Karen Johnston

2.3k total citations
60 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Karen Johnston is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Johnston has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Materials Chemistry, 16 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Karen Johnston's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (12 papers), Crystallization and Solubility Studies (8 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (7 papers). Karen Johnston is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (12 papers), Crystallization and Solubility Studies (8 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (7 papers). Karen Johnston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Karen Johnston's co-authors include Vagelis Harmandaris, Karin M. Rabe, Ronen Marmorstein, Yi Mo, Michael W. Finnis, R. M. Nieminen, A. T. Paxton, Martin R. Castell, Jeffrey B. Neaton and Adrienne Clements and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Karen Johnston

58 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karen Johnston United Kingdom 26 1.1k 451 428 358 309 60 1.9k
Fang Lu United States 18 1.3k 1.2× 606 1.3× 547 1.3× 626 1.7× 283 0.9× 50 2.4k
Weiwei Gao China 27 1.1k 1.1× 284 0.6× 635 1.5× 715 2.0× 547 1.8× 84 2.9k
Ying Bao China 25 609 0.6× 568 1.3× 297 0.7× 490 1.4× 195 0.6× 88 1.5k
Li Yao China 26 647 0.6× 389 0.9× 346 0.8× 598 1.7× 311 1.0× 139 2.3k
Chenxuan Wang China 23 943 0.9× 257 0.6× 695 1.6× 540 1.5× 482 1.6× 67 2.2k
Hao Zhu China 32 2.3k 2.1× 378 0.8× 615 1.4× 573 1.6× 737 2.4× 89 3.8k
Denis Gentili Italy 29 1.2k 1.1× 556 1.2× 232 0.5× 611 1.7× 792 2.6× 85 2.5k
Bappaditya Samanta United States 20 1.1k 1.0× 499 1.1× 325 0.8× 701 2.0× 381 1.2× 25 2.1k
A. Ratuszna Poland 25 1.2k 1.1× 564 1.3× 142 0.3× 343 1.0× 497 1.6× 84 1.8k
Alessia Pallaoro United States 22 685 0.6× 552 1.2× 750 1.8× 883 2.5× 317 1.0× 39 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Karen Johnston

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Fields of papers citing papers by Karen Johnston

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen Johnston

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Šefčı́k, Ján, et al.. (2025). Uncovering the vibrational modes of zwitterion glycine in aqueous solution. Vibrational Spectroscopy. 137. 103783–103783.
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Kerr, Shona M., Lucija Klarić, Karen Johnston, et al.. (2025). Actionable genetic variants in 4,198 Scottish participants from the Orkney and Shetland founder populations and implementation of return of results. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(4). 793–807.
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Mulheran, Paul A., et al.. (2024). The impact of plasticisers on crystal nucleation, growth and melting in linear polymers. Polymer. 304. 127095–127095. 6 indexed citations
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Johnston, Karen, et al.. (2023). Investigation of vibrational changes due to adsorption of glycine on gold. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. 1227. 114224–114224. 2 indexed citations
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Mulheran, Paul A., et al.. (2023). Assessment of GAFF and OPLS Force Fields for Urea: Crystal and Aqueous Solution Properties. Crystal Growth & Design. 24(1). 143–158. 10 indexed citations
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Mulheran, Paul A., et al.. (2022). Tuning Interfacial Concentration Enhancement through Dispersion Interactions to Facilitate Heterogeneous Nucleation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(38). 16387–16400. 1 indexed citations
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Meekes, Hugo, Paul Tinnemans, Elias Vlieg, et al.. (2022). Comparing and Quantifying the Efficiency of Cocrystal Screening Methods for Praziquantel. Crystal Growth & Design. 22(9). 5511–5525. 16 indexed citations
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Dupray, Valérie, Gérard Coquerel, Karen Johnston, et al.. (2021). Cocrystals of Praziquantel: Discovery by Network-Based Link Prediction. Crystal Growth & Design. 21(6). 3428–3437. 36 indexed citations
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Laing, Stacey, et al.. (2021). Effect of glycine on aggregation of citrate-functionalised gold nanoparticles and SERS measurements. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 621. 126523–126523. 15 indexed citations
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Mulheran, Paul A., et al.. (2019). Conundrum of γ glycine nucleation revisited: to stir or not to stir?. CrystEngComm. 21(13). 2234–2243. 23 indexed citations
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Hannah, Stuart, Javier Cardona, Dimitrios A. Lamprou, et al.. (2016). Interplay between Vacuum-Grown Monolayers of Alkylphosphonic Acids and the Performance of Organic Transistors Based on Dinaphtho[2,3-b:2′,3′-f]thieno[3,2-b]thiophene. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 8(38). 25405–25414. 16 indexed citations
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Peköz, Rengi̇n, Karen Johnston, & Davide Donadio. (2014). Tuning the Adsorption of Aromatic Molecules on Platinum via Halogenation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 118(12). 6235–6241. 19 indexed citations
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Teo, Ian, Benoît Marteyn, Teresa S. Barata, et al.. (2012). Preventing acute gut wall damage in infectious diarrhoeas with glycosylated dendrimers. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 4(9). 866–881. 33 indexed citations
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Johnston, Karen, Andris Guļāns, Tuukka Verho, & M. J. Puska. (2010). Adsorption structures of phenol on theSi(001)−(2×1)surface calculated using density functional theory. Physical Review B. 81(23). 15 indexed citations
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Johnston, Karen, Jesper Kleis, Bengt I. Lundqvist, & R. M. Nieminen. (2008). Influence of van der Waals forces on the adsorption structure of benzene on silicon studied using density functional theory. Physical Review B. 77(12). 68 indexed citations
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Johnston, Karen, Zhong‐Tao Jiang, Ian D. Collier, et al.. (2007). Concise routes to pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridin-3-yl pyridazin-3-ones. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 6(1). 175–186. 27 indexed citations
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Johnston, Karen & Ronen Marmorstein. (2003). Co-Expression of Proteins in E. coli Using Dual Expression Vectors. Humana Press eBooks. 205. 205–214. 4 indexed citations
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Marmorstein, Ronen, et al.. (2000). Structure of the elk-1-DNA complex reveals how DNA-distal residues affect ETS domain recognition of DNA.. Nature Structural Biology. 7(4). 292–297. 83 indexed citations
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Mo, Yi, et al.. (1998). Structures of SAP-1 Bound to DNA Targets from the E74 and c-fos Promoters. Molecular Cell. 2(2). 201–212. 91 indexed citations

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