Kostya Trachenko

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
128 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Kostya Trachenko is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kostya Trachenko has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Materials Chemistry, 43 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 42 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Kostya Trachenko's work include Material Dynamics and Properties (51 papers), Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (42 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (34 papers). Kostya Trachenko is often cited by papers focused on Material Dynamics and Properties (51 papers), Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (42 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (34 papers). Kostya Trachenko collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and United States. Kostya Trachenko's co-authors include Martin T. Dove, В. В. Бражкин, Ilian T. Todorov, William R. Smith, V. N. Ryzhov, A. G. Lyapin, Yu. D. Fomin, Ekhard K. H. Salje, Dima Bolmatov and E. N. Tsiok and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kostya Trachenko

124 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

DL_POLY_3: new dimensions in molecular dynamics simulatio... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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. DL_POLY_3: new dimensions in molecular dynamics simulations via massive parallelism
    2006 956 citations Ilian T. Todorov, Kostya Trachenko et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kostya Trachenko United Kingdom 39 3.1k 1.3k 1.1k 952 779 128 5.0k
В. В. Бражкин Russia 39 4.5k 1.4× 1.6k 1.3× 1.8k 1.6× 1.1k 1.2× 1.0k 1.3× 351 6.5k
Leslie V. Woodcock United Kingdom 30 2.7k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 335 0.3× 808 0.8× 452 0.6× 101 4.0k
Federico A. Gorelli Italy 32 1.6k 0.5× 933 0.7× 1.3k 1.2× 641 0.7× 151 0.2× 97 3.3k
Mario Santoro Italy 34 1.8k 0.6× 957 0.8× 1.5k 1.3× 819 0.9× 135 0.2× 134 3.8k
Nicolás Giovambattista United States 41 3.1k 1.0× 2.1k 1.7× 295 0.3× 1.8k 1.9× 401 0.5× 102 5.1k
Chris J. Benmore United States 53 5.5k 1.8× 1.1k 0.9× 1.6k 1.5× 1.9k 2.0× 3.1k 4.0× 345 9.9k
K. Knorr Germany 37 3.4k 1.1× 871 0.7× 357 0.3× 1.2k 1.2× 711 0.9× 220 5.3k
Brian B. Laird United States 38 3.2k 1.0× 1.0k 0.8× 176 0.2× 1.1k 1.1× 301 0.4× 122 5.0k
B. Guillot France 35 1.3k 0.4× 1.2k 0.9× 818 0.7× 2.1k 2.2× 641 0.8× 82 4.5k
Sandro Scandolo Italy 42 3.4k 1.1× 743 0.6× 2.0k 1.9× 2.0k 2.1× 414 0.5× 154 6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kostya Trachenko

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Todorov, Ilian T., Zi‐Kui Liu, Shun‐Li Shang, et al.. (2025). Thermal Conductivity and Thermal Diffusivity of Molten Salts: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Fundamental Bounds. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 129(8). 2271–2279. 2 indexed citations
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Shang, Shun‐Li, et al.. (2025). Thermodynamic modeling of the LiCl-KCl-LaCl3 system with Bayesian model selection and uncertainty quantification. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 432. 127811–127811.
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Trachenko, Kostya, et al.. (2025). Upper bounds on the highest phonon frequency and superconducting temperature from fundamental physical constants. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 37(16). 165401–165401. 5 indexed citations
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Trachenko, Kostya. (2024). Theory of melting lines. Physical review. E. 109(3). 34122–34122. 5 indexed citations
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Joseph, Kitheri, et al.. (2024). High energy radiation tolerance of iron phosphate glasses: Molecular dynamics study. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 596. 155057–155057.
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Todorov, Ilian T., Zi‐Kui Liu, Shun‐Li Shang, et al.. (2024). Thermodynamics and transport in molten chloride salts and their mixtures. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(3). 1604–1615. 4 indexed citations
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Trachenko, Kostya. (2023). Theory of Liquids. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 22 indexed citations
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Todorov, Ilian T., et al.. (2023). Fast dynamics and high effective dimensionality of liquid fluidity. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 15664–15664. 2 indexed citations
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Todorov, Ilian T., et al.. (2021). Radiation damage effects on helium diffusion in zircon. ePubs (Science and Technology Facilities Council, Research Councils UK). 3 indexed citations
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Jensen, Anders C. S., Manh Duc Le, Martin T. Dove, et al.. (2020). Collective modes and gapped momentum states in liquid Ga: Experiment, theory, and simulation. Physical review. B.. 101(21). 26 indexed citations
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Dove, Martin T., et al.. (2019). The nature of collective excitations and their crossover at extreme supercritical conditions. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 755–755. 6 indexed citations
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Trachenko, Kostya. (2019). Quantum dissipation in a scalar field theory with gapped momentum states. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6766–6766. 9 indexed citations
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Baggioli, Matteo & Kostya Trachenko. (2018). Solidity of liquids: How Holography knows it. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations
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Trachenko, Kostya. (2017). Lagrangian formulation and symmetrical description of liquid dynamics. Physical review. E. 96(6). 62134–62134. 23 indexed citations
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Yang, Chunlei, et al.. (2017). Direct links between dynamical, thermodynamic, and structural properties of liquids: Modeling results. Physical review. E. 95(3). 32116–32116. 23 indexed citations
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Trachenko, Kostya & В. В. Бражкин. (2013). Duality of liquids. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 2188–2188. 33 indexed citations
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Bolmatov, Dima, В. В. Бражкин, & Kostya Trachenko. (2013). Thermodynamic behaviour of supercritical matter. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2331–2331. 116 indexed citations
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Andritsos, Eleftherios I., Eva Zarkadoula, Anthony E. Phillips, et al.. (2013). The heat capacity of matter beyond the Dulong–Petit value. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 25(23). 235401–235401. 100 indexed citations
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Бражкин, В. В., Yu. D. Fomin, A. G. Lyapin, V. N. Ryzhov, & Kostya Trachenko. (2012). Two liquid states of matter: A dynamic line on a phase diagram. Physical Review E. 85(3). 31203–31203. 218 indexed citations
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Trachenko, Kostya, В. В. Бражкин, O. B. Tsiok, Martin T. Dove, & Ekhard K. H. Salje. (2007). Pressure-Induced Structural Transformation in Radiation-Amorphized Zircon. Physical Review Letters. 98(13). 135502–135502. 15 indexed citations

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