Richard Dronskowski

31.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
593 papers, 26.1k citations indexed

About

Richard Dronskowski is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Dronskowski has authored 593 papers receiving a total of 26.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 379 papers in Materials Chemistry, 299 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 163 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Richard Dronskowski's work include Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (262 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (86 papers) and Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (61 papers). Richard Dronskowski is often cited by papers focused on Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (262 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (86 papers) and Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (61 papers). Richard Dronskowski collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United States. Richard Dronskowski's co-authors include Volker L. Deringer, Andrei L. Tchougréeff, Peter E. Bloechl, Stefan Maintz, Christina Ertural, Janine George, Michael Gilleßen, Matthias Wuttig, Jörg von Appen and Simon Steinberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Richard Dronskowski

575 papers receiving 25.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Crystal orbital Hamilton populations (COHP): energy-resolved visualization of chemical bonding in solids based on density-functional calculations

1993 3.6k citations Richard Dronskowski et al. profile →
LOBSTER: A tool to extract chemical bonding from plane‐wave based DFT

2016 2.6k citations Volker L. Deringer, Andrei L. Tchougréeff et al. profile →
Crystal Orbital Hamilton Population (COHP) Analysis As Projected from Plane-Wave Basis Sets

2011 2.5k citations Volker L. Deringer, Andrei L. Tchougréeff et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A profile →
Analytic projection from plane-wave and PAW wavefunctions and application to chemical-bonding analysis in solids

2013 1.4k citations Volker L. Deringer, Andrei L. Tchougréeff et al. profile →
LOBSTER : Local orbital projections, atomic charges, and chemical‐bonding analysis from projector‐augmented‐wave‐based density‐functional theory

2020 963 citations Janine George, Volker L. Deringer et al. profile →
A stable compound of helium and sodium at high pressure

2017 279 citations Volker L. Deringer, Richard Dronskowski et al. profile →
Crystal Orbital Bond Index: Covalent Bond Orders in Solids

2021 207 citations Peter C. Müller, Richard Dronskowski et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Dronskowski Germany	63	18.0k	7.4k	6.0k	5.6k	3.9k	593	26.1k
Gustaaf Van Tendeloo Belgium	97	23.6k 1.3×	9.5k 1.3×	5.2k 0.9×	10.1k 1.8×	5.1k 1.3×	946	38.9k
Nigel D. Browning United States	85	14.3k 0.8×	9.3k 1.3×	2.7k 0.5×	4.3k 0.8×	4.4k 1.1×	569	25.0k
Francis J. DiSalvo United States	73	12.9k 0.7×	9.7k 1.3×	3.4k 0.6×	4.4k 0.8×	8.1k 2.1×	414	22.4k
Blas P. Uberuaga United States	54	21.2k 1.2×	8.1k 1.1×	2.4k 0.4×	1.9k 0.3×	4.0k 1.0×	309	28.2k
Jijun Zhao China	78	18.6k 1.0×	6.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.3×	2.9k 0.5×	3.5k 0.9×	741	24.7k
Andreas Züttel Switzerland	69	24.5k 1.4×	5.1k 0.7×	2.9k 0.5×	1.6k 0.3×	4.3k 1.1×	311	29.2k
Christof Wöll Germany	101	24.1k 1.3×	14.4k 2.0×	12.0k 2.0×	3.5k 0.6×	4.5k 1.1×	661	38.7k
Yves J. Chabal United States	96	20.4k 1.1×	17.6k 2.4×	5.3k 0.9×	4.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.6×	477	34.7k
Bo B. Iversen Denmark	76	16.5k 0.9×	5.8k 0.8×	2.7k 0.4×	4.8k 0.9×	2.0k 0.5×	584	22.6k
Markku Leskelä Finland	83	19.4k 1.1×	19.7k 2.7×	4.0k 0.7×	4.5k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	830	33.0k

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Sun, Yifan, et al.. (2026). Charge-triggered switching mechanism in selenium selector enabling ultralow leakage current. Nature Materials.

