Richard Tran

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Richard Tran is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Tran has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Materials Chemistry, 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 4 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Richard Tran's work include Machine Learning in Materials Science (6 papers), Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials (4 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (3 papers). Richard Tran is often cited by papers focused on Machine Learning in Materials Science (6 papers), Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials (4 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (3 papers). Richard Tran collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Richard Tran's co-authors include Shyue Ping Ong, Kristin A. Persson, Donny Winston, Balachandran Radhakrishnan, Zihan Xu, Wenhao Sun, Xiangguo Li, Chi Chen, Hui Zheng and Matthew K. Horton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Richard Tran

22 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Surface energies of elemental crystals

2016 763 citations Richard Tran, Zihan Xu et al. Scientific Data profile →
The Open Catalyst 2022 (OC22) Dataset and Challenges for Oxide Electrocatalysts

2023 174 citations Richard Tran, Janice Lan et al. ACS Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Tran United States	12	1.1k	415	314	257	163	22	1.6k
Mira Todorova Germany	19	1.1k 1.0×	373 0.9×	172 0.5×	299 1.2×	256 1.6×	35	1.6k
Donny Winston United States	16	1.3k 1.2×	743 1.8×	245 0.8×	366 1.4×	235 1.4×	22	2.1k
Zihan Xu United States	6	669 0.6×	456 1.1×	173 0.6×	148 0.6×	106 0.7×	7	1.1k
Qi‐Jun Hong United States	17	928 0.8×	172 0.4×	405 1.3×	130 0.5×	108 0.7×	39	1.3k
José J. Plata Spain	20	1.9k 1.8×	472 1.1×	353 1.1×	337 1.3×	188 1.2×	47	2.3k
Jee‐Gong Chang Taiwan	23	841 0.8×	278 0.7×	216 0.7×	171 0.7×	396 2.4×	89	1.6k
Alexander Thompson United States	10	2.2k 2.0×	533 1.3×	365 1.2×	156 0.6×	151 0.9×	14	2.7k
Michal Jahnátek Austria	12	1.3k 1.2×	278 0.7×	468 1.5×	94 0.4×	159 1.0×	12	1.6k
Junkai Xue United States	5	1.8k 1.7×	420 1.0×	298 0.9×	150 0.6×	196 1.2×	5	2.2k
Matthew K. Horton United States	26	1.5k 1.3×	606 1.5×	205 0.7×	165 0.6×	211 1.3×	51	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Tran

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Tran

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Tran, Richard, et al.. (2025). Text Mining Strategy Identifies Gene Networks Under Control of miR‐21 in Breast Cancer Development. Cancer Medicine. 14(13). e70986–e70986. 1 indexed citations

Harpur, Alice, et al.. (2024). The barriers and facilitators to the design and delivery of sustainable healthcare across NHS Scotland: A forcefield analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(2). 100135–100135. 3 indexed citations

Tran, Richard, Liqiang Huang, Shengguang Wang, et al.. (2024). Rational design of nanoscale stabilized oxide catalysts for OER with OC22. Nanoscale. 16(36). 17090–17101. 7 indexed citations

Li, Xin, et al.. (2023). Text mining-based identification of promising miRNA biomarkers for diabetes mellitus. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1195145–1195145. 6 indexed citations

Tran, Richard, Janice Lan, Muhammed Shuaibi, et al.. (2023). The Open Catalyst 2022 (OC22) Dataset and Challenges for Oxide Electrocatalysts. ACS Catalysis. 13(5). 3066–3084. 174 indexed citations breakdown →

Tran, Richard, Duo Wang, Ryan Kingsbury, et al.. (2022). Screening of bimetallic electrocatalysts for water purification with machine learning. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 157(7). 74102–74102. 15 indexed citations

Geyer, Michaël, et al.. (2022). Reconstructive Training for Real-World Robustness in Image Classification. 1050. 251–260. 1 indexed citations

Tran, Richard, Xiangguo Li, Shyue Ping Ong, Yoav Kalcheim, & Iván K. Schuller. (2021). Metal-insulator transition in V2O3 with intrinsic defects. Physical review. B.. 103(7). 6 indexed citations

Cheng, Shaobo, Min‐Han Lee, Richard Tran, et al.. (2021). Inherent stochasticity during insulator–metal transition in VO ₂. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(37). 28 indexed citations

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Zaluzhnyy, Ivan A., Peter O. Sprau, Richard Tran, et al.. (2021). Proton distribution visualization in perovskite nickelate devices utilizing nanofocused x rays. Physical Review Materials. 5(9). 10 indexed citations

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Tran, Richard, Sebastian Lee, Manuel Herrera, et al.. (2021). Morphology Control of Tantalum Carbide Nanoparticles through Dopant Additions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(19). 10665–10675. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Wei, Richard Tran, Jifa Qu, et al.. (2019). Chlorine-Doped Perovskite Oxide: A Platinum-Free Cathode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(39). 35641–35652. 19 indexed citations

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Lin, Yuh‐Chieh, Antonin Grenier, Dongdong Xiao, et al.. (2019). Rational synthesis and electrochemical performance of LiVOPO₄ polymorphs. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(14). 8423–8432. 21 indexed citations

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Tran, Richard, Xiangguo Li, Joseph H. Montoya, et al.. (2019). Anisotropic work function of elemental crystals. Surface Science. 687. 48–55. 110 indexed citations

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Zheng, Hui, Xiangguo Li, Richard Tran, et al.. (2019). Grain boundary properties of elemental metals. Acta Materialia. 186. 40–49. 183 indexed citations

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Chen, Chi, Zhi Deng, Richard Tran, et al.. (2017). Accurate force field for molybdenum by machine learning large materials data. Physical Review Materials. 1(4). 110 indexed citations

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Zheng, Hui, Richard Tran, Xiangguo Li, Balachandran Radhakrishnan, & Shyue Ping Ong. (2017). Role of Zr in strengthening MoSi2 from density functional theory calculations. Acta Materialia. 145. 470–476. 22 indexed citations

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Tran, Richard, Zihan Xu, Balachandran Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2016). Surface energies of elemental crystals. Scientific Data. 3(1). 160080–160080. 763 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tran, Richard, Zihan Xu, Balachandran Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2016). Surface Energies of Elemental Crystals. Nature. 10 indexed citations

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Tran, Richard, Zihan Xu, Naixie Zhou, et al.. (2016). Computational study of metallic dopant segregation and embrittlement at molybdenum grain boundaries. Acta Materialia. 117. 91–99. 85 indexed citations

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