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K. Barry Sharpless

K. Barry Sharpless publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry, on topics such as Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis and Click Chemistry and Applications.

World rank
#863
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#362
of 358,040
Works
145
Citations
3.3k
Citations per work
22.5

What does K. Barry Sharpless research?

Organic Chemistry: 55.6%Molecular Biology: 11.1%Inorganic Chemistry: 8.0%Spectroscopy: 4.3%other fields: 21.0%56%top field
Organic Chemistry55.6%Molecular Biology11.1%Inorganic Chemistry8.0%Spectroscopy4.3%other fields21.0%

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

  1. 1Organic Chemistry56% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology11% of their works
  3. 3Inorganic Chemistry8% of their works
  4. 4Spectroscopy4% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe K. Barry Sharpless's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drug Discovery, Enantioselective Reactions, Enantioselective Synthesis, Green Chemistry, Catalytic, Chiral Catalysts, Organocatalysis and Foldamers.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Drug Discovery212 topics
  2. Enantioselective Reactions212 topics
  3. Enantioselective Synthesis162 topics
  4. Green Chemistry162 topics
  5. Catalytic152 topics
  6. Chiral Catalysts141 topic
  7. Organocatalysis141 topic
  8. Foldamers111 topic
  9. Peptide Synthesis111 topic
  10. Click Chemistry101 topic
  11. Copper-Catalyzed Cycloaddition101 topic
  12. Catalysis91 topic
  13. Olefin Metathesis91 topic
  14. Oxidation91 topic
  15. Ruthenium Catalysts91 topic
  16. Amination81 topic
  17. C-H Bonds81 topic
  18. Alcohol Oxidation71 topic
  19. Asymmetric Catalysis71 topic
  20. Hydrogenation71 topic
  21. Hypervalent Iodine Compounds71 topic

Where does K. Barry Sharpless work?

K. Barry Sharpless's main affiliation in the publication record is Scripps Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does K. Barry Sharpless have?

Science Explorer counts 145 works and 3,258 citations for K. Barry Sharpless, ranking #863 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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