Dave Townsend

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Dave Townsend is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dave Townsend has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 24 papers in Spectroscopy and 23 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dave Townsend's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (39 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (34 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (23 papers). Dave Townsend is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (39 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (34 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (23 papers). Dave Townsend collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Dave Townsend's co-authors include Arthur G. Suits, Albert Stolow, Michael P. Minitti, Benjamin Sussman, Helmut Satzger, Misha Ivanov, Sridhar A. Lahankar, Steven D. Chambreau, Susanne Ullrich and Joel M. Bowman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Dave Townsend

65 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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 Roaming Atom: Straying from the Reaction Path in Formaldehyde Decomposition

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dave Townsend United Kingdom	27	2.4k	1.2k	730	316	305	67	3.0k
Oriol Vendrell Germany	32	2.7k 1.1×	917 0.8×	402 0.6×	116 0.4×	236 0.8×	106	3.3k
Nils Huse Germany	26	1.8k 0.7×	890 0.8×	496 0.7×	125 0.4×	307 1.0×	63	2.6k
Klaus B. Møller Denmark	28	1.8k 0.8×	731 0.6×	620 0.8×	152 0.5×	148 0.5×	95	2.4k
Kazuo Takatsuka Japan	34	3.9k 1.6×	894 0.8×	705 1.0×	172 0.5×	184 0.6×	192	4.4k
Ivan Powis United Kingdom	38	4.1k 1.7×	3.0k 2.5×	638 0.9×	457 1.4×	150 0.5×	138	4.7k
Jesús González‐Vázquez Spain	24	1.8k 0.7×	698 0.6×	507 0.7×	116 0.4×	183 0.6×	86	2.1k
Dmitrii V. Shalashilin United Kingdom	28	2.4k 1.0×	727 0.6×	421 0.6×	175 0.6×	156 0.5×	85	2.7k
Soo‐Y. Lee Singapore	31	3.2k 1.3×	1.5k 1.3×	480 0.7×	473 1.5×	240 0.8×	77	3.7k
Michael S. Schuurman Canada	26	1.9k 0.8×	697 0.6×	609 0.8×	233 0.7×	64 0.2×	84	2.2k
Janice M. Hicks United States	20	1.6k 0.7×	572 0.5×	768 1.1×	166 0.5×	342 1.1×	35	2.2k

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Crane, Stuart W., et al.. (2025). Excited state dynamics of azanaphthalenes reveal opportunities for the rational design of photoactive molecules. Communications Chemistry. 8(1). 7–7. 2 indexed citations

Brahms, Christian, et al.. (2025). Decoupling structural molecular dynamics from excited state lifetimes using few-femtosecond ultraviolet resonant dispersive waves. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9986–9986.

Blanchet, Valérie, et al.. (2024). Fourier–Hankel–Abel Nyquist-limited tomography: A spherical harmonic basis function approach to tomographic velocity-map image reconstruction. Review of Scientific Instruments. 95(5). 2 indexed citations

Crane, Stuart W., et al.. (2023). Velocity-map imaging of photoelectron circular dichroism in non-volatile molecules using a laser-based desorption source. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(8). 6009–6015. 11 indexed citations

Ghafur, O., et al.. (2023). The importance of molecular axis alignment and symmetry-breaking in photoelectron elliptical dichroism. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(21). 3 indexed citations

Crane, Stuart W., Jack M. Woolley, Vasilios G. Stavros, et al.. (2023). The Value of Different Experimental Observables: A Transient Absorption Study of the Ultraviolet Excitation Dynamics Operating in Nitrobenzene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 127(31). 6425–6436. 8 indexed citations

Holland, D.M.P., D A Shaw, Dave Townsend, & Ivan Powis. (2022). Valence shell electronically excited states of imidazole and 1-methylimidazole. Molecular Physics. 121(7-8).

Malcomson, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Photochemical carbon–sulfur bond cleavage in thioethers mediated via excited state Rydberg-to-valence evolution. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(48). 29423–29436. 3 indexed citations

Crane, Stuart W., et al.. (2021). Ultraviolet Excitation Dynamics of Nitrobenzenes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 125(33). 7174–7184. 16 indexed citations

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Paterson, Martin J. & Dave Townsend. (2020). Rydberg-to-valence evolution in excited state molecular dynamics. International Reviews in Physical Chemistry. 39(4). 517–567. 11 indexed citations

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Sølling, Theis I., Ruaridh Forbes, Andrey E. Boguslavskiy, et al.. (2019). Vacuum ultraviolet excited state dynamics of small amides. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 150(5). 54301–54301. 9 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Daniel L. A., Andrew Young, Stuart W. Crane, et al.. (2017). A new technique for probing chirality via photoelectron circular dichroism. Analytica Chimica Acta. 984. 134–139. 35 indexed citations

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Morsing, Thorbjørn J., et al.. (2016). The effects of symmetry and rigidity on non-adiabatic dynamics in tertiary amines: a time-resolved photoelectron velocity-map imaging study of the cage-amine ABCO. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 18(14). 9715–9723. 27 indexed citations

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Chatterley, Adam S., Jamie D. Young, Dave Townsend, et al.. (2013). Manipulating dynamics with chemical structure: probing vibrationally-enhanced tunnelling in photoexcited catechol. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(18). 6879–6879. 47 indexed citations

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Rubino, E., Susanne C. Kehr, F. Belgiorno, et al.. (2012). Negative-Frequency Resonant Radiation. Physical Review Letters. 108(25). 253901–253901. 64 indexed citations

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Bustard, Philip J., Guorong Wu, Rune Lausten, et al.. (2011). From molecular control to quantum technology with the dynamic Stark effect. Faraday Discussions. 153. 321–321. 9 indexed citations

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Boguslavskiy, Andrey E., Michael S. Schuurman, Dave Townsend, & Albert Stolow. (2011). Non-Born–Oppenheimer wavepacket dynamics in polyatomic molecules: vibrations at conical intersections in DABCO. Faraday Discussions. 150. 419–419. 19 indexed citations

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Hockett, Paul, Michael Staniforth, Katharine L. Reid, & Dave Townsend. (2009). Rotationally Resolved Photoelectron Angular Distributions from a Nonlinear Polyatomic Molecule. Physical Review Letters. 102(25). 253002–253002. 36 indexed citations

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Levine, Benjamin G., Alexis L. Thompson, Helmut Satzger, et al.. (2007). Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics and Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Electronically Excited Uracil and Thymine. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 111(34). 8500–8508. 320 indexed citations

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Lee, Suk Kyoung, Dave Townsend, O. S. Vasyutinskiǐ, & Arthur G. Suits. (2005). O(1D2) orbital orientation in the ultraviolet photodissociation of ozone. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 7(8). 1650–1650. 40 indexed citations

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