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Researcher · General Electric (United States) · United States

Robert E. Colborn

Robert E. Colborn publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Inorganic Chemistry, on topics such as Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods.

ORCID 0000-0002-5433-0393 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,426,267
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#449,600
of 1,627,098
Works
44
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
34.1
h-index
20
i10-index 27Top 22% in Organic Chemistry
Robert E. Colborn

What does Robert E. Colborn research?

Robert E. Colborn's work is mostly in Chemistry (48%), Engineering (13%), Materials Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 30 works · 67.4% of their workChemistry: 21 works · 47.6% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 17 works · 38.9% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 4 works · 8.7% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 12.7% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 5 works · 10.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 works · 2.4% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 7.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 26.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 6.3% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 6.3% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert E. Colborn44works
Physical Sciences67%Health Sciences6%

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. Chemistry2147.6%
    2. Engineering612.7%
    3. Materials Science37.1%
  2. Everything else1226.3%
    1. Medicine36.3%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry39% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering10% of their works
  3. 3Inorganic Chemistry9% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging6% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert E. Colborn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Organometallic Chemistry, Hydrogenation, Polymerization, Catalysis, Bond Activation, Transition Metal, Enantioselective Reactions and Asymmetric Catalysis.

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. Organometallic Chemistry303 topics
  2. Hydrogenation242 topics
  3. Polymerization242 topics
  4. Catalysis202 topics
  5. Bond Activation171 topic
  6. Transition Metal171 topic
  7. Enantioselective Reactions102 topics
  8. Asymmetric Catalysis71 topic
  9. Dual-Energy CT71 topic
  10. Material Differentiation71 topic
  11. Olefin Metathesis71 topic
  12. Ruthenium Catalysts71 topic
  13. Transition Metal Complexes71 topic
  14. Computed Tomography61 topic
  15. Functionalized Reagents61 topic
  16. Metalation61 topic
  17. Radiation Exposure61 topic
  18. Chiral Catalysts31 topic
  19. Covalent Radii31 topic
  20. Main Group Chemistry31 topic
  21. Organocatalysis31 topic

Where does Robert E. Colborn work?

Robert E. Colborn's main affiliation in the publication record is General Electric (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert E. Colborn have?

OpenAlex counts 44 works and 1,502 citations for Robert E. Colborn, an h-index of 20, ranking #1,426,267 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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