Top ten chemists

If you ever wondered who the top ten chemists of the past decade are, your curiosity may finally be quenched.

Times Higher Education selected "Top Ten Chemists" of the last decade and Steve Buchwald of MIT leads the pack. Of course these metrics are highly speculative and misleading, since the quality of the scientists should not be measured by numbers. But nonetheless, this list gives some highlight for these hard working scholars.

	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