William C. Witt

942 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 390 citations indexed

About

William C. Witt is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William C. Witt has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 390 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Materials Chemistry, 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 3 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in William C. Witt's work include Machine Learning in Materials Science (9 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (5 papers) and X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (4 papers). William C. Witt is often cited by papers focused on Machine Learning in Materials Science (9 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (5 papers) and X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (4 papers). William C. Witt collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. William C. Witt's co-authors include Emily A. Carter, Johannes M. Dieterich, Beatriz G. del Rio, Wen Li, George Lauder, Chris J. Pickard, Gábor Cśanyi, Venkat Kapil, Ilyes Batatia and Joshua T. Horton and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Journal of Applied Psychology.

In The Last Decade

William C. Witt

22 papers receiving 374 citations

Hit Papers

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Giovanna Russo Italy

Alexander Hellemans United States

Beatriz G. del Rio Spain

Charles Day United States

W. Jost Germany

Grisell Díaz Leines Germany

Radu A. Miron United States

Lixin Zhan Canada

Sverker Edvardsson Sweden

Tamás Gál Hungary

Giovanna Russo Italy

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212 ×1.6

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Countries citing papers authored by William C. Witt

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Fields of papers citing papers by William C. Witt

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All Works

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Kavanagh, Seán R., et al.. (2026). High-performance training and inference for deep equivariant interatomic potentials. Digital Discovery.

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O’Neill, Niamh, William J. Baldwin, William C. Witt, et al.. (2025). Towards Routine Condensed Phase Simulations with Delta-Learned Coupled Cluster Accuracy: Application to Liquid Water. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 21(22). 11710–11720.

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Witt, William C., et al.. (2024). Vibrational and thermal properties of amorphous alumina from first principles. Physical Review Materials. 8(4). 12 indexed citations

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Pickard, Chris J., et al.. (2023). Automatic differentiation for orbital-free density functional theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(12). 124801–124801. 12 indexed citations

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Joo, Se Hun, et al.. (2023). Developments and further applications of ephemeral data derived potentials. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(14). 17 indexed citations

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Witt, William C., Cas van der Oord, James P. Darby, et al.. (2023). ACEpotentials.jl: A Julia implementation of the atomic cluster expansion. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(16). 28 indexed citations

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Witt, William C., et al.. (2023). Atoms, dimers, and nanoparticles from orbital-free density-potential-functional theory. Physical review. A. 108(6). 2 indexed citations

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Witt, William C., et al.. (2021). Random Structure Searching with Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 125(7). 1650–1660. 12 indexed citations

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Witt, William C., et al.. (2019). A finite element solution to the generalized Onsager model of fluid flow in a countercurrent gas centrifuge. Separation Science and Technology. 55(11). 2072–2079. 3 indexed citations

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Witt, William C. & Emily A. Carter. (2019). Kinetic energy density of nearly free electrons. II. Response functionals of the electron density. Physical review. B.. 100(12). 12 indexed citations

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Witt, William C. & Emily A. Carter. (2019). Kinetic energy density of nearly free electrons. I. Response functionals of the external potential. Physical review. B.. 100(12). 10 indexed citations

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Witt, William C., Beatriz G. del Rio, Johannes M. Dieterich, & Emily A. Carter. (2018). Orbital-free density functional theory for materials research. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 33(7). 777–795. 115 indexed citations

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Dieterich, Johannes M., William C. Witt, & Emily A. Carter. (2017). libKEDF: An accelerated library of kinetic energy density functionals. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 38(17). 1552–1559. 9 indexed citations

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Witt, William C., Wen Li, & George Lauder. (2015). Hydrodynamics of C-Start Escape Responses of Fish as Studied with Simple Physical Models. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 55(4). 728–739. 49 indexed citations

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Untăroiu, Alexandrina, et al.. (2014). Hybrid Analysis of Gas Annular Seals With Energy Equation. Journal of Tribology. 136(3). 14 indexed citations

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Witt, William C., et al.. (2013). Semi-Empirical Method for Developing a Centrifuge Performance Map. Separation Science and Technology. 48(15). 2225–2233. 2 indexed citations

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Witt, William C.. (1979). The Impact of Technology upon Environmental Mass Communications. The Journal of Environmental Education. 11(1). 38–44. 1 indexed citations

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Witt, William C.. (1976). Efects of Quantification in Scientific Writing. Journal of Communication. 26(1). 67–69. 10 indexed citations

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Witt, William C.. (1974). The Environmental Reporter on U.S. Daily Newspapers. Journalism Quarterly. 51(4). 697–704. 15 indexed citations

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Witt, William C.. (1972). Multivariate Analysis of News Flow in a Conservation Issue. Journalism Quarterly. 49(1). 91–97. 2 indexed citations

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