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Researcher · Nagoya University · Japan

Ryōji Noyori

Ryōji Noyori publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis and Surface Chemistry and Catalysis.

ORCID 0000-0003-0688-8066 OpenAlex
World rank
#88,114
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#532
of 383,136
Works
851
Citations
65k
Citations per work
76.6
h-index
123
i10-index 387Top 0.1% in Organic Chemistry
Ryōji Noyori

What does Ryōji Noyori research?

Ryōji Noyori's work is mostly in Chemistry (56%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Engineering (8%).

Physical Sciences: 545 works · 64.1% of their workChemistry: 477 works · 56.1% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 346 works · 40.7% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 103 works · 12.1% of their workSpectroscopy: 28 works · 3.3% of their workEngineering: 68 works · 8.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 68 works · 8.0% of their workEverything else: 189 works · 22.2% of their workLife Sciences: 117 works · 13.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 86 works · 10.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 86 works · 10.1% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 31 works · 3.6% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 31 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRyōji Noyori851works
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences64%

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. Chemistry47756.1%
    2. Engineering688.0%
  2. Everything else18922.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8610.1%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics313.6%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry41% of their works
  2. 2Inorganic Chemistry12% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology10% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Pharmaceutical Science4% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ryōji Noyori's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enantioselective Reactions, Asymmetric Catalysis, Hydrogenation, Catalysis, Enantioselective Synthesis, Chiral Catalysts, Organocatalysis and Green Chemistry.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Enantioselective Reactions3832 topics
  2. Asymmetric Catalysis2291 topic
  3. Hydrogenation2291 topic
  4. Catalysis1792 topics
  5. Enantioselective Synthesis1572 topics
  6. Chiral Catalysts1541 topic
  7. Organocatalysis1541 topic
  8. Green Chemistry1372 topics
  9. Nanostructures1051 topic
  10. Surface1051 topic
  11. Olefin Metathesis941 topic
  12. Ruthenium Catalysts941 topic
  13. Drug Discovery841 topic
  14. Peptide Synthesis841 topic
  15. Esterification741 topic
  16. Oxidation741 topic
  17. Fluorine651 topic
  18. Medicinal Chemistry651 topic
  19. Alcohol Oxidation631 topic
  20. Catalytic631 topic

Where does Ryōji Noyori work?

Ryōji Noyori's main affiliation in the publication record is Nagoya University, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Ryōji Noyori have?

OpenAlex counts 851 works and 65,197 citations for Ryōji Noyori, an h-index of 123, ranking #88,114 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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