Tim Cernak

5.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
45 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Tim Cernak is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Cernak has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Organic Chemistry, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Tim Cernak's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (14 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (12 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (11 papers). Tim Cernak is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (14 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (12 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (11 papers). Tim Cernak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Tim Cernak's co-authors include Heike Schönherr, Shane W. Krska, Petr Váchal, Kevin D. Dykstra, Sriram Tyagarajan, Yuning Shen, Babak Mahjour, Spencer D. Dreher, Christopher J. Welch and Ian W. Davies and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Tim Cernak

40 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The medicinal chemist's toolbox for late stage functionalization of drug-like molecules

2015 1.4k citations Tim Cernak, Kevin D. Dykstra et al. profile →
Profound Methyl Effects in Drug Discovery and a Call for New CH Methylation Reactions

2013 863 citations Heike Schönherr, Tim Cernak Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Nanomole-scale high-throughput chemistry for the synthesis of complex molecules

2014 470 citations A. Buitrago Santanilla, Erik L. Regalado et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim Cernak United States	21	2.6k	989	736	601	582	45	4.1k
Louis‐Charles Campeau United States	28	4.8k 1.9×	763 0.8×	795 1.1×	433 0.7×	436 0.7×	59	5.8k
Petr Váchal United States	23	3.9k 1.5×	1.0k 1.1×	982 1.3×	520 0.9×	352 0.6×	34	4.8k
Michael Shevlin United States	23	1.9k 0.7×	673 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	983 1.6×	470 0.8×	38	3.4k
Paul Richardson United States	28	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	442 0.6×	448 0.7×	402 0.7×	114	3.1k
Spencer D. Dreher United States	34	4.0k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	845 1.1×	999 1.7×	1.4k 2.3×	56	6.0k
Ian W. Davies United States	48	5.6k 2.1×	1.4k 1.4×	1.5k 2.0×	885 1.5×	696 1.2×	146	7.5k
Jacob M. Janey United States	21	1.9k 0.7×	1.6k 1.6×	572 0.8×	602 1.0×	697 1.2×	42	3.6k
Martin D. Eastgate United States	39	5.8k 2.2×	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	261 0.4×	360 0.6×	107	6.8k
Shane W. Krska United States	40	5.4k 2.1×	1.3k 1.3×	2.1k 2.8×	848 1.4×	466 0.8×	101	6.8k
Kerry Gilmore Germany	30	3.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	510 0.7×	2.1k 3.5×	641 1.1×	52	4.9k

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Tewari, Ambuj, et al.. (2025). Prospective active transfer learning on the formal coupling of amines and carboxylic acids to form secondary alkyl bonds. Digital Discovery. 4(12). 3693–3700.

Mahjour, Babak, et al.. (2025). One step retrosynthesis of drugs from commercially available chemical building blocks and conceivable coupling reactions. Digital Discovery. 5(1). 153–160.

Zhang, Rui, Babak Mahjour, Tim Hopper, et al.. (2024). Exploring the combinatorial explosion of amine–acid reaction space via graph editing. Communications Chemistry. 7(1). 22–22. 6 indexed citations

Tsai, Chun‐Yi, et al.. (2024). Medicinal Chemistry Gone Wild. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 67(9). 6899–6905. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Duxin, Christian Macedonia, Zhigang Chen, et al.. (2024). Can Machine Learning Overcome the 95% Failure Rate and Reality that Only 30% of Approved Cancer Drugs Meaningfully Extend Patient Survival?. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 67(18). 16035–16055. 3 indexed citations

Pflüger, Philipp M., Lukas Lückemeier, Fuhao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Late-Stage Saturation of Drug Molecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(17). 11866–11875. 30 indexed citations

Huang, Haiyan, et al.. (2024). Catalyst: Systems chemistry links reactions to molecular function. Chem. 10(8). 2333–2336. 2 indexed citations

Gesmundo, Nathan J., Kevin D. Dykstra, James L. Douthwaite, et al.. (2023). Miniaturization of popular reactions from the medicinal chemists’ toolbox for ultrahigh-throughput experimentation. Nature Synthesis. 2(11). 1082–1091. 25 indexed citations

Mahjour, Babak, Rui Zhang, Yuning Shen, et al.. (2023). Rapid planning and analysis of high-throughput experiment arrays for reaction discovery. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3924–3924. 43 indexed citations

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Mahjour, Babak, et al.. (2023). Molecular sonification for molecule to music information transfer. Digital Discovery. 2(2). 520–530. 8 indexed citations

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Shen, Yuning, Babak Mahjour, & Tim Cernak. (2022). Development of copper-catalyzed deaminative esterification using high-throughput experimentation. Communications Chemistry. 5(1). 83–83. 10 indexed citations

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Gaunt, Matthew J., Jacob M. Janey, Danielle M. Schultz, & Tim Cernak. (2021). Myths of high-throughput experimentation and automation in chemistry. Chem. 7(9). 2259–2260. 10 indexed citations

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Lin, Yingfu, Babak Mahjour, Di Wang, et al.. (2021). Reinforcing the supply chain of umifenovir and other antiviral drugs with retrosynthetic software. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7327–7327. 18 indexed citations

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Mahjour, Babak, Yuning Shen, Wenbo Liu, & Tim Cernak. (2020). A map of the amine–carboxylic acid coupling system. Nature. 580(7801). 71–75. 82 indexed citations

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Uehling, Mycah R., Ryan P. King, Shane W. Krska, Tim Cernak, & Stephen L. Buchwald. (2019). Pharmaceutical diversification via palladium oxidative addition complexes. Science. 363(6425). 405–408. 145 indexed citations

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Lin, Shishi, Sergei Dikler, R. D. Ferguson, et al.. (2018). Mapping the dark space of chemical reactions with extended nanomole synthesis and MALDI-TOF MS. Science. 361(6402). 145 indexed citations

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Gesmundo, Nathan J., Bérengère Sauvagnat, Patrick J. Curran, et al.. (2018). Nanoscale synthesis and affinity ranking. Nature. 557(7704). 228–232. 150 indexed citations

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Cernak, Tim. (2016). Synthesis in the Chemical Space Age. Chem. 1(1). 6–9. 10 indexed citations

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Santanilla, A. Buitrago, Erik L. Regalado, Tony Pereira, et al.. (2014). Nanomole-scale high-throughput chemistry for the synthesis of complex molecules. Science. 347(6217). 49–53. 470 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schönherr, Heike & Tim Cernak. (2013). Profound Methyl Effects in Drug Discovery and a Call for New CH Methylation Reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(47). 12256–12267. 863 indexed citations breakdown →

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