Ralf Metzler

42.0k total citations · 10 hit papers
400 papers, 31.5k citations indexed

About

Ralf Metzler is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Metzler has authored 400 papers receiving a total of 31.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 196 papers in Molecular Biology, 183 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 156 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in Ralf Metzler's work include Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (156 papers), Diffusion and Search Dynamics (132 papers) and stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (129 papers). Ralf Metzler is often cited by papers focused on Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (156 papers), Diffusion and Search Dynamics (132 papers) and stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (129 papers). Ralf Metzler collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Israel. Ralf Metzler's co-authors include J. Klafter, Eli Barkai, Andrey G. Cherstvy, Jae‐Hyung Jeon, Aleksei V. Chechkin, Theo F. Nonnenmacher, Igor M. Sokolov, Michael A. Lomholt, Stanislav Burov and Trifce Sandev and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Metzler

390 papers receiving 30.5k citations

Hit Papers

The random walk's guide to anomalous diffusion: a fractio... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2000 2004 2014 1999 2000 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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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. The random walk's guide to anomalous diffusion: a fractional dynamics approach
    2000 6.6k citations Ralf Metzler et al. profile →
  2. The restaurant at the end of the random walk: recent developments in the description of anomalous transport by fractional dynamics
    2004 1.7k citations Ralf Metzler et al. profile →
  3. Anomalous diffusion models and their properties: non-stationarity, non-ergodicity, and ageing at the centenary of single particle tracking
    2014 1.3k citations Ralf Metzler, Jae‐Hyung Jeon et al. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics profile →
  4. Anomalous Diffusion and Relaxation Close to Thermal Equilibrium: A Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation Approach
    1999 603 citations Ralf Metzler et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. From continuous time random walks to the fractional Fokker-Planck equation
    2000 603 citations Ralf Metzler et al. profile →
  6. Strange kinetics of single molecules in living cells
    2012 511 citations Ralf Metzler et al. profile →
  7. In VivoAnomalous Diffusion and Weak Ergodicity Breaking of Lipid Granules
    2011 509 citations Jae‐Hyung Jeon, Ralf Metzler et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  8. Generalized viscoelastic models: their fractional equations with solutions
    1995 479 citations Ralf Metzler et al. profile →
  9. Random Time-Scale Invariant Diffusion and Transport Coefficients
    2008 446 citations Ralf Metzler et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  10. Brownian yet Non-Gaussian Diffusion: From Superstatistics to Subordination of Diffusing Diffusivities
    2017 318 citations Aleksei V. Chechkin, Ralf Metzler 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
Ralf Metzler Germany 78 14.8k 11.4k 9.2k 3.7k 3.5k 400 31.5k
J. Klafter Israel 79 12.0k 0.8× 10.3k 0.9× 6.9k 0.8× 3.3k 0.9× 2.3k 0.6× 353 31.5k
Igor M. Sokolov Germany 58 4.6k 0.3× 5.5k 0.5× 3.1k 0.3× 1.1k 0.3× 1.1k 0.3× 345 12.9k
Eli Barkai Israel 53 4.9k 0.3× 5.5k 0.5× 3.3k 0.4× 658 0.2× 906 0.3× 192 11.5k
Bruce J. West United States 58 3.3k 0.2× 5.1k 0.4× 1.9k 0.2× 1.1k 0.3× 846 0.2× 378 14.9k
Ji‐Huan He China 98 32.4k 2.2× 17.6k 1.5× 478 0.1× 16.6k 4.5× 10.0k 2.8× 581 46.7k
Milton Abramowitz United States 21 1.4k 0.1× 5.4k 0.5× 1.6k 0.2× 2.0k 0.5× 4.0k 1.1× 30 51.4k
E Weinan United States 74 498 0.0× 4.3k 0.4× 2.8k 0.3× 876 0.2× 1.4k 0.4× 291 22.3k
Donald A. McQuarrie United States 32 688 0.0× 4.8k 0.4× 1.9k 0.2× 1.1k 0.3× 3.7k 1.0× 109 35.2k
Jerrold E. Marsden United States 90 518 0.0× 10.8k 0.9× 1.0k 0.1× 4.9k 1.3× 3.1k 0.9× 406 33.3k
Irene A. Stegun United States 12 1.1k 0.1× 3.7k 0.3× 1.1k 0.1× 1.6k 0.4× 2.9k 0.8× 19 38.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sharma, Abhinav, et al.. (2024). Field theory of active chiral hard disks: a first-principles approach to steric interactions. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 57(26). 265002–265002. 13 indexed citations
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Großmann, Robert, et al.. (2024). Non-Gaussian Displacements in Active Transport on a Carpet of Motile Cells. Physical Review Letters. 132(8). 88301–88301. 15 indexed citations
