Gérard Hopfgartner

11.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
191 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Gérard Hopfgartner is a scholar working on Spectroscopy, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gérard Hopfgartner has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Spectroscopy, 69 papers in Molecular Biology and 37 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gérard Hopfgartner's work include Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (79 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (75 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (50 papers). Gérard Hopfgartner is often cited by papers focused on Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (79 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (75 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (50 papers). Gérard Hopfgartner collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Netherlands. Gérard Hopfgartner's co-authors include Claude Piguet, Gérald Bernardinelli, Emmanuel Varesio, Jean‐Claude G. Bünzli, E. Bourgogne, Alan F. Williams, David Tonoli, R. F. Bonner, Michel Wagner and Jack D. Henion and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Gérard Hopfgartner

186 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

Helicates as Versatile Supramolecular Complexes 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Helicates as Versatile Supramolecular Complexes
    1997 1.6k citations Gérard Hopfgartner 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
Gérard Hopfgartner Switzerland 53 3.3k 2.5k 2.4k 2.1k 2.1k 191 9.2k
Piero Salvadori Italy 52 2.8k 0.9× 1.6k 0.6× 2.4k 1.0× 414 0.2× 4.2k 2.0× 482 12.1k
Nino Russo Italy 63 1.8k 0.5× 4.7k 1.9× 3.3k 1.4× 666 0.3× 6.4k 3.1× 500 17.2k
James A. Platts United Kingdom 46 1.5k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 506 0.2× 3.5k 1.7× 244 8.0k
Albert J. Leo United States 33 4.2k 1.3× 2.8k 1.1× 4.0k 1.7× 570 0.3× 8.5k 4.1× 53 19.1k
Koichi Tanaka Japan 50 4.7k 1.4× 2.2k 0.9× 3.3k 1.4× 413 0.2× 5.8k 2.8× 414 15.8k
Sankaran Subramanian India 43 1.6k 0.5× 2.5k 1.0× 5.4k 2.2× 747 0.4× 2.0k 1.0× 205 11.1k
Ming Wah Wong Singapore 49 2.4k 0.7× 2.0k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 849 0.4× 5.4k 2.6× 246 11.4k
L. Ehrenberg Sweden 57 1.6k 0.5× 2.1k 0.8× 3.8k 1.6× 959 0.5× 3.1k 1.5× 876 15.8k
Alex Avdeef United States 55 2.7k 0.8× 2.0k 0.8× 2.5k 1.1× 233 0.1× 1.8k 0.9× 139 9.9k
Claudio Luchinat Italy 77 7.0k 2.1× 6.7k 2.6× 12.1k 5.0× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 696 23.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Gérard Hopfgartner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gérard Hopfgartner

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All Works

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Blokzijl, Hans, et al.. (2025). Pharmacometabolomics Enables Real-World Drug Metabolism Sciences. Metabolites. 15(1). 39–39. 1 indexed citations
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Giraud, Romain, et al.. (2025). General Screening and Multiple Dissociation Methods for Complementary LC–MS Analysis of Pesticides in Beverages: Potential and Pitfalls. Analytical Chemistry. 97(27). 14503–14511. 1 indexed citations
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Hermine, Olivier, et al.. (2023). Structure-activity relationship studies and biological properties evaluation of peptidic NRP-1 ligands: Investigation of N-terminal cysteine importance. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 94. 117482–117482. 2 indexed citations
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Bonner, R. F. & Gérard Hopfgartner. (2021). Annotation of complex mass spectra by multi-layered analysis. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1193. 339317–339317. 6 indexed citations
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Klont, Frank, Daan Kremer, António W. Gomes‐Neto, et al.. (2021). Metabolomics data complemented drug use information in epidemiological databases: pilot study of potential kidney donors. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 135. 10–16. 10 indexed citations
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Bonner, R. F., et al.. (2020). SWATH-MS for metabolomics and lipidomics: critical aspects of qualitative and quantitative analysis. Metabolomics. 16(6). 71–71. 45 indexed citations
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Hermine, Olivier, et al.. (2020). Urea-Peptide Hybrids as VEGF-A165/NRP-1 Complex Inhibitors with Improved Receptor Affinity and Biological Properties. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(1). 72–72. 10 indexed citations
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Stricker, Thomas, R. F. Bonner, Frédérique Lisacek, & Gérard Hopfgartner. (2020). Adduct annotation in liquid chromatography/high-resolution mass spectrometry to enhance compound identification. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 413(2). 503–517. 22 indexed citations
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Hopfgartner, Gérard, et al.. (2019). Supercritical fluid chromatography–mass spectrometry using data independent acquisition for the analysis of polar metabolites in human urine. Journal of Chromatography A. 1609. 460449–460449. 21 indexed citations
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Hopfgartner, Gérard, et al.. (2018). High-throughput liquid chromatography differential mobility spectrometry mass spectrometry for bioanalysis: determination of reduced and oxidized form of glutathione in human blood. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 410(27). 7153–7161. 29 indexed citations
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Bruderer, Tobias, Emmanuel Varesio, Eva Duchoslav, et al.. (2018). Metabolomic spectral libraries for data-independent SWATH liquid chromatography mass spectrometry acquisition. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 410(7). 1873–1884. 28 indexed citations
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Nikitin, Frédéric, Thomas Stricker, Eva Duchoslav, et al.. (2017). Optimization by infusion of multiple reaction monitoring transitions for sensitive quantification of peptides by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 31(9). 753–761. 6 indexed citations
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Porta, Tiffany, Antoine Lesur, Emmanuel Varesio, & Gérard Hopfgartner. (2014). Quantification in MALDI-MS imaging: what can we learn from MALDI-selected reaction monitoring and what can we expect for imaging?. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 407(8). 2177–2187. 87 indexed citations
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Varesio, Emmanuel, J. C. Yves Le Blanc, & Gérard Hopfgartner. (2011). Real-time 2D separation by LC × differential ion mobility hyphenated to mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 402(8). 2555–2564. 36 indexed citations
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Signor, Luca, et al.. (2007). Analysis of erlotinib and its metabolites in rat tissue sections by MALDI quadrupole time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry. Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 42(7). 900–909. 93 indexed citations
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Hopfgartner, Gérard & E. Bourgogne. (2003). Quantitative high‐throughput analysis of drugs in biological matrices by mass spectrometry. Mass Spectrometry Reviews. 22(3). 195–214. 199 indexed citations

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