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Wolfgang Scherer

Wolfgang Scherer

Augsburg College
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
10131
World Ranking
10801
National Ranking
2969

Wolfgang Scherer 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 Scherer sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 314 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Scherer 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 Scherer 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 Scherer is affiliated with Augsburg College in the United States and primarily conducts research in the field of Materials Science. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Organic Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The researcher has contributed extensively to topics such as Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Iron-based superconductors research, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials, Rare-earth and actinide compounds, Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism.

Among recent publications, key papers include:

  • "Cooperative Cluster Jahn-Teller Effect as a Possible Route to Antiferroelectricity," 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • "Indications for Lifshitz transitions in the nodal-line semimetal ZrSiTe induced by interlayer interaction," 2020, Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • "Tuning Organocerium Electrochemical Potentials by Extending Tris(cyclopentadienyl) Scaffolds with Terminal Halogenido, Siloxy, and Alkoxy Ligands," 2021, Organometallics
  • "Pressure-Induced Excitations in the Out-of-Plane Optical Response of the Nodal-Line Semimetal ZrSiS," 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • "Transport Properties of Ag-doped ZnSb," 2020, Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie

Wolfgang Scherer frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Jan Langmann, Georg Eickerling, Marcel Vöst, Andreas Fischer, and Hasan Kepenci.

The researcher's work is prominently published in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Physical review. B./Physical review. B, Physical Review Letters, arXiv (Cornell University), and Organometallics.

Best Publications

  • Agostic Interactions in d0 Metal Alkyl Complexes

    Wolfgang Scherer;G. Sean McGrady

  • Stable Cyclic Germanediyls (“Cyclogermylenes”): Synthesis, Structure, Metal Complexes, and Thermolyses

    Wolfgang A. Herrmann;Michael Denk;Joachim Behm;Wolfgang Scherer

  • Alkylrhenium oxides as homogeneous epoxidation catalysts: Activity, selectivity, stability, deactivation

    Wolfgang A. Herrmann;Richard W. Fischer;Monika U. Rauch;Wolfgang Scherer

  • Methyltrioxorhenium(VII) as Catalyst for Epoxidations: Structure of the Active Species and Mechanism of Catalysis

    Wolfgang A. Herrmann;Richard W. Fischer;Wolfgang Scherer;Monika U. Rauch

  • Mehrfachbindungen zwischen Hauptgruppenelementen und Übergangsmetallen: CXXVI. Heterocyclen-Carbene als phosphananaloge Liganden in Metallkomplexen

    Karl Öfele;Wolfgang A. Herrmann;Dimitrios Mihalios;Martina Elison

  • Stereospecific polymerization of isoprene with molecular and MCM-48-grafted lanthanide(III) tetraalkylaluminates.

    Andreas Fischbach;Michael G. Klimpel;Markus Widenmeyer;Eberhardt Herdtweck

  • Electron Delocalization in Acyclic and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Their Complexes: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Charge-Density Study

    Maxim Tafipolsky;Wolfgang Scherer;Karl Ofele;Georg Artus

  • Valence Charge Concentrations, Electron Delocalization and β‐Agostic Bonding in d0 Metal Alkyl Complexes

    Wolfgang Scherer;Peter Sirsch;Dmitry Shorokhov;Maxim Tafipolsky

  • Stabile, cyclische Germandiyle („Cyclogermylene”︁): Herstellung, Molekülstruktur, Metallkomplexe und Thermolysen

    Wolfgang A. Herrmann;Michael Denk;Joachim Behm;Wolfgang Scherer

  • Trigonal-Bipyramidal Lewis Base Adducts of Methyltrioxorhenium(VII) and Their Bisperoxo Congeners: Characterization, Application in Catalytic Epoxidation, and Density Functional Mechanistic Study

    Fritz E. Kühn;Ana M. Santos;Peter W. Roesky;Eberhardt Herdtweck

  • Lanthanoiden-Komplexe, IX [1]. Reaktivitätsbestimmender Einfluß der Ligandenkonstitution bei Seltenerdamiden: Herstellung und Struktur sterisch überladener Alkoxid-Komplexe / Lanthanoid Complexes, IX [1]. Reactivity Control of Lanthanoid Amides through Ligand Effects: Synthesis and Structures of Sterically Congested Alkoxy Complexes

    Wolfgang A. Herrmann;Reiner Anwander;Florian C. Munck;Wolfgang Scherer

  • (Dihalogenmethyl)palladium(II)-Komplexe aus Palladium(O)-Vorstufen des Dibenzylidenacetons: Synthese, Strukturchemie und Reaktivität ag]

    Wolfgang A Herrmann;Werner R Thiel;Christoph Broißmer;Karl Öfele

  • Volatile Donor-Functionalized Alkoxy Derivatives of Lutetium and Their Structural Characterization(1).

