John W. Cahn

53.6k total citations · 17 hit papers
191 papers, 40.6k citations indexed

About

John W. Cahn is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atmospheric Science and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John W. Cahn has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 40.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Materials Chemistry, 64 papers in Atmospheric Science and 53 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in John W. Cahn's work include Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (65 papers), nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (63 papers) and Microstructure and mechanical properties (39 papers). John W. Cahn is often cited by papers focused on Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (65 papers), nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (63 papers) and Microstructure and mechanical properties (39 papers). John W. Cahn collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Israel. John W. Cahn's co-authors include J. E. Hilliard, Samuel M. Allen, D. Gratias, D. Shechtman, I. A. Blech, F. Lärché, Jean E. Taylor, Y. Mishin, Ryoichi Kikuchi and David W. Hoffman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

John W. Cahn

190 papers receiving 38.5k citations

Hit Papers

Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free E... 1956 2026 1979 2002 1958 1984 1961 1979 1977 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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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.

  1. Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy
    1958 7.7k citations John W. Cahn, J. E. Hilliard The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  2. Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry
    1984 5.3k citations D. Gratias, John W. Cahn et al. profile →
  3. On spinodal decomposition
    1961 2.7k citations John W. Cahn Acta Metallurgica profile →
  4. A microscopic theory for antiphase boundary motion and its application to antiphase domain coarsening
    1979 2.7k citations Samuel M. Allen, John W. Cahn Acta Metallurgica profile →
  5. Critical point wetting
    1977 1.5k citations John W. Cahn The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  6. Phase Separation by Spinodal Decomposition in Isotropic Systems
    1965 1.5k citations John W. Cahn The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  7. Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. III. Nucleation in a Two-Component Incompressible Fluid
    1959 1.5k citations John W. Cahn, J. E. Hilliard The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
  8. The impurity-drag effect in grain boundary motion
    1962 1.2k citations John W. Cahn Acta Metallurgica profile →
  9. The kinetics of grain boundary nucleated reactions
    1956 811 citations John W. Cahn Acta Metallurgica profile →
  10. On spinodal decomposition in cubic crystals
    1962 662 citations John W. Cahn Acta Metallurgica profile →
  11. Coupling grain boundary motion to shear deformation
    2006 661 citations John W. Cahn, Y. Mishin et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  12. Overview no. 41 The interactions of composition and stress in crystalline solids
    1985 500 citations John W. Cahn et al. Acta Metallurgica profile →
  13. Theory of crystal growth and interface motion in crystalline materials
    1960 442 citations John W. Cahn Acta Metallurgica profile →
  14. Indexing of icosahedral quasiperiodic crystals
    1986 440 citations John W. Cahn, D. Gratias et al. profile →
  15. A linear theory of thermochemical equilibrium of solids under stress
    1973 427 citations John W. Cahn et al. Acta Metallurgica profile →
  16. Dendritic and spheroidal growth
    1961 363 citations John W. Cahn et al. Acta Metallurgica profile →
  17. Ground state structures in ordered binary alloys with second neighbor interactions
    1972 355 citations Samuel M. Allen, John W. Cahn Acta Metallurgica profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John W. Cahn United States 68 27.7k 10.8k 7.8k 5.7k 4.8k 191 40.6k
Steven J. Plimpton United States 48 33.0k 1.2× 11.7k 1.1× 3.0k 0.4× 2.7k 0.5× 5.4k 1.1× 150 56.0k
David J. Srolovitz United States 94 21.0k 0.8× 10.7k 1.0× 3.2k 0.4× 3.6k 0.6× 2.8k 0.6× 514 30.5k
M. I. Baskes United States 62 20.3k 0.7× 8.4k 0.8× 4.7k 0.6× 2.1k 0.4× 2.3k 0.5× 233 27.6k
J. S. Langer United States 72 11.0k 0.4× 4.5k 0.4× 3.3k 0.4× 2.3k 0.4× 1.9k 0.4× 171 22.3k
J. P. Hirth United States 76 24.7k 0.9× 16.4k 1.5× 1.8k 0.2× 3.4k 0.6× 1.5k 0.3× 423 33.9k
Alain Karma United States 74 15.4k 0.6× 6.5k 0.6× 3.4k 0.4× 8.1k 1.4× 2.2k 0.5× 260 23.7k
