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D-Index
84
Citations
27724
World Ranking
2791
National Ranking
207

Holger Dau 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 Holger Dau sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 290 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Holger Dau 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 Holger Dau sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Holger Dau is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and focuses on research at the intersection of materials science and chemistry.

Their work spans several key fields and subfields including:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology

Dau's research topics cover a range of areas with particular emphasis on energy-related catalytic processes and crystallographic methods. Main topics include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

The scientist has contributed to publications in multiple venues, with frequent appearances in the following journals and databases:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Nature Communications

Among their recent papers are:

  • Morphology and mechanism of highly selective Cu(II) oxide nanosheet catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Evolving Highly Active Oxidic Iron(III) Phase from Corrosion of Intermetallic Iron Silicide to Master Efficient Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation and Selective Oxygenation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Understanding the formation of bulk- and surface-active layered (oxy)hydroxides for water oxidation starting from a cobalt selenite precursor, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Detecting structural transformation of cobalt phosphonate to active bifunctional catalysts for electrochemical water-splitting, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • The electron-proton bottleneck of photosynthetic oxygen evolution, 2023, Nature

Holger Dau frequently collaborates with a network of co-authors, among whom are:

  • Stefan Mebs
  • Kallol Ray
  • Michael Haumann
  • Peter Hildebrandt
  • Uwe Kuhlmann

Best Publications

  • The Mechanism of Water Oxidation: From Electrolysis via Homogeneous to Biological Catalysis

    Holger Dau;Christian Limberg;Tobias Reier;Marcel Risch

  • Oxygen Evolution Reaction Dynamics, Faradaic Charge Efficiency, and the Active Metal Redox States of Ni–Fe Oxide Water Splitting Electrocatalysts

    Mikaela Görlin;Petko Chernev;Jorge Ferreira de Araújo;Tobias Reier

  • Reversible amorphization and the catalytically active state of crystalline Co3O4 during oxygen evolution

    Arno Bergmann;Elias Martinez-Moreno;Detre Teschner;Petko Chernev

  • A Janus cobalt-based catalytic material for electro-splitting of water

    Saioa Cobo;Jonathan Heidkamp;Pierre-André Jacques;Jennifer Fize

  • A fluorometric method for the differentiation of algal populations in vivo and in situ.

    M. Beutler;Karen Helen Wiltshire;Bettina Meyer;C. Moldaenke

  • Tracking Catalyst Redox States and Reaction Dynamics in Ni-Fe Oxyhydroxide Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts: The Role of Catalyst Support and Electrolyte pH.

    Mikaela Görlin;Mikaela Görlin;Jorge Ferreira de Araújo;Henrike Schmies;Denis Bernsmeier

  • Unified structural motifs of the catalytically active state of Co(oxyhydr)oxides during the electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction

    Arno Bergmann;Arno Bergmann;Travis E. Jones;Elias Martinez Moreno;Detre Teschner;Detre Teschner

  • Photosynthetic O2 Formation Tracked by Time-Resolved X-ray Experiments

    M. Haumann;P. Liebisch;C. Müller;M. Barra

  • A synthetic Mn4Ca-cluster mimicking the oxygen-evolving center of photosynthesis

    Chunxi Zhang;Changhui Chen;Hongxing Dong;Jian Ren Shen

  • Principles, efficiency, and blueprint character of solar-energy conversion in photosynthetic water oxidation.

    Holger Dau;Ivelina Zaharieva

  • Electrosynthesis, functional, and structural characterization of a water-oxidizing manganese oxide

    Ivelina Zaharieva;Petko Chernev;Marcel Risch;Katharina Klingan

  • The manganese complex of photosystem II in its reaction cycle—Basic framework and possible realization at the atomic level

    Holger Dau;Michael Haumann

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy to analyze nuclear geometry and electronic structure of biological metal centers—potential and questions examined with special focus on the tetra-nuclear manganese complex of oxygenic photosynthesis

    Holger Dau;Peter Liebisch;Michael Haumann

  • Structural and oxidation state changes of the photosystem II manganese complex in four transitions of the water oxidation cycle (S0 --> S1, S1 --> S2, S2 --> S3, and S3,4 --> S0) characterized by X-ray absorption spectroscopy at 20 K and room temperature.

    M Haumann;C Müller;P Liebisch;L Iuzzolino

  • MOLECULAR MECHANISMS AND QUANTITATIVE MODELS OF VARIABLE PHOTOSYSTEM II FLUORESCENCE

    Holger Dau

  • Water oxidation by amorphous cobalt-based oxides: in situ tracking of redox transitions and mode of catalysis

    Marcel Risch;Franziska Ringleb;Mike Kohlhoff;Peter Bogdanoff

  • Artificial photosynthesis as a frontier technology for energy sustainability

    Tom Faunce;Stenbjorn Styring;Michael R Wasielewski;Gary W Brudvig

  • Morphology and mechanism of highly selective Cu(II) oxide nanosheet catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction.

    Xingli Wang;Katharina Klingan;Malte Klingenhof;Tim Möller

  • Cobalt−Oxo Core of a Water-Oxidizing Catalyst Film

    M. Risch;V. Khare;I. Zaharieva;L. Gerencser

  • Synthetic manganese–calcium oxides mimic the water-oxidizing complex of photosynthesis functionally and structurally

    Ivelina Zaharieva;M. Mahdi Najafpour;M. Mahdi Najafpour;Mathias Wiechen;Michael Haumann

  • Layered manganese oxides for water-oxidation: alkaline earth cations influence catalytic activity in a photosystem II-like fashion

    Mathias Wiechen;Ivelina Zaharieva;Holger Dau;Philipp Kurz

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Haumann
Michael Haumann Freie Universität Berlin
Ivelina Zaharieva
Ivelina Zaharieva Freie Universität Berlin
Matthias Driess
Matthias Driess Technical University of Berlin
Peter Strasser
Peter Strasser Technical University of Berlin
Prashanth W. Menezes
Prashanth W. Menezes Technical University of Berlin
Kallol Ray
Kallol Ray Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour
Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences
Holger Dobbek
Holger Dobbek Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Wolfram Meyer-Klaucke
Wolfram Meyer-Klaucke University of Paderborn
Peter Hildebrandt
Peter Hildebrandt Technical University of Berlin

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