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Researcher · University of Groningen · Netherlands

Ben L. Feringa

Ben L. Feringa publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes.

ORCID 0000-0003-0588-8435 OpenAlex
World rank
#50,471
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#1,078
of 107,149
Works
1,749
Citations
94k
Citations per work
53.7
h-index
147
i10-index 988Top 0.1% in Organic Chemistry
Ben L. Feringa

What does Ben L. Feringa research?

Ben L. Feringa's work is mostly in Chemistry (48%), Materials Science (14%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Physical Sciences: 1,081 works · 61.8% of their workChemistry: 845 works · 48.3% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 631 works · 36.1% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 119 works · 6.8% of their workSpectroscopy: 94 works · 5.4% of their workMaterials Science: 236 works · 13.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 236 works · 13.5% of their workEverything else: 437 works · 25.0% of their workLife Sciences: 231 works · 13.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 136 works · 7.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 136 works · 7.8% of their workNeuroscience: 94 works · 5.4% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 94 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKBen L. Feringa1,749works
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences62%

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. Chemistry84548.3%
    2. Materials Science23613.5%
  2. Everything else43725.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1367.8%
    2. Neuroscience945.4%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry36% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry14% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Inorganic Chemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience5% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben L. Feringa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Self-Assembly, Enantioselective Reactions, Chiral Catalysts, Organocatalysis, Molecular Switches, Photochromic, Molecular Machines and Supramolecular Chemistry.

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. Self-Assembly5583 topics
  2. Enantioselective Reactions5482 topics
  3. Chiral Catalysts3221 topic
  4. Organocatalysis3221 topic
  5. Molecular Switches2791 topic
  6. Photochromic2791 topic
  7. Molecular Machines2421 topic
  8. Supramolecular Chemistry2421 topic
  9. Channelrhodopsin2411 topic
  10. Optogenetics2411 topic
  11. Asymmetric Catalysis2261 topic
  12. Hydrogenation2261 topic
  13. Phthalocyanines1701 topic
  14. Porphyrins1701 topic
  15. Olefin Metathesis1691 topic
  16. Ruthenium Catalysts1691 topic
  17. Nanofibers1461 topic
  18. Supramolecular1461 topic

Where does Ben L. Feringa work?

Ben L. Feringa's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Groningen, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Ben L. Feringa have?

OpenAlex counts 1,749 works and 93,981 citations for Ben L. Feringa, an h-index of 147, ranking #50,471 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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