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Chemistry

D-Index
99
Citations
36313
World Ranking
1332
National Ranking
509

Physics

D-Index
99
Citations
36088
World Ranking
1708
National Ranking
901

Joel M. Bowman 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 Joel M. Bowman sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 625 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joel M. Bowman 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 Joel M. Bowman sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Joel M. Bowman is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in physics and astronomy, with a primary focus on atomic and molecular physics, spectroscopy, and materials chemistry.

Their research spans several main topics, including:

  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Joel M. Bowman's publication record features recent papers such as:

  • "Crossover from hydrogen to chemical bonding," 2021, Science
  • "q-AQUA: A Many-Body CCSD(T) Water Potential, Including Four-Body Interactions, Demonstrates the Quantum Nature of Water from Clusters to the Liquid Phase," 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Capturing roaming molecular fragments in real time," 2020, Science
  • "Breaking the Coupled Cluster Barrier for Machine-Learned Potentials of Large Molecules: The Case of 15-Atom Acetylacetone," 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Δ-Machine Learned Potential Energy Surfaces and Force Fields," 2022, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

The scientist has frequently published in venues including:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Chen Qu
  • Paul L. Houston
  • Riccardo Conte
  • Apurba Nandi
  • Qi Yu

Joel M. Bowman has also published a book titled Vibrational Dynamics of Molecules, released in 2021 by World Scientific.

Best Publications

  • Permutationally invariant potential energy surfaces in high dimensionality

    Bastiaan J. Braams;Joel M. Bowman

  • Self‐consistent field energies and wavefunctions for coupled oscillators

    Joel M. Bowman

  • The self-consistent-field approach to polyatomic vibrations

    Joel M. Bowman

  • The roaming atom: straying from the reaction path in formaldehyde decomposition

    David Townsend;Sridhar A Lahankar;Suk Kyoung Lee;Suk Kyoung Lee;Suk Kyoung Lee;Steven D Chambreau

  • Vibrational self-consistent field method for many-mode systems: A new approach and application to the vibrations of CO adsorbed on Cu(100)

    Stuart Carter;Susan J. Culik;Joel M. Bowman

  • Reduced dimensionality theory of quantum reactive scattering

    Joel M. Bowman

  • MULTIMODE: A code to calculate rovibrational energies of polyatomic molecules

    Joel M. Bowman;Stuart Carter;Xinchuan Huang

  • Variational quantum approaches for computing vibrational energies of polyatomic molecules

    Joel M Bowman;Tucker Carrington;Hans-Dieter Meyer

  • Extensions and tests of “multimode”: a code to obtain accurate vibration/rotation energies of many-mode molecules

    Stuart Carter;Joel M. Bowman;Nicholas C. Handy

  • Ab initio potential energy and dipole moment surfaces for H5O2

    Xinchuan Huang;Bastiaan J. Braams;Joel M. Bowman

  • Application of SCF-SI theory to vibrational motion in polyatomic molecules

    Joel M. Bowman;Kurt. Christoffel;Frank. Tobin

  • The vibrational predissociation spectra of the H5O2+∙RGn(RG=Ar,Ne) clusters: Correlation of the solvent perturbations in the free OH and shared proton transitions of the Zundel ion

    Nathan I. Hammer;Eric G. Diken;Joseph R. Roscioli;Mark A. Johnson

  • Investigations of self-consistent field, scf ci and virtual stateconfiguration interaction vibrational energies for a model three-mode system

    Kurt M. Christoffel;Joel M. Bowman

  • Permutationally Invariant Polynomial Basis for Molecular Energy Surface Fitting via Monomial Symmetrization.

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  • High-dimensional ab initio potential energy surfaces for reaction dynamics calculations.

    Joel M. Bowman;Gábor Czakó;Bina Fu

  • Flexible, ab initio potential, and dipole moment surfaces for water. I. Tests and applications for clusters up to the 22-mer

    Yimin Wang;Xinchuan Huang;Benjamin C. Shepler;Bastiaan J. Braams

  • Exact quantum, quasiclassical, and semiclassical reaction probabilities for the collinear F+H2 → FH+H reaction

    George C. Schatz;Joel M. Bowman;Joel M. Bowman;Aron Kuppermann

  • Quasiclassical trajectory calculations of correlated product distributions for the F+CHD3(v1=0,1) reactions using an ab initio potential energy surface

    Gábor Czakó;Joel M. Bowman

  • Ab initio calculations of electronic and vibrational energies of HCO and HOC

    Joel M. Bowman;Joseph S. Bittman;Lawrence B. Harding

  • Crossover from hydrogen to chemical bonding.

    Bogdan Dereka;Qi Yu;Nicholas H. C. Lewis;William B. Carpenter

  • Theoretical studies of polyatomic bimolecular reaction dynamics.

    Joel M. Bowman;George C. Schatz

  • Vibrational energy levels of formaldehyde

    Hubert Romanowski;Joel M. Bowman;Lawrence B. Harding

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul L. Houston
Paul L. Houston Cornell University
Gábor Czakó
Gábor Czakó University of Szeged
Albert F. Wagner
Albert F. Wagner Argonne National Laboratory
George C. Schatz
George C. Schatz Northwestern University
Anne B. McCoy
Anne B. McCoy University of Washington
Lawrence B. Harding
Lawrence B. Harding Argonne National Laboratory
Arthur G. Suits
Arthur G. Suits University of Missouri
Donald G. Truhlar
Donald G. Truhlar University of Minnesota
Aron Kuppermann
Aron Kuppermann California Institute of Technology
Shengli Zou
Shengli Zou University of Central Florida

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