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Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds

Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 explores the concept of aromaticity in organic molecules and materials, including the study of Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts (NICS), helical polymers, nanographene chemistry, circularly polarized luminescence, diradicals, and electron delocalization. It covers a wide range of topics related to the structural, electronic, and optical properties of aromatic and conjugated systems.

  • Aromaticity
  • Helical Polymers
  • Nanographene Chemistry
  • Circularly Polarized Luminescence
  • Macrocyclic Aromatics
  • Diradicals
  • Heteroaromatic Compounds
  • Electron Delocalization
  • Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts (NICS)
  • Conjugated Systems
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds

Which countries lead Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds research?

By volume, China and Japan publish the most (1.5k and 469 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 Japan 469 works
  3. 3 United States 328 works
  4. 4 India 293 works
  5. 5 Germany 244 works
  6. 6 France 134 works
  7. 7 Spain 132 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 89 works
  9. 9 Russia 86 works
  10. 10 Italy 81 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: 43.9%Japan: 14.2%United States: 9.9%India: 8.8%6 others listed: 23.2%44%largest
China1,452 · 43.9%Japan469 · 14.2%United States328 · 9.9%India293 · 8.8%6 others listed766 · 23.2%

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

Which institutions lead Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Kyoto University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 117 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 73 works
  3. 3 Kyoto UniversityJapan 45 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 42 works
  5. 5 Jilin UniversityChina 39 works
  6. 6 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 33 works
  7. 7 Shandong UniversityChina 29 works
  8. 8 The University of OsakaJapan 29 works
  9. 9 University of WürzburgGermany 29 works
  10. 10 Nanjing UniversityChina 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds include George M. Whitesides, Wei Huang and Ben Zhong Tang.

  1. 1 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  4. 4 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  5. 5 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  6. 6 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  7. 7 Stefan Grimme Germany 224k citations
  8. 8 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  9. 9 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k citations
  10. 10 Lei Jiang China 214k 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 Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds?

The most cited paper in Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds is "Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts: A Simple and Efficient Aromaticity Probe" (Paul von Ragué Schleyer, Christoph Maerker, Alk Dransfeld et al., 1996), with 6,239 citations. Next come "Photoinduced Electron Transfer from a Conducting Polymer to Buckminsterfullerene" (4,275) and "Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts (NICS) as an Aromaticity Criterion" (3,864).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts: A Simple and Efficient Aromaticity Probe Paul von Ragué Schleyer, Christoph Maerker, Alk Dransfeld et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society 1996 6,239
2 Photoinduced Electron Transfer from a Conducting Polymer to Buckminsterfullerene Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi, Laura B. Smilowitz, Allan J. Heeger et al. · Science 27 Nov 1992 4,275
3 Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts (NICS) as an Aromaticity Criterion Zhongfang Chen, Chaitanya S. Wannere, Clémence Corminbœuf et al. · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 29 Sep 2005 3,864
4 About Supramolecular Assemblies of π-Conjugated Systems Freek J. M. Hoeben, Pascal Jonkheijm, Egbert W. Meijer et al. · Chemical Reviews Review 10 Mar 2005 3,090
5 The Larger Acenes: Versatile Organic Semiconductors John E. Anthony · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 28 Nov 2007 2,101
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Where is Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds research done?

The largest centres of Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wurzburg and Kyoto.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 250 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 130 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 112 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 76 works
  5. 5 TianjinChina 61 works
  6. 6 KyotoJapan 59 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 57 works
  8. 8 HefeiChina 55 works
  9. 9 ShenzhenChina 53 works
  10. 10 OsakaJapan 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WurzburgDE · 28.7 works19×
  2. KyotoJP · 58.8 works10.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Normal University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing University 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 27.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Beijing Normal Unive…Nanjing UniversityUniversity of Chines…Jilin University
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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
1Beijing Normal UniversityChina 80.832.6%8.9×25 +553.5%
2University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 79.225.4%5.7×33 +54.6%
3Nanjing UniversityChina 78.732.2%8.7×28 +72.6%
4Jilin UniversityChina 76.423.9%9.6×39 +222.4%
5University of WürzburgGermany 74.224.4%26.1×29 +39.4%
6Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 71.430.5%14.7×22 +69.8%
7Zhengzhou UniversityChina 70.533.6%4.1×18 +51.0%
8University of Hong KongChina 66.527.5%3.4×11 +33.2%
9Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 66.422.2%9.3×17 +153.5%
10Tianjin UniversityChina 65.819.8%5.9×26 +25.0%

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 Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds, country by country

Is Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2008. The fastest-growing topics are Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds.

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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 Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds 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%Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds9.9% 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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