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Frank-Gerrit Klärner

Frank-Gerrit Klärner

University of Duisburg-Essen
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
41
Citations
7037
World Ranking
17720
National Ranking
1284

Frank-Gerrit Klärner 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 Frank-Gerrit Klärner sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 226 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Frank-Gerrit Klärner 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 Frank-Gerrit Klärner sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Frank-Gerrit Klärner is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their research activity spans multiple areas within medicine and the biological sciences, with a particular focus on neurological disorders and molecular mechanisms relevant to disease.

The main fields of study pursued by Klärner include Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad categories, key subfields addressed are Physiology, Neurology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Pharmacology.

The topics most frequently covered in Klärner's work are:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods

Klärner has published in several scientific journals, with repeated contributions to:

  • Molecular Therapy
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell chemical biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Klärner include Thomas Schräder, Gal Bitan, Ibrar Siddique, Zizheng Li, and Ian Hurst.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Klärner are:

  • CLR01 protects dopaminergic neurons in vitro and in mouse models of Parkinson's disease, 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • The Amyloid Inhibitor CLR01 Relieves Autophagy and Ameliorates Neuropathology in a Severe Lysosomal Storage Disease, 2020, Molecular Therapy
  • The molecular tweezer CLR01 improves behavioral deficits and reduces tau pathology in P301S-tau transgenic mice, 2021, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm-forming functional amyloid by molecular tweezers, 2021, Cell chemical biology
  • Molecular Tweezers: Supramolecular Hosts with Broad-Spectrum Biological Applications, 2022, Pharmacological Reviews

Best Publications

  • Molecular tweezers and clips as synthetic receptors. Molecular recognition and dynamics in receptor-substrate complexes.

    Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Björn Kahlert

  • Lysine-Specific Molecular Tweezers Are Broad-Spectrum Inhibitors of Assembly and Toxicity of Amyloid Proteins

    Sharmistha Sinha;Dahabada H. J. Lopes;Zhenming Du;Eric S. Pang

  • A molecular tweezer for lysine and arginine.

    Michael Fokkens;Thomas Schrader;Frank-Gerrit Klärner

  • Aromatic interactions by molecular tweezers and clips in chemical and biological systems.

    Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Thomas Schrader

  • Molecular tweezers modulate 14-3-3 protein-protein interactions

    David Bier;Rolf Rose;Kenny Bravo-Rodriguez;Maria Bartel

  • Molecular Clip and Tweezer Introduce New Mechanisms of Enzyme Inhibition

    Peter Talbiersky;Frank Bastkowski;Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Thomas Schrader

  • A Novel "Molecular Tweezer" Inhibitor of α-Synuclein Neurotoxicity in Vitro and in Vivo

    Shubhangi Prabhudesai;Sharmistha Sinha;Aida Attar;Aswani Kotagiri

  • Molecular Tweezers for Lysine and Arginine – Powerful Inhibitors of Pathologic Protein Aggregation

    Thomas Schrader;Gal Bitan;Frank-Gerrit Klärner

  • Structure and Dynamics of the Host–Guest Complex of a Molecular Tweezer: Coupling Synthesis, Solid-State NMR, and Quantum-Chemical Calculations

    Steven P. Brown;Torsten Schaller;Uta P. Seelbach;Felix Koziol

  • Molecular Tweezer and Clip in Aqueous Solution: Unexpected Self-Assembly, Powerful Host−Guest Complex Formation, Quantum Chemical 1H NMR Shift Calculation

    Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Björn Kahlert;Anke Nellesen;Jan Zienau

  • Comparison of three amyloid assembly inhibitors: the sugar scyllo-inositol, the polyphenol epigallocatechin gallate, and the molecular tweezer CLR01.

    Sharmistha Sinha;Zhenming Du;Panchanan Maiti;Frank-Gerrit Klärner

  • About the Antiaromaticity of Planar Cyclooctatetraene I thank Jens Panitzky for the additional DFT calculations, and Professor Jay Siegel, La Jolla, CA, and Professor Otto Ermer, Cologne, for helpful comments.

    Frank-Gerrit Klärner

  • Molecular basis for preventing α-synuclein aggregation by a molecular tweezer.

    Srabasti Acharya;Brian M. Safaie;Piriya Wongkongkathep;Magdalena I. Ivanova

  • Protection of primary neurons and mouse brain from Alzheimer's pathology by molecular tweezers.

    Aida Attar;Cristian Ripoli;Elisa Riccardi;Panchanan Maiti

  • Modeling the Supramolecular Properties of Aliphatic-Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Convex-Concave Topology.

    Markus Kamieth;Frank-Gerrit Klärner;François Diederich

  • Molecular tweezers as synthetic receptors: molecular recognition of electron-deficient aromatic and aliphatic substrates.

    Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Ulrich Burkert;Markus Kamieth;Roland Boese

  • Modeling of Supramolecular Properties of Molecular Tweezers, Clips, and Bowls

    Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Jens Panitzky;Dorin Preda;Lawrence T. Scott

  • The Effect of Pressure on Organic Reactions

    Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Frank Wurche

  • Molecular Tweezers as Synthetic Receptors in Host—Guest Chemistry: Inclusion of Cyclohexane and Self‐Assembly of Aliphatic Side Chains

    Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Johannes Benkhoff;Roland Boese;Ulrich Burkert

  • Amyloid β-protein assembly: The effect of molecular tweezers CLR01 and CLR03.

    Xueyun Zheng;Deyu Liu;Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Thomas Schrader

  • Inversionsbarrieren Ortho,ortho′‐verbrückter Biphenyle

    Klaus Müllen;Willi Heinz;Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Wolfgang R. Roth

  • Synthesis and supramolecular structures of molecular clips

    Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Jens Panitzky;Dieter Bläser;Roland Boese

  • High pressure chemistry : synthetic, mechanistic, and supercritical applications

    Rudi van Eldik;Frank-Gerrit Klärner

  • Molecular Tweezer and Clip in Aqueous Solution: Unexpected Self-Assembly, Powerful Host-Guest Complex Formation, Quantum Chemical 1H NMR Shift Calculation [J. Am. Chem. Soc 2006, 128,4831-4841]

    Frank-Gerrit Klärner;Björn Kahlert;Anke Nellesen;Jan Zienau

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Schrader
Thomas Schrader University of Duisburg-Essen
Gal Bitan
Gal Bitan University of California, Los Angeles
Roland Boese
Roland Boese University of Duisburg-Essen
Fritz Vögtle
Fritz Vögtle University of Bonn
Paola Ceroni
Paola Ceroni University of Bologna
Dieter Bläser
Dieter Bläser University of Duisburg-Essen
Christian Ochsenfeld
Christian Ochsenfeld Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Joseph A. Loo
Joseph A. Loo University of California, Los Angeles
Vincenzo Balzani
Vincenzo Balzani University of Bologna
Waldemar Adam
Waldemar Adam University of Würzburg

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