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D-Index
119
Citations
75266
World Ranking
506
National Ranking
218

George A. Olah publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George A. Olah sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 1,979 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

George A. Olah D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George A. Olah sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 119 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

George A. Olah was affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their scientific career was primarily connected to this institution, which served as a base for their research activities and academic contributions.

Throughout their career, Olah did not have frequently co-authored partners or consistent publication venues recorded in the provided data. Similarly, no recent paper titles, publication years, or venues were available to detail the specifics of their research output.

There were no records indicating specific fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work attributed to George A. Olah in the current data. Likewise, no entries were provided for book publications or awards won during their lifetime.

As the scientist is deceased, the information is presented in past tense, reflecting on their professional background as documented. Due to the limitations in the data, the focus remains on their institutional association rather than detailed scientific achievements or legacy.

Best Publications

  • Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy

    George A. Olah

  • Chemical recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol and dimethyl ether: from greenhouse gas to renewable, environmentally carbon neutral fuels and synthetic hydrocarbons.

    George A. Olah;Alain Goeppert;G. K. Surya Prakash

  • Recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol and derived products – closing the loop

    Alain Goeppert;Miklos Czaun;John-Paul Jones;G. K. Surya Prakash

  • Friedel-Crafts and related reactions

    George A. Olah

  • Anthropogenic Chemical Carbon Cycle for a Sustainable Future

    George A. Olah;G. K. Surya Prakash;Alain Goeppert

  • Air as the renewable carbon source of the future: an overview of CO2 capture from the atmosphere

    Alain Goeppert;Miklos Czaun;G. K. Surya Prakash;George A. Olah

  • Nitration : methods and mechanisms

    George A. Olah;Ripudaman Malhotra;Subhash C. Narang

  • Synthetic methods and reactions. 63. Pyridinium poly(hydrogen fluoride) (30% pyridine-70% hydrogen fluoride): a convenient reagent for organic fluorination reactions

    George A. Olah;John T. Welch;Yashwant D. Vankar;Mosatomo Nojima

  • Towards Oil Independence Through Renewable Methanol Chemistry

    George A. Olah

  • Synthetic methods and reactions. 62. Transformations with chlorotrimethylsilane/sodium iodide, a convenient in situ iodotrimethylsilane reagent

    George A. Olah;Subhash C. Narang;B. G. Balaram Gupta;Ripudaman Malhotra

  • Friedel-Crafts chemistry

    George A. Olah;Daniel J. Donovan;Henry C. Lin

  • Synthetic methods and reactions. 141. Fluoride-induced trifluoromethylation of carbonyl compounds with trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane (TMS-CF3). A trifluoromethide equivalent

    G. K. Surya Prakash;Ramesh Krishnamurti;George A. Olah

  • Aromatic substitution. XXVIII. Mechanism of electrophilic aromatic substitutions

    George A. Olah

  • Conversion of CO2 from Air into Methanol Using a Polyamine and a Homogeneous Ruthenium Catalyst

    Jotheeswari Kothandaraman;Alain Goeppert;Miklos Czaun;George A. Olah

  • Carbon Dioxide Capture from the Air Using a Polyamine Based Regenerable Solid Adsorbent

    Alain Goeppert;Miklos Czaun;Robert B. May;G. K. Surya Prakash

  • Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy

    G. K. Surya Prakash;George Olah;Alain Goeppert

  • Advances in direct oxidation methanol fuel cells

    S. Surampudi;S. R. Narayanan;E. Vamos;H. Frank

  • Iodotrimethylsilane—a versatile synthetic reagent

    George A. Olah;Subhash C. Narang

  • Perfluorinated Resinsulfonic Acid (Nafion-H®) Catalysis in Synthesis

    George A. Olah;Pradeep S. Iyer;G. K. Surya Prakash

  • Super acids. III. Protonation of alkanes and intermediacy of alkanonium ions, pentacoordinated carbon cations of CH5+ type. Hydrogen exchange, protolytic cleavage, hydrogen abstraction; polycondensation of methane, ethane, 2,2-dimethylpropane and 2,2,3,3-tetramethylbutane in FSO3H-SbF5

    George A. Olah;Gilles Klopman;Richard H. Schlosberg

Frequent Co-Authors

G. K. Surya Prakash
G. K. Surya Prakash University of Southern California
Alain Goeppert
Alain Goeppert University of Southern California
Sekharipuram R. Narayanan
Sekharipuram R. Narayanan University of Southern California
Thomas Mathew
Thomas Mathew University of Southern California
Chuanfa Ni
Chuanfa Ni Chinese Academy of Sciences
Béla Török
Béla Török University of Massachusetts Boston
Ralf Haiges
Ralf Haiges University of Southern California
J. Martin Bollinger
J. Martin Bollinger Pennsylvania State University
Paul v. R. Schleyer
Paul v. R. Schleyer University of Georgia
Árpád Molnár
Árpád Molnár University of Szeged

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