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D-Index
91
Citations
22836
World Ranking
2023
National Ranking
740

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Irving Langmuir Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1997 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For fundamental contributions to the theory of spectroscopy and dynamics in liquids, glasses, and crystals
  • 1993 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1984 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

James L. Skinner is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and specializes primarily in the Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The primary research topics covered in Skinner's work include:

  • Sports, Gender, and Society
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Doping in Sports
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Cardiovascular and exercise physiology

Skinner has contributed to several journals with multiple publications in European Sport Management Quarterly, Managing Sport and Leisure, and Journal of Global Sport Management. Their recent papers include:

  • Introduction: sport and COVID-19: impacts and challenges for the future (2021), published in European Sport Management Quarterly
  • Sport management and COVID-19: trends and legacies (2021), published in European Sport Management Quarterly

Other fields of publication include the British Journal of Sports Medicine and Performance Enhancement & Health, illustrating a multidisciplinary approach.

Skinner's frequent collaborators include Aaron C.T. Smith, Daniel Read, and Judith Dyson, among others, indicating active engagement with a network of researchers in overlapping areas of sports management and related disciplines. These collaborations reflect persistent engagement with sports, health, and organizational studies.

Besides articles, Skinner has published books such as Philosophies of Organizational Change with Edward Elgar Publishing, released in 2020.

The scientist has received several recognitions including membership and fellowship honors such as:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012)
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2012)
  • Irving Langmuir Award, American Chemical Society (ACS) (2012)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2003)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (1997), noted for contributions to spectroscopy and dynamics in liquids, glasses, and crystals
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1993)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1984)

Best Publications

  • Hydrogen bonding definitions and dynamics in liquid water.

    R. Kumar;J. R. Schmidt;J. L. Skinner

  • Vibrational Spectroscopy as a Probe of Structure and Dynamics in Liquid Water

    H. J. Bakker;J. L. Skinner

  • IR and Raman spectra of liquid water: theory and interpretation.

    B. M. Auer;J. L. Skinner

  • Vibrational spectroscopy of HOD in liquid D2O. III. Spectral diffusion, and hydrogen-bonding and rotational dynamics

    C. P. Lawrence;J. L. Skinner

  • Water Dynamics: Vibrational Echo Correlation Spectroscopy and Comparison to Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    John B. Asbury;Tobias Steinel;C. Stromberg;S. A. Corcelli

  • Hydrogen bonding at the water surface revealed by isotopic dilution spectroscopy

    Igor V. Stiopkin;Champika Weeraman;Champika Weeraman;Piotr A. Pieniazek;Fadel Y. Shalhout;Fadel Y. Shalhout

  • Combined electronic structure/molecular dynamics approach for ultrafast infrared spectroscopy of dilute HOD in liquid H2O and D2O.

    S. A. Corcelli;C. P. Lawrence;J. L. Skinner

  • Hydrogen bonding and Raman, IR, and 2D-IR spectroscopy of dilute HOD in liquid D2O

    B. Auer;R. Kumar;J. R. Schmidt;J. L. Skinner

  • Dynamics of water probed with vibrational echo correlation spectroscopy

    John B. Asbury;Tobias Steinel;Kyungwon Kwak;S. A. Corcelli

  • Infrared and Raman line shapes of dilute HOD in liquid H2O and D2O from 10 to 90 °C

    Corcelli Sa;Skinner Jl

  • Vibrational Spectroscopic Map, Vibrational Spectroscopy, and Intermolecular Interaction.

    Carlos R. Baiz;Bartosz Błasiak;Jens Bredenbeck;Minhaeng Cho

  • Pronounced non-Condon effects in the ultrafast infrared spectroscopy of water.

    J. R. Schmidt;S. A. Corcelli;J. L. Skinner

  • Relaxation processes and chemical kinetics

    James L. Skinner;Peter G. Wolynes

  • Quantum Dynamics and Vibrational Relaxation

    S. A. Egorov;K. F. Everitt;J. L. Skinner

  • Vibrational spectroscopy of HOD in liquid D2O. II. Infrared line shapes and vibrational Stokes shift

    C. P. Lawrence;J. L. Skinner

  • Ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy of water and aqueous N-methylacetamide: Comparison of different electronic structure/molecular dynamics approaches.

    J. R. Schmidt;S. A. Corcelli;J. L. Skinner

  • Proton transfer in benzoic acid crystals: A chemical spin–boson problem. Theoretical analysis of nuclear magnetic resonance, neutron scattering, and optical experiments

    J. L. Skinner;H. P. Trommsdorff

  • Ultrafast infrared spectroscopy probes hydrogen-bonding dynamics in liquid water

    C.P Lawrence;J.L Skinner

  • Vibrational spectroscopy of HOD in liquid D2O. I. Vibrational energy relaxation

    C. P. Lawrence;J. L. Skinner

  • Development and validation of transferable amide I vibrational frequency maps for peptides.

    L. Wang;C. T. Middleton;M. T. Zanni;J. L. Skinner

  • Instantaneous ion configurations in the K+ ion channel selectivity filter revealed by 2D IR spectroscopy.

    Huong T. Kratochvil;Joshua K. Carr;Kimberly Matulef;Alvin W. Annen

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin T. Zanni
Martin T. Zanni University of Wisconsin–Madison
J. R. Schmidt
J. R. Schmidt University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael D. Fayer
Michael D. Fayer Stanford University
Juan J. de Pablo
Juan J. de Pablo New York University
Andrei Tokmakoff
Andrei Tokmakoff University of Chicago
Arun Yethiraj
Arun Yethiraj University of Wisconsin–Madison
Franz M. Geiger
Franz M. Geiger Northwestern University
Francesco Paesani
Francesco Paesani University of California, San Diego
Shuzhou Li
Shuzhou Li Nanyang Technological University
Hong-fei Wang
Hong-fei Wang Fudan University

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