S. Parkin

76.0k total citations · 35 hit papers
709 papers, 57.6k citations indexed

About

S. Parkin is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Parkin has authored 709 papers receiving a total of 57.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 502 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 313 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 247 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in S. Parkin's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (402 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (133 papers) and Magnetic Properties and Applications (111 papers). S. Parkin is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (402 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (133 papers) and Magnetic Properties and Applications (111 papers). S. Parkin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. S. Parkin's co-authors include Luc Thomas, See‐Hun Yang, Masamitsu Hayashi, K. P. Roche, Claudia Felser, Tanja Graf, Mahesh G. Samant, Neha More, Charles Rettner and Xin Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

S. Parkin

697 papers receiving 56.3k citations

Hit Papers

Magnetic Domain-Wall Racetrack Memory 1988 2026 2000 2013 2008 2004 1990 2011 1991 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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. Magnetic Domain-Wall Racetrack Memory
    2008 3.5k citations S. Parkin, Masamitsu Hayashi et al. Science profile →
  2. Giant tunnelling magnetoresistance at room temperature with MgO (100) tunnel barriers
    2004 2.5k citations S. Parkin, Christian Kaiser et al. Nature Materials profile →
  3. Oscillations in exchange coupling and magnetoresistance in metallic superlattice structures: Co/Ru, Co/Cr, and Fe/Cr
    1990 2.2k citations S. Parkin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Simple rules for the understanding of Heusler compounds
    2011 1.8k citations Tanja Graf, Claudia Felser et al. Progress in Solid State Chemistry profile →
  5. Giant magnetoresistive in soft ferromagnetic multilayers
    1991 1.5k citations S. Parkin et al. profile →
  6. Weyl Semimetals as Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts
    2017 1.2k citations Yan Sun, Chandra Shekhar et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  7. Higher-order topological insulators
    2018 1.1k citations Maia G. Vergniory, S. Parkin et al. profile →
  8. Oscillatory magnetic exchange coupling through thin copper layers
    1991 1.1k citations S. Parkin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  9. Chiral spin torque at magnetic domain walls
    2013 959 citations Luc Thomas, See‐Hun Yang et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  10. Suppression of Metal-Insulator Transition in VO 2 by Electric Field–Induced Oxygen Vacancy Formation
    2013 937 citations Tanja Graf, Mahesh G. Samant et al. Science profile →
  11. Exchange-biased magnetic tunnel junctions and application to nonvolatile magnetic random access memory (invited)
    1999 915 citations S. Parkin, Philip M. Rice et al. profile →
  12. Systematic variation of the strength and oscillation period of indirect magnetic exchange coupling through the 3d, 4d, and 5dtransition metals
    1991 909 citations S. Parkin Physical Review Letters profile →
  13. Multiple Dirac cones at the surface of the topological metal LaBi
    2017 801 citations Chandra Shekhar, S. Parkin et al. Nature Communications profile →
  14. Anomalous Disappearance of High-TcSuperconductivity at High Hole Concentration in MetallicLa2−xSrxCuO4
    1988 731 citations S. Parkin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  15. Large anomalous Hall effect driven by a nonvanishing Berry curvature in the noncolinear antiferromagnet Mn 3 Ge
    2016 642 citations Yan Sun, Chandra Shekhar et al. profile →
  16. Memory on the racetrack
    2015 618 citations S. Parkin, See‐Hun Yang Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  17. Magnetic Weyl semimetal phase in a Kagomé crystal
    2019 591 citations Enke Liu, Yan Sun et al. Science profile →
  18. Dirac cone protected by non-symmorphic symmetry and three-dimensional Dirac line node in ZrSiS
    2016 557 citations Mazhar N. Ali, S. Parkin et al. Nature Communications profile →
  19. Current-Controlled Magnetic Domain-Wall Nanowire Shift Register
