James Kirkpatrick

17.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
50 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

James Kirkpatrick is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, James Kirkpatrick has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 20 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 11 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in James Kirkpatrick's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (32 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (19 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (13 papers). James Kirkpatrick is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (32 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (19 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (13 papers). James Kirkpatrick collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. James Kirkpatrick's co-authors include Demis Hassabis, Jenny Nelson, Denis Andrienko, Guillaume Desjardins, Razvan Pascanu, Andrei A. Rusu, Raia Hadsell, John Quan, Neil C. Rabinowitz and Dharshan Kumaran and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James Kirkpatrick

49 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks

2017 3.6k citations James Kirkpatrick, Razvan Pascanu et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning

2020 2.0k citations Andrew Senior, John Jumper et al. Nature profile →
Indacenodithiophene Semiconducting Polymers for High-Performance, Air-Stable Transistors

2010 535 citations Weimin Zhang, Jeremy Smith et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Towards high charge-carrier mobilities by rational design of the shape and periphery of discotics

2009 527 citations Xinliang Feng, Valentina Marcon et al. Nature Materials profile →
Pushing the frontiers of density functionals by solving the fractional electron problem

2021 243 citations James Kirkpatrick, David H. P. Turban et al. Science profile →
Protein structure prediction using multiple deep neural networks in the 13th Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP13)

2019 208 citations Andrew Senior, John Jumper et al. profile →
Knowledge-integrated machine learning for materials: lessons from gameplaying and robotics

2023 94 citations James Kirkpatrick et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Kirkpatrick United Kingdom	32	3.7k	3.0k	2.0k	1.8k	1.6k	50	10.3k
Abhishek Kumar India	51	2.4k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	809 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	607 0.4×	482	11.5k
Xuying Liu China	39	2.5k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	966 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	775 0.5×	244	8.1k
Shi‐Xia Liu Switzerland	59	2.3k 0.6×	2.8k 0.9×	295 0.1×	2.6k 1.4×	667 0.4×	366	12.0k
K. Saláma Saudi Arabia	68	8.4k 2.3×	592 0.2×	1.1k 0.6×	4.2k 2.3×	1.3k 0.8×	650	18.1k
Fenghua Li China	47	3.4k 0.9×	569 0.2×	1.1k 0.6×	3.5k 1.9×	1.3k 0.8×	300	9.1k
Liang Xiao China	63	6.1k 1.7×	2.3k 0.8×	275 0.1×	1.8k 0.9×	300 0.2×	403	13.7k
Yu Wang China	55	6.5k 1.8×	1.9k 0.6×	155 0.1×	831 0.5×	293 0.2×	664	11.9k
Feng Zhou United States	52	813 0.2×	1.3k 0.4×	280 0.1×	855 0.5×	903 0.6×	263	8.9k
M. R. James Australia	45	1.2k 0.3×	2.7k 0.9×	384 0.2×	964 0.5×	644 0.4×	354	8.4k
Ananth Grama United States	38	1.2k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	176 0.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	190	8.2k

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Kirkpatrick, James, David H. P. Turban, Alexander L. Gaunt, et al.. (2021). Pushing the frontiers of density functionals by solving the fractional electron problem. Science. 374(6573). 1385–1389. 243 indexed citations breakdown →

Kirkpatrick, James, Leon C. Camenzind, Liuqi Yu, et al.. (2020). Machine learning enables completely automatic tuning of a quantum device faster than human experts. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4161–4161. 56 indexed citations

Senior, Andrew, John Jumper, James Kirkpatrick, et al.. (2020). Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning. Nature. 577(7792). 706–710. 2026 indexed citations breakdown →

Kirkpatrick, James, Razvan Pascanu, Neil C. Rabinowitz, et al.. (2017). Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(13). 3521–3526. 3594 indexed citations breakdown →

