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Reinhard Jahn

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Biology and Biochemistry
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
143
Citations
79407
World Ranking
237
National Ranking
16

Reinhard Jahn publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Reinhard Jahn sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 467 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Reinhard Jahn 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 Reinhard Jahn sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 143 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Reinhard Jahn is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on molecular biology, cell biology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Them research covers several main topics including lipid membrane structure and behavior, cellular transport and secretion, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, ATP synthase and ATPases research, mitochondrial function and pathology, force microscopy techniques and applications, and neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Recent publications include:

  • Local externalization of phosphatidylserine mediates developmental synaptic pruning by microglia, 2020, The EMBO Journal
  • Mechanisms of SNARE proteins in membrane fusion, 2023, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Vesicle Tethering on the Surface of Phase-Separated Active Zone Condensates, 2020, Molecular Cell
  • Hidden proteome of synaptic vesicles in the mammalian brain, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • An overview of the synaptic vesicle lipid composition, 2021, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Frequent co-authors include Marcelo Ganzella, Julia Preobraschenski, Agata Witkowska, Momchil Ninov, and Ángel Pérez-Lara.

Their work has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Methods in molecular biology

Reinhard Jahn has been recognized with membership in prominent scholarly organizations including the Academia Europaea and the National Academy of Sciences, both awarded in 2015.

Best Publications

  • SNAREs--engines for membrane fusion.

    Reinhard Jahn;Richard H. Scheller

  • Crystal structure of a SNARE complex involved in synaptic exocytosis at 2.4 Å resolution

    Sutton Rb;Fasshauer D;Jahn R;Brunger At

  • Molecular Anatomy of a Trafficking Organelle

    Shigeo Takamori;Matthew Holt;Katinka Stenius;Edward A. Lemke

  • Membrane Fusion and Exocytosis

    Reinhard Jahn;Thomas C. Südhof

  • Botulinum neurotoxin A selectively cleaves the synaptic protein SNAP-25

    Juan Blasi;Juan Blasi;Edwin R. Chapman;Egenhard Link;Thomas Binz

  • STED microscopy reveals that synaptotagmin remains clustered after synaptic vesicle exocytosis

    Katrin I. Willig;Silvio O. Rizzoli;Volker Westphal;Reinhard Jahn

  • Conserved structural features of the synaptic fusion complex: SNARE proteins reclassified as Q- and R-SNAREs

    D Fasshauer;R B Sutton;A T Brunger;R Jahn

  • Synaptotagmin: a calcium sensor on the synaptic vesicle surface

    Nils Brose;Alexander G. Petrenko;Thomas C. Südhof;Reinhard Jahn

  • A 38,000-dalton membrane protein (p38) present in synaptic vesicles.

    Reinhard Jahn;Werner Schiebler;Charles Ouimet;Paul Greengard

  • Molecular machines governing exocytosis of synaptic vesicles

    Reinhard Jahn;Dirk Fasshauer

  • Phospholipid binding by a synaptic vesicle protein homologous to the regulatory region of protein kinase C

    Mark S. Perin;Victor A. Fried;Gregory A. Mignery;Reinhard Jahn

  • Structure and Conformational Changes in NSF and Its Membrane Receptor Complexes Visualized by Quick-Freeze/Deep-Etch Electron Microscopy

    Phyllis I Hanson;Robyn Roth;Hiroshi Morisaki;Reinhard Jahn

  • Identification of a vesicular glutamate transporter that defines a glutamatergic phenotype in neurons.

    Shigeo Takamori;Jeong Seop Rhee;Christian Rosenmund;Reinhard Jahn

  • SynGO : An Evidence-Based, Expert-Curated Knowledge Base for the Synapse

    Frank Koopmans;Pim van Nierop;Maria Andres-Alonso;Andrea Byrnes

  • Video-Rate Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy Dissects Synaptic Vesicle Movement

    Volker Westphal;Silvio O. Rizzoli;Marcel A. Lauterbach;Dirk Kamin

  • Vesicle fusion from yeast to man.

    Susan Ferro-Novick;Reinhard Jahn

  • Protein p38: an integral membrane protein specific for small vesicles of neurons and neuroendocrine cells.

    F Navone;R Jahn;G Di Gioia;H Stukenbrok

  • SNAREs are concentrated in cholesterol-dependent clusters that define docking and fusion sites for exocytosis

    Thorsten Lang;Dieter Bruns;Dirk Wenzel;Dietmar Riedel

  • Proteins of synaptic vesicles involved in exocytosis and membrane recycling

    Thomas C. Südhof;Reinhard Jahn

  • Conserved structural features of the synaptic fusion complex: SNARE proteins reclassified as Q- and R-SNAREs (membrane fusionyneurotransmissionyclostridial neurotoxins)

    Dirk Fasshauer;R. Bryan Sutton;A Xel T. Brunger;Reinhard Jahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas C. Südhof
Thomas C. Südhof Stanford University
Dirk Fasshauer
Dirk Fasshauer University of Lausanne
Dietmar Riedel
Dietmar Riedel Max Planck Society
Edwin R. Chapman
Edwin R. Chapman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Henning Urlaub
Henning Urlaub University of Göttingen
Thomas Binz
Thomas Binz Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Johannes W. Hell
Johannes W. Hell University of California, Davis
Helmut Grubmüller
Helmut Grubmüller Max Planck Society
Nils Brose
Nils Brose Max Planck Society
Stefan W. Hell
Stefan W. Hell Max Planck Society

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