Neil McN. Alford

12.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
313 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Neil McN. Alford is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil McN. Alford has authored 313 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Materials Chemistry, 149 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 95 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Neil McN. Alford's work include Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (111 papers), Microwave Dielectric Ceramics Synthesis (86 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (75 papers). Neil McN. Alford is often cited by papers focused on Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (111 papers), Microwave Dielectric Ceramics Synthesis (86 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (75 papers). Neil McN. Alford collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Slovenia. Neil McN. Alford's co-authors include S.J. Penn, J. D. Birchall, Anna‐Karin Axelsson, Matjaž Valant, Jonathan Breeze, K. Kendall, Robert C. Pullar, T.W. Button, Xiaoru Wang and W.J. Clegg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Neil McN. Alford

307 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Effect of Porosity and Grain Size on the Microwave Dielectric Properties of Sintered Alumina

1997 908 citations S.J. Penn, Neil McN. Alford et al. profile →
A simple way to make tough ceramics

1990 699 citations Neil McN. Alford, J. D. Birchall et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Neil McN. Alford United Kingdom	48	6.4k	5.0k	3.2k	2.0k	1.6k	313	10.1k
Igor Levin United States	52	7.3k 1.1×	3.5k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	186	9.3k
Michael T. Lanagan United States	53	7.2k 1.1×	5.0k 1.0×	2.7k 0.9×	4.0k 2.0×	1.1k 0.7×	347	10.9k
Jon‐Paul Maria United States	49	7.1k 1.1×	5.2k 1.0×	2.3k 0.7×	2.8k 1.4×	676 0.4×	269	11.6k
Franz Faupel Germany	57	6.4k 1.0×	4.1k 0.8×	3.1k 1.0×	3.9k 1.9×	734 0.5×	423	13.4k
Tien‐Chang Lu Taiwan	44	4.3k 0.7×	4.4k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	926 0.6×	546	9.4k
S. O. Kucheyev United States	45	5.2k 0.8×	3.2k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	334 0.2×	229	10.0k
K. L. Chopra India	46	9.8k 1.5×	9.3k 1.9×	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	648 0.4×	325	13.9k
Katsuhisa Tanaka Japan	44	4.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	2.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	367	7.3k
Per O. Å. Persson Sweden	61	12.9k 2.0×	6.0k 1.2×	2.4k 0.7×	2.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	351	16.3k
Keisuke Kobayashi Japan	51	6.7k 1.0×	3.9k 0.8×	3.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	482 0.3×	457	10.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Neil McN. Alford

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Neil McN. Alford's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Neil McN. Alford with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Neil McN. Alford more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Neil McN. Alford

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Neil McN. Alford. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Neil McN. Alford. The network helps show where Neil McN. Alford may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Neil McN. Alford

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Neil McN. Alford. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Neil McN. Alford 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 Neil McN. Alford. Neil McN. Alford is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Xi Peng, Zhiping Huang, Bruno M. G. Rosa, et al.. (2025). Control of Antibody Orientation on Graphene Using Porphyrin Linker Molecules for High-Performance Graphene-Based Immuno-Biosensors. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(51). 47638–47653. 1 indexed citations

Alford, Neil McN., et al.. (2023). Exploring the spin dynamics of a room-temperature diamond maser using an extended rate equation model. Journal of Applied Physics. 134(19).

Arroo, Daan M., Neil McN. Alford, & Jonathan Breeze. (2021). Perspective on room-temperature solid-state masers. Applied Physics Letters. 119(14). 14 indexed citations

Güsken, Nicholas A., Yi Li, Andrei P. Mihai, et al.. (2020). Hot carrier optoelectronics with titanium nitride. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. STh4F.1–STh4F.1. 1 indexed citations

Pang, Jing S., Ioannis G. Theodorou, Anthony Centeno, et al.. (2019). Tunable Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Arrays for Large Near-Infrared Fluorescence Enhancement. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(26). 23083–23092. 31 indexed citations

Wells, Matthew P., et al.. (2018). Multiphase strontium molybdate thin films for plasmonic local heating applications. Spiral (Imperial College London). 7 indexed citations

Breeze, Jonathan, et al.. (2017). Room-temperature cavity quantum electrodynamics with strongly coupled Dicke states. npj Quantum Information. 3(1). 28 indexed citations

Pang, Jiangli, Ioannis G. Theodorou, Anthony Centeno, et al.. (2016). Gold nanodisc arrays as near infrared metal-enhanced fluorescence platforms with tuneable enhancement factors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(4). 917–925. 39 indexed citations

Aguesse, Frédéric, et al.. (2013). Coherent magnon and acoustic phonon dynamics in rare earth doped BiFeO3 multiferroic thin films. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 6 indexed citations

10.

Axelsson, Anna‐Karin, Florian Le Goupil, Lawrence J. Dunne, et al.. (2013). Microscopic interpretation of sign reversal in the electrocaloric effect in a ferroelectric PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3-30PbTiO3 single crystal. Applied Physics Letters. 102(10). 33 indexed citations

11.

Oxborrow, Mark, Jonathan Breeze, & Neil McN. Alford. (2012). Room-temperature solid-state maser. Nature. 488(7411). 353–356. 107 indexed citations

12.

Liang, Wenshuang, et al.. (2011). Antiphase boundaries in Ba0.75Sr0.25TiO3 epitaxial film grown on (001) LaAlO3 substrate. Applied Physics Letters. 98(9). 13 indexed citations

13.

Valant, Matjaž, Anna‐Karin Axelsson, Frédéric Aguesse, & Neil McN. Alford. (2010). Molecular Auxetic Behavior of Epitaxial Co‐Ferrite Spinel Thin Film. Advanced Functional Materials. 20(4). 644–647. 35 indexed citations

14.

Scott, Daniel, et al.. (2007). Prediction of the functional properties of ceramic materials from composition using artificial neural networks. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 27(16). 4425–4435. 75 indexed citations

15.

Pullar, Robert C., S R Farrah, & Neil McN. Alford. (2006). MgWO4, ZnWO4, NiWO4 and CoWO4 microwave dielectric ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 27(2-3). 1059–1063. 208 indexed citations

16.

Pullar, Robert C., Jonathan Breeze, & Neil McN. Alford. (2002). Microwave Dielectric Properties of Columbite-Structure Niobate Ceramics, M 2+ Nb 2 O 6. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

17.

Alford, Neil McN., et al.. (2001). Dielectric loss of oxide single crystals and polycrystalline analogues from 10 to 320 K. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 21(15). 2605–2611. 110 indexed citations

18.

Excell, P.S. & Neil McN. Alford. (1991). Superconducting electrically-small dipole antenna. 446–447. 2 indexed citations

19.

Wu, Zhongzhen, et al.. (1990). Thick film printed high-T/sub c/ superconducting small loop antenna. 1 indexed citations

20.

Kendall, Kevin, Neil McN. Alford, & J. D. Birchall. (1987). Elasticity of particle assemblies as a measure of the surface energy of solids. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 412(1843). 269–283. 86 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact