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Paul L. Houston

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
12065
World Ranking
9319
National Ranking
2634

Paul L. Houston 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 Paul L. Houston sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 231 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul L. Houston 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 Paul L. Houston sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Herbert P. Broida Prize, American Physical Society
  • 1989 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For important contributions toward understanding molecular photodissociation dynamics, energy transfer, and gassolid interactions in particular, for his imaginative use of photofragment imaging and his development of the field of vector correlations
  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1979 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Paul L. Houston is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on physics, astronomy, and chemistry. Within these broad domains, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as atomic and molecular physics and optics, materials chemistry, spectroscopy, computational theory and mathematics, and molecular biology.

The main topics covered in their work include advanced chemical physics studies, machine learning applications in materials science, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, quantum and superfluid helium dynamics, computational drug discovery methods, mass spectrometry techniques and applications, and spectroscopy and laser applications.

Houston has published numerous research papers across a variety of scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication platforms include the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, arXiv (Cornell University), The Journal of Chemical Physics, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Notable recent papers by Houston include:

  • "q-AQUA: A Many-Body CCSD(T) Water Potential, Including Four-Body Interactions, Demonstrates the Quantum Nature of Water from Clusters to the Liquid Phase" (2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters)
  • "Capturing roaming molecular fragments in real time" (2020, Science)
  • "Breaking the Coupled Cluster Barrier for Machine-Learned Potentials of Large Molecules: The Case of 15-Atom Acetylacetone" (2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters)
  • "Δ-Machine Learned Potential Energy Surfaces and Force Fields" (2022, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation)
  • "Permutationally invariant polynomial regression for energies and gradients, using reverse differentiation, achieves orders of magnitude speed-up with high precision compared to other machine learning methods" (2022, The Journal of Chemical Physics)

They have frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Joel M. Bowman, Chen Qu, Riccardo Conte, Apurba Nandi, and Qi Yu.

Throughout their career, Houston has received several awards recognizing their scientific contributions. These honors include:

  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2011)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
  • Herbert P. Broida Prize from the American Physical Society (2001)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (1989), cited for contributions to molecular photodissociation dynamics, energy transfer, gas-solid interactions, photofragment imaging, and vector correlations
  • Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1986)
  • Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1979)

Best Publications

  • Two‐dimensional imaging of state‐selected photodissociation products detected by multiphoton ionization

    David W. Chandler;Paul L. Houston

  • Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics

    Paul L. Houston

  • Solid-state electroluminescent devices based on transition metal complexes.

    Jason Slinker;Dan Bernards;Paul L. Houston;Héctor D. Abruña

  • Vector Correlations in Photodissociation Dynamics

    Paul L. Houston

  • Methyl rotation, vibration, and alignment from a multiphoton ionization study of the 266 nm photodissociation of methyl iodide

    R. Ogorzalek Loo;H.‐P. Haerri;G. E. Hall;P. L. Houston

  • Vector Correlations in Photodissociation Dynamics

    G. E. Hall;P. L. Houston

  • IMPROVED TWO-DIMENSIONAL PRODUCT IMAGING : THE REAL-TIME ION-COUNTING METHOD

    Bor-Yu Chang;Rama C. Hoetzlein;Julie A. Mueller;Joseph D. Geiser

  • Photodissociation of acetaldehyde as a second example of the roaming mechanism

    P. L. Houston;S. H. Kable

  • The "Ozone Deficit" Problem: O2(X, v ≥ 26) + O(3P) from 226-nm Ozone Photodissociation

    R. L. Miller;A. G. Suits;P. L. Houston;R. Toumi

  • Electroluminescence in ruthenium(II) complexes.

    Stefan Bernhard;Jason A Barron;Paul L Houston;Héctor D Abruña

  • Formaldehyde photochemistry: Appearance rate, vibrational relaxation, and energy distribution of the CO product

    Paul L. Houston;C. Bradley Moore

  • State-resolved photofragment velocity distributions by pulsed extraction time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    R. Ogorzalek Loo;G. E. Hall;H. P. Haerri;P. L. Houston

  • Photodissociation dynamics of acetone at 193 nm: Photofragment internal and translational energy distributions

    Karen A. Trentelman;Scott H. Kable;David B. Moss;Paul L. Houston

  • Differential cross sections for state-selected products by direct imaging : Ar+NO

    A. G. Suits;L. S. Bontuyan;P. L. Houston;B. J. Whitaker

  • State‐resolved photodissociation of OCS monomers and clusters

    N. Sivakumar;G. E. Hall;P. L. Houston;J. W. Hepburn

  • Carbon Isotope Separation by Multiphoton Dissociation of CF3I

    S. Bittenson;P. L. Houston

  • Functional tomographic fluorescence imaging of pH microenvironments in microbial biofilms by use of silica nanoparticle sensors.

    Gabriela Hidalgo;Andrew Burns;Erik Herz;Anthony G. Hay

  • 193 nm photodissociation of H2S: The SH internal energy distribution

    W. G. Hawkins;P. L. Houston

  • State-Resolved Differential Cross Sections for Crossed-Beam Ar-NO Inelastic Scattering by Direct Ion Imaging

    L. S. Bontuyan;A. G. Suits;P. L. Houston;B. J. Whitaker

  • The temperature dependence of absolute rate constants for the F+H2 and F+D2 reactions

    E. Wurzberg;P. L. Houston

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel M. Bowman
Joel M. Bowman Emory University
Héctor D. Abruña
Héctor D. Abruña Cornell University
Arthur G. Suits
Arthur G. Suits University of Missouri
Jean-Christophe Loison
Jean-Christophe Loison University of Bordeaux
George G. Malliaras
George G. Malliaras University of Cambridge
Stefan Bernhard
Stefan Bernhard Carnegie Mellon University
Ralf Toumi
Ralf Toumi Imperial College London
David Chandler
David Chandler University of California, Berkeley
Leonard W. Lion
Leonard W. Lion Cornell University
George C. Schatz
George C. Schatz Northwestern University

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