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Researcher · University of Würzburg · Germany

Frank Würthner

Frank Würthner publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Organic Chemistry, on topics such as Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry.

ORCID 0000-0001-7245-0471 OpenAlex
World rank
#14,702
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#809
of 364,343
Works
1,115
Citations
65k
Citations per work
58.2
h-index
128
i10-index 634Top 0.1% in Materials Chemistry
Frank Würthner

What does Frank Würthner research?

Frank Würthner's work is mostly in Materials Science (32%), Chemistry (20%), Engineering (18%).

Physical Sciences: 828 works · 74.3% of their workMaterials Science: 359 works · 32.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 297 works · 26.6% of their workBiomaterials: 62 works · 5.6% of their workChemistry: 217 works · 19.5% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 159 works · 14.3% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 58 works · 5.2% of their workEngineering: 195 works · 17.5% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 195 works · 17.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 57 works · 5.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 57 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 287 works · 25.7% of their workTHEIR WORKFrank Würthner1,115works
Physical Sciences74%

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. Materials Science35932.2%
    2. Chemistry21719.5%
    3. Engineering19517.5%
    4. Physics and Astronomy575.1%
  2. Everything else28725.7%
  1. 1Materials Chemistry27% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering18% of their works
  3. 3Organic Chemistry14% of their works
  4. 4Biomaterials6% of their works
  5. 5Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Frank Würthner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Aggregation-Induced Emission, Fluorescent Materials, Self-Assembly, Bulk Heterojunction, Conjugated Polymers, Phthalocyanines, Porphyrins and Nanofibers.

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. Aggregation-Induced Emission3021 topic
  2. Fluorescent Materials3021 topic
  3. Self-Assembly2922 topics
  4. Bulk Heterojunction1691 topic
  5. Conjugated Polymers1691 topic
  6. Phthalocyanines1621 topic
  7. Porphyrins1621 topic
  8. Nanofibers1301 topic
  9. Supramolecular1301 topic
  10. Excited-State Proton Transfer1091 topic
  11. Intramolecular Charge Transfer1091 topic
  12. Aromaticity1031 topic
  13. Helical Polymers1031 topic
  14. Molecular Switches1001 topic
  15. Photochromic1001 topic
  16. Channelrhodopsin831 topic
  17. Optogenetics831 topic

Where does Frank Würthner work?

Frank Würthner's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Würzburg, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Frank Würthner have?

OpenAlex counts 1,115 works and 64,840 citations for Frank Würthner, an h-index of 128, ranking #14,702 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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