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K. N. Houk

K. N. Houk publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, on topics such as Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry.

World rank
#60,791
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#27,635
of 358,040
Works
335
Citations
2.8k
Citations per work
8.4

What does K. N. Houk research?

Organic Chemistry: 45.9%Molecular Biology: 8.6%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 7.5%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 4.4%other fields: 33.6%46%top field
Organic Chemistry45.9%Molecular Biology8.6%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry7.5%Electrical and Electronic Engineering4.4%other fields33.6%

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

  1. 1Organic Chemistry46% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology9% of their works
  3. 3Physical and Theoretical Chemistry8% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Pharmaceutical Science4% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe K. N. Houk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Electrophilicity, Nucleophilicity, Density Functional Theory, Enantioselective Reactions, Organocatalysis, Organic Chemistry, Reactivity and Acidity Scales.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Electrophilicity442 topics
  2. Nucleophilicity442 topics
  3. Density Functional Theory432 topics
  4. Enantioselective Reactions321 topic
  5. Organocatalysis321 topic
  6. Organic Chemistry291 topic
  7. Reactivity291 topic
  8. Acidity Scales151 topic
  9. Fluorine151 topic
  10. Medicinal Chemistry151 topic
  11. Phosphate Hydrolysis151 topic
  12. Ab Initio Parametrization141 topic
  13. Carbene Chemistry141 topic
  14. Cyclopropanation141 topic
  15. Dispersion Correction141 topic
  16. Drug Discovery131 topic
  17. Molecular Electronics131 topic
  18. Peptide Synthesis131 topic
  19. Self-Assembled Monolayers131 topic

Where does K. N. Houk work?

K. N. Houk's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Los Angeles, United States.

How many publications and citations does K. N. Houk have?

Science Explorer counts 335 works and 2,809 citations for K. N. Houk, ranking #60,791 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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