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Nicholas F. Chilton

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
17758
World Ranking
8703
National Ranking
486

Nicholas F. Chilton 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 Nicholas F. Chilton sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 317 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nicholas F. Chilton 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 Nicholas F. Chilton sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nicholas F. Chilton is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Materials Science, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Additional subfields of study include Spectroscopy, Organic Chemistry, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics within these fields. These include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Magnetism in Coordination Complexes
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Organic and Molecular Conductors Research
  • Electron Spin Resonance Studies

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • "Ultrahard magnetism from mixed-valence dilanthanide complexes with metal-metal bonding" (2022) published in Science
  • "The OpenMolcas Web: A Community-Driven Approach to Advancing Computational Chemistry" (2023) published in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • "How the Ligand Field in Lanthanide Coordination Complexes Determines Magnetic Susceptibility Anisotropy, Paramagnetic NMR Shift, and Relaxation Behavior" (2020) published in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Ab Initio Prediction of High-Temperature Magnetic Relaxation Rates in Single-Molecule Magnets" (2021) published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "A Study of Magnetic Relaxation in Dysprosium(III) Single-Molecule Magnets" (2020) published in Chemistry - A European Journal

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Chemical Communications

Frequent collaborators include:

  • David P. Mills
  • Gemma K. Gransbury
  • Richard E. P. Winpenny
  • Jon G. C. Kragskow
  • Marcus J. Giansiracusa

Nicholas F. Chilton's research contributions offer insight into magnetism in coordination complexes as well as computational and experimental methods related to lanthanide chemistry and molecular magnetism. Their work integrates experimental crystallography techniques with theoretical modeling to advance understanding of magnetic behavior and structural properties in complex materials.

Best Publications

  • PHI: A powerful new program for the analysis of anisotropic monomeric and exchange‐coupled polynuclear d‐ and f‐block complexes

    Nicholas Frederick Chilton;Russell Paul Anderson;Lincoln David Turner;Alessandro Soncini

  • Molecular magnetic hysteresis at 60 kelvin in dysprosocenium.

    Conrad A. P. Goodwin;Fabrizio Ortu;Daniel Reta;Nicholas F. Chilton

  • On Approaching the Limit of Molecular Magnetic Anisotropy: A Near-Perfect Pentagonal Bipyramidal Dysprosium(III) Single-Molecule Magnet.

    You-Song Ding;Nicholas F. Chilton;Richard E. P. Winpenny;Yan-Zhen Zheng

  • Ultrahard magnetism from mixed-valence dilanthanide complexes with metal-metal bonding

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  • An electrostatic model for the determination of magnetic anisotropy in dysprosium complexes

    Nicholas F. Chilton;David Collison;Eric J. L. McInnes;Richard E. P. Winpenny

  • The Interaction of Metal Compounds with Protein Targets: New Tools in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology

    Marcus J. Giansiracusa;Gemma K. Gransbury;Nicholas F. Chilton;David P. Mills

  • A {CrIII2DyIII2} Single‐Molecule Magnet: Enhancing the Blocking Temperature through 3d Magnetic Exchange

    Stuart Langley;Daniel P Wielechowski;Veacheslav Vieru;Nicholas Frederick Chilton

  • A monometallic lanthanide bis(methanediide) single molecule magnet with a large energy barrier and complex spin relaxation behaviour

    Matthew Gregson;Nicholas F. Chilton;Ana Maria Ariciu;Floriana Tuna

  • Uncertainty estimates for magnetic relaxation times and magnetic relaxation parameters.

    Daniel Reta;Nicholas F. Chilton

  • Molecular Magnetism

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  • The First Near-Linear Bis(Amide) f-block Complex: A Blueprint for a High Temperature Single Molecule Magnet

    Nicholas F. Chilton;Conrad A. P. Goodwin;David P. Mills;Richard E. P. Winpenny

  • Molecular coolers: The case for [CuII5GdIII4]

    Stuart K. Langley;Nicholas F. Chilton;Boujemaa Moubaraki;Thomas Hooper

  • Direct measurement of dysprosium(III)˙˙˙dysprosium(III) interactions in a single-molecule magnet

    Eufemio Moreno Pineda;Nicholas F. Chilton;Raphael Marx;María Dörfel

  • Design Criteria for High-Temperature Single-Molecule Magnets

    Nicholas F Chilton

  • Field- and temperature-dependent quantum tunnelling of the magnetisation in a large barrier single-molecule magnet

    You-Song Ding;Ke-Xin Yu;Daniel Reta;Fabrizio Ortu

  • Single molecule magnetism in a family of mononuclear β-diketonate lanthanide(III) complexes: rationalization of magnetic anisotropy in complexes of low symmetry

    Nicholas Frederick Chilton;Stuart Langley;Boujemaa Moubaraki;Alessandro Soncini

  • Heterometallic Tetranuclear [LnIII2CoIII2] Complexes Including Suppression of Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization in the [DyIII2CoIII2] Single Molecule Magnet

    Stuart Langley;Nicholas Frederick Chilton;Liviu Ungur;Boujemaa Moubaraki

  • Modulation of slow magnetic relaxation by tuning magnetic exchange in {Cr2Dy2} single molecule magnets

    Stuart Langley;Daniel Patrick Wielechowski;Veacheslav Vieru;Nicholas Frederick Chilton

  • A Low-Symmetry Dysprosium Metallocene Single-Molecule Magnet with a High Anisotropy Barrier.

    Thomas Pugh;Nicholas F. Chilton;Richard A. Layfield

  • Bis-Monophospholyl Dysprosium Cation Showing Magnetic Hysteresis at 48 K.

    Peter Evans;Daniel Reta;George F.S. Whitehead;Nicholas F. Chilton

  • How the Ligand Field in Lanthanide Coordination Complexes Determines Magnetic Susceptibility Anisotropy, Paramagnetic NMR Shift, and Relaxation Behavior.

    David Parker;Elizaveta A. Suturina;Ilya Kuprov;Nicholas F. Chilton

  • Synthesis and Electronic Structures of Heavy Lanthanide Metallocenium Cations

    Conrad A P Goodwin;Daniel Reta;Fabrizio Ortu;Nicholas F Chilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith S. Murray
Keith S. Murray Monash University
Boujemaa Moubaraki
Boujemaa Moubaraki Monash University
Richard E. P. Winpenny
Richard E. P. Winpenny University of Manchester
Eric J. L. McInnes
Eric J. L. McInnes University of Manchester
Yan-Zhen Zheng
Yan-Zhen Zheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
David Collison
David Collison University of Manchester
Floriana Tuna
Floriana Tuna University of Manchester
Stuart Robert Batten
Stuart Robert Batten Monash University
Stephen T. Liddle
Stephen T. Liddle University of Manchester
Grigore A. Timco
Grigore A. Timco University of Manchester

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