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D-Index
53
Citations
13246
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12927
National Ranking
956

Birger Dittrich publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Birger Dittrich sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 254 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Birger Dittrich D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Birger Dittrich sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Birger Dittrich is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with significant contributions to subfields including Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of their work cover areas such as X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, Crystallography and molecular interactions, Enzyme Structure and Function, Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds, Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, and Machine Learning in Materials Science.

Birger Dittrich has published extensively, with notable frequent publication venues including The Cambridge Structural Database, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B, IUCrJ, CrystEngComm, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Their contributions to The Cambridge Structural Database alone amount to 41 publications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Birger Dittrich include:

  • Linking solid-state phenomena via energy differences in `archetype crystal structures', 2024, IUCrJ
  • Photochemical C(sp)-C(sp2) Bond Activation in Phosphaalkynes: A New Route to Reactive Terminal Cyaphido Complexes LnM-C≡P, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • On modelling disordered crystal structures through restraints from molecule-in-cluster computations, and distinguishing static and dynamic disorder, 2021, IUCrJ
  • Fast energy minimization of the CCDC drug-subset structures by molecule-in-cluster computations allows independent structure validation and model completion, 2020, CrystEngComm
  • Disappearing disorder, 2020, CrystEngComm

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several colleagues, including Christoph Sever, Jens Lübben, Tim Görlich, Daniel S. Frost, and Nico Boback.

Best Publications

  • ShelXle: a Qt graphical user interface for SHELXL

    Christian B. Hübschle;George M. Sheldrick;Birger Dittrich

  • Hirshfeld atom refinement

    Silvia C. Capelli;Hans-Beat Bürgi;Hans-Beat Bürgi;Birger Dittrich;Birger Dittrich;Simon Grabowsky

  • Enhanced rigid-bond restraints

    Andrea Thorn;Birger Dittrich;George M. Sheldrick

  • Plasmonic twinned silver nanoparticles with molecular precision

    Huayan Yang;Yu Wang;Xi Chen;Xiaojing Zhao

  • Geometric Complementarity in Assembly and Guest Recognition of a Bent Heteroleptic cis-[Pd2LA2LB2] Coordination Cage.

    Witold M. Bloch;Yoko Abe;Julian J. Holstein;Claudia M. Wandtke

  • X-ray structure refinement using aspherical atomic density functions obtained from quantum-mechanical calculations.

    Dylan Jayatilaka;Birger Dittrich

  • Stepwise Halide-Triggered Double and Triple Catenation of Self-Assembled Coordination Cages

    Rongmei Zhu;Jens Lübben;Birger Dittrich;Guido H. Clever

  • A simple approach to nonspherical electron densities by using invarioms.

    Birger Dittrich;Tibor Koritsánszky;Peter Luger

  • Triggered exchange of anionic for neutral guests inside a cationic coordination cage.

    Susanne Löffler;Jens Lübben;Lennard Krause;Dietmar Stalke

  • Intra- and intermolecular topological properties of amino acids: a comparative study of experimental and theoretical results.

    R. Flaig;T. Koritsanszky;B. Dittrich;and A. Wagner

  • MoleCoolQt - a molecule viewer for charge-density research

    Christian B. Hübschle;Birger Dittrich

  • The invariom model and its application: refinement of D,L-serine at different temperatures and resolution

    B. Dittrich;C. B. Hübschle;M. Messerschmidt;R. Kalinowski

  • Quantum Crystallography: Current Developments and Future Perspectives

    Alessandro Genoni;Lukas Bučinský;Nicolas Claiser;Julia Contreras-García

  • Introduction and validation of an invariom database for amino-acid, peptide and protein molecules.

    B. Dittrich;C.B. Hubschle;P. Luger;Mark Spackman

  • The generalized invariom database (GID)

    B. Dittrich;C. B. Hübschle;K. Pröpper;F. Dietrich

  • C4 Cumulene and the Corresponding Air‐Stable Radical Cation and Dication

    Yan Li;Kartik Chandra Mondal;Prinson P. Samuel;Hongping Zhu

  • Synthesis of [n,5]-spiroketals by ring enlargement of donor-acceptor-substituted cyclopropane derivatives.

    Christian Brand;Gesche Rauch;Michele Zanoni;Birger Dittrich

  • Epicoccolides: antimicrobial and antifungal polyketides from an endophytic fungus Epicoccum sp. associated with Theobroma cacao

    F. M. Talontsi;B. Dittrich;A. Schuffler;H. Sun

  • Crystal structures with a challenge: high-pressure crystallisation of ciprofloxacin sodium salts and their recovery to ambient pressure

    Francesca P. A. Fabbiani;Birger Dittrich;Alastair J. Florence;Thomas Gelbrich

  • Automation of invariom and of experimental charge density modelling of organic molecules with the preprocessor program InvariomTool

    C.B. Hübschle;P. Luger;B. Dittrich

  • Co-crystallization of atomically precise metal nanoparticles driven by magic atomic and electronic shells

    Juanzhu Yan;Sami Malola;Chengyi Hu;Jian Peng

  • From Furan to Molecular Stairs: Syntheses, Structural Properties, and Theoretical Investigations of Oligocyclic Oligoacetals

    Tobias F. Schneider;Johannes Kaschel;Shahid I. Awan;Birger Dittrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Luger
Peter Luger Freie Universität Berlin
Herbert W. Roesky
Herbert W. Roesky University of Göttingen
Hartmut Laatsch
Hartmut Laatsch University of Göttingen
Gernot Frenking
Gernot Frenking Philipp University of Marburg
Guido H. Clever
Guido H. Clever TU Dortmund University
Mark A. Spackman
Mark A. Spackman University of Western Australia
Dylan Jayatilaka
Dylan Jayatilaka University of Western Australia
George M. Sheldrick
George M. Sheldrick University of Göttingen
Wolfgang Kaim
Wolfgang Kaim University of Stuttgart
Dietmar Stalke
Dietmar Stalke University of Göttingen

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