G. William Orr

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

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G. William Orr is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, G. William Orr has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Organic Chemistry, 16 papers in Spectroscopy and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in G. William Orr's work include Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (19 papers), Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (14 papers) and Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (7 papers). G. William Orr is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (19 papers), Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (14 papers) and Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (7 papers). G. William Orr collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. G. William Orr's co-authors include Jerry L. Atwood, Leonard J. Barbour, Kerry D. Robinson, Fumio Hamada, Rebecca L. Vincent, Simon G. Bott, Ravindra K. Juneja, David L. Clark, Hongming Zhang and ‬Peter C. Junk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

G. William Orr

31 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

An intermolecular (H2O)10 cluster in a solid-state supramolecular complex

1998 504 citations Leonard J. Barbour, G. William Orr et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
G. William Orr United States	18	1.3k	907	826	715	606	34	2.2k
Ernest Graf France	26	1.4k 1.1×	838 0.9×	561 0.7×	757 1.1×	480 0.8×	59	2.1k
Filip Topić Finland	26	1.2k 0.9×	627 0.7×	752 0.9×	791 1.1×	900 1.5×	64	2.1k
Kenneth Wärnmark Sweden	34	2.1k 1.6×	715 0.8×	671 0.8×	988 1.4×	442 0.7×	108	3.6k
Nobuo Tajima Japan	26	1.1k 0.8×	573 0.6×	427 0.5×	1.3k 1.8×	495 0.8×	134	2.3k
Simon J. Teat United Kingdom	26	1.2k 0.9×	371 0.4×	900 1.1×	923 1.3×	252 0.4×	74	2.3k
Shinji Toyota Japan	29	2.5k 1.9×	633 0.7×	452 0.5×	1.2k 1.6×	593 1.0×	239	3.3k
Kerry D. Robinson United States	24	1.2k 0.9×	621 0.7×	673 0.8×	841 1.2×	375 0.6×	46	2.1k
Carolina Garau Spain	26	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.6×	890 1.1×	862 1.2×	1.9k 3.2×	39	3.0k
Anthony F. Cozzolino United States	24	817 0.6×	571 0.6×	1.3k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	743 1.2×	56	2.6k
René Lapouyade France	24	1.1k 0.8×	491 0.5×	281 0.3×	1.7k 2.4×	761 1.3×	67	2.8k

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Orr, G. William, et al.. (2025). Rapid Colonisation of Plastic Surfaces by Marine Alcanivorax Bacteria Is Flagellum‐Dependent and Influenced by Polymer Type and Photo‐Weathering State. Environmental Microbiology. 27(5). e70102–e70102. 1 indexed citations

Orr, G. William, et al.. (2024). Defect dynamics in ZnO varistors under electrical stress: A potential method to improve electrical properties. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 45(5). 117159–117159. 6 indexed citations

Zuck, Asaf, et al.. (2024). On the Feasibility of Designing a Small-Sized X-Ray Calorimetric Dosimeter Using a Thermopile Temperature Sensor. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 71(5). 1245–1249.

Orr, G. William, et al.. (2022). Complex dielectric behaviours in BiFeO3/Bi2Fe4O9 ceramics. Applied Physics A. 128(12). 3 indexed citations

Orr, G. William, Paul Ben Ishai, & M. Roth. (2018). High-temperature time domain measurement system for solid and molten materials. Measurement Science and Technology. 29(10). 105502–105502.

Holman, K.T., et al.. (2010). Anion binding, aryl-extended cyclotriguaiacylenes and an aryl-bridged cryptophane that provides snapshots of a molecular gating mechanism. Supramolecular chemistry. 22(11-12). 870–890. 8 indexed citations

Agranat, Aharon J., et al.. (2007). Dielectric electrooptic gratings in potassium lithium tantalate niobate. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 353(47-51). 4405–4410. 7 indexed citations

Orr, G. William, et al.. (2004). Controlled composition modulation in potassium lithium tantalate niobate crystals grown by off-centered TSSG method. Journal of Crystal Growth. 273(1-2). 203–206. 6 indexed citations

Barbour, Leonard J., G. William Orr, & Jerry L. Atwood. (2000). Characterization of a well resolved supramolecular ice-like (H2O)10 cluster in the solid state. Chemical Communications. 859–860. 154 indexed citations

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Barbour, Leonard J., et al.. (2000). Synthesis and Structure of a One-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Based Upon Tetracyanocalix[4]arene in the Cone Conformation. Supramolecular chemistry. 12(3). 317–320. 9 indexed citations

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Barbour, Leonard J., G. William Orr, & Jerry L. Atwood. (1998). An intermolecular (H2O)10 cluster in a solid-state supramolecular complex. Nature. 393(6686). 671–673. 504 indexed citations breakdown →

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Holman, K.T., G. William Orr, Jerry L. Atwood, & Jonathan W. Steed. (1998). Deep cavity [CpFe(arene)]+ derivatized cyclotriveratrylenes as anion hosts. Chemical Communications. 2109–2110. 25 indexed citations

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Barbour, Leonard J., G. William Orr, & Jerry L. Atwood. (1997). Supramolecular intercalation of C60 into a calixarene bilayer—a well-ordered solid-state structure dominated by van der Waals contacts. Chemical Communications. 1439–1440. 18 indexed citations

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Barbour, Leonard J., et al.. (1996). Inclusion of organic cations by p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene. Crystal and molecular structure of the supramolecular complexes Na₂(pyridinium)₂[Cu(H₂O)₄(NC₅H₅)₂][Cu(H₂O)₄(p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene)₂]·10H₂O and Na₄(morpholinium) (p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene)·8H₂O. Supramolecular chemistry. 7(3). 209–213. 7 indexed citations

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Atwood, Jerry L., Leonard J. Barbour, ‬Peter C. Junk, & G. William Orr. (1995). Structure of the p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene complex with tetramethylammonium ions, [NME₄]₅[p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene]·4H₂O. Supramolecular chemistry. 5(2). 105–108. 42 indexed citations

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Hamada, Fumio, Kerry D. Robinson, G. William Orr, & Jerry L. Atwood. (1993). Alkali metal salts of oxyanions ofp-tert-butylcalix [4] arene. Supramolecular chemistry. 2(1). 19–24. 23 indexed citations

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Atwood, Jerry L., G. William Orr, Ravindra K. Juneja, Simon G. Bott, & Fumio Hamada. (1993). Supramolecular assemblies based on calixarenes. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 65(7). 1471–1476. 30 indexed citations

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Atwood, Jerry L., G. William Orr, Simon G. Bott, & Kerry D. Robinson. (1993). Supramolecular Complexes of Flexible, Extended Cavity Calix[4]arenes—Structural Characterization of a Molecular Venus Flytrap. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 32(7). 1093–1094. 21 indexed citations

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Atwood, Jerry L., G. William Orr, Fumio Hamada, et al.. (1992). Metal ion complexes of water-soluble calix[4]arenes. Inorganic Chemistry. 31(4). 603–606. 90 indexed citations

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Juneja, Ravindra K., Kerry D. Robinson, G. William Orr, et al.. (1992). Inclusion of multi-ring compounds byp-tert-butylcalix[5]arene. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry. 13(1). 93–96. 10 indexed citations

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