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Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions

Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 42k 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 catalytic oxidation of alcohols, utilizing various catalyst systems including hypervalent iodine compounds, transition metal catalysts, and organocatalysts. The research emphasizes aerobic oxidation, selective oxidation, enantioselective synthesis, and the application of green chemistry principles.

  • Alcohol Oxidation
  • Catalytic
  • Hypervalent Iodine Compounds
  • Aerobic Oxidation
  • Transition Metal Catalysts
  • Organocatalysts
  • Selective Oxidation
  • Enantioselective Synthesis
  • Green Chemistry
  • Homogeneous Catalysts
Research works
42k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions

Which countries lead Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.6k and 439 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 India 439 works
  3. 3 United States 318 works
  4. 4 Japan 251 works
  5. 5 Germany 161 works
  6. 6 Russia 150 works
  7. 7 France 99 works
  8. 8 Iran 83 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 72 works
  10. 10 Italy 71 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: 49.7%India: 13.4%United States: 9.7%Japan: 7.7%6 others listed: 19.5%50%largest
China1,626 · 49.7%India439 · 13.4%United States318 · 9.7%Japan251 · 7.7%6 others listed637 · 19.5%

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

Which institutions lead Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 119 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 77 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 54 works
  4. 4 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 31 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 29 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang University of TechnologyChina 28 works
  7. 7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 28 works
  8. 8 Nankai UniversityChina 26 works
  9. 9 Academy of Scientific and Innovative ResearchIndia 22 works
  10. 10 Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions include Michaël Grätzel, Jeremy Grimshaw and George M. Whitesides.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  3. 3 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  6. 6 Stefan Grimme Germany 224k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  8. 8 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k citations
  9. 9 Markus Antonietti Germany 185k citations
  10. 10 Qiang Zhang China 184k 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 Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions?

The most cited paper in Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions is "Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Solvents for Synthesis and Catalysis. 2" (Jason Patrick Hallett, Tom Welton, 2011), with 12,587 citations. Next come "Organic Photoredox Catalysis" (6,360) and "Ionic Liquids—New “Solutions” for Transition Metal Catalysis" (5,721).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Solvents for Synthesis and Catalysis. 2 Jason Patrick Hallett, Tom Welton · Chemical Reviews Review 6 Apr 2011 12,587
2 Organic Photoredox Catalysis Nathan A. Romero, David A. Nicewicz · Chemical Reviews Review 10 Jun 2016 6,360
3 Ionic Liquids—New “Solutions” for Transition Metal Catalysis Peter Wasserscheid, Wilhelm Keim · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 3 Nov 2000 5,721
4 A convenient synthesis of acetylenes: catalytic substitutions of acetylenic hydrogen with bromoalkenes, iodoarenes and bromopyridines Kenkichi Sonogashira, Yasuo Tohda, Nobue Hagihara · Tetrahedron Letters 1975 5,175
5 Synthetic Organic Electrochemical Methods Since 2000: On the Verge of a Renaissance Ming Yan, Yu Kawamata, Phil S. Baran · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 9 Oct 2017 3,895
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Where is Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions research done?

The largest centres of Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Hangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xinxiang, Changzhou and Ghaziabad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 210 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 107 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 82 works
  4. 4 HangzhouChina 81 works
  5. 5 TianjinChina 66 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 63 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 60 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 57 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 53 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. XinxiangCN · 21.1 works19×
  2. ChangzhouCN · 25.4 works14×
  3. GhaziabadIN · 22.5 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Münster, Nankai University 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 19.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of MünsterNankai UniversitySichuan UniversityUniversity 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
1University of MünsterGermany 70.831.5%9.4×14 +36.5%
2Nankai UniversityChina 68.918.6%11.2×26 +23.4%
3University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 64.317.8%5.0×28 -0.3%
4Sichuan UniversityChina 63.718.3%3.9×29 +49.9%
5Henan Normal UniversityChina 61.920.5%28.9×19 +148.3%
6École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland 61.914.8%8.9×12 +23.3%
7Tsinghua UniversityChina 60.722.7%2.5×20 +29.5%
8Xiamen UniversityChina 58.223.1%5.0×14 +116.8%
9Zhengzhou UniversityChina 58.015.0%5.3×21 +41.4%
10East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 54.916.8%12.5×21 +6.6%

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 Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions, country by country

Is Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015. The fastest-growing topics are Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions.

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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 Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions 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.

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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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