W. Todd Wipke

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

W. Todd Wipke is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Todd Wipke has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Organic Chemistry, 11 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 10 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in W. Todd Wipke's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (10 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (8 papers) and Various Chemistry Research Topics (8 papers). W. Todd Wipke is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (10 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (8 papers) and Various Chemistry Research Topics (8 papers). W. Todd Wipke collaborates with scholars based in United States and Japan. W. Todd Wipke's co-authors include E. J. Corey, William G. Dauben, Brian Goldman, Peter Gund, Richard D. Cramer, W. Jeffrey Howe, David Rogers, Bakthan Singaram, Whitney Bryks and David Rogers and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and The Journal of Organic Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

W. Todd Wipke

39 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Computer-Assisted Design of Complex Organic Syntheses 1969 2026 1988 2007 1969 100 200 300 400
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. Computer-Assisted Design of Complex Organic Syntheses
    1969 447 citations E. J. Corey, W. Todd Wipke Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
W. Todd Wipke United States 18 560 423 368 368 244 41 1.3k
Nikolaus Heinrich Germany 23 577 1.0× 426 1.0× 316 0.9× 255 0.7× 416 1.7× 47 1.5k
Alan D. Mcnaught United States 9 485 0.9× 786 1.9× 309 0.8× 370 1.0× 219 0.9× 14 1.6k
Raymond E. Carhart United States 13 740 1.3× 513 1.2× 239 0.6× 227 0.6× 373 1.5× 22 1.2k
Annick Panaye France 18 510 0.9× 337 0.8× 394 1.1× 146 0.4× 361 1.5× 62 1.2k
A. Peter Johnson United Kingdom 20 775 1.4× 715 1.7× 311 0.8× 339 0.9× 138 0.6× 43 1.5k
James G. Nourse United States 15 1.4k 2.5× 1.1k 2.5× 236 0.6× 547 1.5× 476 2.0× 28 2.1k
W. Douglas Hounshell United States 13 301 0.5× 292 0.7× 379 1.0× 173 0.5× 291 1.2× 19 914
David L. Grier United States 12 350 0.6× 316 0.7× 174 0.5× 141 0.4× 169 0.7× 15 736
Peter Gedeck Switzerland 23 811 1.4× 904 2.1× 282 0.8× 360 1.0× 154 0.6× 54 1.7k
Alan J. Shusterman United States 21 355 0.6× 326 0.8× 728 2.0× 152 0.4× 118 0.5× 35 1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Todd Wipke

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All Works

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Goldman, Brian & W. Todd Wipke. (2000). Quadratic Shape Descriptors. 1. Rapid Superposition of Dissimilar Molecules Using Geometrically Invariant Surface Descriptors. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 40(3). 644–658. 21 indexed citations
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Fisher, Gary B., et al.. (1993). Novel conversion of aldehydes to boronic esters. Simultaneous IGOR2 computer generation and experimental observation of an unusual rearrangement of .alpha.-aminoboranes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 115(2). 440–444. 9 indexed citations
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Wipke, W. Todd. (1990). The Tetrahedron Computer Methodology Experiment. 3(6). 525–526.
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Okada, Takashi & W. Todd Wipke. (1989). CLUSMOL: A system for the conceptual clustering of molecules. 2(4). 249–264. 6 indexed citations
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Wipke, W. Todd, et al.. (1988). AIMB: Analogy and intelligence in model building. System description and performance characteristics. 1(2). 141–167. 11 indexed citations
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Wipke, W. Todd & David Rogers. (1984). Rapid subgraph search using parallelism. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 24(4). 255–262. 13 indexed citations
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Gund, Peter, Edward J. J. Grabowski, Dale R. Hoff, et al.. (1980). Computer-Assisted Synthetic Analysis at Merck. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 20(2). 88–93. 8 indexed citations
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Wipke, W. Todd, et al.. (1978). Computer graphics determination and display of stereoisomers in coordination compounds. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 152(1). 101–109. 3 indexed citations
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Wipke, W. Todd, et al.. (1978). Hash Functions for Rapid Storage and Retrieval of Chemical Structures. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 18(1). 32–37. 17 indexed citations
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Wipke, W. Todd, et al.. (1978). Computer Design of Synthesis in Phosphorus Chemistry: Automatic Treatment of Stereochemistry. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 18(2). 110–118. 7 indexed citations
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Wipke, W. Todd, et al.. (1977). Computer-assisted organic synthesis : a symposium cosponsored by the Division of Chemical Information and the Division of Computers in Chemistry at the centennial meeting of the American Chemical Society, New York, N.Y., April 7-8, 1976. 7 indexed citations
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Wipke, W. Todd, et al.. (1975). Use of Ring Assemblies in Ring Perception Algorithm. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 15(3). 140–147. 28 indexed citations
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Wipke, W. Todd. (1974). Computer representation and manipulation of chemical information. Wiley eBooks. 74 indexed citations
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Wipke, W. Todd, et al.. (1974). Trans addition of the elements palladium-chlorine to a diene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 96(13). 4244–4249. 24 indexed citations
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Corey, E. J., W. Todd Wipke, Richard D. Cramer, & W. Jeffrey Howe. (1972). Computer-assisted synthetic analysis. Facile man-machine communication of chemical structure by interactive computer graphics. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 94(2). 421–430. 66 indexed citations
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Corey, E. J., W. Todd Wipke, Richard D. Cramer, & W. Jeffrey Howe. (1972). Techniques for perception by a computer of synthetically significant structural features in complex molecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 94(2). 431–439. 27 indexed citations
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Corey, E. J. & W. Todd Wipke. (1969). Computer-Assisted Design of Complex Organic Syntheses. Science. 166(3902). 178–192. 447 indexed citations breakdown →

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