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Researcher · University of California, Santa Barbara · United States

Alan J. Heeger

Alan J. Heeger publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting polymers and applications and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research.

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World rank
#3,214
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,119
of 1,627,098
Works
1,106
Citations
163k
Citations per work
147.3
h-index
180
i10-index 773Top 0.1% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Alan J. Heeger

What does Alan J. Heeger research?

Alan J. Heeger's work is mostly in Engineering (43%), Materials Science (32%), Physics and Astronomy (5%).

Physical Sciences: 893 works · 80.7% of their workEngineering: 480 works · 43.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 438 works · 39.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 42 works · 3.8% of their workMaterials Science: 356 works · 32.2% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 219 works · 19.8% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 69 works · 6.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 69 works · 6.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 56 works · 5.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 56 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 213 works · 19.3% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan J. Heeger1,106works
Physical Sciences81%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering48043.4%
    2. Materials Science35632.2%
    3. Physics and Astronomy565.1%
  2. Everything else21319.3%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering40% of their works
  2. 2Polymers and Plastics20% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  4. 4Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials6% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan J. Heeger's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Field-Effect Transistors, Organic Electronics, Bulk Heterojunction, Conjugated Polymers, Conducting Polymers, Polyaniline, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes and Phosphorescent Materials.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Field-Effect Transistors7052 topics
  2. Organic Electronics6612 topics
  3. Bulk Heterojunction6061 topic
  4. Conjugated Polymers6061 topic
  5. Conducting Polymers5671 topic
  6. Polyaniline5671 topic
  7. Organic Light-Emitting Diodes2221 topic
  8. Phosphorescent Materials2221 topic
  9. Organometal Halide Perovskites1021 topic
  10. Perovskite Solar Cells1021 topic
  11. Ion-Selective Electrodes991 topic
  12. Optical Sensors991 topic
  13. Molecular Electronics941 topic
  14. Self-Assembled Monolayers941 topic
  15. Organic Molecular Metals851 topic
  16. Tetrathiafulvalene Chemistry851 topic
  17. Aggregation-Induced Emission731 topic
  18. Fluorescent Materials731 topic

Where does Alan J. Heeger work?

Alan J. Heeger's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan J. Heeger have?

OpenAlex counts 1,106 works and 162,900 citations for Alan J. Heeger, an h-index of 180, ranking #3,214 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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