Tom Lancaster

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Tom Lancaster is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Lancaster has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 104 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 34 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Tom Lancaster's work include Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (80 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (66 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (54 papers). Tom Lancaster is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (80 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (66 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (54 papers). Tom Lancaster collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Tom Lancaster's co-authors include Stephen J. Blundell, F. L. Pratt, Peter J. Baker, Simon J. Clarke, Isabel Franke, W. Hayes, Jamie L. Manson, C. Baines, M. L. Brooks and S. J. Blundell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Tom Lancaster

172 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Spin Waves and Revised Crystal Structure of Honeycomb Iri... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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. Spin Waves and Revised Crystal Structure of Honeycomb IridateNa2IrO3
    2012 469 citations Tom Lancaster, Peter J. Baker et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tom Lancaster United Kingdom 34 3.0k 2.8k 734 706 515 178 4.3k
C. Baines Switzerland 38 3.5k 1.1× 4.3k 1.6× 869 1.2× 945 1.3× 282 0.5× 173 5.0k
Y. J. Uemura United States 38 4.4k 1.4× 6.3k 2.3× 1.2k 1.6× 1.3k 1.8× 347 0.7× 164 7.4k
H. Keller Switzerland 48 5.6k 1.8× 6.9k 2.5× 1.7k 2.3× 1.4k 2.0× 350 0.7× 320 8.9k
Ch. Niedermayer Germany 45 4.8k 1.6× 5.6k 2.0× 1.7k 2.3× 1.3k 1.9× 165 0.3× 213 7.5k
A. Amato Switzerland 48 7.0k 2.3× 7.8k 2.8× 1.6k 2.2× 1.5k 2.1× 518 1.0× 407 9.8k
P. Carretta Italy 29 1.8k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 748 1.0× 476 0.7× 276 0.5× 159 3.0k
H. Luetkens Switzerland 45 5.1k 1.7× 5.3k 1.9× 1.4k 1.9× 1.6k 2.3× 369 0.7× 276 7.4k
R. Khasanov Switzerland 43 5.5k 1.8× 5.7k 2.0× 827 1.1× 1.1k 1.6× 379 0.7× 261 7.3k
G. M. Luke United States 53 6.6k 2.2× 9.1k 3.3× 1.9k 2.7× 1.9k 2.6× 502 1.0× 308 10.9k
R. Follath Germany 39 1.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 1.2k 1.6× 994 1.4× 149 0.3× 130 4.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Lancaster

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Lancaster

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Manuel, Pascal, J. R. Stewart, Manh Duc Le, et al.. (2025). Magnetic properties of a staggered S=1 chain with an alternating single-ion anisotropy direction. Physical review. B.. 111(1). 1 indexed citations
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Blundell, Stephen J., Pietro Bonfà, R. De Renzi, et al.. (2025). Electronic structure calculations for muon spectroscopy*. Electronic Structure. 7(2). 23001–23001.
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Mayoh, D. A., M. Gomilšek, Zurab Guguchia, et al.. (2025). Field-orientation-dependent magnetic phases in GdRu2Si2 probed with muon-spin spectroscopy. Physical review. B.. 111(5). 2 indexed citations
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Mayoh, D. A., G. Balakrishnan, J. M. Wilkinson, et al.. (2025). Muon spectroscopy investigation of anomalous dynamic magnetism in NiI2. Physical review. B.. 111(10).
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Williams, Robert C., Pascal Manuel, Stephen J. Blundell, et al.. (2025). Magnetic field induced ordering in the spin-12 chiral chain compound [Cu(pym)(H2O)4]SiF6·H2O. Physical review. B.. 112(5).
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Wang, Chennan, K. Yokoyama, Yu Liu, et al.. (2024). Weyl fermion excitations in the ideal Weyl semimetal CuTlSe2. Physical Review Research. 6(3).
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Manuel, Pascal, Chennan Wang, Stephen J. Blundell, et al.. (2024). Pseudo-easy-axis anisotropy in antiferromagnetic S=1 diamond-lattice systems. Physical review. B.. 110(17). 2 indexed citations
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Gomilšek, M., F. L. Pratt, Stephen P. Cottrell, Stewart J. Clark, & Tom Lancaster. (2023). Many-body quantum muon effects and quadrupolar coupling in solids. Communications Physics. 6(1). 6 indexed citations
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Lancaster, Tom, Stephen J. Blundell, Zurab Guguchia, et al.. (2023). μSR investigation of magnetism in κ−(ET)2X: Antiferromagnetism. Physical Review Research. 5(1).
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Billington, David P., Edward A. Riordan, Stephen P. Cottrell, et al.. (2022). Radio-Frequency Manipulation of State Populations in an Entangled Fluorine-Muon-Fluorine System. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Wilson, M. N., G. Balakrishnan, Chennan Wang, et al.. (2022). Energy-gap driven low-temperature magnetic and transport properties inCr1/3MS2(M= Nb, Ta). Physical review. B.. 105(6). 8 indexed citations
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Gomilšek, M., et al.. (2022). MuFinder: A program to determine and analyse muon stopping sites. Computer Physics Communications. 280. 108488–108488. 18 indexed citations
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Mañas‐Valero, Samuel, et al.. (2021). Quantum phases and spin liquid properties of 1T-TaS2. ePubs (Science and Technology Facilities Council, Research Councils UK). 42 indexed citations
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Blundell, Stephen J., Tom Lancaster, Peter J. Baker, et al.. (2021). The Internal Field in a Ferromagnetic Crystal with Chiral Molecular Packing of Achiral Organic Radicals. Magnetochemistry. 7(5). 71–71. 2 indexed citations
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Kamenskyi, D., Matthew J. Coak, Robert C. Williams, et al.. (2021). Anomalous magnetic exchange in a dimerized quantum magnet composed of unlike spin species. Physical review. B.. 104(21). 2 indexed citations
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Wilson, M. N., M. Gomilšek, Aleš Štefančič, et al.. (2021). Spin dynamics in bulk MnNiGa and Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn investigated by muon spin relaxation. Physical review. B.. 104(13). 3 indexed citations
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Xiao, F., M. Gomilšek, C. Baines, et al.. (2020). Magnetic order and disorder in a quasi-two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet with randomized exchange. Physical review. B.. 102(17). 3 indexed citations
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Franke, Kévin J. A., Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, Max T. Birch, et al.. (2019). Investigating the magnetic ground state of the skyrmion host material Cu2OSeO3 using long-wavelength neutron diffraction. Science and Technology Facilities Council. 2 indexed citations
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Lancaster, Tom, Paul Goddard, Fan Xiao, et al.. (2018). Magnetic order and enhanced exchange in the quasi-one-dimensional molecule-based antiferromagnet Cu(NO3)2(pyz)3. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(3). 1014–1018. 9 indexed citations
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Cortés‐Ortuño, David, Marijan Beg, Thomas Kluyver, et al.. (2018). Proposal for a micromagnetic standard problem for materials with Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction. New Journal of Physics. 20(11). 113015–113015. 34 indexed citations

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