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Researcher · Scripps Research Institute · United States

Karl Barry Sharpless

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

ORCID 0000-0001-6051-1599 OpenAlex
World rank
#21,485
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#7,864
of 1,627,098
Works
743
Citations
110k
Citations per work
147.5
h-index
137
i10-index 412Top 0.1% in Organic Chemistry
Karl Barry Sharpless

What does Karl Barry Sharpless research?

Karl Barry Sharpless's work is mostly in Chemistry (60%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%), Materials Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 476 works · 64.1% of their workChemistry: 450 works · 60.5% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 389 works · 52.3% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 45 works · 6.0% of their workSpectroscopy: 16 works · 2.2% of their workMaterials Science: 27 works · 3.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 27 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 155 works · 20.8% of their workLife Sciences: 112 works · 15.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 91 works · 12.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 91 works · 12.2% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 22 works · 2.9% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 22 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKKarl BarrySharpless743works
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences64%

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. Chemistry45060.5%
    2. Materials Science273.6%
  2. Everything else15520.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9112.2%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics222.9%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry52% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology12% of their works
  3. 3Inorganic Chemistry6% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  5. 5Pharmaceutical Science3% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Karl Barry Sharpless's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drug Discovery, Enantioselective Reactions, Green Chemistry, Enantioselective Synthesis, Catalytic, Click Chemistry, Copper-Catalyzed Cycloaddition and Chiral Catalysts.

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 Discovery2762 topics
  2. Enantioselective Reactions2162 topics
  3. Green Chemistry2032 topics
  4. Enantioselective Synthesis1982 topics
  5. Catalytic1902 topics
  6. Click Chemistry1451 topic
  7. Copper-Catalyzed Cycloaddition1451 topic
  8. Chiral Catalysts1411 topic
  9. Organocatalysis1411 topic
  10. Foldamers1311 topic
  11. Peptide Synthesis1311 topic
  12. Alcohol Oxidation1081 topic
  13. Hypervalent Iodine Compounds1081 topic
  14. Catalysis951 topic
  15. Oxidation951 topic
  16. Olefin Metathesis901 topic
  17. Ruthenium Catalysts901 topic
  18. Amination821 topic
  19. C-H Bonds821 topic
  20. Asymmetric Catalysis751 topic
  21. Hydrogenation751 topic

Where does Karl Barry Sharpless work?

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

How many publications and citations does Karl Barry Sharpless have?

OpenAlex counts 743 works and 109,568 citations for Karl Barry Sharpless, an h-index of 137, ranking #21,485 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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