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Georg Wittig

Georg Wittig publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry, on topics such as Phosphorus compounds and reactions, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods.

World rank
#37,631
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#2,809
of 86,443
Works
70
Citations
623
Citations per work
8.9

What does Georg Wittig research?

Organic Chemistry: 56.6%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 14.1%Inorganic Chemistry: 9.1%Molecular Biology: 3.0%other fields: 17.2%57%top field
Organic Chemistry56.6%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry14.1%Inorganic Chemistry9.1%Molecular Biology3.0%other fields17.2%

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

  1. 1Organic Chemistry57% of their works
  2. 2Physical and Theoretical Chemistry14% of their works
  3. 3Inorganic Chemistry9% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology3% of their works
  5. 5Oncology3% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Georg Wittig's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Natural Product Synthesis, Enantioselective Reactions, Green Chemistry, Enantioselective Synthesis, stabilized ylides, Wittig reaction, Chiral Catalysts and Organocatalysis.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Natural Product Synthesis182 topics
  2. Enantioselective Reactions142 topics
  3. Green Chemistry142 topics
  4. Enantioselective Synthesis122 topics
  5. Wittig reaction101 topic
  6. stabilized ylides101 topic
  7. Chiral Catalysts91 topic
  8. Organocatalysis91 topic
  9. Olefin Metathesis81 topic
  10. Ruthenium Catalysts81 topic
  11. Partially Ordered Sets71 topic
  12. Periodic Table71 topic
  13. Asymmetric Catalysis51 topic
  14. Chemical Reactions51 topic
  15. Hydrogenation51 topic
  16. Tunneling Control51 topic
  17. Alcohol Oxidation41 topic
  18. Catalytic41 topic
  19. Covalent Radii41 topic
  20. Main Group Chemistry41 topic

Where does Georg Wittig work?

Georg Wittig's main affiliation in the publication record is Heidelberg University, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Georg Wittig have?

Science Explorer counts 70 works and 623 citations for Georg Wittig, ranking #37,631 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.

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