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Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis

Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis is a research topic within Inorganic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 47k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advances in homogeneous catalysis with transition metals, focusing on topics such as asymmetric catalysis, hydrogenation, chiral ligands, alcohol activation, dehydrogenation, amine synthesis, borrowing hydrogen, enantioselective reactions, and metal-ligand cooperation.

  • Asymmetric Catalysis
  • Hydrogenation
  • Transition Metal Complexes
  • Chiral Ligands
  • Alcohol Activation
  • Dehydrogenation
  • Amine Synthesis
  • Borrowing Hydrogen
  • Enantioselective Reactions
  • Metal-Ligand Cooperation
Research works
47k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis

Which countries lead Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.6k and 660 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.6k works
  2. 2 India 660 works
  3. 3 United States 595 works
  4. 4 Germany 327 works
  5. 5 Japan 315 works
  6. 6 France 223 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 170 works
  8. 8 Spain 168 works
  9. 9 Russia 163 works
  10. 10 Italy 105 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 49.0%India: 12.3%United States: 11.1%Germany: 6.1%6 others listed: 21.4%49%largest
China2,615 · 49.0%India660 · 12.3%United States595 · 11.1%Germany327 · 6.1%6 others listed1,145 · 21.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 265 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 123 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 91 works
  4. 4 Nankai UniversityChina 69 works
  5. 5 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 64 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 47 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 45 works
  8. 8 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 42 works
  9. 9 Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 40 works
  10. 10 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis include Michaël Grätzel, Richard A. Gibbs and George M. Whitesides.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  3. 3 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  6. 6 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  7. 7 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  8. 8 Stefan Grimme Germany 224k citations
  9. 9 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  10. 10 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis?

The most cited paper in Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis is "The Atom Economy—A Search for Synthetic Efficiency" (BM Trost, 1991), with 4,807 citations. Next come "Palladium(II)‐Catalyzed CH Activation/CC Cross‐Coupling Reactions: Versatility and Practicality" (4,122) and "The Heck Reaction as a Sharpening Stone of Palladium Catalysis" (3,914).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Atom Economy—A Search for Synthetic Efficiency BM Trost · Science 6 Dec 1991 4,807
2 Palladium(II)‐Catalyzed CH Activation/CC Cross‐Coupling Reactions: Versatility and Practicality Xiao Chen, Keary M. Engle, Dong‐Hui Wang et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition Open access 25 Jun 2009 4,122
3 The Heck Reaction as a Sharpening Stone of Palladium Catalysis I. P. Beletskaya, Andrei V. Cheprakov · Chemical Reviews Review 21 Jul 2000 3,914
4 Catalytic Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling: Forming Carbon−Carbon Bonds by Oxidizing Two Carbon−Hydrogen Bonds Charles See Yeung, Vy M. Dong · Chemical Reviews Review 9 Mar 2011 3,866
5 Controlled Microwave Heating in Modern Organic Synthesis Christian Oliver Kappe · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 23 Nov 2004 3,606
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Where is Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis research done?

The largest centres of Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tianjin (China) and Hangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mülheim, Rostock and Xinxiang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 389 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 258 works
  3. 3 TianjinChina 145 works
  4. 4 HangzhouChina 130 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 128 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 97 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 86 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 78 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 78 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 77 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MülheimDE · 22.6 works72×
  2. RostockDE · 39.5 works27×
  3. XinxiangCN · 30.0 works17×
  4. GhaziabadIN · 29.5 works9.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Nankai University, Southern University of Science and Technology and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 20.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nankai UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong U…Southern University …University of Chines…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Nankai UniversityChina 75.723.2%18.6×68 +42.7%
2Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 66.918.9%13.9×40 +9.8%
3University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 66.517.4%7.3×64 +5.7%
4Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 63.321.8%2.9×45 +27.2%
5University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 63.317.3%6.2×40 +123.2%
6Nanjing UniversityChina 61.618.0%7.4×36 +52.2%
7Westlake UniversityChina 60.423.0%16.5×11 +581.9%
8Henan Normal UniversityChina 59.019.1%27.3×29 +150.3%
9Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael 58.229.6%11.3×9 -42.0%
10Lanzhou UniversityChina 55.520.9%7.1×26 +33.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, country by country

Is Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015. The fastest-growing topics are Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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