J. E. Hilliard United States 27 7.3k 0.3× 2.5k 0.2× 2.8k 0.4× 1.5k 0.3× 2.2k 0.5× 67 12.6k
Kurt Binder Germany 112 30.3k 1.1× 2.6k 0.2× 6.1k 0.8× 891 0.2× 1.9k 0.4× 959 56.3k
Frank H. Stillinger United States 90 22.7k 0.8× 3.0k 0.3× 3.2k 0.4× 423 0.1× 2.6k 0.5× 400 40.3k
Gary S. Grest United States 87 16.0k 0.6× 3.6k 0.3× 1.4k 0.2× 930 0.2× 3.5k 0.7× 449 31.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mishin, Yu. M. & John W. Cahn. (2016). Thermodynamics of Cottrell atmospheres tested by atomistic simulations. Acta Materialia. 117. 197–206. 32 indexed citations
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Cahn, John W., Y. Mishin, & Akira Suzuki. (2006). Coupling grain boundary motion to shear deformation. Acta Materialia. 54(19). 4953–4975. 661 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cahn, John W.. (2001). Quasicrystals. Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. 106(6). 975–975. 12 indexed citations
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Holm, Elizabeth A., David J. Srolovitz, & John W. Cahn. (1993). Microstructural evolution in two-dimensional two-phase polycrystals. Acta Metallurgica et Materialia. 41(4). 1119–1136. 65 indexed citations
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Boettinger, W. J., Leonid A. Bendersky, F.S. Biancaniello, & John W. Cahn. (1988). Rapid solidification and ordering of B2 and L21 phases in the NiAlNiTi system. Materials Science and Engineering. 98. 273–276. 39 indexed citations
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Cahn, John W., D. Gratias, & B. Mozer. (1988). A 6-D structural model for the icosahedral (Al, Si)-Mn quasicrystal. Journal de physique. 49(7). 1225–1233. 83 indexed citations
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Taylor, Jean E. & John W. Cahn. (1986). A Cusp Singularity in Surfaces That Minimize an Anisotropic Surface Energy. Science. 233(4763). 548–551. 5 indexed citations
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Cahn, John W. & Ryoichi Kikuchi. (1985). Transition layer in a lattice-gas model of a solid-melt interface. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 31(7). 4300–4304. 28 indexed citations
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Cahn, John W.. (1980). Surface stress and the chemical equilibrium of small crystals—I. the case of the isotropic surface. Acta Metallurgica. 28(10). 1333–1338. 174 indexed citations
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Kikuchi, Ryoichi & John W. Cahn. (1980). Grain-boundary melting transition in a two-dimensional lattice-gas model. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 21(5). 1893–1897. 150 indexed citations
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Cahn, John W.. (1977). The energy of martensite due to order inherited from the austenite. Scripta Metallurgica. 11(1). 81–82. 2 indexed citations
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Cahn, John W., et al.. (1975). On invariances in surface thermodynamic properties and their applications to low symmetry crystals. Surface Science. 51(1). 305–309. 27 indexed citations
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Allen, Samuel M. & John W. Cahn. (1972). Ground state structures in ordered binary alloys with second neighbor interactions. Acta Metallurgica. 20(3). 423–433. 355 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cahn, John W.. (1966). A model for connectivity in multiphase structures. Acta Metallurgica. 14(4). 477–480. 19 indexed citations
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Huston, E.L., John W. Cahn, & J. E. Hilliard. (1966). Spinodal decomposition during continuous cooling. Acta Metallurgica. 14(9). 1053–1062. 133 indexed citations
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Cahn, John W.. (1963). Magnetic Aging of Spinodal Alloys. Journal of Applied Physics. 34(12). 3581–3586. 99 indexed citations
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Cahn, John W.. (1959). The kinetics of cellular segregation reactions. Acta Metallurgica. 7(1). 18–28. 336 indexed citations
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Cahn, John W. & J. E. Hilliard. (1958). Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 28(2). 258–267. 7740 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hilliard, J. E. & John W. Cahn. (1958). On the nature of the interface between a solid metal and its melt. Acta Metallurgica. 6(12). 772–774. 41 indexed citations
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Cahn, John W.. (1957). Nucleation on dislocations. Acta Metallurgica. 5(3). 169–172. 296 indexed citations

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