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Stefan Grimme

Stefan Grimme

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Chemistry
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
146
Citations
224868
World Ranking
155
National Ranking
15

Stefan Grimme 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 Stefan Grimme sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 784 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stefan Grimme 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 Stefan Grimme sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 146 D-Index — 99th percentile

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

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2018 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry

Overview

Stefan Grimme is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany. Their research spans diverse areas within the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a particular emphasis on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry.

The research topics they focus on include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Inorganic/Organometallic Compounds
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions

Several notable recent papers authored by Stefan Grimme or closely related to their research include:

  • Automated exploration of the low-energy chemical space with fast quantum chemical methods, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Extended tight-binding quantum chemistry methods, 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science
  • r2SCAN-3c: A "Swiss army knife" composite electronic-structure method, 2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Best-Practice DFT Protocols for Basic Molecular Computational Chemistry, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Robust and Efficient Implicit Solvation Model for Fast Semiempirical Methods, 2021, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Frequent co-authors in Stefan Grimme's work are:

  • Zheng-Wang Qu
  • Markus Bursch
  • Douglas W. Stephan
  • Andreas Hansen
  • Michael Bolte

The scientist's work is often published in the following venues, reflecting the specialized communities they engage with:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

In terms of recognition, Stefan Grimme was awarded membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2018 within the field of Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • A consistent and accurate ab initio parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu

    Stefan Grimme;Jens Antony;Stephan Ehrlich;Helge Krieg

  • Semiempirical GGA-type density functional constructed with a long-range dispersion correction.

    Stefan Grimme

  • Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory

    Stefan Grimme;Stephan Ehrlich;Lars Goerigk

  • Accurate description of van der Waals complexes by density functional theory including empirical corrections

    Stefan Grimme

  • GFN2-xTB-An Accurate and Broadly Parametrized Self-Consistent Tight-Binding Quantum Chemical Method with Multipole Electrostatics and Density-Dependent Dispersion Contributions.

    Christoph Bannwarth;Sebastian Ehlert;Stefan Grimme

  • Semiempirical hybrid density functional with perturbative second-order correlation

    Stefan Grimme

  • Density functional theory with London dispersion corrections

    Stefan Grimme

  • A thorough benchmark of density functional methods for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics, and noncovalent interactions

    Lars Goerigk;Stefan Grimme

  • Automated exploration of the low-energy chemical space with fast quantum chemical methods

    Philipp Pracht;Fabian Bohle;Stefan Grimme

  • Supramolecular Binding Thermodynamics by Dispersion-Corrected Density Functional Theory

    Stefan Grimme

  • Improved second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory by separate scaling of parallel- and antiparallel-spin pair correlation energies

    Stefan Grimme

  • A Robust and Accurate Tight-Binding Quantum Chemical Method for Structures, Vibrational Frequencies, and Noncovalent Interactions of Large Molecular Systems Parametrized for All spd-Block Elements (Z = 1–86)

    Stefan Grimme;Christoph Bannwarth;Philip Shushkov

  • A look at the density functional theory zoo with the advanced GMTKN55 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and noncovalent interactions

    Lars Goerigk;Andreas Hansen;Christoph Bauer;Stephan Ehrlich

  • Efficient and Accurate Double-Hybrid-Meta-GGA Density Functionals—Evaluation with the Extended GMTKN30 Database for General Main Group Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and Noncovalent Interactions

    Lars Goerigk;Stefan Grimme

  • A generally applicable atomic-charge dependent London dispersion correction

    Eike Caldeweyher;Sebastian Ehlert;Andreas Hansen;Hagen Neugebauer

  • Dispersion-Corrected Mean-Field Electronic Structure Methods.

    Stefan Grimme;Andreas Hansen;Jan Gerit Brandenburg;Christoph Bannwarth

  • Extended tight-binding quantum chemistry methods

    Christoph Bannwarth;Eike Caldeweyher;Sebastian Ehlert;Andreas Hansen

  • Extension of the D3 dispersion coefficient model

    Eike Caldeweyher;Christoph Bannwarth;Stefan Grimme

  • Do Special Noncovalent π–π Stacking Interactions Really Exist?

    Stefan Grimme

  • Software for the frontiers of quantum chemistry: An overview of developments in the Q-Chem 5 package

    Evgeny Epifanovsky;Andrew T.B. Gilbert;Andrew T.B. Gilbert;Xintian Feng;Xintian Feng;Joonho Lee

  • Double-hybrid density functionals with long-range dispersion corrections: higher accuracy and extended applicability

    Tobias Schwabe;Stefan Grimme

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Erker
Gerhard Erker University of Münster
Gerald Kehr
Gerald Kehr University of Münster
Roland Fröhlich
Roland Fröhlich University of Münster
Christian Mück-Lichtenfeld
Christian Mück-Lichtenfeld University of Münster
Constantin G. Daniliuc
Constantin G. Daniliuc University of Münster
Douglas W. Stephan
Douglas W. Stephan University of Toronto
Andreas Gansäuer
Andreas Gansäuer University of Bonn
Armido Studer
Armido Studer University of Münster
Hellmut Eckert
Hellmut Eckert Universidade de São Paulo
Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff
Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff University of Bonn

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