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Willem A. L. van Otterlo

Willem A. L. van Otterlo publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases, on topics such as Chemical Synthesis and Analysis, Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods and Chemical synthesis and alkaloids.

World rank
#255,132
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#662
of 5,570
Works
32
Citations
214
Citations per work
6.7

What does Willem A. L. van Otterlo research?

Organic Chemistry: 44.0%Molecular Biology: 20.0%Infectious Diseases: 4.0%Environmental Chemistry: 4.0%other fields: 28.0%44%top field
Organic Chemistry44.0%Molecular Biology20.0%Infectious Diseases4.0%Environmental Chemistry4.0%other fields28.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Organic Chemistry44% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology20% of their works
  3. 3Infectious Diseases4% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Chemistry4% of their works
  5. 5Virology2% of their works
  6. 6Pharmaceutical Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Willem A. L. van Otterlo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enantioselective Synthesis, Natural Product Synthesis, Drug Discovery, Peptide Synthesis, Olefin Metathesis, Ruthenium Catalysts, Alkaloids and Amaryllidaceae.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Enantioselective Synthesis82 topics
  2. Natural Product Synthesis82 topics
  3. Drug Discovery71 topic
  4. Peptide Synthesis71 topic
  5. Olefin Metathesis61 topic
  6. Ruthenium Catalysts61 topic
  7. Alkaloids31 topic
  8. Amaryllidaceae31 topic
  9. Antiretroviral Therapy21 topic
  10. Enantioselective Reactions21 topic
  11. HIV Infection21 topic
  12. Organic Synthesis21 topic
  13. Organocatalysis21 topic
  14. Quinone Methides21 topic
  15. Antioxidant11 topic
  16. Betalains11 topic
  17. Marine Natural Products11 topic
  18. Sponge-Associated Microorganisms11 topic

Where does Willem A. L. van Otterlo work?

Willem A. L. van Otterlo's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Willem A. L. van Otterlo have?

Science Explorer counts 32 works and 214 citations for Willem A. L. van Otterlo, ranking #255,132 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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