A. Lerf

8.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
115 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

A. Lerf is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Lerf has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Materials Chemistry, 38 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 32 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in A. Lerf's work include Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (24 papers), Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography (23 papers) and Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (19 papers). A. Lerf is often cited by papers focused on Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (24 papers), Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography (23 papers) and Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (19 papers). A. Lerf collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and United Kingdom. A. Lerf's co-authors include Jacek Klinowski, Heyong He, Michael Förster, A. Buchsteiner, Jörg Pieper, T. Butz, Thomas Riedl, R. Schöllhorn, H.P. Boehm and Stephan Schöttl and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. B, Condensed matter and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

A. Lerf

112 papers receiving 7.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Structure of Graphite Oxide Revisited

1998 2.9k citations A. Lerf et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →
A new structural model for graphite oxide

1998 1.3k citations A. Lerf et al. profile →
Water Dynamics in Graphite Oxide Investigated with Neutron Scattering

2006 485 citations A. Buchsteiner, A. Lerf et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Lerf Germany	24	4.9k	2.8k	2.2k	1.5k	876	115	7.2k
Theodore F. Baumann United States	49	4.7k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	3.0k 2.0×	775 0.9×	124	8.7k
Joe H. Satcher United States	45	4.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.6×	551 0.6×	117	7.8k
A. V. Okotrub Russia	42	5.8k 1.2×	1.7k 0.6×	3.1k 1.4×	2.0k 1.4×	665 0.8×	398	8.4k
S. Vasudevan India	36	3.2k 0.6×	994 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	864 0.6×	922 1.1×	131	5.5k
Wolfgang K. Maser Spain	46	6.4k 1.3×	2.6k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	2.1k 2.4×	202	9.2k
Kazuyuki Tohji Japan	51	6.4k 1.3×	2.7k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	282 0.3×	318	9.3k
Zheng Xu China	46	3.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	2.2k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	726 0.8×	285	7.3k
Nicole Grobert United Kingdom	55	8.2k 1.7×	2.2k 0.8×	3.3k 1.5×	1.5k 1.0×	963 1.1×	180	10.6k
Tetsuo Soga Japan	47	6.0k 1.2×	1.6k 0.6×	4.8k 2.2×	1.3k 0.9×	876 1.0×	657	9.7k
K. Andre Mkhoyan United States	46	7.0k 1.4×	2.3k 0.8×	3.5k 1.6×	1.7k 1.1×	538 0.6×	216	10.1k

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Lerf, A., et al.. (2021). Mössbauer study of iron gall inks on historical documents. Heritage Science. 9(1). 8 indexed citations

Poyato, J., et al.. (2009). Sonication induced redox reactions of the Ojén (Andalucía, Spain) vermiculite. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry. 16(4). 570–576. 14 indexed citations

Buchsteiner, A., A. Lerf, & Jörg Pieper. (2006). Water Dynamics in Graphite Oxide Investigated with Neutron Scattering. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 110(45). 22328–22338. 485 indexed citations breakdown →

Lerf, A., F. E. Wagner, & J. Poyato. (2001). Mössbauer spectroscopic investigation of redox reactions in vermiculites from Santa Olalla (Huelva, Spain). Solid State Ionics. 141-142. 479–486. 9 indexed citations

Lerf, A.. (1997). 13C and 1H MAS NMR studies of graphite oxide and its chemically modified derivatives. Solid State Ionics. 101-103. 857–862. 190 indexed citations

Kund, M., et al.. (1995). Thermal expansion in single crystals of ϰ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 in magnetic fields up to 6 tesla. Synthetic Metals. 70(1-3). 949–950. 16 indexed citations

Butz, T., et al.. (1993). The in-vivo identification of the MoFe protein (FeMo cofactor) of nitrogenase in Klebsiella pneumoniae and of the Mo-storage protein in Azotobacter vinelandii via the nuclear quadrupole interaction of. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1164(3). 311–318. 8 indexed citations

Müller, H., A. Lerf, & Heinz P. Fritz. (1991). An unusual synthesis of tetrakis (trifluoromethyl)tetrathiafulvalene. Liebigs Annalen der Chemie. 1991(4). 395–396. 9 indexed citations

Butz, T., et al.. (1990). Cd-binding to model membranes. Hyperfine Interactions. 61(1-4). 1205–1208. 1 indexed citations

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Müller, H., Heinz P. Fritz, A. Lerf, & Jürgen Besenhard. (1989). Elektrochemische Untersuchungen von BEDT-TTF / Electrochemical Investigations of BEDT-TTF. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B. 44(10). 1199–1202. 7 indexed citations

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Lerf, A. & T. Butz. (1987). Nuclear Quadrupole Interaction and Time‐Resolved Perturbed γ‐γ‐Angular Correlation Spectroscopy: Applications in Chemistry, Materials Science, and Biophysical Chemistry. New Analytical Methods (31). Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 26(2). 110–126. 47 indexed citations

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Groß, F., et al.. (1985). Observation of the Meissner effect in the high-Tc (pressure-) phase of the organic superconductor β-(BEDT-TTF)2I3. Solid State Communications. 56(12). 1015–1017. 30 indexed citations

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Lerf, A., et al.. (1983). Molybdate polymerisation studied by perturbed angular correlation. Hyperfine Interactions. 16(1-4). 921–924. 9 indexed citations

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Butz, T., Alfred Hübler, Jürgen Besenhard, A. Lerf, & W. Biberacher. (1983). Intercalation reaction kinetics: a TDPAC study of 2H-TaS2 intercalation. Il Nuovo Cimento D. 2(6). 1971–1976. 5 indexed citations

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Butz, T., A. Lerf, & Robert Huber. (1983). Hyperfine interaction investigations of the internal dynamics of biomolecules. Hyperfine Interactions. 16(1-4). 869–879. 2 indexed citations

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Butz, T., et al.. (1983). Nuclear quadrupole interaction at99Tc in molybdenum compounds. Hyperfine Interactions. 16(1-4). 915–920. 14 indexed citations

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Lerf, A., Friedrich G. Sernetz, W. Biberacher, & R. Schöllhorn. (1979). Superconductivity in layered ternary chalcogenides AxTaS2 and AxNbS2 and influence of topotactic solvation. Materials Research Bulletin. 14(6). 797–805. 33 indexed citations

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Butz, T., A. Vasquez, H. Saitovitch, & A. Lerf. (1978). The effect of high pressure on the nuclear quadrupole interaction at tantalum in 1T-TaS2 and 2H-TaS2. Physics Letters A. 65(2). 159–160. 3 indexed citations

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Butz, T., A. Vasquez, H. Saitovitch, G. M. Kalvius, & A. Lerf. (1978). Charge density wave effects, structural effects and charge transfer in the layered compound TaS2. Hyperfine Interactions. 4(1-2). 798–802. 10 indexed citations

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Schöllhorn, R., A. Lerf, & Friedrich G. Sernetz. (1974). Notizen: Supraleitung in zweidimensionalen Polyelektrolyten / Superconduction in Twodimensional Polyelectrolytes. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B. 29(11-12). 810–811. 9 indexed citations

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