Chen, Da, Daniele Perilli, Richard Dronskowski, Annabella Selloni, & Cristiana Di Valentin. (2025). Enhanced oxygen evolution on NiOOH through Fe-promoted transformation of β to γ phase. Acta Materialia. 299. 121434–121434. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yixu, et al.. (2025). (Sr₉N_1.33(8))(SrIn₃)[CN₃] and Sr₄(Sr₆N)₂[In₄][CN₃]₄: Two Fully Deprotonated Guanidinates Accessible from Pressureless Sodium Flux Synthesis. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(14). 6845–6856. 2 indexed citations

Müller, Peter C., et al.. (2024). Synthesis, characterization and chemical bonding analysis of the quaternary cyanamides Li₂MnHf₂(NCN)₆ and Li₂MnZr₂(NCN)₆. Dalton Transactions. 53(48). 19272–19279. 2 indexed citations

Ubukata, Hiroki, Daichi Kato, Thibault Broux, et al.. (2023). Structural Transformation in LnHS (Ln = La, Nd, Gd, and Er) with Coordination Change between an S-Centered Octahedron and a Trigonal Prism. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(17). 6696–6703. 1 indexed citations

Jones, R., Stephen R. Elliott, & Richard Dronskowski. (2023). The Myth of “Metavalency” in Phase‐Change Materials. Advanced Materials. 35(30). e2300836–e2300836. 34 indexed citations

Chen, Jianhong, Giovanni Barcaro, Tetyana M. Budnyak, et al.. (2022). Reaction pathways on N-substituted carbon catalysts during the electrochemical reduction of nitrate to ammonia. Catalysis Science & Technology. 12(11). 3582–3593. 14 indexed citations

Lu, Can, et al.. (2022). Fabrication of semi-transparent SrTaO ₂ N photoanodes with a GaN underlayer grown via atomic layer deposition. Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews. 15(3). 658–670. 7 indexed citations

Ma, Zili, Can Lu, Jianhong Chen, et al.. (2021). CeTiO ₂ N oxynitride perovskite: paramagnetic ¹⁴ N MAS NMR without paramagnetic shifts. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B. 76(5). 275–280. 6 indexed citations

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Shen, Jiabin, Shujing Jia, Nannan Shi, et al.. (2021). Elemental electrical switch enabling phase segregation–free operation. Science. 374(6573). 1390–1394. 107 indexed citations

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Lu, Can, Zili Ma, Tetyana M. Budnyak, et al.. (2020). NiO/Poly(4-alkylthiazole) Hybrid Interface for Promoting Spatial Charge Separation in Photoelectrochemical Water Reduction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(26). 29173–29180. 11 indexed citations

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Jafari, Atefeh, Benedikt Klobes, I. Sergueev, et al.. (2020). Phonon Spectroscopy in Antimony and Tellurium Oxides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 124(39). 7869–7880. 8 indexed citations

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Lu, Can, Palani Raja Jothi, Thomas Thersleff, et al.. (2020). Nanostructured core–shell metal borides–oxides as highly efficient electrocatalysts for photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Nanoscale. 12(5). 3121–3128. 32 indexed citations

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Tchougréeff, Andrei L., et al.. (2019). Magnetic Properties of Quasi-One-Dimensional Crystals Formed by Graphene Nanoclusters and Embedded Atoms of the Transition Metals. Crystals. 9(5). 251–251. 6 indexed citations

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Stoffel, Ralf P., Michael Küpers, A. Eich, et al.. (2019). New insights on the GeSe _x Te_1−x phase diagram from theory and experiment. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials. 75(2). 246–256. 10 indexed citations

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Ma, Zili, Aleksander Jaworski, Janine George, et al.. (2019). Exploring the Origins of Improved Photocurrent by Acidic Treatment for Quaternary Tantalum-Based Oxynitride Photoanodes on the Example of CaTaO₂N. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(1). 152–160. 29 indexed citations

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Bogdanovski, Dimitri, et al.. (2015). ɛ‐TiO, a Novel Stable Polymorph of Titanium Monoxide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(5). 1652–1657. 41 indexed citations

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Krott, Manuel & Richard Dronskowski. (2009). Neue Carbodiimide der 3d-Übergangsmetalle : Synthese, Struktur und magnetische Eigenschaften. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 2 indexed citations

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Fang, Liang, et al.. (2004). Characterization and dielectric properties of Sr4La2Ti4M6O30 (M=Nb, Ta) ceramics. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics. 15(10). 699–701. 8 indexed citations

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Dronskowski, Richard & Xiaohui Liu. (2003). Bis(cyanoguanidine)silver(I) nitrate–cyanoguanidine (1/1). Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications. 59(6). m243–m245. 4 indexed citations

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