Elfi Kraka

15.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
275 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Elfi Kraka is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Organic Chemistry and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Elfi Kraka has authored 275 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 106 papers in Organic Chemistry and 94 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Elfi Kraka's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (103 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (53 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (35 papers). Elfi Kraka is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (103 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (53 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (35 papers). Elfi Kraka collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. Elfi Kraka's co-authors include Dieter Cremer, Jürgen Gräfenstein, Robert Kalescky, Marek Freindorf, Wenli Zou, Vytor Oliveira, Dani Setiawan, Tom Slee, R. F. W. Bader and Víctor Polo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Elfi Kraka

271 papers receiving 12.8k 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.

Chemical Bonds without Bonding Electron Density — Does the Difference Electron‐Density Analysis Suffice for a Description of the Chemical Bond?

1984 1.3k citations Dieter Cremer, Elfi Kraka profile →
A Description of the Chemical Bond in Terms of Local Properties of Electron Density and Energy

1984 600 citations Dieter Cremer, Elfi Kraka Croatica Chemica Acta profile →
Description of conjugation and hyperconjugation in terms of electron distributions

1983 552 citations Dieter Cremer, Elfi Kraka et al. profile →
Exploring the frontiers of condensed-phase chemistry with a general reactive machine learning potential

2024 74 citations Shuhao Zhang, Ryan B. Jadrich et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elfi Kraka United States	60	5.3k	5.0k	4.3k	3.0k	2.7k	275	13.1k
Minh Tho Nguyen Belgium	56	5.3k 1.0×	5.5k 1.1×	2.4k 0.5×	6.4k 2.1×	3.2k 1.2×	758	16.1k
Ming Wah Wong Singapore	49	5.4k 1.0×	3.1k 0.6×	2.4k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	246	11.4k
Shujun Su China	7	5.3k 1.0×	7.8k 1.6×	4.2k 1.0×	4.9k 1.6×	2.2k 0.8×	12	17.9k
Janet E. Del Bene United States	56	3.6k 0.7×	6.4k 1.3×	6.6k 1.5×	2.2k 0.7×	2.9k 1.0×	298	12.9k
Arvi Rauk Canada	46	5.2k 1.0×	3.7k 0.7×	2.5k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	208	11.7k
Frank Jensen Denmark	55	4.4k 0.8×	5.9k 1.2×	2.1k 0.5×	3.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.5×	224	14.0k
George A. Petersson United States	31	7.1k 1.4×	6.0k 1.2×	2.6k 0.6×	4.2k 1.4×	1.9k 0.7×	77	15.6k
Andreas Hansen Germany	43	5.0k 0.9×	5.1k 1.0×	2.5k 0.6×	5.5k 1.8×	3.1k 1.1×	115	15.9k
Angela K. Wilson United States	43	3.6k 0.7×	8.4k 1.7×	2.2k 0.5×	4.2k 1.4×	2.4k 0.9×	195	13.8k
Nikita Matsunaga United States	21	5.9k 1.1×	8.6k 1.7×	4.5k 1.0×	5.2k 1.7×	2.4k 0.9×	45	19.2k

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Kraka, Elfi, et al.. (2024). Chemical Bond Overlap Descriptors From Multiconfiguration Wavefunctions. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 46(1). e27534–e27534. 1 indexed citations

Moura, Renaldo T., et al.. (2024). Exploring Jahn-Teller distortions: a local vibrational mode perspective. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 30(4). 102–102. 6 indexed citations

Runčevski, Tomče, et al.. (2024). Thiabendazole: Fumaric acid as a case study on the salt cocrystal continuum: A local vibrational mode perspective. Chemical Physics Letters. 860. 141772–141772.

Zhang, Shuhao, Ryan B. Jadrich, Elfi Kraka, et al.. (2024). Exploring the frontiers of condensed-phase chemistry with a general reactive machine learning potential. Nature Chemistry. 16(5). 727–734. 74 indexed citations breakdown →

Freindorf, Marek, et al.. (2024). Ligand Characterization and DNA Intercalation of Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complexes: A Local Vibrational Mode Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 128(29). 5925–5940. 2 indexed citations

Filatov, Michael, Marco Paolino, Danil Kaliakin, et al.. (2024). Impact of solvation on the photoisomerisation dynamics of a photon-only rotary molecular motor. Communications Physics. 7(1). 10 indexed citations

Filatov, Michael, Vladimir Mironov, & Elfi Kraka. (2024). Unraveling the effect of aromaticity for the dynamics of excited states of single benzene fluorophores. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 45(13). 1033–1045. 4 indexed citations

Moura, Renaldo T., et al.. (2022). Local mode analysis of characteristic vibrational coupling in nucleobases and Watson–Crick base pairs of DNA. Electronic Structure. 4(4). 44005–44005. 16 indexed citations

Trozzi, Francesco, Zilin Song, Niraj Verma, et al.. (2022). Allosteric control of ACE2 peptidase domain dynamics. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 20(17). 3605–3618. 3 indexed citations

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Seifert, Nathan A., et al.. (2022). Structural study of 1- and 2-naphthol: new insights into the non-covalent H–H interaction in cis-1-naphthol. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(6). 3722–3732. 11 indexed citations

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Freindorf, Marek, et al.. (2021). Vibrational Analysis of Benziodoxoles and Benziodazolotetrazoles. MDPI (MDPI AG). 1(1). 45–68. 5 indexed citations

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Verma, Niraj, et al.. (2021). Predicting Potential SARS-COV-2 Drugs—In Depth Drug Database Screening Using Deep Neural Network Framework SSnet, Classical Virtual Screening and Docking. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(4). 1573–1573. 31 indexed citations

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Verma, Niraj, et al.. (2021). Generative adversarial networks for transition state geometry prediction. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 155(2). 24116–24116. 36 indexed citations

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Freindorf, Marek, et al.. (2021). Halogen Bonding Involving I2 and d8 Transition-Metal Pincer Complexes. Crystals. 11(4). 373–373. 16 indexed citations

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Verma, Niraj, Francesco Trozzi, Peng Tao, et al.. (2021). SSnet: A Deep Learning Approach for Protein-Ligand Interaction Prediction. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(3). 1392–1392. 30 indexed citations

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Sethio, Daniel, et al.. (2020). Crystal structure of 1-propanethiol–Co ₂ (dobdc) from laboratory X-ray powder diffraction data. Powder Diffraction. 35(1). 3–6. 1 indexed citations

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Verma, Niraj, Peng Tao, Wenli Zou, et al.. (2020). A Critical Evaluation of Vibrational Stark Effect (VSE) Probes with the Local Vibrational Mode Theory. Sensors. 20(8). 2358–2358. 41 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhong, Peng Tao, Hongrui Tian, et al.. (2020). Chelation-Assisted Selective Etching Construction of Hierarchical Polyoxometalate-Based Metal–Organic Framework. Chemistry of Materials. 32(13). 5550–5557. 49 indexed citations

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Kraka, Elfi, Dani Setiawan, & Dieter Cremer. (2015). Re‐evaluation of the bond length–bond strength rule: The stronger bond is not always the shorter bond. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 37(1). 130–142. 97 indexed citations

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Cremer, Dieter & Elfi Kraka. (1984). A Description of the Chemical Bond in Terms of Local Properties of Electron Density and Energy. Croatica Chemica Acta. 57(6). 1259–1281. 600 indexed citations breakdown →

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