Colin Thomson

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Colin Thomson is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Thomson has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 27 papers in Organic Chemistry and 27 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Colin Thomson's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (46 papers), Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure (18 papers) and Free Radicals and Antioxidants (11 papers). Colin Thomson is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (46 papers), Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure (18 papers) and Free Radicals and Antioxidants (11 papers). Colin Thomson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Colin Thomson's co-authors include John Carey, Christopher Glidewell, Patricia R. Laurence, Christopher A. Reynolds, D. Kilcast, Susan Dodds, Paul v. R. Schleyer, Stephen G. Davies, Alexander I. Boldyrev and Laurence M. Harwood and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters and Journal of Computational Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Colin Thomson

93 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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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.

Analysis of the reactions used for the preparation of drug candidate molecules

2006 1.6k citations John Carey, Colin Thomson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin Thomson United Kingdom	19	1.7k	786	581	434	349	97	2.6k
Murco N. Ringnalda United States	15	1.1k 0.7×	663 0.8×	549 0.9×	904 2.1×	350 1.0×	15	2.8k
Yun Wu China	28	2.1k 1.2×	693 0.9×	413 0.7×	301 0.7×	366 1.0×	48	2.8k
Stefan Sieber Germany	14	1.1k 0.6×	718 0.9×	625 1.1×	1.1k 2.4×	498 1.4×	18	3.1k
Allan D. Headley United States	25	1.9k 1.2×	372 0.5×	577 1.0×	487 1.1×	450 1.3×	67	2.8k
Donald B. Boyd United States	24	1.0k 0.6×	589 0.7×	189 0.3×	468 1.1×	508 1.5×	88	2.3k
Kurt Mislow United States	32	1.8k 1.0×	559 0.7×	461 0.8×	304 0.7×	974 2.8×	97	2.8k
Minoru Hirota Japan	22	1.3k 0.8×	474 0.6×	395 0.7×	266 0.6×	846 2.4×	150	2.4k
Walter M. F. Fabian Austria	32	2.4k 1.4×	844 1.1×	277 0.5×	465 1.1×	708 2.0×	216	4.1k
J. A. Kanters Netherlands	26	970 0.6×	320 0.4×	536 0.9×	232 0.5×	530 1.5×	140	2.0k
M. Berthelot France	30	1.4k 0.8×	442 0.6×	377 0.6×	387 0.9×	634 1.8×	88	2.7k

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Rosengrant, David, et al.. (2009). Comparing Experts and Novices in Solving Electrical Circuit Problems with the Help of Eye-Tracking. AIP conference proceedings. 249–252. 15 indexed citations

Carey, John, et al.. (2006). Analysis of the Reactions Used for the Preparation of Drug Candidate Molecules. ChemInform. 37(42). 6 indexed citations

Fang, Jian‐Yun & Colin Thomson. (1997). Hydrogen-bonding effects, electrostatic potential, and the antitumor activity of flavone acetic acid and related compounds. III. Ab initio studies on the conformation space. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 62(1). 97–113. 1 indexed citations

Boldyrev, Alexander I., et al.. (1992). Ab Initio investigation of the structures and stabilities of CH₂N₂, CHFN₂, and CF₂N₂ isomers: Important consequences of MP2 optimizations. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 13(9). 1066–1078. 38 indexed citations

Harwood, Laurence M., et al.. (1990). An Improved Procedure for Cyclisation of Chalcones to Flavanones Using Celite Supported Potassium Fluoride in Methanol: Total Synthesis of Bavachinin. Synthetic Communications. 20(5). 649–657. 18 indexed citations

Thomson, Colin & John Wilkie. (1989). The conformations and electrostatic potential maps of phorbolesters, teleocidins and ingenols. Carcinogenesis. 10(3). 531–540. 6 indexed citations

Thomson, Colin. (1989). The molecular structures of 11-methyl and 1, 12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene: purely theoretical semi-empirical AM1 calculations are able to predict accurate structures of these polycyclic hydrocarbons. Carcinogenesis. 10(2). 317–320. 11 indexed citations

Thomson, Colin, et al.. (1988). A theoretical study of the rotational isomers of nitrosomethanol by semiempirical (AM1) and ab initio methods. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 9(3). 212–221. 3 indexed citations

Reynolds, Christopher A. & Colin Thomson. (1987). Hydrated carbonium ions as possible nitrosamine metabolites: An ab initio study. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 32(1). 123–131. 1 indexed citations

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Glidewell, Christopher & Colin Thomson. (1984). Ab initio calculations on the effect of different basis sets and electron correlation on the transition state for the reactions HNC ⇌ HCN and BCN ⇌ BNC. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 5(1). 1–10. 14 indexed citations

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Brandt, Richard B., et al.. (1983). Inhibitors of glyoxalase I in vitro. Biochemical Medicine. 29(3). 385–391. 8 indexed citations

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Glidewell, Christopher & Colin Thomson. (1983). Basis set dependence of the barrier to linearity in HNCO. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 104(3-4). 287–291. 6 indexed citations

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Thomson, Colin, et al.. (1982). The structure and acid–base properties of methyl and silyl amines and phosphines: An ab‐initio SCF study. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 3(4). 495–506. 35 indexed citations

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Thomson, Colin, et al.. (1981). Theoretical calculation of the geometries of the radical ions of ethylene and the fluoroethylenes. Chemical Physics Letters. 82(2). 373–376. 19 indexed citations

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Thomson, Colin, et al.. (1980). Quantum chemical investigations of charge transfer interactions in relation to the electronic theory of cancer. IV. The interaction of formamide and the enol tautomers of several glyoxals. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 1(4). 400–406. 2 indexed citations

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Thomson, Colin. (1977). Electronic structure of phospha-alkenes. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 322–322. 11 indexed citations

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Thomson, Colin. (1977). The electronic structure of unstable intermediates. The electronic structure of FBO. Chemical Physics Letters. 46(1). 138–140. 6 indexed citations

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Thomson, Colin. (1974). Near Hartree Fock wave function and computed molecular properties of methinophosphide, HCP. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. 35(3). 237–242. 13 indexed citations

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Thomson, Colin. (1973). Electronic structure of unstable intermediates. II. The electronic structure of NNC, NCN, NCC, and CNC. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 58(3). 841–843. 40 indexed citations

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Thomson, Colin. (1968). Electron spin resonance studies of the triplet state. Quarterly Reviews Chemical Society. 22(1). 45–45. 12 indexed citations

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