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D-Index
54
Citations
9210
World Ranking
12739
National Ranking
14

Tibor Kurtán 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 Tibor Kurtán sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 285 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tibor Kurtán 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 Tibor Kurtán sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tibor Kurtán is affiliated with the University of Debrecen in Hungary and has a research profile encompassing multiple areas within biochemistry, chemistry, and medicine. Their work emphasizes the intersection of microbial natural products, chemical synthesis, and molecular biology.

The scientist's primary fields of study include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, and Medicine. Subfields of particular focus are Pharmacology, Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, and Materials Chemistry.

Kurtán's research topics cover a breadth of areas such as:

  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products
  • Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
  • Molecular spectroscopy and chirality
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Fungal Biology and Applications

Their frequently published venues reflect the variety of research interests, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Natural Products
  • Molecules
  • Chirality
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Among recent publications, Kurtán has contributed to several papers, with titles, years, and venues as follows:

  • Alternarin A, a Drimane Meroterpenoid, Suppresses Neuronal Excitability from the Coral-Associated Fungi Alternaria sp. ZH-15, 2020, Organic Letters
  • Discovery and Biosynthesis of Antimicrobial Phenethylamine Alkaloids from the Marine Flavobacterium Tenacibaculum discolor sv11, 2022, Journal of Natural Products
  • Cladosins L-O, new hybrid polyketides from the endophytic fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum WBS017, 2020, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Study on the Synthesis, Antioxidant Properties, and Self-Assembly of Carotenoid-Flavonoid Conjugates, 2020, Molecules
  • Determination of the Absolute Configuration of Super-Carbon-Chain Compounds by a Combined Chemical, Spectroscopic, and Computational Approach: Gibbosols A and B, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Kurtán's research, with frequent co-authorship alongside:

  • Attila Mándi
  • Sándor Balázs Király
  • Attila Bényei
  • Attila Kiss-Szikszai
  • Rainer Kalscheuer

Best Publications

  • Chiral recognition by CD-sensitive dimeric zinc porphyrin host. 1. Chiroptical protocol for absolute configurational assignments of monoalcohols and primary monoamines.

    Tibor Kurtán;Nasri Nesnas;Yuan-Qiang Li;Xuefei Huang

  • Applications of OR/ECD/VCD to the structure elucidation of natural products

    Attila Mándi;Tibor Kurtán

  • New Mono‐ and Dimeric Members of the Secalonic Acid Family: Blennolides A–G Isolated from the Fungus Blennoria sp.

    Wen Zhang;Wen Zhang;Karsten Krohn;Zia‐Ullah;Ulrich Flörke

  • N-N-Coupled Indolo-sesquiterpene Atropo-Diastereomers from a Marine-Derived Actinomycete

    Qingbo Zhang;Attila Mándi;Sumei Li;Yuchan Chen

  • Chiral recognition by CD-sensitive dimeric zinc porphyrin host. 2. Structural studies of host-guest complexes with chiral alcohol and monoamine conjugates.

    Tibor Kurtán;Nasri Nesnas;Frank E. Koehn;Yuan-Qiang Li

  • Structure, Absolute Configuration, and Conformational Study of 12-Membered Macrolides from the Fungus Dendrodochium sp. Associated with the Sea Cucumber Holothuria nobilis Selenka

    Peng Sun;Dong Xiao Xu;Attila Mándi;Tibor Kurtán

  • Chiroptical properties of 2,3‐dihydrobenzo[b]furan and chromane chromophores in naturally occurring O‐heterocycles

    S. Antus;T. Kurtán;L. Juhász;L. Kiss

  • An enzymatic [4+2] cyclization cascade creates the pentacyclic core of pyrroindomycins.

    Zhenhua Tian;Peng Sun;Yan Yan;Zhuhua Wu

  • Determination of the absolute configurations of natural products via density functional theory calculations of vibrational circular dichroism, electronic circular dichroism, and optical rotation: the iridoids plumericin and isoplumericin.

    Stephens Pj;Pan Jj;Devlin Fj;Krohn K

  • Absolute structural elucidation of natural products--a focus on quantum-mechanical calculations of solid-state CD spectra.

    Gennaro Pescitelli;Tibor Kurtán;Ulrich Flörke;Karsten Krohn

  • Varioxepine A, a 3H-Oxepine-Containing Alkaloid with a New Oxa-Cage from the Marine Algal-Derived Endophytic Fungus Paecilomyces variotii

    Peng Zhang;Attila Mandi;Xiao Ming Li;Feng Yu Du

  • Pro-Apoptotic and Immunostimulatory Tetrahydroxanthone Dimers from the Endophytic Fungus Phomopsis longicolla

    David Rönsberg;Abdessamad Debbab;Attila Mándi;Vera Vasylyeva

  • Metabolites from the Endophytic Fungus Nodulisporium sp. from Juniperus cedre

    Jingqiu Dai;Karsten Krohn;Ulrich Flörke;Siegfried Draeger

  • Unprecedented diterpenoids as a PTP1B inhibitor from the Hainan soft coral Sarcophyton trocheliophorum Marenzeller.

    Lin-Fu Liang;Tibor Kurtán;Attila Mándi;Li-Gong Yao

  • Three Diketopiperazine Alkaloids with Spirocyclic Skeletons and One Bisthiodiketopiperazine Derivative from the Mangrove-Derived Endophytic Fungus Penicillium brocae MA-231

    Ling Hong Meng;Chen Yin Wang;Attila Mándi;Xiao Ming Li

  • Functional significance of five noncanonical Ca2+-binding sites of human transglutaminase 2 characterized by site-directed mutagenesis.

    Róbert Király;Róbert Király;Éva Csősz;Tibor Kurtán;Sándor Antus

  • Inducing secondary metabolite production by the endophytic fungus Chaetomium sp. through fungal–bacterial co-culture and epigenetic modification

    Sergi Herve Akone;Sergi Herve Akone;Attila Mándi;Tibor Kurtán;Rudolf Hartmann

  • Xanthones and Oxepino[2, 3-b]chromones from Three Endophytic Fungi†

    Karsten Krohn;Simeon F. Kouam;Simeon F. Kouam;Guy M. Kuigoua;Guy M. Kuigoua;Hidayat Hussain

  • Penibruguieramine A, a novel pyrrolizidine alkaloid from the endophytic fungus Penicillium sp. GD6 associated with Chinese mangrove Bruguiera gymnorrhiza.

    Zhen Fang Zhou;Tibor Kurtán;Xiao Hong Yang;Attila Mándi

  • X‐ray Structure Determination, Absolute Configuration and Biological Activity of Phomoxanthone A

    Brigitta Elsässer;Karsten Krohn;Ulrich Flörke;Natalia Root

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Proksch
Peter Proksch Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Wenhan Lin
Wenhan Lin Peking University
Gennaro Pescitelli
Gennaro Pescitelli University of Pisa
Yue-Wei Guo
Yue-Wei Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Werner E. G. Müller
Werner E. G. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ulrich Flörke
Ulrich Flörke University of Paderborn
Bin-Gui Wang
Bin-Gui Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hidayat Hussain
Hidayat Hussain Leibniz Association
Piero Salvadori
Piero Salvadori National Research Council (CNR)
Matthias U. Kassack
Matthias U. Kassack Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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