William I. F. David

23.0k total citations · 10 hit papers
252 papers, 18.3k citations indexed

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William I. F. David is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, William I. F. David has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 18.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 181 papers in Materials Chemistry, 74 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 46 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in William I. F. David's work include X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (79 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (71 papers) and Hydrogen Storage and Materials (47 papers). William I. F. David is often cited by papers focused on X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (79 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (71 papers) and Hydrogen Storage and Materials (47 papers). William I. F. David collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. William I. F. David's co-authors include John B. Goodenough, Kenneth Shankland, M. M. Thackeray, Peter P. Edwards, R.M. Ibberson, Peter G. Bruce, Agustín Valera-Medina, Hua Xiao, Phil Bowen and В. Л. Кузнецов and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

William I. F. David

251 papers receiving 17.7k 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.

Ammonia for power

2018 1.9k citations Agustín Valera-Medina, Hua Xiao et al. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science profile →
Lithium insertion into manganese spinels

1983 1.5k citations M. M. Thackeray, William I. F. David et al. profile →
Hydrogen and fuel cells: Towards a sustainable energy future

2008 924 citations Peter P. Edwards, William I. F. David et al. profile →
Crystal structure and bonding of ordered C60

1991 784 citations William I. F. David, R.M. Ibberson et al. Nature profile →
High-capacity hydrogen storage in lithium and sodium amidoboranes

2007 552 citations Zhitao Xiong, Chaw‐Keong Yong et al. Nature Materials profile →
Structural Phase Transitions in the Fullerene C ₆₀

1992 549 citations William I. F. David, R.M. Ibberson et al. profile →
DASH: a program for crystal structure determination from powder diffraction data

2006 521 citations William I. F. David, Kenneth Shankland et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
Selectivity and direct visualization of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide in a decorated porous host

2012 491 citations Anibal J. Ramirez‐Cuesta, Samantha K. Callear et al. profile →
Structural characterization of the lithiated iron oxides LixFe3O4 and LixFe2O3 (0<x<2)

1982 345 citations William I. F. David, John B. Goodenough et al. profile →
Synthesis and structural characterization of the normal spinel Li[Ni2]O4

1985 315 citations William I. F. David, John B. Goodenough et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William I. F. David United Kingdom	62	11.0k	5.2k	3.3k	2.6k	2.5k	252	18.3k
Koblar Alan Jackson United States	38	15.4k 1.4×	5.6k 1.1×	3.5k 1.1×	2.3k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	119	24.1k
Mark R. Pederson United States	49	17.5k 1.6×	6.5k 1.2×	4.9k 1.5×	2.4k 0.9×	3.3k 1.4×	195	28.1k
J. A. Chevary Canada	9	12.3k 1.1×	4.8k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	11	19.9k
Oleg A. Vydrov United States	24	14.1k 1.3×	6.6k 1.3×	4.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	26	21.6k
Julian D. Gale Australia	70	19.1k 1.7×	8.6k 1.6×	3.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	306	30.5k
Gábor I. Csonka Hungary	38	9.5k 0.9×	4.0k 0.8×	3.5k 1.0×	738 0.3×	1.5k 0.6×	116	15.5k
Adrienn Ruzsinszky United States	40	12.6k 1.1×	5.2k 1.0×	4.4k 1.3×	961 0.4×	1.0k 0.4×	114	19.3k
Richard L. Martin United States	66	10.0k 0.9×	3.1k 0.6×	2.6k 0.8×	801 0.3×	3.5k 1.4×	191	18.5k
Bo B. Iversen Denmark	76	16.5k 1.5×	5.8k 1.1×	4.8k 1.4×	646 0.2×	1.5k 0.6×	584	22.6k

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Valera-Medina, Agustín, et al.. (2018). Ammonia for power. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. 69. 63–102. 1859 indexed citations breakdown →

Nuttall, Christopher J., Brian E. Hayden, Samuel Guérin, et al.. (2011). A multidisciplinary combinatorial approach for tuning promising hydrogen storage materials towards automotive applications. Faraday Discussions. 151. 369–369. 12 indexed citations

