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Researcher · Earlham College · United States

Otto Theodor Benfey

Otto Theodor Benfey publishes mostly in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, History and Philosophy of Science and Organic Chemistry, on topics such as Various Chemistry Research Topics, History and advancements in chemistry and History of Science and Medicine.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,839,588
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,055,671
of 1,627,098
Works
67
Citations
937
Citations per work
14.0
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 48% in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Otto Theodor Benfey

What does Otto Theodor Benfey research?

Otto Theodor Benfey's work is mostly in Chemistry (46%), Arts and Humanities (18%), Social Sciences (7%).

Physical Sciences: 32 works · 48.2% of their workChemistry: 31 works · 46.1% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 24 works · 36.2% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 7 works · 9.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 works · 2.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 27.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 24.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 12 works · 17.7% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 10 works · 15.6% of their workHistory: 1 works · 2.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 7.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 7.1% of their workTHEIR WORKOtto TheodorBenfey67works
Physical Sciences48%Social Sciences25%

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. Chemistry3146.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy12.1%
  2. Everything else1827.0%
    1. Arts and Humanities1217.7%
    2. Social Sciences57.1%
  1. 1Physical and Theoretical Chemistry36% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science16% of their works
  3. 3Organic Chemistry10% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  5. 5History2% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Otto Theodor Benfey's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Green Chemistry, Chemistry Education, Laboratory Techniques, Partially Ordered Sets, Periodic Table, Organic Synthesis, History and Science.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Green Chemistry302 topics
  2. Chemistry Education271 topic
  3. Laboratory Techniques271 topic
  4. Partially Ordered Sets231 topic
  5. Periodic Table231 topic
  6. Organic Synthesis72 topics
  7. History51 topic
  8. Science51 topic
  9. Acidity Scales41 topic
  10. Evolutionary Synthesis41 topic
  11. Global History41 topic
  12. Mechanistic Explanation41 topic
  13. Nucleophilicity41 topic
  14. Publication41 topic
  15. Science Circulation41 topic
  16. Scientific Writing41 topic
  17. Catalysis31 topic
  18. Functional Group Transformations31 topic

Where does Otto Theodor Benfey work?

Otto Theodor Benfey's main affiliation in the publication record is Earlham College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Otto Theodor Benfey have?

OpenAlex counts 67 works and 937 citations for Otto Theodor Benfey, an h-index of 10, ranking #3,839,588 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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