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Researcher · University of Auckland · New Zealand

W.R. Roper

W.R. Roper publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Oncology, on topics such as Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis and Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds.

OpenAlex
World rank
#366,406
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in New Zealand
#1,368
of 21,128
Works
435
Citations
9k
Citations per work
20.7
h-index
49
i10-index 188Top 2% in Organic Chemistry
W.R. Roper

What does W.R. Roper research?

W.R. Roper's work is mostly in Chemistry (74%), Medicine (6%), Materials Science (6%).

Physical Sciences: 350 works · 80.5% of their workChemistry: 323 works · 74.3% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 225 works · 51.8% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 98 works · 22.5% of their workMaterials Science: 27 works · 6.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 16 works · 3.7% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 11 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 10.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 27 works · 6.3% of their workMedicine: 27 works · 6.3% of their workOncology: 27 works · 6.3% of their workLife Sciences: 11 works · 2.6% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 11 works · 2.6% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 11 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKW.R. Roper435works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences81%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. Chemistry32374.3%
    2. Materials Science276.2%
  2. Everything else4610.6%
    1. Medicine276.3%
    1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics112.6%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry52% of their works
  2. 2Inorganic Chemistry22% of their works
  3. 3Oncology6% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  5. 5Pharmaceutical Science3% of their works
  6. 6Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W.R. Roper's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Catalysis, Hydrogenation, Organometallic Chemistry, Polymerization, Bond Activation, Transition Metal, Metal Complexes 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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Catalysis2663 topics
  2. Hydrogenation2502 topics
  3. Organometallic Chemistry2453 topics
  4. Polymerization2092 topics
  5. Bond Activation1781 topic
  6. Transition Metal1781 topic
  7. Metal Complexes762 topics
  8. Asymmetric Catalysis721 topic
  9. Transition Metal Complexes721 topic
  10. Covalent Radii641 topic
  11. Main Group Chemistry641 topic
  12. Cisplatin Resistance521 topic
  13. Platinum-Based Drugs521 topic
  14. Organic Synthesis512 topics
  15. Functionalized Reagents361 topic
  16. Metalation361 topic
  17. Olefin Metathesis311 topic
  18. Ruthenium Catalysts311 topic
  19. Cross-Coupling Reactions271 topic
  20. Palladium-Catalyzed271 topic
  21. Functional Group Transformations241 topic
  22. Spectroscopy241 topic

Where does W.R. Roper work?

W.R. Roper's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Auckland, New Zealand.

How many publications and citations does W.R. Roper have?

OpenAlex counts 435 works and 9,003 citations for W.R. Roper, an h-index of 49, ranking #366,406 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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