matta, Chérif F., et al.. (2022). A fast approximate extension of the interacting quantum atoms energy decomposition to excited states. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 43(16). 1068–1078. 4 indexed citations

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Matta, Chérif F., et al.. (2021). The hot mitochondrion paradox: reconciling theory and experiment. Trends in Chemistry. 4(2). 96–110. 23 indexed citations

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Arabi, Alya A. & Chérif F. Matta. (2018). Effects of Intense Electric Fields on the Double Proton Transfer in the Watson–Crick Guanine–Cytosine Base Pair. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(37). 8631–8641. 41 indexed citations

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Arabi, Alya A. & Chérif F. Matta. (2018). Adenine–thymine tautomerization under the influence of strong homogeneous electric fields. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(18). 12406–12412. 11 indexed citations

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Haiduke, Roberto L. A., et al.. (2017). Real space atomic decomposition of fundamental properties of carbon monoxide in the ground and the two lowest lying excited electronic states. Molecular Physics. 115(15-16). 1955–1965. 8 indexed citations

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Matta, Chérif F.. (2009). How dependent are molecular and atomic properties on the electronic structure method? Comparison of Hartree‐Fock, DFT, and MP2 on a biologically relevant set of molecules. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 31(6). 1297–1311. 100 indexed citations

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Joly-Pottuz, L., et al.. (2007). グリセロールで潤滑にしたta-Cの超低摩擦電子エネルギー損失分光研究. Journal of Applied Physics. 102(6). 64912. 2 indexed citations

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Matta, Chérif F. & Russell J. Boyd. (2007). The Quantum theory of atoms in molecules : from solid state to DNA and drug design. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 702 indexed citations breakdown →

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Matta, Chérif F., Jesús Hernández‐Trujillo, Ting‐Hua Tang, & Richard F. W. Bader. (2003). Hydrogen–Hydrogen Bonding: A Stabilizing Interaction in Molecules and Crystals. Chemistry - A European Journal. 9(9). 1940–1951. 673 indexed citations breakdown →

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Matta, Chérif F.. (2003). Application of the quantum theory of atoms in molecules to selected physico‐chemical and biophysical problems: Focus on correlation with experiment. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 24(4). 453–463. 21 indexed citations

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