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Researcher · Cardiff University · United Kingdom

Thomas Wirth

Thomas Wirth publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Toxicology and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions, Organoselenium and organotellurium chemistry and Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0002-8990-0667 OpenAlex
World rank
#406,388
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#35,788
of 367,258
Works
679
Citations
18k
Citations per work
27.2
h-index
74
i10-index 261Top 0.4% in Organic Chemistry
Thomas Wirth

What does Thomas Wirth research?

Thomas Wirth's work is mostly in Chemistry (59%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (7%), Engineering (6%).

Physical Sciences: 441 works · 65.0% of their workChemistry: 401 works · 59.0% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 348 works · 51.2% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 39 works · 5.7% of their workSpectroscopy: 14 works · 2.1% of their workEngineering: 41 works · 6.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 41 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 162 works · 23.8% of their workLife Sciences: 76 works · 11.2% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 48 works · 7.0% of their workToxicology: 48 works · 7.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 29 works · 4.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 29 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas Wirth679works
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences65%

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. Chemistry40159.0%
    2. Engineering416.0%
  2. Everything else16223.8%
    1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics487.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology294.2%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry51% of their works
  2. 2Toxicology7% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  4. 4Inorganic Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Wirth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Catalytic, Green Chemistry, Alcohol Oxidation, Hypervalent Iodine Compounds, Medicinal Chemistry, Transition Metal Catalysis, Organoselenium Compounds and Selenium Reagents.

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. Catalytic2462 topics
  2. Green Chemistry2292 topics
  3. Alcohol Oxidation1661 topic
  4. Hypervalent Iodine Compounds1661 topic
  5. Medicinal Chemistry1612 topics
  6. Transition Metal Catalysis1202 topics
  7. Organoselenium Compounds1071 topic
  8. Selenium Reagents1071 topic
  9. Sulfur Bond Formation811 topic
  10. Transition-Metal-Catalyzed811 topic
  11. Amination801 topic
  12. C-H Bonds801 topic
  13. Catalysis631 topic
  14. Oxidation631 topic
  15. Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation621 topic
  16. C–H Activation621 topic
  17. Droplet Formation621 topic
  18. Microfluidics621 topic
  19. Enantioselective Reactions581 topic
  20. Organocatalysis581 topic

Where does Thomas Wirth work?

Thomas Wirth's main affiliation in the publication record is Cardiff University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Wirth have?

OpenAlex counts 679 works and 18,445 citations for Thomas Wirth, an h-index of 74, ranking #406,388 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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