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Researcher · University of Geneva · Switzerland

Wolfgang Oppolzer

Wolfgang Oppolzer publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods and Chemical synthesis and alkaloids.

OpenAlex
World rank
#19,102
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#396
of 80,918
Works
211
Citations
13k
Citations per work
60.7
h-index
65
i10-index 181Top 0.6% in Organic Chemistry
Wolfgang Oppolzer

What does Wolfgang Oppolzer research?

Wolfgang Oppolzer's work is mostly in Chemistry (72%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (3%).

Physical Sciences: 151 works · 71.5% of their workChemistry: 151 works · 71.5% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 138 works · 65.2% of their workSpectroscopy: 13 works · 6.3% of their workLife Sciences: 33 works · 15.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 27 works · 12.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 16 works · 7.4% of their workBiochemistry: 5 works · 2.6% of their workCancer Research: 5 works · 2.6% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 6 works · 3.0% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 6 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 12.9% of their workTHEIR WORKWolfgang Oppolzer211works
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences72%

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. Chemistry15171.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2712.6%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics63.0%
  3. Everything else2712.9%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry65% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology7% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy6% of their works
  4. 4Pharmaceutical Science3% of their works
  5. 5Biochemistry3% of their works
  6. 6Cancer Research3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wolfgang Oppolzer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Asymmetric Synthesis, Enantioselective Reactions, Organocatalysis, Enantioselective 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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Asymmetric Synthesis1172 topics
  2. Enantioselective Reactions1001 topic
  3. Organocatalysis1001 topic
  4. Enantioselective Synthesis882 topics
  5. Olefin Metathesis701 topic
  6. Ruthenium Catalysts701 topic
  7. Alkaloids401 topic
  8. Amaryllidaceae401 topic
  9. Green Chemistry332 topics
  10. Drug Discovery321 topic
  11. Peptide Synthesis321 topic
  12. Alcohol Oxidation181 topic
  13. Catalytic181 topic
  14. Superacid-Catalyzed Reactions171 topic
  15. Superelectrophiles171 topic
  16. Catalysis151 topic
  17. Fluorine151 topic
  18. Medicinal Chemistry151 topic
  19. Oxidation151 topic

Where does Wolfgang Oppolzer work?

Wolfgang Oppolzer's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Geneva, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Wolfgang Oppolzer have?

OpenAlex counts 211 works and 12,817 citations for Wolfgang Oppolzer, an h-index of 65, ranking #19,102 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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