Thomas Olsen

13.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
83 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Thomas Olsen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Olsen has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Materials Chemistry, 37 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Olsen's work include 2D Materials and Applications (26 papers), Graphene research and applications (17 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (17 papers). Thomas Olsen is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (26 papers), Graphene research and applications (17 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (17 papers). Thomas Olsen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Spain. Thomas Olsen's co-authors include Kristian S. Thygesen, Karsten W. Jacobsen, Falco Hüser, John N. Friedman, Raj Chetty, Luigi Pistaferri, Simone Latini, Thorsten Deilmann, Jens Jørgen Mortensen and Jakob Schiøtz and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Olsen

80 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

The Computational 2D Materials Database: high-throughput modeling and discovery of atomically thin crystals

2018 875 citations Mikkel Strange, Mohnish Pandey et al. 2D Materials profile →
Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records

2011 469 citations Thomas Olsen et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Olsen Denmark	29	3.1k	1.4k	1.2k	573	394	83	4.5k
Karl Brünner Germany	42	2.0k 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	2.8k 2.3×	393 0.7×	55 0.1×	339	7.0k
Peter D. Haynes United Kingdom	35	1.3k 0.4×	648 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	240 0.4×	161 0.4×	115	3.6k
Kyuho Lee United States	36	4.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	643 1.1×	423 1.1×	97	6.9k
Geoffrey Pridham United Kingdom	21	824 0.3×	2.4k 1.7×	1.2k 1.0×	151 0.3×	88 0.2×	94	4.1k
Jinying Wang China	25	1.8k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	706 0.6×	249 0.4×	338 0.9×	94	3.0k
Peter J. Baker United Kingdom	38	1.1k 0.4×	976 0.7×	479 0.4×	2.9k 5.1×	43 0.1×	164	5.2k
V. Narayanamurti United States	52	3.3k 1.1×	3.1k 2.2×	4.6k 3.8×	1.8k 3.1×	180 0.5×	219	9.6k
J. H. Wood United States	24	764 0.2×	237 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	338 0.6×	58 0.1×	64	2.6k
Paul A. Johnson Canada	23	937 0.3×	5.5k 3.9×	975 0.8×	227 0.4×	82 0.2×	67	7.5k
Christopher S. Allen United Kingdom	36	2.5k 0.8×	2.2k 1.6×	332 0.3×	282 0.5×	1.4k 3.5×	179	5.4k

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Olsen, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Magnetoelectric behavior of breathing kagomé monolayers of Nb 3 X 8 , X = ( Cl , Br , I ) from first-principles calculations. 2D Materials. 12(3). 35004–35004. 4 indexed citations

Olsen, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Effect of Hubbard U-corrections on the electronic and magnetic properties of 2D materials: a high-throughput study. npj Computational Materials. 11(1). 18–18. 6 indexed citations

Olsen, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Implementation of the magnetic force theorem for large-scale calculations of magnon bands: Application to yttrium iron garnet. Physical review. B.. 112(20).

Olsen, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Two-dimensional altermagnets from high throughput computational screening: Symmetry requirements, chiral magnons, and spin-orbit effects. Applied Physics Letters. 124(18). 61 indexed citations

Qiu, Zhizhan, Yixuan Han, Zhaolong Chen, et al.. (2024). Evidence for electron–hole crystals in a Mott insulator. Nature Materials. 23(8). 1055–1062. 8 indexed citations

Kangsabanik, Jiban, et al.. (2024). Selenium and the role of defects for photovoltaic applications. Physical Review Materials. 8(1). 6 indexed citations

Rasmussen, Asbjørn, et al.. (2024). High-throughput computational stacking reveals emergent properties in natural van der Waals bilayers. Nature Communications. 15(1). 932–932. 27 indexed citations

Taghizadeh, Alireza, Urko Petralanda, Kristian S. Thygesen, et al.. (2023). Shift current photovoltaic efficiency of 2D materials. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 24 indexed citations

Lyu, Pin, Zhizhan Qiu, Anton Tadich, et al.. (2023). Gate-Tunable Renormalization of Spin-Correlated Flat-Band States and Bandgap in a 2D Magnetic Insulator. ACS Nano. 17(16). 15441–15448. 8 indexed citations

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Petralanda, Urko, et al.. (2023). Two-dimensional ferroelectrics from high throughput computational screening. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 37 indexed citations

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Olsen, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Type II multiferroic order in two-dimensional transition metal halides from first principles spin-spiral calculations. 2D Materials. 10(3). 35016–35016. 19 indexed citations

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Olsen, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Plane wave implementation of the magnetic force theorem for magnetic exchange constants: application to bulk Fe, Co and Ni. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 35(10). 105802–105802. 12 indexed citations

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Larsen, Ask Hjorth, et al.. (2021). Spread-balanced Wannier functions: Robust and automatable orbital localization. Physical review. B.. 104(12). 4 indexed citations

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Olsen, Thomas. (2021). Magnetic anisotropy and exchange interactions of two-dimensional FePS ₃ , NiPS ₃ and MnPS ₃ from first principles calculations. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(31). 314001–314001. 55 indexed citations

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Vannucci, Luca, Urko Petralanda, Asbjørn Rasmussen, Thomas Olsen, & Kristian S. Thygesen. (2020). Anisotropic properties of monolayer 2D materials: An overview from the C2DB database. Journal of Applied Physics. 128(10). 22 indexed citations

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Olsen, Thomas, et al.. (2019). Discovering two-dimensional topological insulators from high-throughput computations. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 63 indexed citations

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Riis-Jensen, Anders C., Thorsten Deilmann, Thomas Olsen, & Kristian S. Thygesen. (2019). Classifying the Electronic and Optical Properties of Janus Monolayers. ACS Nano. 13(11). 13354–13364. 129 indexed citations

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Strange, Mikkel, Mohnish Pandey, Thorsten Deilmann, et al.. (2019). Reply to comment on ‘The Computational 2D Materials Database: high-throughput modeling and discovery of atomically thin crystals’. 2D Materials. 6(4). 48002–48002. 13 indexed citations

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Rauch, Tomáš, Thomas Olsen, David Vanderbilt, & Ivo Souza. (2019). Mirror Chern number in the hybrid Wannier representation. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Strange, Mikkel, Mohnish Pandey, Thorsten Deilmann, et al.. (2018). The Computational 2D Materials Database: high-throughput modeling and discovery of atomically thin crystals. 2D Materials. 5(4). 42002–42002. 875 indexed citations breakdown →

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