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Researcher · Purdue University West Lafayette · United States

Herbert C. Brown

Herbert C. Brown publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, Chemical Synthesis and Reactions and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#118,092
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#45,004
of 1,627,098
Works
1,784
Citations
56k
Citations per work
31.5
h-index
108
i10-index 1,046Top 0.1% in Organic Chemistry
Herbert C. Brown

What does Herbert C. Brown research?

Herbert C. Brown's work is mostly in Chemistry (75%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%), Medicine (4%).

Physical Sciences: 1,338 works · 75.0% of their workChemistry: 1,338 works · 75.0% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 992 works · 55.6% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 173 works · 9.7% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 100 works · 5.6% of their workSpectroscopy: 73 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 264 works · 14.8% of their workLife Sciences: 102 works · 5.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 102 works · 5.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 102 works · 5.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 80 works · 4.5% of their workMedicine: 80 works · 4.5% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 80 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKHerbert C. Brown1,784works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences75%Health Sciences4%

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. Chemistry1,33875.0%
  2. Everything else26414.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1025.7%
    1. Medicine804.5%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry56% of their works
  2. 2Inorganic Chemistry10% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology6% of their works
  4. 4Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging4% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Herbert C. Brown's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Catalysis, Transition Metal Complexes, Green Chemistry, Enantioselective Reactions, Frustrated Lewis Pairs, Metal-Free Hydrogen Activation, Esterification and Oxidation.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Catalysis1,2853 topics
  2. Transition Metal Complexes8772 topics
  3. Green Chemistry7462 topics
  4. Enantioselective Reactions6672 topics
  5. Frustrated Lewis Pairs5391 topic
  6. Metal-Free Hydrogen Activation5391 topic
  7. Esterification5381 topic
  8. Oxidation5381 topic
  9. Asymmetric Synthesis5372 topics
  10. Organic Synthesis3872 topics
  11. Asymmetric Catalysis3381 topic
  12. Hydrogenation3381 topic
  13. Chiral Catalysts3291 topic
  14. Organocatalysis3291 topic
  15. Drug Discovery2391 topic
  16. Peptide Synthesis2391 topic
  17. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy2191 topic
  18. Carboranes2191 topic
  19. Functional Group Transformations2081 topic
  20. Metal Complexes2081 topic
  21. Acidity Scales1791 topic
  22. Nucleophilicity1791 topic

Where does Herbert C. Brown work?

Herbert C. Brown's main affiliation in the publication record is Purdue University West Lafayette, United States.

How many publications and citations does Herbert C. Brown have?

OpenAlex counts 1,784 works and 56,141 citations for Herbert C. Brown, an h-index of 108, ranking #118,092 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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