Wooley, Karen PhD
Professor at
Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station
Leading researcher
with 460 publications
in the last 34 years
ORCID:
0000-0003-4086-384X
Karen L. Wooley holds the W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry, and is a University Distinguished Professor and Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University, with appointments in the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering. She also serves as Director of the Laboratory for Synthetic-Biologic Interactions. Her academic training included undergraduate study at Oregon State University (B.S., 1988) and graduate study under the direction of Professor Jean M. J. Fréchet at Cornell University (Ph.D., 1993). She began an academic career as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, was promoted in 1999 to Full Professor with tenure, was installed in 2006 as a James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, and in 2007 received an appointment in the School of Medicine, Department of Radiology. Karen relocated to Texas A&M University in July 2009. Research interests include the synthesis and characterization of degradable polymers derived from natural products, unique macromolecular architectures and complex polymer assemblies, and the design and development of well-defined nanostructured materials. She has designed synthetic strategies to harness the rich compositional, regiochemical and stereochemical complexity of natural products for the construction of hydrolytically-degradable polymers, which have impact toward sustainability, reduction of reliance on petrochemicals, and production of biologically-beneficial and environmentally-benign natural products upon degradation – these materials are expected to impact the global issue of plastic pollution and address challenges resulting from climate change. The development of novel synthetic strategies, fundamental study of physicochemical and mechanical properties, and investigation of the functional performance of her materials in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, as superabsorbent hydrogels to address global challenges associated with excessive liquid water, as non-toxic anti-biofouling or anti-icing coatings, as materials for microelectronics device applications, and as environmental remediation systems are particular foci of her research activities. Recent awards include the American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry (2014), the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2014), and election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015), and the National Academy of Inventors (2019). Although 2020 was a challenging year for Karen’s family and many around the world personally, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, professionally, her career thrived, with her being awarded Fellowship to the American Association of the Advancement of Science (2020), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2020), and the National Academy of Sciences (2020). She has recently been awarded a 2021 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Faculty Achievement Award and named as the 2021 SEC Professor of the Year. Karen has served on the technical advisory boards and served in consulting capacities for several companies, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, and law firms. She is the co-founder and President of Sugar Plastics, LLC, and Chief Technology Officer of Teysha Technologies, LTD. Karen currently serves as both an Executive Editor and an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society, among many other advisory roles within the broader scientific community.
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Evolution over the last 10 years of activity
Aggregated career metrics
460
Total documents
2.61
Normalized Impact
132
Highly Cited Papers (10%)
18.04
International Collab. (%)
Most cited publications
Main coauthors
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Dimensions One by One
Spanning 73 diverse indicators, the dimensions considered capture a comprehensive spectrum of academic
attributes.
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Activity
985
/1000
Reflects an author's research output.
Impact
916
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
Excellence
974
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
Leadership
966
/1000
Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.
Cooperation
591
/1000
Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.
Openness
914
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.
Community Support
634
/1000
Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.
Community Recognition
0
/1000
Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.
Transference
551
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.
Fundraising
0
/1000
Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.
All indicators
Performance
Activity
Reflects an author's research output.
| Documents | 460 | Count of all document types. |
|---|---|---|
| Docs/Year | 13.53 | Average of documents published by author per year. |
| Citable docs | 439 | Count of journal articles, proceeding papers and reviews. |
| Journal Articles | 419 | Documents published as articles in scientific journals usually peer-reviewed. |
| Conferences | 4 | Original article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium. |
| Reviews | 16 | Review papers authored by the researcher. |
| Patents | 0 | Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. |
| Theses | 0 | Document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings |
| Books | 1 | A whole monograph or the entire book. |
| Book Chapters | 0 | Complete chapter in a book or book series volume where the item is identified as a chapter by a heading or section indicator. |
| Datasets | 8 | Number of dataset where the author have contributed to the creation. |
| Editorials | 2 | Papers where the author contributed editorial content. |
| Reports | 1 | Research reports or white papers authored. |
| Grants | 0 | Research projects funded through external grants awarded to the author. |
| Pre-Prints | 0 | Number of publications freely available in pre-print format. |
| Clinical Trials | N/A | Number of clinical trials where the author has participated. |
| Other types | 0 | Other type of documents. |
Impact
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
