2026 Peter W. Stephens: Chemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Chemistry	75	4390	3987	1393	1168	363	23262

Peter W. Stephens 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 Peter W. Stephens sits on this spectrum.

61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 363 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter W. Stephens 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 Peter W. Stephens sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% 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 Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1998 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For determination of the structure of fullerene materials and elucidation of the relationships between their structures and physical properties

Overview

Peter W. Stephens is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Materials Science, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Inorganic Chemistry. Additional fields of study include Oncology and Pharmaceutical Science.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, notably:

X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Crystallization and Solubility Studies
Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
Magnetism in coordination complexes
Organic and Molecular Conductors Research
Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds
Fluorine in Organic Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephens include:

Saul H. Lapidus
Andrey A. Yakovenko
H. V. Rasika Dias
Joel S. Miller
Devaborniny Parasar

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, notably:

The Cambridge Structural Database
Chemistry - A European Journal
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Chemical Science
Journal of the American Chemical Society

Significant recent papers include:

A Molecular Compound for Highly Selective Purification of Ethylene, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Universal A-Cation Splitting in LiNbO₃-Type Structure Driven by Intrapositional Multivalent Coupling, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
In situ studies of reversible solid-gas reactions of ethylene responsive silver pyrazolates, 2023, Chemical Science
A Molecular Compound for Highly Selective Purification of Ethylene, 2021, Angewandte Chemie
Low temperature structures and magnetic interactions in the organic-based ferromagnetic and metamagnetic polymorphs of decamethylferrocenium 7,7,8,8-tetracyano-p-quinodimethanide, [FeCp*₂]˙⁺[TCNQ]˙⁻, 2021, Dalton Transactions

Throughout their career, Stephens has received recognition including:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 1998, with a citation for determination of the structure of fullerene materials and elucidation of the relationships between their structures and physical properties

Best Publications

Nanocrystal gold molecules

Robert L. Whetten;Joseph T. Khoury;Marcos M. Alvarez;Srihari Murthy

1580
Citations
Phenomenological model of anisotropic peak broadening in powder diffraction

Peter W. Stephens;Peter W. Stephens

1550
Citations
The structure of malaria pigment β-haematin

S Pagola;P W Stephens;D S Bohle;A D Kosar

1175
Citations
Structure of single-phase superconducting K3C60

Peter W. Stephens;Laszlo Mihaly;Peter L. Lee;Robert L. Whetten

953
Citations
Structure of rapidly quenched Al-Mn.

Peter A. Bancel;Paul A. Heiney;Peter W. Stephens;Alan I. Goldman

786
Citations
Polymeric fullerene chains in RbC60 and KC60

Peter W. Stephens;G. Bortel;G. Faigel;M. Tegze

673
Citations
Structural evolution of smaller gold nanocrystals: The truncated decahedral motif

Charles L. Cleveland;Uzi Landman;Thomas G. Schaaff;Marat N. Shafigullin

630
Citations
Tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural phase transition at 90 K in the superconductor Fe(1.01)Se.

T. M. McQueen;A. J. Williams;P. W. Stephens;J. Tao

610
Citations
Size–strain line-broadening analysis of the ceria round-robin sample

D. Balzar;D. Balzar;N. Audebrand;M.R. Daymond;A. Fitch

601
Citations
Quasi-one-dimensional electronic structure in orthorhombic RbC60.

O. Chauvet;G. Oszlànyi;L. Forro;P. W. Stephens

435
Citations
Structural development during deformation of polyurethane containing polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) molecules

B.X Fu;B.S Hsiao;S Pagola;P Stephens

407
Citations
Sharp diffraction maxima from an icosahedral glass.

Peter W. Stephens;Alan I. Goldman

395
Citations
Superconductivity in LaFe 1 − x Co x AsO

Athena S. Sefat;Ashfia Huq;Michael A. McGuire;Rongying Jin

389
Citations
Lattice structure of the fullerene ferromagnet TDAE-C60

Peter W. Stephens;David Cox;Joseph W. Lauher;Laszlo Mihaly

377
Citations
Structure and Magnetic Ordering of MII[N(CN)2]2 (M = Co, Ni)†

Jamie L. Manson;Carmen R. Kmety;Qing-zhen Huang;Jeffrey W. Lynn

342
Citations
Nanoscale Atoms in Solid-State Chemistry

Xavier Roy;Chul Ho Lee;Andrew C. Crowther;Christine L. Schenck

261
Citations
Structure of unsolvated magnesium borohydride Mg(BH4)2

Jae Hyuk Her;Peter W Stephens;Yan Gao;Grigorii L Soloveichik

253
Citations
Characterization of the Products of the Heme Detoxification Pathway in Malarial Late Trophozoites by X-ray Diffraction *

D. Scott Bohle;Robert E. Dinnebier;Sara K. Madsen;Peter W. Stephens

229
Citations
Development of ferroelectric order in relaxor (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–xPbTiO3 (0≤x≤0.15)

Z.-G. Ye;Y. Bing;J. Gao;A.A. Bokov

219
Citations
Celecoxib:nicotinamide dissociation: using excipients to capture the cocrystal's potential.

Julius F Remenar;Matthew L Peterson;Peter W Stephens;Zhong Zhang

206
Citations
Polymeric fullerene chains in RbC60 and KC60

Ashfia Huq;P.W. Stephens;Goetz M. Bendele;R.M. Ibberson

20
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashfia Huq Sandia National Laboratories

Joel S. Miller University of Utah

Robert E. Dinnebier Max Planck Society

Martha Greenblatt Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Mark Croft Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Alan I. Goldman Iowa State University

Paul A. Heiney University of Pennsylvania

David Walker Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Robert Joseph Cava Princeton University

Joke Hadermann University of Antwerp

External Links

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