2026 Jim Ciston: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	45	11648	11258	2722	2528	261	9481

Overview

Jim Ciston is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Materials Science, with a focus on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Structural Biology, and Radiation.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

Graphene research and applications
Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Machine Learning in Materials Science
Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques
Semiconductor materials and devices
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides

Recent publications by Jim Ciston include:

"Enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin films grown directly on silicon," 2020, Nature
"Ultrathin ferroic HfO2-ZrO2 superlattice gate stack for advanced transistors," 2022, Nature
"Reversible disorder-order transitions in atomic crystal nucleation," 2021, Science
"Dynamic Covalent Synthesis of Crystalline Porous Graphitic Frameworks," 2020, Chem
"Emergent ferroelectricity in subnanometer binary oxide films on silicon," 2022, Science

Jim Ciston collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

Colin Ophus
Karen C. Bustillo
Madeline Van Winkle
D. Kwabena Bediako
Andrew M. Minor

The scientist's publications are often found in venues such as:

Microscopy and Microanalysis
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
arXiv (Cornell University)
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
Nature

Best Publications

Electroreduction of carbon monoxide to liquid fuel on oxide-derived nanocrystalline copper

Christina W. Li;Jim Ciston;Matthew W. Kanan

1729
Citations
Enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin films grown directly on silicon.

Suraj S. Cheema;Daewoong Kwon;Daewoong Kwon;Nirmaan Shanker;Roberto dos Reis

816
Citations
Facile transformation of imine covalent organic frameworks into ultrastable crystalline porous aromatic frameworks.

Xinle Li;Changlin Zhang;Songliang Cai;Xiaohe Lei;Xiaohe Lei

525
Citations
Unravelling surface and interfacial structures of a metal–organic framework by transmission electron microscopy

Yihan Zhu;Jim Ciston;Bin Zheng;Xiaohe Miao

408
Citations
Ultrathin ferroic HfO2–ZrO2 superlattice gate stack for advanced transistors

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395
Citations
Atomic Resolution Imaging of Grain Boundary Defects in Monolayer Chemical Vapor Deposition-Grown Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Ashley L. Gibb;Nasim Alem;Nasim Alem;Jian Hao Chen;Jian Hao Chen;Kristopher J. Erickson;Kristopher J. Erickson

278
Citations
Reversible disorder-order transitions in atomic crystal nucleation.

Sungho Jeon;Taeyeong Heo;Sang Yeon Hwang;Jim Ciston

238
Citations
Strain mapping at nanometer resolution using advanced nano-beam electron diffraction

V. B. Ozdol;C. Gammer;C. Gammer;C. Gammer;X. G. Jin;P. Ercius

238
Citations
Correcting nonlinear drift distortion of scanning probe and scanning transmission electron microscopies from image pairs with orthogonal scan directions.

Colin Ophus;Jim Ciston;Chris T. Nelson

223
Citations
Emergent ferroelectricity in subnanometer binary oxide films on silicon

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219
Citations
Strain fields in twisted bilayer graphene

Nathanael P. Kazmierczak;Nathanael P. Kazmierczak;Madeline Van Winkle;Colin Ophus;Karen C. Bustillo

193
Citations
Dynamic Covalent Synthesis of Crystalline Porous Graphitic Frameworks

Xinle Li;Hongxia Wang;Hao Chen;Qi Zheng

184
Citations
Subnanometer vacancy defects introduced on graphene by oxygen gas.

Yasuhiro Yamada;Kazumasa Murota;Ryo Fujita;Jungpil Kim

174
Citations
Templated encapsulation of platinum-based catalysts promotes high-temperature stability to 1,100 °C

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160
Citations
Step-Edge-Induced Oxide Growth During the Oxidation of Cu Surfaces

Guangwen Zhou;Langli Luo;Liang Li;Jim Ciston

151
Citations
Interface lattice displacement measurement to 1 pm by geometric phase analysis on aberration-corrected HAADF STEM images

Yuanyuan Zhu;Colin Ophus;Jim Ciston;Haiyan Wang

137
Citations
Efficient linear phase contrast in scanning transmission electron microscopy with matched illumination and detector interferometry

Colin Ophus;Jim Ciston;Jordan Pierce;Tyler R. Harvey

133
Citations
4D-STEM of Beam-Sensitive Materials.

Karen C Bustillo;Steven E Zeltmann;Min Chen;Jennifer Donohue

127
Citations
Giant energy storage and power density negative capacitance superlattices.

Unknown

122
Citations
Direct Observation of a Long-Lived Single-Atom Catalyst Chiseling Atomic Structures in Graphene

Wei Li Wang;Elton J. G. Santos;Bin Jiang;Ekin Dogus Cubuk

108
Citations
In Situ Electrochemical Electron Microscopy Study of Oxygen Evolution Activity of Doped Manganite Perovskites

Stephanie Raabe;Daniel Mierwaldt;Jim Ciston;Jim Ciston;Matthé Uijttewaal

103
Citations
Nature of the Metal-Insulator Transition in Few-Unit-Cell-Thick LaNiO 3 Films

M. Golalikhani;Q. Lei;Ravini Chandrasena;L. Kasaei

94
Citations
Optimizing disk registration algorithms for nanobeam electron diffraction strain mapping

Thomas C. Pekin;Christoph Gammer;Jim Ciston;Andrew M. Minor;Andrew M. Minor

90
Citations
Noncrystalline-to-Crystalline Transformations in Pt Nanoparticles

Long Li;Lin Lin Wang;Duane D. Johnson;Duane D. Johnson;Zhongfan Zhang

89
Citations
py4DSTEM: a software package for multimodal analysis of four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy datasets

Benjamin H Savitzky;Lauren A Hughes;Steven E Zeltmann;Hamish G Brown

27
Citations
Strain fields in twisted bilayer graphene

Nathanael P. Kazmierczak;Madeline Van Winkle;Colin Ophus;Karen C. Bustillo

7
Citations