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2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
89
Citations
28306
World Ranking
1783
National Ranking
10

Chemistry

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Leeor Kronik publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leeor Kronik sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 362 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Leeor Kronik D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leeor Kronik sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 89 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pathbreaking work relevant to central issues in interfacial and solid state science, which has led to new understandings in materials and interface physics

Overview

Leeor Kronik is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and conducts research primarily in the field of Materials Science.

Their work covers several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies

Some of Leeor Kronik's recent published papers include:

  • Theory of Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity: Progress and Challenges, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science, 2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Cumulative polarization in conductive interfacial ferroelectrics, 2022, Nature
  • Band gaps of crystalline solids from Wannier-localization-based optimal tuning of a screened range-separated hybrid functional, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Long-Range Spin-Selective Transport in Chiral Metal-Organic Crystals with Temperature-Activated Magnetization, 2020, ACS Nano

Leeor Kronik's frequent co-authors include:

  • Oded Hod
  • Jeffrey B. Neaton
  • Guy Ohad
  • Tim Gould
  • Dahvyd Wing

The researcher has published extensively in several key venues, with notable frequent publication in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Advanced Materials
  • Physical Review Materials
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Leeor Kronik was awarded the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2013 for work addressing central issues in interfacial and solid state science that contributed to understanding materials and interface physics.

Best Publications

  • Surface photovoltage phenomena: theory, experiment, and applications

    Leeor Kronik;Yoram Shapira

  • Hybrid organic—inorganic perovskites: low-cost semiconductors with intriguing charge-transport properties

    Thomas M. Brenner;David A. Egger;Leeor Kronik;Gary Hodes

  • Orbital-dependent density functionals: Theory and applications

    Stephan Kümmel;Leeor Kronik

  • Excitation Gaps of Finite-Sized Systems from Optimally Tuned Range-Separated Hybrid Functionals.

    Leeor Kronik;Tamar Stein;Sivan Refaely-Abramson;Roi Baer

  • Reliable prediction of charge transfer excitations in molecular complexes using time-dependent density functional theory.

    Tamar Stein;Leeor Kronik;Roi Baer

  • Local Polar Fluctuations in Lead Halide Perovskite Crystals.

    Omer Yaffe;Yinsheng Guo;Liang Z. Tan;David A. Egger

  • Fundamental Gaps in Finite Systems from Eigenvalues of a Generalized Kohn-Sham Method

    Tamar Stein;Helen Eisenberg;Leeor Kronik;Roi Baer

  • Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskites (HOIPs): Opportunities and Challenges

    Joseph Berry;Tonio Buonassisi;David A. Egger;Gary Hodes

  • Valence and Conduction Band Densities of States of Metal Halide Perovskites: A Combined Experimental–Theoretical Study

    James Endres;David A. Egger;Michael Kulbak;Ross A. Kerner

  • Effects of Sodium on Polycrystalline Cu(In,Ga)Se2 and Its Solar Cell Performance

    Leeor. Kronik;David Cahen;Hans Werner Schock

  • Separation of enantiomers by their enantiospecific interaction with achiral magnetic substrates

    Koyel Banerjee-Ghosh;Oren Ben Dor;Francesco Tassinari;Eyal Capua

  • Prediction of charge-transfer excitations in coumarin-based dyes using a range-separated functional tuned from first principles.

    Tamar Stein;Leeor Kronik;Roi Baer

  • Surface photovoltage spectroscopy of semiconductor structures: at the crossroads of physics, chemistry and electrical engineering

    Leeor Kronik;Yoram Shapira

  • What Remains Unexplained about the Properties of Halide Perovskites

    David A. Egger;Achintya Bera;David Cahen;Gary Hodes

  • Stacking and Registry Effects in Layered Materials: The Case of Hexagonal Boron Nitride

    Noa Marom;Jonathan Bernstein;Jonathan Garel;Alexandre Tkatchenko

  • Fundamental and excitation gaps in molecules of relevance for organic photovoltaics from an optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functional

    Sivan Refaely-Abramson;Roi Baer;Leeor Kronik

  • Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskites on the Move

    David A. Egger;Andrew M. Rappe;Leeor Kronik

  • Dispersion Interactions with Density-Functional Theory: Benchmarking Semiempirical and Interatomic Pairwise Corrected Density Functionals

    Noa Marom;Alexandre Tkatchenko;Mariana Rossi;Vivekanand V. Gobre

  • Quasiparticle Spectra from a Nonempirical Optimally Tuned Range-Separated Hybrid Density Functional

    Sivan Refaely-Abramson;Sahar Sharifzadeh;Niranjan Govind;Jochen Autschbach

  • PARSEC – the pseudopotential algorithm for real‐space electronic structure calculations: recent advances and novel applications to nano‐structures

    Leeor Kronik;Adi Makmal;Murilo L. Tiago;Murilo L. Tiago;M. M. G. Alemany

  • Fundamental gaps in finite systems from the eigenvalues of generalized kohn-sham method

    Tamar Stein;Helen Eisenberg;Leeor Kronik;Roi Baer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey B. Neaton
Jeffrey B. Neaton University of California, Berkeley
James R. Chelikowsky
James R. Chelikowsky The University of Texas at Austin
David Cahen
David Cahen Weizmann Institute of Science
Andrew M. Rappe
Andrew M. Rappe University of Pennsylvania
Oded Hod
Oded Hod Tel Aviv University
Alexandre Tkatchenko
Alexandre Tkatchenko University of Luxembourg
Gary Hodes
Gary Hodes Weizmann Institute of Science
Lia Addadi
Lia Addadi Weizmann Institute of Science
Ron Naaman
Ron Naaman Weizmann Institute of Science
Leslie Leiserowitz
Leslie Leiserowitz Weizmann Institute of Science

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