Science Explorer Interactive view Map

Frank Würthner

Frank Würthner publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds.

World rank
#65,387
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#4,410
of 86,443
Works
123
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
10.6

What does Frank Würthner research?

Materials Chemistry: 26.4%Organic Chemistry: 18.1%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 15.4%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 6.0%other fields: 34.1%26%top field
Materials Chemistry26.4%Organic Chemistry18.1%Electrical and Electronic Engineering15.4%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6.0%other fields34.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Materials Chemistry26% of their works
  2. 2Organic Chemistry18% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering15% of their works
  4. 4Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Spectroscopy5% of their works
  6. 6Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials5% 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, Phthalocyanines, Porphyrins, Aromaticity, Helical Polymers and Bulk Heterojunction.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Aggregation-Induced Emission221 topic
  2. Fluorescent Materials221 topic
  3. Self-Assembly202 topics
  4. Phthalocyanines121 topic
  5. Porphyrins121 topic
  6. Aromaticity101 topic
  7. Helical Polymers101 topic
  8. Bulk Heterojunction91 topic
  9. Conjugated Polymers91 topic
  10. Molecular Switches81 topic
  11. Nanofibers81 topic
  12. Photochromic81 topic
  13. Supramolecular81 topic
  14. Excited-State Proton Transfer71 topic
  15. Intramolecular Charge Transfer71 topic
  16. Molecular Electronics71 topic
  17. Self-Assembled Monolayers71 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?

Science Explorer counts 123 works and 1,303 citations for Frank Würthner, ranking #65,387 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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.

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics are in the interactive view on the map. Is this your page? Request a correction or removal.