Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

65.3k total citations · 19 hit papers
675 papers, 56.3k citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer has authored 675 papers receiving a total of 56.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 554 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 494 papers in Materials Chemistry and 171 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Wernsdorfer's work include Magnetism in coordination complexes (529 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (418 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (95 papers). Wolfgang Wernsdorfer is often cited by papers focused on Magnetism in coordination complexes (529 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (418 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (95 papers). Wolfgang Wernsdorfer collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United States. Wolfgang Wernsdorfer's co-authors include George Christou, Lapo Bogani, Khalil A. Abboud, Roberta Sessoli, Annie K. Powell, Liviu F. Chibotaru, Mario Ruben, Rodolphe Clérac, Euan K. Brechin and Liviu Ungur and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

662 papers receiving 55.9k citations

Hit Papers

Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets 1997 2026 2006 2016 2008 1999 2016 2002 2004 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. Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets
    2008 2.7k citations Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. profile →
  2. Quantum Phase Interference and Parity Effects in Magnetic Molecular Clusters
    1999 1.2k citations Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. profile →
  3. A Stable Pentagonal Bipyramidal Dy(III) Single-Ion Magnet with a Record Magnetization Reversal Barrier over 1000 K
    2016 949 citations Yan‐Cong Chen, Jun‐Liang Liu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Exchange-biased quantum tunnelling in a supramolecular dimer of single-molecule magnets
    2002 863 citations Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, David N. Hendrickson et al. profile →
  5. Giant Single‐Molecule Magnets: A {Mn84} Torus and Its Supramolecular Nanotubes
    2004 825 citations Anastasios J. Tasiopoulos, A. Vinslava et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  6. Dysprosium Triangles Showing Single‐Molecule Magnet Behavior of Thermally Excited Spin States
    2006 784 citations Jinkui Tang, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  7. Electronic read-out of a single nuclear spin using a molecular spin transistor
    2012 702 citations Mario Ruben, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. profile →
  8. Electrically driven nuclear spin resonance in single-molecule magnets
    2014 692 citations Mario Ruben, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. profile →
  9. Strong Axiality and Ising Exchange Interaction Suppress Zero-Field Tunneling of Magnetization of an Asymmetric Dy2 Single-Molecule Magnet
    2011 676 citations Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Liviu Ungur et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  10. A Record Anisotropy Barrier for a Single-Molecule Magnet
    2007 651 citations A. Vinslava, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  11. Magnetic relaxation pathways in lanthanide single-molecule magnets
    2013 648 citations Liviu Ungur, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. profile →
  12. A Polynuclear Lanthanide Single‐Molecule Magnet with a Record Anisotropic Barrier
    2009 552 citations Liviu Ungur, Liviu F. Chibotaru et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  13. Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization in Lanthanide Single‐Molecule Magnets: Bis(phthalocyaninato)terbium and Bis(phthalocyaninato)dysprosium Anions
    2005 541 citations Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  14. Single-Molecule Magnet Behavior for an Antiferromagnetically Superexchange-Coupled Dinuclear Dysprosium(III) Complex
    2011 535 citations Liviu Ungur, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  15. A Ferromagnetically Coupled Mn19 Aggregate with a Record S=83/2 Ground Spin State
    2006 533 citations Valeriu Mereacre, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  16. Experimental Evidence of the Néel-Brown Model of Magnetization Reversal
    1997 479 citations Wolfgang Wernsdorfer et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  17. Switching the anisotropy barrier of a single-ion magnet by symmetry change from quasi-D5h to quasi-Oh