    Reiner Anwander;Florian C. Munck;Thomas Priermeier;Wolfgang Scherer

  • Superconductivity at Tc = 44 K in LixFe2Se2(NH3)y

    E. W. Scheidt;V. R. Hathwar;D. Schmitz;A. Dunbar

  • Multiple Bonds between Main-Group Elements and Transition Metals. 135. Oxorhenium(V) Catalysts for the Olefination of Aldehydes

    Wolfgang A. Herrmann;Peter W. Roesky;Mei Wang;Wolfgang Scherer

  • The Nature of β‐Agostic Bonding in Late‐Transition‐Metal Alkyl Complexes

    Wolfgang Scherer;Verena Herz;Andreas Brück;Christoph Hauf

  • Methyltrioxorhenium(VII) als Epoxidationskatalysator: Struktur der aktiven Spezies und Katalysemechanismus†‡

    Wolfgang A. Herrmann;Richard W. Fischer;Wolfgang Scherer;Monika U. Rauch

  • Lanthanoiden-Komplexe, IV. Alkyl-und Donor-substituierte Cyclopentadienyl-Komplexe des Neodyms

    Wolfgang A. Herrmann;Reiner Anwander;Florian C. Munck;Wolfgang Scherer

  • Superconductivity at Tc = 44 K in LixFe2Se2(NH3)y

    Ernst-Wilhelm Scheidt;V. R. Hathwar;Dominik Schmitz;A. Dunbar

  • Valence-Shell Charge Concentrations and Electron Delocalization in Alkyllithium Complexes: Negative Hyperconjugation and Agostic Bonding

    Wolfgang Scherer;Peter Sirsch;Dmitry Shorokhov;G. Sean McGrady

  • Discrete Lanthanide Aryl(alk)oxide Trimethylaluminum Adducts as Isoprene Polymerization Catalysts

    Andreas Fischbach;Christian Meermann;Georg Eickerling;Wolfgang Scherer

  • Experimental and theoretical charge density studies at subatomic resolution.

    Andreas Fischer;D. Tiana;Wolfgang Scherer;Kilian Batke

  • On the Nature and Incidence of β-Agostic Interactions in Ethyl Derivatives of Early Transition Metals: Ethyltitanium Trichloride and Related Compounds

    Arne Haaland;Wolfgang Scherer;Kenneth Ruud;G. Sean McGrady

  • A chiral C3-symmetric hexanuclear triangular-prismatic copper(II) cluster derived from a highly modular dipeptidic N,N′-terephthaloyl-bis(S-aminocarboxylato) ligand

    Barbara Wisser;Anne-Christine Chamayou;Robert Miller;Wolfgang Scherer

  • High tetraalkylaluminate fluxionality in half-sandwich complexes of the trivalent rare-earth metals

    Reiner Anwander;Michael G. Klimpel;H. Martin Dietrich;Dmitry J. Shorokhov

Frequent Co-Authors

Reiner Anwander
Reiner Anwander University of Tübingen
Wolfgang A. Herrmann
Wolfgang A. Herrmann Technical University of Munich
Arne Haaland
Arne Haaland University of Oslo
Rainer Pöttgen
Rainer Pöttgen University of Münster
Dietmar Stalke
Dietmar Stalke University of Göttingen
Ingo Krossing
Ingo Krossing University of Freiburg
Peter W. Roesky
Peter W. Roesky Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thomas F. Fässler
Thomas F. Fässler Technical University of Munich
Anatoliy Senyshyn
Anatoliy Senyshyn Technical University of Munich
Alois Loidl
Alois Loidl University of Augsburg

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