Rainer Haag

39.6k total citations · 11 hit papers
775 papers, 33.4k citations indexed

About

Rainer Haag is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Polymers and Plastics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Haag has authored 775 papers receiving a total of 33.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 306 papers in Molecular Biology, 274 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 208 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rainer Haag's work include Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (264 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (184 papers) and Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (69 papers). Rainer Haag is often cited by papers focused on Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (264 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (184 papers) and Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (69 papers). Rainer Haag collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United States. Rainer Haag's co-authors include Felix Kratz, Mohiuddin Quadir, Holger Frey, Marcelo Calderón, Qiang Wei, Emanuel Fleige, Katharina Achazi, Jens Dernedde, Christoph Böttcher and Chong Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Haag

753 papers receiving 33.0k citations

Hit Papers

Polymer Therapeutics: Con... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2006 2012 2012 2014 2002 250 500 750
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.

  1. Polymer Therapeutics: Concepts and Applications
    2006 963 citations Rainer Haag et al. profile →
  2. Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanocarriers for the controlled transport of active compounds: Concepts and applications
    2012 891 citations Rainer Haag et al. profile →
  3. Multivalency as a Chemical Organization and Action Principle
    2012 846 citations Rainer Haag et al. profile →
  4. Protein Interactions with Polymer Coatings and Biomaterials
    2014 646 citations Rainer Haag et al. profile →
  5. Dendritic Polymers in Biomedical Applications: From Potential to Clinical Use in Diagnostics and Therapy
    2002 582 citations Rainer Haag et al. profile →
  6. Electron Transport through Thin Organic Films in Metal−Insulator−Metal Junctions Based on Self-Assembled Monolayers
    2001 540 citations Rainer Haag et al. profile →
  7. Dendritic Polyglycerols for Biomedical Applications
    2009 537 citations Rainer Haag et al. profile →
  8. Supramolecular Drug‐Delivery Systems Based on Polymeric Core–Shell Architectures
    2003 522 citations Rainer Haag profile →
  9. Functional Graphene Nanomaterials Based Architectures: Biointeractions, Fabrications, and Emerging Biological Applications
    2017 440 citations Chong Cheng, Shuang Li et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
  10. Design of therapeutic biomaterials to control inflammation
    2022 361 citations Zhaoxu Tu, Rainer Haag et al. profile →
  11. Longitudinal effects of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor on sputum viscoelastic properties, airway infection and inflammation in patients with cystic fibrosis
    2023 94 citations Daniel Lauster, Rainer Haag et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Rainer Haag 11.6k 8.7k 8.5k 8.4k 7.9k 775 33.4k
Katharina Landfester 8.1k 0.7× 11.2k 1.3× 6.4k 0.8× 11.1k 1.3× 13.8k 1.7× 885 44.8k
Joseph M. DeSimone 5.1k 0.4× 12.5k 1.4× 4.8k 0.6× 5.4k 0.6× 7.7k 1.0× 372 29.2k
Richard Hoogenboom 5.5k 0.5× 6.1k 0.7× 7.9k 0.9× 17.5k 2.1× 10.9k 1.4× 634 31.8k
Paula T. Hammond 6.3k 0.5× 11.3k 1.3× 6.8k 0.8× 4.5k 0.5× 7.5k 0.9× 461 36.8k
Karen L. Wooley 6.8k 0.6× 4.4k 0.5× 8.6k 1.0× 16.5k 2.0× 9.4k 1.2× 366 29.7k
Thomas P. Davis 6.4k 0.5× 8.0k 0.9× 7.6k 0.9× 25.0k 3.0× 11.5k 1.4× 612 40.6k
Tae Gwan Park 10.2k 0.9× 8.5k 1.0× 3.5k 0.4× 2.8k 0.3× 12.3k 1.5× 302 29.4k
Youqing Shen 8.4k 0.7× 11.8k 1.4× 3.5k 0.4× 5.0k 0.6× 10.2k 1.3× 642 29.1k
Mark W. Grinstaff 6.7k 0.6× 7.3k 0.8× 3.2k 0.4× 4.2k 0.5× 6.4k 0.8× 449 24.4k
Christopher N. Bowman 4.5k 0.4× 11.1k 1.3× 11.3k 1.3× 21.3k 2.5× 6.3k 0.8× 542 42.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lauster, Daniel, Rainer Haag, Matthias Ballauff, & Andreas Herrmann. (2025). Balancing stability and function: impact of the surface charge of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron spike protein. PubMed. 3(1). 23–23. 1 indexed citations
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Herrmann, Anna, Srinivas Abbina, Irina Chafeeva, et al.. (2024). An Ultrahydrating Polymer that Protects Protein Therapeutics and RNA‐Lipid Nanoparticles Against Freezing, Heat and Lyophilization Stress. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(42). 6 indexed citations
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Bej, Raju, et al.. (2024). Magnetic microwire rheometer reveals differences in hydrogel degradation via disulfide reducing agents. Soft Matter. 21(3). 427–434. 2 indexed citations
