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Researcher · Burroughs Wellcome Fund · United States

George H. Hitchings

George H. Hitchings publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology, on topics such as Biochemical and Molecular Research, Synthesis and Characterization of Heterocyclic Compounds and Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds.

OpenAlex
World rank
#53,060
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#20,489
of 1,627,098
Works
216
Citations
10k
Citations per work
47.6
h-index
52
i10-index 156Top 1.6% in Organic Chemistry
George H. Hitchings

What does George H. Hitchings research?

George H. Hitchings's work is mostly in Chemistry (27%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (22%), Medicine (7%).

Everything else: 85 works · 39.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 58 works · 26.8% of their workChemistry: 58 works · 26.8% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 58 works · 26.8% of their workLife Sciences: 57 works · 26.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 47 works · 21.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 47 works · 21.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 2.4% of their workFood Science: 5 works · 2.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 5 works · 2.4% of their workImmunology: 5 works · 2.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 15 works · 7.1% of their workMedicine: 15 works · 7.1% of their workEpidemiology: 8 works · 3.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 7 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKGeorge H.Hitchings216works
Life Sciences27%Physical Sciences27%Health Sciences7%

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. Everything else8539.5%
    1. Chemistry5826.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4721.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences52.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology52.4%
    1. Medicine157.1%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry27% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology22% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology4% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases3% of their works
  5. 5Immunology2% of their works
  6. 6Food Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe George H. Hitchings's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Synthesis, Heterocycles, Enzyme Regulation, Nucleotide Metabolism, Biological Evaluation, Catalyst, Antimicrobial and Triazines.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Synthesis804 topics
  2. Heterocycles653 topics
  3. Enzyme Regulation471 topic
  4. Nucleotide Metabolism471 topic
  5. Biological Evaluation462 topics
  6. Catalyst382 topics
  7. Antimicrobial311 topic
  8. Triazines311 topic
  9. Heterocyclic Compounds262 topics
  10. Medicinal Chemistry262 topics
  11. Imidazoles231 topic
  12. Oxazolones231 topic
  13. Antimicrobial Activity151 topic
  14. Quinoxaline151 topic
  15. Antiretroviral Therapy141 topic
  16. HIV Infection141 topic
  17. DNA Structure121 topic
  18. G-Quadruplexes121 topic
  19. Annulation111 topic
  20. Ketene Dithioacetal111 topic
  21. Tubulin Inhibitors111 topic
  22. Vascular Targeting Agents111 topic

Where does George H. Hitchings work?

George H. Hitchings's main affiliation in the publication record is Burroughs Wellcome Fund, United States.

How many publications and citations does George H. Hitchings have?

OpenAlex counts 216 works and 10,282 citations for George H. Hitchings, an h-index of 52, ranking #53,060 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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