Gustavo E. Scuseria

129.1k total citations · 28 hit papers
488 papers, 101.6k citations indexed

About

Gustavo E. Scuseria is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Gustavo E. Scuseria has authored 488 papers receiving a total of 101.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 355 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 180 papers in Materials Chemistry and 107 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Gustavo E. Scuseria's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (289 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (143 papers) and Graphene research and applications (58 papers). Gustavo E. Scuseria is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (289 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (143 papers) and Graphene research and applications (58 papers). Gustavo E. Scuseria collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and France. Gustavo E. Scuseria's co-authors include Matthias Ernzerhof, Jochen Heyd, John P. Perdew, Oleg A. Vydrov, Viktor N. Staroverov, Jianmin Tao, Michael J. Frisch, Henry F. Schaefer, Artur F. Izmaylov and R. Stratmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Gustavo E. Scuseria

484 papers receiving 99.9k citations

Hit Papers

Hybrid functionals based ... 1988 2026 2000 2013 2003 2008 2003 2006 1998 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k
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  1. Hybrid functionals based on a screened Coulomb potential
    2003 15.5k citations Jochen Heyd, Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  2. Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces
    2008 9.2k citations John P. Perdew, Adrienn Ruzsinszky et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Climbing the Density Functional Ladder: Nonempirical Meta–Generalized Gradient Approximation Designed for Molecules and Solids
    2003 5.8k citations John P. Perdew, Viktor N. Staroverov et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Influence of the exchange screening parameter on the performance of screened hybrid functionals
    2006 5.5k citations Oleg A. Vydrov, Artur F. Izmaylov et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  5. An efficient implementation of time-dependent density-functional theory for the calculation of excitation energies of large molecules
    1998 4.6k citations Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  6. Crystalline Ropes of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes
    1996 4.3k citations Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. profile →
  7. Assessment of the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof exchange-correlation functional
    1999 4.3k citations Matthias Ernzerhof, Gustavo E. Scuseria The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  8. Comparative assessment of a new nonempirical density functional: Molecules and hydrogen-bonded complexes
    2003 2.3k citations Viktor N. Staroverov, Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  9. Efficient hybrid density functional calculations in solids: Assessment of the Heyd–Scuseria–Ernzerhof screened Coulomb hybrid functional
    2004 2.1k citations Jochen Heyd, Gustavo E. Scuseria The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  10. Energy band gaps and lattice parameters evaluated with the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof screened hybrid functional
    2005 1.7k citations Jochen Heyd, Juan E. Peralta et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  11. Assessment of a long-range corrected hybrid functional
    2006 1.5k citations Oleg A. Vydrov, Gustavo E. Scuseria The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  12. An efficient reformulation of the closed-shell coupled cluster single and double excitation (CCSD) equations
    1988 1.5k citations Gustavo E. Scuseria, Henry F. Schaefer et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  13. Electronic Structure and Stability of Semiconducting Graphene Nanoribbons
