Subfield · Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Top Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Researchers
John A. Pople ranks first, out of 5,393 ranked researchers.
Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.
The ranking
- 1 John A. Pople United States · #77 worldwide 11k citations · 142 works
- 2 Peter A. Kollman United States · #128 worldwide 6.3k citations · 134 works
- 3 John P. Perdew United States · #161 worldwide 9.9k citations · 119 works
- 4 Michele Parrinello Switzerland · #191 worldwide 5.6k citations · 175 works
- 5 William L. Jorgensen United States · #209 worldwide 4.5k citations · 119 works
- 6 E. P. Wigner United States · #214 worldwide 2.8k citations · 203 works
- 7 Donald G. Truhlar United States · #255 worldwide 8.4k citations · 315 works
- 8 Hans A. Bethe United States · #371 worldwide 3.1k citations · 120 works
- 9 Julian Schwinger United States · #684 worldwide 2.6k citations · 109 works
- 10 J. Andrew McCammon United States · #959 worldwide 3.4k citations · 160 works
- 11 Michael J. S. Dewar United States · #993 worldwide 4.3k citations · 217 works
- 12 Richard P. Feynman United States · #1,009 worldwide 4.6k citations · 89 works
- 13 Paul J. Flory United States · #1,089 worldwide 3.7k citations · 100 works
- 14 N. David Mermin United States · #1,111 worldwide 2.1k citations · 120 works
- 15 Martin Karplus United States · #1,154 worldwide 4.7k citations · 163 works
- 16 Jack L. Koenig United States · #1,155 worldwide 2.9k citations · 117 works
- 17 Mostafa A. El‐Sayed United States · #1,236 worldwide 3.5k citations · 149 works
- 18 Linus Pauling United States · #1,259 worldwide 2k citations · 150 works
- 19 W. Kohn United States · #1,359 worldwide 15k citations · 81 works
- 20 Christopher J. Cramer United States · #1,385 worldwide 3.3k citations · 92 works
- 21 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland · #1,491 worldwide 13k citations · 436 works
- 22 Klaus Schulten United States · #1,529 worldwide 3.4k citations · 95 works
- 23 Nicholas C. Handy United Kingdom · #1,548 worldwide 3.3k citations · 93 works
- 24 J. C. Phillips United States · #1,598 worldwide 4k citations · 81 works
- 25 Carlo Adamo France · #1,615 worldwide 3.3k citations · 100 works
- 26 George M. Whitesides United States · #1,739 worldwide 4.8k citations · 265 works
- 27 John D. Ferry United States · #1,803 worldwide 2.1k citations · 92 works
- 28 Warren J. Hehre United States · #1,992 worldwide 3.2k citations · 77 works
- 29 Donald D. Van Slyke United States · #2,292 worldwide 1.4k citations · 87 works
- 30 Menachem Elimelech United States · #2,304 worldwide 3k citations · 120 works
- 31 Roger Parsons United Kingdom · #2,404 worldwide 1.1k citations · 112 works
- 32 Judith A. K. Howard United Kingdom · #2,575 worldwide 5.5k citations · 294 works
- 33 Richard P. Van Duyne United States · #2,731 worldwide 2.2k citations · 77 works
- 34 S. F. Edwards United Kingdom · #2,983 worldwide 1.8k citations · 126 works
- 35 Hans‐Joachim Werner Germany · #3,075 worldwide 1.8k citations · 110 works
- 36 Ilya Prigogine United States · #3,076 worldwide 1.7k citations · 203 works
- 37 Louis E. Brus United States · #3,143 worldwide 2.2k citations · 89 works
- 38 Alexander D. MacKerell United States · #3,198 worldwide 2.2k citations · 82 works
- 39 H. J. Bernstein Germany · #3,227 worldwide 1.5k citations · 142 works
- 40 Lee G. Pedersen United States · #3,299 worldwide 4.1k citations · 65 works
- 41 Robert G. Parr United States · #3,407 worldwide 2.4k citations · 68 works
- 42 Irving Langmuir Switzerland · #3,437 worldwide 3.6k citations · 64 works
- 43 William G. Richards United States · #3,646 worldwide 1.5k citations · 69 works
- 44 Roberto Car United States · #3,836 worldwide 3k citations · 151 works
- 45 G. Herzberg Canada · #3,884 worldwide 1.2k citations · 71 works
- 46 Joseph T. Hupp United States · #4,174 worldwide 3.1k citations · 135 works
- 47 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski United States · #4,573 worldwide 4.4k citations · 264 works
- 48 E. K. U. Gross Germany · #4,575 worldwide 2.4k citations · 106 works
