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Researcher · Sunovion (United States) · United States

Derek A. Pflum

Derek A. Pflum publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry, on topics such as Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, Chemical Synthesis and Reactions and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,883,447
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#832,907
of 1,627,098
Works
31
Citations
778
Citations per work
25.1
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 51% in Organic Chemistry
Derek A. Pflum

What does Derek A. Pflum research?

Derek A. Pflum's work is mostly in Chemistry (68%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (1%).

Physical Sciences: 21 works · 68.5% of their workChemistry: 21 works · 68.5% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 19 works · 60.3% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 2 works · 5.5% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 works · 2.7% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 17.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 16.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 15.1% of their workBiochemistry: 0 works · 1.4% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 works · 1.4% of their workToxicology: 0 works · 1.4% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 13.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDerek A. Pflum31works
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences68%

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. Chemistry2168.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology516.5%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics01.4%
  3. Everything else413.6%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry60% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology15% of their works
  3. 3Inorganic Chemistry6% of their works
  4. 4Physical and Theoretical Chemistry3% of their works
  5. 5Biochemistry1% of their works
  6. 6Toxicology1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Derek A. Pflum's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enantioselective Synthesis, Transition Metal Catalysis, Enantioselective Reactions, Metal-Catalyzed Reactions, Chiral Catalysts, Organocatalysis, Catalysis and Olefin Metathesis.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Enantioselective Synthesis112 topics
  2. Transition Metal Catalysis112 topics
  3. Enantioselective Reactions102 topics
  4. Metal-Catalyzed Reactions92 topics
  5. Chiral Catalysts71 topic
  6. Organocatalysis71 topic
  7. Catalysis61 topic
  8. Olefin Metathesis61 topic
  9. Oxidation61 topic
  10. Ruthenium Catalysts61 topic
  11. Carbene Chemistry51 topic
  12. Cyclopropanation51 topic
  13. Biological Activities41 topic
  14. Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation41 topic
  15. C–H Activation41 topic
  16. Drug Discovery41 topic
  17. Peptide Synthesis41 topic
  18. Phenothiazines41 topic
  19. Asymmetric Catalysis31 topic
  20. Hydrogenation31 topic

Where does Derek A. Pflum work?

Derek A. Pflum's main affiliation in the publication record is Sunovion (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Derek A. Pflum have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 778 citations for Derek A. Pflum, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,883,447 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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