J. B. Torrance

13.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
124 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

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J. B. Torrance is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, J. B. Torrance has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 64 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 48 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in J. B. Torrance's work include Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (45 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (40 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (39 papers). J. B. Torrance is often cited by papers focused on Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (45 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (40 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (39 papers). J. B. Torrance collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and France. J. B. Torrance's co-authors include A. I. Nazzal, Y. Tokura, T. C. Huang, Philippe Lacorre, J. J. Mayerle, S. Parkin, B. A. Scott, T. Arima, V. Y. Lee and E. J. Ansaldo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

J. B. Torrance

124 papers receiving 11.1k 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.

Systematic study of insulator-metal transitions in perovskites RNiO3 (R=Pr,Nd,Sm,Eu) due to closing of charge-transfer gap

1992 878 citations J. B. Torrance, A. I. Nazzal et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
Anomalous Disappearance of High-TcSuperconductivity at High Hole Concentration in MetallicLa2−xSrxCuO4

1988 731 citations J. B. Torrance, Y. Tokura et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
The difference between metallic and insulating salts of tetracyanoquinodimethone (TCNQ): how to design an organic metal

1979 579 citations J. B. Torrance profile →
Discovery of a Neutral-to-Ionic Phase Transition in Organic Materials

1981 559 citations J. B. Torrance, J. J. Mayerle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Broader perspective on the high-temperature superconductingYBa2Cu3Oysystem: The real role of the oxygen content

1988 531 citations Y. Tokura, J. B. Torrance et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
Variation of optical gaps in perovskite-type 3dtransition-metal oxides

1993 519 citations T. Arima, Y. Tokura et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
Neutron-diffraction study ofRNiO3(R=La,Pr,Nd,Sm): Electronically induced structural changes across the metal-insulator transition

1992 459 citations J. B. Torrance et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
Optical properties of the radical cation tetrathiafulvalenium (TTF+) in its mixed-valence and monovalence halide salts

1979 432 citations J. B. Torrance, B. A. Scott et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
J. B. Torrance United States	54	8.2k	5.3k	4.5k	2.1k	1.5k	124	11.5k
R. L. Greene United States	63	11.6k 1.4×	10.3k 2.0×	5.4k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	2.3k 1.5×	324	16.2k
M. Tokumoto Japan	45	5.6k 0.7×	2.6k 0.5×	2.4k 0.5×	2.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	434	9.0k
Peter Day United Kingdom	48	7.8k 0.9×	2.3k 0.4×	3.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	397	10.3k
Hiroshi Sawa Japan	40	3.9k 0.5×	2.6k 0.5×	2.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	837 0.6×	284	6.9k
Reiji Kumai Japan	49	6.2k 0.8×	2.4k 0.5×	5.3k 1.2×	4.1k 2.0×	763 0.5×	235	11.0k
T. T. M. Palstra Netherlands	67	9.8k 1.2×	9.1k 1.7×	8.4k 1.9×	4.4k 2.1×	3.1k 2.1×	230	19.3k
Takehiko Ishiguro Japan	40	4.9k 0.6×	2.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.3×	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	268	6.9k
Shin‐ya Koshihara Japan	49	7.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.2×	9.6k 2.2×	2.9k 1.4×	2.0k 1.3×	234	13.2k
A. F. Garito United States	49	6.1k 0.7×	898 0.2×	3.0k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.7×	191	9.0k
G. A. Sawatzky Netherlands	50	6.5k 0.8×	6.6k 1.2×	7.0k 1.6×	2.5k 1.2×	3.5k 2.4×	128	14.9k

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Katsufuji, T., Y. Okimoto, T. Arima, Y. Tokura, & J. B. Torrance. (1995). Optical spectroscopy of the metal-insulator transition inNdNiO3. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 51(8). 4830–4835. 59 indexed citations

Arima, T., Y. Tokura, H. Takagi, et al.. (1990). Extended family of new Bi-2222 superconducting cuprates Bi2Sr2(RE1−Ce )2Cu2O10+, RE=rare earth. Physica C Superconductivity. 168(1-2). 79–84. 35 indexed citations

Huang, T. C., J. B. Torrance, A. I. Nazzal, & Y. Tokura. (1989). A Study of the Superconducting La _2-x Sr _x CuO ₄ System by X-Ray Powder Diffraction. Powder Diffraction. 4(3). 152–155. 2 indexed citations