Ryan, Kate R., Anibal J. Ramirez‐Cuesta, Keith Refson, et al.. (2011). A combined experimental inelastic neutron scattering, Raman and ab initio lattice dynamics study of α-lithium amidoborane. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(26). 12249–12249. 12 indexed citations

Xiong, Zhitao, Chaw‐Keong Yong, Guotao Wu, et al.. (2007). High-capacity hydrogen storage in lithium and sodium amidoboranes. Nature Materials. 7(2). 138–141. 552 indexed citations breakdown →

David, William I. F., Marco Sommariva, Martin O. Jones, Stephen E. Johnson, & Peter P. Edwards. (2007). In-situneutron diffraction and gravimetric studies of H₂cycling in hydrides. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 63(a1). s76–s76. 1 indexed citations

David, William I. F., Martin O. Jones, Duncan H. Gregory, et al.. (2007). A Mechanism for Non-stoichiometry in the Lithium Amide/Lithium Imide Hydrogen Storage Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129(6). 1594–1601. 220 indexed citations

David, William I. F. & Kenneth Shankland. (2007). Structure determination from powder diffraction data. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 64(1). 52–64. 260 indexed citations

David, William I. F., Kenneth Shankland, Jacco van de Streek, et al.. (2006). DASH: a program for crystal structure determination from powder diffraction data. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 39(6). 910–915. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

Shankland, Kenneth, et al.. (2005). Rapid structure solution using global optimisation and distributed computing. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 61(a1). c37–c37. 1 indexed citations

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David, William I. F., Kenneth Shankland, & Anders J. Markvardsen. (2003). Extending the Power of Global Optimisation Methods in Direct Space Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Data. Crystallography Reviews. 9(1). 3–15. 1 indexed citations

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Markvardsen, Anders J., William I. F. David, & Kenneth Shankland. (2002). A maximum-likelihood method for global-optimization-based structure determination from powder diffraction data. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 58(4). 316–326. 19 indexed citations

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David, William I. F.. (1999). On the number of independent reflections in a powder diffraction pattern. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 32(4). 654–663. 16 indexed citations

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Shankland, Kenneth, et al.. (1996). Constrained Rietveld refinement of [β-¹H₁]decadeuteriodopamine deuteriobromide using powder neutron diffraction data. Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions. 92(22). 4555–4559. 5 indexed citations

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Marezio, M., J.J. Capponi, P. G. Radaelli, et al.. (1994). The Hg-bearing cuprate superconductors: the relationship between the oxygen content and T c in Hg-1212 and the effect of pressure on the structure and T c in Hg-1223.. European Journal of Solid State and Inorganic Chemistry. 31. 843–854. 16 indexed citations

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Darlington, C. N. W., William I. F. David, & K. S. Knight. (1994). Structural study of barium titanate between 150 and 425 K. Phase Transitions. 48(4). 217–236. 23 indexed citations

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David, William I. F., R.M. Ibberson, & T. Matsuo. (1993). High resolution neutron powder diffraction: a case study of the structure of C60. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 442(1914). 129–146. 113 indexed citations

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Soper, Alan K., William I. F. David, D.S. Sivia, et al.. (1992). A pair correlation function study of the structure of C₆₀. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 4(28). 6087–6094. 29 indexed citations

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David, William I. F., et al.. (1988). The High Resolution Powder Diffractometer at ISIS - an introductory users guide. 9 indexed citations

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David, William I. F., M. M. Thackeray, L.A. de Picciotto, & John B. Goodenough. (1987). Structure refinement of the spinel-related phases Li2Mn2O4 and Li0.2Mn2O4. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 67(2). 316–323. 179 indexed citations

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Cheetham, Anthony K., William I. F. David, M. M. Eddy, et al.. (1986). Crystal structure determination by powder neutron diffraction at the spallation neutron source, ISIS. Nature. 320(6057). 46–48. 39 indexed citations

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