Peter Saalfrank

9.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
255 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Peter Saalfrank is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Saalfrank has authored 255 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 84 papers in Materials Chemistry and 45 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Peter Saalfrank's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (119 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (116 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (44 papers). Peter Saalfrank is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (119 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (116 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (44 papers). Peter Saalfrank collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Peter Saalfrank's co-authors include Tillmann Klamroth, Mathias Nest, Stefan Hecht, Jonas Wirth, Jean Christophe Tremblay, Manuel Utecht, Ronnie Kosloff, Pascal Krause, Jadranka Dokić and Bastian Klaumünzer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Peter Saalfrank

251 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Protonated Imine‐Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

2021 345 citations Jin Yang, Amitava Acharjya et al. profile →
Constitutional isomerism of the linkages in donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks and its impact on photocatalysis

2022 203 citations Jin Yang, Samrat Ghosh et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Saalfrank Germany	47	4.3k	3.4k	2.0k	992	938	255	8.3k
Tetsuya Taketsugu Japan	52	3.3k 0.8×	4.2k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	307 0.3×	332	9.2k
Yang Zhao China	45	3.0k 0.7×	2.7k 0.8×	2.4k 1.2×	467 0.5×	358 0.4×	297	7.8k
Majed Chergui Switzerland	58	5.4k 1.3×	4.8k 1.4×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	368 0.4×	333	12.5k
Hyotcherl Ihee South Korea	47	2.1k 0.5×	4.1k 1.2×	876 0.4×	730 0.7×	551 0.6×	195	8.4k
John B. Asbury United States	46	3.1k 0.7×	4.4k 1.3×	3.9k 2.0×	1.3k 1.3×	357 0.4×	103	9.0k
Jeffrey R. Reimers Australia	58	4.9k 1.2×	4.1k 1.2×	3.9k 2.0×	1.2k 1.2×	509 0.5×	253	11.1k
Maxim S. Pshenichnikov Netherlands	39	3.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.5×	2.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	536 0.6×	114	6.6k
Erich Runge Germany	28	4.8k 1.1×	3.1k 0.9×	2.7k 1.4×	746 0.8×	235 0.3×	132	9.4k
Ganglong Cui China	40	1.4k 0.3×	3.6k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	567 0.6×	534 0.6×	234	6.9k
Takao Tsuneda Japan	32	4.0k 0.9×	2.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	976 1.0×	238 0.3×	96	8.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Saalfrank

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Chakraborty, Gouri, Jin Yang, Jérôme Roeser, et al.. (2025). The Effect of Pore Functionality in Multicomponent Covalent Organic Frameworks on Stable Long‐Term Photocatalytic H ₂ Production. Advanced Energy Materials. 16(8). 5 indexed citations

Penschke, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Vibrational dynamics and spectroscopy of water at porous g-C₃N₄ and C₂N surfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(14). 11084–11093. 4 indexed citations

Mayer, Dennis, David Picconi, Evgenii Titov, et al.. (2024). X-ray photoelectron and NEXAFS spectroscopy of thionated uracils in the gas phase. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 161(13). 4 indexed citations

Penschke, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Water splitting at imine-linked covalent organic frameworks. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(32). 21821–21831. 5 indexed citations

Penschke, Christopher, J. O. Thomas, Angelos Michaelides, et al.. (2023). Hydration at Highly Crowded Interfaces. Physical Review Letters. 130(10). 106202–106202. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Jin, Samrat Ghosh, Jérôme Roeser, et al.. (2022). Constitutional isomerism of the linkages in donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks and its impact on photocatalysis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6317–6317. 203 indexed citations breakdown →

Choudhury, Arnab, Jessalyn A. DeVine, Alexander Kandratsenka, et al.. (2022). Condensed-phase isomerization through tunnelling gateways. Nature. 612(7941). 691–695. 7 indexed citations

Mayer, Dennis, David Picconi, S. Ališauskas, et al.. (2022). Following excited-state chemical shifts in molecular ultrafast x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Nature Communications. 13(1). 198–198. 32 indexed citations

Jech, Markus, Al-Moatasem El-Sayed, Stanislav Tyaginov, et al.. (2021). Quantum Chemistry Treatment of Silicon-Hydrogen Bond Rupture by Nonequilibrium Carriers in Semiconductor Devices. Physical Review Applied. 16(1). 6 indexed citations

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Mayer, Dennis, David Picconi, S. Ališauskas, et al.. (2020). Ultrafast dynamics of 2-thiouracil investigated by time-resolved Auger spectroscopy. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 54(1). 14002–14002. 11 indexed citations

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Heinrich, Benjamin, Christopher Ehlert, Lukas Braun, et al.. (2018). Control of Oxidation and Spin State in a Single-Molecule Junction. ACS Nano. 12(4). 3172–3177. 16 indexed citations

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Titov, Evgenii, et al.. (2017). Thermal isomerization of azobenzenes: on the performance of Eyring transition state theory. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 29(31). 314002–314002. 27 indexed citations

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Lončarić, Ivor, Gernot Füchsel, J. I. Juaristi, & Peter Saalfrank. (2017). Strong Anisotropic Interaction Controls Unusual Sticking and Scattering of CO at Ru(0001). Physical Review Letters. 119(14). 146101–146101. 18 indexed citations

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Götze, Jan P., Claudio Greco, Roland Mitrić, Vlasta Bonačić‐Koutecký, & Peter Saalfrank. (2012). BLUF Hydrogen network dynamics and UV/Vis spectra: A combined molecular dynamics and quantum chemical study. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 33(28). 2233–2242. 12 indexed citations

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Klaumünzer, Bastian, Dominik Kröner, Hans Lischka, & Peter Saalfrank. (2012). Non-adiabatic excited state dynamics of riboflavin after photoexcitation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(24). 8693–8693. 21 indexed citations

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Götze, Jan P. & Peter Saalfrank. (2011). Quantum chemical modeling of the kinetic isotope effect of the carboxylation step in RuBisCO. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 18(5). 1877–1883. 4 indexed citations

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Malić, Ermin, C. Weber, Marten Richter, et al.. (2011). Microscopic Model of the Optical Absorption of Carbon Nanotubes Functionalized with Molecular Spiropyran Photoswitches. Physical Review Letters. 106(9). 97401–97401. 78 indexed citations

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Schwarze, Thomas, Carsten Dosche, Tillmann Klamroth, et al.. (2010). Combination of a CT modulated PET and an intramolecular excimer formation to quantify PdCl2 by large fluorescence enhancement. Chemical Communications. 46(12). 2034–2034. 26 indexed citations

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Klamroth, Tillmann, et al.. (2009). Long-range intermolecular charge transfer induced by laser pulses: an explicitly time-dependent configuration interaction approach. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11(20). 3875–3875. 25 indexed citations

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Krause, Pascal, Tillmann Klamroth, & Peter Saalfrank. (2005). Time-dependent configuration-interaction calculations of laser-pulse-driven many-electron dynamics: Controlled dipole switching in lithium cyanide. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 123(7). 74105–74105. 151 indexed citations

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