Werner Butscher

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Werner Butscher is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Werner Butscher has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 5 papers in Spectroscopy and 3 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Werner Butscher's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (10 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (7 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (3 papers). Werner Butscher is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (10 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (7 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (3 papers). Werner Butscher collaborates with scholars based in Germany and Japan. Werner Butscher's co-authors include Robert J. Buenker, Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff, W.E. Kammer, Shing-Kuo Shih, W. H. Eugen Schwarz, Andreas Barth, H. Friedrich, P. Rabe, B. Sonntag and W. Schwarz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Computational Physics, Chemical Physics Letters and Molecular Physics.

In The Last Decade

Werner Butscher

15 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Applicability of the multi-reference double-excitation CI... 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 250 500 750
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. Applicability of the multi-reference double-excitation CI (MRD-CI) method to the calculation of electronic wavefunctions and comparison with related techniques
    1978 920 citations Robert J. Buenker, Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff et al. Molecular Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Werner Butscher Germany 12 1.3k 454 250 228 221 15 1.4k
Frank O. Ellison United States 21 1.6k 1.2× 525 1.2× 353 1.4× 242 1.1× 212 1.0× 63 1.8k
Martin Jungen Switzerland 24 1.7k 1.3× 794 1.7× 282 1.1× 140 0.6× 314 1.4× 93 1.9k
Stephen V. O'Neil United States 26 1.6k 1.2× 796 1.8× 231 0.9× 167 0.7× 305 1.4× 42 2.0k
Richard C. Raffenetti United States 14 1.0k 0.8× 330 0.7× 202 0.8× 221 1.0× 101 0.5× 18 1.2k
William J. Hunt United States 16 1.4k 1.0× 512 1.1× 349 1.4× 224 1.0× 212 1.0× 19 1.6k
I. Dubois Belgium 18 778 0.6× 465 1.0× 113 0.5× 258 1.1× 196 0.9× 87 1.1k
K. Jankowski Poland 27 2.4k 1.8× 506 1.1× 343 1.4× 353 1.5× 254 1.1× 114 2.6k
Magnus Rittby Sweden 17 1.7k 1.3× 401 0.9× 317 1.3× 282 1.2× 290 1.3× 27 2.0k
G. Das United States 21 1.5k 1.1× 441 1.0× 285 1.1× 291 1.3× 179 0.8× 55 1.8k
C. A. Nicolaides Greece 31 2.5k 1.9× 647 1.4× 147 0.6× 299 1.3× 137 0.6× 141 2.8k

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Hsiung, Christopher C. & Werner Butscher. (1984). A numerical seismic 3-D migration model for vector multiprocessors. Parallel Computing. 1(2). 113–120. 3 indexed citations
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Schneider, D., R. Bruch, Werner Butscher, & W. Schwarz. (1981). Prompt and time-delayed electron decay-in-flight spectra of gas-excited carbon ions. Physical review. A, General physics. 24(3). 1223–1236. 32 indexed citations
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Butscher, Werner, et al.. (1981). Complex two- and four-index transformation over two-component kramers-degenerate spinors. Chemical Physics Letters. 77(2). 359–364. 21 indexed citations
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Buenker, Robert J., et al.. (1980). Configuration interaction study of the electronic spectrum of furan. Chemical Physics. 47(3). 313–320. 19 indexed citations
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Barth, Andreas, Robert J. Buenker, Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff, & Werner Butscher. (1980). Theoretical study of the core-ionized and various core-excited and shake-up states of acetylene and ethylene by ab initio MRD-CI methods. Chemical Physics. 46(1-2). 149–164. 67 indexed citations
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Friedrich, H., B. Sonntag, P. Rabe, Werner Butscher, & W. H. Eugen Schwarz. (1979). Term-values and valence-rydberg mixing in core-excited states, SiH4 and PH3. Chemical Physics Letters. 64(2). 360–366. 59 indexed citations
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Butscher, Werner, et al.. (1978). A non-empirical SCF and CI study of the electronic spectrum of pyrrole. Chemical Physics Letters. 57(2). 224–229. 29 indexed citations
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Schwarz, W., et al.. (1978). Core-excited molecular states: theoretical and experimental investigation of the Li2molecule. Journal of Physics B Atomic and Molecular Physics. 11(4). 591–602. 22 indexed citations
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Shih, Shing-Kuo, Werner Butscher, Robert J. Buenker, & Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff. (1978). Calculation of the vertical electronic spectrum of the nitrogen molecule using the mrd-ci method. Chemical Physics. 29(1-2). 241–252. 33 indexed citations
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Buenker, Robert J., Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff, & Werner Butscher. (1978). Applicability of the multi-reference double-excitation CI (MRD-CI) method to the calculation of electronic wavefunctions and comparison with related techniques. Molecular Physics. 35(3). 771–791. 920 indexed citations breakdown →
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Butscher, Werner & Hans‐Herbert Schmidtke. (1978). An investigation of the two electron chemical bond calculating energy expectation values from density matrix partitionings. II. The heteronuclear case HeH+. Chemical Physics. 30(1). 41–51. 5 indexed citations
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Butscher, Werner, Robert J. Buenker, & Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff. (1977). All-electron CI calculations for core-ionized, core-valence excited and shake-up states of N2. Chemical Physics Letters. 52(3). 449–456. 61 indexed citations
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Butscher, Werner, Shing-Kuo Shih, Robert J. Buenker, & Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff. (1977). Configuration interaction calculations for the N2 molecule and its three lowest dissociation limits. Chemical Physics Letters. 52(3). 457–462. 99 indexed citations
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Butscher, Werner & Hans‐Herbert Schmidtke. (1977). An investigation of the two-electron chemical bond calculating energy expectation values from density matrix partitionings.. Chemical Physics. 23(1). 87–96. 7 indexed citations
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Butscher, Werner & W.E. Kammer. (1976). Modification of Davidson's method for the calculation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of large real-symmetric matrices: “root homing procedure”. Journal of Computational Physics. 20(3). 313–325. 70 indexed citations

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