Thomas Sander

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas Sander is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Sander has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Thomas Sander's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (13 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (4 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers). Thomas Sander is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (13 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (4 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers). Thomas Sander collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Thomas Sander's co-authors include Modest von Korff, Joël Freyss, Reinhard W. Hoffmann, Peter J. Klar, Christian T. Reindl, Chaeyoon Lim, Christian Heiliger, Markus Heinemann, Hans‐Gerd Löhmannsröben and James B. Hendrickson and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review B, Scientific Reports and Nanoscale.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Sander

35 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

DataWarrior: An Open-Source Program For Chemistry Aware D... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 400 800 1.2k
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. DataWarrior: An Open-Source Program For Chemistry Aware Data Visualization And Analysis
    2015 1.3k citations Thomas Sander, Joël Freyss et al. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Sander Switzerland 17 889 826 594 357 241 37 2.2k
Káthia M. Honório Brazil 26 1.0k 1.2× 969 1.2× 549 0.9× 250 0.7× 344 1.4× 149 2.6k
Modest von Korff Switzerland 11 867 1.0× 829 1.0× 510 0.9× 139 0.4× 238 1.0× 18 1.9k
Matthew T. Stahl United States 3 1.2k 1.4× 1.0k 1.3× 405 0.7× 294 0.8× 230 1.0× 7 2.0k
William R. Pitt United Kingdom 24 1.3k 1.5× 691 0.8× 625 1.1× 311 0.9× 179 0.7× 53 2.4k
Vinícius Gonçalves Maltarollo Brazil 21 841 0.9× 799 1.0× 447 0.8× 211 0.6× 152 0.6× 110 1.9k
Devleena Shivakumar United States 7 1.2k 1.3× 677 0.8× 526 0.9× 245 0.7× 162 0.7× 8 2.1k
Erin S. D. Bolstad United States 11 1.3k 1.5× 942 1.1× 329 0.6× 303 0.8× 309 1.3× 15 2.3k
Ruth Brenk United Kingdom 27 1.5k 1.7× 659 0.8× 754 1.3× 262 0.7× 195 0.8× 61 2.3k
Edward W. Lowe United States 11 976 1.1× 828 1.0× 314 0.5× 238 0.7× 175 0.7× 24 1.8k
Alex M. Clark United States 24 744 0.8× 784 0.9× 325 0.5× 311 0.9× 117 0.5× 66 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Sander

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Sander

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Sander. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Sander 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 Thomas Sander. Thomas Sander 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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Sander, Thomas, et al.. (2026). A Dataset of Plausible Proton Transfer Steps for Arrow-Pushing Mechanisms. Scientific Data. 13(1). 172–172.
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Korff, Modest von & Thomas Sander. (2023). Molecular Complexity for Chemical Reactions. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 77(4). 258–258.
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Vaitkus, Antanas, Andrius Merkys, Thomas Sander, et al.. (2023). A workflow for deriving chemical entities from crystallographic data and its application to the Crystallography Open Database. Journal of Cheminformatics. 15(1). 123–123. 57 indexed citations
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Sander, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Fast Substructure Search in Combinatorial Library Spaces. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 63(16). 5133–5141. 6 indexed citations
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Korff, Modest von & Thomas Sander. (2022). Limits of Prediction for Machine Learning in Drug Discovery. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 13. 832120–832120. 7 indexed citations
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Freyss, Joël, et al.. (2019). Accuracy evaluation and addition of improved dihedral parameters for the MMFF94s. Journal of Cheminformatics. 11(1). 53–53. 32 indexed citations
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Korff, Modest von & Thomas Sander. (2019). Molecular Complexity Calculated by Fractal Dimension. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 967–967. 29 indexed citations
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Sander, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Operational optimization of energy systems, 25 years – established and promising use cases. Energy Procedia. 149. 15–24. 4 indexed citations
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Boss, Christoph, Thierry Kimmerlin, Modest von Korff, et al.. (2017). The Screening Compound Collection: A Key Asset for Drug Discovery. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 71(10). 667–667. 16 indexed citations
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Ertl, Peter, et al.. (2015). Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer: substructure and similarity searching of molecules from Wikipedia. Journal of Cheminformatics. 7(1). 10–10. 29 indexed citations
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Sander, Thomas, et al.. (2015). DataWarrior: An Open-Source Program For Chemistry Aware Data Visualization And Analysis. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 55(2). 460–473. 1278 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sander, Thomas, Christian T. Reindl, & Peter J. Klar. (2014). Breaking of Raman selection rules in Cu2O by intrinsic point defects. MRS Proceedings. 1633. 81–86. 19 indexed citations
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Güngerich, M., Thomas Sander, Christian Heiliger, Michael Czerner, & Peter J. Klar. (2013). Local N environment in the dilute nitrides Ga(N,P), Ga(N,As), and Ga(N,Sb). physica status solidi (b). 250(4). 755–759. 1 indexed citations
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Lim, Chaeyoon & Thomas Sander. (2012). Does misery love company? Civic engagement in economic hard times. Social Science Research. 42(1). 14–30. 36 indexed citations
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Korff, Modest von, et al.. (2010). Integration of distributed computing into the drug discovery process. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery. 6(2). 103–107. 1 indexed citations
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Korff, Modest von, Joël Freyss, & Thomas Sander. (2009). Comparison of Ligand- and Structure-Based Virtual Screening on the DUD Data Set. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 49(2). 209–231. 69 indexed citations
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Korff, Modest von, Joël Freyss, & Thomas Sander. (2008). Flexophore, a New Versatile 3D Pharmacophore Descriptor That Considers Molecular Flexibility. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 48(4). 797–810. 31 indexed citations
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Orgzall, I., B. Lorenz, Peter K. Dorhout, et al.. (2000). High pressure optical and X-ray diffraction studies of two polymorphs of K(RE)P2Se6 (RE=Pr and Tb). Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 61(1). 123–134. 11 indexed citations
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Hendrickson, James B. & Thomas Sander. (1995). COGNOS: A Beilstein-Type System for Organizing Organic Reactions. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences. 35(2). 251–260. 16 indexed citations
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Sander, Thomas & Reinhard W. Hoffmann. (1993). Stereoselective Synthesis of Alcohols, XLIV. Cyclization of Benzyloxy‐substituted (8‐Oxo‐2‐octenyl)boronates. Liebigs Annalen der Chemie. 1993(11). 1193–1200. 6 indexed citations

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