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Researcher · University of Strathclyde · United Kingdom

William J. Kerr

William J. Kerr publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science and Inorganic Chemistry, on topics such as Chemical Reactions and Isotopes, Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-1332-785X OpenAlex
World rank
#135,861
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#12,753
of 90,785
Works
86
Citations
381
Citations per work
4.4

What does William J. Kerr research?

Organic Chemistry: 30.1%Pharmaceutical Science: 10.8%Inorganic Chemistry: 7.5%Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6.5%other fields: 45.1%30%top field
Organic Chemistry30.1%Pharmaceutical Science10.8%Inorganic Chemistry7.5%Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering6.5%other fields45.1%

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

  1. 1Organic Chemistry30% of their works
  2. 2Pharmaceutical Science11% of their works
  3. 3Inorganic Chemistry8% of their works
  4. 4Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  6. 6Insect Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William J. Kerr's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Catalysis, Enantioselective Reactions, Organometallic Chemistry, Deuterium, Drug Discovery, C-C Bond Formation, Hydrogenation and Transition Metal 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.

All 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Catalysis132 topics
  2. Enantioselective Reactions122 topics
  3. Organometallic Chemistry123 topics
  4. Deuterium101 topic
  5. Drug Discovery101 topic
  6. C-C Bond Formation92 topics
  7. Hydrogenation92 topics
  8. Transition Metal Catalysis92 topics
  9. Enantioselective Synthesis72 topics
  10. Polymerization72 topics
  11. Asymmetric Catalysis61 topic
  12. Cesium Removal61 topic
  13. Chiral Catalysts61 topic
  14. Ion Exchange61 topic
  15. Organocatalysis61 topic
  16. Transition Metal Complexes61 topic
  17. Functionalized Reagents51 topic
  18. Metalation51 topic
  19. Olefin Metathesis41 topic
  20. Ruthenium Catalysts41 topic
  21. Bond Activation31 topic
  22. Gold-Catalyzed Reactions31 topic
  23. Homogeneous Catalysis31 topic
  24. Transition Metal31 topic

Where does William J. Kerr work?

William J. Kerr's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom.

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

Science Explorer counts 86 works and 381 citations for William J. Kerr, ranking #135,861 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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