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Thomas Proffen 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 Thomas Proffen sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 191 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Proffen 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 Thomas Proffen sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% 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 Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Thomas Proffen is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and physics, with a significant number of contributions in materials chemistry and condensed matter physics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Nuclear Physics and Applications
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Nuclear materials and radiation effects
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Crystal Structures and Properties

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Thomas Proffen include:

  • G. E. Granroth
  • Zachary T. Messegee
  • Jun Sang Cho
  • Andrew J. Craig
  • V. Ovidiu Garlea

Publications featuring Thomas Proffen have appeared mainly in these venues:

  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of Applied Crystallography
  • Structural Dynamics
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Recent research papers include:

  • Lattice Disorder and Oxygen Migration Pathways in Pyrochlore and Defect-Fluorite Oxides, 2021, Chemistry of Materials
  • Exact and fast calculation of the X-ray pair distribution function, 2020, Journal of Applied Crystallography
  • Machine learning for neutron scattering at ORNL*, 2020, Machine Learning Science and Technology
  • Co-design Center for Exascale Machine Learning Technologies (ExaLearn), 2021, The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
  • Machine learning in crystallography and structural science, 2024, Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances

Thomas Proffen's scientific contributions extend into interdisciplinary fields, with notable involvement in applying machine learning techniques to materials science and crystallography.

In recognition of their work, they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Direct observation of the formation of polar nanoregions in Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 using neutron pair distribution function analysis.

    I.-K. Jeong;T. W. Darling;J. K. Lee;Th. Proffen

  • Entropically Stabilized Local Dipole Formation in Lead Chalcogenides

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

  • Short- and long-range order in the positive electrode material, Li(NiMn)0.5O2: a joint X-ray and neutron diffraction, pair distribution function analysis and NMR study.

    Julien Breger;Nicolas Dupre;Peter J. Chupas;Peter L. Lee

  • Dielectric anomalies and spiral magnetic order in CoCr 2 O 4

    G. Lawes;B. Melot;K. Page;C. Ederer

  • Structural changes underlying the diffuse dielectric response in AgNbO 3

    Igor Levin;Victor Krayzman;Joseph C. Woicik;Jenia Karapetrova

  • Diffuse Scattering and Defect Structure Simulations: A Cook Book Using the Program DISCUS

    Reinhard B. Neder;Thomas Proffen

  • The Effects of Temperature on the Local Structure of Metakaolin-Based Geopolymer Binder: A Neutron Pair Distribution Function Investigation

    Claire E. White;John L. Provis;Thomas Proffen;Jannie S. J. Van Deventer

  • Measuring Correlated Atomic Motion Using X-ray Diffraction

    Il-Kyoung Jeong;Thomas Proffen;Farida Mohiuddin-Jacobs;Simon J. L. Billinge

  • Combining density functional theory (DFT) and pair distribution function (PDF) analysis to solve the structure of metastable materials: the case of metakaolin

    Claire Emily White;John L. Provis;Thomas Proffen;Daniel P. Riley

  • Preparation of magnetic spinel ferrite core/shell nanoparticles: Soft ferrites on hard ferrites and vice versa

    Ombretta Masala;Darin Hoffman;Nalini Sundaram;Katharine Page

  • Building a high resolution total scattering powder diffractometer – upgrade of NPD at MLNSC

    T. Proffen;T. Egami;S.J.L. Billinge;A.K. Cheetham

  • Evolution of Local Structure in Geopolymer Gels: An In Situ Neutron Pair Distribution Function Analysis

    Claire E. White;John L. Provis;Anna Llobet;Thomas Proffen

  • The Samson phase, β-Mg2Al3, revisited

    Michael Feuerbacher;Carsten Thomas;Julien P.A. Makongo;Stefan Hoffmann

  • Density functional modeling of the local structure of kaolinite subjected to thermal dehydroxylation.

    Claire E. White;John L. Provis;Thomas Proffen;Daniel P. Riley

  • Improved measures of quality for the atomic pair distribution function

    Peter F. Peterson;Emil S. Božin;Thomas Proffen;Simon J. L. Billinge

  • Local Atomic Ordering in BaTaO2N Studied by Neutron Pair Distribution Function Analysis and Density Functional Theory

    Katharine Page;Matthew W. Stoltzfus;‡ Young-Il Kim;Thomas Proffen

  • Probing Local Dipoles and Ligand Structure in BaTiO3 Nanoparticles

    Katharine Page;Thomas Proffen;Markus Niederberger;Ram Seshadri

  • Reciprocal-space instrumental effects on the real-space neutron atomic pair distribution function

    Xiangyun Qiu;Emil S. Božin;Pavol Juhas;Thomas Proffen

  • Nature of the monoclinic to cubic phase transition in the fast oxygen ion conductor La2Mo2O9 (LAMOX).

    Lorenzo Malavasi;Hyunjeong Kim;Simon J. L. Billinge;Thomas Proffen

  • Local structure of LiNiO2 studied by neutron diffraction

    J. H. Chung;Th. Proffen;S Shamoto;A. M. Ghorayeb

  • Analysis of short and long range atomic order in nanocrystalline diamonds with application of powder diffractometry

    B. Palosz;E. Grzanka;S. Stelmakh;R. Pielaszek

Frequent Co-Authors

Katharine Page
Katharine Page University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Ram Seshadri
Ram Seshadri University of California, Santa Barbara
Simon J. L. Billinge
Simon J. L. Billinge Columbia University
Jannie S.J. van Deventer
Jannie S.J. van Deventer University of Melbourne
John L. Provis
John L. Provis Paul Scherrer Institute
Anthony K. Cheetham
Anthony K. Cheetham University of Cambridge
Tom Autrey
Tom Autrey Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Takeshi Egami
Takeshi Egami University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Mailadil Thomas Sebastian
Mailadil Thomas Sebastian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Peter J. Chupas
Peter J. Chupas Stony Brook University

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