John Montgomery

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
145 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

John Montgomery is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Montgomery has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Organic Chemistry, 21 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in John Montgomery's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (78 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (47 papers) and Catalytic Alkyne Reactions (34 papers). John Montgomery is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (78 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (47 papers) and Catalytic Alkyne Reactions (34 papers). John Montgomery collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. John Montgomery's co-authors include Gireesh M. Mahandru, Eric Oblinger, Grant J. Sormunen, Ananda Herath, Mani Raj Chaulagain, Yike Ni, Wanxiang Zhao, Kande K. D. Amarasinghe, Maxim V. Chevliakov and Hasnain A. Malik and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

John Montgomery

143 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Nickel‐Catalyzed Reductive Cyclizations and Couplings 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 200 400 600
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. Nickel‐Catalyzed Reductive Cyclizations and Couplings
    2004 612 citations John Montgomery Angewandte Chemie International Edition 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 Montgomery United States 51 6.9k 1.8k 838 342 217 145 7.4k
Olivier Baudoin France 47 7.6k 1.1× 1.7k 1.0× 651 0.8× 443 1.3× 324 1.5× 135 8.1k
Li‐Xin Dai China 56 9.6k 1.4× 3.0k 1.7× 1.3k 1.5× 429 1.3× 226 1.0× 201 10.0k
Xiyan Lu China 55 9.6k 1.4× 2.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.4× 494 1.4× 105 0.5× 174 9.9k
Hélène Pellissier France 42 8.6k 1.2× 2.4k 1.3× 1.9k 2.2× 300 0.9× 151 0.7× 102 9.4k
Gwilherm Evano France 47 7.8k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 1.0k 1.2× 560 1.6× 105 0.5× 166 8.4k
Iuliana Atodiresei Germany 33 5.0k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 721 0.9× 462 1.4× 88 0.4× 59 5.3k
Peter O’Brien United Kingdom 41 5.2k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 129 0.4× 142 0.7× 171 5.7k
Petri M. Pihko Finland 36 5.0k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 286 0.8× 106 0.5× 108 5.5k
Wei‐Cheng Yuan China 47 7.5k 1.1× 1.5k 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 506 1.5× 196 0.9× 260 7.8k
Vinod K. Singh India 48 7.3k 1.1× 1.8k 1.0× 1.8k 2.2× 265 0.8× 157 0.7× 210 7.9k

Countries citing papers authored by John Montgomery

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of John Montgomery's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by John Montgomery with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites John Montgomery more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by John Montgomery

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by John Montgomery. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by John Montgomery. The network helps show where John Montgomery may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Montgomery

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Montgomery, John, et al.. (2025). Development, Scope, and Catalyst Selection in Boron-Catalyzed Iterative Glycosylation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(50). 46125–46135. 1 indexed citations
2.
Chen, Mo, et al.. (2023). Oxidative Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling of N -Heterocycles with Aldehydes through C( sp 3 )–H Functionalization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(37). 20176–20181. 20 indexed citations
3.
Nett, Alex J., et al.. (2022). Activation Mechanism of Nickel(0) N -Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysts Stabilized by Fumarate Ligands. Organometallics. 41(22). 3293–3300. 3 indexed citations
4.
Kim, Hong Ki, Manoj V. Mane, John Montgomery, & Mu‐Hyun Baik. (2019). The Mechanism of Copper‐Catalyzed Trifunctionalization of Terminal Allenes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 25(40). 9456–9463. 7 indexed citations
5.
Wang, Hengbin, Gang Lü, Grant J. Sormunen, et al.. (2017). NHC Ligands Tailored for Simultaneous Regio- and Enantiocontrol in Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Couplings. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(27). 9317–9324. 88 indexed citations
6.
Narayan, Alison R. H., Gonzalo Jiménez‐Osés, Peng Liu, et al.. (2015). Enzymatic hydroxylation of an unactivated methylene C–H bond guided by molecular dynamics simulations. Nature Chemistry. 7(8). 653–660. 107 indexed citations
7.
Miller, Zachary D., Ruth Dorel, & John Montgomery. (2015). Regiodivergent and Stereoselective Hydrosilylation of 1,3‐Disubstituted Allenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(31). 9088–9091. 71 indexed citations
8.
Taylor, Christopher E., et al.. (2013). A Streamlined Strategy for Aglycone Assembly and Glycosylation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(51). 13647–13650. 17 indexed citations
9.
Montgomery, John, et al.. (2011). Enone–Alkyne Reductive Coupling: A Versatile Entry to Substituted Pyrroles. Organic Letters. 13(13). 3289–3291. 58 indexed citations
10.
Montgomery, John, et al.. (2011). Ligand-guided pathway selection in nickel-catalyzed couplings of enals and alkynes. Chemical Communications. 48(8). 1114–1116. 10 indexed citations
11.
Li, Wei, Nan Chen, & John Montgomery. (2010). Regioselective Nickel‐Catalyzed Reductive Couplings of Enones and Allenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(46). 8712–8716. 25 indexed citations
12.
13.
Montgomery, John, et al.. (2009). Ketone Hydrosilylation with Sugar Silanes Followed by Intramolecular Aglycone Delivery: An Orthogonal Glycosylation Strategy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48(26). 4840–4844. 20 indexed citations
14.
Anzai, Yojiro, Shengying Li, Mani Raj Chaulagain, et al.. (2008). Functional Analysis of MycCI and MycG, Cytochrome P450 Enzymes Involved in Biosynthesis of Mycinamicin Macrolide Antibiotics. Chemistry & Biology. 15(9). 950–959. 78 indexed citations
15.
Montgomery, John. (2004). Nickel‐Catalyzed Reductive Cyclizations and Couplings. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43(30). 3890–3908. 612 indexed citations breakdown →
16.
Montgomery, John. (2004). Nickel‐katalysierte reduktive Cyclisierungen und Kupplungen. Angewandte Chemie. 116(30). 3980–3998. 175 indexed citations
17.
Montgomery, John & Jeongbeob Seo. (1998). Synthetic studies and mechanistic observations in nickel-catalyzed polycyclizations. Tetrahedron. 54(7). 1131–1144. 20 indexed citations
18.
Glazer, William M., et al.. (1992). Medical Necessity Scales for Inpatient Psychiatric Concurrent Review. Psychiatric Services. 43(9). 935–937. 6 indexed citations
19.
Grigg, Ronald, John Montgomery, & Anoma Somasunderam. (1992). X=Y-ZH Systems as potential 1,3-dipoles. Part 39. Metallo-azomethine ylides from aliphatic aldimines. Facile regio- and stereo-specific cycloaddition reactions. Tetrahedron. 48(47). 10431–10442. 44 indexed citations
20.
Glazer, William M., et al.. (1991). Use of Medical Necessity Scales in Concurrent Review of Psychiatric Inpatient Care. Psychiatric Services. 42(12). 1199–1200. 6 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Olivier Baudoin Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Li‐Xin Dai Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Xiyan Lu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Hélène Pellissier Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Gwilherm Evano Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Iuliana Atodiresei Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Peter O’Brien Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Petri M. Pihko Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Wei‐Cheng Yuan Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Vinod K. Singh
Rankless by CCL
2026