Gerald Mathias

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Gerald Mathias is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Mathias has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Gerald Mathias's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (24 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (11 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (9 papers). Gerald Mathias is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (24 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (11 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (9 papers). Gerald Mathias collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Gerald Mathias's co-authors include Dominik Marx, Paul Tavan, Marco Nonella, Matthias Heyden, Jian Sun, Harald Forbert, Marcel D. Baer, Stefan Funkner, Samuel E. Martin and Sebastian Bauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Mathias

45 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Dissecting the THz spectrum of liquid water from first principles via correlations in time and space
    2010 391 citations Gerald Mathias, Dominik Marx et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerald Mathias Germany 23 957 497 481 237 206 49 1.7k
Carlos R. Baiz United States 28 1.2k 1.2× 604 1.2× 722 1.5× 215 0.9× 271 1.3× 100 2.3k
Charles V. Shank United States 16 1.3k 1.3× 334 0.7× 695 1.4× 911 3.8× 810 3.9× 26 3.1k
Lev Blumenfeld Russia 16 467 0.5× 135 0.3× 372 0.8× 120 0.5× 55 0.3× 51 1.0k
Bernhard Nickel Germany 21 521 0.5× 168 0.3× 74 0.2× 75 0.3× 850 4.1× 93 1.6k
Nien‐Hui Ge United States 23 1.4k 1.4× 637 1.3× 434 0.9× 265 1.1× 130 0.6× 46 1.9k
Helmut Satzger Germany 18 698 0.7× 242 0.5× 523 1.1× 411 1.7× 531 2.6× 49 1.6k
Igor V. Stiopkin United States 10 1.4k 1.4× 628 1.3× 434 0.9× 214 0.9× 299 1.5× 10 1.6k
Hohjai Lee South Korea 19 939 1.0× 239 0.5× 517 1.1× 366 1.5× 183 0.9× 40 1.5k
William Rhodes United States 21 644 0.7× 235 0.5× 371 0.8× 59 0.2× 302 1.5× 61 1.4k
Udo W. Schmitt United States 15 1.4k 1.4× 431 0.9× 547 1.1× 175 0.7× 377 1.8× 18 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerald Mathias

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Mathias

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All Works

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Wichmann, Christoph, et al.. (2016). Simulated Solute Tempering in Fully Polarizable Hybrid QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 12(3). 992–999. 3 indexed citations
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Mathias, Gerald, et al.. (2012). Mechanistic Insights into the Hydrolysis of a Nucleoside Triphosphate Model in Neutral and Acidic Solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(16). 6995–7000. 33 indexed citations
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Baer, Marcel D., Dominik Marx, & Gerald Mathias. (2011). Assigning Predissociation Infrared Spectra of Microsolvated Hydronium Cations H3O+⋅(H2)n (n=0, 1, 2, 3) by Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics. ChemPhysChem. 12(10). 1906–1915. 19 indexed citations
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Mathias, Gerald & Marcel D. Baer. (2011). Generalized Normal Coordinates for the Vibrational Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 7(7). 2028–2039. 53 indexed citations
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Bauer, Sebastian, et al.. (2011). DFT/MM Description of Flavin IR Spectra in BLUF Domains. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 115(38). 11239–11253. 29 indexed citations
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Bauer, Sebastian, et al.. (2011). IR Spectra of Flavins in Solution: DFT/MM Description of Redox Effects. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 115(9). 2117–2123. 25 indexed citations
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Ivanov, Sergei D., Oskar Asvany, Alexander Witt, et al.. (2010). Quantum-induced symmetry breaking explains infrared spectra of CH5+ isotopologues. Nature Chemistry. 2(4). 298–302. 67 indexed citations
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Mathias, Gerald, et al.. (2010). Density Functional Theory Combined with Molecular Mechanics: The Infrared Spectra of Flavin in Solution†. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 87(3). 511–523. 20 indexed citations
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Baer, Marcel D., Dominik Marx, & Gerald Mathias. (2010). Theoretical Messenger Spectroscopy of Microsolvated Hydronium and Zundel Cations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(40). 7346–7349. 35 indexed citations
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Chaumont, Alain, Marcel D. Baer, Gerald Mathias, & Dominik Marx. (2008). Potential Proton‐Release Channels in Bacteriorhodopsin. ChemPhysChem. 9(18). 2751–2758. 16 indexed citations
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Baer, Marcel D., Gerald Mathias, I‐Feng W. Kuo, et al.. (2008). Spectral Signatures of the Pentagonal Water Cluster in Bacteriorhodopsin. ChemPhysChem. 9(18). 2703–2707. 31 indexed citations
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Klähn, Marco, Gerald Mathias, Carsten Kötting, et al.. (2004). IR Spectra of Phosphate Ions in Aqueous Solution:  Predictions of a DFT/MM Approach Compared with Observations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 108(29). 6186–6194. 134 indexed citations
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Mathias, Gerald & Paul Tavan. (2004). Angular resolution and range of dipole–dipole correlations in water. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 120(9). 4393–4403. 32 indexed citations
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Nonella, Marco, Gerald Mathias, Markus Eichinger, & Paul Tavan. (2002). Structures and Vibrational Frequencies of the Quinones in Rb. sphaeroides Derived by a Combined Density Functional/Molecular Mechanics Approach. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 107(1). 316–322. 35 indexed citations
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Mathias, Gerald & Nanette Gottlieb. (1996). Kanji Politics: Language Policy and Japanese Script. Monumenta Nipponica. 51(4). 503–503. 24 indexed citations
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Mathias, Gerald, et al.. (1991). The Complete Guide to Everyday Kanji. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 4 indexed citations
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Mathias, Gerald & Roy Andrew Miller. (1971). The Japanese Language. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 91(2). 348–348.

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