Paul van der Schoot

9.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
183 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Paul van der Schoot is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul van der Schoot has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Materials Chemistry, 50 papers in Organic Chemistry and 46 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Paul van der Schoot's work include Material Dynamics and Properties (47 papers), Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (45 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (38 papers). Paul van der Schoot is often cited by papers focused on Material Dynamics and Properties (47 papers), Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (45 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (38 papers). Paul van der Schoot collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Paul van der Schoot's co-authors include E. W. Meijer, Albertus P. H. J. Schenning, Pascal Jonkheijm, Roya Zandi, Andriy V. Kyrylyuk, Willem K. Kegel, Ronald H. J. Otten, Peter Prinsen, Maarten M. J. Smulders and Tom F. A. de Greef and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Paul van der Schoot

178 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Probing the Solvent-Assisted Nucleation Pathway in Chemical Self-Assembly

2006 815 citations Pascal Jonkheijm, Paul van der Schoot et al. profile →
Ion-association complexes unite classical and non-classical theories for the biomimetic nucleation of calcium phosphate

2013 653 citations Paul van der Schoot et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul van der Schoot Netherlands	44	3.3k	2.1k	2.0k	1.6k	1.2k	183	7.7k
Ellen Wachtel Israel	53	3.1k 0.9×	643 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	2.1k 1.7×	260	8.4k
Alexander Böker Germany	46	5.5k 1.7×	1.1k 0.5×	3.8k 1.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	190	9.4k
Oleg Gang United States	50	4.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.4×	4.1k 3.4×	172	9.4k
Alexander E. Ribbe United States	40	1.7k 0.5×	853 0.4×	907 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	3.5k 2.8×	116	6.3k
Zhen‐Gang Wang United States	51	3.0k 0.9×	834 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.5×	210	8.1k
Mónica Olvera de la Cruz United States	62	5.4k 1.6×	2.3k 1.1×	3.5k 1.8×	3.0k 1.9×	3.2k 2.6×	380	14.4k
Yu‐qiang Ma China	38	2.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	932 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	2.7k 2.2×	282	6.8k
Ilja K. Voets Netherlands	47	2.0k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	3.0k 1.5×	721 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	196	6.8k
Erik Dujardin France	38	6.2k 1.9×	1.1k 0.5×	898 0.5×	3.1k 1.9×	883 0.7×	107	9.6k
J. C. Maan Netherlands	38	3.8k 1.1×	848 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	934 0.8×	126	7.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul van der Schoot

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Zhang, Yuanqiang, Siyu Li, Ajay Gopinathan, Paul van der Schoot, & Roya Zandi. (2025). BPS2025 - Mechanisms of virus budding through cellular membranes. Biophysical Journal. 124(3). 594a–594a.

Tsvetkova, Irina B., et al.. (2025). An Assembly-Line Mechanism for In Vitro Encapsulation of Fragmented Cargo in Virus-Like Particles. ACS Nano. 20(7). 5438–5451.

Schoot, Paul van der, et al.. (2024). Preferential ordering of incommensurate-length guest particles in a smectic host. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(8). 1 indexed citations

Schilling, Tanja, et al.. (2019). Unusual geometric percolation of hard nanorods in the uniaxial nematic liquid crystalline phase. Physical review. E. 100(6). 62129–62129. 7 indexed citations

Schilling, Tanja, et al.. (2019). Connectivity, Not Density, Dictates Percolation in Nematic Liquid Crystals of Slender Nanoparticles. Physical Review Letters. 122(9). 97801–97801. 12 indexed citations

Roij, René van, et al.. (2018). Connectedness percolation of hard convex polygonal rods and platelets. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 149(5). 54902–54902. 8 indexed citations

Mirri, Francesca, Rana Ashkar, Lucy Liberman, et al.. (2018). Quantification of Carbon Nanotube Liquid Crystal Morphology via Neutron Scattering. Macromolecules. 51(17). 6892–6900. 10 indexed citations

Razzokov, Jamoliddin, et al.. (2018). Nanoscale insight into silk-like protein self-assembly: effect of design and number of repeat units. Physical Biology. 15(6). 66010–66010. 3 indexed citations

Holst, B. van der, Willem K. Kegel, Roya Zandi, & Paul van der Schoot. (2018). The different faces of mass action in virus assembly. Journal of Biological Physics. 44(2). 163–179. 4 indexed citations

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Dussi, Simone, et al.. (2017). Connectedness percolation of hard deformed rods. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 147(22). 224904–224904. 15 indexed citations

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Biebricher, Andreas S., Erwin J.G. Peterman, Gijs J. L. Wuite, et al.. (2017). Hyperstretching DNA. Nature Communications. 8(1). 2197–2197. 24 indexed citations

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Schoot, Paul van der, et al.. (2017). Line Tension of Twist-Free Carbon Nanotube Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Microdroplets on Solid Surfaces. Langmuir. 33(36). 9115–9121. 1 indexed citations

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Franeker, Jacobus J. van, Gaël H. L. Heintges, Charley Schaefer, et al.. (2015). Polymer Solar Cells: Solubility Controls Fiber Network Formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(36). 11783–11794. 143 indexed citations

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Razzokov, Jamoliddin, et al.. (2014). Prediction of the structure of a silk-like protein in oligomeric states using explicit and implicit solvent models. Soft Matter. 10(29). 5362–5362. 11 indexed citations

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Jabbari‐Farouji, Sara & Paul van der Schoot. (2010). Random, blocky and alternating ordering in supramolecular polymers of chemically bidisperse monomers. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations

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Schoot, Paul van der, et al.. (2010). Probing the Cooperative Nature of the Conductive Components in Polystyrene/Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):Poly(styrene sulfonate)−Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Composites. ACS Nano. 4(4). 2242–2248. 38 indexed citations

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Kersten, S. P., et al.. (2008). Photoluminescence Spectra of Self-Assembling Helical Supramolecular Assemblies: A Theoretical Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 112(39). 12386–12393. 6 indexed citations

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Schoot, Paul van der, et al.. (2003). On the role of connectivity in the relative stability of crystal types for model polymeric solids. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 118(13). 6098–6101. 4 indexed citations

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Schoot, Paul van der. (2002). Scaling Theory of Chemically Activated Living Polymerization in a Good Solvent. Macromolecules. 35(7). 2845–2850. 3 indexed citations

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Tromp, R. Hans & Paul van der Schoot. (1996). Quench-induced nematic textures of wormlike micelles. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 53(1). 689–695. 2 indexed citations

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