Christoph Dellago

16.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
195 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Christoph Dellago is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Dellago has authored 195 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 83 papers in Materials Chemistry and 58 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Christoph Dellago's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (59 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (47 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (42 papers). Christoph Dellago is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (59 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (47 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (42 papers). Christoph Dellago collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Germany. Christoph Dellago's co-authors include David Chandler, Peter G. Bolhuis, Phillip L. Geissler, Wolfgang Lechner, Gerhard Hummer, Jörg Behler, Andreas Singraber, Félix S. Csajka, Harald A. Posch and Yanting Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Dellago

191 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

TRANSITIONPATHSAMPLING: T... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2002 1998 2008 2001 2016 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. TRANSITIONPATHSAMPLING: Throwing Ropes Over Rough Mountain Passes, in the Dark
    2002 1.5k citations Peter G. Bolhuis, David Chandler et al. profile →
  2. Transition path sampling and the calculation of rate constants
    1998 795 citations Christoph Dellago, Peter G. Bolhuis et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  3. Accurate determination of crystal structures based on averaged local bond order parameters
    2008 702 citations Christoph Dellago et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  4. Autoionization in Liquid Water
    2001 621 citations Phillip L. Geissler, Christoph Dellago et al. profile →
  5. How van der Waals interactions determine the unique properties of water
    2016 321 citations Andreas Singraber, Christoph Dellago et al. profile →
  6. Ab initio thermodynamics of liquid and solid water
    2019 248 citations Jörg Behler, Christoph Dellago et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christoph Dellago Austria 46 4.5k 4.4k 2.9k 2.0k 1.8k 195 11.4k
Peter G. Bolhuis Netherlands 52 3.3k 0.7× 5.3k 1.2× 4.2k 1.4× 1.3k 0.7× 1.9k 1.1× 166 11.4k
Phillip L. Geissler United States 43 4.6k 1.0× 2.7k 0.6× 3.1k 1.1× 861 0.4× 1.5k 0.9× 119 10.3k
Eric Vanden‐Eijnden United States 52 3.0k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 5.3k 1.8× 2.5k 1.3× 841 0.5× 159 12.1k
David J. Wales United Kingdom 76 9.2k 2.0× 9.9k 2.2× 5.0k 1.7× 2.2k 1.1× 1.8k 1.0× 477 22.5k
Carlos Vega Spain 56 5.6k 1.2× 7.0k 1.6× 1.4k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 5.4k 3.0× 248 16.8k
John D. Weeks United States 53 4.5k 1.0× 5.7k 1.3× 1.5k 0.5× 1.9k 0.9× 5.3k 3.0× 164 15.2k
William C. Swope United States 34 3.6k 0.8× 3.5k 0.8× 4.3k 1.5× 538 0.3× 1.3k 0.7× 76 10.3k
J. L. F. Abascal Spain 33 3.8k 0.8× 3.7k 0.8× 1.2k 0.4× 657 0.3× 3.0k 1.7× 85 9.8k
Glenn Martyna United States 46 7.1k 1.6× 6.8k 1.5× 5.9k 2.0× 936 0.5× 3.1k 1.7× 143 20.9k
Dominic J. Tildesley United Kingdom 44 3.9k 0.9× 5.3k 1.2× 1.1k 0.4× 987 0.5× 4.9k 2.8× 121 12.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shi, Kaihang, et al.. (2026). Comparing the Mechanical and Thermodynamic Definitions of Pressure in Ice Nucleation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 17(8). 2367–2373.
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Hijes, Pablo Montero de, et al.. (2025). Unsupervised identification of crystal defects from atomistic potential descriptors. npj Computational Materials. 11(1). 5 indexed citations
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Singraber, Andreas, et al.. (2025). Iterative charge equilibration for fourth-generation high-dimensional neural network potentials. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162(12). 3 indexed citations
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Dellago, Christoph, et al.. (2025). Nuclear quantum effects at the liquid/vapor interface from neural-network based path integral molecular dynamics simulations. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162(24). 1 indexed citations
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Jedlovszky, Pál, Christoph Dellago, & Marcello Sega. (2025). Hydrogen bond topology reveals layering of LDL-like and HDL-like water at its liquid/vapor interface. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 163(2).
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Hijes, Pablo Montero de, Christoph Dellago, Ryosuke Jinnouchi, & Georg Kresse. (2024). Density isobar of water and melting temperature of ice: Assessing common density functionals. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 161(13). 17 indexed citations
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Coretti, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). Conditioning Boltzmann generators for rare event sampling. Machine Learning Science and Technology. 4(3). 35050–35050. 9 indexed citations
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Mai, Sebastian, et al.. (2023). Nonadiabatic Forward Flux Sampling for Excited-State Rare Events. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(6). 1657–1671. 12 indexed citations
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Jung, Hendrik, et al.. (2023). Artificial intelligence for molecular mechanism discovery. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 281a–282a. 1 indexed citations
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Dellago, Christoph, et al.. (2023). High-density liquid (HDL) adsorption at the supercooled water/vapor interface and its possible relation to the second surface tension inflection point. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(5). 54503–54503. 10 indexed citations
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Frimmer, Martin, et al.. (2022). White-noise fluctuation theorem for Langevin dynamics. New Journal of Physics. 24(11). 113028–113028. 1 indexed citations
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Tröster, A., Carla Verdi, Christoph Dellago, et al.. (2022). Hard antiphase domain boundaries in strontium titanate unravelled using machine-learned force fields. Physical Review Materials. 6(9). 5 indexed citations
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Frimmer, Martin, et al.. (2021). Escape dynamics of active particles in multistable potentials. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2446–2446. 45 indexed citations
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Moritz, Clemens, Phillip L. Geissler, & Christoph Dellago. (2021). The microscopic mechanism of bulk melting of ice. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 155(12). 124501–124501. 6 indexed citations
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Moritz, Clemens, et al.. (2020). Weak scaling of the contact distance between two fluctuating interfaces with system size. Physical review. E. 102(6). 62801–62801. 3 indexed citations
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Janoš, Pavel, Igor Tvaroška, Christoph Dellago, & Jaroslav Koča. (2020). Catalytic Mechanism of Processive GlfT2: Transition Path Sampling Investigation of Substrate Translocation. ACS Omega. 5(34). 21374–21384. 6 indexed citations
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Sega, Marcello, et al.. (2019). Phase stability of the ice XVII-based CO2 chiral hydrate from molecular dynamics simulations. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 151(10). 4 indexed citations
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Sega, Marcello & Christoph Dellago. (2017). Long-Range Dispersion Effects on the Water/Vapor Interface Simulated Using the Most Common Models. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121(15). 3798–3803. 44 indexed citations
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Moritz, Clemens, A. Tröster, & Christoph Dellago. (2017). Interplay of fast and slow dynamics in rare transition pathways: The disk-to-slab transition in the 2d Ising model. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 147(15). 152714–152714. 11 indexed citations
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Geissler, Phillip L., Christoph Dellago, David Chandler, Jürg Hutter, & Michele Parrinello. (2000). Autodissociation of a water molecule in liquid water. Abstracts of papers - American Chemical Society. 220. 3 indexed citations

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