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Michael Schmittel

Michael Schmittel

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
15019
World Ranking
7303
National Ranking
523

Michael Schmittel 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 Michael Schmittel sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 409 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Schmittel 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 Michael Schmittel sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael Schmittel is affiliated with the University of Siegen in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and materials science. Their research output includes 52 publications in chemistry and 42 in materials science, with a significant focus on subfields such as organic chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and spectroscopy.

The scientist's work primarily revolves around topics including supramolecular chemistry and complexes, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, molecular sensors and ion detection, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, surface chemistry and catalysis, and chemical synthesis and analysis.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Chemical Communications
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Amit Ghosh
  • Sohom Kundu
  • Indrajit Paul
  • Debabrata Mondal
  • Emad Elramadi

Some recent papers authored by Michael Schmittel are:

  • "Multitasking with Chemical Fuel: Dissipative Formation of a Pseudorotaxane Rotor from Five Distinct Components" (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Reversible Multicomponent AND Gate Triggered by Stoichiometric Chemical Pulses Commands the Self-Assembly and Actuation of Catalytic Machinery" (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Double Rotors with Fluxional Axles: Domino Rotation and Azide-Alkyne Huisgen Cycloaddition Catalysis" (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Evolution of adsorption heights in the on-surface synthesis and decoupling of covalent organic networks on Ag(111) by normal-incidence X-ray standing wave" (2021), Nanoscale Horizons
  • "Off-Equilibrium Speed Control of a Multistage Molecular Rotor: 2-Fold Chemical Fueling by Acid or Silver(I)" (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Understanding Reactivity Patterns of Radical Cations

    Michael Schmittel;Armin Burghart

  • Metal-coordination-driven dynamic heteroleptic architectures.

    Soumen De;Kingsuk Mahata;Michael Schmittel

  • Quadruple-channel sensing: a molecular sensor with a single type of receptor site for selective and quantitative multi-ion analysis.

    Michael Schmittel;Heng-Wei Lin

  • Reversible Phase Transitions in Self-Assembled Monolayers at the Liquid−Solid Interface: Temperature-Controlled Opening and Closing of Nanopores

    Rico Gutzler;Thomas Sirtl;Jürgen F. Dienstmaier;Kingsuk Mahata

  • Stable mixed phenanthroline copper(i) complexes. Key building blocks for supramolecular coordination chemistry

    Michael Schmittel;Andrea Ganz

  • Solvent induced polymorphism in supramolecular 1,3,5-benzenetribenzoic acid monolayers.

    Lorenz Kampschulte;Markus Lackinger;Anne-Kathrin Maier;Ravuri S. K. Kishore

  • Luminescent Iridium Phenanthroline Crown Ether Complex for the Detection of Silver(I) Ions in Aqueous Media

    Michael Schmittel;Hengwei Lin

  • On-surface Ullmann coupling: the influence of kinetic reaction parameters on the morphology and quality of covalent networks.

    Johanna Eichhorn;Damian Nieckarz;Oliver Ochs;Oliver Ochs;Debabrata Samanta

  • Degree of molecular self-sorting in multicomponent systems

    Manik Lal Saha;Michael Schmittel

  • In Vitro Studies of Ferritin Iron Release and Neurotoxicity

    K. L. Double;M. Maywald;M. Schmittel;P. Riederer

  • Thermodynamical Equilibrium of Binary Supramolecular Networks at the Liquid-Solid Interface

    Lorenz Kampschulte;Tova L. Werblowsky;Ravuri S. K. Kishore;Michael Schmittel

  • Orthogonality in discrete self-assembly – survey of current concepts

    Manik Lal Saha;Soumen De;Susnata Pramanik;Michael Schmittel

  • On-surface Ullmann polymerization via intermediate organometallic networks on Ag(111)

    Johanna Eichhorn;Thomas Strunskus;Atena Rastgoo-Lahrood;Debabrata Samanta

  • (Nano)mechanical Motion Triggered by Metal Coordination: from Functional Devices to Networked Multicomponent Catalytic Machinery

    Abir Goswami;Suchismita Saha;Pronay Kumar Biswas;Michael Schmittel

  • Switching from the Myers reaction to a new thermal cyclization mode in enyne-allenes

    Michael Schmittel;Marc Strittmatter;Susanne Kiau

  • From 2-fold completive to integrative self-sorting: a five-component supramolecular trapezoid.

    Kingsuk Mahata;Michael Schmittel

  • Design strategies for lab-on-a-molecule probes and orthogonal sensing.

    Kun Chen;Qinghai Shu;Michael Schmittel

  • A Molecular Diode with a Statistically Robust Rectification Ratio of Three Orders of Magnitude.

    Li Yuan;Rochus Breuer;Li Jiang;Michael Schmittel

  • Intramolecular formal Diels-Alder reaction in enyne allenes. A new synthetic route to benzofluorenes and indeno[1,2-g]quinolines☆

    Michael Schmittel;Marc Strittmatter;Karl Vollmann;Susanne Kiau

  • From an Eight-Component Self-Sorting Algorithm to a Trisheterometallic Scalene Triangle

    Kingsuk Mahata;Manik Lal Saha;Michael Schmittel

  • Novel Phenanthroline Ligands and Their Kinetically Locked Copper(I) Complexes with Unexpected Photophysical Properties

    Venkateshwarlu Kalsani;Michael Schmittel;Andrea Listorti;Gianluca Accorsi

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Lackinger
Markus Lackinger Technical University of Munich
Jan W. Bats
Jan W. Bats Goethe University Frankfurt
Wolfgang M. Heckl
Wolfgang M. Heckl Deutsches Museum
Bernd Engels
Bernd Engels University of Würzburg
Dieter Fenske
Dieter Fenske Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thomas Strunskus
Thomas Strunskus Kiel University
Johann Lex
Johann Lex University of Cologne
Karsten Reuter
Karsten Reuter Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Helmut Werner
Helmut Werner University of Würzburg
Markus Herderich
Markus Herderich Australian Wine Research Institute

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