Alan J. Heeger

161.3k total citations · 81 hit papers
904 papers, 134.2k citations indexed

About

Alan J. Heeger is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan J. Heeger has authored 904 papers receiving a total of 134.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 655 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 515 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 154 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alan J. Heeger's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (537 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (499 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (195 papers). Alan J. Heeger is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (537 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (499 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (195 papers). Alan J. Heeger collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Alan J. Heeger's co-authors include Guillermo C. Bazan, J. R. Schrieffer, W. P. Su, Fred Wudl, D. Moses, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Gang Yu, Jun Gao, Jan C. Hummelen and Jin Young Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Alan J. Heeger

894 papers receiving 130.5k citations

Hit Papers

Polymer Photovoltaic Cells: Enhanced Efficiencies... 1972 2026 1990 2008 1995 1979 2009 1988 2007 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k

Peers

Alan J. Heeger
Comparison fields: 5 of 181
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 99.1k
  • Polymers and Plastics 80.8k
  • Materials Chemistry 29.7k
  • Biomedical Engineering 17.4k
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 15.5k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan J. Heeger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan J. Heeger

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1 113
2
High mobility emissive organic semiconductor breakdown →
486
3 51
4 46
5 152
6 106
7
High‐Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells Enhanced by Solvent Treatment breakdown →
468
8 167
9 74
10
High Efficiency Bulk heterojunction Solar Cells with Internal Quantum Efficiency(IQE) approaching 100% fabricated with the Poly(2,7-Carbazole) copolymer, PCDTBT
3
11 154
12
Rapid Electronic Detection of DNA and Nonnatural DNA Analogs for Molecular Marking Applications
1
13
Efficiency enhancement in low-bandgap polymer solar cells by processing with alkane dithiols breakdown →
2837
14 117
15
Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers: The Fourth Generation of Polymeric Materials (Nobel Lecture) breakdown →
1240
16
Electrical Conductivity in Doped Polyacetylene : Phys. Rev. Lett. 39 (1977) 1098 ( The Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dr. Hideki Shirakawa)
3
17 81
18
Distributed Feedback Lasers Made With Semiconducting Conjugated Polymers as the Gain Material
1
19 6
20 71

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