Roberto Olivares‐Amaya

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Roberto Olivares‐Amaya is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Olivares‐Amaya has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 5 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Roberto Olivares‐Amaya's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (5 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (4 papers) and Machine Learning in Materials Science (3 papers). Roberto Olivares‐Amaya is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (5 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (4 papers) and Machine Learning in Materials Science (3 papers). Roberto Olivares‐Amaya collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and France. Roberto Olivares‐Amaya's co-authors include Alán Aspuru‐Guzik, Leslie Vogt-Maranto, Carlos Amador‐Bedolla, Johannes Hachmann, Şule Atahan-Evrenk, Roel S. Sánchez‐Carrera, Aryeh Gold‐Parker, Anna M. Brockway, Naoki Nakatani and Jun Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Energy & Environmental Science and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Olivares‐Amaya

15 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

The Harvard Clean Energy Project: Large-Scale Computation... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. The Harvard Clean Energy Project: Large-Scale Computational Screening and Design of Organic Photovoltaics on the World Community Grid
    2011 472 citations Johannes Hachmann, Roberto Olivares‐Amaya et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roberto Olivares‐Amaya United States 12 786 463 451 244 158 15 1.5k
Johannes Hachmann United States 15 941 1.2× 484 1.0× 541 1.2× 341 1.4× 100 0.6× 25 1.7k
Yaolong Zhang China 26 959 1.2× 703 1.5× 361 0.8× 234 1.0× 96 0.6× 75 1.6k
Álvaro Vázquez‐Mayagoitia United States 21 1.0k 1.3× 281 0.6× 418 0.9× 326 1.3× 75 0.5× 45 1.6k
Tomomi Shimazaki Japan 20 709 0.9× 423 0.9× 391 0.9× 147 0.6× 102 0.6× 63 1.4k
Thijs Stuyver Belgium 27 780 1.0× 499 1.1× 788 1.7× 223 0.9× 116 0.7× 56 2.2k
Reinhard J. Maurer United Kingdom 27 1.3k 1.7× 1.1k 2.4× 771 1.7× 199 0.8× 130 0.8× 110 2.5k
Kjell Jorner Sweden 21 935 1.2× 144 0.3× 370 0.8× 243 1.0× 100 0.6× 44 1.8k
YounJoon Jung South Korea 25 884 1.1× 571 1.2× 677 1.5× 68 0.3× 372 2.4× 69 2.1k
Won‐Joon Son South Korea 21 1.2k 1.6× 195 0.4× 1.1k 2.4× 103 0.4× 291 1.8× 72 1.9k
Matthew Welborn United States 22 1.1k 1.4× 496 1.1× 934 2.1× 245 1.0× 63 0.4× 40 2.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Olivares‐Amaya

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Olivares‐Amaya, Roberto, Weifeng Hu, Naoki Nakatani, et al.. (2015). The ab-initio density matrix renormalization group in practice. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 142(3). 34102–34102. 264 indexed citations
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Jinich, Adrián, Dmitrij Rappoport, Ian Dunn, et al.. (2014). Quantum Chemical Approach to Estimating the Thermodynamics of Metabolic Reactions. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 7022–7022. 30 indexed citations
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Hachmann, Johannes, Roberto Olivares‐Amaya, Adrián Jinich, et al.. (2013). Lead candidates for high-performance organic photovoltaics from high-throughput quantum chemistry – the Harvard Clean Energy Project. Energy & Environmental Science. 7(2). 698–704. 189 indexed citations
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Valencia, Diego, Roberto Olivares‐Amaya, Jorge Aburto, & Isidoro García‐Cruz. (2013). Topological and Electronic Structure of Heterocyclic Compounds Adsorbed on Hydrotreating Catalysts. Catalysis Letters. 143(12). 1354–1361. 4 indexed citations
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Olivares‐Amaya, Roberto, et al.. (2012). Can Mixed-Metal Surfaces Provide an Additional Enhancement to SERS?. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 116(29). 15568–15575. 12 indexed citations
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Watson, Mark A., Dmitrij Rappoport, Elizabeth Lee, Roberto Olivares‐Amaya, & Alán Aspuru‐Guzik. (2012). Electronic structure calculations in arbitrary electrostatic environments. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 136(2). 24101–24101. 13 indexed citations
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Hachmann, Johannes, Roberto Olivares‐Amaya, Şule Atahan-Evrenk, Carlos Amador‐Bedolla, & Alán Aspuru‐Guzik. (2011). The Harvard Clean Energy Project. Large-scale computational screening and design of molecular motifs for organic photovoltaics on the World Community Grid. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2011. 11 indexed citations
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Olivares‐Amaya, Roberto, M. Stopa, Xavier Andrade, Mark A. Watson, & Alán Aspuru‐Guzik. (2011). Anion Stabilization in Electrostatic Environments. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2(7). 682–688. 12 indexed citations
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Hachmann, Johannes, Roberto Olivares‐Amaya, Şule Atahan-Evrenk, et al.. (2011). The Harvard Clean Energy Project: Large-Scale Computational Screening and Design of Organic Photovoltaics on the World Community Grid. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2(17). 2241–2251. 472 indexed citations breakdown →
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Olivares‐Amaya, Roberto, Carlos Amador‐Bedolla, Johannes Hachmann, et al.. (2011). Accelerated computational discovery of high-performance materials for organic photovoltaics by means of cheminformatics. Energy & Environmental Science. 4(12). 4849–4849. 166 indexed citations
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Watson, Mark A., Roberto Olivares‐Amaya, Richard G. Edgar, & Alán Aspuru‐Guzik. (2010). Accelerating Correlated Quantum Chemistry Calculations Using Graphical Processing Units. Computing in Science & Engineering. 12(4). 40–51. 33 indexed citations
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Olivares‐Amaya, Roberto, Mark A. Watson, Richard G. Edgar, et al.. (2009). Accelerating Correlated Quantum Chemistry Calculations Using Graphical Processing Units and a Mixed Precision Matrix Multiplication Library. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 6(1). 135–144. 72 indexed citations
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Saikin, Semion K., Roberto Olivares‐Amaya, Dmitrij Rappoport, M. Stopa, & Alán Aspuru‐Guzik. (2009). On the chemical bonding effects in the Raman response: Benzenethiol adsorbed on silver clusters. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11(41). 9401–9401. 86 indexed citations
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Olivares‐Amaya, Roberto, et al.. (2008). Creating a GUI for Zori, a Quantum Monte Carlo Program. Computing in Science & Engineering. 11(1). 41–47. 4 indexed citations
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Vogt-Maranto, Leslie, et al.. (2008). Accelerating Resolution-of-the-Identity Second-Order Møller−Plesset Quantum Chemistry Calculations with Graphical Processing Units. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 112(10). 2049–2057. 123 indexed citations

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