Spencer R. Pruitt

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Spencer R. Pruitt is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Spencer R. Pruitt has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 4 papers in Spectroscopy and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Spencer R. Pruitt's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (13 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (11 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (3 papers). Spencer R. Pruitt is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (13 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (11 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (3 papers). Spencer R. Pruitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. Spencer R. Pruitt's co-authors include Mark S. Gordon, Dmitri G. Fedorov, Lyudmila V. Slipchenko, Jonathan M. Mullin, Luke Roskop, Jerry A. Boatz, Michael A. Collins, Kurt R. Brorsen, Colleen Bertoni and Casper Steinmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Accounts of Chemical Research and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

In The Last Decade

Spencer R. Pruitt

16 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Fragmentation Methods: A Route to Accurate Calculations on Large Systems

2011 856 citations Mark S. Gordon, Dmitri G. Fedorov et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Spencer R. Pruitt United States	13	1.0k	405	383	350	272	16	1.5k
Nathan Luehr United States	13	801 0.8×	284 0.7×	422 1.1×	350 1.0×	264 1.0×	14	1.6k
Evgeny Epifanovsky United States	24	1.4k 1.3×	398 1.0×	412 1.1×	355 1.0×	449 1.7×	43	2.0k
Scott Habershon United Kingdom	25	1.5k 1.4×	436 1.1×	743 1.9×	214 0.6×	348 1.3×	74	2.3k
Debashree Ghosh India	21	925 0.9×	294 0.7×	284 0.7×	317 0.9×	368 1.4×	69	1.6k
Jörg Kußmann Germany	21	1.0k 1.0×	651 1.6×	440 1.1×	221 0.6×	223 0.8×	50	1.6k
Saulo A. Vázquez Spain	24	1.1k 1.1×	770 1.9×	310 0.8×	240 0.7×	253 0.9×	106	1.8k
Nicholas J. Russ United States	7	741 0.7×	402 1.0×	332 0.9×	130 0.4×	327 1.2×	8	1.2k
Micah L. Abrams United States	15	951 0.9×	574 1.4×	374 1.0×	175 0.5×	365 1.3×	17	1.6k
Tomasz Janowski United States	17	890 0.9×	311 0.8×	420 1.1×	156 0.4×	377 1.4×	32	1.5k
Frank C. Pickard United States	20	588 0.6×	188 0.5×	286 0.7×	384 1.1×	227 0.8×	39	1.2k

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Pruitt, Spencer R., et al.. (2018). Proton Transfer in 1,2,4-Triazolium Dinitramide: Effect of Aqueous Microsolvation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 122(37). 7443–7454. 2 indexed citations

Pruitt, Spencer R. & Casper Steinmann. (2017). Mapping Interaction Energies in Chorismate Mutase with the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 121(8). 1797–1807. 8 indexed citations

Fedorov, Dmitry A., Spencer R. Pruitt, Kristopher Keipert, Mark S. Gordon, & Sergey A. Varganov. (2016). Ab Initio Multiple Spawning Method for Intersystem Crossing Dynamics: Spin-Forbidden Transitions between ³B₁ and ¹A₁ States of GeH₂. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 120(18). 2911–2919. 47 indexed citations

Pruitt, Spencer R., Hiroya Nakata, Takashi Nagata, et al.. (2016). Importance of Three-Body Interactions in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Water Demonstrated with the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 12(4). 1423–1435. 34 indexed citations

Pruitt, Spencer R., Kurt R. Brorsen, & Mark S. Gordon. (2015). Ab initio investigation of the aqueous solvation of the nitrate ion. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 17(40). 27027–27034. 15 indexed citations

Brorsen, Kurt R., Spencer R. Pruitt, & Mark S. Gordon. (2014). Surface Affinity of the Hydronium Ion: The Effective Fragment Potential and Umbrella Sampling. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 118(49). 14382–14387. 5 indexed citations

Pruitt, Spencer R., Colleen Bertoni, Kurt R. Brorsen, & Mark S. Gordon. (2014). Efficient and Accurate Fragmentation Methods. Accounts of Chemical Research. 47(9). 2786–2794. 72 indexed citations

Pruitt, Spencer R., Sarom S. Leang, Peng Xu, Dmitri G. Fedorov, & Mark S. Gordon. (2013). Hexamers and witchamers: Which hex do you choose?. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. 1021. 70–83. 15 indexed citations

Pruitt, Spencer R., Casper Steinmann, Jan H. Jensen, & Mark S. Gordon. (2013). Fully Integrated Effective Fragment Molecular Orbital Method. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 9(5). 2235–2249. 47 indexed citations

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Pruitt, Spencer R., Matthew A. Addicoat, Michael A. Collins, & Mark S. Gordon. (2012). The fragment molecular orbital and systematic molecular fragmentation methods applied to water clusters. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(21). 7752–7752. 59 indexed citations

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Pruitt, Spencer R., Dmitri G. Fedorov, & Mark S. Gordon. (2012). Geometry Optimizations of Open-Shell Systems with the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 116(20). 4965–4974. 19 indexed citations

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Gordon, Mark S., Dmitri G. Fedorov, Spencer R. Pruitt, & Lyudmila V. Slipchenko. (2011). Fragmentation Methods: A Route to Accurate Calculations on Large Systems. Chemical Reviews. 112(1). 632–672. 856 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fletcher, Graham D., Dmitri G. Fedorov, Spencer R. Pruitt, Theresa L. Windus, & Mark S. Gordon. (2011). Large-Scale MP2 Calculations on the Blue Gene Architecture Using the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 8(1). 75–79. 43 indexed citations

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Gordon, Mark S., Jonathan M. Mullin, Spencer R. Pruitt, et al.. (2009). Accurate Methods for Large Molecular Systems. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 113(29). 9646–9663. 171 indexed citations

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Mullin, Jonathan M., Luke Roskop, Spencer R. Pruitt, Michael A. Collins, & Mark S. Gordon. (2009). Systematic Fragmentation Method and the Effective Fragment Potential: An Efficient Method for Capturing Molecular Energies. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 113(37). 10040–10049. 60 indexed citations

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Pruitt, Spencer R., Dmitri G. Fedorov, Kazuo Kitaura, & Mark S. Gordon. (2009). Open-Shell Formulation of the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 6(1). 1–5. 42 indexed citations

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