Alexander Heckel

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
175 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Alexander Heckel is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Heckel has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Materials Chemistry, 102 papers in Molecular Biology and 49 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alexander Heckel's work include Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (93 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (58 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (48 papers). Alexander Heckel is often cited by papers focused on Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (93 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (58 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (48 papers). Alexander Heckel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Alexander Heckel's co-authors include Günter Mayer, Dieter Seebàch, Clara Brieke, Falk Rohrbach, Alexander Gottschalk, Albert K. Beck, Thorsten L. Schmidt, Josef Wachtveitl, Lenz Kröck and Michael Famulok and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Heckel

165 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

Biologically Active Molecules with a “Light Switch” 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2012 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Biologically Active Molecules with a “Light Switch”
    2006 977 citations Günter Mayer, Alexander Heckel Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  2. Light‐Controlled Tools
    2012 840 citations Günter Mayer, Alexander Heckel et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Heckel Germany 42 3.8k 3.7k 2.1k 1.8k 855 175 7.2k
David S. Lawrence United States 50 5.0k 1.3× 2.3k 0.6× 2.1k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 832 1.0× 179 8.7k
Wiktor Szymański Netherlands 46 2.8k 0.7× 6.4k 1.7× 3.6k 1.7× 3.9k 2.1× 1.4k 1.6× 159 9.5k
Josef Wachtveitl Germany 47 3.3k 0.9× 3.3k 0.9× 905 0.4× 2.9k 1.6× 548 0.6× 250 7.6k
Kazuhiko Nakatani Japan 43 5.1k 1.3× 909 0.2× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 335 0.4× 304 7.5k
Hiroshi Miyasaka Japan 50 896 0.2× 5.2k 1.4× 2.3k 1.1× 2.1k 1.1× 996 1.2× 281 8.5k
G. Andrew Woolley Canada 44 3.7k 1.0× 5.7k 1.5× 2.2k 1.0× 3.8k 2.1× 718 0.8× 125 8.7k
Joakim Andréasson Sweden 43 1.5k 0.4× 4.1k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 1.8k 1.0× 485 0.6× 100 5.8k
Vladimir V. Popik United States 39 2.4k 0.6× 2.1k 0.6× 3.5k 1.7× 500 0.3× 1.1k 1.3× 164 6.4k
Willi Bannwarth Germany 38 4.1k 1.1× 1.2k 0.3× 3.0k 1.4× 312 0.2× 520 0.6× 136 7.3k
Kyril M. Solntsev United States 38 1.4k 0.4× 1.9k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 379 0.4× 97 4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander Heckel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Heckel

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All Works

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Wilderen, Luuk J. G. W. van, et al.. (2023). Choose your leaving group: selective photodeprotection in a mixture of pHP-caged compounds by VIPER excitation. Chemical Science. 14(10). 2624–2630. 2 indexed citations
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Wachtveitl, Josef, et al.. (2023). Iminothioindoxyl Donors with Exceptionally High Cross Section for Protein Vibrational Energy Transfer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(9). e202317047–e202317047. 4 indexed citations
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Junek, Stephan, et al.. (2023). A Blue Light and Two‐Photon Activatable Rhodamine Fluorophore. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(38). e202300997–e202300997. 7 indexed citations
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Scheurer, Maximilian, et al.. (2022). A long-lived fluorenyl cation: efficiency booster for uncaging and photobase properties. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(9). 5294–5300. 6 indexed citations
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Donlin-Asp, Paul, et al.. (2021). Differential regulation of local mRNA dynamics and translation following long-term potentiation and depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(13). 54 indexed citations
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Müller, Patricia, et al.. (2021). Controlling Coagulation in Blood with Red Light. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(41). 22441–22446. 11 indexed citations
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Falahati, Konstantin, et al.. (2020). Photochemical mechanism of DEACM uncaging: a combined time-resolved spectroscopic and computational study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(24). 13418–13430. 16 indexed citations
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Heinz, Marcel, Yvonne Becker, Michael Bolte, et al.. (2018). Optimal Destabilization of DNA Double Strands by Single‐Nucleobase Caging. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(66). 17568–17576. 17 indexed citations
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Halbritter, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Controlling Self-Assembly of Switchable Azobenzene Derivatives on Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite at Ambient Conditions C. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 1 indexed citations
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Grünewald, Christian, et al.. (2018). “End-to-end” stacking of small dsRNA. RNA. 25(2). 239–246. 8 indexed citations
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Wilderen, Luuk J. G. W. van, et al.. (2017). Picosecond activation of the DEACM photocage unravelled by VIS-pump-IR-probe spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(9). 6487–6496. 12 indexed citations
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Sambandan, Sivakumar, Güney Akbalık, Lisa Kochen, et al.. (2017). Activity-dependent spatially localized miRNA maturation in neuronal dendrites. Science. 355(6325). 634–637. 138 indexed citations
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Wurm, Jan Philip, U. Bahr, Martin Held, et al.. (2012). Identification of the enzyme responsible for N1-methylation of pseudouridine 54 in archaeal tRNAs. RNA. 18(3). 412–420. 20 indexed citations
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Ackermann, Damian, Goran Rasched, Sandeep Verma, et al.. (2010). Assembly of dsDNA nanocircles into dimeric and oligomeric aggregates. Chemical Communications. 46(23). 4154–4154. 18 indexed citations
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Mayer, Günter, et al.. (2009). Differential Regulation of Protein Subdomain Activity with Caged Bivalent Ligands. ChemBioChem. 10(4). 654–657. 42 indexed citations
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Heckel, Alexander, et al.. (2007). Light-dependent RNA interference with nucleobase-caged siRNAs. RNA. 13(12). 2341–2347. 135 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Thorsten L., Chayan Kanti Nandi, Goran Rasched, et al.. (2007). Polyamide Struts for DNA Architectures. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 46(23). 4382–4384. 36 indexed citations
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Heckel, Alexander & Dieter Seebàch. (2000). Verankerung von TADDOL auf porösem Kieselgel mit hoher Beladung und erste Anwendungen in der enantioselektiven Katalyse. Angewandte Chemie. 112(1). 165–167. 22 indexed citations
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Heckel, Alexander & Dieter Seebàch. (2000). Immobilization of TADDOL with a High Degree of Loading on Porous Silica Gel and First Applications in Enantioselective Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 39(1). 163–165. 76 indexed citations

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