Thomas Steiner

19.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
156 papers, 17.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Steiner is a scholar working on Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Steiner has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 17.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 43 papers in Spectroscopy and 43 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Thomas Steiner's work include Crystallography and molecular interactions (77 papers), Crystal structures of chemical compounds (40 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (21 papers). Thomas Steiner is often cited by papers focused on Crystallography and molecular interactions (77 papers), Crystal structures of chemical compounds (40 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (21 papers). Thomas Steiner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, India and Netherlands. Thomas Steiner's co-authors include Gautam R. Desiraju, Wolfram Saenger, Gertraud Koellner, K. Gessler, Chick C. Wilson, Irena Majerz, Daniel Hoffmann, Joël Jacob, Kyoko Koizumi and Steven M. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Steiner

152 papers receiving 16.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Hydrogen Bond in the ... 1997 2026 2006 2016 2002 2001 2002 1998 1997 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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. The Hydrogen Bond in the Solid State
    2002 5.5k citations Thomas Steiner profile →
  2. The Weak Hydrogen Bond
    2001 3.4k citations Thomas Steiner et al. profile →
  3. Die Wasserstoffbrücke im Festkörper
    2002 673 citations Thomas Steiner profile →
  4. Structures of the Common Cyclodextrins and Their Larger AnaloguesBeyond the Doughnut
    1998 633 citations Wolfram Saenger, Thomas Steiner et al. profile →
  5. Unrolling the hydrogen bond properties of C–H···O interactions
    1997 498 citations Thomas Steiner profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Thomas Steiner 7.1k 5.9k 5.2k 4.7k 3.7k 156 17.1k
Jack D. Dunitz 6.0k 0.8× 7.7k 1.3× 4.0k 0.8× 5.4k 1.2× 3.5k 0.9× 243 17.8k
Elı́es Molins 4.8k 0.7× 6.9k 1.2× 3.9k 0.7× 4.8k 1.0× 2.3k 0.6× 490 16.8k
Christopher A. Hunter 7.1k 1.0× 10.9k 1.8× 4.3k 0.8× 8.7k 1.9× 5.4k 1.5× 316 23.6k
Julia Contreras‐García 5.0k 0.7× 7.1k 1.2× 3.6k 0.7× 5.6k 1.2× 2.4k 0.6× 132 17.7k
Joel Bernstein 8.2k 1.2× 7.5k 1.3× 7.9k 1.5× 6.0k 1.3× 2.2k 0.6× 191 18.0k
Dylan Jayatilaka 8.3k 1.2× 8.5k 1.4× 7.6k 1.5× 7.3k 1.6× 2.4k 0.6× 137 21.6k
P. C. Hariharan 3.5k 0.5× 8.1k 1.4× 3.7k 0.7× 4.3k 0.9× 3.2k 0.9× 58 18.3k
Giovanni Scalmani 5.4k 0.8× 7.9k 1.3× 2.3k 0.4× 6.0k 1.3× 2.8k 0.8× 103 20.3k
Patrick McCabe 6.0k 0.8× 8.9k 1.5× 9.4k 1.8× 6.3k 1.3× 2.2k 0.6× 44 20.7k
Fabrizia Grepioni 7.3k 1.0× 6.6k 1.1× 7.4k 1.4× 6.5k 1.4× 1.8k 0.5× 391 16.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kang, Chang Won, Sai Ramudu Meka, Thomas Steiner, R. E. Schacherl, & E. J. Mittemeijer. (2016). Microstructural Evolution of 31CrMoV9 Steel upon Controlled Gaseous Nitriding Treatment. HTM Journal of Heat Treatment and Materials. 71(5). 181–190. 12 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas, et al.. (2014). Une lettre d'Euler à d'Alembert retrouvée. Historia Mathematica. 42(1). 84–94. 1 indexed citations
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Stegmann, Christian, Thomas Steiner, Björn M. Burmann, et al.. (2013). An Autoinhibited State in the Structure of Thermotoga maritima NusG. Structure. 21(3). 365–375. 14 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas, et al.. (2008). Synthetic Biology of Proteins: Tuning GFPs Folding and Stability with Fluoroproline. PLoS ONE. 3(2). e1680–e1680. 95 indexed citations
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Sharif, Shasad, Douglas R. Powell, Thomas Steiner, et al.. (2006). X-ray crystallographic structures of enamine and amine Schiff bases of pyridoxal and its 1:1 hydrogen-bonded complexes with benzoic acid derivatives: evidence for coupled inter- and intramolecular proton transfer. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science. 62(3). 480–487. 34 indexed citations
