Paper of the Year analyses

I attempted to read every paper published by the towering pioneer in organometallic chemistry Jay K. Kochi chronologically to prepare for a literature group meeting. I got to 190/507 before making the call for the sake of my research productivity to read selectively and intentionally. To help me build a mind map of his chemistry, I kept a runnin... Read More

Methods Each year, we construct a “main list” of papers. From 1999 to 2016, the main list contained all papers from major chemistry journals that pertained to asymmetric chemistry. From 2017 onwards, the “main list” criterion has been expanded to include any papers in organic chemistry that are related to the group’s research, notably including ... Read More

Here’s some semantic analysis on the preliminary selections from the Jacobsen Group’s Paper of the Year exercise. For more information on our annual exercise and paper selection criteria, see About. For details about methodology used in this analysis, see Methodology. Notes This page contains results and minimal commentary. Feel free to pl... Read More