Olaf Wiest

14.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
201 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Olaf Wiest is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Olaf Wiest has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Organic Chemistry, 75 papers in Molecular Biology and 36 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Olaf Wiest's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (27 papers), Radical Photochemical Reactions (24 papers) and Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research (22 papers). Olaf Wiest is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (27 papers), Radical Photochemical Reactions (24 papers) and Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research (22 papers). Olaf Wiest collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Sweden. Olaf Wiest's co-authors include Paul Helquist, K. N. Houk, Per‐Ola Norrby, Prashant V. Kamat, Guillermina Estiú, Julie Peller, Norbert L. Wiech, Eberhard Steckhan, Sonja Braun‐Sand and Patrick J. Donoghue and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Olaf Wiest

198 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

A molecular mechanism of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria

2015 409 citations Guillermina Estiú, Olaf Wiest et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Olaf Wiest United States	50	3.8k	2.6k	1.2k	935	571	201	7.6k
Andrew G. Leach United Kingdom	37	3.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	663 0.6×	489 0.5×	198 0.3×	112	5.3k
Fahmi Himo Sweden	54	5.6k 1.5×	4.7k 1.8×	1.7k 1.4×	2.7k 2.9×	923 1.6×	206	11.2k
Prasad V. Bharatam India	39	3.6k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	489 0.4×	695 0.7×	465 0.8×	317	6.1k
Jonathan M. Goodman United Kingdom	49	4.6k 1.2×	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	169 0.3×	203	8.9k
Doree Sitkoff United States	17	1.3k 0.3×	2.6k 1.0×	888 0.8×	470 0.5×	309 0.5×	27	4.9k
Robert S. Paton United States	55	6.1k 1.6×	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.6×	165 0.3×	246	9.5k
Hans Martin Senn United Kingdom	27	1.5k 0.4×	2.1k 0.8×	997 0.9×	791 0.8×	235 0.4×	55	5.2k
A. Heine Germany	45	1.9k 0.5×	3.6k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	685 0.7×	314 0.5×	179	5.8k
Nigel G. J. Richards United States	33	2.2k 0.6×	4.1k 1.6×	945 0.8×	314 0.3×	462 0.8×	139	6.8k
Lubomı́r Rulı́šek Czechia	41	1.6k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	834 0.9×	628 1.1×	141	4.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olaf Wiest

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Luchini, Guilian, Mikko Muuronen, Mark Pfeifle, et al.. (2025). Conformation Dependent Features of Bisphosphine Ligands. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 90(39). 13874–13884.

Zhang, Xiangliang, et al.. (2025). Improving reaction prediction through chemically aware transfer learning. Digital Discovery. 4(5). 1232–1238. 1 indexed citations

Ashfeld, Brandon L., Paul Helquist, Olaf Wiest, et al.. (2024). Mutant induced neurons and humanized mice enable identification of Niemann-Pick type C1 proteostatic therapies. JCI Insight. 9(20).

Steussy, C.N., Anthony R. Rosales, Tim Schmidt, et al.. (2024). pH-dependent reaction triggering in PmHMGR crystals for time-resolved crystallography. Biophysical Journal. 123(5). 622–637. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Yuhan, et al.. (2024). Application of Large Language Models in Chemistry Reaction Data Extraction and Cleaning. 3797–3801. 2 indexed citations

Saebi, Mandana, John E. Herr, Zhichun Guo, et al.. (2023). On the use of real-world datasets for reaction yield prediction. Chemical Science. 14(19). 4997–5005. 80 indexed citations

Gryder, Berkley E., Lei Wu, Girma M. Woldemichael, et al.. (2019). Chemical genomics reveals histone deacetylases are required for core regulatory transcription. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3004–3004. 98 indexed citations

Le, Diane N., et al.. (2018). Hydrogenation catalyst generates cyclic peptide stereocentres in sequence. Nature Chemistry. 10(9). 968–973. 30 indexed citations

Grigalunas, Michael, Per‐Ola Norrby, Olaf Wiest, & Paul Helquist. (2015). Single‐Flask Multicomponent Palladium‐Catalyzed α,γ‐Coupling of Ketone Enolates: Facile Preparation of Complex Carbon Scaffolds. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(40). 11822–11825. 19 indexed citations

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Bourbon, Pauline, Qian Peng, G. Ferraudi, et al.. (2013). Development of carbamate-tethered coumarins as phototriggers for caged nicotinamide. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 23(23). 6321–6324. 15 indexed citations

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Hulett, Tyler, et al.. (2012). Quantitative Comparison of the Efficacy of Various Compounds in Lowering Intracellular Cholesterol Levels in Niemann-Pick Type C Fibroblasts. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e48561–e48561. 25 indexed citations

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Wiest, Olaf, et al.. (2011). Structures and conformations of heteroatom‐bridged calixarenes. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 24(12). 1157–1165. 17 indexed citations

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Zhou, Hui, et al.. (2011). Incorporation of porphyrin acetylides into duplexes of the simplified nucleic acid GNA. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 9(8). 2840–2840. 11 indexed citations

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Shen, Yihui, Guillermina Estiú, Basak Isin, et al.. (2010). Blueprint for antimicrobial hit discovery targeting metabolic networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(3). 1082–1087. 87 indexed citations

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Homan, Kristoff T., et al.. (2010). Identification of novel inhibitors for a low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase via virtual screening. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 18(14). 5449–5456. 10 indexed citations

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Estiú, Guillermina, Nathan West, Ralph Mazitschek, et al.. (2010). On the inhibition of histone deacetylase 8. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 18(11). 4103–4110. 71 indexed citations

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Estiú, Guillermina, et al.. (2010). Identification of novel bacterial histidine biosynthesis inhibitors using docking, ensemble rescoring, and whole-cell assays. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 18(14). 5148–5156. 28 indexed citations

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Keiser, Michael J., Li Basuino, Henry F. Chambers, et al.. (2009). A Mapping of Drug Space from the Viewpoint of Small Molecule Metabolism. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(8). e1000474–e1000474. 29 indexed citations

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Etten, Robert L. Van, et al.. (2005). Crystal Structure of the Human B-form Low Molecular Weight Phosphotyrosyl Phosphatase at 1.6-Å Resolution. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(10). 6520–6527. 32 indexed citations

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Wiest, Olaf. (1996). Density functional theory studies of the methanol radical cation hypersurface. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 368. 39–48. 15 indexed citations

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