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Lothar Schermelleh

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
14984
World Ranking
15412
National Ranking
1211

Lothar Schermelleh publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 100 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Lothar Schermelleh D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lothar Schermelleh sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Lothar Schermelleh is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Plant Science, Structural Biology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
  • Optical Coherence Tomography Applications

Among the recent papers involving Lothar Schermelleh are the following:

  • "Chromatin arranges in chains of mesoscale domains with nanoscale functional topography independent of cohesin," 2020, published in Science Advances
  • "Whole-body integration of gene expression and single-cell morphology," 2021, published in Cell
  • "Super-resolution microscopy: a brief history and new avenues," 2022, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Structured illumination microscopy with noise-controlled image reconstructions," 2021, published in Nature Methods
  • "Time-resolved structured illumination microscopy reveals key principles of Xist RNA spreading," 2021, published in Science

Frequent coauthors contributing to these works alongside Lothar Schermelleh include:

  • Roel Oldenkamp
  • David Miguel Susano Pinto
  • Kirti Prakash
  • Carlas Smith
  • Kim Nasmyth

Schermelleh's publications have been frequently featured in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell
  • Science
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Best Publications

  • A guide to super-resolution fluorescence microscopy

    Lothar Schermelleh;Rainer Heintzmann;Rainer Heintzmann;Heinrich Leonhardt

  • Subdiffraction Multicolor Imaging of the Nuclear Periphery with 3D Structured Illumination Microscopy

    Lothar Schermelleh;Peter M. Carlton;Sebastian Haase;Lin Shao

  • Super-resolution microscopy demystified

    L Schermelleh;A Ferrand;T Huser;C Eggeling

  • Targeting and tracing antigens in live cells with fluorescent nanobodies

    Ulrich Rothbauer;Kourosh Zolghadr;Sergey Tillib;Danny Nowak

  • Cortical Constriction During Abscission Involves Helices of ESCRT-III–Dependent Filaments

    Julien Guizetti;Julien Guizetti;Lothar Schermelleh;Jana Mäntler;Sandra Maar

  • Recruitment of DNA methyltransferase I to DNA repair sites.

    Oliver Mortusewicz;Lothar Schermelleh;Joachim Walter;M. Cristina Cardoso

  • Chromosome order in HeLa cells changes during mitosis and early G1, but is stably maintained during subsequent interphase stages

    Joachim Walter;Lothar Schermelleh;Marion Cremer;Satoshi Tashiro

  • 3D-structured illumination microscopy provides novel insight into architecture of human centrosomes.

    Katharina F. Sonnen;Lothar Schermelleh;Lothar Schermelleh;Heinrich Leonhardt;Erich A. Nigg

  • Targeting polycomb to pericentric heterochromatin in embryonic stem cells reveals a role for H2AK119u1 in PRC2 recruitment.

    Sarah Cooper;Martin Dienstbier;Raihann Hassan;Lothar Schermelleh

  • Spatial Preservation of Nuclear Chromatin Architecture during Three-Dimensional Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization (3D-FISH)

    Irina Solovei;Antonio Cavallo;Lothar Schermelleh;Françoise Jaunin

  • Chromatin domains and the interchromatin compartment form structurally defined and functionally interacting nuclear networks

    Heiner Albiez;Marion Cremer;Cinzia Tiberi;Lorella Vecchio

  • Strategic and practical guidelines for successful structured illumination microscopy

    Justin Demmerle;Cassandravictoria Innocent;Alison J North;Graeme Ball

  • Dynamics of Dnmt1 interaction with the replication machinery and its role in postreplicative maintenance of DNA methylation.

    Lothar Schermelleh;Andrea Haemmer;Fabio Spada;Nicole Rösing

  • SIMcheck: a Toolbox for Successful Super-resolution Structured Illumination Microscopy.

    Graeme Ball;Justin Demmerle;Rainer Kaufmann;Rainer Kaufmann;Ilan Davis

  • A Pooled shRNA Screen Identifies Rbm15, Spen, and Wtap as Factors Required for Xist RNA-Mediated Silencing

    Benoit Moindrot;Andrea Cerase;Heather Coker;Osamu Masui

  • PCGF3/5–PRC1 initiates Polycomb recruitment in X chromosome inactivation

    Mafalda Almeida;Greta Pintacuda;Osamu Masui;Yoko Koseki

  • DNMT1 but not its interaction with the replication machinery is required for maintenance of DNA methylation in human cells.

    Fabio Spada;Andrea Haemmer;David Kuch;Ulrich Rothbauer

  • Replication-independent chromatin loading of Dnmt1 during G2 and M phases.

    Hariharan P Easwaran;Lothar Schermelleh;Heinrich Leonhardt;Heinrich Leonhardt;M Cristina Cardoso

  • The potential of 3D-FISH and super-resolution structured illumination microscopy for studies of 3D nuclear architecture

    Yolanda Markaki;Daniel Smeets;Susanne Fiedler;Volker J. Schmid

  • Three-dimensional super-resolution microscopy of the inactive X chromosome territory reveals a collapse of its active nuclear compartment harboring distinct Xist RNA foci

    Daniel Smeets;Daniel Smeets;Yolanda Markaki;Volker J Schmid;Felix Kraus;Felix Kraus

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinrich Leonhardt
Heinrich Leonhardt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thomas Cremer
Thomas Cremer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Neil Brockdorff
Neil Brockdorff University of Oxford
M. Cristina Cardoso
M. Cristina Cardoso Technical University of Darmstadt
Christoph Cremer
Christoph Cremer Heidelberg University
Volker Schmid
Volker Schmid Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Veronica J. Buckle
Veronica J. Buckle University of Oxford
Tatyana B. Nesterova
Tatyana B. Nesterova University of Oxford
Thomas Carell
Thomas Carell Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Elisabeth Kremmer
Elisabeth Kremmer Max Planck Society

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