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Erin R. Johnson

Erin R. Johnson

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
32164
World Ranking
11428
National Ranking
311

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, Royal Society of Canada

Overview

Erin R. Johnson is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Their research encompasses Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their recent scholarly output includes publications such as "DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science" (2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics), "Delocalization error: The greatest outstanding challenge in density-functional theory" (2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science), "Requirements for an accurate dispersion-corrected density functional" (2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics), "The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction: structure generation methods" (2024, Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials), and "XDM-corrected hybrid DFT with numerical atomic orbitals predicts molecular crystal lattice energies with unprecedented accuracy" (2022, Chemical Science).

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Mark Stradiotto
  • Alberto Otero-de-la-Roza
  • Alastair J. A. Price
  • Michael J. Ferguson
  • Xibo Feng

Erin R. Johnson's work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • CrystEngComm
  • Chemical Science

The main scientific topics covered by their research are:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Surface Chemistry and Catalysis

Erin R. Johnson's contributions to scientific research have been recognized with awards such as the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry from the Royal Society of Canada in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Revealing noncovalent interactions.

    Erin R. Johnson;Shahar Keinan;Paula Mori-Sánchez;Julia Contreras-García

  • NCIPLOT: A Program for Plotting Noncovalent Interaction Regions

    Julia Contreras-García;Erin R. Johnson;Shahar Keinan;Robin Chaudret

  • Predicting the activity of phenolic antioxidants: theoretical method, analysis of substituent effects, and application to major families of antioxidants.

    James S. Wright;Erin R. Johnson;Gino A. DiLabio

  • A density-functional model of the dispersion interaction

    Axel D. Becke;Erin R. Johnson

  • A simple effective potential for exchange.

    Axel D. Becke;Erin R. Johnson

  • A post-Hartree-Fock model of intermolecular interactions: inclusion of higher-order corrections.

    Erin R. Johnson;Axel D. Becke

  • A post-Hartree-Fock model of intermolecular interactions.

    Erin R. Johnson;Axel D. Becke

  • Critic2: A program for real-space analysis of quantum chemical interactions in solids

    A. Otero-de-la-Roza;Erin R. Johnson;Víctor Luaña

  • Exchange-hole dipole moment and the dispersion interaction.

    Axel D. Becke;Erin R. Johnson

  • Exchange-hole dipole moment and the dispersion interaction revisited.

    Axel D. Becke;Erin R. Johnson

  • Analysis of Hydrogen-Bond Interaction Potentials from the Electron Density: Integration of Noncovalent Interaction Regions

    Julia Contreras-García;Weitao Yang;Erin R. Johnson

  • Dispersion interactions in density-functional theory

    Erin R. Johnson;Iain D. Mackie;Gino A. DiLabio

  • A benchmark for non-covalent interactions in solids

    A. Otero-de-la-Roza;Erin R. Johnson

  • Revealing non-covalent interactions in solids: NCI plots revisited

    Alberto Otero-de-la-Roza;Erin R. Johnson;Julia Contreras-García

  • Exchange-hole dipole moment and the dispersion interaction: high-order dispersion coefficients.

    Axel D. Becke;Erin R. Johnson

  • Application of 25 density functionals to dispersion-bound homomolecular dimers

    Erin R. Johnson;Robert A. Wolkow;Robert A. Wolkow;Gino A. DiLabio

  • Van der Waals interactions in solids using the exchange-hole dipole moment model.

    A. Otero-de-la-Roza;Erin R. Johnson

  • A unified density-functional treatment of dynamical, nondynamical, and dispersion correlations.

    Axel D. Becke;Erin R. Johnson

  • Lone Pair−π and π−π Interactions Play an Important Role in Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions

    Gino A DiLabio;Erin R Johnson

  • Delocalization errors in density functionals and implications for main-group thermochemistry

    Erin R. Johnson;Paula Mori-Sánchez;Aron J. Cohen;Weitao Yang

  • Dispersion Interactions in Density‐Functional Theory

    Erin R. Johnson;Iain D. Mackie;Gino A. Di Labio

Frequent Co-Authors

Gino A. DiLabio
Gino A. DiLabio University of British Columbia
Axel D. Becke
Axel D. Becke Dalhousie University
Weitao Yang
Weitao Yang Duke University
Ashlie Martini
Ashlie Martini University of California, Merced
Robert A. Wolkow
Robert A. Wolkow University of Alberta
Jenny Nelson
Jenny Nelson Imperial College London
Kim E. Jelfs
Kim E. Jelfs Imperial College London
Matthew J. Fuchter
Matthew J. Fuchter Imperial College London
Jarvist M. Frost
Jarvist M. Frost Imperial College London
Michael J. Ferguson
Michael J. Ferguson University of Alberta

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