S. Blankenburg

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

S. Blankenburg is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Blankenburg has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 11 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in S. Blankenburg's work include Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (11 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (10 papers) and Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (10 papers). S. Blankenburg is often cited by papers focused on Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (11 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (10 papers) and Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (10 papers). S. Blankenburg collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and France. S. Blankenburg's co-authors include Román Fasel, Kläus Müllen, Marco Bieri, Pascal Ruffieux, Xinliang Feng, Jinming Cai, Rached Jaafar, Matthias Muoth, Thomas Braun and Ari P. Seitsonen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

S. Blankenburg

23 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nano... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons
    2010 2.9k citations Jinming Cai, Pascal Ruffieux et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
S. Blankenburg Germany 15 3.4k 2.0k 1.7k 1.3k 392 23 4.2k
Zhihai Cheng China 29 2.0k 0.6× 1.7k 0.8× 1.0k 0.6× 1.4k 1.0× 237 0.6× 149 3.6k
Carsten Busse Germany 34 4.9k 1.4× 2.3k 1.1× 1.5k 0.9× 2.6k 1.9× 203 0.5× 87 5.8k
Alexei Preobrajenski Sweden 33 3.3k 1.0× 1.6k 0.8× 831 0.5× 1.0k 0.8× 197 0.5× 81 4.1k
Shigeki Kawai Japan 34 1.8k 0.5× 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 2.1k 1.6× 331 0.8× 123 3.6k
Rémy Pawlak Switzerland 28 1.8k 0.5× 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 262 0.7× 80 2.9k
Xuedan Ma United States 31 2.5k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 565 0.3× 840 0.6× 276 0.7× 97 3.2k
А. С. Виноградов Russia 28 2.5k 0.7× 983 0.5× 532 0.3× 740 0.6× 205 0.5× 112 3.1k
A. Grüneis Germany 48 6.2k 1.8× 2.1k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 2.1k 1.6× 695 1.8× 131 7.1k
John Kouvetakis United States 43 2.7k 0.8× 4.5k 2.2× 1.4k 0.8× 2.4k 1.8× 279 0.7× 233 6.3k
Avetik R. Harutyunyan United States 30 2.7k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 646 0.4× 453 0.3× 306 0.8× 80 3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by S. Blankenburg

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Fields of papers citing papers by S. Blankenburg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. Blankenburg

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of S. Blankenburg. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of S. Blankenburg based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with S. Blankenburg. S. Blankenburg is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Talirz, Leopold, Hajo Söde, Jinming Cai, et al.. (2013). Termini of Bottom-Up Fabricated Graphene Nanoribbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(6). 2060–2063. 197 indexed citations
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Blankenburg, S., Jinming Cai, Pascal Ruffieux, et al.. (2012). Intraribbon Heterojunction Formation in Ultranarrow Graphene Nanoribbons. ACS Nano. 6(3). 2020–2025. 153 indexed citations
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Santo, Giovanni Di, S. Blankenburg, C. Castellarin-Cudia, et al.. (2011). Supramolecular Engineering through Temperature‐Induced Chemical Modification of 2H‐Tetraphenylporphyrin on Ag(111): Flat Phenyl Conformation and Possible Dehydrogenation Reactions. Chemistry - A European Journal. 17(51). 14354–14359. 60 indexed citations
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Bieri, Marco, S. Blankenburg, Milan Kivala, et al.. (2011). Surface-supported 2D heterotriangulene polymers. Chemical Communications. 47(37). 10239–10239. 134 indexed citations
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Gaspari, Roberto, S. Blankenburg, Carlo A. Pignedoli, et al.. (2011). s-orbital continuum model accounting for the tip shape in simulated scanning tunneling microscope images. Physical Review B. 84(12). 5 indexed citations
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Thierfelder, Christian, et al.. (2011). Methane adsorption on graphene from first principles including dispersion interaction. Surface Science. 605(7-8). 746–749. 132 indexed citations
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Jaafar, Rached, Marco Bieri, Thomas Braun, et al.. (2010). Atomically Precise Bottom-up Fabrication of Graphene Nanoribbons JINMING CAI, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. 5 indexed citations
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Blankenburg, S., E. Rauls, & W. G. Schmidt. (2010). Catalytic Action of a Cu(111) Surface on Tetraazaperopyrene Polymerization. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 1(22). 3266–3270. 14 indexed citations
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Blankenburg, S., Marco Bieri, Román Fasel, et al.. (2010). Porous Graphene as an Atmospheric Nanofilter. Small. 6(20). 2266–2271. 315 indexed citations
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Cai, Jinming, Pascal Ruffieux, Rached Jaafar, et al.. (2010). Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons. Nature. 466(7305). 470–473. 2876 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rauls, E., S. Blankenburg, & W. G. Schmidt. (2010). Chemical reactivity on surfaces: Modeling the imide synthesis from DATP and PTCDA on Au(111). Physical Review B. 81(12). 8 indexed citations
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Erni, Rolf, Marta D. Rossell, Manh‐Thuong Nguyen, et al.. (2010). Stability and dynamics of small molecules trapped on graphene. Physical Review B. 82(16). 66 indexed citations
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Blankenburg, S. & W. G. Schmidt. (2009). Glutamic acid adsorbed on Ag(110): direct and indirect molecular interactions. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 21(18). 185001–185001. 9 indexed citations
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Rauls, E., S. Blankenburg, & W. G. Schmidt. (2008). DFT calculations of adenine adsorption on coin metal (110) surfaces. Surface Science. 602(13). 2170–2174. 46 indexed citations
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Schmidt, W. G., M. Albrecht, Stefan Wippermann, et al.. (2008). LiNbO3ground- and excited-state properties from first-principles calculations. Physical Review B. 77(3). 85 indexed citations
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Blankenburg, S. & W. G. Schmidt. (2008). Spatial modulation of molecular adsorption energies due to indirect interaction. Physical Review B. 78(23). 19 indexed citations
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Lange, Björn, R. Posner, Karsten Pohl, et al.. (2008). Water adsorption on hydrogenated Si(111) surfaces. Surface Science. 603(1). 60–64. 24 indexed citations
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Blankenburg, S. & W. G. Schmidt. (2007). Long-Range Chiral Recognition due to Substrate Locking and Substrate-Adsorbate Charge Transfer. Physical Review Letters. 99(19). 196107–196107. 39 indexed citations
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Blankenburg, S. & W. G. Schmidt. (2007). Steric effects and chirality in the adsorption of glycine and phenylglycine on Cu(110). Nanotechnology. 18(42). 424030–424030. 21 indexed citations
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Blankenburg, S., Stefan Wippermann, & Thomas Krüger. (2006). Ensemble teleportation under suboptimal conditions. Physica Scripta. 74(2). 190–196. 1 indexed citations

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