Troy Van Voorhis

26.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
206 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

About

Troy Van Voorhis is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Troy Van Voorhis has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 87 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 75 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Troy Van Voorhis's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (66 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (54 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (31 papers). Troy Van Voorhis is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (66 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (54 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (31 papers). Troy Van Voorhis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Troy Van Voorhis's co-authors include Qin Wu, Oleg A. Vydrov, Marc A. Baldo, Gustavo E. Scuseria, Lee‐Ping Wang, Martin Head‐Gordon, Eric Hontz, Daniel N. Congreve, Shane R. Yost and Tianyu Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Troy Van Voorhis

204 papers receiving 15.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Nonlocal van der Waals density functional: The simpler the better

2010 957 citations Troy Van Voorhis et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
External Quantum Efficiency Above 100% in a Singlet-Exciton-Fission–Based Organic Photovoltaic Cell

2013 776 citations Troy Van Voorhis, Marc A. Baldo et al. profile →
A novel form for the exchange-correlation energy functional

1998 653 citations Troy Van Voorhis et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
Solid-state infrared-to-visible upconversion sensitized by colloidal nanocrystals

2015 457 citations Mengfei Wu, Nadav Geva et al. profile →
A pyridinic Fe-N4 macrocycle models the active sites in Fe/N-doped carbon electrocatalysts

2020 442 citations Nathan D. Ricke, Troy Van Voorhis et al. Nature Communications profile →
A transferable model for singlet-fission kinetics

2014 399 citations Moungi G. Bawendi, Timothy M. Swager et al. profile →
Energy harvesting of non-emissive triplet excitons in tetracene by emissive PbS nanocrystals

2014 229 citations Mengfei Wu, Nadav Geva et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Troy Van Voorhis United States	66	6.9k	6.5k	5.5k	2.4k	2.0k	206	15.5k
Wei‐Hai Fang China	58	4.2k 0.6×	7.2k 1.1×	2.8k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	2.5k 1.2×	529	13.8k
Andreas Görling Germany	64	3.6k 0.5×	7.6k 1.2×	7.2k 1.3×	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	309	14.5k
David H. Waldeck United States	64	6.7k 1.0×	5.6k 0.9×	5.1k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	263	15.2k
Ilaria Ciofini France	56	3.0k 0.4×	5.9k 0.9×	2.5k 0.5×	3.3k 1.4×	3.9k 1.9×	273	12.8k
Oleg A. Vydrov United States	24	6.6k 1.0×	14.1k 2.2×	6.2k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	26	21.6k
Paul C. Redfern United States	50	3.9k 0.6×	6.8k 1.0×	7.6k 1.4×	2.8k 1.2×	7.5k 3.7×	117	20.8k
Gotthard Seifert Germany	82	7.7k 1.1×	19.2k 3.0×	6.9k 1.2×	1.7k 0.7×	4.8k 2.3×	435	28.6k
Noel S. Hush Australia	61	4.7k 0.7×	4.5k 0.7×	5.5k 1.0×	4.0k 1.7×	2.5k 1.2×	284	14.0k
Paula Mori‐Sánchez Spain	32	2.7k 0.4×	6.6k 1.0×	5.9k 1.1×	3.6k 1.5×	4.4k 2.1×	43	16.6k
Dominik Marx Germany	68	3.1k 0.5×	6.0k 0.9×	11.2k 2.0×	2.7k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	304	19.5k

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Bastidas, V. M., et al.. (2025). Unification of finite symmetries in the simulation of many-body systems on quantum computers. Physical review. A. 111(5). 1 indexed citations

Cho, Minsik, Oskar Weser, Hong‐Zhou Ye, et al.. (2025). QuEmb: A Toolbox for Bootstrap Embedding Calculations of Molecular and Periodic Systems. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 129(28). 6538–6551. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Tianyang, Julius J. Oppenheim, Luming Yang, et al.. (2025). High-resolution structure of Zn ₃ (HOTP) ₂ (HOTP = hexaoxidotriphenylene), a three-dimensional conductive MOF. Chemical Science. 16(27). 12416–12420. 2 indexed citations

Voorhis, Troy Van, et al.. (2025). The Embedded Density Matrix Renormalization Group: Size-Extensive and Quasi-Exact for Nonlinear Quantum Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 21(16). 7818–7829. 1 indexed citations

Cho, Minsik, et al.. (2025). High Ground State Overlap via Quantum Embedding Methods. 3(1). 7 indexed citations

Cho, Minsik, et al.. (2024). Bootstrap Embedding for Molecules in Extended Basis Sets. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(24). 10912–10921. 8 indexed citations

Xue, Ci, et al.. (2024). Sensitivity analysis of aromatic chemistry to gas-phase kinetics in a dark molecular cloud model. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(42). 26734–26747. 3 indexed citations

Nam, Taewook, et al.. (2024). Removing defects from sputter damage on InGaP surfaces using thermal atomic layer etching. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films. 42(6). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Yuan, et al.. (2023). Bootstrap Embedding on a Quantum Computer. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(8). 2230–2247. 13 indexed citations

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Shulenberger, Katherine E., Alexandra R. McIsaac, Tamar Goldzak, et al.. (2021). Resolving the Triexciton Recombination Pathway in CdSe/CdS Nanocrystals through State-Specific Correlation Measurements. Nano Letters. 21(18). 7457–7464. 19 indexed citations

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Lin, Zhou, et al.. (2020). Toward Prediction of Nonradiative Decay Pathways in Organic Compounds II: Two Internal Conversion Channels in BODIPYs. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(7). 3925–3938. 62 indexed citations

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McIsaac, Alexandra R., Valerie Vaissier Welborn, Markus Einzinger, et al.. (2020). Investigation of External Quantum Efficiency Roll-Off in OLEDs Using the Mean-Field Steady-State Kinetic Model. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(27). 14424–14431. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Yayuan, Hong‐Zhou Ye, Kyle M. Diederichsen, Troy Van Voorhis, & T. Alan Hatton. (2020). Electrochemically mediated carbon dioxide separation with quinone chemistry in salt-concentrated aqueous media. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2278–2278. 143 indexed citations

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Geva, Nadav, Lea Nienhaus, Mengfei Wu, et al.. (2019). A Heterogeneous Kinetics Model for Triplet Exciton Transfer in Solid-State Upconversion. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(11). 3147–3152. 31 indexed citations

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Lin, Zhou, et al.. (2018). Superhydrophobic, Surfactant‐doped, Conducting Polymers for Electrochemically Reversible Adsorption of Organic Contaminants. Advanced Functional Materials. 28(32). 42 indexed citations

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Fomine, Serguei, et al.. (2018). Exploring Low Internal Reorganization Energies for Silicene Nanoclusters. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Pan, Sibo Lin, Zhou Lin, et al.. (2018). A Semiconducting Conjugated Radical Polymer: Ambipolar Redox Activity and Faraday Effect. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(34). 10881–10889. 48 indexed citations

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Pelzer, Kenley M., Álvaro Vázquez‐Mayagoitia, Laura E. Ratcliff, et al.. (2017). Molecular dynamics and charge transport in organic semiconductors: a classical approach to modeling electron transfer. Chemical Science. 8(4). 2597–2609. 13 indexed citations

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Mavros, Michael G., Diptarka Hait, & Troy Van Voorhis. (2016). Condensed phase electron transfer beyond the Condon approximation. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 145(21). 214105–214105. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiahao, et al.. (2013). Densities of states for disordered systems from free probability. Physical Review Letters. 1 indexed citations

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