    2006 1.4k citations Verónica Barone, Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. profile →
  14. Theory and applications of computational chemistry : the first forty years
    2005 1.3k citations Clifford E. Dykstra, Gernot Frenking et al. Elsevier eBooks profile →
  15. Is coupled cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) more computationally intensive than quadratic configuration interaction (QCISD)?
    1989 1.1k citations Gustavo E. Scuseria, Henry F. Schaefer The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  16. C2F,BN, and C nanoshell elasticity fromab initiocomputations
    2001 899 citations Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. profile →
  17. Importance of short-range versus long-range Hartree-Fock exchange for the performance of hybrid density functionals
    2006 851 citations Oleg A. Vydrov, Jochen Heyd et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  18. TD-DFT Performance for the Visible Absorption Spectra of Organic Dyes:  Conventional versus Long-Range Hybrids
    2007 780 citations Gustavo E. Scuseria, Carlo Adamo et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →
  19. Assessment and validation of a screened Coulomb hybrid density functional
    2004 732 citations Jochen Heyd, Gustavo E. Scuseria The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  20. Prescription for the design and selection of density functional approximations: More constraint satisfaction with fewer fits
    2005 677 citations John P. Perdew, Adrienn Ruzsinszky et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  21. Accurate excitation energies from time-dependent density functional theory: Assessing the PBE0 model
    1999 664 citations Carlo Adamo, Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  22. A novel form for the exchange-correlation energy functional
    1998 653 citations Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  23. A new implementation of the full CCSDT model for molecular electronic structure
    1988 571 citations Gustavo E. Scuseria, Henry F. Schaefer profile →
  24. Tests of functionals for systems with fractional electron number
    2007 563 citations Oleg A. Vydrov, Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  25. Ab initio molecular dynamics: Propagating the density matrix with Gaussian orbitals
    2001 514 citations Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  26. The indirect to direct band gap transition in multilayered MoS2 as predicted by screened hybrid density functional theory
    2011 470 citations Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. profile →
  27. Understanding band gaps of solids in generalized Kohn–Sham theory
    2017 431 citations John P. Perdew, Kieron Burke et al. profile →
  28. Uranium Stabilization of C 28 : A Tetravalent Fullerene
    1992 380 citations Gustavo E. Scuseria et al. profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gustavo E. Scuseria United States 114 58.9k 36.8k 23.8k 15.8k 15.8k 488 101.6k
William A. Goddard United States 166 59.3k 1.0× 25.5k 0.7× 29.4k 1.2× 9.5k 0.6× 25.1k 1.6× 1.7k 140.4k
Weitao Yang United States 87 45.5k 0.8× 41.7k 1.1× 21.2k 0.9× 15.9k 1.0× 47.4k 3.0× 416 139.0k
Stefan Grimme Germany 128 71.0k 1.2× 37.7k 1.0× 31.9k 1.3× 13.2k 0.8× 53.5k 3.4× 817 171.5k
L. J. Sham United States 72 33.7k 0.6× 34.9k 0.9× 18.9k 0.8× 10.8k 0.7× 5.2k 0.3× 267 70.8k
Frank Neese Germany 130 30.6k 0.5× 19.3k 0.5× 8.1k 0.3× 20.4k 1.3× 20.7k 1.3× 668 85.7k
Martin Head‐Gordon United States 114 21.8k 0.4× 43.2k 1.2× 10.9k 0.5× 4.7k 0.3× 15.0k 0.9× 684 77.7k
Kieron Burke United States 59 140.3k 2.4× 49.1k 1.3× 66.5k 2.8× 40.3k 2.6× 16.2k 1.0× 179 217.7k
Reinhart Ahlrichs Germany 79 30.2k 0.5× 27.8k 0.8× 10.1k 0.4× 11.5k 0.7× 31.6k 2.0× 324 91.0k
W. Kohn United States 65 35.7k 0.6× 39.8k 1.1× 18.2k 0.8× 11.5k 0.7× 6.6k 0.4× 156 79.4k
Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 32 142.9k 2.4× 45.4k 1.2× 68.6k 2.9× 39.8k 2.5× 15.7k 1.0× 92 216.1k

