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Researcher · University of Pennsylvania · United States

Virgil Percec

Virgil Percec publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, on topics such as Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Liquid Crystal Research Advancements and Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers.

ORCID 0000-0001-5926-0489 OpenAlex
World rank
#79,487
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#30,667
of 1,627,098
Works
966
Citations
55k
Citations per work
56.9
h-index
117
i10-index 685Top 0.1% in Organic Chemistry
Virgil Percec

What does Virgil Percec research?

Virgil Percec's work is mostly in Materials Science (40%), Chemistry (34%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%).

Physical Sciences: 714 works · 73.9% of their workMaterials Science: 383 works · 39.6% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 156 works · 16.2% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 95 works · 9.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 69 works · 7.1% of their workBiomaterials: 63 works · 6.5% of their workChemistry: 331 works · 34.3% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 331 works · 34.3% of their workEverything else: 193 works · 20.0% of their workLife Sciences: 59 works · 6.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 59 works · 6.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 59 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKVirgil Percec966works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences74%

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. Materials Science38339.6%
    2. Chemistry33134.3%
  2. Everything else19320.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology596.1%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry34% of their works
  2. 2Polymers and Plastics16% of their works
  3. 3Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials10% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Biomaterials6% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Virgil Percec's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Self-Assembly, Nanoparticles, Micelles, Click Chemistry, Living Radical Polymerization, Liquid Crystals, Self-Organization and Dendrimers.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Self-Assembly4973 topics
  2. Nanoparticles4522 topics
  3. Micelles3732 topics
  4. Click Chemistry2711 topic
  5. Living Radical Polymerization2711 topic
  6. Liquid Crystals2661 topic
  7. Self-Organization2661 topic
  8. Dendrimers1861 topic
  9. Hyperbranched Polymers1861 topic
  10. Elemental Sulfur1251 topic
  11. Polyimides1251 topic
  12. Nanofibers1241 topic
  13. Supramolecular1241 topic
  14. Surfactants1021 topic
  15. Wormlike micelles1021 topic
  16. Aromaticity921 topic
  17. Helical Polymers921 topic
  18. Drug Discovery801 topic
  19. Peptide Synthesis801 topic

Where does Virgil Percec work?

Virgil Percec's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pennsylvania, United States.

How many publications and citations does Virgil Percec have?

OpenAlex counts 966 works and 54,947 citations for Virgil Percec, an h-index of 117, ranking #79,487 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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