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Simon J. L. Billinge

Simon J. L. Billinge

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
89
Citations
34675
World Ranking
2138
National Ranking
773

Simon J. L. Billinge 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 Simon J. L. Billinge sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 448 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon J. L. Billinge 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 Simon J. L. Billinge sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 89 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% 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

  • 2006 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to the study of atomicscale disorder in complex nanostructured materials by developing and applying novel xray and neutron scattering methods
  • 1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Simon J. L. Billinge is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with extensive work in materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, inorganic chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's work prominently covers the following topics:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Crystal Structures and Properties
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions

Recent papers authored or co-authored include the titles and publication details below:

  • Recent advances and applications of deep learning methods in materials science, 2022, npj Computational Materials
  • Structural Analysis of Molecular Materials Using the Pair Distribution Function, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Autonomous experimentation systems for materials development: A community perspective, 2021, Matter
  • Network-Forming Liquids from Metal-Bis(acetamide) Frameworks with Low Melting Temperatures, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Hidden Local Symmetry Breaking in Silver Diamondoid Compounds is Root Cause of Ultralow Thermal Conductivity, 2022, Advanced Materials

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
  • Journal of Applied Crystallography
  • npj Computational Materials

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Songsheng Tao
  • Mengtan Liu
  • Adam H. Slavney
  • Jarad A. Mason
  • Ryan D. McGillicuddy

Recognition of their work includes:

  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2006, for seminal contributions to the study of atomic-scale disorder in complex nanostructured materials by developing and applying novel x-ray and neutron scattering methods
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1995

Best Publications

  • PDFfit2 and PDFgui: computer programs for studying nanostructure in crystals

    C L Farrow;P Juhas;J W Liu;D Bryndin

  • Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials

    Takeshi Egami;Simon J.L Billinge

  • PDFgetX3: a rapid and highly automatable program for processing powder diffraction data into total scattering pair distribution functions

    P. Juhás;T. Davis;C. L. Farrow;S. J. L. Billinge;S. J. L. Billinge

  • PDFgetX2: a GUI-driven program to obtain the pair distribution function from X-ray powder diffraction data

    Xiangyun Qiu;Jeroen W. Thompson;Simon J. L. Billinge

  • Recent Advances and Applications of Deep Learning Methods in Materials Science

    Kamal Choudhary;Brian DeCost;Chi Chen;Anubhav Jain

  • Structures of the ferroelectric phases of barium titanate

    G. H. Kwei;A. C. Lawson;S. J.L. Billinge;Sang-Wook Cheong

  • The problem with determining atomic structure at the nanoscale.

    Simon J. L. Billinge;Igor Levin

  • Underneath the Bragg Peaks

    T Egami;S.J.L Billinge

  • Rapid acquisition pair distribution function (RA-PDF) analysis.

    Peter J. Chupas;Xiangyun Qiu;Jonathan C. Hanson;Peter L. Lee

  • Synthesis and characterization of two-dimensional Nb4C3 (MXene)

    M. Ghidiu;M. Naguib;C. Shi;O. Mashtalir

  • Control of electronic properties of 2D carbides (MXenes) by manipulating their transition metal layers

    Babak Anasori;Chenyang Shi;Eun Ju Moon;Yu Xie

  • PDFFIT, a program for full profile structural refinement of the atomic pair distribution function

    Th. Proffen;S. J. L. Billinge

  • Structure of V2O5.nH2O xerogel solved by the atomic pair distribution function technique

    Valeri Petkov;Pantelis N. Trikalitis;Emil S. Bozin;Simon J. L. Billinge

  • Beyond crystallography: the study of disorder, nanocrystallinity and crystallographically challenged materials with pair distribution functions

    Simon J. L. Billinge;M. G. Kanatzidis

  • 2D molybdenum and vanadium nitrides synthesized by ammoniation of 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes).

    Patrick Urbankowski;Babak Anasori;Kanit Hantanasirisakul;Long Yang

  • Nature of Activated Manganese Oxide for Oxygen Evolution

    Michael Huynh;Chenyang Shi;Simon J. L. Billinge;Simon J. L. Billinge;Daniel G. Nocera

  • Powder diffraction : theory and practice

    Robert E. Dinnebier;S. J. L. Billinge

  • Direct Observation of Lattice Polaron Formation in the Local Structure of La 1 − x Ca x MnO 3

    S. J. L. Billinge;R. G. DiFrancesco;G. H. Kwei;J. J. Neumeier

  • Textural Mesoporosity and the Catalytic Activity of Mesoporous Molecular Sieves with Wormhole Framework Structures

    Thomas R. Pauly;Yu Liu;Thomas J. Pinnavaia;Simon J. L. Billinge

  • Entropically Stabilized Local Dipole Formation in Lead Chalcogenides

    Emil S. Božin;Christos D. Malliakas;Petros Souvatzis;Thomas Proffen

Frequent Co-Authors

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis Northwestern University
Valeri Petkov
Valeri Petkov Central Michigan University
Thomas Proffen
Thomas Proffen Oak Ridge National Laboratory
J. F. Mitchell
J. F. Mitchell Argonne National Laboratory
Christos D. Malliakas
Christos D. Malliakas Northwestern University
Takeshi Egami
Takeshi Egami University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Yimei Zhu
Yimei Zhu Brookhaven National Laboratory
Anthony A. Amato
Anthony A. Amato Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Bo B. Iversen
Bo B. Iversen Aarhus University

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