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Wolfgang Wegener

Wolfgang Wegener publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Organophosphorus compounds synthesis, Organic and Inorganic Chemical Reactions and Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,896,806
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#302,224
of 364,343
Works
106
Citations
740
Citations per work
7.0
h-index
13
i10-index 19Top 45% in Organic Chemistry

What does Wolfgang Wegener research?

Wolfgang Wegener's work is mostly in Chemistry (38%), Materials Science (20%), Physics and Astronomy (4%).

Physical Sciences61%

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. Chemistry4037.7%
    2. Materials Science2119.6%
    3. Physics and Astronomy43.6%
  1. Everything else4139.1%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry26% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry14% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy6% of their works
  4. 4Inorganic Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials5% of their works
  6. 6Condensed Matter Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wolfgang Wegener's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Medicinal Chemistry, Catalysis, Organic Synthesis, Asymmetric Synthesis, Organophosphorus Synthesis, Phosphonate Chemistry, Green Chemistry and Superacid-Catalyzed Reactions.

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.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Medicinal Chemistry272 topics
  2. Catalysis233 topics
  3. Organic Synthesis233 topics
  4. Asymmetric Synthesis192 topics
  5. Organophosphorus Synthesis171 topic
  6. Phosphonate Chemistry171 topic
  7. Green Chemistry142 topics
  8. Superacid-Catalyzed Reactions131 topic
  9. Superelectrophiles131 topic
  10. Protonic Conduction101 topic
  11. Solid Acids101 topic
  12. Sulfur Bond Formation101 topic
  13. Transition-Metal-Catalyzed101 topic
  14. Covalent Radii91 topic
  15. Main Group Chemistry91 topic
  16. Esterification81 topic
  17. Oxidation81 topic
  18. Electrochemical Methods71 topic
  19. Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis71 topic
  20. Functional Group Transformations61 topic
  21. Metal Complexes61 topic

Where does Wolfgang Wegener work?

Wolfgang Wegener's main affiliation in the publication record is Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Wolfgang Wegener have?

OpenAlex counts 106 works and 740 citations for Wolfgang Wegener, an h-index of 13, ranking #5,896,806 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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