Peter Blaha

45.7k total citations · 12 hit papers
365 papers, 35.1k citations indexed

About

Peter Blaha is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Blaha has authored 365 papers receiving a total of 35.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 196 papers in Materials Chemistry, 130 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 128 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Peter Blaha's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (85 papers), Rare-earth and actinide compounds (62 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (47 papers). Peter Blaha is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (85 papers), Rare-earth and actinide compounds (62 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (47 papers). Peter Blaha collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Peter Blaha's co-authors include Karlheinz Schwarz, Fabien Tran, Georg K. H. Madsen, Robert Laskowski, S. B. Trickey, Dávid Koller, Laurence D. Marks, John P. Perdew, Stefan Kurth and P. Haas and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Peter Blaha

363 papers receiving 34.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Accurate Band Gaps of Semiconductors and Insulators with a Semilocal Exchange-Correlation Potential

2009 4.8k citations Fabien Tran, Peter Blaha Physical Review Letters profile →
Full-potential, linearized augmented plane wave programs for crystalline systems

1990 3.0k citations Peter Blaha, Karlheinz Schwarz et al. profile →
WIEN2k: An APW+lo program for calculating the properties of solids

2020 1.7k citations Peter Blaha, Karlheinz Schwarz et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
Electronic structure calculations of solids using the WIEN2k package for material sciences

2002 1.6k citations Karlheinz Schwarz, Peter Blaha et al. profile →
WIEN2k: An Augmented Plane Wave Plus Local Orbitals Program for Calculating Crystal Properties

2019 1.5k citations Peter Blaha, Karlheinz Schwarz et al. profile →
Solid state calculations using WIEN2k

2003 1.1k citations Karlheinz Schwarz, Peter Blaha profile →
Efficient linearization of the augmented plane-wave method

2001 964 citations Peter Blaha, Karlheinz Schwarz et al. profile →
Merits and limits of the modified Becke-Johnson exchange potential

2011 858 citations Fabien Tran, Peter Blaha et al. Physical Review B profile →
Calculation of the lattice constant of solids with semilocal functionals

2009 802 citations Fabien Tran, Peter Blaha et al. Physical Review B profile →
Improving the modified Becke-Johnson exchange potential

2012 717 citations Fabien Tran, Peter Blaha et al. Physical Review B profile →
Accurate Density Functional with Correct Formal Properties: A Step Beyond the Generalized Gradient Approximation

1999 667 citations Peter Blaha et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Molecular and solid-state tests of density functional approximations: LSD, GGAs, and meta-GGAs

1999 528 citations Peter Blaha et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Blaha Austria	78	23.0k	13.8k	10.3k	8.7k	8.2k	365	35.1k
Karlheinz Schwarz Austria	70	15.9k 0.7×	10.9k 0.8×	6.5k 0.6×	7.7k 0.9×	7.4k 0.9×	274	26.9k
O. K. Andersen Germany	63	13.6k 0.6×	10.7k 0.8×	5.1k 0.5×	8.6k 1.0×	12.6k 1.5×	182	28.6k
Isao Tanaka Japan	76	27.0k 1.2×	7.0k 0.5×	11.2k 1.1×	4.4k 0.5×	3.4k 0.4×	537	35.2k
В. И. Анисимов Russia	63	13.6k 0.6×	14.3k 1.0×	4.8k 0.5×	5.4k 0.6×	13.3k 1.6×	302	27.8k
Fujio Izumi Japan	57	26.4k 1.1×	15.0k 1.1×	13.0k 1.3×	3.6k 0.4×	10.3k 1.2×	258	42.9k
David J. Singh United States	96	38.6k 1.7×	22.5k 1.6×	15.5k 1.5×	12.2k 1.4×	14.5k 1.8×	637	61.0k
Koichi Momma Japan	15	18.2k 0.8×	8.6k 0.6×	9.6k 0.9×	2.8k 0.3×	4.6k 0.6×	77	28.4k
Sergey Y. Savrasov United States	40	14.4k 0.6×	8.2k 0.6×	4.2k 0.4×	8.8k 1.0×	9.4k 1.1×	105	24.7k
David Mandrus United States	88	21.5k 0.9×	15.9k 1.2×	10.5k 1.0×	7.6k 0.9×	15.3k 1.9×	560	37.7k

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Jalali-Asadabadi, S., et al.. (2024). Nonzero spontaneous electric polarization in metals: novel predictive methods and applications. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 672–672. 2 indexed citations

