Frank Würthner awarded as “Highly Cited Researcher”

24.06.2014

In 2014 there are only 16 active researchers from Germany posted on the website highlycited.com of company Thomson Reuters. One of them is Frank Würthner.

The Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher badge, awarded to Frank Würthner

There are many different scientific rankings and Würzburg’s Chemistry Department usually performs exceptionally well. However, Frank Würthner, Head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Director of the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC), has already accomplished more than many other scientist at his young age of 50. He is among the world’s most highly cited chemists of our time. The frequency of citation is regarded as an especially meaningful indicator of scientific quality and meaning of a publication. In case of Frank Würthner this award strikingly proves him to be one of the world-leading chemists who developed a field of research (Supramolecular Dye Chemistry and Organic Functional Materials) with considerable world-wide interest.

But Frank Würthner is not the first chemist from Würzburg who is entitled to call himself “Highly Cited Researcher”. Since 2001 Waldemar Adam, his direct antecessor, as well as Helmut Werner, inorganic chemist, and Peter Schreier, food chemist, may also call themselves “Highly Cited Researcher”. But since all of them are already retired, at the moment Frank Würthner is the only chemist in Würzburg of the currently updated list. In the field of Chemistry however, there are generally only scientists from nine German Universities and three Max-Planck-Institutes represented.

The complete lists for 2001 and 2014 as well as information on the used methods can be found under highlycited.com. If you are interested in the performance of other highly cited scientists from Würzburg, please have a look at the article of University Press Office.

 

By C. Stadler

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