2026 Klaus Kern: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	131	325	311	17	16	771	66959

Klaus Kern publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Klaus Kern sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 771 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Klaus Kern D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

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

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 131 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Klaus Kern is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple scientific fields, with a primary focus on Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, and Materials Science. Within these broad disciplines, their work delves deeper into specialized subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Materials Chemistry; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; and Condensed Matter Physics.

The scientist's main research topics cover:

Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
Quantum and electron transport phenomena
Graphene research and applications
Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
2D Materials and Applications

Klaus Kern has authored several recent papers, reflecting current areas of interest and collaboration. Some notable publications include:

"Imaging single glycans," 2020, published in Nature
"Light-matter interaction at atomic scales," 2021, published in Nature Reviews Physics
"Exploring the Molecular Conformation Space by Soft Molecule-Surface Collision," 2020, published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
"Direct observation of glycans bonded to proteins and lipids at the single-molecule level," 2023, published in Science
"Real-space subfemtosecond imaging of quantum electronic coherences in molecules," 2021, published in Nature Photonics

Their frequent coauthors include:

Stephan Rauschenbach
Klaus Kuhnke
Abhishek Grewal
Kelvin Anggara
Manish Garg

Klaus Kern often publishes in several scientific venues, with multiple publications recorded in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature Communications
ACS Nano
Nano Letters
Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces

Johannes V. Barth;Giovanni Costantini;Klaus Kern;Klaus Kern

2994
Citations
Electronic Transport Properties of Individual Chemically Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheets

Cristina Gómez-Navarro;R. Thomas Weitz;Alexander M. Bittner;Matteo Scolari

2908
Citations
Atomic Structure of Reduced Graphene Oxide

Cristina Gómez-Navarro;Jannik C. Meyer;Ravi S. Sundaram;Andrey Chuvilin

1368
Citations
Giant Magnetic Anisotropy of Single Cobalt Atoms and Nanoparticles

P. Gambardella;S. Rusponi;M. Veronese;S. S. Dhesi

1334
Citations
Scanning field emission from patterned carbon nanotube films

L. Nilsson;O. Groening;C. Emmenegger;O. Kuettel

1213
Citations
Elastic properties of chemically derived single graphene sheets.

Cristina Gómez-Navarro;Marko Burghard;Klaus Kern

1143
Citations
Ferromagnetism in one-dimensional monatomic metal chains.

P. Gambardella;A. Dallmeyer;K. Maiti;M. C. Malagoli

1076
Citations
Giant spin splitting through surface alloying.

Christian R. Ast;Christian R. Ast;Juergen Henk;Arthur Ernst;Luca Moreschini

998
Citations
Contact and edge effects in graphene devices

Eduardo J. H. Lee;Kannan Balasubramanian;Ralf Thomas Weitz;Marko Burghard

877
Citations
Self-organized growth of nanostructure arrays on strain-relief patterns

Harald Brune;Marcella Giovannini;Karsten Bromann;Klaus Kern

829
Citations
TiO2 anatase with a bandgap in the visible region.

Christian Dette;Miguel A. Perez-Osorio;Christopher S. Kley;Paul Punke

762
Citations
Steering molecular organization and host-guest interactions using two-dimensional nanoporous coordination systems.

Sebastian Stepanow;Magalí Lingenfelder;Alexandre Dmitriev;Hannes Spillmann

755
Citations
Building one- and two-dimensional nanostructures by diffusion-controlled aggregation at surfaces

Holger Röder;Elmar Hahn;Harald Brune;Jean-Pierre Bucher

611
Citations
Atomic Hole Doping of Graphene

Isabella Gierz;Christian Riedl;Ulrich Starke;Christian R. Ast

520
Citations
Long-range spatial self-organization in the adsorbate-induced restructuring of surfaces: Cu\{100\}-(2×1)O

Klaus Kern;Horst Niehus;Axel Schatz;Peter Zeppenfeld

502
Citations
Biotemplate Synthesis of 3-nm Nickel and Cobalt Nanowires

Mato Knez;Alexander M. Bittner;Fabian Boes;Christina Wege

500
Citations
Building Supramolecular Nanostructures at Surfaces by Hydrogen Bonding

Johannes V. Barth;Jens Weckesser;Chengzhi Cai;Peter Günter

468
Citations
Tuning the Field Emission Properties of Patterned Carbon Nanotube Films

J.-M. Bonard;N. Weiss;H. Kind;H. Kind;T. Stöckli

466
Citations
3D optical Yagi–Uda nanoantenna array

Daniel Dregely;Richard Taubert;Jens Dorfmüller;Ralf Vogelgesang

420
Citations
Controlled deposition of size-selected silver nanoclusters

Karsten Bromann;Christian Félix;Harald Brune;Wolfgang Harbich

420
Citations