| Citations | 33082 | Total number of citations to all the publications attributed to the author (all types). |
|---|---|---|
| Self Citations | 2209 | Citations where the author references their own previous work. |
| Self Citation Rate | 6.677 | Percentage of self-citations in the author's total citation count. |
| Non Self Citation Rate | 93.32300000000001 | Percentage of citations received from sources that are not self-citations. |
| Hot Citations | 415 | Total number of citations recieved in the last 6 months. |
| Citations/Document | 71.92 | Average of citations recieved per document. |
| % Not Cited | 0.0 | Percentage of documents with no citations recieved. |
| Relative Citation Index | 2.614 | Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and discipline. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications. |
| Journal Relative Citation Index | 1.39 | Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and journal. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications. |
| H Index | 95 | Maximum value of h such that the given author has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times. |
| G Index | 168 | Maximum value of g such that the given author has published at least g papers that have each been cited at least g^2 times. |
| i10 Index | 330 | Number of documents with at least 10 citations recieved. |
Excellence
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
| Citation Score | 0.678 | Ratio between 0 and 1 being 0 corresponding to the citation percentile being 0 the 0th and 1 the 100th. |
|---|---|---|
| Citation Normalized Percentile | 0.683 | Citation percentile normalized to 1 (0 worst, 1 best) of the position in citations rankin within the field. Provided by OpenAlex. |
| Higly Cited Papers (top 10%) | 132 | Count of publications falling on or above the 90th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Relative Higly Cited Papers | 2.87 | Quotient between the real number of Highly Cited Papers (HCP) and expected number of HCP's that is the 10% of total documents. |
| Outstanding Papers (top 1%) | 13 | Count of publications falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Relative Outstanding Papers | 2.826 | Quotient between the real number of Outstanding Papers (OP) and expected number of OP's that is the 1% of total documents. |
| Outstanding Papers (top 0.1%) | 0 | Count of publications falling on or above the 99.9th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Hot Papers | 5 | Using only the citations recieved in the last 6 months: documents falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
Interaction within community
Leadership
Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.
| Docs Leadership | 327 | Number of documents lead by the author. |
|---|---|---|
| % Leadership | 71.09 | Percentage of documents lead by the author. |
| Docs International Leadership | 67 | Number of documents in international collaboration lead by the author. |
| % International Leadership | 14.57 | Percentage of documents in international collaboration lead by the author. |
| Principal Investigator | 0 | Number of times where the author served as the lead researcher in a project. |
| Associations Founded | 0 | Number of associations founded by the author. |
| Societies Founded | 0 | Number of scientific or professional societies established by the author. |
| Foundations Founded | 0 | Number of research-related foundations established by the author. |
| Councils | 0 | Number of councils founded by author. |
Cooperation
Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.
| Authors/Paper | 5.62 | Average number of authors per document. |
|---|---|---|
| % Highly Authored Papers | 0.0 | Percentage of documents with 25 or more authors. |
| Countries/Paper | 0.98 | Average number of different countries in the author's affiliation line per document. |
| Docs International Collaboration | 83 | Number of documents reporting two or more different countries in the author's affiliation line. |
| % International Collaboration | 18.04 | Percentage of documents reporting two or more diffetent countries in the author's affiliation line. |
Community Support
Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.
| Peer Review Counts | 12 | Number of times the author peer-reviewed publications. |
|---|---|---|
| Society Membership | 0 | Number of societies of wich the author is a member. |
| Society Memberships | 0 | Memberships held by the author in scientific or professional societies. |
| Editorial Board Memberships | 0 | Number of journals where the author has been member of editorial board. |
| Panelists | 0 | Number of times the author have been a panelist in the European Research Council (ERC) calls. |
Community Recognition
Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.
| Distinctions | 0 | Number of times the author have recieved a distinction for its career. |
|---|---|---|
| Invitations | 0 | Number of times the author has been invited to talks, professorships, expositions or demonstrations. |
| Talks | 0 | Number of times the author has been invited to talks. |
| Professorships | 0 | Number of times the author has been invited to professorhips. |
| Commissioned Reports | 0 | Commissioned reports done by the author. |
Interaction with society
Openness
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.
| Open Access Documents | 140 | Number of documents in Open Access mode. |
|---|---|---|
| % Open Access Documents | 30.43 | Percentage of documents in Open Access mode. |
| Open Access Gold | 10 | Number of documents published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ. |
| Open Access Green | 86 | Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository. |
| Open Access Hybrid | 14 | Free under an open license in a toll-access journal. |
| Open Access Bronze | 28 | Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license. |
| Open Access Closed | 320 | Non Open Access documents. |
Transference
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.
| Patents | 0 | Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. |
|---|---|---|
| Advisory Boards | 0 | Number of advisory boards of which the author is member. |
| Companies | 0 | Number of companies created or founded by the author. |
Fundraising
Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.
| Funding Counts | 0 | Number of activities reported as funding recieved. |
|---|---|---|
| ERC Grantees | 0 | Researchers awarded grants from the European Research Council. |