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Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics

Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advances in organometallic chemistry, focusing on metalation reactions, functionalized reagents, deprotonation reactions, alkali-metal-mediated chemistry, ate compounds, regioselective generation of functionalized compounds, directed metallation, mixed aggregates, and stereoselective synthesis.

  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • Metalation
  • Functionalized Reagents
  • Deprotonation Reactions
  • Alkali-Metal-Mediated Chemistry
  • Ate Compounds
  • Regioselective Generation
  • Directed Metallation
  • Mixed Aggregates
  • Stereoselective Synthesis
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics

Which countries lead Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (212 and 172 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 212 works
  2. 2 United States 172 works
  3. 3 Germany 169 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 85 works
  5. 5 Japan 73 works
  6. 6 Russia 72 works
  7. 7 India 65 works
  8. 8 France 51 works
  9. 9 Spain 32 works
  10. 10 Canada 32 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: 22.1%United States: 17.9%Germany: 17.5%United Kingdom: 8.8%6 others listed: 33.7%22%largest
China212 · 22.1%United States172 · 17.9%Germany169 · 17.5%United Kingdom85 · 8.8%6 others listed324 · 33.7%

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

Which institutions lead Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 43 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 14 works
  4. 4 University of BathUnited Kingdom 14 works
  5. 5 University of BernSwitzerland 14 works
  6. 6 Philipps University of MarburgGermany 11 works
  7. 7 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 10 works
  8. 8 Monash UniversityAustralia 9 works
  9. 9 Kyoto UniversityJapan 9 works
  10. 10 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics include Heng Li, George M. Whitesides and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  2. 2 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Stefan Grimme Germany 224k citations
  5. 5 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k citations
  6. 6 John Anthony Pople United States 202k citations
  7. 7 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k 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 Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics?

The most cited paper in Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics is "Stereospecific Olefin Polymerization with Chiral Metallocene Catalysts" (Hans Herbert Brintzinger, David M. Fischer, Rolf Mülhaupt et al., 1995), with 2,724 citations. Next come "How to Read and Interpret FTIR Spectroscope of Organic Material" (2,373) and "N-methoxy-n-methylamides as effective acylating agents" (1,798).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Stereospecific Olefin Polymerization with Chiral Metallocene Catalysts Hans Herbert Brintzinger, David M. Fischer, Rolf Mülhaupt et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English Open access 16 Jun 1995 2,724
2 How to Read and Interpret FTIR Spectroscope of Organic Material Asep Bayu Dani Nandiyanto, Rosi Oktiani, Risti Ragadhita · Indonesian Journal of Science and Technology Open access 7 Mar 2019 2,373
3 N-methoxy-n-methylamides as effective acylating agents Steven H. Nahm, Steven M. Weinreb · Tetrahedron Letters 1981 1,798
4 Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: Development and Perspectives Douglas W. Stephan, Gerhard Erker · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 14 May 2015 1,781
5 N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes Wolfgang Anton Herrmann, Christian Köcher · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English Open access 3 Nov 1997 1,692
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Where is Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics research done?

The largest centres of Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Paris (France) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 33 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 23 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 17 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 15 works
  5. 5 MunichGermany 15 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 14 works
  7. 7 BathUnited Kingdom 14 works
  8. 8 BernSwitzerland 14 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  10. 10 MarburgGermany 11 works
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Where is the best place to study Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Bern, University of Bath and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg score highest, combining citation 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 14.8714%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Friedrich-Alexander-…University of BernPhilipps University …University of Bath
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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.

Citation 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
1University of BernSwitzerland 77.819.6%24.3×14 +132.9%
2University of BathUnited Kingdom 69.29.8%56.0×14 +187.9%
3Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 63.138.1%16.4×10 -29.7%
4Philipps University of MarburgGermany 40.812.1%38.5×11 -2.6%
5Kyoto UniversityJapan 27.17.5%10.8×9 +9.0%
6Monash UniversityAustralia 26.99.0%9.0×9 -3.4%
7University of TübingenGermany 15.08.0%18.2×8 -27.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics, country by country

Is Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2009.

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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 Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0044% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics0.0043% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics 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%Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics10.2% 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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