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Researcher · UCLouvain · Belgium

Olivier Riant

Olivier Riant publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions.

ORCID 0000-0003-4852-6469 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,770,920
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#16,248
of 67,186
Works
368
Citations
7.9k
Citations per work
21.5
h-index
47
i10-index 123Top 2.3% in Organic Chemistry
Olivier Riant

What does Olivier Riant research?

Olivier Riant's work is mostly in Chemistry (54%), Engineering (8%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%).

Physical Sciences: 255 works · 69.2% of their workChemistry: 198 works · 53.7% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 161 works · 43.8% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 36 works · 9.9% of their workEngineering: 31 works · 8.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 20 works · 5.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 works · 3.1% of their workMaterials Science: 26 works · 7.0% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 26 works · 7.0% of their workEverything else: 82 works · 22.4% of their workLife Sciences: 31 works · 8.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 31 works · 8.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 31 works · 8.4% of their workTHEIR WORKOlivier Riant368works
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences69%

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. Chemistry19853.7%
    2. Engineering318.5%
    3. Materials Science267.0%
  2. Everything else8222.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology318.4%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry44% of their works
  2. 2Inorganic Chemistry10% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Olivier Riant's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enantioselective Reactions, Transition Metal Catalysis, Transition Metal Complexes, C-C Bond Formation, Asymmetric Catalysis, Hydrogenation, Organometallic Chemistry 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. 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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Enantioselective Reactions1322 topics
  2. Transition Metal Catalysis1203 topics
  3. Transition Metal Complexes1152 topics
  4. C-C Bond Formation882 topics
  5. Asymmetric Catalysis811 topic
  6. Hydrogenation811 topic
  7. Organometallic Chemistry542 topics
  8. Chiral Catalysts511 topic
  9. Organocatalysis511 topic
  10. Cross-Coupling Reactions371 topic
  11. Palladium-Catalyzed371 topic
  12. Drug Discovery341 topic
  13. Frustrated Lewis Pairs341 topic
  14. Metal-Free Hydrogen Activation341 topic
  15. Peptide Synthesis341 topic
  16. Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation321 topic
  17. C–H Activation321 topic
  18. Olefin Metathesis301 topic
  19. Ruthenium Catalysts301 topic
  20. Cancer Research241 topic
  21. Ferrocene241 topic

Where does Olivier Riant work?

Olivier Riant's main affiliation in the publication record is UCLouvain, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Olivier Riant have?

OpenAlex counts 368 works and 7,898 citations for Olivier Riant, an h-index of 47, ranking #1,770,920 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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