Benoît Champin

506 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 451 citations indexed

About

Benoît Champin is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Benoît Champin has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 451 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Organic Chemistry, 4 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 3 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Benoît Champin's work include Magnetism in coordination complexes (4 papers), Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (4 papers) and Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure (2 papers). Benoît Champin is often cited by papers focused on Magnetism in coordination complexes (4 papers), Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (4 papers) and Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure (2 papers). Benoît Champin collaborates with scholars based in France. Benoît Champin's co-authors include Jean‐Pierre Sauvage, Pierre Mobian, Valérie Sartor and Gauthier Picard and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry and New Journal of Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Benoît Champin

6 papers receiving 450 citations

Hit Papers

Transition metal complexes as molecular machine prototypes 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300 400
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Transition metal complexes as molecular machine prototypes
    2006 427 citations Benoît Champin, Pierre Mobian et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benoît Champin France 4 360 222 177 80 64 7 451
Shahab Mortezaei United States 8 318 0.9× 151 0.7× 156 0.9× 102 1.3× 70 1.1× 9 437
Edward J. A. Bijsterveld Netherlands 6 456 1.3× 287 1.3× 151 0.9× 152 1.9× 72 1.1× 7 613
Alejo M. Lifschitz United States 10 372 1.0× 208 0.9× 147 0.8× 65 0.8× 69 1.1× 14 522
Jose Mendez-Arroyo United States 13 294 0.8× 273 1.2× 126 0.7× 55 0.7× 56 0.9× 18 540
Kumar Parimal United States 10 245 0.7× 133 0.6× 103 0.6× 50 0.6× 49 0.8× 10 387
Stephan Sinn Germany 13 331 0.9× 253 1.1× 210 1.2× 114 1.4× 47 0.7× 21 614
Tomoyuki Imada Japan 11 246 0.7× 302 1.4× 282 1.6× 108 1.4× 35 0.5× 11 481
B. Kahlert Germany 7 351 1.0× 201 0.9× 212 1.2× 124 1.6× 53 0.8× 7 549
J. Fraser Stoddart United States 3 393 1.1× 251 1.1× 150 0.8× 86 1.1× 137 2.1× 3 488
Luke D. Sarson United Kingdom 8 248 0.7× 314 1.4× 132 0.7× 147 1.8× 41 0.6× 9 453

Countries citing papers authored by Benoît Champin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benoît Champin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Benoît Champin. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Benoît Champin. The network helps show where Benoît Champin may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benoît Champin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Benoît Champin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Benoît Champin based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Benoît Champin. Benoît Champin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

7 of 7 papers shown
1.
Champin, Benoît, et al.. (2010). ChemInform Abstract: Transition Metal Complex Based Molecular Machines. ChemInform. 41(14). 1 indexed citations
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Champin, Benoît, Valérie Sartor, & Jean‐Pierre Sauvage. (2008). A highly rigid ditopic conjugate with orthogonal coordination axes and its zinc(ii) and copper(ii) complexes. New Journal of Chemistry. 32(6). 1048–1048. 11 indexed citations
3.
Champin, Benoît, Pierre Mobian, & Jean‐Pierre Sauvage. (2007). Transition Metal Complexes as Molecular Machine Prototypes. ChemInform. 38(21). 1 indexed citations
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Champin, Benoît, Pierre Mobian, & Jean‐Pierre Sauvage. (2006). Transition metal complexes as molecular machine prototypes. Chemical Society Reviews. 36(2). 358–366. 427 indexed citations breakdown →
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Champin, Benoît, Valérie Sartor, & Jean‐Pierre Sauvage. (2005). A phen–terpy conjugate whose chelate coordination axes are orthogonal to one another and its zinc complex. New Journal of Chemistry. 30(1). 22–25. 8 indexed citations
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Champin, Benoît, et al.. (1998). Analysis of gas-phase chemical reactions using thermochemical data from ab initio calculations. The case of refractory metals. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 425(1-2). 1–12.
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Picard, Gauthier, et al.. (1997). Thermochemical data relative to the complex formation in gas phase derived from computational chemistry. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 61(3). 483–489. 3 indexed citations

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