Marc Zimmer

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Marc Zimmer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc Zimmer has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Organic Chemistry and 23 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Marc Zimmer's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (20 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (18 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (11 papers). Marc Zimmer is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (20 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (18 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (11 papers). Marc Zimmer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Saudi Arabia. Marc Zimmer's co-authors include Bruce R. Branchini, Martha H. Murtiashaw, A. Stephen K. Hashmi, Shannon M. Anderson, Rachelle A. Magyar, Matthias Rudolph, Robert H. Crabtree, Peter Comba, Kohei Sekine and Frank Röminger and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Marc Zimmer

77 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP): Applications, Structure, and Related Photophysical Behavior

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marc Zimmer United States	27	1.5k	883	717	710	575	80	3.0k
Enrica Bordignon Germany	40	2.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.7×	430 0.6×	1.0k 1.5×	1.3k 2.2×	171	5.0k
Kate L. Ronayne United Kingdom	25	656 0.4×	466 0.5×	368 0.5×	279 0.4×	516 0.9×	36	1.9k
Fraser MacMillan Germany	29	1.4k 0.9×	590 0.7×	337 0.5×	208 0.3×	510 0.9×	57	2.3k
Yasuhisa Mizutani Japan	31	1.5k 1.0×	294 0.3×	740 1.0×	246 0.3×	720 1.3×	122	3.2k
Charles P. Scholes United States	35	1.6k 1.1×	844 1.0×	202 0.3×	168 0.2×	836 1.5×	89	3.2k
Thomas C. Strekas United States	21	1.1k 0.7×	371 0.4×	159 0.2×	573 0.8×	625 1.1×	45	2.6k
Arie van Hoek Netherlands	33	2.0k 1.3×	475 0.5×	521 0.7×	389 0.5×	805 1.4×	96	3.2k
Joachim W. Engels Germany	34	2.6k 1.7×	653 0.7×	149 0.2×	889 1.3×	824 1.4×	183	3.9k
Rebekka M. Wachter United States	29	2.6k 1.7×	2.0k 2.2×	1.1k 1.6×	228 0.3×	367 0.6×	63	3.5k
Bridgette A. Barry United States	36	3.5k 2.3×	530 0.6×	1.3k 1.7×	285 0.4×	560 1.0×	143	4.4k

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Zimmer, Marc. (2025). Toward an official model protein system, with GFP as an exemplar. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 39.

Zhuang, Yan, et al.. (2022). AlphaFold2 and RoseTTAFold predict posttranslational modifications. Chromophore formation in GFP-like proteins. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0267560–e0267560. 6 indexed citations

Yang, Yangyang, Florian F. Mulks, Marc Zimmer, et al.. (2019). Trans Influence of Ligands on the Oxidation of Gold(I) Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(43). 17414–17420. 74 indexed citations

Zhang, Lumin, Xiaojia Si, Yangyang Yang, et al.. (2018). Benzaldehyd in Nickel‐katalysierten Photoredox‐sp³‐C‐H‐Alkylierungen/Arylierungen. Angewandte Chemie. 131(6). 1837–1841. 19 indexed citations

Zimmer, Marc. (2012). What Does It Take to Improve Existing Fluorescent Proteins for In Vivo Imaging Applications?. Methods in molecular biology. 872. 235–241. 1 indexed citations

Zimmer, Marc, et al.. (2011). Function and structure of GFP-like proteins in the protein data bank. Molecular BioSystems. 7(4). 984–992. 29 indexed citations

Hashmi, A. Stephen K., Andreas Schuster, Marc Zimmer, & Frank Röminger. (2011). Synthesis of 5‐Halo‐4H‐1,3‐oxazine‐6‐amines by a Copper‐Mediated Domino Reaction. Chemistry - A European Journal. 17(20). 5511–5515. 22 indexed citations

Zimmer, Marc, et al.. (2011). Water diffusion in and out of the β-barrel of GFP and the fast maturing fluorescent protein, TurboGFP. Chemical Physics. 392(1). 143–148. 8 indexed citations

Zimmer, Marc. (2009). GFP: from jellyfish to the Nobel prize and beyond. Chemical Society Reviews. 38(10). 2823–2823. 128 indexed citations

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Zimmer, Marc, et al.. (2008). The role of the tight-turn, broken hydrogen bonding, Glu222 and Arg96 in the post-translational green fluorescent protein chromophore formation. Chemical Physics. 348(1-3). 152–160. 27 indexed citations

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Zimmer, Marc. (2007). Guerrilla Puzzling: a Model for Research. The chronicle of higher education. 53(24).

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Chauhan, H. P. S., et al.. (2007). Synthesis and Spectroscopic [IR, Solid-State NMR (1H, 13C & 31P)] Studies of 1,3-Dithia-2-Stannacyclopentane Diorganodithiophosphates. Main Group Metal Chemistry. 30(5). 269–278. 3 indexed citations

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Zimmer, Marc. (2005). How to Find the Students' Inner Geek.. The chronicle of higher education. 51(49). 1 indexed citations

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Desai, Lopa V. & Marc Zimmer. (2004). Substrate selectivity and conformational space available to bromoxynil and acrylonitrile in iron nitrile hydratase. Dalton Transactions. 872–872. 13 indexed citations

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Zimmer, Marc. (2002). ChemInform Abstract: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP): Applications, Structure, and Related Photophysical Behavior. ChemInform. 33(22). 1 indexed citations

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Zimmer, Marc. (2000). Molecular Mechanics Evaluation of the Proposed Mechanisms for the Degradation of Urea by Urease. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 17(5). 787–797. 47 indexed citations

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Siegbahn, Per E. M., et al.. (2000). Theoretical study of the mechanism of peptide ring formation in green fluorescent protein. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 81(2). 169–186. 24 indexed citations

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Comba, Peter, et al.. (1999). Conformational searching of transition metal compounds. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 20(14). 1549–1558. 28 indexed citations

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Branchini, Bruce R., et al.. (1997). A Molecular Mechanics and Database Analysis of the Structural Preorganization and Activation of the Chromophore-Containing Hexapeptide Fragment in Green Fluorescent Protein. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 14(4). 441–448. 16 indexed citations

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Zimmer, Marc. (1993). Empirical Force Field Analysis of the Revised Structure of Coenzyme F430. Epimerization and Geometry of the Corphinoid Tetrapyrrole. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 11(1). 203–214. 9 indexed citations

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