- 49 H. G. Hertz Germany · #4,626 worldwide 1.6k citations · 70 works
- 50 R. B. Woodward United States · #4,747 worldwide 1.2k citations · 66 works
- 51 Keith S. Taber United Kingdom · #4,955 worldwide 1.8k citations · 112 works
- 52 Vincenzo Barone Italy · #5,049 worldwide 3.9k citations · 210 works
- 53 Michael Polanyi United Kingdom · #5,160 worldwide 1k citations · 82 works
- 54 Niels Bohr Denmark · #5,301 worldwide 820 citations · 65 works
- 55 Norman Davidson United States · #5,377 worldwide 1.4k citations · 84 works
- 56 Martin Head‐Gordon United States · #5,440 worldwide 2.6k citations · 153 works
- 57 Phaedon Avouris United States · #5,549 worldwide 2.6k citations · 156 works
- 58 W.J. Orville-Thomas United Kingdom · #5,597 worldwide 1.7k citations · 60 works
- 59 Marvin L. Cohen United States · #5,815 worldwide 4.7k citations · 291 works
- 60 Louis J. Farrugia United Kingdom · #6,002 worldwide 1.7k citations · 70 works
- 61 Jacob N. Israelachvili United States · #6,350 worldwide 1.9k citations · 111 works
- 62 Eric W. Van Stryland United States · #6,374 worldwide 2.2k citations · 154 works
- 63 Klaus‐Robert Müller Germany · #6,392 worldwide 2.5k citations · 151 works
- 64 R. W. TAFT United States · #6,568 worldwide 1.7k citations · 57 works
- 65 Donald Bethell United Kingdom · #6,708 worldwide 1.4k citations · 66 works
- 66 Fred Wudl United States · #6,737 worldwide 2.9k citations · 163 works
- 67 Pekka Pyykkö Finland · #6,803 worldwide 1.4k citations · 74 works
- 68 Michael J. Frisch United States · #6,872 worldwide 1.7k citations · 57 works
- 69 Stefan Grimme Germany · #6,878 worldwide 1.8k citations · 134 works
- 70 Krishnan Raghavachari United States · #6,991 worldwide 1.7k citations · 74 works
- 71 Richard I. Morimoto United States · #7,050 worldwide 1.2k citations · 57 works
- 72 Colin Eaborn United Kingdom · #7,112 worldwide 2.7k citations · 255 works
- 73 Reinhart Ahlrichs Germany · #7,126 worldwide 1.7k citations · 87 works
- 74 J. G. Contreras Switzerland · #7,353 worldwide 1.6k citations · 108 works
- 75 William P. Jencks United States · #7,615 worldwide 1.5k citations · 120 works
- 76 H. W. Wiley United States · #7,917 worldwide 523 citations · 58 works
- 77 John H. Gardner United States · #8,065 worldwide 491 citations · 60 works
- 78 Francis A. Carey United States · #8,274 worldwide 1.4k citations · 53 works
- 79 S. C. Lind United States · #8,383 worldwide 612 citations · 58 works
- 80 Barry W. Ninham Australia · #8,573 worldwide 1.5k citations · 112 works
- 81 Frank Weinhold United States · #8,665 worldwide 1.2k citations · 56 works
- 82 John D. Weeks United States · #8,752 worldwide 1.5k citations · 52 works
- 83 Claude Cohen‐Tannoudji France · #8,824 worldwide 863 citations · 72 works
- 84 Mark E. Tuckerman United States · #9,276 worldwide 1.2k citations · 85 works
- 85 Berend Smit Switzerland · #9,381 worldwide 1.9k citations · 123 works
- 86 Carmelo Giacovazzo Italy · #9,510 worldwide 1k citations · 80 works
- 87 Trygve Helgaker Norway · #9,651 worldwide 1.3k citations · 57 works
- 88 Ana L. Moore United States · #9,769 worldwide 760 citations · 62 works
- 89 Ralph G. Pearson United States · #9,823 worldwide 2.7k citations · 48 works
- 90 John M. Prausnitz United States · #9,885 worldwide 2k citations · 153 works
- 91 Kenneth R. Seddon United Kingdom · #9,907 worldwide 1.4k citations · 127 works
- 92 JOHN ARENTS United States · #9,996 worldwide 1k citations · 50 works
- 93 Prashant V. Kamat United States · #10,125 worldwide 2.3k citations · 168 works
- 94 Anthony J. Stone United Kingdom · #10,161 worldwide 1k citations · 60 works
- 95 G. Ertl Germany · #10,198 worldwide 3.1k citations · 189 works
- 96 Wim Klopper Germany · #10,263 worldwide 1.3k citations · 63 works
- 97 Donald E. Williams United States · #10,336 worldwide 925 citations · 59 works
- 98 Frederick D. Rossini United States · #10,400 worldwide 675 citations · 57 works
- 99 C. A. Coulson Slovakia · #10,412 worldwide 818 citations · 78 works
- 100 A. Henglein Germany · #10,628 worldwide 1.5k citations · 104 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.