R. Silbey

28.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
317 papers, 22.8k citations indexed

About

R. Silbey is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Silbey has authored 317 papers receiving a total of 22.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 208 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 81 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 63 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in R. Silbey's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (141 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (50 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (48 papers). R. Silbey is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (141 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (50 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (48 papers). R. Silbey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Germany. R. Silbey's co-authors include Jean‐Luc Brédas, R. R. Chance, Jérôme Cornil, Demétrio A. da Silva Filho, Yoann Olivier, Veaceslav Coropceanu, J. L. Brédas, R. Adron Harris, D. S. Boudreaux and Eli Barkai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

R. Silbey

314 papers receiving 22.2k 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.

Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors

2007 3.9k citations Veaceslav Coropceanu, R. Silbey et al. profile →
Chain-length dependence of electronic and electrochemical properties of conjugated systems: polyacetylene, polyphenylene, polythiophene, and polypyrrole

1983 1.1k citations Jean‐Luc Brédas, R. Silbey et al. profile →
Influence of Interchain Interactions on the Absorption and Luminescence of Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers: A Quantum-Chemical Characterization

1998 538 citations R. Silbey et al. profile →
Comparative theoretical study of the doping of conjugated polymers: Polarons in polyacetylene and polyparaphenylene

1982 448 citations R. R. Chance, R. Silbey et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. Silbey United States	80	10.0k	9.8k	5.5k	5.4k	3.4k	317	22.8k
Paul F. Barbara United States	71	6.3k 0.6×	6.2k 0.6×	5.9k 1.1×	2.2k 0.4×	6.2k 1.8×	180	16.6k
Giulio Cerullo Italy	83	14.1k 1.4×	11.5k 1.2×	7.4k 1.4×	1.8k 0.3×	2.2k 0.6×	801	28.3k
Larry R. Dalton United States	78	6.5k 0.6×	10.3k 1.0×	6.5k 1.2×	2.7k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	575	22.1k
Sergei Tretiak United States	81	7.5k 0.8×	18.4k 1.9×	19.5k 3.6×	5.3k 1.0×	3.7k 1.1×	452	30.5k
Ursula Röthlisberger Switzerland	69	5.7k 0.6×	6.1k 0.6×	9.2k 1.7×	1.9k 0.3×	2.3k 0.7×	320	21.8k
Abraham Nitzan Israel	79	13.8k 1.4×	10.8k 1.1×	5.6k 1.0×	903 0.2×	2.8k 0.8×	382	24.2k
Leeor Kronik Israel	73	7.6k 0.8×	12.0k 1.2×	11.8k 2.2×	1.6k 0.3×	2.0k 0.6×	288	21.2k
Xiaoyang Zhu United States	77	7.4k 0.7×	16.2k 1.6×	15.3k 2.8×	2.3k 0.4×	1.0k 0.3×	315	24.9k
Josef Michl United States	77	7.2k 0.7×	6.3k 0.6×	9.1k 1.7×	1.1k 0.2×	5.7k 1.7×	684	28.8k
Troy Van Voorhis United States	66	5.5k 0.6×	6.9k 0.7×	6.5k 1.2×	1.1k 0.2×	2.4k 0.7×	206	15.5k

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Wu, Jianlan, R. Silbey, & Jianshu Cao. (2013). Generic Mechanism of Optimal Energy Transfer Efficiency: A Scaling Theory of the Mean First-Passage Time in Exciton Systems. Physical Review Letters. 110(20). 200402–200402. 52 indexed citations

Wong, C., Richard M. Alvey, Daniel B. Turner, et al.. (2012). Electronic coherence lineshapes reveal hidden excitonic correlations in photosynthetic light harvesting. Nature Chemistry. 4(5). 396–404. 93 indexed citations

Eisele, Dörthe M., C. Cone, Erik A. Bloemsma, et al.. (2012). Utilizing redox-chemistry to elucidate the nature of exciton transitions in supramolecular dye nanotubes. Nature Chemistry. 4(8). 655–662. 165 indexed citations

Cao, Jianshu, et al.. (2011). Quantitative Interpretation of the Randomness in Single Enzyme Turnover Times. Biophysical Journal. 101(3). 519–524. 27 indexed citations

Emelianova, E. V., Stavros Athanasopoulos, R. Silbey, & David Beljonne. (2010). 2D Excitons as Primary Energy Carriers in Organic Crystals: The Case of Oligoacenes. Physical Review Letters. 104(20). 206405–206405. 19 indexed citations

Barkai, Eli & R. Silbey. (2010). Diffusion of tagged particle in an exclusion process. Physical Review E. 81(4). 41129–41129. 34 indexed citations

Barkai, Eli & R. Silbey. (2009). Theory of Single File Diffusion in a Force Field. Physical Review Letters. 102(5). 50602–50602. 66 indexed citations

Ambjörnsson, Tobias, Ludvig Lizana, & R. Silbey. (2008). Dynamics of two hardcore interacting particles with different diffusion constants in one dimension. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

Flomenbom, Ophir & R. Silbey. (2008). Toolbox for analyzing finite two-state trajectories. Physical Review E. 78(6). 66105–66105. 15 indexed citations

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Flomenbom, Ophir & R. Silbey. (2007). Path-probability density functions for semi-Markovian random walks. Physical Review E. 76(4). 41101–41101. 8 indexed citations

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Silbey, R., et al.. (2006). Memory effects on the convergence properties of the Jarzynski equality. Physical Review E. 74(6). 61105–61105. 7 indexed citations

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Xia, Xin & R. Silbey. (2005). Effective Lagrangian approach to the trapped Bose gases at low temperatures (10 pages). Physical Review A. 71(6). 63604. 1 indexed citations

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Jang, Seogjoo, Marshall D. Newton, & R. Silbey. (2004). Multichromophoric Förster Resonance Energy Transfer. Physical Review Letters. 92(21). 218301–218301. 283 indexed citations

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Sung, Jaeyoung & R. Silbey. (2003). Exact Dynamics of a Continuous Time Random Walker in the Presence of a Boundary: Beyond the Intuitive Boundary Condition Approach. Physical Review Letters. 91(16). 160601–160601. 23 indexed citations

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André, J. M., Jean‐Luc Brédas, Veaceslav Coropceanu, & R. Silbey. (2002). Symmetry anomaly in disubstituted benzenes. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 90(4-5). 1428–1439.

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Barkai, Eli, YounJoon Jung, & R. Silbey. (2001). Time-Dependent Fluctuations in Single Molecule Spectroscopy: A Generalized Wiener-Khintchine Approach. Physical Review Letters. 87(20). 207403–207403. 70 indexed citations

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Shuai, Zhigang, et al.. (2001). Singlet and triplet exciton formation rates in conjugated polymer LEDs. Synthetic Metals. 121(1-3). 1637–1638. 4 indexed citations

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Silbey, R., et al.. (1994). Low-temperature dynamics in glasses and the stochastic sudden-jump model. Chemical Physics Letters. 218(5-6). 445–453. 49 indexed citations

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Brédas, Jean‐Luc & R. Silbey. (1991). Conjugated polymers : the novel science and technology of highly conducting and nonlinear optically active materials. Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks. 111 indexed citations

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Chance, R. R., Alfred Prock, & R. Silbey. (1976). A new probe for the surface electronic structure of liquid metals. Solid State Communications. 18(9-10). 1259–1261. 5 indexed citations

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