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D-Index
69
Citations
28462
World Ranking
4536
National Ranking
47

Xavier Gonze 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 Xavier Gonze sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 320 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xavier Gonze 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 Xavier Gonze sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% 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

  • 2007 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to densityfunctional perturbation theory and its application to dielectric properties, and for leadership in opensource software development for the electronic structure community

Overview

Xavier Gonze is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of materials science and physics and astronomy, with a significant focus on materials chemistry and condensed matter physics. Their work also includes contributions to atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, as well as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The main topics in their research include high-pressure geophysics and materials, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, advanced chemical physics studies, machine learning in materials science, luminescence properties of advanced materials, superconductivity in MgB2 and alloys, and perovskite materials and applications.

Recent publications by Xavier Gonze illustrate their involvement in electronic structure and materials science research. Notable papers are:

  • ABINIT: Overview and focus on selected capabilities, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Electron-Phonon beyond Fröhlich: Dynamical Quadrupoles in Polar and Covalent Solids, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Phonon-limited electron mobility in Si, GaAs, and GaP with exact treatment of dynamical quadrupoles, 2020, Physical Review B
  • Roadmap on electronic structure codes in the exascale era, 2023, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
  • ChemEnv: a fast and robust coordination environment identification tool, 2020, Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials

Xavier Gonze frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Matteo Giantomassi with 27 joint works, Christian Tantardini with 14, Gian-Marco Rignanese with 13, Matthieu J. Verstraete with 10, and Alexander G. Kvashnin with 9 coauthored publications.

Their research outputs appear predominantly in publication venues such as Physical Review B, with 16 publications, arXiv (Cornell University) with 11, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Review Materials each with 3, and ACS Nano with 2 publications.

Xavier Gonze received recognition as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007, for contributions to density functional perturbation theory and its application to dielectric properties, as well as leadership in open-source software development for the electronic structure community.

Best Publications

  • First-principles computation of material properties: the ABINIT software project

    Xavier Gonze;Jean-Michel Beuken;R. Caracas;F Detraux

  • ABINIT: First-principles approach to material and nanosystem properties

    Xavier Gonze;B. Amadon;P.-M. Anglade;Jean-Michel Beuken

  • A brief introduction to the ABINIT software package

    Xavier Gonze;Gian-Marco Rignanese;Matthieu J. Verstraete;Jean-Michel Beuken

  • Reproducibility in density functional theory calculations of solids

    Kurt Lejaeghere;Gustav Bihlmayer;Torbjörn Björkman;Torbjörn Björkman;Peter Blaha

  • Recent developments in the ABINIT software package

    X. Gonze;F. Jollet;F. Abreu Araujo;D. Adams

  • Identification and design principles of low hole effective mass p -type transparent conducting oxides

    Geoffroy Hautier;Anna Miglio;Gerbrand Ceder;Gian-Marco Rignanese

  • Implementation of the projector augmented-wave method in the ABINIT code: Application to the study of iron under pressure

    Marc Torrent;François Jollet;François Bottin;Gilles Zérah

  • The Abinit project: Impact, environment and recent developments

    Xavier Gonze;Bernard Amadon;Gabriel Antonius;Frédéric Arnardi

  • Dynamical atomic charges: The case of ABO(3) compounds

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  • Dielectric tensor, effective charges, and phonons in alpha -quartz by variational density-functional perturbation theory.

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  • Energetics of negatively curved graphitic carbon

    Thomas Lenosky;Xavier Gonze;Michael Teter;Michael Teter;Vert Elser

  • Ab-initio Calculation of the Thermodynamic Properties and Atomic Temperature Factors of Sio2 Alpha-quartz and Stishovite

    Changyol Lee;Xavier Gonze

  • First-principles study of the electronic properties of graphite

    Jean-Christophe Charlier;Xavier Gonze;Jean-Pierre Michenaud

  • Nonlinear optical susceptibilities, Raman efficiencies, and electro-optic tensors from first-principles density functional perturbation theory

    M. Veithen;X. Gonze;Philippe Ghosez

  • Berry-phase treatment of the homogeneous electric field perturbation in insulators

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  • Incipient Metals: Functional Materials with a Unique Bonding Mechanism.

    Matthias Wuttig;Matthias Wuttig;Volker L. Deringer;Xavier Gonze;Christophe Bichara

  • Interatomic force constants from first-principles: the case of alpha-quartz

    Xavier Gonze;Jean-Christophe Charlier;D.C. Allan;M.P. Teter;M.P. Teter

  • ABINIT: Overview and focus on selected capabilities.

    Aldo H. Romero;Douglas C. Allan;Bernard Amadon;Gabriel Antonius

  • First-principles study of the electronic properties of simple hexagonal graphite

    Jean-Christophe Charlier;Jean-Pierre Michenaud;Xavier Gonze

  • Density-polarization Functional Theory of the Response of a Periodic Insulating Solid To An Electric-field

    X. Gonze;Philippe Ghosez;R. W. Godby

  • Describing static correlation in bond dissociation by Kohn–Sham density functional theory

    Martin Fuchs;Y.-M. Niquet;X. Gonze;Kieron Burke

  • First-principles study of the stacking effect on the electronic properties of graphite(s)

    Jean-Christophe Charlier;Xavier Gonze;Jean-Pierre Michenaud

  • Relationship of Kohn-Sham eigenvalues to excitation energies

    A. Savin;C.J. Umrigar;Xavier Gonze

  • Graphite Interplanar Bonding: Electronic Delocalization and van der Waals Interaction

    Jean-Christophe Charlier;Xavier Gonze;Jean-Pierre Michenaud

  • Born Effective Charges of Barium-titanate - Band-by-band Decomposition and Sensitivity To Structural Features

    P. Ghosez;Xavier Gonze;Philippe Lambin;Jean-Pierre Michenaud

  • First-principles investigation of high- κ dielectrics: Comparison between the silicates and oxides of hafnium and zirconium

    G.-M. Rignanese;X. Gonze;Gyuchang Jun;Kyeongjae Cho

  • First-principles molecular-dynamics study of the (0001) alpha-quartz surface

    G.-M. Rignanese;Alessandro De Vita;J.-C. Charlier;X. Gonze

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffroy Hautier
Geoffroy Hautier Dartmouth College
Philippe Ghosez
Philippe Ghosez University of Liège
Jean-Christophe Charlier
Jean-Christophe Charlier Université Catholique de Louvain
Razvan Caracas
Razvan Caracas École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Alfredo Pasquarello
Alfredo Pasquarello École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Steven G. Louie
Steven G. Louie University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Bertrand
Patrick Bertrand Université Catholique de Louvain
Kristin A. Persson
Kristin A. Persson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Josef W. Zwanziger
Josef W. Zwanziger Dalhousie University
Matthias Scheffler
Matthias Scheffler Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

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