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Table 3 The most frequently cited references from specific reference publication years cited by DFT publications for the time period 1950–1989

From: A comprehensive analysis of the history of DFT based on the bibliometric method RPYS

No

RPY

Cited reference

NCR

CR51

1951

Slater J., A Simplification of the Hartree–Fock Method, Physics Reviews 81, 385–390

737

CR52

1951

Roothaan, C., New developments in molecular orbital theory, Reviews of Modern Physics 23, 69–89

381

CR53

1955

Mulliken, R., Electronic population analysis on LCAO-MO molecular wave functions, Journal of Chemical Physics 23, 1833–1840

1700

CR54

1964

Hohenberg, P.; Kohn, W., Inhomogeneous electron gas, Physical Review B 136, 864–871

8213

CR55

1965

Kohn, W.; Sham, L.J., Self-consistent equations including exchange and correlation effects, Physical Review A 140, 1133–1138

9634

CR56

1970

Boys, S.; Bernardt, F., The calculation of small molecular interactions by the differences of separate total energies. Some procedures with reduced errors, Molecular Physics 19, 553–566

3196

CR57

1972

Hehre,W., Self-consistent molecular orbital methods. XII. Further extensions of Gaussian-type basis sets for use in molecular orbital studies of organic molecules, Journal of Chemical Physics 56, 2257–2261

2659

CR58

1973

Hariharan, P., Influence of polarization functions on MO hydrogenation energies, Theoretica Chimica Acta 28, 213–222

3001

CR59

1973

Baerends, E., Self-consistent molecular Hartree–Fock-Slater calculations. I. Computational procedure, Chemical Physics 2, 41–51

1258

CR60

1976

Monkhorst, H., Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations, Physical Review B 13, 5188–5192

6506

CR61

1980

Vosko, S., Accurate spin-dependent electron liquid correlation energies for local spin density calculations: a critical analysis, Canadian Journal of Physics 58, 1200–1211

6046

CR62

1985

Hay, P., Ab initio effective core potentials for molecular calculations—potentials For K to Au including the outermost core orbitals, Journal of Chemical Physics, 82, 299–310

3920

CR63

1985

Hay, P., Ab initio effective core potentials for molecular calculations—potentials for the transition-metal atoms Sc to Hg, Journal of Chemical Physics, 82, 270–283

2995

CR64

1986

Perdew, J., Density-functional approximation for the correlation energy of the inhomogeneous electron gas, Physical Review B 33, 8822–8824

6106

CR65

1988

Lee, C., Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density, Physical Review B 37, 785–789

23,953

CR66

1988

Becke, A., Density-functional exchange-energy approximation with correct asymptotic behavior, 1988, Physical Review A 38, 3098–3100

14,150

  1. For each cited reference, a sequential number (No), the corresponding reference publication year (RPY), and the number of cited references (NCR) within the publication set is provided