Chemical Engineering

Branch of science that applies physical sciences and life sciences together with applied mathematics and economics to produce, transform, transport, and properly use chemicals, materials and energy.

Also known as: process engineering, chemical process engineering

906.8K

Works (OpenAlex)

12.8M

Citations (OpenAlex)

Subfields

Counts: OpenAlex snapshot, March 2026. They cover every work OpenAlex has classified in this field, not only papers in our index.

Most-cited papers in Chemical Engineering

From our index (snapshot, October 2026): papers whose primary topic falls in this field, ranked by citation count. Counts that fail a plausibility check are left out.

Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

William L. Jorgensen, Jayaraman Chandrasekhar, Jeffry D. Madura, Roger Impey, Michael L. Klein

1983The Journal of Chemical Physics41,376 citations

Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Joseph R. Lakowicz

200618,768 citations

Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics

P. G. de Gennes, Thomas A. Witten

1980Physics Today9,338 citations

A convenient synthesis of acetylenes: catalytic substitutions of acetylenic hydrogen with bromoalkenes, iodoarenes and bromopyridines

Kenkichi Sonogashira, Yasuo Tohda, Nobue Hagihara

1975Tetrahedron Letters5,105 citations