Francesco Paesani

15.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
214 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Francesco Paesani is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Paesani has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 59 papers in Materials Chemistry and 44 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Francesco Paesani's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (107 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (96 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (82 papers). Francesco Paesani is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (107 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (96 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (82 papers). Francesco Paesani collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Germany. Francesco Paesani's co-authors include Gregory R. Medders, Volodymyr Babin, Gregory A. Voth, K. Birgitta Whaley, Marc Riera, Claude Leforestier, F. A. Gianturco, Andreas W. Götz, Pushp Bajaj and Hanning Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Paesani

208 papers receiving 10.4k 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.

Development of a “First Principles” Water Potential with Flexible Monomers: Dimer Potential Energy Surface, VRT Spectrum, and Second Virial Coefficient

2013 433 citations Francesco Paesani et al. profile →
Modeling Molecular Interactions in Water: From Pairwise to Many-Body Potential Energy Functions

2016 338 citations Valeria Molinero, Francesco Paesani et al. profile →
Development of a “First Principles” Water Potential with Flexible Monomers. II: Trimer Potential Energy Surface, Third Virial Coefficient, and Small Clusters

2014 338 citations Francesco Paesani et al. profile →
Development of a “First-Principles” Water Potential with Flexible Monomers. III. Liquid Phase Properties

2014 309 citations Francesco Paesani et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Paesani United States	57	6.8k	3.3k	2.0k	1.5k	1.2k	214	10.6k
Gregory K. Schenter United States	49	3.9k 0.6×	3.4k 1.0×	719 0.4×	950 0.6×	563 0.5×	197	8.7k
Yukio Yamaguchi United States	50	6.0k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	2.8k 1.4×	1.0k 0.7×	542 0.5×	297	9.9k
Michiel Sprik United Kingdom	69	8.4k 1.2×	3.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	182	14.9k
Sotiris S. Xantheas United States	63	9.7k 1.4×	2.0k 0.6×	3.8k 1.9×	1.3k 0.9×	721 0.6×	210	12.9k
Liem X. Dang United States	55	6.7k 1.0×	1.7k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	724 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	159	10.8k
D. M. Rayner Canada	51	5.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	589 0.4×	622 0.5×	185	9.1k
Matthias Krack Switzerland	25	3.2k 0.5×	4.5k 1.4×	867 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	533 0.5×	70	9.4k
Kari Laasonen Finland	48	4.2k 0.6×	4.1k 1.2×	878 0.4×	669 0.5×	378 0.3×	194	10.3k
Elias Vlieg Netherlands	51	3.3k 0.5×	4.9k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	378 0.3×	1.2k 1.0×	309	10.5k
Bernd Winter Germany	50	5.1k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	955 0.5×	342 0.2×	542 0.5×	182	8.3k

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Sciortino, Francesco, et al.. (2025). Constraints on the location of the liquid–liquid critical point in water. Nature Physics. 21(3). 480–485. 17 indexed citations

Singh, Vivek, et al.. (2025). Thermodynamics of alkali metal ion uptake from aqueous solution in MOF-808. Chemical Science. 16(26). 12129–12138. 2 indexed citations

Dasgupta, Saswata, et al.. (2025). Reactivity of Nanoconfined Water Is Modulated by the Properties of Confining Materials. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(46). 11996–12004.

Paesani, Francesco, et al.. (2025). Computational Analysis of Threonine Ladders on Distinct β-Solenoid Scaffolds, with Implications for the Design of Novel Antifreeze Proteins. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 129(37). 9357–9372.

Agnew, Henry, et al.. (2025). Resolving the Spectral Signatures of Strong Hydrogen Bonding in Fluoride Hydration. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 129(28). 7301–7310.

Fabiano, Eduardo, et al.. (2025). Møller–Plesset Adiabatic Connection Theory for Diverse Noncovalent Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(31). 7898–7908. 1 indexed citations

Hunter, Kelly M. & Francesco Paesani. (2024). Monitoring water harvesting in metal–organic frameworks, one water molecule at a time. Chemical Science. 15(14). 5303–5310. 13 indexed citations

Oppenheim, Julius J., Dalal Alezi, Justin L. Andrews, et al.. (2024). Cooperative Interactions with Water Drive Hysteresis in a Hydrophilic Metal–Organic Framework. Chemistry of Materials. 36(7). 3395–3404. 8 indexed citations

Paesani, Francesco, et al.. (2024). Many-body interactions and deep neural network potentials for water. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(14). 13 indexed citations

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Riera, Marc, Chris Knight, Henry Agnew, et al.. (2023). MBX: A many-body energy and force calculator for data-driven many-body simulations. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(5). 33 indexed citations

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Bore, Sigbjørn Løland, et al.. (2023). A “short blanket” dilemma for a state-of-the-art neural network potential for water: Reproducing experimental properties or the physics of the underlying many-body interactions?. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(8). 84111–84111. 53 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yilong, Sigbjørn Løland Bore, Andrea R. Tao, Francesco Paesani, & Gaurav Arya. (2023). Many-body potential for simulating the self-assembly of polymer-grafted nanoparticles in a polymer matrix. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 9 indexed citations

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Paesani, Francesco, et al.. (2022). Combined Theoretical, Bioinformatic, and Biochemical Analyses of RNA Editing by Adenine Base Editors. The CRISPR Journal. 5(2). 294–310. 4 indexed citations

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Cruzeiro, Vinícius Wilian D., Andrew Wildman, Xiaosong Li, & Francesco Paesani. (2021). Relationship between Hydrogen-Bonding Motifs and the 1b ₁ Splitting in the X-ray Emission Spectrum of Liquid Water. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(16). 3996–4002. 23 indexed citations

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Dasgupta, Saswata, Eleftherios Lambros, John P. Perdew, & Francesco Paesani. (2021). Elevating density functional theory to chemical accuracy for water simulations through a density-corrected many-body formalism. Nature Communications. 12(1). 71 indexed citations

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Moberg, Daniel R., Daniel M. Becker, U. Buck, et al.. (2019). The end of ice I. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(49). 24413–24419. 55 indexed citations

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Zhuang, Debbie, Marc Riera, Gregory K. Schenter, John L. Fulton, & Francesco Paesani. (2019). Many-Body Effects Determine the Local Hydration Structure of Cs ⁺ in Solution. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(3). 406–412. 57 indexed citations

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Rieth, Adam J., Kelly M. Hunter, Mircea Dincă, & Francesco Paesani. (2019). Hydrogen bonding structure of confined water templated by a metal-organic framework with open metal sites. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4771–4771. 117 indexed citations

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Paesani, Francesco, K. Birgitta Whaley, Gary E. Douberly, & R. E. Miller. (2007). Rovibrational Spectra for the HCCCN·HCN and HCN·HCCCN Binary Complexes in ⁴He Droplets. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 111(31). 7516–7528. 6 indexed citations

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Gianturco, F. A. & Francesco Paesani. (2001). The rovibrational structure of the He-CO complex from a model interaction potential. Molecular Physics. 99(9). 689–698. 19 indexed citations

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