Christopher T. Nelson

9.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Christopher T. Nelson is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher T. Nelson has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Materials Chemistry, 37 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christopher T. Nelson's work include Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (31 papers), Multiferroics and related materials (30 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (17 papers). Christopher T. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (31 papers), Multiferroics and related materials (30 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (17 papers). Christopher T. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Christopher T. Nelson's co-authors include Long‐Qing Chen, Xiaoqing Pan, R. Ramesh, Chang‐Beom Eom, Seung‐Hyub Baek, Darrell G. Schlom, Ajay K. Yadav, Lane W. Martin, Zijian Hong and Peng Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher T. Nelson

90 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Observation of polar vortices in oxide superlattices

2016 748 citations Ajay K. Yadav, Christopher T. Nelson et al. Nature profile →
Room-temperature antiferromagnetic memory resistor

2014 535 citations X. Martí, Ignasi Fina et al. Nature Materials profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher T. Nelson United States	36	4.0k	3.0k	1.3k	1.3k	939	101	6.0k
S. Suga Japan	48	3.4k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	543 0.4×	3.0k 3.2×	435	9.3k
Xiao Tong United States	49	3.4k 0.8×	919 0.3×	4.2k 3.2×	894 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	258	9.2k
Naoki Yamamoto Japan	38	2.8k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	1.0k 1.1×	258	5.5k
Yoshinori Nishino Japan	44	1.3k 0.3×	726 0.2×	676 0.5×	555 0.4×	697 0.7×	209	6.0k
T. Kimura Japan	41	1.5k 0.4×	2.4k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	522 0.4×	4.4k 4.7×	360	7.6k
Jianping Zhang United States	48	2.3k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	2.3k 1.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.8×	206	6.7k
U. O. Karlsson Sweden	37	1.2k 0.3×	366 0.1×	1.1k 0.9×	459 0.4×	1.6k 1.7×	199	4.3k
A. Asenjo Spain	32	1.2k 0.3×	763 0.3×	472 0.4×	675 0.5×	1.8k 1.9×	137	3.0k
Jun‐ichi Fujita Japan	44	2.0k 0.5×	502 0.2×	2.0k 1.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.8×	251	6.7k
J. Bentley United States	40	2.5k 0.6×	570 0.2×	544 0.4×	413 0.3×	376 0.4×	241	5.8k

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Gray, Colin M., et al.. (2025). Engineering Curved Strontium Sulfate Crystals through Biomimetic Crystallization. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(45). 62239–62250.

Wang, Hongyi, Chen Zhang, Wenhu Wang, et al.. (2025). High‐Valence Metal Modulating Lattice Oxygen in High‐Entropy Layered Double Hydroxides for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(47).

Mazza, Alessandro R., Shree Ram Acharya, Jason Lapano, et al.. (2023). Variance induced decoupling of spin, lattice, and charge ordering in perovskite nickelates. Physical Review Research. 5(1). 13 indexed citations

Nelson, Christopher T., Qing Huang, David Mandrus, et al.. (2022). Effects of Au2+ irradiation induced damage in a high-entropy pyrochlore oxide single crystal. Scripta Materialia. 220. 114916–114916. 25 indexed citations

Kalinin, Sergei V., Christopher T. Nelson, Jonathan J. P. Peters, et al.. (2022). Unsupervised learning of ferroic variants from atomically resolved STEM images. AIP Advances. 12(10). 5 indexed citations

Lapano, Jason, Yun‐Yi Pai, Alessandro R. Mazza, et al.. (2021). Self-regulated growth of candidate topological superconducting parkerite by molecular beam epitaxy. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

Morozovska, Anna N., et al.. (2020). Melting of spatially modulated phases at domain wall/surface junctions in antiferrodistortive multiferroics. Physical review. B.. 102(7). 4 indexed citations

Nelson, Christopher T., Rama K. Vasudevan, Xiaohang Zhang, et al.. (2020). Exploring physics of ferroelectric domain walls via Bayesian analysis of atomically resolved STEM data. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6361–6361. 24 indexed citations

Schenkel, T., Arun Persaud, P.A. Seidl, et al.. (2019). Investigation of light ion fusion reactions with plasma discharges. Journal of Applied Physics. 126(20). 5 indexed citations

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Yadav, Ajay K., Kayla X. Nguyen, Zijian Hong, et al.. (2019). Spatially resolved steady-state negative capacitance. Nature. 565(7740). 468–471. 287 indexed citations

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Tan, Ming Jen, Mary Scott, Wei Hao, et al.. (2017). Revealing Cation-Exchange-Induced Phase Transformations in Multielemental Chalcogenide Nanoparticles. Chemistry of Materials. 29(21). 9192–9199. 19 indexed citations

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Nelson, Christopher T.. (2014). Dances of Memory, Dances of Oblivion: The Politics of Performance in Contemporary Okinawa. Japan focus. 12(S12). 196–215.

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Martí, X., Ignasi Fina, Carlos Frontera, et al.. (2014). Room-temperature antiferromagnetic memory resistor. Nature Materials. 13(4). 367–374. 535 indexed citations breakdown →

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Denev, S., Ho Won Jang, Seung‐Hyub Baek, et al.. (2010). Ferroelectricity in Strain-Free SrTiO$_{3}$ Thin Films. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010. 8 indexed citations

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Pan, Xinhua, Wei Guo, Z.Z. Ye, et al.. (2009). Epitaxial Zn1−Mg O films grown on (1 1 1) Si by pulsed laser deposition. Chemical Physics Letters. 485(4-6). 363–366. 3 indexed citations

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Britton, Keith R., George Starkschall, Susan L. Tucker, et al.. (2007). Assessment of Gross Tumor Volume Regression and Motion Changes During Radiotherapy for Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer as Measured by Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 68(4). 1036–1046. 148 indexed citations

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Nelson, Christopher T., George Starkschall, & Joe Y. Chang. (2006). The potential for dose escalation in lung cancer as a result of systematically reducing margins used to generate planning target volume. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 65(2). 573–586. 23 indexed citations

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He, Haifeng & Christopher T. Nelson. (2006). A method of combining STEM image with parallel beam diffraction and electron-optical conditions for diffractive imaging. Ultramicroscopy. 107(4-5). 340–344. 8 indexed citations

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Cao, Gang, Luis Balicas, Xin Yang, J. E. Crow, & Christopher T. Nelson. (2003). QUANTUM OSCILLATIONS, COLOSSAL MAGNETORESISTANCE, AND THE MAGNETOELASTIC INTERACTION IN BILAYERED CA{sub 3}RU{sub 2}O{sub 7}. Physical Review B. 67(18).

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Noyola, Daniel E., Gail J. Demmler, Christopher T. Nelson, et al.. (2001). Early predictors of neurodevelopmental outcome in symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection. The Journal of Pediatrics. 138(3). 325–331. 228 indexed citations

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