Wesley R. Browne

15.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
297 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

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Wesley R. Browne is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Wesley R. Browne has authored 297 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Materials Chemistry, 104 papers in Organic Chemistry and 77 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Wesley R. Browne's work include Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (70 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (69 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (68 papers). Wesley R. Browne is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (70 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (69 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (68 papers). Wesley R. Browne collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Ireland and United Kingdom. Wesley R. Browne's co-authors include Ben L. Feringa, Luuk Kortekaas, Johannes G. Vos, Auke Meetsma, Johannes W. de Boer, Ronald Hage, Jetsuda Areephong, Petra Rudolf, Denis Jacquemin and John J. McGarvey and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Wesley R. Browne

292 papers receiving 13.1k 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.

Making molecular machines work

2006 1.2k citations Wesley R. Browne, Ben L. Feringa profile →
The evolution of spiropyran: fundamentals and progress of an extraordinarily versatile photochrome

2019 576 citations Wesley R. Browne et al. profile →
Light Switching of Molecules on Surfaces

2008 258 citations Wesley R. Browne, Ben L. Feringa profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wesley R. Browne Netherlands	59	7.4k	5.0k	2.4k	2.3k	2.0k	297	13.3k
Pancě Naumov United Arab Emirates	62	8.1k 1.1×	3.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	344	13.7k
Margherita Venturi Italy	59	7.8k 1.1×	8.3k 1.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	2.9k 1.4×	172	15.6k
Alberto Credi Italy	70	11.4k 1.6×	11.4k 2.3×	2.8k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	4.0k 2.0×	275	21.3k
Françisco M. Raymo United States	68	11.5k 1.6×	9.0k 1.8×	3.1k 1.3×	961 0.4×	3.9k 1.9×	257	19.8k
Amar H. Flood United States	58	5.6k 0.8×	7.2k 1.4×	672 0.3×	932 0.4×	2.0k 1.0×	193	12.4k
Auke Meetsma Netherlands	74	5.1k 0.7×	11.0k 2.2×	883 0.4×	6.2k 2.7×	2.4k 1.2×	387	17.6k
Kenji Matsuda Japan	52	7.7k 1.0×	4.3k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	646 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	257	10.7k
Ana L. Moore United States	72	12.8k 1.7×	4.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	6.7k 3.3×	255	21.1k
Stefan Matile Switzerland	78	5.9k 0.8×	7.3k 1.5×	906 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	392	20.1k
Luca Prodi Italy	64	7.9k 1.1×	3.8k 0.8×	342 0.1×	1.1k 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	251	13.9k

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Prathap, K. Jeya, et al.. (2025). Ammoxidation of Unprotected Glycosides: A One‐Pot Conversion of Alcohols to Nitriles. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(28). e202500796–e202500796. 1 indexed citations

Tromp, Moniek, et al.. (2025). Mobility of thiolates on Au(111) surfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(9). 4892–4904.

Browne, Wesley R., et al.. (2025). Photochemical Surface Degradation in Spiropyran Based Films. ChemPhotoChem. 9(6). 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Yanrong, Ronald Hage, Keimpe J. van den Berg, et al.. (2024). Activation of alkyl hydroperoxides by manganese complexes of tmtacn for initiation of radical polymerisation of alkenes. Catalysis Science & Technology. 14(9). 2423–2433. 1 indexed citations

Sheng, Jinyu, Wojciech Danowski, Jiaxin Hou, et al.. (2024). Formylation boosts the performance of light-driven overcrowded alkene-derived rotary molecular motors. Nature Chemistry. 16(8). 1330–1338. 21 indexed citations

Flapper, Jitte, et al.. (2023). Formation of substituted dioxanes in the oxidation of gum arabic with periodate. Green Chemistry. 25(10). 4058–4066. 9 indexed citations

Simeth, Nadja A., Paula de Mendoza, Marc C. A. Stuart, et al.. (2022). Photoswitchable architecture transformation of a DNA-hybrid assembly at the microscopic and macroscopic scale. Chemical Science. 13(11). 3263–3272. 11 indexed citations

Grunenberg, Lars, Maxwell W. Terban, Wesley R. Browne, et al.. (2022). Light-driven molecular motors embedded in covalent organic frameworks. Chemical Science. 13(28). 8253–8264. 37 indexed citations

Wegeberg, Christina, et al.. (2021). Engineering the Oxidative Potency of Non-Heme Iron(IV) Oxo Complexes in Water for C–H Oxidation by a cis Donor and Variation of the Second Coordination Sphere. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(3). 1975–1984. 7 indexed citations

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Genuino, Homer C., Jelle Brinksma, Francesco Picchioni, et al.. (2021). Iron Tetrasulfonatophthalocyanine-Catalyzed Starch Oxidation Using H₂O₂: Interplay between Catalyst Activity, Selectivity, and Stability. ACS Omega. 6(21). 13847–13857. 6 indexed citations

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Wegeberg, Christina, Wesley R. Browne, & Christine J. McKenzie. (2019). cis Donor Influence on O–O Bond Lability in Iron(III) Hydroperoxo Complexes: Oxidation Catalysis and Ligand Transformation. Inorganic Chemistry. 58(14). 8983–8994. 12 indexed citations

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Wegeberg, Christina, Adiran de Aguirre, Cathrine Frandsen, et al.. (2018). Photoinduced O₂-Dependent Stepwise Oxidative Deglycination of a Nonheme Iron(III) Complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(43). 14150–14160. 17 indexed citations

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Pan, Qing, Mads G. Laursen, Amal El Nahhas, et al.. (2018). Shedding Light on the Nature of Photoinduced States Formed in a Hydrogen-Generating Supramolecular RuPt Photocatalyst by Ultrafast Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 122(31). 6396–6406. 5 indexed citations

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Wegeberg, Christina, Wesley R. Browne, & Christine J. McKenzie. (2018). Catalytic Alkyl Hydroperoxide and Acyl Hydroperoxide Disproportionation by a Nonheme Iron Complex. ACS Catalysis. 8(11). 9980–9991. 19 indexed citations

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Wegeberg, Christina, Frants R. Lauritsen, Cathrine Frandsen, et al.. (2017). Directing a Non‐Heme Iron(III)‐Hydroperoxide Species on a Trifurcated Reactivity Pathway. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(20). 5134–5145. 22 indexed citations

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Draksharapu, Apparao, Davide Angelone, Matthew G. Quesne, et al.. (2015). Identification and Spectroscopic Characterization of Nonheme Iron(III) Hypochlorite Intermediates. Angewandte Chemie. 127(14). 4431–4435. 13 indexed citations

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Browne, Wesley R., et al.. (2014). Using the Full Spectrum for Raman : From UV to NIR. Applied Spectroscopy. 2 indexed citations

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Khan, M. Tanweer, Wesley R. Browne, Jan Maarten van Dijl, & Hermie J. M. Harmsen. (2012). How Can Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Employ Riboflavin for Extracellular Electron Transfer?. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 17(10). 1433–1440. 52 indexed citations

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Guckian, Adrian, M. Ciesielski, Olaf Walter, et al.. (2004). Assessment of intercomponent interaction in phenylene bridged dinuclear ruthenium(ii) and osmium(ii) polypyridyl complexes. Dalton Transactions. 3943–3943. 29 indexed citations

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Browne, Wesley R., et al.. (1996). Frequent-Flier Programs: A. 1 indexed citations

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