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Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods

Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 62k 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 advances in olefin metathesis chemistry, particularly the development of ruthenium-based catalysts for various types of metathesis reactions such as ring-closing metathesis and cross-metathesis. The research also covers applications in polymerization, enantioselective synthesis, natural product synthesis, and industrial processes.

  • Olefin Metathesis
  • Ruthenium Catalysts
  • Ring-Closing Metathesis
  • Cross-Metathesis
  • Catalytic Activity
  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • Polymerization
  • Enantioselective Synthesis
  • Natural Product Synthesis
  • Industrial Applications
Research works
62k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods

Which countries lead Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 485 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 485 works
  3. 3 Japan 314 works
  4. 4 India 283 works
  5. 5 Germany 216 works
  6. 6 France 146 works
  7. 7 Russia 120 works
  8. 8 Spain 86 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 81 works
  10. 10 South Korea 80 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: 38.8%United States: 16.4%Japan: 10.6%India: 9.6%6 others listed: 24.6%39%largest
China1,147 · 38.8%United States485 · 16.4%Japan314 · 10.6%India283 · 9.6%6 others listed728 · 24.6%

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

Which institutions lead Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 114 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 79 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 73 works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 33 works
  5. 5 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 30 works
  6. 6 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 25 works
  7. 7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 25 works
  8. 8 Indian Institute of Technology BombayIndia 24 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 23 works
  10. 10 Lanzhou UniversityChina 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods include Jun Wang, Hagop M. Kantarjian and George M. Whitesides.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Hagop M. Kantarjian United States 273k 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 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  7. 7 Jeffrey I. Gordon United States 250k citations
  8. 8 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k 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 Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods?

The most cited paper in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods is "The Atom Economy—A Search for Synthetic Efficiency" (BM Trost, 1991), with 4,807 citations. Next come "Natural Products As Sources of New Drugs over the 30 Years from 1981 to 2010" (4,699) and "Autonomic healing of polymer composites" (4,540).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Atom Economy—A Search for Synthetic Efficiency BM Trost · Science 6 Dec 1991 4,807
2 Natural Products As Sources of New Drugs over the 30 Years from 1981 to 2010 David J. Newman, Gordon M. L. Cragg · Journal of Natural Products Open access 8 Feb 2012 4,699
3 Autonomic healing of polymer composites Scott R. White, Nancy R. Sottos, Philippe H. Geubelle et al. · Nature 15 Feb 2001 4,540
4 New Polymer Synthesis by Nitroxide Mediated Living Radical Polymerizations Craig J. Hawker, Anton W. Bosman, Eva M. Harth · Chemical Reviews Review 25 Oct 2001 3,812
5 N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: A New Concept in Organometallic Catalysis Wolfgang Anton Herrmann · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 15 Apr 2002 3,776
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Where is Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods research done?

The largest centres of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Guangzhou (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 182 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 122 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 92 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 58 works
  5. 5 HefeiChina 55 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 53 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 48 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 47 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 47 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 41 works
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Where is the best place to study Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods?

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan University, Southern University of Science and Technology and University of Science and Technology of China 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 20.85%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southern University …ETH ZurichSichuan UniversityUniversity of Scienc…
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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
1Sichuan UniversityChina 69.618.9%4.8×33 +25.8%
2Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.830.4%7.7×13 -14.2%
3University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 62.917.4%6.8×25 +11.0%
4ETH ZurichSwitzerland 58.119.6%7.3×16 -9.4%
5Anhui UniversityChina 56.420.3%8.2×12 +61.1%
6South China University of TechnologyChina 54.315.5%5.1×17 +32.0%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 53.815.1%2.5×22 +28.3%
8Nankai UniversityChina 52.028.2%8.4×18 -25.8%
9University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 51.016.6%4.8×25 -22.7%
10University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 50.626.5%3.0×8 -3.7%

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 Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, country by country

Is Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% 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 Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods 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%Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods9.9% 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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