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Tang, Peng, et al.. (2023). 2D and 3D Micropatterning of Mussel‐Inspired Functional Materials by Direct Laser Writing. Small. 20(13). e2309394–e2309394. 5 indexed citations
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Tang, Peng, et al.. (2023). Polyglycerol-Based Hydrogel as Versatile Support Matrix for 3D Multicellular Tumor Spheroid Formation. Gels. 9(12). 938–938. 1 indexed citations
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Zemella, Anne, et al.. (2023). One to one comparison of cell-free synthesized erythropoietin conjugates modified with linear polyglycerol and polyethylene glycol. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6394–6394. 3 indexed citations
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Rancan, Fiorenza, Sabrina Hadam, Xiao Guo, et al.. (2023). Efficacy of topically applied rapamycin-loaded redox-sensitive nanocarriers in a human skin/T cell co-culture model. International Immunopharmacology. 117. 109903–109903. 4 indexed citations
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Mohammadifar, Ehsan, Matteo Gasbarri, Valeria Cagno, et al.. (2022). Polyanionic Amphiphilic Dendritic Polyglycerols as Broad-Spectrum Viral Inhibitors with a Virucidal Mechanism. Biomacromolecules. 23(3). 983–991. 15 indexed citations
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Nie, Chuanxiong, et al.. (2022). Virus removal from aqueous environments with polyelectrolyte coatings on a polypropylene fleece. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 140(6). 1 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Andreas, et al.. (2022). One‐Pot Covalent Functionalization of 2D Black Phosphorus by Anionic Ring Opening Polymerization. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(32). 10 indexed citations
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Zheng, Wenshan, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Yong Hou, et al.. (2021). Linear triglycerol-based fluorosurfactants show high potential for droplet-microfluidics-based biochemical assays. Soft Matter. 17(31). 7260–7267. 11 indexed citations
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Nie, Chuanxiong, Badri Parshad, Sumati Bhatia, et al.. (2020). Topology‐Matching Design of an Influenza‐Neutralizing Spiky Nanoparticle‐Based Inhibitor with a Dual Mode of Action. Angewandte Chemie. 132(36). 15662–15666. 21 indexed citations
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Schade, Boris, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Jose Luis Cuellar‐Camacho, et al.. (2020). Stereochemistry‐Controlled Supramolecular Architectures of New Tetrahydroxy‐Functionalised Amphiphilic Carbocyanine Dyes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(30). 6919–6934. 11 indexed citations
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Achazi, Katharina, Min Qiu, Chao Deng, et al.. (2019). Reductively cleavable polymer-drug conjugates based on dendritic polyglycerol sulfate and monomethyl auristatin E as anticancer drugs. Journal of Controlled Release. 300. 13–21. 27 indexed citations
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Guday, Guy, Ievgen S. Donskyi, Mohammad Fardin Gholami, et al.. (2019). Scalable Production of Nanographene and Doping via Nondestructive Covalent Functionalization. Small. 15(12). e1805430–e1805430. 23 indexed citations
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Kulka, Michael, et al.. (2019). Mussel-Inspired Multivalent Linear Polyglycerol Coatings Outperform Monovalent Polyethylene Glycol Coatings in Antifouling Surface Properties. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 2(12). 5749–5759. 20 indexed citations
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Cheng, Chong, Shuang Li, Arne Thomas, Nicholas A. Kotov, & Rainer Haag. (2017). Functional Graphene Nanomaterials Based Architectures: Biointeractions, Fabrications, and Emerging Biological Applications. Chemical Reviews. 117(3). 1826–1914. 440 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tu, Zhaoxu, et al.. (2017). Functionalized graphene sheets for intracellular controlled release of therapeutic agents. Nanoscale. 9(47). 18931–18939. 44 indexed citations
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Roller, Sebastian, Holger Türk, Jean‐François Stumbé, W. Rapp, & Rainer Haag. (2006). Polystyrene- g raft -Polyglycerol Resins:  A New Type of High-Loading Hybrid Support for Organic Synthesis. Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry. 8(3). 350–354. 25 indexed citations
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Haag, Rainer, et al.. (1976). The chloramphenicol resistance of a chloramphenicol‐degrading soil bacterium. FEBS Letters. 63(1). 62–64. 3 indexed citations

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