Thorsten Bug

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 917 citations indexed

About

Thorsten Bug is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Thorsten Bug has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 917 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Organic Chemistry, 2 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Thorsten Bug's work include Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (4 papers), Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (2 papers) and Organic and Inorganic Chemical Reactions (2 papers). Thorsten Bug is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (4 papers), Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (2 papers) and Organic and Inorganic Chemical Reactions (2 papers). Thorsten Bug collaborates with scholars based in Germany. Thorsten Bug's co-authors include Herbert Mayr, Bernhard Irrgang, Bernhard Kempf, Armin R. Ofial, Matthias Gotta, Robert Loos, G. Ya. Remennikov, Tadeusz Lemek and Oliver Reiser and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Chemistry - A European Journal.

In The Last Decade

Thorsten Bug

6 papers receiving 905 citations

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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.

Reference Scales for the Characterization of Cationic Electrophiles and Neutral Nucleophiles^,

2001 613 citations Herbert Mayr, Thorsten Bug et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thorsten Bug Germany	5	853	170	161	125	87	6	917
G. Ya. Remennikov Germany	6	704 0.8×	125 0.7×	125 0.8×	96 0.8×	99 1.1×	21	760
Bernhard Irrgang Germany	4	659 0.8×	140 0.8×	128 0.8×	98 0.8×	71 0.8×	4	713
Matthias Gotta Germany	8	1.0k 1.2×	169 1.0×	164 1.0×	134 1.1×	165 1.9×	11	1.1k
Olga Kronja Croatia	16	671 0.8×	210 1.2×	199 1.2×	206 1.6×	51 0.6×	60	806
Robert Loos Germany	9	1.1k 1.3×	246 1.4×	236 1.5×	158 1.3×	103 1.2×	12	1.3k
Antonio Garcı́a Martı́nez Spain	15	589 0.7×	95 0.6×	141 0.9×	152 1.2×	129 1.5×	69	718
Giovanni Cerioni Italy	16	454 0.5×	117 0.7×	175 1.1×	59 0.5×	85 1.0×	54	631
Bernard Denegri Croatia	16	534 0.6×	156 0.9×	139 0.9×	147 1.2×	22 0.3×	31	591
Willi Sicking Germany	21	859 1.0×	161 0.9×	183 1.1×	314 2.5×	102 1.2×	40	1.1k
Alexander Wittkopp Germany	10	1.0k 1.2×	102 0.6×	179 1.1×	211 1.7×	208 2.4×	14	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Thorsten Bug

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thorsten Bug

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thorsten Bug

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All Works

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6 of 6 papers shown

1.

Bug, Thorsten. (2010). German investments in industrial biotechnology. Industrial Biotechnology. 6(5). 241–243. 1 indexed citations

2.

Bug, Thorsten, et al.. (2006). Electrochemical oxidation of 2-substituted piperidines as a key step towards the synthesis of hydroxylated γ-amino acids. Tetrahedron Letters. 47(13). 2061–2064. 13 indexed citations

3.

Bug, Thorsten, Tadeusz Lemek, & Herbert Mayr. (2004). Nucleophilicities of Nitroalkyl Anions. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 69(22). 7565–7576. 102 indexed citations

4.

Bug, Thorsten, et al.. (2003). How Nucleophilic Are Diazo Compounds?. Chemistry - A European Journal. 9(17). 4068–4076. 97 indexed citations

5.

Bug, Thorsten & Herbert Mayr. (2003). Nucleophilic Reactivities of Carbanions in Water: The Unique Behavior of the Malodinitrile Anion. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125(42). 12980–12986. 91 indexed citations

6.

Mayr, Herbert, Thorsten Bug, Matthias Gotta, et al.. (2001). Reference Scales for the Characterization of Cationic Electrophiles and Neutral Nucleophiles^,. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 123(39). 9500–9512. 613 indexed citations breakdown →

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