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Paul C. Canfield 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 Paul C. Canfield sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 1,068 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul C. Canfield 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 Paul C. Canfield sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 103 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, American Physical Society
  • 2014 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For crystal growth and characterization of novel materials such as heavy fermion compounds, magnetic superconductors and quasicrystals, leading to important advances in condensed matter and materials physics

Overview

Paul C. Canfield is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Materials Science, with a particular emphasis on condensed matter physics and materials chemistry.

The main areas of Canfield's work include iron-based superconductors, rare-earth and actinide compounds, and the physics of superconductivity and magnetism. Their research also touches on magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, topological materials and phenomena, and inorganic chemistry and materials.

  • Iron-based superconductors research
  • Rare-earth and actinide compounds
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Inorganic Chemistry and Materials

Canfield's frequent coauthors include Sergey L. Bud'ko, Lin-Lin Wang, Brinda Kuthanazhi, Mingyu Xu, and R. A. Ribeiro. These collaborations span over multiple publications, reflecting ongoing partnerships in the field.

  • Sergey L. Bud'ko
  • Lin-Lin Wang
  • Brinda Kuthanazhi
  • Mingyu Xu
  • R. A. Ribeiro

Their papers are often published in notable journals and venues, with a strong presence in Physical Review B and arXiv preprints, along with appearances in Physical Review Materials, Nature Communications, and Inorganic Chemistry.

  • Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Paul C. Canfield include:

  • "Manipulating magnetism in the topological semimetal EuCd2As2" (2020), published in Physical Review B
  • "Topochemical Deintercalation of Li from Layered LiNiB: toward 2D MBene" (2021), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Emergence of Fermi arcs due to magnetic splitting in an antiferromagnet" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Full and half-Heusler compounds" (2022), published in MRS Bulletin
  • "Hydrostatic and Uniaxial Pressure Tuning of Iron-Based Superconductors: Insights into Superconductivity, Magnetism, Nematicity, and Collapsed Tetragonal Transitions" (2020), published in Annalen der Physik

Canfield has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001 with a citation noting contributions to crystal growth and novel materials characterization. They also received the David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics in 2014 and were elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Boron isotope effect in superconducting MgB2.

    S. L. Bud'ko;G. Lapertot;C. Petrovic;C. E. Cunningham

  • Probing magnetism in 2D van der Waals crystalline insulators via electron tunneling.

    D. R. Klein;D. MacNeill;J. L. Lado;D. Soriano

  • Growth of single crystals from metallic fluxes

    P. C. Canfield;Z. Fisk

  • Nematic Electronic Structure in the “Parent” State of the Iron-Based Superconductor Ca(Fe1–xCox)2As2

    T. M. Chuang;M. P. Allan;M. P. Allan;Jinho Lee;Jinho Lee;Yang Xie

  • Thermodynamics of spin S = 1 / 2 antiferromagnetic uniform and alternating-exchange Heisenberg chains

    D. C. Johnston;R. K. Kremer;M. Troyer;X. Wang

  • Effects of Co substitution on thermodynamic and transport properties and anisotropic H c 2 in Ba ( Fe 1 − x Co x ) 2 As 2 single crystals

    N. Ni;M. E. Tillman;J.-Q. Yan;A. Kracher

  • Anomalous Suppression of the Orthorhombic Lattice Distortion in Superconducting Ba ( Fe 1 − x Co x ) 2 As 2 Single Crystals

    S. Nandi;M. G. Kim;Andreas Kreyssig;R. M. Fernandes

  • Anisotropic thermodynamic and transport properties of single-crystalline Ba 1 − x K x Fe 2 As 2 ( x = 0 and 0.45)

    N. Ni;S. L. Bud’ko;A. Kreyssig;S. Nandi

  • Incommensurate magnetic fluctuations in La2-xSrxCuO4.

    S-W Cheong;G Aeppli;TE Mason;H Mook

  • Systematic effects of carbon doping on the superconducting properties of Mg(B1-xCx)(2).

    R. H. T. Wilke;S. L. Bud’ko;P. C. Canfield;D. K. Finnemore

  • Pressure-induced volume-collapsed tetragonal phase of CaFe2As2 as seen via neutron scattering

    A. Kreyssig;M. A. Green;Y. Lee;G. D. Samolyuk

  • Pressure induced superconductivity in CaFe2As2.

    Unknown

  • Linear Magnetoresistance Caused by Mobility Fluctuations in n-Doped Cd3As2

    A. Narayanan;M. D. Watson;S. F. Blake;N. Bruyant

  • Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point in C e C o I n 5

    Johnpierre Paglione;M. A. Tanatar;D. G. Hawthorn;Etienne Boaknin

  • Observation of Fermi arcs in the type-II Weyl semimetal candidate WTe 2

    Yun Wu;Daixiang Mou;Na Hyun Jo;Kewei Sun

  • Momentum Dependence of the Superconducting Gap in NdFeAsO 0.9 F 0.1 Single Crystals Measured by Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

    Takeshi Kondo;A. F. Santander-Syro;A. F. Santander-Syro;O. Copie;Chang Liu

  • Similarities between structural distortions under pressure and chemical doping in superconducting BaFe2As2.

    Simon A J Kimber;Andreas Kreyssig;Yu Zhong Zhang;Harald Olaf Jeschke

  • New Magnetic Superconductors: A Toy Box for Solid‐State Physicists

    Paul C. Canfield;Peter L. Gammel;David J. Bishop

  • Evidence for a Lifshitz transition in electron-doped iron arsenic superconductors at the onset of superconductivity

    Chang Liu;Takeshi Kondo;Rafael M. Fernandes;Ari D. Palczewski

  • FeAs-Based Superconductivity: A Case Study of the Effects of Transition Metal Doping on BaFe2As2

    Unknown

  • Lattice and magnetic instabilities in CaFe 2 As 2 : A single-crystal neutron diffraction study

    A. I. Goldman;D. N. Argyriou;B. Ouladdiaf;T. Chatterji

  • Discovery of orbital-selective Cooper pairing in FeSe

    Peter O. Sprau;Peter O. Sprau;Andrey Kostin;Andrey Kostin;Andreas Kreisel;Andreas Kreisel;Anna E. Böhmer

Frequent Co-Authors

S.L. Bud'ko
S.L. Bud'ko Iowa State University
Ruslan Prozorov
Ruslan Prozorov Iowa State University
Alan I. Goldman
Alan I. Goldman Iowa State University
Ian R. Fisher
Ian R. Fisher Stanford University
David C. Johnston
David C. Johnston Iowa State University
Shuang Jia
Shuang Jia Peking University
J. D. Thompson
J. D. Thompson Los Alamos National Laboratory
Louis Taillefer
Louis Taillefer Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Kell Mortensen
Kell Mortensen University of Copenhagen
Jiaqiang Yan
Jiaqiang Yan Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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