2026 Oded Hod: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	44	11950	11553	53	53	146	9224
Chemistry	41	17693	16003	133	117	97	7838

Oded Hod 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 Oded Hod sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 146 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Oded Hod 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 Oded Hod sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Oded Hod is a researcher affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel, with a significant body of work in the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans various subfields, primarily focusing on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The key topics in Oded Hod's research include:

Graphene research and applications
2D Materials and Applications
Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
Quantum and electron transport phenomena
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Their publication record features several recent papers, highlighting ongoing contributions to several prestigious journals and research platforms. Notable recent papers include:

Theory of Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity: Progress and Challenges (2022, Advanced Materials)
Cumulative polarization in conductive interfacial ferroelectrics (2022, Nature)
Interfacial Ferroelectricity by van der Waals Sliding (2021, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University))
Controllable Thermal Conductivity in Twisted Homogeneous Interfaces of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride (2020, Nano Letters)
Graphene nanoribbons grown in hBN stacks for high-performance electronics (2024, Nature)

Oded Hod's collaborations include frequent co-authorship with several researchers, such as Michael Urbakh, Wengen Ouyang, Leeor Kronik, Xiang Gao, and Kenji Watanabe.

Their work is often published in venues including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Cambridge Structural Database
ACS Nano
Nature Communications
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Best Publications

Electronic Structure and Stability of Semiconducting Graphene Nanoribbons

Verónica Barone;Oded Hod;Gustavo E. Scuseria

2011
Citations
Structural superlubricity and ultralow friction across the length scales

Oded Hod;Ernst Meyer;Quanshui Zheng;Michael Urbakh

642
Citations
Enhanced half-metallicity in edge-oxidized zigzag graphene nanoribbons.

Oded Hod;Veronica Barone;Juan E. Peralta;Gustavo E. Scuseria

638
Citations
Robust microscale superlubricity in graphite/hexagonal boron nitride layered heterojunctions

Yiming Song;Davide Mandelli;Oded Hod;Michael Urbakh

468
Citations
Stacking and Registry Effects in Layered Materials: The Case of Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Noa Marom;Jonathan Bernstein;Jonathan Garel;Alexandre Tkatchenko

375
Citations
Graphite and Hexagonal Boron-Nitride have the Same Interlayer Distance. Why?

Oded Hod

357
Citations
Half-metallic graphene nanodots: A comprehensive first-principles theoretical study

Oded Hod;Verónica Barone;Gustavo E. Scuseria

355
Citations
Dispersion Interactions with Density-Functional Theory: Benchmarking Semiempirical and Interatomic Pairwise Corrected Density Functionals

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

338
Citations
Theory of Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity: Progress and Challenges

Ferdinand Evers;Amnon Aharony;Nir Bar-Gill;Ora Entin-Wohlman

302
Citations
Graphite and Hexagonal Boron-Nitride Possess the Same Interlayer Distance. Why?

Oded Hod

267
Citations
Cumulative polarization in conductive interfacial ferroelectrics.

Unknown

216
Citations
Edge effects in finite elongated graphene nanoribbons

Oded Hod;Juan E. Peralta;Gustavo E. Scuseria

189
Citations
Nanoserpents: Graphene Nanoribbon Motion on Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Materials

Wengen Ouyang;Davide Mandelli;Michael Urbakh;Oded Hod

185
Citations
Electronic structure of copper phthalocyanine: A comparative density functional theory study

Noa Marom;Oded Hod;Gustavo E. Scuseria;Leeor Kronik

179
Citations
Why are diphenylalanine-based peptide nanostructures so rigid? Insights from first principles calculations.

Ido Azuri;Lihi Adler-Abramovich;Ehud Gazit;Oded Hod

164
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Coherent commensurate electronic states at the interface between misoriented graphene layers.

Elad Koren;Itai Leven;Emanuel Lörtscher;Armin Knoll

153
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Electromechanical Properties of Suspended Graphene Nanoribbons

Oded Hod;Gustavo E. Scuseria

150
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Sliding friction of graphene/hexagonal -boron nitride heterojunctions: a route to robust superlubricity.

D. Mandelli;I. Leven;O. Hod;M. Urbakh

149
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Interlayer Potential for Graphene/h-BN Heterostructures

Itai Leven;Tal Maaravi;Ido Azuri;Leeor Kronik

147
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Robust Superlubricity in Graphene/h-BN Heterojunctions.

Itai Leven;Dana Krepel;Ortal Shemesh;Oded Hod

143
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Interlayer commensurability and superlubricity in rigid layered materials

Oded Hod

141
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Accurate prediction of the electronic properties of low-dimensional graphene derivatives using a screened hybrid density functional.

Veronica Barone;Oded Hod;Juan E. Peralta;Gustavo E. Scuseria

135
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Analytic treatment of the black-hole bomb

Shahar Hod;Oded Hod

117
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Graphene nanoribbons grown in hBN stacks for high-performance electronics.

Unknown

110
Citations
State Representation Approach for Atomistic Time-Dependent Transport Calculations in Molecular Junctions.

Tamar Zelovich;Leeor Kronik;Oded Hod

109
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Interfacial ferroelectricity by van der Waals sliding.

M. Vizner Stern;Y. Waschitz;W. Cao;I. Nevo

83
Citations
Electromechanical properties of suspended Graphene Nanoribbons

Oded Hod;Gustavo E. Scuseria

6
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