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D-Index
77
Citations
16867
World Ranking
4137
National Ranking
310

Gernot Renger 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 Gernot Renger sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 325 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gernot Renger 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 Gernot Renger sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gernot Renger was affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. Their research spanned multiple fields, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as neuroscience and physics and astronomy.

Their work encompassed the following main fields of study:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Neuroscience
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these fields, Renger contributed to specific subfields including:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

The scientist's research topics covered areas such as:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies

Gernot Renger's publication record features recent papers published in notable scientific venues. Among these was a paper titled Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting (Antenna) Complexes-Structures and Functions, published in 2021 in the journal Molecules. This paper has been cited over 100 times, indicating a substantial impact within its field.

Frequent collaborators included:

  • Heiko Lokstein
  • Jan P. Götze

Their scientific output was primarily published in the journal Molecules, which hosted at least one of their papers.

Best Publications

  • Manganese Compounds as Water-Oxidizing Catalysts: From the Natural Water-Oxidizing Complex to Nanosized Manganese Oxide Structures

    Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour;Gernot Renger;Małgorzata Hołyńska;Atefeh Nemati Moghaddam

  • ON THE MECHANISM OF PHOTOSYSTEM II DETERIORATION BY UV-B IRRADIATION

    G. Renger;M. Völker;H. J. Eckert;R. Fromme

  • Photosystem II: The machinery of photosynthetic water splitting

    Gernot Renger;Thomas Renger

  • Reactive oxygen species: re-evaluation of generation, monitoring and role in stress-signaling in phototrophic organisms.

    Franz Josef Schmitt;Gernot Renger;Thomas Friedrich;Vladimir D. Kreslavski

  • Action of UV‐B radiation on photosynthetic primary reactions in spinach chloroplasts

    W. Iwanzik;M. Tevini;G. Dohnt;M. Voss

  • A Null Mutant of Synechococcus sp. PCC7942 Deficient in the Sulfolipid Sulfoquinovosyl Diacylglycerol

    Sinan Güler;Angela Seeliger;Heiko Härtel;Gernot Renger

  • The reduction of the oxygen-evolving system in chloroplasts by thylakoid components

    Wim F.J. Vermaas;Gernot Renger;Gerhard Dohnt

  • Studies on the structural and functional organization of system II of photosynthesis. The use of trypsin as a structurally selective inhibitor at the outer surface of the thylakoid membrane

    G. Renger

  • Mechanism of light induced water splitting in Photosystem II of oxygen evolving photosynthetic organisms.

    Gernot Renger

  • Biological Exploitation of Solar Energy by Photosynthetic Water Splitting

    Gernot Renger

  • Photosystem II: Structure and mechanism of the water:plastoquinone oxidoreductase

    Jan Kern;Gernot Renger

  • The action of 2-anilinothiophenes as accelerators of the deactivation reactions in the watersplitting enzyme system of photosynthesis

    Gernot Renger

  • The PSII-S protein of higher plants: a new type of pigment-binding protein.

    C Funk;W P Schröder;A Napiwotzki;S E Tjus

  • The photoproduction of superoxide radicals and the superoxide dismutase activity of Photosystem II. The possible involvement of cytochrome b559

    Gennady Ananyev;Gernot Renger;Ulrich Wacker;Vyacheslav Klimov

  • Thermoluminescence as a probe of photosystem II: the redox and protonation states of the secondary acceptor quinone and the O2-evolving enzyme

    A.W. Rutherford;G. Renger;H. Koike;Y. Inoue

  • Properties of the photoactive chlorophyll-aII in photosynthesis.

    G. Döring;G. Renger;J. Vater;H. T. Witt

  • Two sites of photoinhibition of the electron transfer in oxygen evolving and Tris-treated PS II membrane fragments from spinach.

    H. J. Eckert;B. Geiken;J. Bernarding;A. Napiwotzki

  • Coupling of electron and proton transfer in oxidative water cleavage in photosynthesis.

    G. Renger

  • Ultrafast excitation energy transfer and exciton-exciton annihilation processes in isolated light harvesting complexes of photosystem II (LHC II) from spinach

    Thomas Bittner;Klaus-Dieter Irrgang;Gernot Renger;Michael R. Wasielewski

  • Functional and structural analysis of photosystem II core complexes from spinach with high oxygen evolution capacity.

    Elisabeth Haag;Klaus-D. Irrgang;Egbert J. Boekema;Gernot Renger

  • Effect of trypsin on PS-II particles. Correlation between Hill-activity, Mn-abundance and peptide pattern

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  • Practical Applications of Fluorometric Methods to Algae and Higher Plant Research

    Gernot Renger;Ulrich Schreiber

Frequent Co-Authors

Vyacheslav V. Klimov
Vyacheslav V. Klimov Russian Academy of Sciences
Wim F. J. Vermaas
Wim F. J. Vermaas Arizona State University
Wolfgang Lubitz
Wolfgang Lubitz Max Planck Society
Johannes Messinger
Johannes Messinger Umeå University
Vladimir A. Shuvalov
Vladimir A. Shuvalov Russian Academy of Sciences
Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev
Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev Russian Academy of Sciences
Govindjee
Govindjee University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Julian J. Eaton-Rye
Julian J. Eaton-Rye University of Otago
Peter Dörmann
Peter Dörmann University of Bonn

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