Mikael Leetmaa

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Mikael Leetmaa is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Mikael Leetmaa has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Materials Chemistry, 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 3 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Mikael Leetmaa's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (7 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (4 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (4 papers). Mikael Leetmaa is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (7 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (4 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (4 papers). Mikael Leetmaa collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Serbia. Mikael Leetmaa's co-authors include Lars G. M. Pettersson, Anders Nilsson, Mathias P. Ljungberg, Natalia V. Skorodumova, Kjartan Thor Wikfeldt, Alexander P. Lyubartsev, Takashi Tokushima, Y. Horikawa, Osamu Takahashi and Dennis Nordlund and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Chemical Physics and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

In The Last Decade

Mikael Leetmaa

19 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

The inhomogeneous structure of water at ambient conditions

2009 476 citations Congcong Huang, Kjartan Thor Wikfeldt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mikael Leetmaa Sweden	14	608	560	231	125	108	19	1.1k
Mathias P. Ljungberg Sweden	17	807 1.3×	689 1.2×	266 1.2×	203 1.6×	142 1.3×	29	1.4k
Fivos Perakis Sweden	17	769 1.3×	664 1.2×	339 1.5×	65 0.5×	288 2.7×	40	1.5k
Annika Lenz Sweden	10	547 0.9×	368 0.7×	200 0.9×	40 0.3×	148 1.4×	15	1.1k
Arto Sakko Finland	17	315 0.5×	303 0.5×	185 0.8×	153 1.2×	56 0.5×	22	750
F. Aliotta Italy	21	464 0.8×	499 0.9×	241 1.0×	65 0.5×	171 1.6×	96	1.3k
Jan P. Hessler United States	21	540 0.9×	586 1.0×	72 0.3×	127 1.0×	301 2.8×	55	1.5k
Ph. Pruzan France	25	601 1.0×	896 1.6×	202 0.9×	35 0.3×	81 0.8×	50	1.7k
Johannes Niskanen Finland	16	365 0.6×	269 0.5×	73 0.3×	187 1.5×	149 1.4×	58	791
A. Gerschel France	13	473 0.8×	241 0.4×	154 0.7×	44 0.4×	234 2.2×	31	1.1k
B. H. Torrie Canada	22	560 0.9×	763 1.4×	142 0.6×	32 0.3×	339 3.1×	79	1.6k

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Nilsson, Johan O., Mikael Leetmaa, Baochang Wang, et al.. (2018). Modeling Kinetics of Water Adsorption on the Rutile TiO₂ (110) Surface: Influence of Exchange‐Correlation Functional (Phys. Status Solidi B 3/2018). physica status solidi (b). 255(3). 1 indexed citations

Nilsson, Johan O., Mikael Leetmaa, Baochang Wang, et al.. (2017). Modeling Kinetics of Water Adsorption on the Rutile TiO₂ (110) Surface: Influence of Exchange‐Correlation Functional. physica status solidi (b). 255(3). 6 indexed citations

Nilsson, Johan O., Mikael Leetmaa, Olga Yu. Vekilova, S. I. Simak, & Natalia V. Skorodumova. (2017). Oxygen diffusion in ceria doped with rare-earth elements. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(21). 13723–13730. 17 indexed citations

Gutić, Sanjin J., Ana S. Dobrota, Mikael Leetmaa, et al.. (2017). Improved catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline solutions through the electrochemical formation of nickel-reduced graphene oxide interface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(20). 13281–13293. 46 indexed citations

Nilsson, Johan O., Mikael Leetmaa, Olga Yu. Vekilova, S. I. Simak, & Natalia V. Skorodumova. (2016). Statistical error in simulations of Poisson processes: Example of diffusion in solids. Physical review. B.. 94(8). 2 indexed citations

Mace, Amber, Mikael Leetmaa, & Aatto Laaksonen. (2015). Temporal Coarse Graining of CO₂ and N₂ Diffusion in Zeolite NaKA: From the Quantum Scale to the Macroscopic. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 11(10). 4850–4860. 8 indexed citations

Leetmaa, Mikael & Natalia V. Skorodumova. (2015). Mean square displacements with error estimates from non-equidistant time-step kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. Computer Physics Communications. 191. 119–124. 21 indexed citations

Pašti, Igor A., Mikael Leetmaa, & Natalia V. Skorodumova. (2015). General principles for designing supported catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction based on conceptual Kinetic Monte Carlo modeling. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 41(4). 2526–2538. 17 indexed citations

Leetmaa, Mikael & Natalia V. Skorodumova. (2015). KMCLib 1.1: Extended random number support and technical updates to the KMCLib general framework for kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations. Computer Physics Communications. 196. 611–613. 18 indexed citations

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Leetmaa, Mikael & Natalia V. Skorodumova. (2014). KMCLib: A general framework for lattice kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations. Computer Physics Communications. 185(9). 2340–2349. 76 indexed citations

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Wikfeldt, Kjartan Thor, Mikael Leetmaa, Amber Mace, Anders Nilsson, & Lars G. M. Pettersson. (2010). Oxygen-oxygen correlations in liquid water: Addressing the discrepancy between diffraction and extended x-ray absorption fine-structure using a novel multiple-data set fitting technique. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 132(10). 104513–104513. 27 indexed citations

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Leetmaa, Mikael, Kjartan Thor Wikfeldt, & Lars G. M. Pettersson. (2010). SpecSwap-RMC: a novel reverse Monte Carlo approach using a discrete set of local configurations and pre-computed properties. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 22(13). 135001–135001. 13 indexed citations

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Huang, Congcong, Kjartan Thor Wikfeldt, Takashi Tokushima, et al.. (2010). Reply to Soper et al.: Fluctuations in water around a bimodal distribution of local hydrogen-bonded structural motifs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(12). 39 indexed citations

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Leetmaa, Mikael, Mathias P. Ljungberg, Alexander P. Lyubartsev, Anders Nilsson, & Lars G. M. Pettersson. (2010). Theoretical approximations to X-ray absorption spectroscopy of liquid water and ice. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. 177(2-3). 135–157. 135 indexed citations

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Huang, Congcong, Kjartan Thor Wikfeldt, Takashi Tokushima, et al.. (2009). The inhomogeneous structure of water at ambient conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(36). 15214–15218. 476 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wikfeldt, Kjartan Thor, Mikael Leetmaa, Mathias P. Ljungberg, Anders Nilsson, & Lars G. M. Pettersson. (2009). On the Range of Water Structure Models Compatible with X-ray and Neutron Diffraction Data. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 113(18). 6246–6255. 81 indexed citations

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Leetmaa, Mikael. (2009). Structure Modeling with X-ray Absorption and Reverse Monte Carlo: Applications to Water. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Leetmaa, Mikael, Kjartan Thor Wikfeldt, Mathias P. Ljungberg, et al.. (2008). Diffraction and IR/Raman data do not prove tetrahedral water. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 129(8). 84502–84502. 85 indexed citations

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Leetmaa, Mikael, Mathias P. Ljungberg, Hirohito Ogasawara, et al.. (2006). Are recent water models obtained by fitting diffraction data consistent with infrared/Raman and x-ray absorption spectra?. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 125(24). 244510–244510. 58 indexed citations

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