    2008 554 citations Masamitsu Hayashi, Luc Thomas et al. Science profile →
  20. Domain-wall velocities of up to 750 m s−1 driven by exchange-coupling torque in synthetic antiferromagnets
    2015 524 citations See‐Hun Yang, S. Parkin et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  21. Magnetic antiskyrmions above room temperature in tetragonal Heusler materials
    2017 519 citations Vivek Kumar, Claudia Felser et al. profile →
  22. Spintronics
    2010 517 citations S. Parkin et al. profile →
  23. Giant magnetoresistance in antiferromagnetic Co/Cu multilayers
    1991 488 citations S. Parkin et al. profile →
  24. Magnetically engineered spintronic sensors and memory
    2003 472 citations S. Parkin, Xin Jiang et al. profile →
  25. Control of the metal–insulator transition in vanadium dioxide by modifying orbital occupancy
    2013 468 citations Gao Li, Mahesh G. Samant et al. Nature Physics profile →
  26. Role of transparency of platinum–ferromagnet interfaces in determining the intrinsic magnitude of the spin Hall effect
    2015 451 citations Xin Jiang, See‐Hun Yang et al. Nature Physics profile →
  27. Quenching of Magnetoresistance by Hot Electrons in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
    1997 449 citations S. Parkin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  28. Magnetotransport properties of magnetically soft spin-valve structures (invited)
    1991 445 citations S. Parkin et al. profile →
  29. Chiral spintronics
    2021 363 citations See‐Hun Yang, Ron Naaman et al. profile →
  30. Giant, unconventional anomalous Hall effect in the metallic frustrated magnet candidate, KV 3 Sb 5
    2020 352 citations S. Y. Yang, Jacob Gayles et al. profile →
  31. Separation of enantiomers by their enantiospecific interaction with achiral magnetic substrates
    2018 351 citations Koyel Banerjee-Ghosh, Oren Ben Dor et al. Science profile →
  32. Signature of type-II Weyl semimetal phase in MoTe2
    2017 343 citations Yan Sun, S. Parkin et al. Nature Communications profile →
  33. Synthetic antiferromagnetic spintronics
    2018 322 citations S. Parkin et al. Nature Physics profile →
  34. The field-free Josephson diode in a van der Waals heterostructure
    2022 251 citations S. Parkin, Mazhar N. Ali et al. profile →
  35. Josephson diode effect from Cooper pair momentum in a topological semimetal
    2022 188 citations Anirban Chakraborty, Avanindra K. Pandeya et al. Nature 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
S. Parkin United States 101 38.8k 25.6k 20.2k 19.7k 14.1k 709 57.6k
Yoshinori Tokura Japan 115 29.2k 0.8× 38.1k 1.5× 26.9k 1.3× 33.0k 1.7× 11.0k 0.8× 988 66.3k
J. M. D. Coey Ireland 91 14.3k 0.4× 28.3k 1.1× 23.2k 1.2× 14.7k 0.7× 8.5k 0.6× 817 47.0k
David Vanderbilt United States 107 28.3k 0.7× 20.2k 0.8× 50.5k 2.5× 15.5k 0.8× 19.1k 1.4× 363 76.0k
Claudia Felser Germany 106 24.2k 0.6× 25.6k 1.0× 31.7k 1.6× 13.6k 0.7× 7.0k 0.5× 923 52.9k
R. J. Cava United States 132 32.3k 0.8× 33.9k 1.3× 42.5k 2.1× 45.0k 2.3× 10.2k 0.7× 1.1k 82.1k
A. Fert France 86 33.3k 0.9× 17.6k 0.7× 14.9k 0.7× 15.4k 0.8× 12.1k 0.9× 359 43.8k
Alex Zunger United States 131 35.5k 0.9× 13.7k 0.5× 57.0k 2.8× 12.7k 0.6× 40.1k 2.9× 740 86.0k
Hideo Ohno Japan 87 25.1k 0.6× 20.7k 0.8× 30.3k 1.5× 10.9k 0.6× 18.4k 1.3× 845 50.6k
Shengbai Zhang United States 112 26.4k 0.7× 10.0k 0.4× 40.9k 2.0× 12.7k 0.6× 21.2k 1.5× 737 60.6k
Marvin L. Cohen United States 132 32.6k 0.8× 10.0k 0.4× 61.9k 3.1× 11.9k 0.6× 24.3k 1.7× 794 86.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Guan, Yicheng, et al.. (2025). Highly efficient current-induced domain wall motion in a room temperature van der Waals magnet. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10790–10790.
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Niu, Wenhui, Chi Fang, Juti Rani Deka, et al.. (2025). Lateral π-extended helical nanographenes with large spin polarization. Chemical Science. 16(45). 21446–21453.
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Zhu, Changqing, et al.. (2025). Terahertz Third-Harmonic Generation of Lightwave-Driven Weyl Fermions Far from Equilibrium. Nano Letters. 25(47). 16637–16642. 1 indexed citations