Huang, T. C., A. I. Nazzal, Y. Tokura, J. B. Torrance, & Reza Karimi. (1988). Synthesis and X-Ray Powder Diffraction Analysis of a New Metallic (but not Superconducting) Copper Oxide: La _1.67 Sr _0.33 Cu ₂ O ₅. Powder Diffraction. 3(2). 81–83. 3 indexed citations

Tokura, Y., J. B. Torrance, T. C. Huang, & A. I. Nazzal. (1988). Broader perspective on the high-temperature superconductingYBa2Cu3Oysystem: The real role of the oxygen content. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 38(10). 7156–7159. 531 indexed citations breakdown →

Huang, T. C., et al.. (1988). Structural phase transformation in the superconducting YLaxBa2−xCu3O7 compounds. Applied Physics Letters. 52(22). 1901–1903. 11 indexed citations

Tokura, Yoshinori, J. B. Torrance, A. I. Nazzal, T. C. Huang, & C. Ortíz. (1987). Discovery of a new, metallic (but not superconducting) compound in the lanthanum-strontium-copper-oxygen system: La5SrCu6O15. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 109(24). 7555–7557. 23 indexed citations

Collman, James P., et al.. (1986). Optical and conductive properties of pyrazine-bridged iron, ruthenium and osmium octaethylporphyrin coordination polymers. Synthetic Metals. 15(2-3). 129–140. 20 indexed citations

Girlando, Alberto, C. Pecile, & J. B. Torrance. (1985). A key to understanding ionic mixed stacked organic solids: Tetrathiafulvalene-bromanil (TTF-BA). Solid State Communications. 54(9). 753–759. 72 indexed citations

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Walsh, W. M., Fred Wudl, E. Aharon‐Shalom, et al.. (1982). Itinerant-Electron Antiferromagnetism Precursor to Superconductivity in an Organic Conductor. Physical Review Letters. 49(12). 885–888. 45 indexed citations

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Parkin, S., J. C. Scott, J. B. Torrance, & E. M. Engler. (1982). Antiferromagnetic resonance in tetramethyltetrathiafulvalene bromide [(TMTTF)Br2]. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 26(11). 6319–6321. 38 indexed citations

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Torrance, J. B., et al.. (1982). Magnetic properties of an organic Mott insulator. Separate donor and acceptor phase transitions in hexamethylenetetrathiafulvalene tetrafluorotetracyano-quinodimethane (HMTTF-TCNQF4). Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 26(4). 2267–2270. 25 indexed citations

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Mayerle, J. J. & J. B. Torrance. (1981). Segregated stacking in organic charge-transfer complexes: tetramethyltetrathiafulvalene (TMTTF)–bromanil. Acta Crystallographica Section B. 37(11). 2030–2034. 9 indexed citations

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Mayerle, J. J., J. B. Torrance, & J. I. Crowley. (1979). Mixed-stack complexes of tetrathiafulvalene. The structures of the charge-transfer complexes of TTF with chloranil and fluoranil. Acta Crystallographica Section B. 35(12). 2988–2995. 106 indexed citations

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Torrance, J. B., B. A. Scott, & F. B. Kaufman. (1975). Optical properties of charge transfer salts of tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ). Solid State Communications. 17(11). 1369–1373. 248 indexed citations

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Nathan, M. I., F. Holtzberg, J.E. Smith, J. B. Torrance, & J. C. Tsang. (1975). Electronic Raman Scattering and Infrared Absorption in the Samarium Monochalcogenides. Physical Review Letters. 34(8). 467–469. 24 indexed citations

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Tao, L. J., J. B. Torrance, & F. Holtzberg. (1974). Magnetic and structural transitions in NdS, DyS and ErS. Solid State Communications. 15(6). 1025–1029. 6 indexed citations

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Shafer, M. W., J. B. Torrance, & T. Penney. (1972). Correlations of Infrared Absorption, Conductivity, and Stoichiometry in EuO — a New Phase Diagram. AIP conference proceedings. 840–844. 2 indexed citations

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Hay, Kenneth & J. B. Torrance. (1970). Study of Far-Infrared Excitations in Metamagnetic FeCl2· 2H2O. Physical review. B, Solid state. 2(3). 746–754. 34 indexed citations

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Torrance, J. B. & M. Tinkham. (1969). Magnon Bound States in Anisotropic Linear Chains. Physical Review. 187(2). 587–594. 100 indexed citations

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