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An-Ping Zeng publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where An-Ping Zeng sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 353 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

An-Ping Zeng D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where An-Ping Zeng sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 76 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

An-Ping Zeng is affiliated with the Hamburg University of Technology in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains within biochemistry, molecular biology, and engineering, with a significant focus on topics related to microbial metabolic engineering, biofuel production, enzyme catalysis, and organic electronics.

The primary fields of study for An-Ping Zeng include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Engineering

The subfields of their work encompass:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Biochemistry
  • Materials Chemistry

Key topics An-Ping Zeng has contributed to involve:

  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Biochemical Acid Research Studies
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Among recent scientific papers, notable works include:

  • "Approaching 18% efficiency of ternary organic photovoltaics with wide bandgap polymer donor and well compatible Y6: Y6-1O as acceptor," 2020, National Science Review
  • "A highly crystalline non-fullerene acceptor enabling efficient indoor organic photovoltaics with high EQE and fill factor," 2021, Joule
  • "Deciphering the Role of Chalcogen-Containing Heterocycles in Nonfullerene Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells," 2020, ACS Energy Letters
  • "A Chlorinated Donor Polymer Achieving High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with a Wide Range of Polymer Molecular Weight," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Heteroheptacene-based acceptors with thieno[3,i,2-b]pyrrole yield high-performance polymer solar cells," 2022, National Science Review

Frequent collaborators in the research community include Jie Ren, Chijian Zhang, Chengwei Ma, Jinglei Nie, and He Yan.

An-Ping Zeng has published extensively in several scientific journals and venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Engineering in Life Sciences
  • Biotechnology and Bioengineering
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Chemie Ingenieur Technik

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including a title under Springer Science+Business Media: Biosurfactants for the Biobased Economy, published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the versatile cell factory Aspergillus niger CBS 513.88

    Herman J. Pel;Johannes H. De Winde;Johannes H. De Winde;David B. Archer;Paul S. Dyer

  • Microbial production of 1,3-propanediol.

    H. Biebl;K. Menzel;A.-P. Zeng;W.-D. Deckwer

  • Reconstruction of metabolic networks from genome data and analysis of their global structure for various organisms.

    Hongwu Ma;An Ping Zeng

  • Bulk chemicals from biotechnology: the case of 1,3-propanediol production and the new trends.

    An-Ping Zeng;Hanno Biebl

  • The connectivity structure, giant strong component and centrality of metabolic networks

    Hong-Wu Ma;An-Ping Zeng

  • Present state and perspective of downstream processing of biologically produced 1,3-propanediol and 2,3-butanediol

    Zhi-Long Xiu;An-Ping Zeng

  • Multiple product inhibition and growth modeling of clostridium butyricum and klebsiella pneumoniae in glycerol fermentation

    A.-P. Zeng;A. Ross;H. Biebl;C. Tag

  • Is autoinducer-2 a universal signal for interspecies communication: a comparative genomic and phylogenetic analysis of the synthesis and signal transduction pathways.

    Jibin Sun;Rolf Daniel;Irene Wagner-Döbler;An-Ping Zeng

  • High concentration and productivity of 1,3-propanediol from continuous fermentation of glycerol by Klebsiella pneumoniae

    K. Menzel;A.-P. Zeng;W.-D. Deckwer

  • Microbial production of diols as platform chemicals: recent progresses.

    An-Ping Zeng;Wael Sabra

  • Fermentation of glycerol to 1,3-propanediol and 2,3-butanediol by Klebsiella pneumoniae

    H. Biebl;A.-P. Zeng;K. Menzel;W.-D. Deckwer

  • An extended transcriptional regulatory network of Escherichia coli and analysis of its hierarchical structure and network motifs

    Hong Wu Ma;Bharani Kumar;Uta Ditges;Florian Gunzer

  • Effect of oxygen on formation and structure of Azotobacter vinelandii alginate and its role in protecting nitrogenase.

    W. Sabra;A.-P. Zeng;H. Lünsdorf;W.-D. Deckwer

  • Bacterial alginate: physiology, product quality and process aspects.

    W. Sabra;A.-P. Zeng;W.-D. Deckwer

  • A Kinetic Model for Substrate and Energy Consumption of Microbial Growth under Substrate-Sufficient Conditions

    A.-P. Zeng;W.-D. Deckwer

  • Hierarchical structure and modules in the Escherichia coli transcriptional regulatory network revealed by a new top-down approach

    Hong-Wu Ma;Jan Buer;An-Ping Zeng

  • Pathway analysis of glycerol fermentation by Klebsiella pneumoniae: Regulation of reducing equivalent balance and product formation

    A.-P. Zeng;H. Biebl;H. Schlieker;W.-D. Deckwer

  • Kinetic, dynamic, and pathway studies of glycerol metabolism by Klebsiella pneumoniae in anaerobic continuous culture: III. Enzymes and fluxes of glycerol dissimilation and 1,3-propanediol formation.

    K. Ahrens;K. Menzel;A.-P. Zeng;W.-D. Deckwer

  • A de novo NADPH generation pathway for improving lysine production of Corynebacterium glutamicum by rational design of the coenzyme specificity of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase.

    Rajesh Reddy Bommareddy;Zhen Chen;Sugima Rappert;An-Ping Zeng

  • Decomposition of metabolic network into functional modules based on the global connectivity structure of reaction graph

    Hong-Wu Ma;Xue-Ming Zhao;Ying-Jin Yuan;An-Ping Zeng

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolf-Dieter Deckwer
Wolf-Dieter Deckwer Technische Universität Braunschweig
Zhilong Xiu
Zhilong Xiu Dalian University of Technology
Seraphim Papanikolaou
Seraphim Papanikolaou Agricultural University of Athens
Udo Reichl
Udo Reichl Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Irene Wagner-Döbler
Irene Wagner-Döbler Technische Universität Braunschweig
Ying-Jin Yuan
Ying-Jin Yuan Tianjin University
Elmar Heinzle
Elmar Heinzle Saarland University
Jan Buer
Jan Buer University of Duisburg-Essen
Wei Shou Hu
Wei Shou Hu University of Minnesota
Rudi Balling
Rudi Balling University of Bonn

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