John E. Davies

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

John E. Davies is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, John E. Davies has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Organic Chemistry, 70 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 33 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in John E. Davies's work include Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (46 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (31 papers) and Crystal structures of chemical compounds (27 papers). John E. Davies is often cited by papers focused on Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (46 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (31 papers) and Crystal structures of chemical compounds (27 papers). John E. Davies collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. John E. Davies's co-authors include David G. Watson, Eleanor M. Mitchell, O. W. Johnson, Gary F. Mitchell, Jeremy M. Smith, Frank H. Allen, Clare F. Macrae, J. Galloy, Olga Kennard and Raymond Bonnett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

John E. Davies

151 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

The development of versions 3 and 4 of the Cambridge Stru... 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 250 500 750 1000
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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. The development of versions 3 and 4 of the Cambridge Structural Database System
    1991 1.2k citations John E. Davies 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
John E. Davies United Kingdom 27 2.3k 1.3k 973 842 634 152 4.3k
З.А. Старикова Russia 36 3.1k 1.3× 1.8k 1.4× 1.1k 1.1× 537 0.6× 452 0.7× 390 4.9k
Reijo Sillanpää Finland 43 3.1k 1.4× 2.9k 2.3× 2.0k 2.1× 775 0.9× 1.1k 1.7× 361 7.3k
P. V. Petrovskii Russia 37 4.8k 2.1× 2.9k 2.3× 820 0.8× 391 0.5× 487 0.8× 586 6.6k
David Dolphin Canada 40 1.7k 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 4.4k 4.5× 1.5k 1.8× 355 0.6× 149 6.2k
Klaus Merz Germany 34 2.4k 1.0× 1.5k 1.2× 1.0k 1.1× 480 0.6× 464 0.7× 163 3.9k
Mark Thornton‐Pett United Kingdom 43 4.9k 2.1× 3.6k 2.8× 1.2k 1.2× 464 0.6× 876 1.4× 363 7.5k
Fook S. Tham United States 46 4.3k 1.9× 1.9k 1.5× 2.1k 2.1× 380 0.5× 264 0.4× 136 6.6k
Babu Varghese India 35 2.3k 1.0× 1.4k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 505 0.6× 898 1.4× 183 4.0k
Saeed I. Khan United States 50 4.7k 2.1× 1.7k 1.4× 3.2k 3.3× 601 0.7× 381 0.6× 162 7.1k
Olivier Blacque Switzerland 47 4.3k 1.9× 2.1k 1.7× 2.4k 2.4× 875 1.0× 1.1k 1.7× 321 7.5k

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All Works

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Komarov, Igor V., et al.. (2014). The Most Reactive Amide As a Transition-State Mimic For cis–trans Interconversion. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(2). 926–930. 60 indexed citations
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Kirby, Anthony J., John E. Davies, David J. Fox, et al.. (2010). Ammonia oxide makes up some 20% of an aqueous solution of hydroxylamine. Chemical Communications. 46(8). 1302–1302. 31 indexed citations
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Bond, Andrew D., John E. Davies, & Simon Parsons. (2008). Azetidine, pyrrolidine and hexamethyleneimine at 170 K. Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications. 64(10). o543–o546. 12 indexed citations
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Curtis, Neil R., Miles Congreve, Craig L. Francis, et al.. (2008). Synthesis of (+)‐Obtusenyne. Chemistry - A European Journal. 14(9). 2867–2885. 21 indexed citations
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Li, Peiyi, B. Ahrens, Andrew D. Bond, et al.. (2008). A new series of dinuclear Au(i) complexes linked by diethynylpyridine groups. Dalton Transactions. 1635–1635. 17 indexed citations
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Burton, Jonathan W., Edward A. Anderson, Ian Collins, et al.. (2008). The Claisen rearrangement approach to fused bicyclic medium-ring oxacycles. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 6(4). 693–693. 16 indexed citations
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Davies, John E., Ian Fleming, & Jonathan M. Goodman. (2003). A tricycloheptane product in cationic rearrangements. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 1(20). 3570–3570. 3 indexed citations
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Bond, Andrew D. & John E. Davies. (2002). Short Communication : Crystal Structure of Eucalyptol at 265 K. Australian Journal of Chemistry. 54(11). 683–684. 4 indexed citations
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Kirby, Anthony J., et al.. (2002). Structure and chemistry of a zwitterionic amine–aldehyde adduct. Chemical Communications. 2106–2107. 25 indexed citations
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Davies, John E., et al.. (2002). Estimating pKa Values for Pentaoxyphosphoranes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124(23). 6594–6599. 107 indexed citations
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Nowotny, Mathias, Thomas Maschmeyer, Brian F. G. Johnson, et al.. (2001). Heterogeneous Dinuclear Rhodium(II) Hydroformylation Catalysts—Performance Evaluation and Silsesquioxane-Based Chemical Modeling. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 40(5). 955–958. 42 indexed citations
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Li, Peiyi, Helmut Ehrenberg, N. Feeder, et al.. (2000). Copper(II) complexes of hydroquinone-containing Schiff bases. Towards a structural model for copper amine oxidases. Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 1559–1565. 13 indexed citations
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Halcrow, Malcolm A., John E. Davies, Xiaoming Liu, et al.. (1998). Spectroscopic characterisation of a copper(II) complex of a thioether-substituted phenoxyl radical: a new model for galactose oxidase. Chemical Communications. 2465–2466. 37 indexed citations
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Less, Robert J., et al.. (1996). Synthesis, molecular structure and palladium(II) and platinum(II) complex chemistry of 3-(ferrocen-1-yl)-1-(pyridin-2-yl)pyrazole. Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 4055–4055. 15 indexed citations
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Davies, John E., Gideon Shapiro, & B. Löwenberg. (1993). Osteoclastic Resorption of Calcium Phosphate Ceramic Thin Films. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 3(3). 2. 22 indexed citations
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Davies, John E., et al.. (1978). Antiferromagnetic exchange in triclinic crystals of tetra-u-benzoato- bits (4-methylquinoline) dicobalt II. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 360(1701). 191–210. 10 indexed citations
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Bonnett, Raymond, John E. Davies, & Michael B. Hursthouse. (1976). Structure of bilirubin. Nature. 262(5566). 326–328. 199 indexed citations
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Davies, John E., Bryan M. Gatehouse, & Keith S. Murray. (1973). Crystal and molecular structure and magnetic properties of catena-µ-acetato-[NN′-ethylenebis(salicylaldiminato)]manganese(III). A linear-chain complex containing a single anti-anti acetate bridge. Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 2523–2527. 52 indexed citations

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