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Researcher · Endangered Language Fund · United States

Wolf Karo

Wolf Karo publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Chemical Synthesis and Reactions and Synthesis and properties of polymers.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,753,356
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,036,661
of 1,627,098
Works
146
Citations
273
Citations per work
1.9
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 77% in Organic Chemistry
Wolf Karo

What does Wolf Karo research?

Wolf Karo's work is mostly in Chemistry (41%), Materials Science (15%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Physical Sciences: 89 works · 60.8% of their workChemistry: 60 works · 40.9% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 51 works · 35.1% of their workSpectroscopy: 8 works · 5.8% of their workMaterials Science: 22 works · 15.1% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 17 works · 11.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 5 works · 3.4% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 4.8% of their workMechanical Engineering: 7 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 49 works · 33.7% of their workLife Sciences: 8 works · 5.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 works · 5.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 8 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKWolf Karo146works
Life Sciences5%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. Chemistry6040.9%
    2. Materials Science2215.1%
    3. Engineering74.8%
  2. Everything else4933.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology85.5%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry35% of their works
  2. 2Polymers and Plastics12% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy6% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology6% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wolf Karo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Green Chemistry, Click Chemistry, Living Radical Polymerization, Natural Product Synthesis, Polymerization, Catalysis, Elemental Sulfur and Oxidation.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Green Chemistry212 topics
  2. Click Chemistry181 topic
  3. Living Radical Polymerization181 topic
  4. Natural Product Synthesis162 topics
  5. Polymerization152 topics
  6. Catalysis131 topic
  7. Elemental Sulfur131 topic
  8. Oxidation131 topic
  9. Polyimides131 topic
  10. Drug Discovery91 topic
  11. Peptide Synthesis91 topic
  12. Biodegradable Polymers81 topic
  13. Olefin Metathesis81 topic
  14. Polylactic Acid81 topic
  15. Ruthenium Catalysts81 topic
  16. Wittig reaction81 topic
  17. stabilized ylides81 topic
  18. Photoinitiation71 topic
  19. Visible Light71 topic

Where does Wolf Karo work?

Wolf Karo's main affiliation in the publication record is Endangered Language Fund, United States.

How many publications and citations does Wolf Karo have?

OpenAlex counts 146 works and 273 citations for Wolf Karo, an h-index of 8, ranking #3,753,356 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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