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Michael Polanyi

Michael Polanyi publishes mostly in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, History and Philosophy of Science and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Various Chemistry Research Topics, Advanced Chemical Physics Studies and History of Science and Medicine.

World rank
#5,160
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#452
of 90,785
Works
82
Citations
1k
Citations per work
12.5

What does Michael Polanyi research?

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 10.9%History and Philosophy of Science: 9.9%Materials Chemistry: 5.9%Sociology and Political Science: 5.9%other fields: 67.4%11%top field
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry10.9%History and Philosophy of Science9.9%Materials Chemistry5.9%Sociology and Political Science5.9%other fields67.4%

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 Chemistry11% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science10% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Polanyi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Chemistry Education, Laboratory Techniques, Density Functional Theory, Dispersion Correction, History, Science, Acceptance and Evolutionary Synthesis.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Chemistry Education61 topic
  2. Laboratory Techniques61 topic
  3. Density Functional Theory41 topic
  4. Dispersion Correction41 topic
  5. History41 topic
  6. Science41 topic
  7. Acceptance31 topic
  8. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  9. Evolutionary Theory31 topic
  10. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  11. Partially Ordered Sets31 topic
  12. Periodic Table31 topic
  13. Catalysis21 topic
  14. Catalytic21 topic
  15. Dehydrogenation21 topic
  16. Hydrogenation21 topic

Where does Michael Polanyi work?

Michael Polanyi's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Michael Polanyi have?

Science Explorer counts 82 works and 1,028 citations for Michael Polanyi, ranking #5,160 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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