Gerhard Heywang

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
10 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Gerhard Heywang is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerhard Heywang has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 5 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Gerhard Heywang's work include Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (5 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (4 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (4 papers). Gerhard Heywang is often cited by papers focused on Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (5 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (4 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (4 papers). Gerhard Heywang collaborates with scholars based in Germany. Gerhard Heywang's co-authors include Friedrich Jonas, Michael Dietrich, Jürgen Heınze, J. Hormes, F. Jonas, Liborius Born, S. Roth and Jürgen Hocker and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Electrochimica Acta and Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Gerhard Heywang

10 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Poly(alkylenedioxythiophene)s—new, very stable conducting... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 1994 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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. Poly(alkylenedioxythiophene)s—new, very stable conducting polymers
    1992 876 citations Gerhard Heywang, Friedrich Jonas Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Electrochemical and spectroscopic characterization of polyalkylenedioxythiophenes
    1994 551 citations Michael Dietrich, Jürgen Heınze et al. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerhard Heywang Germany 8 1.6k 1.2k 622 388 276 10 1.9k
Friedrich Jonas Germany 8 1.7k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 655 1.1× 391 1.0× 282 1.0× 18 1.9k
Philippe Schottland United States 15 1.5k 0.9× 964 0.8× 314 0.5× 312 0.8× 165 0.6× 20 1.6k
H.S. Woo United States 12 1.7k 1.0× 1.4k 1.2× 493 0.8× 631 1.6× 239 0.9× 18 2.0k
Harald Pielartzik Germany 5 2.6k 1.6× 1.9k 1.7× 1.2k 2.0× 431 1.1× 273 1.0× 9 3.1k
J.‐E. Österholm Finland 23 1.8k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 602 1.0× 451 1.2× 158 0.6× 43 2.2k
A.Q. Contractor India 25 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 400 0.6× 591 1.5× 452 1.6× 53 1.8k
G. Bidan France 24 1.6k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 339 0.5× 595 1.5× 490 1.8× 46 2.1k
M. Aldissi United States 23 1.2k 0.8× 764 0.7× 392 0.6× 538 1.4× 186 0.7× 58 1.5k
Minh‐Chau Pham France 23 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 415 0.7× 761 2.0× 566 2.1× 46 1.9k
Kyukwan Zong South Korea 19 1.4k 0.8× 966 0.8× 283 0.5× 242 0.6× 111 0.4× 61 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerhard Heywang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerhard Heywang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerhard Heywang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerhard Heywang 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 Gerhard Heywang. Gerhard Heywang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Hormes, J., et al.. (1995). The thermal ageing of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene). An investigation by X-ray absorption and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Chemical Physics. 194(1). 207–213. 182 indexed citations
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Dietrich, Michael, Jürgen Heınze, Gerhard Heywang, & Friedrich Jonas. (1994). Electrochemical and spectroscopic characterization of polyalkylenedioxythiophenes. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 369(1-2). 87–92. 551 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jonas, Friedrich & Gerhard Heywang. (1994). Technical applications for conductive polymers. Electrochimica Acta. 39(8-9). 1345–1347. 171 indexed citations
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Heywang, Gerhard & Friedrich Jonas. (1992). Poly(alkylenedioxythiophene)s—new, very stable conducting polymers. Advanced Materials. 4(2). 116–118. 876 indexed citations breakdown →
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Heywang, Gerhard, et al.. (1991). Radical Cation Salts of 1,3,6,8‐Tetrakis(methylthio)‐pyrene—New Easily Accessible Compounds with High Electrical Conductivity and Excellent Stability. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 30(2). 176–177. 33 indexed citations
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Heywang, Gerhard, Liborius Born, & S. Roth. (1991). New radical cation salts of substituted pyrenes. Synthetic Metals. 41(3). 1073–1078. 15 indexed citations
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Born, Liborius & Gerhard Heywang. (1990). Crystal structure of 1,4,5,8-naphthalene-tetracarboxylic-dianhydride (NTDA). Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. 190(1-2). 147–152. 19 indexed citations
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Heywang, Gerhard, et al.. (1989). Radical Anion Salts of Naphthalenetetracarboxylic Acid Derivatives—a Novel Class of Electrically Conducting Compounds. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 28(4). 483–485. 29 indexed citations
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Heywang, Gerhard, et al.. (1989). Radikalanionensalze von Naphthalintetracarbonsäure‐Derivaten – eine neue Klasse elektrisch leitfähiger Verbindungen. Angewandte Chemie. 101(4). 462–464. 3 indexed citations

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