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Researcher · University of Nottingham · United Kingdom

Simon Woodward

Simon Woodward publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0001-8539-6232 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,969,613
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#300,019
of 367,258
Works
369
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
13.2
h-index
38
i10-index 129Top 4.8% in Organic Chemistry
Simon Woodward

What does Simon Woodward research?

Simon Woodward's work is mostly in Chemistry (72%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%), Materials Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 290 works · 78.7% of their workChemistry: 267 works · 72.4% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 216 works · 58.6% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 51 works · 13.8% of their workMaterials Science: 17 works · 4.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 17 works · 4.7% of their workChemical Engineering: 6 works · 1.6% of their workCatalysis: 6 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 50 works · 13.5% of their workLife Sciences: 29 works · 7.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 22 works · 6.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 22 works · 6.0% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7 works · 1.8% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 7 works · 1.8% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon Woodward369works
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences79%

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. Chemistry26772.4%
    2. Materials Science174.7%
    3. Chemical Engineering61.6%
  2. Everything else5013.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology226.0%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics71.8%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry59% of their works
  2. 2Inorganic Chemistry14% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology6% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Pharmaceutical Science2% of their works
  6. 6Catalysis2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon Woodward's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enantioselective Reactions, Hydrogenation, C-C Bond Formation, Transition Metal Catalysis, Organometallic Chemistry, Asymmetric Catalysis, Transition Metal Complexes 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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Enantioselective Reactions1842 topics
  2. Hydrogenation1362 topics
  3. C-C Bond Formation1242 topics
  4. Transition Metal Catalysis1242 topics
  5. Organometallic Chemistry1113 topics
  6. Asymmetric Catalysis931 topic
  7. Transition Metal Complexes931 topic
  8. Chiral Catalysts911 topic
  9. Organocatalysis911 topic
  10. Polymerization792 topics
  11. Enantioselective Synthesis732 topics
  12. Drug Discovery451 topic
  13. Peptide Synthesis451 topic
  14. Catalysis431 topic
  15. Transition Metal431 topic
  16. Carbene Chemistry371 topic
  17. Cyclopropanation371 topic
  18. Olefin Metathesis361 topic
  19. Ruthenium Catalysts361 topic
  20. Cross-Coupling Reactions331 topic
  21. Palladium-Catalyzed331 topic
  22. Functionalized Reagents321 topic
  23. Metalation321 topic

Where does Simon Woodward work?

Simon Woodward's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Simon Woodward have?

OpenAlex counts 369 works and 4,865 citations for Simon Woodward, an h-index of 38, ranking #4,969,613 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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