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Metzler, Ralf, et al.. (2024). Change-point detection in anomalous-diffusion trajectories utilising machine-learning-based uncertainty estimates. Journal of Physics Photonics. 6(4). 45025–45025. 6 indexed citations
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Grebenkov, Denis S., Ralf Metzler, & Gleb Oshanin. (2024). Target Search Problems. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 7 indexed citations
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Metzler, Ralf, et al.. (2023). Stochastic processes in a confining harmonic potential in the presence of static and dynamic measurement noise. New Journal of Physics. 25(6). 63003–63003. 7 indexed citations
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Wyłomańska, Agnieszka, et al.. (2023). Modelling intermittent anomalous diffusion with switching fractional Brownian motion. New Journal of Physics. 25(10). 103031–103031. 16 indexed citations
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Szwabiński, Janusz, et al.. (2023). Machine-Learning Solutions for the Analysis of Single-Particle Diffusion Trajectories. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(35). 7910–7923. 29 indexed citations
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Sokolov, Igor M., et al.. (2023). Non-Gaussian displacement distributions in models of heterogeneous active particle dynamics. New Journal of Physics. 25(1). 13010–13010. 19 indexed citations
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Cherstvy, Andrey G., et al.. (2023). Directedeness, correlations, and daily cycles in springbok motion: From data via stochastic models to movement prediction. Physical Review Research. 5(4). 24 indexed citations
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Janušonis, Skirmantas, et al.. (2023). Predicting the distribution of serotonergic axons: a supercomputing simulation of reflected fractional Brownian motion in a 3D-mouse brain model. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 17. 7 indexed citations
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Sandev, Trifce, et al.. (2022). Heterogeneous diffusion with stochastic resetting. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 55(7). 74003–74003. 48 indexed citations
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Zhou, Tian, et al.. (2022). Stochastic harmonic trapping of a Lévy walk: transport and first-passage dynamics under soft resetting strategies. New Journal of Physics. 24(3). 33003–33003. 18 indexed citations
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Cherstvy, Andrey G., Hadi Safdari, & Ralf Metzler. (2021). Anomalous diffusion, nonergodicity, and ageing for exponentially and logarithmically time-dependent diffusivity: striking differences for massive versus massless particles. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(19). 195401–195401. 42 indexed citations
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Metzler, Ralf, et al.. (2021). Adsorption of lysozyme into a charged confining pore. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(48). 27195–27206. 19 indexed citations
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Hu, Xiaohu, Thomas Neusius, Xiaolin Cheng, et al.. (2021). Reply to: Insufficient evidence for ageing in protein dynamics. Nature Physics. 17(7). 775–776. 3 indexed citations
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Zhou, Tian, et al.. (2020). Lévy walk dynamics in an external harmonic potential. Physical review. E. 101(6). 18 indexed citations
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Palyulin, Vladimir V., George L. Blackburn, Michael A. Lomholt, et al.. (2019). First passage and first hitting times of Lévy flights and Lévy walks. New Journal of Physics. 21(10). 103028–103028. 56 indexed citations
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Godec, Aljaž & Ralf Metzler. (2016). First passage time distribution in heterogeneity controlled kinetics: going beyond the mean first passage time. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 20349–20349. 76 indexed citations
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Jeon, Jae‐Hyung & Ralf Metzler. (2010). Fractional Brownian motion and motion governed by the fractional Langevin equation in confined geometries. Physical Review E. 81(2). 21103–21103. 225 indexed citations
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Ambjörnsson, Tobias & Ralf Metzler. (2004). Coupled dynamics of DNA-breathing and binding of proteins that selectively bind to single-stranded DNA. arXiv (Cornell University).

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