D.S. McLachlan

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
133 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

D.S. McLachlan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, D.S. McLachlan has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Materials Chemistry, 56 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 43 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in D.S. McLachlan's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (37 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (28 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (16 papers). D.S. McLachlan is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (37 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (28 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (16 papers). D.S. McLachlan collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Israel. D.S. McLachlan's co-authors include Michael Blaszkiewicz, Robert E. Newnham, Junjie Wu, C. Chiteme, Godfrey Sauti, Iakovos Sigalas, Mathias Herrmann, Jens Feder, W. D. Heiss and Kefeng Cai and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. B, Condensed matter and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

D.S. McLachlan

128 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Electrical Resistivity of Composites

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Author						Papers	Cites
D.S. McLachlan	2.2k	1.2k	1.0k	813	723	133	4.5k
John Kieffer	2.5k 1.1×	605 0.5×	1.7k 1.6×	700 0.9×	473 0.7×	139	5.2k
Hisayuki Suematsu	2.3k 1.0×	696 0.6×	830 0.8×	229 0.3×	525 0.7×	319	3.6k
Tadachika Nakayama	2.3k 1.0×	763 0.6×	744 0.7×	247 0.3×	572 0.8×	316	3.5k
R. Boom	2.3k 1.0×	876 0.7×	889 0.9×	253 0.3×	686 0.9×	130	6.7k
G. E. Pike	4.4k 1.9×	1.5k 1.3×	2.8k 2.7×	633 0.8×	1.3k 1.9×	60	5.9k
Lionel M. Levinson	2.4k 1.1×	473 0.4×	1.8k 1.8×	395 0.5×	817 1.1×	66	3.7k
Wei Yang	4.0k 1.8×	1.2k 1.0×	2.8k 2.7×	693 0.9×	978 1.4×	281	6.9k
Xin Qian	2.9k 1.3×	915 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	562 0.7×	647 0.9×	74	5.8k
Jörg Rottler	2.6k 1.2×	446 0.4×	305 0.3×	913 1.1×	278 0.4×	115	3.9k
V. Hugo Schmidt	3.4k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	293 0.4×	1.7k 2.4×	214	4.4k

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All Works

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McLachlan, D.S., et al.. (2025). Applications of percolation-based effective-medium approximation to electrical conductivity in porous media with surface conduction. Journal of Hydrology. 660. 133384–133384.

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McLachlan, D.S. & Godfrey Sauti. (2022). Step, Ramp, Delta, and Differentiable Activation Functions Obtained Using Percolation Equations. Mathematics and Statistics. 10(6). 1206–1209. 1 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S.. (2021). The percolation exponents for electrical and thermal conductivities and the permittivity and permeability of binary composites. Physica B Condensed Matter. 606. 412658–412658. 17 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S., T. B. Doyle, & Godfrey Sauti. (2018). Percolation behaviour in the magnetic permeability and electrical conductivity in conducting magnetic – insulating non magnetic binary composites. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 458. 365–370. 9 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S., et al.. (2007). Pressure infiltration of boron nitride preforms with molten aluminum. Ceramics International. 34(6). 1367–1371. 8 indexed citations

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Cai, Kefeng, D.S. McLachlan, Godfrey Sauti, & E. Mueller. (2005). The effects of annealing on thermal and electrical properties of reaction-bonded AlN ceramic. Solid State Sciences. 7(8). 945–949. 3 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S. & Michael B. Heaney. (1999). Complex ac conductivity of a carbon black composite as a function of frequency, composition, and temperature. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 60(18). 12746–12751. 64 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S. & Ralph Rosenbaum. (1995). Tunnelling in and The Microstructure of Granular Superconductors. MRS Proceedings. 411. 1 indexed citations

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Albers, Aaron E. & D.S. McLachlan. (1994). Anomalous decrease in the resistivity of amorphous metallic FexGe1−x alloys at low temperatures. Physica B Condensed Matter. 194-196. 1093–1094. 1 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S., et al.. (1992). Modeling the Permittivity of Composite Materials with a General Effective Medium Equation. Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. 6(7). 1099–1131. 33 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S., et al.. (1992). Modeling the Permittivity of Composite Materials with a General Effective Medium Equation. Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. 6(9). 1099–1131. 52 indexed citations

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Blaszkiewicz, Michael, D.S. McLachlan, & Robert E. Newnham. (1991). Study of the volume fraction, temperature, and pressure dependence of the resistivity in a ceramic-polymer composite using a general effective media theory equation. Journal of Materials Science. 26(21). 5899–5903. 28 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S.. (1989). Morphology dependence of the resistivity and Meissner curves in two-phase superconductors. Solid State Communications. 69(9). 925–929. 15 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S.. (1988). Measurement and analysis of a model dual-conductivity medium using a generalised effective-medium theory. Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics. 21(8). 1521–1532. 63 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S., et al.. (1987). Formation resistivity factors for a compressible solid-brine mixture. Geophysics. 52(2). 194–203. 12 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S.. (1986). A new interpretation of percolation conductivity results with large critical regimes. Solid State Communications. 60(10). 821–825. 53 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S.. (1978). Simple level detectors, depth gauges and demonstrations of superconductivity based on in pb covered manganin wire. Cryogenics. 18(10). 618–619. 1 indexed citations

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Nabarro, F. R. N., et al.. (1975). The magnetic transition in moderately small superconductors, and the influence of elastic strain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 278(1282). 311–341. 3 indexed citations

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McLachlan, D.S.. (1970). I quantum oscillations and the order of the phase charge in a low κ type II superconducting microcylinder. Solid State Communications. 8(20). 1589–1593. 13 indexed citations

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Lynton, Ernest A. & D.S. McLachlan. (1962). Boundary Scattering Effects on the Superconducting Transition Temperature of Indium. Physical Review. 126(1). 40–42. 14 indexed citations

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