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George M. Whitesides

George M. Whitesides publishes mostly in Biomedical Engineering, Organic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Nanofabrication and Lithography Techniques, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures and Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry.

World rank
#1,739
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#770
of 358,040
Works
265
Citations
4.8k
Citations per work
18.2

What does George M. Whitesides research?

Biomedical Engineering: 18.3%Organic Chemistry: 16.5%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 13.7%Molecular Biology: 7.0%other fields: 44.5%18%top field
Biomedical Engineering18.3%Organic Chemistry16.5%Electrical and Electronic Engineering13.7%Molecular Biology7.0%other fields44.5%

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

  1. 1Biomedical Engineering18% of their works
  2. 2Organic Chemistry16% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology7% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Inorganic Chemistry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe George M. Whitesides's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Lab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics, Catalysis, Dielectrophoresis, Nanolithography, Soft Lithography, Molecular Electronics and Self-Assembled Monolayers.

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. Lab-on-a-Chip253 topics
  2. Microfluidics243 topics
  3. Catalysis182 topics
  4. Dielectrophoresis172 topics
  5. Nanolithography161 topic
  6. Soft Lithography161 topic
  7. Molecular Electronics141 topic
  8. Self-Assembled Monolayers141 topic
  9. Digital Microfluidics101 topic
  10. Electrowetting101 topic
  11. Functional Group Transformations101 topic
  12. Organic Synthesis101 topic
  13. Biomedical Research81 topic
  14. Poly(dimethylsiloxane)81 topic
  15. Polymerization81 topic
  16. Transition Metal81 topic
  17. Acoustic Manipulation71 topic
  18. Continuous Flow Chemistry71 topic
  19. Droplet Formation71 topic
  20. Particle Separation71 topic

Where does George M. Whitesides work?

George M. Whitesides's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University, United States.

How many publications and citations does George M. Whitesides have?

Science Explorer counts 265 works and 4,811 citations for George M. Whitesides, ranking #1,739 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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