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Donald R. Kelsey

Donald R. Kelsey publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis and Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,532,930
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#745,546
of 1,627,098
Works
29
Citations
942
Citations per work
32.5
h-index
13
i10-index 15Top 45% in Organic Chemistry
Donald R. Kelsey

What does Donald R. Kelsey research?

Donald R. Kelsey's work is mostly in Chemistry (69%), Materials Science (12%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (5%).

Physical Sciences: 23 works · 80.9% of their workChemistry: 20 works · 69.0% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 14 works · 50.0% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 2 works · 7.1% of their workSpectroscopy: 2 works · 7.1% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 works · 4.8% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 11.9% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 3 works · 11.9% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 14.3% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 4.8% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 works · 4.8% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 1 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKDonald R. Kelsey29works
Life Sciences5%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. Chemistry2069.0%
    2. Materials Science311.9%
  2. Everything else414.3%
    1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics14.8%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry50% of their works
  2. 2Polymers and Plastics12% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy7% of their works
  4. 4Inorganic Chemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Pharmaceutical Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald R. Kelsey's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enantioselective Synthesis, Enantioselective Reactions, Olefin Metathesis, Organocatalysis, Ruthenium Catalysts, Carbene Chemistry, Cyclopropanation and Absolute Configuration.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Enantioselective Synthesis112 topics
  2. Enantioselective Reactions61 topic
  3. Olefin Metathesis61 topic
  4. Organocatalysis61 topic
  5. Ruthenium Catalysts61 topic
  6. Carbene Chemistry51 topic
  7. Cyclopropanation51 topic
  8. Absolute Configuration41 topic
  9. Acidity Scales41 topic
  10. Aromaticity41 topic
  11. Chiroptical Spectroscopy41 topic
  12. Elemental Sulfur41 topic
  13. Helical Polymers41 topic
  14. Nucleophilicity41 topic
  15. Polyimides41 topic
  16. Fluorine31 topic
  17. Medicinal Chemistry31 topic

Where does Donald R. Kelsey work?

Donald R. Kelsey's main affiliation in the publication record is Shell (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Donald R. Kelsey have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 942 citations for Donald R. Kelsey, an h-index of 13, ranking #2,532,930 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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