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George Porter

George Porter publishes mostly in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies.

World rank
#46,999
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,457
of 90,785
Works
78
Citations
701
Citations per work
9.0

What does George Porter research?

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 20.4%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 13.3%Molecular Biology: 11.2%Materials Chemistry: 10.2%other fields: 44.9%20%top field
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry20.4%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics13.3%Molecular Biology11.2%Materials Chemistry10.2%other fields44.9%

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

  1. 1Physical and Theoretical Chemistry20% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics13% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology11% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry10% of their works
  5. 5Organic Chemistry6% of their works
  6. 6Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe George Porter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hydrogen Bonding, Excited-State Proton Transfer, Intramolecular Charge Transfer, Light Harvesting, Photosynthesis, Photosystem II, Quantum Coherence and Phthalocyanines.

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. Hydrogen Bonding252 topics
  2. Excited-State Proton Transfer151 topic
  3. Intramolecular Charge Transfer151 topic
  4. Light Harvesting101 topic
  5. Photosynthesis101 topic
  6. Photosystem II101 topic
  7. Quantum Coherence101 topic
  8. Phthalocyanines61 topic
  9. Porphyrins61 topic
  10. Molecular Switches41 topic
  11. Photochromic41 topic
  12. Channelrhodopsin31 topic
  13. Density Functional Theory31 topic
  14. Detection31 topic
  15. Dispersion Correction31 topic
  16. Electrochemical31 topic
  17. Optogenetics31 topic

Where does George Porter work?

George Porter's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Institution of Great Britain, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does George Porter have?

Science Explorer counts 78 works and 701 citations for George Porter, ranking #46,999 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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