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D-Index
57
Citations
14271
World Ranking
2610
National Ranking
794

Alan J. H. McGaughey publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan J. H. McGaughey sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 197 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Alan J. H. McGaughey D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan J. H. McGaughey sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Alan J. H. McGaughey is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of materials science and engineering, with substantial contributions to materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, civil and structural engineering, and inorganic chemistry.

The scientist's recent papers highlight work on thermal properties and materials, machine learning applications in materials science, and metal-organic frameworks. Notable recent publications include: "Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks" (2021, Nature Materials), "Observation of reduced thermal conductivity in a metal-organic framework due to the presence of adsorbates" (2020, Nature Communications), "High-throughput screening of hypothetical metal-organic frameworks for thermal conductivity" (2023, npj Computational Materials), "XGBoost model for electrocaloric temperature change prediction in ceramics" (2022, npj Computational Materials), and "Hybridization from Guest-Host Interactions Reduces the Thermal Conductivity of Metal-Organic Frameworks" (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society).

Frequent coauthors include Jonathan A. Malen, Jie Gong, B. Reeja-Jayan, Patrick E. Hopkins, and Austin M. Evans.

Major publication venues where their work frequently appears are the Journal of Applied Physics, arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, and npj Computational Materials.

The scientist's main fields of study involve:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

Subfields of their research include:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Inorganic Chemistry

The main topics they investigate comprise:

  • Thermal properties of materials
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity

Alan J. H. McGaughey has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 2016.

Best Publications

  • Reassessing fast water transport through carbon nanotubes.

    John A. Thomas;Alan J. H. McGaughey

  • Broadband phonon mean free path contributions to thermal conductivity measured using frequency domain thermoreflectance.

    Keith T. Regner;Daniel P. Sellan;Zonghui Su;Cristina H. Amon;Cristina H. Amon

  • Strongly anisotropic in-plane thermal transport in single-layer black phosphorene

    Ankit Jain;Alan J. H. McGaughey

  • Size effects in molecular dynamics thermal conductivity predictions

    Daniel P. Sellan;Eric S. Landry;J. E. Turney;Alan J.H. McGaughey

  • Water flow in carbon nanotubes: transition to subcontinuum transport.

    John A. Thomas;Alan J. H. McGaughey

  • Quantitative validation of the Boltzmann transport equation phonon thermal conductivity model under the single-mode relaxation time approximation

    A. J. H. McGaughey;M. Kaviany

  • Predicting phonon dispersion relations and lifetimes from the spectral energy density

    John A. Thomas;Joseph E. Turney;Ryan M. Iutzi;Cristina H. Amon;Cristina H. Amon

  • Predicting phonon properties and thermal conductivity from anharmonic lattice dynamics calculations and molecular dynamics simulations

    J. E. Turney;E. S. Landry;A. J. H. McGaughey;C. H. Amon;C. H. Amon

  • Thermal boundary resistance predictions from molecular dynamics simulations and theoretical calculations

    E. S. Landry;A. J. H. McGaughey

  • Thermal conductivity decomposition and analysis using molecular dynamics simulations. Part I. Lennard-Jones argon

    A.J.H. McGaughey;M. Kaviany

  • Phonon transport in molecular dynamics simulations: Formulation and thermal conductivity prediction.

    Alan J. H. McGaughey

  • Thermal conductivity accumulation in amorphous silica and amorphous silicon

    Jason M. Larkin;Alan J. H. McGaughey

  • Thermal conductivity decomposition and analysis using molecular dynamics simulations Part II. Complex silica structures

    A.J.H. McGaughey;M. Kaviany

  • Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks.

    Austin M. Evans;Ashutosh Giri;Ashutosh Giri;Vinod K. Sangwan;Sangni Xun;Sangni Xun

  • Surface chemistry mediates thermal transport in three-dimensional nanocrystal arrays

    Wee-Liat Ong;Sara M. Rupich;Dmitri V. Talapin;Alan J. H. McGaughey

  • Thermal conductivity of a metal-organic framework (MOF-5): Part II. Measurement

    Baoling Huang;Z. Ni;A. Millward;A.J.H. Mcgaughey

  • Thermal transport by phonons and electrons in aluminum, silver, and gold from first principles

    Ankit Jain;Alan J. H. McGaughey

  • Assessing the applicability of quantum corrections to classical thermal conductivity predictions

    J. E. Turney;A. J. H. McGaughey;C. H. Amon;C. H. Amon

  • Phonon properties and thermal conductivity from first principles, lattice dynamics, and the Boltzmann transport equation

    Alan J. H. McGaughey;Ankit Jain;Hyun-Young Kim

  • Thermal conductivity of metal-organic framework 5 (MOF-5): Part I. Molecular dynamics simulations

    Baoling Huang;A.J.H. McGaughey;M. Kaviany

  • Strongly anisotropic in-plane thermal transport in single-layer black

    Alan J. H. McGaughey

Frequent Co-Authors

Cristina H. Amon
Cristina H. Amon University of Toronto
Massoud Kaviany
Massoud Kaviany University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gary K. Fedder
Gary K. Fedder Carnegie Mellon University
Xiulin Ruan
Xiulin Ruan Purdue University West Lafayette
Simon R. Phillpot
Simon R. Phillpot University of Florida
Judith C. Yang
Judith C. Yang Brookhaven National Laboratory
Andrew J. Gellman
Andrew J. Gellman Carnegie Mellon University
Susan B. Sinnott
Susan B. Sinnott Pennsylvania State University
Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan Carnegie Mellon University
Xavier Roy
Xavier Roy Columbia University

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