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Researcher · Brandeis University · United States

William P. Jencks

William P. Jencks publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Chemical Reaction Mechanisms, Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry.

OpenAlex
World rank
#7,615
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,678
of 358,040
Works
120
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
12.7

What does William P. Jencks research?

Organic Chemistry: 36.3%Molecular Biology: 17.8%Spectroscopy: 11.6%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 6.8%other fields: 27.5%36%top field
Organic Chemistry36.3%Molecular Biology17.8%Spectroscopy11.6%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6.8%other fields27.5%

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

  1. 1Organic Chemistry36% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology18% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy12% of their works
  4. 4Physical and Theoretical Chemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Inorganic Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Physiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William P. Jencks's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Organic Synthesis, Acidity Scales, Nucleophilicity, Green Chemistry, Chiral Separation, Liquid Chromatography, Chemistry Education and DNA Structure.

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. Organic Synthesis232 topics
  2. Acidity Scales191 topic
  3. Nucleophilicity191 topic
  4. Green Chemistry92 topics
  5. Chiral Separation71 topic
  6. Liquid Chromatography71 topic
  7. Chemistry Education51 topic
  8. DNA Structure51 topic
  9. Drug Discovery51 topic
  10. G-Quadruplexes51 topic
  11. Laboratory Techniques51 topic
  12. Peptide Synthesis51 topic
  13. Catalysis41 topic
  14. Functional Group Transformations41 topic
  15. Molecular Electronics41 topic
  16. Self-Assembled Monolayers41 topic
  17. Mitochondria31 topic
  18. Reactive Oxygen Species31 topic

Where does William P. Jencks work?

William P. Jencks's main affiliation in the publication record is Brandeis University, United States.

How many publications and citations does William P. Jencks have?

Science Explorer counts 120 works and 1,522 citations for William P. Jencks, ranking #7,615 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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