René Wittmann

707 total citations
33 papers, 467 citations indexed

About

René Wittmann is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Chemistry and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, René Wittmann has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 467 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 16 papers in Materials Chemistry and 14 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in René Wittmann's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (15 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (14 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (14 papers). René Wittmann is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (15 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (14 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (14 papers). René Wittmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. René Wittmann's co-authors include Hartmut Löwen, J. M. Brader, Klaus Mecke, Lorenzo Caprini, Abhinav Sharma, Matthieu Maréchal, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, Frank Smallenburg, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts and Rahul Gupta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Chemical Physics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

René Wittmann

32 papers receiving 464 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
René Wittmann Germany 14 285 196 182 111 111 33 467
Yashodhan Hatwalne India 8 369 1.3× 128 0.7× 108 0.6× 43 0.4× 193 1.7× 19 522
Yu‐Guo Tao China 12 209 0.7× 136 0.7× 64 0.4× 52 0.5× 175 1.6× 21 463
Xinliang Xu United States 14 224 0.8× 258 1.3× 82 0.5× 31 0.3× 240 2.2× 27 608
Ephraim Bililign United States 5 169 0.6× 101 0.5× 60 0.3× 42 0.4× 88 0.8× 8 292
Marjolein N. van der Linden Netherlands 10 307 1.1× 239 1.2× 79 0.4× 15 0.1× 179 1.6× 18 527
Carsten Krüger Germany 7 687 2.4× 299 1.5× 84 0.5× 56 0.5× 363 3.3× 8 820
Hayato Shiba Japan 12 214 0.8× 401 2.0× 32 0.2× 51 0.5× 75 0.7× 25 575
Oliver Henrich United Kingdom 15 145 0.5× 321 1.6× 32 0.2× 273 2.5× 112 1.0× 34 720
Snigdha Thakur India 14 351 1.2× 124 0.6× 96 0.5× 13 0.1× 209 1.9× 31 432
Andreas P. Bregulla Germany 10 331 1.2× 74 0.4× 192 1.1× 38 0.3× 358 3.2× 14 575

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All Works

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Wittmann, René, et al.. (2025). Confined active particles with spatially dependent Lorentz force: An odd twist to the “best Fokker-Planck approximation”. Physical review. E. 111(2). 25412–25412. 1 indexed citations
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Löwen, Hartmut, et al.. (2025). A hitchhiker’s guide to active motion. The European Physical Journal E. 48(1). 1–1.
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Caprini, Lorenzo, et al.. (2024). Emergent memory from tapping collisions in active granular matter. Communications Physics. 7(1). 25 indexed citations
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Menzel, Andreas M., et al.. (2023). Density functional approach to elastic properties of three-dimensional dipole-spring models for magnetic gels. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(5). 54909–54909. 3 indexed citations
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Caprini, Lorenzo, et al.. (2023). Dynamics of active particles with translational and rotational inertia. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 35(30). 305101–305101. 20 indexed citations
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Wittmann, René, et al.. (2023). Colloidal smectics in button-like confinements: Experiment and theory. Physical Review Research. 5(3). 4 indexed citations
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Wittmann, René, et al.. (2023). Collective mechano-response dynamically tunes cell-size distributions in growing bacterial colonies. Communications Physics. 6(1). 10 indexed citations
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Wittmann, René, et al.. (2023). Statistics of carrier-cargo complexes. Physical review. E. 107(6). 64602–64602. 4 indexed citations
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Wittmann, René, Sabine Jansen, & Hartmut Löwen. (2023). Generalized geometric criteria for the absence of effective many-body interactions in the Asakura–Oosawa model. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 64(10). 1 indexed citations
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Wittmann, René, et al.. (2022). Tunable Brownian magneto heat pump. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 13405–13405. 7 indexed citations
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Merlitz, Holger, et al.. (2020). Pseudo-chemotaxis of active Brownian particles competing for food. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0230873–e0230873. 9 indexed citations
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Schindler, Thomas, René Wittmann, & J. M. Brader. (2019). Particle-conserving dynamics on the single-particle level. Physical review. E. 99(1). 12605–12605. 8 indexed citations
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Wittmann, René, et al.. (2019). Classical density functional theory for a two-dimensional isotropic ferrogel model with labeled particles. Physical review. E. 100(1). 12605–12605. 9 indexed citations
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Brader, J. M., et al.. (2018). Isotropic-nematic transition of self-propelled rods in three dimensions. Physical review. E. 98(1). 12601–12601. 16 indexed citations
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Wittmann, René, J. M. Brader, Abhinav Sharma, & Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi. (2018). Effective equilibrium states in mixtures of active particles driven by colored noise. Physical review. E. 97(1). 12601–12601. 18 indexed citations
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Sharma, Abhinav, René Wittmann, & J. M. Brader. (2017). Escape rate of active particles in the effective equilibrium approach. Physical review. E. 95(1). 12115–12115. 40 indexed citations
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Wittmann, René, et al.. (2017). Phase diagram of two-dimensional hard rods from fundamental mixed measure density functional theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 147(13). 134908–134908. 31 indexed citations
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Wittmann, René, Matthieu Maréchal, & Klaus Mecke. (2016). Fundamental measure theory for non-spherical hard particles: predicting liquid crystal properties from the particle shape. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 28(24). 244003–244003. 32 indexed citations
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Wittmann, René. (2015). Density Functional Theory for Liquid Crystals : Refining Fundamental Measure Theory for anisotropic bodies. OPUS Repository (Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg). 3 indexed citations

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