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Wolfgang Gärtner

Wolfgang Gärtner

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
10084
World Ranking
10803
National Ranking
776

Wolfgang Gärtner 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 Wolfgang Gärtner sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 249 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Gärtner 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 Wolfgang Gärtner sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wolfgang Gärtner is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their work primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, their research interests focus significantly on Plant Science and Molecular Biology, supplemented by work in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research centers around several main topics including light effects on plants, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research. Additional topics include plant molecular biology research, bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research, biocrusts and microbial ecology, as well as photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging.

Wolfgang Gärtner has published extensively, with frequent contributions to journals such as Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, and ChemPhysChem.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Structural elements regulating the photochromicity in a cyanobacteriochrome, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Red Edge: Bilin-Binding Photoreceptors as Optogenetic Tools and Fluorescence Reporters, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • A light life together: photosensing in the plant microbiota, 2021, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
  • The interplay between chromophore and protein determines the extended excited state dynamics in a single-domain phytochrome, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Bacteriophytochromes from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 modulate the early stages of plant colonization during bacterial speck disease, 2020, European Journal of Plant Pathology

Among Wolfgang Gärtner's frequent collaborators are Chen Song, Jörg Matysik, Kai-Hong Zhao, Aba Losi, and Lisa Köhler, reflecting a collaborative research environment.

Best Publications

  • Light-modulation of cellular cAMP by a small bacterial photoactivated adenylyl cyclase, bPAC, of the soil bacterium beggiatoa

    Manuela Stierl;Patrick Stumpf;Daniel Udwari;Ronnie Gueta

  • Reporter proteins for in vivo fluorescence without oxygen

    Thomas Drepper;Thorsten Eggert;Franco Circolone;Achim Heck

  • A prokaryotic phytochrome.

    Jon Hughes;Tilman Lamparter;Franz Mittmann;Elmar Hartmann

  • First evidence for phototropin-related blue-light receptors in prokaryotes.

    Aba Losi;Eugenia Polverini;Benjamin Quest;Wolfgang Gärtner

  • The Evolution of Flavin-Binding Photoreceptors: An Ancient Chromophore Serving Trendy Blue-Light Sensors

    Aba Losi;Wolfgang Gärtner

  • Characterization of recombinant phytochrome from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis

    Tilman Lamparter;Franz Mittmann;Wolfgang Gärtner;Thomas Börner

  • Two ground state isoforms and a chromophore D-ring photoflip triggering extensive intramolecular changes in a canonical phytochrome

    Chen Song;Georgios Psakis;Christina Lang;Jo Mailliet

  • Old Chromophores, New Photoactivation Paradigms, Trendy Applications: Flavins in Blue Light‐Sensing Photoreceptors†

    Aba Losi;Wolfgang Gärtner

  • Bacterial bilin- and flavin-binding photoreceptors

    A Losi;W Gärtner

  • All-trans retinal constitutes the functional chromophore in Chlamydomonas rhodopsin

    P. Hegemann;W. Gärtner;R. Uhl

  • Distribution and phylogeny of light-oxygen-voltage-blue-light-signaling proteins in the three kingdoms of life.

    Ulrich Krauss;Bui Quang Minh;Aba Losi;Wolfgang Gärtner

  • Listening to the blue: the time-resolved thermodynamics of the bacterial blue-light receptor YtvA and its isolated LOV domain.

    Aba Losi;Benjamin Quest;Wolfgang Gärtner

  • INVERTEBRATE VISUAL PIGMENTS

    Wolfgang Gartner;Paul Towner

  • FTIR Studies of Phytochrome Photoreactions Reveal the CO Bands of the Chromophore: Consequences for Its Protonation States, Conformation, and Protein Interaction†

    Harald Foerstendorf;Christian Benda;Wolfgang Gärtner;Max Storf

  • Modulation of the photocycle of a LOV domain photoreceptor by the hydrogen-bonding network.

    Sarah Raffelberg;Madina Mansurova;Wolfgang Gärtner;Aba Losi;Aba Losi

  • Femtosecond kinetics of photoconversion of the higher plant photoreceptor phytochrome carrying native and modified chromophores.

    Marc G. Müller;Ingo Lindner;Iris Martin;Wolfgang Gärtner

  • Light-induced chromophore activity and signal transduction in phytochromes observed by 13C and 15N magic-angle spinning NMR

    Thierry Rohmer;Christina Lang;Jon Hughes;Lars-Oliver Essen

  • Signaling States of Rhodopsin RETINAL PROVIDES A SCAFFOLD FOR ACTIVATING PROTON TRANSFER SWITCHES

    Christoph K. Meyer;Monika Böhme;Andreas Ockenfels;Wolfgang Gärtner

  • Rhodopsin-lumirhodopsin phototransition of bovine rhodopsin investigated by Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy

    Ulrich M. Ganter;Wolfgang Gaertner;Friedrich Siebert

  • Raman spectroscopic and light-induced kinetic characterization of a recombinant phytochrome of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis.

    Anja Remberg;Ingo Lindner;Tilman Lamparter;Jon Hughes

  • In Vivo Mutational Analysis of YtvA from Bacillus subtilis MECHANISM OF LIGHT ACTIVATION OF THE GENERAL STRESS RESPONSE

    Marcela Avila-Pérez;Jocelyne Vreede;Yifen Tang;Onno Bende

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvia E. Braslavsky
Silvia E. Braslavsky Max Planck Society
Kurt Schaffner
Kurt Schaffner Max Planck Society
Peter Hildebrandt
Peter Hildebrandt Technical University of Berlin
Wolfgang Lubitz
Wolfgang Lubitz Max Planck Society
Friedrich Siebert
Friedrich Siebert University of Freiburg
Tilman Lamparter
Tilman Lamparter Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Dieter Oesterhelt
Dieter Oesterhelt Max Planck Society
Hugo Scheer
Hugo Scheer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Lars-Oliver Essen
Lars-Oliver Essen Philipp University of Marburg
Karl-Erich Jaeger
Karl-Erich Jaeger Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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