John C. Crano

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

John C. Crano is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Crano has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Materials Chemistry, 5 papers in Organic Chemistry and 4 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in John C. Crano's work include Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (6 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (4 papers) and Free Radicals and Antioxidants (2 papers). John C. Crano is often cited by papers focused on Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (6 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (4 papers) and Free Radicals and Antioxidants (2 papers). John C. Crano collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. John C. Crano's co-authors include Robert Guglielmetti, David B. Knowles, Barry Van Gemert, Anil Kumar, J. Reid Shelton, Piotr Kwiatkowski, Raj K. Chadha, Gary Siuzdak, Li-Chi Chiang and R. R. Ross and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Pure and Applied Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

John C. Crano

10 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Organic Photochromic and Thermochromic Compounds 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 250 500 750
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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. Organic Photochromic and Thermochromic Compounds
    2002 818 citations John C. Crano, Robert Guglielmetti Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John C. Crano United States 7 1.2k 646 463 188 122 10 1.3k
R. Guglielmetti France 21 1.1k 0.9× 510 0.8× 446 1.0× 282 1.5× 86 0.7× 100 1.3k
Vladimir Lokshin France 18 843 0.7× 563 0.9× 373 0.8× 172 0.9× 156 1.3× 78 1.2k
V. А. Barachevsky Russia 17 928 0.8× 527 0.8× 437 0.9× 99 0.5× 83 0.7× 147 1.2k
Paulo J. Coelho Portugal 23 1.1k 0.9× 891 1.4× 288 0.6× 127 0.7× 81 0.7× 83 1.5k
Sam‐Rok Keum South Korea 17 572 0.5× 292 0.5× 325 0.7× 92 0.5× 126 1.0× 57 790
A. Samat France 19 648 0.5× 405 0.6× 276 0.6× 155 0.8× 94 0.8× 68 838
Yehuda Hirshberg Israel 13 607 0.5× 283 0.4× 301 0.7× 167 0.9× 87 0.7× 21 761
Н. А. Волошин Russia 15 752 0.6× 297 0.5× 465 1.0× 121 0.6× 161 1.3× 75 832
Katsuya Mutoh Japan 22 1.2k 1.0× 634 1.0× 318 0.7× 118 0.6× 75 0.6× 59 1.4k
B. S. Lukyanov Russia 16 902 0.8× 417 0.6× 683 1.5× 42 0.2× 160 1.3× 123 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by John C. Crano

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Fields of papers citing papers by John C. Crano

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John C. Crano

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All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Crano, John C. & Robert Guglielmetti. (2002). Organic Photochromic and Thermochromic Compounds. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 818 indexed citations breakdown →
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Crano, John C. & Robert Guglielmetti. (2002). Organic Photochromic and Thermochromic Compounds. Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks. 302 indexed citations
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Crano, John C. & Robert Guglielmetti. (1999). Main photochromic families. Plenum Press eBooks. 20 indexed citations
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Crano, John C. & Robert Guglielmetti. (1999). Physicochemical studies, biological applications, and thermochromism. Plenum Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Crano, John C., et al.. (1996). Photochromic compounds: Chemistry and application in ophthalmic lenses. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 68(7). 1395–1398. 169 indexed citations
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Crano, John C., Piotr Kwiatkowski, Thomas C. Flood, et al.. (1994). Structure of three novel photochromic compounds; X-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science. 50(6). 772–779. 11 indexed citations
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Crano, John C., et al.. (1969). Redox Initiation with Percarbonate Esters. Product R&D. 8(1). 93–95. 1 indexed citations
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Crano, John C., et al.. (1968). Reactions of olefins and palladium chloride in the presence of fluoride salts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 90(18). 5036–5037. 1 indexed citations
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Crano, John C.. (1966). The Reaction of Diisopropyl Peroxydicarbonate with N,N-Dimethylaniline and N-Methyldiphenylamine. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 31(11). 3615–3617. 1 indexed citations
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Shelton, J. Reid, et al.. (1960). A study of the deuterium isotope effect in antioxidant activity. Journal of Polymer Science. 42(140). 289–298. 8 indexed citations

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