R. Scott Smith

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

R. Scott Smith is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Scott Smith has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Materials Chemistry, 31 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in R. Scott Smith's work include Material Dynamics and Properties (36 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (21 papers) and nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (21 papers). R. Scott Smith is often cited by papers focused on Material Dynamics and Properties (36 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (21 papers) and nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (21 papers). R. Scott Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Austria. R. Scott Smith's co-authors include Bruce D. Kay, Zdenek Dohnálek, Greg A. Kimmel, Congcong Huang, K. P. Stevenson, E. K. L. Wong, J. Matthiesen, Patrick Ayotte, Nikolay G. Petrik and Tom Autrey and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

R. Scott Smith

122 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Nanoscaffold Mediates Hydrogen Release and the Reactivity of Ammonia Borane

2005 730 citations R. Scott Smith, Bruce D. Kay et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. Scott Smith United States	37	3.5k	1.7k	1.6k	994	835	124	6.2k
Zdenek Dohnálek United States	49	5.3k 1.5×	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	768 0.9×	151	7.6k
Greg A. Kimmel United States	42	2.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	286 0.3×	541 0.6×	106	4.9k
Bruce D. Kay United States	59	7.0k 2.0×	3.4k 2.0×	2.2k 1.4×	2.0k 2.0×	1.4k 1.7×	201	11.2k
Erwin Mayer Austria	48	4.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	197 0.2×	1.1k 1.3×	173	7.7k
Thomas Loerting Austria	45	3.8k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	182 0.2×	1.3k 1.6×	197	7.2k
D. D. Klug Canada	54	4.0k 1.1×	2.8k 1.6×	630 0.4×	125 0.1×	672 0.8×	235	8.8k
Carl F. Melius United States	48	2.4k 0.7×	3.1k 1.8×	2.0k 1.2×	794 0.8×	508 0.6×	137	7.3k
M. Blander United States	37	1.4k 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	804 0.5×	300 0.3×	1.0k 1.2×	154	5.8k
G. P. Johari Canada	54	11.2k 3.2×	1.7k 1.0×	950 0.6×	663 0.7×	2.4k 2.9×	449	14.8k
Mohamed Mézouar France	60	6.9k 2.0×	1.4k 0.8×	436 0.3×	162 0.2×	656 0.8×	331	12.6k

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Smith, R. Scott, et al.. (2025). Supercooled Liquid Water Diffusivity at Temperatures near the Glass Transition Temperature. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(13). 3198–3205. 1 indexed citations

Marcinkowski, Matthew D., R. Scott Smith, Yang Wang, et al.. (2020). Adsorption and reaction of methanol on Fe3O4(001). The Journal of Chemical Physics. 152(6). 64703–64703. 13 indexed citations

Smith, R. Scott & Bruce D. Kay. (2018). Desorption of Benzene, 1,3,5-Trifluorobenzene, and Hexafluorobenzene from a Graphene Surface: The Effect of Lateral Interactions on the Desorption Kinetics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(10). 2632–2638. 4 indexed citations

Smith, R. Scott & Bruce D. Kay. (2017). Desorption Kinetics of Benzene and Cyclohexane from a Graphene Surface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(2). 587–594. 17 indexed citations

Xu, Yuntao, Nikolay G. Petrik, R. Scott Smith, et al.. (2016). A nanosecond pulsed laser heating system for studying liquid and supercooled liquid films in ultrahigh vacuum. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 144(16). 164201–164201. 13 indexed citations

Kimmel, Greg A., Tykhon Zubkov, R. Scott Smith, Nikolay G. Petrik, & Bruce D. Kay. (2014). Turning things downside up: Adsorbate induced water flipping on Pt(111). The Journal of Chemical Physics. 141(18). 18C515–18C515. 12 indexed citations

Li, Zhenjun, R. Scott Smith, Bruce D. Kay, & Zdenek Dohnálek. (2011). Determination of Absolute Coverages for Small Aliphatic Alcohols on TiO₂(110). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115(45). 22534–22539. 72 indexed citations

May, R. Alan, R. Scott Smith, & Bruce D. Kay. (2011). Probing the interaction of amorphous solid water on a hydrophobic surface: dewetting and crystallization kinetics of ASW on carbon tetrachloride. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(44). 19848–19848. 15 indexed citations

Matthiesen, J., R. Scott Smith, & Bruce D. Kay. (2009). Using Rare Gas Permeation to Probe Methanol Diffusion near the Glass Transition Temperature. Physical Review Letters. 103(24). 245902–245902. 21 indexed citations

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Rassat, Scot D., et al.. (2006). Thermal Stability and Hydrogen Release Kinetics of Ammonia Borane Under Vehicle Storage Conditions. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 3 indexed citations

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Smith, R. Scott. (2004). Think harm always. BMJ. 329(7456). 7 indexed citations

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Daschbach, John L., Gregory K. Schenter, Patrick Ayotte, R. Scott Smith, & Bruce D. Kay. (2004). Helium Diffusion throughH2OandD2OAmorphous Ice: Observation of a Lattice Inverse Isotope Effect. Physical Review Letters. 92(19). 198306–198306. 10 indexed citations

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Daschbach, John L., et al.. (2004). Adsorption, desorption, and clustering of H2O on Pt(111). The Journal of Chemical Physics. 120(3). 1516–1523. 94 indexed citations

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Gill, Jason J., Antonet M. Svircev, R. Scott Smith, & Alan J. Castle. (2003). Bacteriophages ofErwinia amylovora. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69(4). 2133–2138. 100 indexed citations

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Svircev, Antonet M., et al.. (2002). Biocontrol of Erwinia with bacteriophages. 25(10). 139–142. 2 indexed citations

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Dohnálek, Zdenek, Greg A. Kimmel, Patrick Ayotte, R. Scott Smith, & Bruce D. Kay. (2002). The deposition angle-dependent density of amorphous solid water films. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 118(1). 364–372. 155 indexed citations

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Dohnálek, Zdenek, R. Scott Smith, & Bruce D. Kay. (2002). Adsorption Dynamics and Desorption Kinetics of Argon and Methane on MgO(100). The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 106(33). 8360–8366. 26 indexed citations

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Busman, Mark, Daniel R. Knapp, Kevin L. Schey, & R. Scott Smith. (1994). Observation of large multimers in the electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of peptides. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 8(2). 211–216. 23 indexed citations

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Patterson, Chris W., R. Scott Smith, & Randall B. Shirts. (1986). Rotational adiabatic switching of asymmetric top molecules. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 85(12). 7241–7244. 7 indexed citations

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Ashby, E. C., et al.. (1981). Normant試薬(CH 3 MgBr+CuBr)と新しいテトラヒドロフラン可溶メチル銅酸マグネシウムMg m Cu n (CH 3 ) 2m+n のフェニルアセチレンとの付加反応に関する比較 | 文献情報 | J-GLOBAL 科学技術総合リンクセンター. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 46(25). 5133–5139. 3 indexed citations

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