Few, Sheridan, et al.. (2017). The impact of chemical structure and molecular packing on the electronic polarisation of fullerene arrays. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(28). 18709–18720. 5 indexed citations

Frost, Jarvist M., James Kirkpatrick, Thomas Kirchartz, & Jenny Nelson. (2014). Parameter free calculation of the subgap density of states in poly(3-hexylthiophene). Faraday Discussions. 174. 255–266. 26 indexed citations

Welborn, Valerie Vaissier, Piers R. F. Barnes, James Kirkpatrick, & Jenny Nelson. (2013). Influence of polar medium on the reorganization energy of charge transfer between dyes in a dye sensitized film. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(13). 4804–4804. 83 indexed citations

Belton, C., Alexander L. Kanibolotsky, James Kirkpatrick, et al.. (2013). Location, Location, Location ‐ Strategic Positioning of 2,1,3‐Benzothiadiazole Units within Trigonal Quaterfluorene‐Truxene Star‐Shaped Structures. Advanced Functional Materials. 23(22). 2792–2804. 66 indexed citations

Rühle, Victor, Alexandr Lukyanov, Falk May, et al.. (2011). Microscopic Simulations of Charge Transport in Disordered Organic Semiconductors. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 7(10). 3335–3345. 344 indexed citations

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Kirkpatrick, James, Panagiotis E. Keivanidis, Annalisa Bruno, et al.. (2011). Ultrafast Transient Optical Studies of Charge Pair Generation and Recombination in Poly-3-Hexylthiophene(P3ht):[6,6]Phenyl C61 Butyric Methyl Acid Ester (PCBM) Blend Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 115(51). 15174–15180. 28 indexed citations

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Soon, Ying Woan, Tracey M. Clarke, Weimin Zhang, et al.. (2011). Energy versuselectron transfer in organic solar cells: a comparison of the photophysics of two indenofluorene: fullerene blend films. Chemical Science. 2(6). 1111–1111. 40 indexed citations

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Baumeier, Björn, James Kirkpatrick, & Denis Andrienko. (2010). Density-functional based determination of intermolecular charge transfer properties for large-scale morphologies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 12(36). 11103–11103. 235 indexed citations

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Zhang, Weimin, Jeremy Smith, Scott E. Watkins, et al.. (2010). Indacenodithiophene Semiconducting Polymers for High-Performance, Air-Stable Transistors. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(33). 11437–11439. 535 indexed citations breakdown →

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Andrienko, Denis, Xinliang Feng, Valentina Marcon, et al.. (2009). Rational design of the shape and periphery of discotics: a synthetic way towards high charge carrier mobilities. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Nelson, Jenny, et al.. (2009). Modeling Charge Transport in Organic Photovoltaic Materials. Accounts of Chemical Research. 42(11). 1768–1778. 225 indexed citations

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Feng, Xinliang, Valentina Marcon, Wojciech Pisula, et al.. (2009). Towards high charge-carrier mobilities by rational design of the shape and periphery of discotics. Nature Materials. 8(5). 421–426. 527 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Weimin, Jeremy Smith, Rick Hamilton, et al.. (2009). Systematic Improvement in Charge Carrier Mobility of Air Stable Triarylamine Copolymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(31). 10814–10815. 192 indexed citations

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Rühle, Victor, James Kirkpatrick, Kurt Kremer, & Denis Andrienko. (2008). Coarse‐grained modelling of polypyrrole morphologies. physica status solidi (b). 245(5). 844–848. 16 indexed citations

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Kirkpatrick, James, Valentina Marcon, Kurt Kremer, Jenny Nelson, & Denis Andrienko. (2008). Columnar mesophases of hexabenzocoronene derivatives. II. Charge carrier mobility. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 129(9). 94506–94506. 60 indexed citations

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Kirkpatrick, James & Jenny Nelson. (2005). Theoretical study of the transfer integral and density of states in spiro-linked triphenylamine derivatives. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 123(8). 84703–84703. 36 indexed citations

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