Science Explorer Interactive view Map

George M. Whitesides

George M. Whitesides publishes mostly in Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, Nanofabrication and Lithography Techniques and Advanced Materials and Mechanics.

World rank
#7,065
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,423
of 358,040
Works
57
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
26.6

What does George M. Whitesides research?

Biomedical Engineering: 22.4%Mechanical Engineering: 17.9%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 11.9%Organic Chemistry: 9.0%other fields: 38.8%22%top field
Biomedical Engineering22.4%Mechanical Engineering17.9%Electrical and Electronic Engineering11.9%Organic Chemistry9.0%other fields38.8%

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

  1. 1Biomedical Engineering22% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering18% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Organic Chemistry9% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe George M. Whitesides's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Actuators, Modular Robots, Self-Reconfiguration, Biomimetic, Nanolithography, Polymer Films, Soft Lithography and Digital Microfluidics.

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. Actuators72 topics
  2. Modular Robots61 topic
  3. Self-Reconfiguration61 topic
  4. Biomimetic51 topic
  5. Nanolithography51 topic
  6. Polymer Films51 topic
  7. Soft Lithography51 topic
  8. Digital Microfluidics31 topic
  9. Microfluidics31 topic
  10. Chemical Mechanical Planarization21 topic
  11. Glycosidase Inhibitors21 topic
  12. MEMS21 topic
  13. Material Removal Mechanism21 topic
  14. Nanogenerators21 topic
  15. Oligosaccharide Synthesis21 topic
  16. Silicon21 topic
  17. Wearable21 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 57 works and 1,519 citations for George M. Whitesides, ranking #7,065 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.

Other researchers named George M. Whitesides

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.