John Shorter

5.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

John Shorter is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Shorter has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Organic Chemistry, 27 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 15 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in John Shorter's work include Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (25 papers), Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (13 papers) and Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (11 papers). John Shorter is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (25 papers), Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (13 papers) and Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (11 papers). John Shorter collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. John Shorter's co-authors include N. B. Chapman, Elizabeth A. Tibbetts, Olav Rueppell, Romuald I. Zalewski, Tadeusz M. Krygowski, Mary Anna Carbone, Robert R. H. Anholt, Fernando Pardo‐Manuel de Villena, Trudy F. C. Mackay and Timothy A. Bell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Chemical Society Reviews and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

John Shorter

79 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Mechanism and theory in Organic chemistry 1972 2026 1990 2008 1977 1972 1978 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. Mechanism and theory in Organic chemistry
    1977 1.2k citations John Shorter profile →
  2. Advances in Linear Free Energy Relationships
    1972 438 citations N. B. Chapman, John Shorter profile →
  3. Correlation Analysis in Chemistry
    1978 426 citations N. B. Chapman, John Shorter 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 Shorter United States 21 1.9k 800 543 505 444 83 3.6k
O. L. Chapman United States 31 1.9k 1.0× 738 0.9× 397 0.7× 339 0.7× 471 1.1× 87 3.3k
Tommy Liljefors Denmark 40 2.0k 1.1× 412 0.5× 785 1.4× 2.6k 5.1× 237 0.5× 158 5.5k
Ernst Bergmann Israel 24 1.9k 1.0× 297 0.4× 375 0.7× 706 1.4× 111 0.3× 320 3.2k
Sabrina Castellano Italy 35 1.4k 0.8× 216 0.3× 779 1.4× 1.8k 3.6× 233 0.5× 121 4.4k
Torbjörn Norin Sweden 41 1.8k 1.0× 286 0.4× 1.2k 2.1× 2.5k 4.9× 240 0.5× 278 5.5k
Pascal Gerbaux Belgium 37 1.9k 1.0× 374 0.5× 922 1.7× 845 1.7× 403 0.9× 259 5.1k
Daniel A. Kleier United States 24 404 0.2× 233 0.3× 224 0.4× 412 0.8× 289 0.7× 51 2.2k
Michael E. Beck Germany 20 582 0.3× 223 0.3× 198 0.4× 555 1.1× 324 0.7× 52 2.2k
William C. Agosta United States 26 1.3k 0.7× 209 0.3× 397 0.7× 547 1.1× 97 0.2× 170 2.7k
Shigeru Ohba Japan 31 1.4k 0.7× 327 0.4× 221 0.4× 666 1.3× 87 0.2× 269 3.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Shorter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Shorter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Shorter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Shorter 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 Shorter. John Shorter 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
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Hansen, Mette Frimodt, John Shorter, Anders Boman, et al.. (2025). Vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis virus in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Vaccine X. 24. 100625–100625. 1 indexed citations
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Shorter, John, Joeri Meijsen, Ron Nudel, et al.. (2022). Infection Polygenic Factors Account for a Small Proportion of the Relationship Between Infections and Mental Disorders. Biological Psychiatry. 92(4). 283–290. 7 indexed citations
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Shorter, John, Paul L. Maurizio, Timothy A. Bell, et al.. (2019). A Diallel of the Mouse Collaborative Cross Founders Reveals Strong Strain-Specific Maternal Effects on Litter Size. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 9(5). 1613–1622. 7 indexed citations
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Shorter, John, Wei Huang, Ju Youn Beak, et al.. (2017). Quantitative trait mapping in Diversity Outbred mice identifies two genomic regions associated with heart size. Mammalian Genome. 29(1-2). 80–89. 17 indexed citations
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Shorter, John, et al.. (2015). The Effects of Royal Jelly on Fitness Traits and Gene Expression in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0134612–e0134612. 19 indexed citations
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Shorter, John, et al.. (2012). A Genetic Analysis of the Stinging and Guarding Behaviors of the Honey Bee. Behavior Genetics. 42(4). 663–674. 12 indexed citations
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Shorter, John. (2003). A history of the international group for correlation analysis in chemistry. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 16(10). 645–654.
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Shorter, John. (2002). Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution. ChemInform. 33(50). 265–265. 2 indexed citations
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Shorter, John. (2000). The Prehistory of the Hammett Equation. Chemické listy. 94(4).
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Shorter, John. (1988). ChemInform Abstract: Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution. ChemInform. 19(40). 1 indexed citations
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Shorter, John. (1987). Lancastrian chemist. The early years of Sir Edward Frankland. Endeavour. 11(3). 163–164. 3 indexed citations
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Shorter, John. (1985). Die Hammett‐Gleichung – und was daraus in fünfzig Jahren wurde. Chemie in unserer Zeit. 19(6). 197–208. 17 indexed citations
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Shorter, John. (1982). Correlation analysis of organic reactivity, with particular reference to multiple regression. 49 indexed citations
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Shorter, John. (1978). The conversion of ammonium cyanate into urea—a saga in reaction mechanisms. Chemical Society Reviews. 7(1). 1–14. 27 indexed citations
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Shorter, John. (1973). Correlation analysis in organic chemistry : an introduction to linear free-energy relationships. Clarendon Press eBooks. 113 indexed citations
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Chapman, N. B., et al.. (1965). 1172. The kinetics of the reactions of diazodiphenylmethane with some methylnaphthoic and acenaphthoic acids in ethanol or 2-n-butoxy-ethanol. Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed). 6310–6310. 5 indexed citations
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Bowden, K., N. B. Chapman, & John Shorter. (1964). 638. The separation of polar and steric effects. Part IV. The kinetics of the alkaline hydrolysis of methyl arylaliphatic carboxylates, and the ionization of arylaliphatic carboxylic acids. Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed). 3370–3370. 10 indexed citations
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