Li, Xia, et al.. (2022). CO Adsorption and Disproportionation on Smooth and Defect-Rich Ir(111). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(15). 6578–6589. 7 indexed citations

Yan, Xinlin, Mathieu Taupin, G. Eguchi, et al.. (2021). Giant spontaneous Hall effect in a nonmagnetic Weyl–Kondo semimetal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(8). 78 indexed citations

Nandan, Sreejith P., Shun Kashiwaya, Markus Sauer, et al.. (2021). Elucidating the formation and active state of Cu co-catalysts for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(38). 21958–21971. 28 indexed citations

Haselmann, Greta M., Alexey Cherevan, Peng Zhang, et al.. (2018). Ordered Mesoporous TiO₂ Gyroids: Effects of Pore Architecture and Nb‐Doping on Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution under UV and Visible Irradiation. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(36). 58 indexed citations

Tröster, A., et al.. (2017). Finite-strain Landau theory applied to the high-pressure phase transition of lead titanate. Physical review. B.. 95(6). 9 indexed citations

Quesada, Adrián, Cecilia Granados‐Miralles, Michael Foerster, et al.. (2016). Co on Fe3O4(001): Towards precise control of surface properties. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 144(9). 94704–94704. 30 indexed citations

Susi, Toma, Xavier Rocquefelte, Carla Bittencourt, et al.. (2016). Spectromicroscopy of C60 and azafullerene C59N: Identifying surface adsorbed water. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 35605–35605. 21 indexed citations

Nuber, A., Hendrik Bentmann, M. Mulazzi, et al.. (2014). Quantized electronic fine structure with large anisotropy in ferromagnetic Fe films. Physical Review B. 90(3). 2 indexed citations

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Ruban, A. V., et al.. (2012). Ab Initio Study of Lattice Site Occupancies in Binary Sigma Phases Using a Single-Site Mean Field Model. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 654–668. 15 indexed citations

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Hsu, Han, Koichiro Umemoto, Peter Blaha, & Renata M. Wentzcovitch. (2010). Spin states and hyperfine interactions of iron in (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite under pressure. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 3 indexed citations

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Blaha, Peter, Han Hsu, Koichiro Umemoto, & Renata M. Wentzcovitch. (2010). Spin states and hyperfine interactions of iron in (Mg,Fe)SiO$_{3}$ perovskite under pressure. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010.

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Kim, Yoon‐Suk, Martijn Marsman, Georg Kresse, Fabien Tran, & Peter Blaha. (2010). Towards efficient band structure and effective mass calculations for III-V direct band-gap semiconductors. Physical Review B. 82(20). 280 indexed citations

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Laskowski, Robert, N. E. Christensen, Peter Blaha, & B. Palanivel. (2009). Strong excitonic effects in CuAlO2 delafossite transparent conductive oxides. Physical Review B. 79(16). 6 indexed citations

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Blaha, Peter, et al.. (2009). Iterative diagonalization in augmented plane wave based methods in electronic structure calculations. Journal of Computational Physics. 229(2). 453–460. 21 indexed citations

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Fischer, Michael, Thomas Malcherek, U. Bismayer, Peter Blaha, & Karlheinz Schwarz. (2008). Structure and stability of Cd2Nb2O7 and Cd2Ta2O7 explored by ab initio calculations. Physical Review B. 78(1). 16 indexed citations

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Fehr, Thomas, Sophia Y. Wang, Fabienne Haspot, et al.. (2008). Rapid Deletional Peripheral CD8 T Cell Tolerance Induced by Allogeneic Bone Marrow: Role of Donor Class II MHC and B Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 181(6). 4371–4380. 27 indexed citations

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Rotenberg, Eli, et al.. (2001). High-temperature symmetry breaking in the electronic band structure of the quasi-one-dimensional solid NbSe3 - art no. 196403. Physical Review Letters. 87. 1 indexed citations

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Mohn, P., Karlheinz Schwarz, & Peter Blaha. (1996). The fcc - bcc structural transition: II. A mean field model for finite-temperature effects.. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 8(7). 817–827. 7 indexed citations

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Draxl, Claudia, Peter Blaha, & Karlheinz Schwarz. (1994). Electronic structure of PrBa₂Cu₃O₇from LAPW band structure calculations. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 6(12). 2347–2356. 10 indexed citations

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