Veit Elser

10.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
108 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Veit Elser is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Veit Elser has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Materials Chemistry, 29 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 27 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Veit Elser's work include Quasicrystal Structures and Properties (25 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (24 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (15 papers). Veit Elser is often cited by papers focused on Quasicrystal Structures and Properties (25 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (24 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (15 papers). Veit Elser collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Veit Elser's co-authors include Christopher L. Henley, David A. Huse, Chen Zeng, Robert C. Haddon, Pierre Thibault, N. Duane Loh, David A. Muller, Christopher Christopher, P. W. Leung and Sol M. Grüner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Veit Elser

105 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Crystal and quasicrystal structures in Al-Mn-Si alloys

1985 710 citations Veit Elser et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Indexing problems in quasicrystal diffraction

1985 653 citations Veit Elser profile →
Phase retrieval by iterated projections

2003 490 citations Veit Elser profile →
Electron ptychography of 2D materials to deep sub-ångström resolution

2018 439 citations Yi Jiang, Zhen Chen et al. Nature profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Veit Elser	3.7k	1.8k	1.7k	1.7k	1.2k	108	7.5k
Dimitri D. Vvedensky	2.5k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	239 0.1×	3.5k 2.1×	139 0.1×	212	6.3k
James R. Chelikowsky	11.1k 3.0×	1.7k 1.0×	256 0.2×	10.0k 6.0×	141 0.1×	388	19.6k
J. F. Ziegler	2.0k 0.5×	343 0.2×	2.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.2×	55 0.0×	160	8.1k
John C. H. Spence	2.2k 0.6×	939 0.5×	2.9k 1.7×	1.6k 1.0×	2.3k 2.0×	178	6.2k
Makina Yabashi	2.7k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	6.2k 3.7×	2.2k 1.3×	2.3k 2.0×	531	11.0k
R. H. Ritchie	1.7k 0.5×	717 0.4×	2.7k 1.6×	7.4k 4.4×	518 0.4×	217	13.0k
G. Aeppli	2.9k 0.8×	13.2k 7.4×	436 0.3×	6.2k 3.7×	174 0.1×	329	18.2k
Andrew Zangwill	2.7k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	204 0.1×	5.0k 3.0×	41 0.0×	112	8.0k
Satoshi Watanabe	2.9k 0.8×	713 0.4×	173 0.1×	3.2k 1.9×	71 0.1×	441	7.7k
A. J. Sievers	2.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	172 0.1×	5.3k 3.2×	41 0.0×	334	9.3k

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Elser, Veit. (2023). Packing spheres in high dimensions with moderate computational effort. Physical review. E. 108(3). 34117–34117. 1 indexed citations

Elser, Veit, et al.. (2022). Avoiding traps in nonconvex problems. 4(2).

Elser, Veit. (2021). Reconstructing cellular automata rules from observations at nonconsecutive times. Physical review. E. 104(3). 34301–34301. 2 indexed citations

Jiang, Yi, Zhen Chen, Yimo Han, et al.. (2018). Electron ptychography of 2D materials to deep sub-ångström resolution. Nature. 559(7714). 343–349. 439 indexed citations breakdown →

Wierman, Jennifer L., et al.. (2017). Reconstructing three-dimensional protein crystal intensities from sparse unoriented two-axis X-ray diffraction patterns. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 50(4). 985–993. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Yao, Kai Ma, Katherine A. Spoth, et al.. (2017). Formation pathways of mesoporous silica nanoparticles with dodecagonal tiling. Nature Communications. 8(1). 252–252. 66 indexed citations

Ayyer, Kartik, et al.. (2016). Dragonfly: an implementation of the expand–maximize–compress algorithm for single-particle imaging. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 49(4). 1320–1335. 49 indexed citations

Hovden, Robert, Peter Ercius, Yi Jiang, et al.. (2014). Breaking the Crowther limit: Combining depth-sectioning and tilt tomography for high-resolution, wide-field 3D reconstructions. Ultramicroscopy. 140. 26–31. 33 indexed citations

Elser, Veit. (2013). Direct phasing of nanocrystal diffraction. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 69(6). 559–569. 19 indexed citations

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Philipp, Hugh T., Kartik Ayyer, Mark W. Täte, Veit Elser, & Sol M. Grüner. (2012). Solving structure with sparse, randomly-oriented x-ray data. Optics Express. 20(12). 13129–13129. 30 indexed citations

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Elser, Veit, et al.. (2011). Dense-packing crystal structures of physical tetrahedra. Physical Review E. 83(3). 36703–36703. 19 indexed citations

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Loh, N. Duane, Michael J. Bogan, Veit Elser, et al.. (2010). Cryptotomography: Reconstructing 3D Fourier Intensities from Randomly Oriented Single-Shot Diffraction Patterns. Physical Review Letters. 104(22). 225501–225501. 71 indexed citations

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Elser, Veit. (2010). Strategies for processing diffraction data from randomly oriented particles. Ultramicroscopy. 111(7). 788–792. 23 indexed citations

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Elser, Veit, et al.. (2010). Method for dense packing discovery. Physical Review E. 82(5). 56707–56707. 9 indexed citations

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Elser, Veit, et al.. (2009). A dense periodic packing of tetrahedra with a small repeating unit. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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Loh, N. Duane & Veit Elser. (2009). Reconstruction algorithm for single-particle diffraction imaging experiments. Physical Review E. 80(2). 26705–26705. 183 indexed citations

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Elser, Veit, et al.. (2008). Reconstruction of an object from its symmetry-averaged diffraction pattern. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 64(2). 273–279. 53 indexed citations

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Elser, Veit. (2003). Solution of the crystallographic phase problem by iterated projections. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 59(3). 201–209. 103 indexed citations

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Elser, Veit & N. J. A. Sloane. (1987). A highly symmetric four-dimensional quasicrystal. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 20(18). 6161–6167. 42 indexed citations

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Elser, Veit. (1983). REPEAT-FREE SEQUENCES. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 23(11). 3744–3748. 2 indexed citations

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