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Yanda, Premakumar, Ning Mao, Kazuki Imasato, et al.. (2024). Giant Topological Hall Effect and Colossal Magnetoresistance in Heusler Ferromagnet near Room Temperature. Advanced Materials. 37(3). e2411240–e2411240. 2 indexed citations
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Krieger, Jonas A., M. Yao, Iñigo Robredo, et al.. (2024). Controllable orbital angular momentum monopoles in chiral topological semimetals. Nature Physics. 20(12). 1912–1918. 8 indexed citations
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Maznichenko, I. V., A. Ernst, D. Maryenko, et al.. (2024). Fragile altermagnetism and orbital disorder in Mott insulator LaTiO3. Physical Review Materials. 8(6). 8 indexed citations
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Nádvorník, Lukáš, Oliver Gueckstock, Chengwang Niu, et al.. (2022). Terahertz Spin‐to‐Charge Current Conversion in Stacks of Ferromagnets and the Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenide NbSe2. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(36). 3 indexed citations
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Guan, Yicheng, et al.. (2022). Three-dimensional racetrack memory devices designed from freestanding magnetic heterostructures. Nature Nanotechnology. 17(10). 1065–1071. 52 indexed citations
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Jena, Jagannath, Börge Göbel, Sebastián A. Díaz, et al.. (2022). Observation of fractional spin textures in a Heusler material. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2348–2348. 22 indexed citations
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Jeon, Kun-Rok, Binoy Krishna Hazra, Kyungjune Cho, et al.. (2021). Long-range supercurrents through a chiral non-collinear antiferromagnet in lateral Josephson junctions. Nature Materials. 20(10). 1358–1363. 48 indexed citations
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Jeon, Kun-Rok, Kyungjune Cho, Anirban Chakraborty, et al.. (2021). Role\nof Two-Dimensional Ising Superconductivity in\nthe Nonequilibrium Quasiparticle Spin-to-Charge Conversion Efficiency. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 6 indexed citations
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Yang, S. Y., Jonathan Noky, Jacob Gayles, et al.. (2020). Field-Modulated Anomalous Hall Conductivity and Planar Hall Effect in Co3Sn2S2 Nanoflakes. Nano Letters. 20(11). 7860–7867. 39 indexed citations
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Banerjee-Ghosh, Koyel, Oren Ben Dor, Francesco Tassinari, et al.. (2018). Separation of enantiomers by their enantiospecific interaction with achiral magnetic substrates. Science. 360(6395). 1331–1334. 351 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Gao, et al.. (2013). Reliability of Signal Propagation in Magnetostatically Coupled Arrays of Magnetic Nanoelements. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013.
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Graf, Tanja, Claudia Felser, & S. Parkin. (2011). Simple rules for the understanding of Heusler compounds. Progress in Solid State Chemistry. 39(1). 1–50. 1804 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hayashi, Masamitsu, L. Thomas, Charles Rettner, Rai Moriya, & S. Parkin. (2007). Coherent precession of propagating domain walls in permalloy nanowires. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 6 indexed citations
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Kronmüller, H. & S. Parkin. (2007). Novel techniques for characterizing and preparing samples. John Wiley & Sons eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Hayashi, Masamitsu, Luc Thomas, Charles Rettner, et al.. (2007). Current Driven Domain Wall Velocities Exceeding the Spin Angular Momentum Transfer Rate in Permalloy Nanowires. Physical Review Letters. 98(3). 37204–37204. 206 indexed citations
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Parkin, S., Christian Kaiser, Alex Panchula, et al.. (2004). Giant tunnelling magnetoresistance at room temperature with MgO (100) tunnel barriers. Nature Materials. 3(12). 862–867. 2488 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dijken, Sebastiaan van, Xin Jiang, & S. Parkin. (2003). Nonmonotonic Bias Voltage Dependence of the Magnetocurrent in GaAs-Based Magnetic Tunnel Transistors. Physical Review Letters. 90(19). 197203–197203. 30 indexed citations

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