Gerhard Gompper

22.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
358 papers, 16.4k citations indexed

About

Gerhard Gompper is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerhard Gompper has authored 358 papers receiving a total of 16.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 116 papers in Materials Chemistry and 110 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Gerhard Gompper's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (95 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (67 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (67 papers). Gerhard Gompper is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (95 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (67 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (67 papers). Gerhard Gompper collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Gerhard Gompper's co-authors include Roland G. Winkler, Hiroshi Noguchi, Dmitry A. Fedosov, Jens Elgeti, D. M. Kroll, Thorsten Auth, M. Schick, Reinhard Lipowsky, Sabyasachi Dasgupta and Marisol Ripoll and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gerhard Gompper

351 papers receiving 16.1k citations

Hit Papers

Shape and Orientation Matter for the Cellular Uptake of N... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400
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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. Shape and Orientation Matter for the Cellular Uptake of Nonspherical Particles
    2014 426 citations Thorsten Auth, Gerhard Gompper 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
Gerhard Gompper Germany 71 5.4k 5.0k 4.4k 3.8k 2.7k 358 16.4k
F. C. MacKintosh United States 74 6.1k 1.1× 2.1k 0.4× 2.9k 0.7× 3.9k 1.0× 1.4k 0.5× 197 20.6k
Reinhard Lipowsky Germany 80 5.5k 1.0× 3.4k 0.7× 4.4k 1.0× 13.5k 3.6× 653 0.2× 408 24.9k
S. A. Safran Israel 71 4.6k 0.9× 1.5k 0.3× 4.3k 1.0× 4.6k 1.2× 503 0.2× 257 16.8k
Udo Seifert Germany 65 2.8k 0.5× 1.4k 0.3× 1.9k 0.4× 5.7k 1.5× 963 0.4× 226 17.6k
John C. Crocker United States 47 4.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.3× 5.6k 1.3× 2.1k 0.6× 655 0.2× 120 13.0k
Jean‐François Joanny France 58 3.8k 0.7× 2.5k 0.5× 2.1k 0.5× 2.5k 0.7× 341 0.1× 194 12.2k
Michael E. Cates United Kingdom 75 4.1k 0.8× 7.6k 1.5× 9.8k 2.2× 2.2k 0.6× 265 0.1× 287 21.7k
Jacques Prost France 74 6.8k 1.3× 7.8k 1.5× 5.3k 1.2× 7.3k 2.0× 267 0.1× 239 32.6k
Ronald G. Larson United States 80 6.5k 1.2× 935 0.2× 8.3k 1.9× 4.6k 1.2× 1.6k 0.6× 465 29.8k
T. C. Lubensky United States 78 3.6k 0.7× 7.4k 1.5× 7.9k 1.8× 2.7k 0.7× 414 0.2× 278 24.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerhard Gompper

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerhard Gompper

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Midya, Jiarul, et al.. (2025). Adhesion-driven vesicle translocation through membrane-covered pores. Biophysical Journal. 124(5). 740–752. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Peixin, et al.. (2025). Run-and-tumble dynamics of Escherichia coli is governed by its mechanical properties. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 22(227). 20250035–20250035. 4 indexed citations
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Negi, Rajendra Singh, Roland G. Winkler, & Gerhard Gompper. (2025). Binary mixtures of intelligent active Brownian particles with visual perception. New Journal of Physics. 27(10). 103301–103301.
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Faizi, Hammad A., Dmitry A. Fedosov, Layne B. Frechette, et al.. (2025). Active membrane deformations of a minimal synthetic cell. Nature Physics. 21(5). 799–807. 6 indexed citations
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Negi, Rajendra Singh, Roland G. Winkler, & Gerhard Gompper. (2024). Collective behavior of self-steering active particles with velocity alignment and visual perception. Physical Review Research. 6(1). 15 indexed citations
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Gao, Yongxiang, et al.. (2024). Chiral active systems near a substrate: Emergent damping length controlled by fluid friction. Communications Physics. 7(1). 4 indexed citations
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Hannezo, Édouard, et al.. (2024). Mechanically-driven stem cell separation in tissues caused by proliferating daughter cells. SciPost Physics. 16(4).
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Koch, Matthias D., et al.. (2024). Bacteria Tune a Trade-off between Adhesion and Migration to Colonize Surfaces under Flow. 2(2). 4 indexed citations
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Negi, Rajendra Singh, et al.. (2024). Directed motion of cognitive active agents in a crowded three-way intersection. Communications Physics. 7(1). 4 indexed citations
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Gompper, Gerhard, et al.. (2023). Dynamic shapes of floppy vesicles enclosing active Brownian particles with membrane adhesion. Soft Matter. 19(19). 3436–3449. 13 indexed citations
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Gao, Yongxiang, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous emergence of active turbulence and odd viscosity in a colloidal chiral active system. Communications Physics. 6(1). 17 indexed citations
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Qi, Kai, Elmar Westphal, Gerhard Gompper, & Roland G. Winkler. (2022). Emergence of active turbulence in microswimmer suspensions due to active hydrodynamic stress and volume exclusion. Communications Physics. 5(1). 51 indexed citations
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Gompper, Gerhard, et al.. (2022). Generic self-stabilization mechanism for biomolecular adhesions under load. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2197–2197. 7 indexed citations
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Gompper, Gerhard, et al.. (2020). Hydrodynamics of polymers in an active bath. Physical review. E. 101(5). 52612–52612. 18 indexed citations
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Dasanna, Anil Kumar, Dmitry A. Fedosov, Gerhard Gompper, & Ulrich S. Schwarz. (2019). State diagram for wall adhesion of red blood cells in shear flow: from crawling to flipping. Soft Matter. 15(27). 5511–5520. 6 indexed citations
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Lanotte, Luca, Johannes Mauer, Simon Mendez, et al.. (2016). Red cells’ dynamic morphologies govern blood shear thinning under microcirculatory flow conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(47). 13289–13294. 187 indexed citations
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Huang, Chien-Cheng, et al.. (2015). Hydrodynamic correlations in shear flow: Multiparticle-collision-dynamics simulation study. Physical Review E. 92(5). 53002–53002. 8 indexed citations
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Gompper, Gerhard & M. Schick. (2007). Colloidal order : entropic and surface forces. Wiley-VCH eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Gompper, Gerhard & M. Schick. (2006). Complex colloidal suspensions. Wiley-VCH eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Gompper, Gerhard & M. Schick. (2006). Polymer melts and mixtures. Wiley-VCH eBooks. 9 indexed citations

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