Name Papers Citations Cites/Paper
81-June 97 81-June 97 (Impact)
1-10
A.Bax 152 21,655 142.47
J.A.Pople 176 14,044 79.80
P.V.Schleyer 525 13,559 25.83
R.R.Ernst [N] 182 13,069 71.81
G.M.Whitesides 318 12,310 38.71
H.F.Schaefer 515 11,921 23.15
J.C.Huffman 577 11,654 20.20
A.L.Rheingold 830 11,317 13.63
D.Seebach 349 11,275 32.31
J.M.Lehn [N] 307 10,823 35.25
11-20
T.J.Meyer 267 10,490 39.29
R.E.Smalley[N] 96 10,456 108.92
A.J.Bard 333 10,365 31.13
D.G.Truhlar 328 10,310 31.43
J.J.P.Stewart 39 10,179 261.00
E.J.Corey [N] 303 10,129 33.43
F.A.Cotton 634 9,911 15.63
P.A.Kollman 140 9,703 69.31
M.J.S.Dewar 119 9,701 81.52
W.L.Jorgensen 154 9,695 62.95
21-30
R.N.Zare 290 9,617 33.16
B.M.Trost 332 9,302 28.02
C.W.Bauschlicher 351 9,139 26.04
A.H.White 866 9,107 10.52
R.Taylor 221 9,020 40.81
R.J.Bartlett 251 8,984 35.79
G.A.Somorjai 328 8,958 27.31
K.N.Houk 287 8,654 30.15
T.J.Marks 217 8,366 38.55
S.J.Lippard 230 8,342 36.27
31-40
K.Raghavachari 123 8,272 67.25
R.Hoffmann [N] 248 8,269 33.34
A.H.Zewail 211 8,208 38.90
J.L.Atwood 348 8,109 23.30
M.B.Hursthouse 659 8,008 12.15
J.M.White 367 7,961 21.69
K.B.Sharpless 148 7,931 53.59
R.Freeman 151 7,961 52.32
D.J.Williams 656 7,761 11.83
R.R.Schrock 235 7,725 32.87
41-50
H.W.Kroto [N] 140 7,514 53.67
M.Karplus 141 7,459 52.90
G.M.Sheldrick 441 7,453 16.90
D.A.Evans 148 7,409 50.06
L.A.Paquette 529 7,402 13.99
G.Ertl 242 7,347 30.36
K.C.Nicolaou 228 7,337 32.18
R.Noyori 183 7,281 39.79
W.A.Herrmann 387 7,337 18.57
D.H.R.Barton[N]407 7,183 17.65
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The following data are offered for your interest. I recently searched the ISI database, 1981-June 1997, for all chemistry papers and their citation counts (how many times they were cited) through 1997. I then summarized the data by author name (ISI indexes all authors on a paper, not just first author). Thus, the statistics below represent so-called all-author counts.
It is important to recognize what I surveyed and what I did not. The data represent citations recorded over 1981-June 1997 to ISI-indexed chemistry papers 1981-June 1997, and do not represent citations to books, to pre-1980 papers indexed by ISI, or to any papers not indexed by ISI during 1981-June 97. We have defined chemistry as any paper appearing in journals that ISI has classified as chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, chemical engineering, analytical chemistry and all chemistry subfields used for Current Contents.
There were some 627,871 unique author names found in the set. Only 10,858 (1.7%) were cited 500 times or more. The 50 names below appear on the top of the first page of a printout of the authors cited 500 times or more that runs about 100 pages. These 50 highly cited chemists represent the top .01% worldwide in terms of total citations.
Seven Nobel laureates appear (marked by [N]), and I bet another 6-10 listed here are Nobel laureates-to-be (time will tell if this forecast is accurate). Lists like this one compiled over the last few decades have contained the names of many laureates-to-be. See E. Garfield and A. Welljams-Dorof, "Of Nobel Class: A Citation Perspective on High Impact Research Authors," Theoretical Medicine, 13:117-35, 1992, for an overview.