Kevin R. West

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Kevin R. West is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin R. West has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Organic Chemistry, 8 papers in Materials Chemistry and 7 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Kevin R. West's work include Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (8 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (4 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (4 papers). Kevin R. West is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (8 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (4 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (4 papers). Kevin R. West collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Singapore. Kevin R. West's co-authors include Sijbren Otto, Jeremy K. M. Sanders, Peter Corbett, Laurent Vial, Jean‐Luc Wietor, Julien Leclaire, Oren A. Scherman, Kyle D. Bake, Chi‐Chang Hu and Yang Lan and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kevin R. West

17 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry

2006 1.7k citations Peter Corbett, Julien Leclaire et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin R. West United Kingdom	15	1.5k	872	712	639	563	17	2.4k
Laurent Vial France	20	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	571 0.8×	839 1.3×	454 0.8×	37	2.5k
Jean‐Luc Wietor United Kingdom	11	1.6k 1.1×	818 0.9×	619 0.9×	553 0.9×	584 1.0×	15	2.3k
Laura Baldini Italy	24	1.2k 0.8×	992 1.1×	675 0.9×	877 1.4×	256 0.5×	60	2.3k
Guillaume Bollot Switzerland	19	836 0.6×	665 0.8×	700 1.0×	697 1.1×	378 0.7×	32	2.0k
Javier Montenegro Spain	29	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 2.0×	801 1.1×	703 1.1×	1.1k 1.9×	79	3.3k
Siva Krishna Mohan Nalluri United States	21	1.2k 0.8×	386 0.4×	1.0k 1.4×	456 0.7×	755 1.3×	23	2.1k
Kelly S. Chichak United States	19	1.5k 1.0×	478 0.5×	905 1.3×	563 0.9×	353 0.6×	27	2.2k
Jean‐Marie Lehn France	17	1.2k 0.8×	620 0.7×	562 0.8×	325 0.5×	567 1.0×	23	1.8k
Roberta Cacciapaglia Italy	25	1.5k 1.0×	699 0.8×	576 0.8×	743 1.2×	182 0.3×	68	2.1k
Yann Ferrand France	35	2.4k 1.6×	1.9k 2.2×	942 1.3×	739 1.2×	1.1k 1.9×	95	3.5k

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17 of 17 papers shown

Liu, Ji, et al.. (2018). Cucurbit[8]uril‐Regulated Colloidal Dispersions Exhibiting Photocontrolled Rheological Behavior. Small. 14(14). e1703352–e1703352. 11 indexed citations

Hao, Rui, Aleksander A. Tedstone, David J. Lewis, et al.. (2016). Property Self-Optimization During Wear of MoS₂. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(2). 1953–1958. 17 indexed citations

West, Kevin R., et al.. (2016). Hollow mesoporous raspberry-like colloids with removable caps as photoresponsive nanocontainers. Nanoscale. 8(15). 7840–7844. 31 indexed citations

Hu, Chi‐Chang, Feng Tian, Yu Zheng, et al.. (2015). Cucurbit[8]uril directed stimuli-responsive supramolecular polymer brushes for dynamic surface engineering. Chemical Science. 6(9). 5303–5310. 50 indexed citations

Hu, Chi‐Chang, Yang Lan, Kevin R. West, & Oren A. Scherman. (2015). Cucurbit[8]uril‐Regulated Nanopatterning of Binary Polymer Brushes via Colloidal Templating. Advanced Materials. 27(48). 7957–7962. 32 indexed citations

Tedstone, Aleksander A., David J. Lewis, Rui Hao, et al.. (2015). Mechanical Properties of Molybdenum Disulfide and the Effect of Doping: An in Situ TEM Study. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 7(37). 20829–20834. 49 indexed citations

Lewis, David J., Aleksander A. Tedstone, Xiangli Zhong, et al.. (2015). Thin Films of Molybdenum Disulfide Doped with Chromium by Aerosol-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition (AACVD). Chemistry of Materials. 27(4). 1367–1374. 81 indexed citations

Pascu, Sofia I., et al.. (2015). Aromatic donor–acceptor interactions in non-polar environments. Chemical Communications. 51(39). 8265–8268. 32 indexed citations

Lan, Yang, et al.. (2014). Facile Method for Preparing Surface-Mounted Cucurbit[8]uril-Based Rotaxanes. Langmuir. 30(36). 10926–10932. 30 indexed citations

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Ludlow, R. Frederick, et al.. (2012). A Synthetic Receptor for Nicotine from a Dynamic Combinatorial Library. Organic Letters. 14(21). 5404–5407. 23 indexed citations

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West, Kevin R., R. Frederick Ludlow, Peter Corbett, et al.. (2008). Dynamic Combinatorial Discovery of a [2]-Catenane and its Guest-Induced Conversion into a Molecular Square Host. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(33). 10834–10835. 69 indexed citations

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Liu, Jingyuan, Kevin R. West, Chantelle R. Bondy, & Jeremy K. M. Sanders. (2007). Dynamic combinatorial libraries of hydrazone-linked pseudo-peptides: dependence of diversity on building block structure and chirality. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 5(5). 778–778. 34 indexed citations

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Corbett, Peter, Julien Leclaire, Laurent Vial, et al.. (2006). Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry. Chemical Reviews. 106(9). 3652–3711. 1658 indexed citations breakdown →

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Corbett, Peter, Julien Leclaire, Laurent Vial, et al.. (2006). Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry. ChemInform. 37(48). 10 indexed citations

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West, Kevin R. & Sijbren Otto. (2005). Reversible Covalent Chemistry in Drug Delivery. Current Drug Discovery Technologies. 2(3). 123–160. 136 indexed citations

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West, Kevin R., Kyle D. Bake, & Sijbren Otto. (2005). Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries of Disulfide Cages in Water. Organic Letters. 7(13). 2615–2618. 102 indexed citations

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Shields, Rob & Kevin R. West. (2003). Innovation in clean-room construction: a case study of co-operation between firms. Construction Management and Economics. 21(4). 337–344. 19 indexed citations

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