Mark Asta

35.7k total citations · 15 hit papers
375 papers, 28.7k citations indexed

About

Mark Asta is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Asta has authored 375 papers receiving a total of 28.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 242 papers in Materials Chemistry, 142 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 73 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Mark Asta's work include nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (73 papers), Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties (54 papers) and Microstructure and mechanical properties (48 papers). Mark Asta is often cited by papers focused on nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (73 papers), Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties (54 papers) and Microstructure and mechanical properties (48 papers). Mark Asta collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Mark Asta's co-authors include J.J. Hoyt, Axel van de Walle, Robert O. Ritchie, Mikhail I. Mendelev, D. Y. Sun, David L. Olmsted, Alain Karma, Gautam Ghosh, Vidvuds Ozoliņš and Jun Ding and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark Asta

363 papers receiving 28.0k 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.

Surface reconstruction and chemical evolution of stoichiometric layered cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries

2014 1.3k citations Mark Asta et al. Nature Communications profile →
Efficient stochastic generation of special quasirandom structures

2013 1.2k citations Axel van de Walle, Pratyush Tiwary et al. Calphad profile →
Development of new interatomic potentials appropriate for crystalline and liquid iron

2003 1.1k citations Mark Asta et al. profile →
Lead‐Free Halide Perovskite Solar Cells with High Photocurrents Realized Through Vacancy Modulation

2014 1.0k citations Mark Asta, Subodh G. Mhaisalkar et al. profile →
Lead-free germanium iodide perovskite materials for photovoltaic applications

2015 956 citations Matthew Sherburne, Mark Asta et al. profile →
Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline compounds

2015 792 citations Maarten de Jong, Anubhav Jain et al. profile →
Matminer: An open source toolkit for materials data mining

2018 675 citations Mark Asta, Kristin A. Persson et al. profile →
Tunable stacking fault energies by tailoring local chemical order in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloys

2018 630 citations Jun Ding, Qin Yu et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Solidification microstructures and solid-state parallels: Recent developments, future directions

2008 597 citations Mark Asta et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Exceptional fracture toughness of CrCoNi-based medium- and high-entropy alloys at 20 kelvin

2022 344 citations Dong Liu, Qin Yu et al. Science profile →
A Combined Experimental−Computational Investigation of Carbon Dioxide Capture in a Series of Isoreticular Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks

2010 317 citations Mark Asta, Brian B. Laird et al. profile →
Atomistic simulations of dislocation mobility in refractory high-entropy alloys and the effect of chemical short-range order

2021 272 citations Sheng Yin, Yunxing Zuo et al. Nature Communications profile →
Theoretical prediction of high melting temperature for a Mo–Ru–Ta–W HCP multiprincipal element alloy

2021 213 citations Mark Asta, Axel van de Walle et al. npj Computational Materials profile →
Kink bands promote exceptional fracture resistance in a NbTaTiHf refractory medium-entropy alloy

2024 103 citations Madelyn Payne, Flynn Walsh et al. Science profile →
A framework to evaluate machine learning crystal stability predictions

2025 29 citations Janosh Riebesell, Rhys E. A. Goodall et al. Nature Machine Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Asta United States	86	18.9k	10.1k	8.2k	4.5k	3.1k	375	28.7k
David J. Srolovitz United States	94	21.0k 1.1×	10.7k 1.1×	4.0k 0.5×	3.6k 0.8×	3.2k 1.0×	514	30.5k
Zi‐Kui Liu United States	84	16.7k 0.9×	14.8k 1.5×	3.8k 0.5×	4.7k 1.1×	981 0.3×	717	28.8k
Simon R. Phillpot United States	72	20.8k 1.1×	7.7k 0.8×	4.0k 0.5×	2.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	355	28.0k
Chris Wolverton United States	101	32.4k 1.7×	6.5k 0.6×	15.1k 1.8×	3.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	411	40.4k
Stefano Curtarolo United States	59	15.7k 0.8×	6.8k 0.7×	4.6k 0.6×	2.7k 0.6×	586 0.2×	203	22.6k
H. Gleiter Germany	76	21.9k 1.2×	15.4k 1.5×	3.3k 0.4×	2.1k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	347	28.9k
M. I. Baskes United States	62	20.3k 1.1×	8.4k 0.8×	2.8k 0.3×	2.1k 0.5×	4.7k 1.5×	233	27.6k
Peter W. Voorhees United States	64	9.6k 0.5×	5.2k 0.5×	2.6k 0.3×	3.2k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	335	15.2k
Blas P. Uberuaga United States	54	21.2k 1.1×	3.6k 0.4×	8.1k 1.0×	1.6k 0.4×	694 0.2×	309	28.2k
K. Nordlund Finland	74	17.1k 0.9×	3.0k 0.3×	5.4k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	577	22.8k

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Riebesell, Janosh, Rhys E. A. Goodall, Philipp Benner, et al.. (2025). A framework to evaluate machine learning crystal stability predictions. Nature Machine Intelligence. 7(6). 836–847. 29 indexed citations breakdown →

Abu-Odeh, Anas, Bin Xing, Penghui Cao, Blas P. Uberuaga, & Mark Asta. (2024). A simple model for short-range ordering kinetics in multi-principal element alloys. Scripta Materialia. 252. 116224–116224.

