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14781
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Stephen F. Nelsen 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 Stephen F. Nelsen sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 357 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen F. Nelsen 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 Stephen F. Nelsen sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1968 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Stephen F. Nelsen was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their academic career involved contributions to the scientific community recognized through prestigious fellowships.

During their career, they were awarded the status of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1999. Earlier, they received the distinction of being a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1968.

The available data does not include specific research papers, co-authors, publication venues, or detailed fields and subfields of study related to their work. Therefore, no further information about their research topics, collaborative networks, or publishing history can be presented with certainty.

Stephen F. Nelsen is deceased, and the overview recognizes their past contributions as documented by the awards and institutional affiliation recorded.

Best Publications

  • Estimation of inner shell Marcus terms for amino nitrogen compounds by molecular orbital calculations

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Silas C. Blackstock;Yaesil Kim

  • “Almost Delocalized” Intervalence Compounds

    Stephen F. Nelsen

  • Solvent effects on charge transfer bands of nitrogen-centered intervalence compounds.

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Dwight A. Trieber;Rustem F. Ismagilov;Yoshio Teki

  • Nonaromatic aminium radicals

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  • Estimation of electron transfer parameters from AM1 calculations.

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Fredrik Blomgren

  • Adiabatic Electron Transfer: Comparison of Modified Theory with Experiment

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Rustem F. Ismagilov;Dwight A. Trieber

  • Charge-localized p-phenylenedihydrazine radical cations: ESR and optical studies of intramolecular electron transfer rates

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Rustem F. Ismagilov;Douglas R. Powell

  • Estimation of Electronic Coupling for Intermolecular Electron Transfer from Cross-Reaction Data

    Stephen F Nelsen;Michael N Weaver;Yun Luo;Jack R Pladziewicz

  • Azocumene. I. Preparation and Decomposition of Azocumene. Unsymmetrical Coupling Products of the Cumyl Radical

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Paul D. Bartlett

  • Oxygenation reactions of the adamantylideneadamantane cation radical

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Ryoichi Akaba

  • Electrochemical oxidation of tertiary amines. Effect of structure upon reversibility

    S. F. Nelsen;P. J. Hintz

  • Estimation of Electron Transfer Distances from AM1 Calculations

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Marshall D. Newton

  • Comparison of V Values for Some Nitrogen- and Metal-Centered π-Bridged Mixed-Valence Compounds

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Hieu Q. Tran;Mark A. Nagy

  • Cation radical catalyzed chain oxygenation of alkylated olefins and dienes

    Stephen F. Nelsen

  • Temperature effects on electron transfer within intervalence bis(hydrazine) radical cations

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Rustem F. Ismagilov;Kevin E. Gentile;Douglas R. Powell

  • On the deprotonation of trialkylamine cation radicals by amines

    S. F. Nelsen;J. T. Ippoliti

  • Intervalence near-IR spectra of delocalized dinitroaromatic radical anions.

    Stephen F Nelsen;Asgeir E Konradsson;Michael N Weaver;João P Telo

  • Contributions of Symmetric and Asymmetric Normal Coordinates to the Intervalence Electronic Absorption and Resonance Raman Spectra of a Strongly Coupled p-Phenylenediamine Radical Cation

    Susan E. Bailey;Jeffrey I. Zink;Stephen F. Nelsen

  • Charge Localization in a Dihydrazine Analogue of Tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine Radical Cation

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Rustem F. Ismagilov;Douglas R. Powell

  • Optical spectra of delocalized dinitroaromatic radical anions revisited.

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Michael N. Weaver;Jeffrey I. Zink;Joao P. Telo

  • Comparison of Intramolecular Electron Transfer Rate Constant with Hush Theory for an Organic Intervalence Compound

    Stephen F. Nelsen;Jan Adamus;J. Jens Wolff

  • Electron Transfer Reactions in Organic Chemistry

    Stephen F. Nelsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas R. Powell
Douglas R. Powell University of Oklahoma
Dennis H. Evans
Dennis H. Evans University of Delaware
Jeffrey I. Zink
Jeffrey I. Zink University of California, Los Angeles
Rustem F. Ismagilov
Rustem F. Ismagilov California Institute of Technology
Michael Meot-Ner
Michael Meot-Ner Virginia Commonwealth University
Ilia A. Guzei
Ilia A. Guzei University of Wisconsin–Madison
Joseph C. Calabrese
Joseph C. Calabrese DuPont (United States)
Luis Echegoyen
Luis Echegoyen The University of Texas at El Paso
Frank Weinhold
Frank Weinhold University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard B. Sessions
Richard B. Sessions University of Bristol

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