Iris W. Tam

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Iris W. Tam is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Iris W. Tam has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 3 papers in Materials Chemistry and 2 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Iris W. Tam's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (4 papers), Graphene research and applications (2 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (2 papers). Iris W. Tam is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (4 papers), Graphene research and applications (2 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (2 papers). Iris W. Tam collaborates with scholars based in United States. Iris W. Tam's co-authors include Colin Nuckolls, Jennifer E. Klare, Latha Venkataraman, Michael L. Steigerwald, Mark S. Hybertsen, Ronald Breslow, Jiaming Yan, Meninder Purewal, Byung Hee Hong and Stephen O’Brien and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Iris W. Tam

5 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Single-Molecule Circuits with Well-Defined Molecular Conductance

2006 715 citations Latha Venkataraman, Jennifer E. Klare et al. Nano Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Iris W. Tam United States	5	1.1k	563	395	315	156	5	1.2k
R. Ochs Germany	9	1.3k 1.2×	783 1.4×	323 0.8×	340 1.1×	190 1.2×	16	1.4k
Heejun Jeong South Korea	16	1.0k 0.9×	498 0.9×	377 1.0×	290 0.9×	130 0.8×	40	1.2k
Murat Gülçür United Kingdom	9	1.0k 1.0×	571 1.0×	335 0.8×	275 0.9×	122 0.8×	14	1.1k
Brian Capozzi United States	10	1.0k 0.9×	521 0.9×	311 0.8×	224 0.7×	133 0.9×	11	1.1k
Jonathan R. Widawsky United States	15	1.2k 1.2×	720 1.3×	466 1.2×	299 0.9×	122 0.8×	17	1.4k
Marius Bürkle Germany	18	1.1k 1.0×	650 1.2×	461 1.2×	270 0.9×	126 0.8×	22	1.3k
Andrea Vezzoli United Kingdom	19	1.0k 1.0×	502 0.9×	389 1.0×	338 1.1×	157 1.0×	57	1.2k
David C. Milán United Kingdom	19	840 0.8×	334 0.6×	329 0.8×	193 0.6×	141 0.9×	36	1.0k
Jueting Zheng China	22	1.1k 1.0×	490 0.9×	437 1.1×	370 1.2×	157 1.0×	39	1.4k
M. Magoga France	6	1.1k 1.0×	705 1.3×	316 0.8×	220 0.7×	154 1.0×	6	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Iris W. Tam

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Iris W. Tam

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Iris W. Tam. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Iris W. Tam based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Iris W. Tam. Iris W. Tam is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Guo, Xuefeng, Joshua P. Small, Jennifer E. Klare, et al.. (2006). Covalently Bridging Gaps in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Conducting Molecules. Science. 311(5759). 356–359. 427 indexed citations

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Venkataraman, Latha, Jennifer E. Klare, Iris W. Tam, et al.. (2006). Single-Molecule Circuits with Well-Defined Molecular Conductance. Nano Letters. 6(3). 458–462. 715 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tam, Iris W., Jiaming Yan, & Ronald Breslow. (2005). An 11 nm Molecular Wire that Switches Electrochemically between an Insulating and a Fully Conjugated Conducting State. Organic Letters. 8(2). 183–185. 26 indexed citations

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Bong, Dennis, Iris W. Tam, & Ronald Breslow. (2004). Oligothiophene Isocyanides for Platinum-Based Molecular Electronic Applications. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 126(38). 11796–11797. 30 indexed citations

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Tam, Iris W., et al.. (2003). A Forbidden Rearrangement. Organic Letters. 5(19). 3407–3409. 15 indexed citations

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