Walsh, Flynn, Mingwei Zhang, Robert O. Ritchie, Mark Asta, & Andrew M. Minor. (2024). Multiple origins of extra electron diffractions in fcc metals. Science Advances. 10(31). eadn9673–eadn9673. 10 indexed citations

Ritchie, Robert O., et al.. (2024). Electronic descriptors for dislocation deformation behavior and intrinsic ductility in bcc high-entropy alloys. Science Advances. 10(38). eadp7670–eadp7670. 16 indexed citations

Zhang, Bozhao, et al.. (2024). Minimizing the diffusivity difference between vacancies and interstitials in multi-principal element alloys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(5). e2314248121–e2314248121. 8 indexed citations

Capolungo, Laurent, et al.. (2024). Morphology selection in dealloying: A phase field study of the coupling among kinetic mechanisms. Physical Review Materials. 8(10). 1 indexed citations

Kosasih, Felix Utama, Jianhui Fu, Minjun Feng, et al.. (2024). MAPbI₃ Perovskite Multiple Quantum Wells for Enhanced Light Emission and Detection. ACS Energy Letters. 9(9). 4450–4458. 6 indexed citations

Williams, H. T., Guiqiu Zheng, David Sprouster, et al.. (2024). Complex Structure of Molten FLiBe (2 Li F – Be F 2 ) Examined by Experimental Neutron Scattering, X-Ray Scattering, and Deep-Neural-Network Based Molecular Dynamics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 9 indexed citations

Pei, Zongrui, Shiteng Zhao, Martin Detrois, et al.. (2023). Theory-guided design of high-entropy alloys with enhanced strength-ductility synergy. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2519–2519. 31 indexed citations

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Ritchie, Robert O., et al.. (2023). Local lattice distortions and the structural instabilities in bcc Nb–Ta–Ti–Hf high-entropy alloys: An ab initio computational study. Acta Materialia. 262. 119415–119415. 20 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhangjie, Jun Ding, Mark Asta, et al.. (2023). Origin of the high propensity for nanoscale deformation twins in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 183. 63–71. 13 indexed citations

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Liu, Dong, Qin Yu, Saurabh Kabra, et al.. (2022). Exceptional fracture toughness of CrCoNi-based medium- and high-entropy alloys at 20 kelvin. Science. 378(6623). 978–983. 344 indexed citations breakdown →

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Walsh, Flynn, Mark Asta, & Lin‐Wang Wang. (2022). Realistic magnetic thermodynamics by local quantization of a semiclassical Heisenberg model. npj Computational Materials. 8(1). 5 indexed citations

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Yin, Sheng, Yunxing Zuo, Anas Abu-Odeh, et al.. (2021). Atomistic simulations of dislocation mobility in refractory high-entropy alloys and the effect of chemical short-range order. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4873–4873. 272 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abu-Odeh, Anas, et al.. (2020). Insights into dislocation climb efficiency in FCC metals from atomistic simulations. Acta Materialia. 193. 172–181. 23 indexed citations

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Yin, Sheng, Jun Ding, Mark Asta, & Robert O. Ritchie. (2020). Ab initio modeling of the energy landscape for screw dislocations in body-centered cubic high-entropy alloys. npj Computational Materials. 6(1). 75 indexed citations

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Laird, Brian B., et al.. (2020). Kinetics of Crystallization and Orientational Ordering in Dipolar Particle Systems. Crystal Growth & Design. 20(12). 7862–7873. 10 indexed citations

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Walle, Axel van de & Mark Asta. (2019). High-throughput calculations in the context of alloy design. MRS Bulletin. 44(4). 252–256. 27 indexed citations

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Walle, Axel van de, Pratyush Tiwary, Maarten de Jong, et al.. (2013). Efficient stochastic generation of special quasirandom structures. Calphad. 42. 13–18. 1242 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ozoliņš, Vidvuds & Mark Asta. (2001). Large Vibrational Effects upon Calculated Phase Boundaries in Al-Sc. Physical Review Letters. 86(3). 448–451. 114 indexed citations

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