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D-Index
60
Citations
11013
World Ranking
9855
National Ranking
710

Gerhard Pelzl 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 Gerhard Pelzl sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 257 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.

Gerhard Pelzl 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 Gerhard Pelzl 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: 60 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gerhard Pelzl is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Their academic profile reflects involvement in research connected to this institution.

No recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields of study, subfields of study, or main topics of work are listed in the provided data.

No awards or distinctions are mentioned for this scientist, and they are currently living.

Best Publications

  • Banana-Shaped Compounds—A New Field of Liquid Crystals

    Gerhard Pelzl;Siegmar Diele;Wolfgang Weissflog

  • Polarization-modulated smectic liquid crystal phases.

    D. A. Coleman;J. Fernsler;N. Chattham;M. Nakata

  • Influence of lateral substituents on the mesophase behaviour of banana-shaped mesogens

    Wolfgang Weissflog;Hajnalka Nádasi;Ulrike Dunemann;Gerhard Pelzl

  • Preliminary communication Helical superstructures in a novel smectic mesophase formed by achiral banana-shaped molecules

    G. Pelzl;S. Diele;A. Jákli;W. Weissflog

  • Chirality and Macroscopic Polar Order in a Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid-Crystalline Phase Formed by Achiral Polyphilic Bent-Core Molecules This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.

    Gert Dantlgraber;Alexei Eremin;Siegmar Diele;Anton Hauser

  • New variants of polymorphism in banana-shaped mesogens with cyano-substituted central core

    Ina Wirth;Siegmar Diele;Alexei Eremin;Gerhard Pelzl

  • Spontaneous chiral ordering in the nematic phase of an achiral banana-shaped compound

    G. Pelzl;A Eremin;S. Diele;H. Kresse

  • Experimental evidence for an achiral orthogonal biaxial smectic phase without in-plane order exhibiting antiferroelectric switching behavior.

    A. Eremin;S. Diele;G. Pelzl;H. Nádasi

  • Ferroelectric liquid crystals

    Bak G. Yong;Barth Petra;Demus Dietrich;Joachimi Detlev

  • Designing banana-shaped liquid crystals without Schiff's base units: m-terphenyls, 2,6-diphenylpyridines and V-shaped tolane derivatives

    Dong Shen;Siegmar Diele;Gerhard Pelzl;Ina Wirth

  • News on Nematic-Biaxial Liquid Crystals1

    K. Praefcke;K. Praefcke;B. Kohne;B. Kohne;B. Gündogan;B. Gündogan;D. Singer;D. Singer

  • Carbohydrate Rod Conjugates: Ternary Rod−Coil Molecules Forming Complex Liquid Crystal Structures

    Bin Chen;Ute Baumeister;Gerhard Pelzl;Malay Kumar Das

  • Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric “banana phases” of new fluorinated five-ring bent-core mesogens

    Hajnalka Nádasi;Wolfgang Weissflog;Alexey Eremin;Gerhard Pelzl

  • Chirality and macroscopic polar order in a ferroelectric smectic liquid-crystalline phase formed by achiral polyphilic bent-core molecules.

    Gert Dantlgraber;Alexei Eremin;Siegmar Diele;Anton Hauser

  • Relationships between molecular structure and physical properties in bent-core mesogens.

    Wolfgang Weissflog;H.N Shreenivasa Murthy;Siegmar Diele;Gerhard Pelzl

  • Chiral ordering in the nematic and an optically isotropic mesophase of bent-core mesogens with a halogen substituent at the central core

    Wolfgang Weissflog;Siegmar Sokolowski;Heinz Dehne;Banani Das

  • Evidence for the Existence of the McMillan Phase in a Binary System of a Metallomesogen and 2,4,7‐Trinitrofluorenone

    Torsten Hegmann;Jens Kain;Siegmar Diele;Gerhard Pelzl

  • Structure and properties of liquid crystalline phases formed by achiral banana-shaped molecules

    S. Diele;S. Grande;H. Kruth;Ch. Lischka

  • Different nematic phases and a switchable SmCP phase formed by homologues of a new class of asymmetric bent-core mesogens

    Martin W. Schröder;Siegmar Diele;Gerhard Pelzl;Ulrike Dunemann

  • Unusual mesomorphic behaviour of new bent‐core mesogens derived from 4‐cyanoresorcinol

    Laura Kovalenko;Martin W. Schröder;R. Amaranatha Reddy;Siegmar Diele

Frequent Co-Authors

Siegmar Diele
Siegmar Diele Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Wolfgang Weissflog
Wolfgang Weissflog Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ute Baumeister
Ute Baumeister Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Carsten Tschierske
Carsten Tschierske Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Antal Jakli
Antal Jakli Kent State University
Christian Slugovc
Christian Slugovc Graz University of Technology
Noel A. Clark
Noel A. Clark University of Colorado Boulder
Cyrille Boyer
Cyrille Boyer University of New South Wales
Goran Ungar
Goran Ungar Xi'an Jiaotong University
Egbert Zojer
Egbert Zojer Graz University of Technology

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