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Corvey, Carsten, Thomas Steiner, Francesco Malatesta, et al.. (2005). A four-subunit cytochrome bc1 complex complements the respiratory chain of Thermus thermophilus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1708(2). 262–274. 23 indexed citations
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Bzowska, Agnieszka, Gertraud Koellner, Beata Wielgus‐Kutrowska, et al.. (2004). Crystal Structure of Calf Spleen Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase with Two Full Trimers in the Asymmetric Unit: Important Implications for the Mechanism of Catalysis. Journal of Molecular Biology. 342(3). 1015–1032. 23 indexed citations
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Koellner, Gertraud, Thomas Steiner, Charles B. Millard, Israel Silman, & Joel L. Sussman. (2002). A Neutral Molecule in a Cation-binding Site: Specific Binding of a PEG-SH to Acetylcholinesterase from Torpedo californica. Journal of Molecular Biology. 320(4). 721–725. 35 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas. (2002). Hydrogen bonds from water molecules to aromatic acceptors in very high-resolution protein crystal structures. Biophysical Chemistry. 95(3). 195–201. 43 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas. (2001). Competition of hydrogen-bond acceptors for the strong carboxyl donor. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science. 57(1). 103–106. 132 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas. (2001). The C—H...O hydrogen bond in (dicyanomethyl)ammoniump-toluenesulfonate. Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications. 57(6). 775–776. 3 indexed citations
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Tamm, Matthias, Thomas Bannenberg, Roland Fröhlich, et al.. (2000). First Hyperpolarizabilities of Manganese(I)−Chromium(0) Sesquifulvalene Complexes. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2000(6). 1161–1169. 3 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas & Sax A. Mason. (2000). Short N+—H...Ph hydrogen bonds in ammonium tetraphenylborate characterized by neutron diffraction. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science. 56(2). 254–260. 28 indexed citations
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Kumar, Suresh, Thomas Steiner, & K. Subramanian. (2000). Crystal structure of γ-2-trans-2,6-diphenylthian-1,1-dioxide-4-one oxime, C17H17NO3S. Journal of Chemical Crystallography. 30(2). 143–145. 1 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas, et al.. (2000). Diffusion of water molecules in crystalline β-cyclodextrin hydrates. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. 18(2). 143–152. 19 indexed citations
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Koellner, Gertraud, Gitay Kryger, Charles B. Millard, et al.. (2000). Active-site gorge and buried water molecules in crystal structures of acetylcholinesterase from Torpedo californica 1 1Edited by R. Huber. Journal of Molecular Biology. 296(2). 713–735. 129 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas. (1998). Structural Evidence for the Aromatic–(i+1) Amine Hydrogen Bond in Peptides:L-Tyr-L-Tyr-L-Leu Monohydrate. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 54(4). 584–588. 15 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas, et al.. (1997). [15] Determination, purification, and characterization of α-NADH and α-NADPH. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 280. 171–186. 11 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas. (1995). Water molecules which apparently accept no hydrogen bonds are systematically involved in C—H.O interactions. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 51(1). 93–97. 29 indexed citations
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Steiner, Thomas, et al.. (1993). Determination, Purification, and Characterization of α-NADH. Analytical Biochemistry. 212(2). 375–380. 5 indexed citations

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