N. W. Ashcroft

N. W. Ashcroft publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where N. W. Ashcroft sits on this spectrum.

N. W. Ashcroft D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where N. W. Ashcroft sits on this spectrum.

Research.com Recognitions

• 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1976 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)

Best Publications

• Vegard's law.

  A. R. Denton;N. W. Ashcroft

  2736
  Citations

• Structure and Resistivity of Liquid Metals

  N. W. Ashcroft;J. Lekner

  1584
  Citations

• METALLIC HYDROGEN: A HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR.

  N. W. Ashcroft

  1509
  Citations

• Structure of Binary Liquid Mixtures. I

  N. W. Ashcroft;David C. Langreth

  1418
  Citations

• Electron-ion pseudopotentials in metals☆

  N.W. Ashcroft

  1387
  Citations

• Hydrogen dominant metallic alloys: high temperature superconductors?

  N. W. Ashcroft;N. W. Ashcroft

  1128
  Citations

• Potential high-Tc superconducting lanthanum and yttrium hydrides at high pressure.

  Hanyu Liu;Ivan I. Naumov;Roald Hoffmann;N. W. Ashcroft

  969
  Citations

• Theory of simple classical fluids: Universality in the short-range structure

  Yaakov Rosenfeld;N. W. Ashcroft

  746
  Citations

• Weighted-density-functional theory of inhomogeneous liquids and the freezing transition.

  W. A. Curtin;N. W. Ashcroft

  625
  Citations

• Pairing in dense lithium

  J. B. Neaton;N. W. Ashcroft

  500
  Citations

• The chemical imagination at work in very tight places.

  Wojciech Grochala;Roald Hoffmann;Ji Feng;Neil W. Ashcroft

  484
  Citations

• A superconductor to superfluid phase transition in liquid metallic hydrogen

  Egor Babaev;Asle Sudbo;Neil Ashcroft

  431
  Citations

• The Fermi surface of aluminium

  N.W. Ashcroft

  431
  Citations

• Compressibility and Binding Energy of the Simple Metals

  N. W. Ashcroft;David C. Langreth

  418
  Citations

• Modified weighted-density-functional theory of nonuniform classical liquids

  A. R. Denton;N. W. Ashcroft

  398
  Citations

• Solutions of the reference-hypernetted-chain equation with minimized free energy

  F. Lado;S. M. Foiles;N. W. Ashcroft

  356
  Citations

• Long-wavelength electromagnetic propagation in heterogeneous media

  W. Lamb;D. M. Wood;N. W. Ashcroft

  347
  Citations

• Quantum size effects in transport properties of metallic films

  Nandini Trivedi;N. W. Ashcroft

  342
  Citations

• Metals physics at ultrahigh pressure: Aluminum, copper, and lead as prototypes.

  W. J. Nellis;J. A. Moriarty;A. C. Mitchell;M. Ross

  338
  Citations

• Theory of the Thermodynamics of Simple Liquid Metals

  N.W. Ashcroft;D. Stroud

  322
  Citations