Oliver Weingart

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Oliver Weingart is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Weingart has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 27 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 23 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Oliver Weingart's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (28 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (22 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (19 papers). Oliver Weingart is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (28 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (22 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (19 papers). Oliver Weingart collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and France. Oliver Weingart's co-authors include Christoph Janiak, Marco Garavelli, Ülkü Kökçam-Demir, Ali Morsali, Leili Esrafili, Maniya Gharib, Anna Goldman, Volker Buß, Piero Altoè and Giulio Cerullo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Weingart

65 papers receiving 3.3k citations

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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.

Conical intersection dynamics of the primary photoisomerization event in vision

2010 708 citations Dario Polli, Piero Altoè et al. profile →
Coordinatively unsaturated metal sites (open metal sites) in metal–organic frameworks: design and applications

2020 684 citations Oliver Weingart, Christoph Janiak et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oliver Weingart Germany	29	1.2k	1.2k	958	926	593	65	3.4k
Jun‐ya Hasegawa Japan	38	3.2k 2.6×	795 0.7×	675 0.7×	648 0.7×	609 1.0×	181	6.0k
Jordi Hernando Spain	36	1.9k 1.6×	661 0.6×	426 0.4×	566 0.6×	270 0.5×	123	3.6k
Thomas W. Keal United Kingdom	24	2.5k 2.1×	1.2k 1.1×	467 0.5×	197 0.2×	527 0.9×	44	5.1k
Daniel Roca‐Sanjuán Spain	31	1.1k 0.9×	762 0.7×	313 0.3×	438 0.5×	791 1.3×	104	3.6k
Junrong Zheng China	37	1.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.7×	308 0.3×	282 0.3×	575 1.0×	83	4.8k
Ying‐Zhong Ma United States	29	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	140 0.1×	273 0.3×	264 0.4×	90	3.1k
Peter Saalfrank Germany	47	3.4k 2.7×	4.3k 3.7×	504 0.5×	938 1.0×	722 1.2×	255	8.3k
Boiko Cohen Spain	33	2.0k 1.7×	1.5k 1.3×	649 0.7×	251 0.3×	1.9k 3.2×	105	4.9k
Masataka Nagaoka Japan	33	891 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	711 0.7×	68 0.1×	366 0.6×	140	3.5k
С. М. Алдошин Russia	32	2.6k 2.1×	250 0.2×	655 0.7×	494 0.5×	502 0.8×	530	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver Weingart

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Weingart

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Xing, Shanghua, Jens Möllmer, Marcus Lange, et al.. (2025). Rational Fine‐Tuning of MOF Pore Metrics: Enhanced SO₂ Capture and Sensing with Optimal Multi‐Site Interactions. Advanced Functional Materials. 5 indexed citations

Pieri, Elisa, Oliver Weingart, Miquel Huix‐Rotllant, et al.. (2024). Modeling pH-Dependent Biomolecular Photochemistry. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(2). 842–855. 2 indexed citations

Weingart, Oliver, et al.. (2024). Multiexcitonic and optically bright states in subunits of pentacene crystals: A hybrid DFT/MRCI and molecular mechanics study. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(14). 3 indexed citations

Heinen, Tobias, et al.. (2023). Molecular design of phenazine-5,10-diyl-dibenzonitriles and the impact on their thermally activated delayed fluorescence properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11(26). 8982–8991. 2 indexed citations

Weingart, Oliver, et al.. (2023). Femtosecond Spectroscopy on a Dibenzophenazine‐Cored Macrocycle Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence. ChemistryOpen. 12(5). e202300026–e202300026. 2 indexed citations

Maisuls, Iván, Dennis Woschko, Ralf Kühnemuth, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Solid-State Fluorescence of Flavin Derivatives by Incorporation in the Metal-Organic Frameworks MIL-53(Al) and MOF-5. Molecules. 28(6). 2877–2877. 10 indexed citations

Müller, Thomas J. J., et al.. (2022). A Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter Investigated by Time‐Resolved Near‐Infrared Spectroscopy. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(2). e202202809–e202202809. 6 indexed citations

Borrego‐Varillas, Rocío, Artur Nenov, Irene Conti, et al.. (2021). Tracking excited state decay mechanisms of pyrimidine nucleosides in real time. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7285–7285. 47 indexed citations

Weingart, Oliver, et al.. (2021). The Photophysics of Dibenzo[a,j]phenazine. ChemPhotoChem. 5(4). 335–347. 8 indexed citations

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Gil‐Hernández, Beatriz, et al.. (2020). Solid-State Landscape of 4,4′-Azobis(3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazole) with the Isolation of Conformer-Dependent Polymorphs. Crystal Growth & Design. 20(4). 2721–2733. 3 indexed citations

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Kühnemuth, Ralf, et al.. (2019). On the large apparent Stokes shift of phthalimides. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(9). 4839–4853. 8 indexed citations

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Weingart, Oliver, et al.. (2019). Fluorinated azobenzenes as supramolecular halogen-bonding building blocks. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 15. 2013–2019. 12 indexed citations

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El‐Tahawy, Mohsen M. T., Artur Nenov, Oliver Weingart, Massimo Olivucci, & Marco Garavelli. (2018). Relationship between Excited State Lifetime and Isomerization Quantum Yield in Animal Rhodopsins: Beyond the One-Dimensional Landau–Zener Model. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(12). 3315–3322. 28 indexed citations

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Zvereva, Elena E., Javier Segarra‐Martí, Marco Marazzi, et al.. (2018). The effect of solvent relaxation in the ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy of solvated benzophenone. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 17(3). 323–331. 10 indexed citations

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Polli, Dario, Ivan Rivalta, Artur Nenov, et al.. (2014). Tracking the primary photoconversion events in rhodopsins by ultrafast optical spectroscopy. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 14(2). 213–228. 30 indexed citations

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Gámez, José A., Oliver Weingart, Axel Koslowski, & Walter Thiel. (2013). Periodic decay in the photoisomerisation of p-aminoazobenzene. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(28). 11814–11814. 16 indexed citations

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Weingart, Oliver, et al.. (2012). Sampling excited state dynamics: influence of HOOP mode excitations in a retinal model. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(41). 14299–14299. 33 indexed citations

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Weingart, Oliver, Piero Altoè, Marco Stenta, et al.. (2011). Product formation in rhodopsin by fast hydrogen motions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(9). 3645–3645. 71 indexed citations

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Weingart, Oliver, Igor Schapiro, & Volker Buß. (2005). Bond torsion affects the product distribution in the photoreaction of retinal model chromophores. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 12(5). 713–721. 23 indexed citations

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Weingart, Oliver, Annapaola Migani, Massimo Olivucci, et al.. (2004). Probing the Photochemical Funnel of a Retinal Chromophore Model via Zero-Point Energy Sampling Semiclassical Dynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 108(21). 4685–4693. 68 indexed citations

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