Jakob Wirz

11.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
214 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Jakob Wirz is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Jakob Wirz has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Organic Chemistry, 92 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 60 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Jakob Wirz's work include Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (73 papers), Radical Photochemical Reactions (45 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (37 papers). Jakob Wirz is often cited by papers focused on Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (73 papers), Radical Photochemical Reactions (45 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (37 papers). Jakob Wirz collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Jakob Wirz's co-authors include Petr Klán, Anna Paola Pelliccioli, Richard S. Givens, Bruno Hellrung, Marina Rubina, Tomáš Šolomek, Silvio Canonica, Vladimir V. Popik, Alexey Kostikov and Aurélien Blanc and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Jakob Wirz

209 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

Photoremovable Protecting Groups in Chemistry an... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2012 2002 2009 400 800 1.2k
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. Photoremovable Protecting Groups in Chemistry and Biology: Reaction Mechanisms and Efficacy
    2012 1.5k citations Richard S. Givens, Marina Rubina et al. profile →
  2. Photoremovable protecting groups: reaction mechanisms and applications
    2002 567 citations Anna Paola Pelliccioli, Jakob Wirz Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences profile →
  3. Photochemistry of Organic Compounds
    2009 438 citations Jakob Wirz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jakob Wirz Switzerland 48 4.9k 4.0k 2.1k 1.5k 1.1k 214 9.6k
Michael A. J. Rodgers United States 50 2.2k 0.4× 4.2k 1.0× 2.4k 1.1× 1.9k 1.2× 1.9k 1.7× 261 9.3k
Silvia E. Braslavsky Germany 48 1.5k 0.3× 3.2k 0.8× 1.8k 0.9× 2.7k 1.8× 1.3k 1.2× 224 8.9k
Helmut Görner Germany 44 2.2k 0.5× 2.8k 0.7× 2.1k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 425 0.4× 218 5.9k
E. J. Land United Kingdom 46 1.9k 0.4× 1.8k 0.5× 1.7k 0.8× 2.3k 1.5× 750 0.7× 150 7.3k
Heinz Dürr Germany 28 3.2k 0.7× 4.3k 1.1× 1.9k 0.9× 651 0.4× 339 0.3× 206 7.2k
V. Ramamurthy United States 49 5.4k 1.1× 4.6k 1.1× 2.9k 1.4× 922 0.6× 725 0.7× 278 9.9k
David G. Whitten United States 62 5.1k 1.0× 7.7k 1.9× 2.8k 1.3× 2.9k 1.9× 1.4k 1.3× 344 14.0k
Peter C. Ford United States 72 5.3k 1.1× 7.4k 1.8× 1.3k 0.6× 2.5k 1.6× 3.3k 3.0× 434 20.6k
Petr Klán Czechia 41 2.4k 0.5× 3.4k 0.8× 570 0.3× 1.5k 1.0× 1.5k 1.3× 162 7.6k
C. A. Parker United Kingdom 33 1.7k 0.3× 3.2k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 662 0.6× 83 8.1k

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All Works

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Vetráková, Ľubica, et al.. (2017). The absorption spectrum of cis-azobenzene. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 16(12). 1749–1756. 83 indexed citations
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Pelliccioli, Anna Paola, Peter Šebej, & Jakob Wirz. (2012). Ketonization of enols in aqueous solution: is carbon protonation always rate-determining?. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 11(6). 967–971. 5 indexed citations
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Givens, Richard S., Marina Rubina, & Jakob Wirz. (2012). Applications of p-hydroxyphenacyl (pHP) and coumarin-4-ylmethyl photoremovable protecting groups. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 11(3). 472–488. 134 indexed citations
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Braslavsky, Silvia E., Eduard Fron, Hernán B. Rodríguez, et al.. (2008). Pitfalls and limitations in the practical use of Förster’s theory of resonance energy transfer. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 7(12). 1444–1448. 136 indexed citations
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Wirz, Jakob, et al.. (2000). Electroforming in restorative dentistry : new dimensions in biologically based prostheses. 6 indexed citations
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McMasters, Daniel R. & Jakob Wirz. (2000). Spectroscopy and Reactivity of Kekulé Hydrocarbons with Very Small Singlet−Triplet Gaps. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 123(2). 238–246. 50 indexed citations
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Wirz, Jakob, et al.. (1999). Nuevas formas de presentación y sistemas de elaboración de los elastómeros modernos. Un análisis comparativo de los materiales (y II). Resultados y discursión. 12(5). 341–347.
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Wirz, Jakob, et al.. (1999). Nuevas formas de presentación y sistemas de elaboración de los elastómeros modernos. Un análisis comparativo de los materiales (I). Material y métodos. 12(4). 276–282.
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Zhu, Zhendong, Thomas Bally, Jakob Wirz, & Markus P. Fülscher. (1998). Generation and identification of 1,4-perinaphthadiyl radical cation—first observation of the electronic absorption spectrum of an ionized diradical. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2. 1083–1092. 3 indexed citations
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Peng, Ling, Jakob Wirz, & Maurice Goeldner. (1997). 2-Nitrobenzyl Quaternary Ammonium Derivatives Photoreleasing Nor-butyrylcholine in the Microsecond Time Range. Tetrahedron Letters. 38(17). 2961–2964. 14 indexed citations
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Bonneau, Roland, Jakob Wirz, & Andreas D. Zuberbühler. (1997). Methods for the analysis of transient absorbance data (Technical Report). Pure and Applied Chemistry. 69(5). 979–992. 55 indexed citations
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Mac, Marek, Jan Najbar, & Jakob Wirz. (1995). Fluorescence and intersystem crossing from the twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) state of bianthryl in the presence of inorganic ions in polar solvents. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 88(2-3). 93–104. 13 indexed citations
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Karatsu, Takashi, Tatsuo Arai, Hirochika Sakuragi, Katsumi Tokumaru, & Jakob Wirz. (1994). Semiempirical Calculation of the Triplet–Triplet Absorption Spectra of 2-Anthrylethylenes Undergoing Photochemical One-Way Isomerization. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 67(3). 891–894. 4 indexed citations
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Wirz, Jakob, et al.. (1979). Die Acidität des Enols von Acetophenon in wäßriger Lösung. Angewandte Chemie. 91(8). 652–653. 12 indexed citations
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Wirz, Jakob, et al.. (1979). Acidity of Acetophenone Enol in Aqueous Solution. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 18(8). 617–619. 38 indexed citations
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Kloster‐Jensen, Else & Jakob Wirz. (1973). 1,5‐Cyclooctadiin. Angewandte Chemie. 85(16). 723–723. 26 indexed citations
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Kloster‐Jensen, Else & Jakob Wirz. (1973). 1,5‐Cyclooctadiyne. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 12(8). 671–671. 15 indexed citations

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