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D-Index
63
Citations
10819
World Ranking
8645
National Ranking
2472

Dor Ben-Amotz publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dor Ben-Amotz sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 233 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Dor Ben-Amotz D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dor Ben-Amotz sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Dor Ben-Amotz is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Chemistry, with a particular focus on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. The body of work includes topics such as Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses, and Thermodynamic properties of mixtures.

The scientist has published extensively, with frequent contributions to journals including The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, and Science.

Key recent papers by Dor Ben-Amotz include:

  • Electric buzz in a glass of pure water, 2022, Science
  • Binding of divalent cations to acetate: molecular simulations guided by Raman spectroscopy, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Spontaneous drying of non-polar deep-cavity cavitand pockets in aqueous solution, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Spectroscopic and Structural Characterization of Water-Shared Ion-Pairs in Aqueous Sodium and Lithium Hydroxide, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Complementarity of FT-IR and Raman spectroscopies for the species discrimination of meat and bone meals related to lipid molecular profiles, 2020, Food Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ben-Amotz include Denílson Mendes de Oliveira, Andrés S. Urbina, Aria J. Bredt, Lyudmila V. Slipchenko, and Fei Gao.

The research areas covered incorporate various subfields such as Analytical Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes. Specific scientific topics consist of:

  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
  • Thermodynamic properties of mixtures
  • Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Molecular spectroscopy and chirality
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Water structural transformation at molecular hydrophobic interfaces

    Joel G. Davis;Kamil P. Gierszal;Ping Wang;Dor Ben-Amotz

  • Estimation of effective diameters for molecular fluids

    Dor. Ben-Amotz;Dudley R. Herschbach

  • Raman Detection of Proteomic Analytes

    Dongmao Zhang;Yong Xie;Melissa F. Mrozek;Corasi Ortiz

  • Quantitative Vibrational Imaging by Hyperspectral Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy and Multivariate Curve Resolution Analysis

    Delong Zhang;Ping Wang;Mikhail N. Slipchenko;Dor Ben-Amotz

  • Water-Mediated Hydrophobic Interactions

    Dor Ben-Amotz

  • Observation of water dangling OH bonds around dissolved nonpolar groups.

    P. N. Perera;K. R. Fega;C. Lawrence;E. J. Sundstrom

  • Oxygen and methylene adducts of C60 and C70

    Joe M. Wood;Bart Kahr;Steven H. Hoke;Lindy Dejarme

  • Torsional dynamics of molecules on barrierless potentials in liquids. I. Temperature and wavelength dependent picosecond studies of triphenyl‐methane dyes

    Dor Ben‐Amotz;C. B. Harris

  • π-Hydrogen Bonding in Liquid Water

    Kamil P. Gierszal;Joel G. Davis;Michael D. Hands;David S. Wilcox

  • The solute size effect in rotational diffusion experiments: A test of microscopic friction theories

    Dor Ben‐Amotz;J. M. Drake

  • On the cooperative formation of non-hydrogen-bonded water at molecular hydrophobic interfaces

    Joel G. Davis;Blake M. Rankin;Kamil P. Gierszal;Dor Ben-Amotz

  • Unraveling water's entropic mysteries: a unified view of nonpolar, polar, and ionic hydration.

    Dor Ben-Amotz;Robin Underwood

  • Evidence for an externally bound Fe+-buckminsterfullerene complex, FeC60 +, in the gas phase

    Lisa M. Roth;Yongqing Huang;Jon T. Schwedler;Carolyn J. Cassady;Carolyn J. Cassady

  • Microscopic frictional forces on molecular motion in liquids. Picosecond rotational diffusion in alkanes and alcohols

    Dor Ben‐Amotz;Thomas W. Scott

  • Isotope Edited Internal Standard Method for Quantitative Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

    Dongmao Zhang;Yong Xie;Shirshendu K. Deb;V. Jo Davison,‡,§ and

  • Micelle Structure and Hydrophobic Hydration.

    Joshua A. Long;Blake M. Rankin;Dor Ben-Amotz

  • Solvation thermodynamics: theory and applications.

    Dor Ben-Amotz;Fernando O. Raineri;George Stell

  • The Interplay of Structure and Dynamics in the Raman Spectrum of Liquid Water over the Full Frequency and Temperature Range

    Tobias Morawietz;Ondrej Marsalek;Shannon R. Pattenaude;Louis M. Streacker

  • Molecular hard-sphere volume increments

    Dor Ben-Amotz;Kelly G. Willis

  • Electric buzz in a glass of pure water

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  • Rapid Micro-Raman Imaging Using Fiber-Bundle Image Compression:

    Jiaying Ma;Dor Ben-Amotz

  • Identification of insulin variants using Raman spectroscopy.

    Corasi Ortiz;Dongmao Zhang;Yong Xie;V. Jo Davisson

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir M. Shalaev
Vladimir M. Shalaev Purdue University West Lafayette
George Stell
George Stell Stony Brook University
Bart Kahr
Bart Kahr New York University
R. Graham Cooks
R. Graham Cooks Purdue University West Lafayette
Lyudmila V. Slipchenko
Lyudmila V. Slipchenko Purdue University West Lafayette
Kersti Hermansson
Kersti Hermansson Uppsala University
Dudley R. Herschbach
Dudley R. Herschbach Harvard University
Philip S. Low
Philip S. Low Purdue University West Lafayette
Raphael D. Levine
Raphael D. Levine Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mostafa A. El-Sayed
Mostafa A. El-Sayed Georgia Institute of Technology

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