Top ten chemists

Times Higher Education selected "Top Ten Chemists" of the last decade:

	Scientist	Papers	Citations	Citations per paper
1	Stephen L. Buchwald Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Organic chemistry, organic synthesis	171	14,822	86.68
2	Chad A. Mirkin Northwestern University, US Materials science, nanoscience	218	18,531	85.00
3	Robert H. Grubbs (Nobel laureate, 2005) California Institute of Technology, US Organic chemistry, catalysis	171	13,884	81.19
4	Mostafa A. El-Sayed Georgia Institute of Technology, US Physical chemistry, nanoscience	112	8,483	75.74
5	Younan Xia Washington University, US Biomaterials and nanoscience	140	10,520	75.14
6	Gregory C. Fu Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Organic chemistry, asymmetric catalysis	108	8,020	74.26
7	George M. Whitesides Harvard University, US Bio-organic/physical organic chemistry, materials	241	17,593	73.00
8	Michael Grätzel Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Photochemistry, solar cells	174	11,117	63.89
9	Wenbin Lin University of North Carolina, US Supramolecular, materials and catalytic chemistry	106	6,685	63.07
10	James M. Tour Rice University, US Organic chemistry, nanoscience	135	8,472	62.76