James McClain

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

James McClain is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, James McClain has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 5 papers in Materials Chemistry and 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in James McClain's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (6 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (3 papers) and Graphene research and applications (2 papers). James McClain is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (6 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (3 papers) and Graphene research and applications (2 papers). James McClain collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium. James McClain's co-authors include Garnet Kin‐Lic Chan, Timothy C. Berkelbach, Qiming Sun, Elvira R. Sayfutyarova, Zhendong Li, George H. Booth, Sandeep Sharma, Junzi Liu, Nick S. Blunt and Sebastian Wouters and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C and Chemical Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

James McClain

11 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

PySCF: the Python‐based simulations of chemistry framework

2017 1.1k citations Qiming Sun, Timothy C. Berkelbach et al. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James McClain United States	10	1.1k	591	304	173	170	11	1.6k
Elvira R. Sayfutyarova United States	11	979 0.9×	505 0.9×	297 1.0×	197 1.1×	95 0.6×	18	1.5k
Junzi Liu United States	15	1.1k 1.0×	537 0.9×	287 0.9×	226 1.3×	98 0.6×	26	1.8k
Sheng Guo China	13	1.0k 1.0×	633 1.1×	275 0.9×	205 1.2×	146 0.9×	30	1.9k
Sebastian Wouters Belgium	13	1.5k 1.3×	552 0.9×	345 1.1×	311 1.8×	289 1.7×	20	2.1k
Adam Holmes United States	11	916 0.8×	330 0.6×	180 0.6×	223 1.3×	134 0.8×	18	1.2k
Alex J. W. Thom United Kingdom	21	1.2k 1.1×	441 0.7×	136 0.4×	233 1.3×	215 1.3×	61	1.7k
Nicholas J. Mayhall United States	26	1.4k 1.3×	507 0.9×	1.0k 3.4×	270 1.6×	82 0.5×	60	2.3k
Diptarka Hait United States	19	999 0.9×	446 0.8×	146 0.5×	214 1.2×	45 0.3×	42	1.6k
Qiming Sun United States	21	1.9k 1.7×	881 1.5×	395 1.3×	450 2.6×	297 1.7×	38	2.8k
James S. Spencer United Kingdom	17	702 0.6×	395 0.7×	82 0.3×	90 0.5×	178 1.0×	26	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James McClain

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All Works

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Gao, Yang, Qiming Sun, Jason M. Yu, et al.. (2020). Electronic structure of bulk manganese oxide and nickel oxide from coupled cluster theory. Physical review. B.. 101(16). 30 indexed citations

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Zhu, Tianyu, Carlos A. Jiménez-Hoyos, James McClain, Timothy C. Berkelbach, & Garnet Kin‐Lic Chan. (2019). Coupled-cluster impurity solvers for dynamical mean-field theory. Physical review. B.. 100(11). 40 indexed citations

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Mardirossian, Narbe, James McClain, & Garnet Kin‐Lic Chan. (2018). Lowering of the complexity of quantum chemistry methods by choice of representation. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 148(4). 44106–44106. 21 indexed citations

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Sun, Qiming, Timothy C. Berkelbach, Nick S. Blunt, et al.. (2017). PySCF: the Python‐based simulations of chemistry framework. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science. 8(1). 1127 indexed citations breakdown →

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McClain, James, Qiming Sun, Garnet Kin‐Lic Chan, & Timothy C. Berkelbach. (2017). Gaussian-Based Coupled-Cluster Theory for the Ground-State and Band Structure of Solids. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 13(3). 1209–1218. 176 indexed citations

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Babbush, Ryan, Nathan Wiebe, Jarrod R. McClean, et al.. (2017). Low Depth Quantum Simulation of Electronic Structure. arXiv (Cornell University). 2018. 5 indexed citations

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Sun, Qiming, Timothy C. Berkelbach, James McClain, & Garnet Kin‐Lic Chan. (2017). Gaussian and plane-wave mixed density fitting for periodic systems. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 147(16). 164119–164119. 68 indexed citations

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McClain, James, Johannes Lischner, Thomas J. Watson, et al.. (2016). Spectral functions of the uniform electron gas via coupled-cluster theory and comparison to theGWand related approximations. Physical review. B.. 93(23). 67 indexed citations

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Schrier, Joshua & James McClain. (2011). Thermally-driven isotope separation across nanoporous graphene. Chemical Physics Letters. 521. 118–124. 58 indexed citations

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McClain, James & Joshua Schrier. (2010). Multiple Exciton Generation in Graphene Nanostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 114(34). 14332–14338. 19 indexed citations

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Fenley, Márcia O., et al.. (2009). Using Correlated Monte Carlo Sampling for Efficiently Solving the Linearized Poisson−Boltzmann Equation Over a Broad Range of Salt Concentration. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 6(1). 300–314. 11 indexed citations

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