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All Works

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Henderson, Thomas M., et al.. (2025). Scalable Implementation of Mean-Field and Correlation Methods Based on Lie-Algebraic Similarity Transformation of Spin Hamiltonians in the Jordan–Wigner Representation. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 21(21). 10988–11003. 1 indexed citations
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Massaccesi, Gustavo E., Ofelia B. Oña, P. Capuzzi, et al.. (2024). Determining the N-Representability of a Reduced Density Matrix via Unitary Evolution and Stochastic Sampling. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(22). 9968–9976. 1 indexed citations
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Henderson, Thomas M., et al.. (2023). Symmetry-projected cluster mean-field theory applied to spin systems. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(8). 9 indexed citations
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Jiménez-Hoyos, Carlos A., et al.. (2022). Coupled Cluster and Perturbation Theories Based on a Cluster Mean-Field Reference Applied to Strongly Correlated Spin Systems. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18(7). 4293–4303. 16 indexed citations
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Henderson, Thomas M., et al.. (2020). Geminal Replacement Models Based on AGP. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 16(10). 6358–6367. 22 indexed citations
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Jiménez-Hoyos, Carlos A., et al.. (2015). Lie algebraic similarity transformed Hamiltonians for lattice model systems. Physical Review B. 91(4). 23 indexed citations
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Henderson, Thomas M., Ireneusz W. Bulik, & Gustavo E. Scuseria. (2015). Pair extended coupled cluster doubles. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 142(21). 214116–214116. 51 indexed citations
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Labat, Frédèric, Claude Pouchan, Carlo Adamo, & Gustavo E. Scuseria. (2011). Role of nonlocal exchange in molecular crystals: The case of two proton‐ordered phases of ice. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 32(10). 2177–2185. 14 indexed citations
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Cancès, Éric, Gabriel Stoltz, Gustavo E. Scuseria, Viktor N. Staroverov, & Ernest R. Davidson. (2009). Local Exchange Potentials for Electronic Structure Calculations. ArXiv.org. 2(1). 1–42. 5 indexed citations
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Brothers, Edward N., et al.. (2008). Accurate solid-state band gaps via screened hybrid electronic structure calculations. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 129(1). 11102–11102. 148 indexed citations
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Perdew, John P., Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Gábor I. Csonka, et al.. (2008). Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces. Physical Review Letters. 100(13). 136406–136406. 9195 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nakai, Hiromi, Jochen Heyd, & Gustavo E. Scuseria. (2006). Periodic-Boundary-Condition Calculation using Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof Screened Coulomb Hybrid Functional: Electronic Structure of Anatase and Rutile TiO2. Journal of Computer Chemistry Japan. 5(1). 7–18. 20 indexed citations
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Staroverov, Viktor N., Gustavo E. Scuseria, & Ernest R. Davidson. (2006). Effective local potentials for orbital-dependent density functionals. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 125(8). 81104–81104. 69 indexed citations
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Dykstra, Clifford E., Gernot Frenking, Kwang S. Kim, & Gustavo E. Scuseria. (2005). Theory and applications of computational chemistry : the first forty years. Elsevier eBooks. 1299 indexed citations breakdown →
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Heyd, Jochen & Gustavo E. Scuseria. (2004). Efficient hybrid density functional calculations in solids: Assessment of the Heyd–Scuseria–Ernzerhof screened Coulomb hybrid functional. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 121(3). 1187–1192. 2104 indexed citations breakdown →
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Heyd, Jochen, Gustavo E. Scuseria, & Matthias Ernzerhof. (2003). Hybrid functionals based on a screened Coulomb potential. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 118(18). 8207–8215. 15547 indexed citations breakdown →
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Adamo, Carlo, Matthias Ernzerhof, & Gustavo E. Scuseria. (2000). The meta-GGA functional: Thermochemistry with a kinetic energy density dependent exchange-correlation functional. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 112(6). 2643–2649. 103 indexed citations
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Ernzerhof, Matthias & Gustavo E. Scuseria. (1999). Assessment of the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof exchange-correlation functional. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 110(11). 5029–5036. 4277 indexed citations breakdown →
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Scuseria, Gustavo E. & Henry F. Schaefer. (1989). The photodissociation of formaldehyde: A coupled cluster study including connected triple excitations of the transition state barrier height for H2CO→H2+CO. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 90(7). 3629–3636. 105 indexed citations
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Scuseria, Gustavo E., Andrew C. Scheiner, Timothy J. Lee, Julia E. Rice, & Henry F. Schaefer. (1987). The closed-shell coupled cluster single and double excitation (CCSD) model for the description of electron correlation. A comparison with configuration interaction (CISD) results. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 86(5). 2881–2890. 307 indexed citations

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