Robin J. Speedy

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Robin J. Speedy is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robin J. Speedy has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Materials Chemistry, 53 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 20 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Robin J. Speedy's work include Material Dynamics and Properties (54 papers), Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (53 papers) and Thermodynamic properties of mixtures (19 papers). Robin J. Speedy is often cited by papers focused on Material Dynamics and Properties (54 papers), Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (53 papers) and Thermodynamic properties of mixtures (19 papers). Robin J. Speedy collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Germany. Robin J. Speedy's co-authors include C. Austen Angell, Elmar W. Lang, F. X. Prielmeier, H.‐D. Lüdemann, S. J. Henderson, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Hitoshi Kanno, R. Scott Smith, Congcong Huang and Bruce D. Kay and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Robin J. Speedy

76 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Isothermal compressibility of supercooled water and evide... 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 250 500 750
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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. Isothermal compressibility of supercooled water and evidence for a thermodynamic singularity at −45°C
    1976 751 citations Robin J. Speedy et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robin J. Speedy New Zealand 33 3.2k 2.2k 1.1k 949 847 76 4.5k
W. van Megen Australia 39 6.1k 1.9× 2.7k 1.2× 1.4k 1.3× 1.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.3× 110 7.9k
Leslie V. Woodcock United Kingdom 30 2.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 808 0.7× 725 0.8× 664 0.8× 101 4.0k
Jeffrey R. Errington United States 42 3.1k 1.0× 3.2k 1.5× 1.7k 1.6× 1.2k 1.3× 853 1.0× 99 5.9k
Nicolás Giovambattista United States 41 3.1k 1.0× 2.1k 1.0× 1.8k 1.6× 931 1.0× 418 0.5× 102 5.1k
P. Tartaglia Italy 47 6.5k 2.0× 2.4k 1.1× 1.7k 1.6× 2.0k 2.2× 1.2k 1.4× 196 8.4k
Paola Gallo Italy 35 2.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 2.1k 1.9× 724 0.8× 536 0.6× 120 4.3k
Limei Xu China 32 2.6k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 1.6k 1.4× 755 0.8× 398 0.5× 85 4.4k
М. А. Анисимов United States 37 1.8k 0.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 719 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 140 4.4k
Charusita Chakravarty India 34 2.0k 0.6× 958 0.4× 1.6k 1.4× 607 0.6× 361 0.4× 104 3.5k
Francis H. Ree United States 40 3.3k 1.0× 2.5k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 967 1.0× 886 1.0× 105 5.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robin J. Speedy

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Speedy, Robin J. & Richard K. Bowles. (2008). Statistical Geometry and Cavity Correlations in the Hard Sphere Fluid. Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications. 73(3). 344–357. 1 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (2003). The energy density landscape for soft spheres. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 15(11). S1243–S1251. 22 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (2003). Kauzmann's paradox and the glass transition. Biophysical Chemistry. 105(2-3). 411–420. 26 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1999). Glass transition in hard disc mixtures. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 110(9). 4559–4565. 66 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1999). Constrained simulations to count the glasses that a fluid samples. Journal of Molecular Structure. 485-486. 537–543. 9 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1996). Models for the amorphization of compressed crystals. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 8(50). 10907–10918. 32 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1994). Two disks in a box. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 210(3-4). 341–351. 10 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1994). Quench rate independence of the hard sphere glass transition. Molecular Physics. 83(3). 591–597. 25 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1993). Models for fluids and crystals of molecules with valency. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 97(11). 2723–2731. 16 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1992). Evidence for a new phase of water: water II. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 96(5). 2322–2325. 63 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J. & Howard Reiss. (1991). A computer simulation study of cavities in the hard disc fluid and crystal. Molecular Physics. 72(5). 1015–1033. 26 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J. & Howard Reiss. (1991). Cavities in the hard sphere fluid and crystal and the equation of state. Molecular Physics. 72(5). 999–1014. 48 indexed citations
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Labı́k, Stanislav, William R. Smith, & Robin J. Speedy. (1988). Structure of hard particle fluids near a hard wall. II. y w(z) for hard spheres. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 88(3). 1944–1949. 8 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1988). Pressure of hard-sphere systems. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 92(7). 2016–2018. 21 indexed citations
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Lacey, A. R., et al.. (1987). Coupling of small-amplitude proton motions in liquid water to density and temperature. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 91(6). 1684–1686. 22 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1987). Diffusion in the hard sphere fluid. Molecular Physics. 62(2). 509–515. 149 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J., et al.. (1985). Calculation ofy(r) inside the core for hard discs and spheres. Molecular Physics. 54(5). 1035–1045. 47 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J., et al.. (1984). Proton conductivity in supercooled aqueous hydrochloric acid solutions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 88(9). 1888–1892. 31 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1983). Conductivity of supercooled aqueous potassium chloride solutions to -27.degree.C and 50 MPa. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 87(2). 320–324. 6 indexed citations
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Speedy, Robin J.. (1977). Accurate theory of the hard sphere fluid. Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions 2 Molecular and Chemical Physics. 73(5). 714–714. 41 indexed citations

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