Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 56k 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 covers a wide range of advances in transition metal catalysis, including polymerization, organometallic chemistry, bond activation, olefin reactions, hydrogenation, NMR chemical shifts, pincer complexes, and dinitrogen reduction.

Catalysis
Transition Metal
Polymerization
Organometallic Chemistry
Bond Activation
Olefin
Hydrogenation
NMR Chemical Shifts
Pincer Complexes
Dinitrogen Reduction

Research works: 56k
In the world top 10%: 5.6k
Top-10% rate: 9.9%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -9%
Largest producer: China

Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

Which countries lead Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (821 and 512 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 China 821 works
2 United States 512 works
3 Germany 492 works
4 Russia 263 works
5 India 198 works
6 Japan 186 works
7 France 169 works
8 United Kingdom 145 works
9 Spain 119 works
10 Italy 83 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.

China821 · 27.5%United States512 · 17.1%Germany492 · 16.5%Russia263 · 8.8%6 others listed901 · 30.1%

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

Which institutions lead Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 170 works
2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 104 works
3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 94 works
4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 37 works
5 Technical University of MunichGermany 26 works
6 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 26 works
7 Qingdao University of Science and TechnologyChina 26 works
8 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 24 works
9 University of RegensburgGermany 23 works
10 Max Planck SocietyGermany 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis include Michaël Grätzel, Heng Li and George M. Whitesides.

1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
2 Heng Li United States 270k citations
3 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
5 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
6 P. Jackson France 230k citations
7 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
8 Stefan Grimme Germany 224k citations
9 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
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 Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis?

The most cited paper in Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis is "The Development of L 2 X 2 RuCHR Olefin Metathesis Catalysts: An Organometallic Success Story" (Tina M. Trnka, Robert Howard Grubbs, 2000), with 3,553 citations. Next come "Late-Metal Catalysts for Ethylene Homo- and Copolymerization" (3,145) and "Stereospecific Olefin Polymerization with Chiral Metallocene Catalysts" (2,724).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	The Development of L 2 X 2 RuCHR Olefin Metathesis Catalysts: An Organometallic Success Story Tina M. Trnka, Robert Howard Grubbs · Accounts of Chemical Research	4 Nov 2000	3,553
2	Late-Metal Catalysts for Ethylene Homo- and Copolymerization Steven D. Ittel, Lynda K. Johnson, Maurice Brookhart · Chemical Reviews Review	25 Mar 2000	3,145
3	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
4	Advances in Non-Metallocene Olefin Polymerization Catalysis Vernon C. Gibson, Stefan K. Spitzmesser · Chemical Reviews Review	17 Dec 2002	2,513
5	Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide and Glycolide Odile Dechy‐Cabaret, Blanca Martín-Vaca, Didier Bourissou · Chemical Reviews Review	5 Oct 2004	2,245

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Where is Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis research done?

The largest centres of Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Regensburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 164 works
2 MoscowRussia 103 works
3 ShanghaiChina 58 works
4 TokyoJapan 57 works
5 NovosibirskRussia 55 works
6 ParisFrance 55 works
7 HefeiChina 53 works
8 TianjinChina 41 works
9 MunichGermany 37 works
10 DalianChina 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

RegensburgDE · 23.5 works19×
Nizhny NovgorodRU · 23.6 works15×
NovosibirskRU · 55.3 works14×
KarlsruheDE · 32.5 works12×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Anhui University, University of Science and Technology of China and Technical University of Munich 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Anhui UniversityChina	81.9	29.1%	13.0×	18	+53.0%
2	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina	81.0	25.0%	6.5×	24	+46.0%
3	Technical University of MunichGermany	78.0	16.6%	9.7×	26	+28.1%
4	Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina	71.1	23.0%	9.2×	15	+74.5%
5	Qingdao University of Science and TechnologyChina	63.2	11.2%	22.5×	26	+110.7%
6	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina	60.1	26.1%	2.4×	15	+53.5%
7	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	59.4	19.6%	4.3×	19	-10.2%
8	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	56.9	16.9%	6.4×	17	+5.8%
9	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina	56.1	18.6%	3.6×	18	-6.7%
10	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany	53.1	23.0%	8.9×	16	-17.4%
11	ETH ZurichSwitzerland	53.0	10.7%	6.0×	13	+31.2%
12	East China University of Science and TechnologyChina	51.1	18.1%	8.9×	14	+38.5%
13	University of BathUnited Kingdom	50.8	4.9%	18.7×	14	+49.1%
14	Philipps University of MarburgGermany	50.7	13.9%	22.7×	20	-28.3%
15	University of RegensburgGermany	50.3	7.1%	30.4×	23	-31.5%
16	University of TübingenGermany	49.5	2.0%	16.6×	22	-2.9%
17	Heidelberg UniversityGermany	49.1	8.9%	5.9×	14	+39.3%
18	University of WürzburgGermany	48.5	13.2%	15.0×	15	-8.5%
19	Anhui Normal UniversityChina	48.3	23.5%	24.7×	10	+156.5%
20	University of FreiburgGermany	47.2	16.7%	7.9×	11	+4.5%
21	Nankai UniversityChina	47.0	9.7%	7.1×	15	+84.6%
22	Freie Universität BerlinGermany	46.6	7.6%	10.5×	14	+14.3%
23	University of California, IrvineUnited States	45.1	14.3%	5.9×	12	-17.9%
24	Dalian University of TechnologyChina	44.9	5.3%	5.2×	15	+17.7%
25	University of GöttingenGermany	44.8	14.8%	11.5×	13	-23.6%
26	Tianjin UniversityChina	44.7	11.4%	3.7×	14	+120.3%
27	University of BernSwitzerland	44.3	8.0%	6.8×	12	+101.7%
28	Nanjing UniversityChina	43.8	23.5%	3.2×	9	+36.7%
29	Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina	41.7	18.2%	6.3×	8	-8.1%
30	Soochow UniversityChina	41.3	16.9%	3.6×	11	+34.7%
31	University of Naples Federico IIItaly	40.4	18.5%	4.2×	9	-17.9%
32	Peking UniversityChina	39.6	20.4%	1.5×	10	+23.3%
33	Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia	39.3	3.4%	6.3×	16	-6.6%
34	Zhejiang UniversityChina	39.3	20.3%	1.6×	14	-2.0%
35	University of StuttgartGermany	39.1	7.7%	10.3×	11	+4.5%
36	Michigan State UniversityUnited States	39.0	12.0%	4.1×	9	+173.6%
37	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	39.0	9.2%	2.6×	8	+12.7%
38	Sichuan UniversityChina	38.5	24.1%	1.4×	10	+98.9%
39	The University of TokyoJapan	38.2	12.8%	3.5×	14	-14.1%
40	St Petersburg UniversityRussia	38.0	2.9%	8.7×	13	+20.1%
41	Monash UniversityAustralia	34.9	6.5%	3.4×	10	+1.7%

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 Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, country by country

Is Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2006.

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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 Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

Fractional works of Organometallic Complex Synthesis 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.

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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Which countries lead Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis?

What are the most cited papers in Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis?

Where is Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis?

Is Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion