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D-Index
77
Citations
19416
World Ranking
4070
National Ranking
234

Laurence D. Barron 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 Laurence D. Barron sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 286 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Laurence D. Barron 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 Laurence D. Barron sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Laurence D. Barron is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research work primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on subfields including Spectroscopy, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Molecular Biology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas: molecular spectroscopy and chirality, origins and evolution of life, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, protein structure and dynamics, laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma, laser-matter interactions and applications, and mass spectrometry techniques and applications.

Their publication record includes contributions to several journals. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Light Science & Applications
  • Israel Journal of Chemistry
  • Magnetochemistry

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Laurence D. Barron include:

  • "Symmetry and Chirality: Where Physics Shakes Hands with Chemistry and Biology," 2021, Israel Journal of Chemistry
  • "False Chirality, Absolute Enantioselection and CP Violation: Pierre Curie's Legacy," 2020, Magnetochemistry
  • "'A careful disorderliness' in biomolecular structure revealed by Raman optical activity," 2023, Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

Other collaborative works include:

  • "Superchiral near fields detect virus structure," 2020, Light Science & Applications
  • "Controlling the symmetry of inorganic ionic nanofilms with optical chirality," 2020, Nature Communications

Laurence D. Barron has collaborated frequently with other researchers such as Laurence A. Nafié, Hiro-o Hamaguchi, L. D. Ziegler, Philippe Colomban, and Jürgen Popp. Each of these co-authors has appeared in at least seven joint works.

Best Publications

  • Molecular Light Scattering and Optical Activity

    Laurence D. Barron

  • Ultrasensitive detection and characterization of biomolecules using superchiral fields

    Euan Hendry;T. Carpy;J. Johnston;M. Popland

  • Rayleigh and Raman scattering from optically active molecules

    L.D. Barron;A.D. Buckingham

  • Raman scattering of circularly polarized light by optically active molecules

    L. D. Barron;M. P. Bogaard;A. D. Buckingham

  • Magneto-chiral birefringence and dichroism

    L.D. Barron;J. Vrbancich

  • Absolute Asymmetric Synthesis under Physical Fields: Facts and Fictions.

    Martín Avalos;Reyes Babiano;Pedro Cintas;José L. Jiménez

  • Symmetry and molecular chirality

    L. D. Barron

  • Solution structure and dynamics of biomolecules from Raman optical activity

    L.D. Barron;L. Hecht;E.W. Blanch;A.F. Bell

  • A Raman optical activity study of rheomorphism in caseins, synucleins and tau. New insight into the structure and behaviour of natively unfolded proteins.

    Christopher D. Syme;Ewan W. Blanch;Carl Holt;Ross Jakes

  • True and false chirality and absolute asymmetric synthesis

    L. D. Barron

  • Is polyproline II helix the killer conformation? A Raman optical activity study of the amyloidogenic prefibrillar intermediate of human lysozyme.

    Ewan W Blanch;Ludmilla A Morozova-Roche;Duncan A.E Cochran;Andrew J Doig

  • Raman optical activity comes of age

    Laurence D. Barron;Lutz Hecht;Iain H. McColl;Ewan W. Blanch

  • Chirality and Life

    Laurence D. Barron

  • “Superchiral” Spectroscopy: Detection of Protein Higher Order Hierarchical Structure with Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures

    Ryan Tullius;Affar S. Karimullah;Marion Rodier;Brian Fitzpatrick

  • Vibrational optical activity

    Laurence D. Barron;A. David Buckingham

  • Chiral electromagnetic fields generated by arrays of nanoslits.

    E. Hendry;R. V. Mikhaylovskiy;L. D. Barron;M. Kadodwala

  • A new perspective on beta-sheet structures using vibrational Raman optical activity: from poly(L-lysine) to the prion protein.

    Iain H McColl;Ewan W Blanch;Andrew C Gill;Alexandre G O Rhie

  • Rayleigh scattering of polarized photons by molecules

    P.W. Atkins;L.D. Barron

  • Rayleigh and Raman Optical Activity

    L. D. Barron;A. D. Buckingham

  • Chirality, magnetism and light

    Laurence D. Barron

  • Symmetry rules for the differential Raman scattering of circularly polarized light by optically active molecules

    L. D. Barron

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Hecht
Lutz Hecht University of Glasgow
Ewan W. Blanch
Ewan W. Blanch RMIT University
Prasad L. Polavarapu
Prasad L. Polavarapu Vanderbilt University
Nikolaj Gadegaard
Nikolaj Gadegaard University of Glasgow
A. D. Buckingham
A. D. Buckingham University of Cambridge
Neil W. Isaacs
Neil W. Isaacs University of Glasgow
Vincent M. Rotello
Vincent M. Rotello University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Christopher P. McKay
Christopher P. McKay Ames Research Center
Robert M. Haberle
Robert M. Haberle Ames Research Center

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