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Researcher · Drew University · United States

William J. Houlihan

William J. Houlihan publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Synthesis and biological activity, Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds and Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics.

ORCID 0000-0003-2971-099X OpenAlex
World rank
#3,787,195
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,044,089
of 1,627,098
Works
118
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
13.2
h-index
21
i10-index 40Top 20% in Organic Chemistry
William J. Houlihan

What does William J. Houlihan research?

William J. Houlihan's work is mostly in Chemistry (58%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%), Neuroscience (5%).

Physical Sciences: 68 works · 57.5% of their workChemistry: 68 works · 57.5% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 65 works · 55.2% of their workSpectroscopy: 3 works · 2.3% of their workLife Sciences: 24 works · 20.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 works · 12.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 15 works · 12.4% of their workNeuroscience: 6 works · 5.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 6 works · 5.2% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 works · 2.6% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 3 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 18.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 4 works · 3.6% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 3.6% of their workPharmacology: 4 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam J.Houlihan118works
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences58%Health Sciences4%

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. Chemistry6857.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1512.4%
    2. Neuroscience65.2%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics32.6%
  3. Everything else2218.7%
    1. Medicine43.6%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry55% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology12% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience5% of their works
  4. 4Pharmacology4% of their works
  5. 5Pharmaceutical Science3% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William J. Houlihan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Synthesis, Biological Evaluation, Anticancer, Antimicrobial, Catalyst, Heterocyclic Compounds, Medicinal Chemistry and Heterocycles.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Synthesis736 topics
  2. Biological Evaluation464 topics
  3. Anticancer313 topics
  4. Antimicrobial313 topics
  5. Catalyst302 topics
  6. Heterocyclic Compounds302 topics
  7. Medicinal Chemistry302 topics
  8. Heterocycles262 topics
  9. Imidazoles161 topic
  10. Metalation161 topic
  11. Organometallic Chemistry161 topic
  12. Oxazolones161 topic
  13. Tubulin Inhibitors161 topic
  14. Vascular Targeting Agents161 topic
  15. Antimicrobial Activity141 topic
  16. Quinoxaline141 topic
  17. DNA-Interactive Agents121 topic
  18. Pyrrolobenzodiazepines121 topic
  19. Biological Activities111 topic
  20. Phenothiazines111 topic
  21. Drug Discovery101 topic
  22. Indirubin101 topic
  23. Quinazoline101 topic
  24. Triazines101 topic

Where does William J. Houlihan work?

William J. Houlihan's main affiliation in the publication record is Drew University, United States.

How many publications and citations does William J. Houlihan have?

OpenAlex counts 118 works and 1,559 citations for William J. Houlihan, an h-index of 21, ranking #3,787,195 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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