Leigh Weston

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Leigh Weston is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Leigh Weston has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Materials Chemistry, 5 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Leigh Weston's work include Machine Learning in Materials Science (4 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (3 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (3 papers). Leigh Weston is often cited by papers focused on Machine Learning in Materials Science (4 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (3 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (3 papers). Leigh Weston collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Belgium. Leigh Weston's co-authors include Kristin A. Persson, Vahe Tshitoyan, Olga Kononova, John Dagdelen, Gerbrand Ceder, Anubhav Jain, Chris G. Van de Walle, Ziqin Rong, Alexander Dunn and Darshana Wickramaratne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Applied Physics and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Leigh Weston

16 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from materials science literature
    2019 698 citations Vahe Tshitoyan, John Dagdelen et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leigh Weston United States 11 1.1k 384 248 173 158 16 1.5k
Vahe Tshitoyan United States 10 954 0.9× 271 0.7× 336 1.4× 129 0.7× 248 1.6× 12 1.5k
Alexander Dunn United States 11 1.4k 1.2× 357 0.9× 335 1.4× 96 0.6× 304 1.9× 14 2.0k
Anna M. Hiszpanski United States 19 740 0.7× 529 1.4× 114 0.5× 145 0.8× 120 0.8× 35 1.3k
Tanjin He United States 19 1.1k 1.0× 315 0.8× 177 0.7× 66 0.4× 178 1.1× 27 1.7k
John Dagdelen United States 9 1.0k 0.9× 232 0.6× 392 1.6× 55 0.3× 221 1.4× 11 1.7k
Haoyan Huo United States 15 880 0.8× 206 0.5× 232 0.9× 67 0.4× 212 1.3× 18 1.1k
A. Gilad Kusne United States 18 1.2k 1.1× 644 1.7× 113 0.5× 127 0.7× 137 0.9× 37 1.9k
Claire Mathieu France 20 559 0.5× 301 0.8× 109 0.4× 153 0.9× 154 1.0× 74 1.3k
Tian Xie China 17 2.0k 1.8× 679 1.8× 173 0.7× 81 0.5× 461 2.9× 37 2.6k
Zekun Ren Singapore 17 1.1k 1.0× 757 2.0× 130 0.5× 91 0.5× 164 1.0× 47 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Leigh Weston

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leigh Weston

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leigh Weston

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Leigh Weston. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Leigh Weston based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Leigh Weston. Leigh Weston is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Broberg, Danny, Kyle Bystrom, Diana Dahliah, et al.. (2023). High-throughput calculations of charged point defect properties with semi-local density functional theory—performance benchmarks for materials screening applications. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 32 indexed citations
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Weston, Leigh, et al.. (2021). Defect Chemistry and Hydrogen Transport in La/Sr-Based Oxyhydrides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(4). 2250–2256. 3 indexed citations
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Yoo, Su‐Hyun, Mira Todorova, Darshana Wickramaratne, et al.. (2021). Finite-size correction for slab supercell calculations of materials with spontaneous polarization. npj Computational Materials. 7(1). 18 indexed citations
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Tshitoyan, Vahe, John Dagdelen, Leigh Weston, et al.. (2019). Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from materials science literature. Nature. 571(7763). 95–98. 698 indexed citations breakdown →
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Weston, Leigh, Vahe Tshitoyan, John Dagdelen, et al.. (2019). Named Entity Recognition and Normalization Applied to Large-Scale Information Extraction from the Materials Science Literature. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 59(9). 3692–3702. 197 indexed citations
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KC, Santosh, et al.. (2019). First-principles study of antisite defects in perovskite stannates. Journal of Applied Physics. 126(19). 8 indexed citations
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Weston, Leigh, et al.. (2019). Optimizing Proton Conductivity in Zirconates through Defect Engineering. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(4). 2611–2619. 31 indexed citations
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Weston, Leigh, et al.. (2018). Ion-Transport Engineering of Alkaline-Earth Hydrides for Hydride Electrolyte Applications. Chemistry of Materials. 30(17). 5878–5885. 23 indexed citations
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Wickramaratne, Darshana, et al.. (2018). Monolayer to Bulk Properties of Hexagonal Boron Nitride. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(44). 25524–25529. 1 indexed citations
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Weston, Leigh, et al.. (2018). Accurate and efficient band-offset calculations from density functional theory. Computational Materials Science. 151. 174–180. 66 indexed citations
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Weston, Leigh, Darshana Wickramaratne, Mažena Mackoit-Sinkevičienė, Audrius Alkauskas, & Chris G. Van de Walle. (2018). Native point defects and impurities in hexagonal boron nitride. Physical review. B.. 97(21). 257 indexed citations
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Weston, Leigh, Darshana Wickramaratne, & Chris G. Van de Walle. (2018). Publisher's Note: Hole polarons and p-type doping in boron nitride polymorphs [Phys. Rev. B 96, 100102(R) (2017)]. Physical review. B.. 97(1). 2 indexed citations
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Weston, Leigh, Darshana Wickramaratne, & Chris G. Van de Walle. (2017). Hole polarons and p-type doping in boron nitride polymorphs. Physical review. B.. 96(10). 22 indexed citations
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Ton‐That, Cuong, Leigh Weston, & Matthew R. Phillips. (2012). Characteristics of point defects in the green luminescence from Zn- and O-rich ZnO. Physical Review B. 86(11). 157 indexed citations
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Mildren, Richard P., James E. Downes, Benjamin Johnston, et al.. (2011). Characteristics of 2-photon ultraviolet laser etching of diamond. Optical Materials Express. 1(4). 576–576. 22 indexed citations
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Weston, Leigh, et al.. (1997). The Adsorption-Desorption of Cations at the Silica-Water its Implication in Wafer-Cleaning Efficacy. MRS Proceedings. 477. 2 indexed citations

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