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Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms

Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms is a research topic within Inorganic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the activation of dioxygen at metalloenzyme active sites, encompassing mechanisms of oxygenation reactions, proton-coupled electron transfer, non-heme iron catalysts, cytochrome P450 enzymes, high-valent intermediates, methane monooxygenase, superoxide dismutases, and ribonucleotide reductases.

  • Dioxygen Activation
  • Metalloenzyme
  • Oxygenation Reactions
  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
  • Non-Heme Iron Catalysts
  • Cytochrome P450 Enzymes
  • High-Valent Intermediates
  • Methane Monooxygenase
  • Superoxide Dismutases
  • Ribonucleotide Reductases
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms

Which countries lead Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (509 and 503 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 509 works
  2. 2 China 503 works
  3. 3 India 317 works
  4. 4 Germany 188 works
  5. 5 Japan 148 works
  6. 6 France 102 works
  7. 7 Russia 93 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 61 works
  9. 9 Spain 52 works
  10. 10 Italy 52 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.

United States: 25.2%China: 24.8%India: 15.6%Germany: 9.3%6 others listed: 25.1%25%largest
United States509 · 25.2%China503 · 24.8%India317 · 15.6%Germany188 · 9.3%6 others listed508 · 25.1%

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

Which institutions lead Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 58 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 54 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 52 works
  4. 4 University of RajasthanIndia 50 works
  5. 5 Central University of RajasthanIndia 50 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 16 works
  7. 7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 14 works
  8. 8 The University of OsakaJapan 13 works
  9. 9 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 13 works
  10. 10 Indian Institute of Technology BombayIndia 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms include Michaël Grätzel, George M. Whitesides and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  5. 5 Stefan Grimme Germany 224k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 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 Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms?

The most cited paper in Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms is "Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å" (Yasufumi Umena, Keisuke Kawakami, Jian‐Ren Shen et al., 2011), with 3,937 citations. Next come "Multicopper Oxidases and Oxygenases" (3,667) and "Nitric oxide synthases: structure, function and inhibition" (3,544).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å Yasufumi Umena, Keisuke Kawakami, Jian‐Ren Shen et al. · Nature Open access 14 Apr 2011 3,937
2 Multicopper Oxidases and Oxygenases Edward I. Solomon, Uma M. Sundaram, Timothy E. Machonkin · Chemical Reviews Review 1996 3,667
3 Nitric oxide synthases: structure, function and inhibition Wendy K. ALDERTON, Chris E. Cooper, Richard G. Knowles · Biochemical Journal Open access Aug 2001 3,544
4 SUPEROXIDE RADICAL AND SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASES Irwin Fridovich · Annual Review of Biochemistry Jun 1995 3,456
5 Architecture of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Center Kristina N. Ferreira, T.M. Iverson, Karim Maghlaoui et al. · Science 9 Feb 2004 3,351
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Where is Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms research done?

The largest centres of Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Jaipur (India), Ajmer (India) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ajmer and Jaipur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 75 works
  2. 2 JaipurIndia 52 works
  3. 3 AjmerIndia 50 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 36 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 34 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 32 works
  7. 7 KolkataIndia 31 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 30 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 30 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AjmerIN · 50.2 works81×
  2. JaipurIN · 51.7 works22×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms?

Among universities, judged by research, Universitat de Girona, Stanford University and California Institute of Technology 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%10%20%30%mean 14.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitat de GironaStanford UniversityCalifornia Institute…Massachusetts Instit…
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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
1Universitat de GironaSpain 59.124.2%33.6×9 -14.4%
2Stanford UniversityUnited States 59.022.5%4.2×14 -15.5%
3California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 57.019.9%12.7×10 -51.2%
4Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 54.916.6%6.7×10 +22.4%
5University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 53.514.1%6.2×12 +24.0%
6University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 51.727.4%5.7×10 -46.0%
7Central University of RajasthanIndia 50.10.0%216.6×50 +60.4%
8University of RajasthanIndia 50.00.0%169.6×50 +66.2%
9Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 49.011.5%9.1×8 +31.0%
10University of GroningenNetherlands 45.011.0%5.7×9 +28.5%

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 Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms, country by country

Is Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0075% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms0.0095% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms 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%Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms10.1% 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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