    2013 477 citations Jun‐Liang Liu, Yan‐Cong Chen et al. profile →
  18. Molecular spin qudits for quantum algorithms
    2017 301 citations Eufemio Moreno Pineda, Clément Godfrin et al. profile →
  19. Operating Quantum States in Single Magnetic Molecules: Implementation of Grover’s Quantum Algorithm
    2017 274 citations Clément Godfrin, Mario Ruben et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer France 127 47.2k 42.2k 18.4k 8.4k 7.7k 675 56.3k
Roberta Sessoli Italy 98 43.3k 0.9× 35.8k 0.8× 13.6k 0.7× 4.9k 0.6× 9.7k 1.3× 410 48.3k
Dante Gatteschi Italy 97 44.1k 0.9× 36.9k 0.9× 17.5k 1.0× 4.0k 0.5× 9.3k 1.2× 636 52.9k
Eugenio Coronado Spain 96 22.6k 0.5× 24.8k 0.6× 14.9k 0.8× 2.7k 0.3× 2.7k 0.4× 726 38.3k
Richard E. P. Winpenny United Kingdom 81 21.8k 0.5× 18.5k 0.4× 9.7k 0.5× 1.6k 0.2× 3.5k 0.5× 441 26.5k
George Christou United States 92 31.9k 0.7× 28.0k 0.7× 18.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.2× 3.4k 0.4× 644 38.3k
Liviu F. Chibotaru Belgium 71 19.2k 0.4× 18.2k 0.4× 5.1k 0.3× 1.4k 0.2× 4.3k 0.6× 286 21.9k
Santiago Álvarez Spain 68 12.7k 0.3× 11.1k 0.3× 10.5k 0.6× 1.7k 0.2× 1.3k 0.2× 308 23.3k
Andreas Hauser Switzerland 58 10.7k 0.2× 9.9k 0.2× 4.2k 0.2× 2.1k 0.3× 3.1k 0.4× 304 16.3k
J. G. Snijders Netherlands 58 6.2k 0.1× 11.2k 0.3× 10.0k 0.5× 11.5k 1.4× 643 0.1× 136 32.8k
Kizashi Yamaguchi Japan 57 8.0k 0.2× 5.4k 0.1× 3.7k 0.2× 6.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.2× 770 18.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sürgers, C., et al.. (2025). Quantum spin-engineering in on-surface molecular ferrimagnets. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5208–5208. 4 indexed citations
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Godfrin, Clément, Stefan Kubicek, Ruoyu Li, et al.. (2025). Industrial 300 mm wafer processed spin qubits in natural silicon/silicon-germanium. npj Quantum Information. 11(1). 3 indexed citations
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Dolai, Malay, Biswajit Bhattacharya, Franziska Emmerling, et al.. (2025). From strong to weak interaction: reconciling SQUID and μSQUID-EPR data in anomalous Co( ii ) dimers. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 12(21). 6460–6472.
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Rieger, D. J., Martin Spiecker, Grigore A. Timco, et al.. (2025). Kinetic inductance coupling for circuit QED with spins. Physical review. B.. 112(11). 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Zhenhua, et al.. (2025). Chiral Dysprosium-[7]Helicene Macrocycles Showing Record Single-Molecule Magnet Properties in the Lanthanide–Helicene Family. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(46). 42815–42824. 1 indexed citations
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Winkel, Patrick, Martin Spiecker, D. J. Rieger, et al.. (2024). Pure kinetic inductance coupling for cQED with flux qubits. Applied Physics Letters. 125(6). 3 indexed citations
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Zhu, Zhenhua, Chen Zhao, Jianfeng Wu, et al.. (2024). Record Quantum Tunneling Time in an Air-Stable Exchange-Bias Dysprosium Macrocycle. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(28). 18899–18904. 30 indexed citations
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Panja, Anangamohan, Eufemio Moreno Pineda, Radovan Herchel, et al.. (2023). Insight into ferromagnetic interactions in CuII–LnIII dimers with a compartmental ligand. Dalton Transactions. 53(6). 2501–2511. 16 indexed citations
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Pineda, Eufemio Moreno, et al.. (2023). Direct determination of high-order transverse ligand field parameters via µSQUID-EPR in a Et4N[160GdPc2] SMM. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3361–3361. 3 indexed citations
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Pineda, Eufemio Moreno & Wolfgang Wernsdorfer. (2021). Measuring molecular magnets for quantum technologies. Nature Reviews Physics. 3(9). 645–659. 169 indexed citations
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Wu, Si‐Guo, Ze‐Yu Ruan, Guo‐Zhang Huang, et al.. (2021). Field-induced oscillation of magnetization blocking barrier in a holmium metallacrown single-molecule magnet. Chem. 7(4). 982–992. 46 indexed citations
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Cardani, L., N. Casali, Gianluigi Catelani, et al.. (2019). DEMETRA: Suppression of the Relaxation Induced by Radioactivity in Superconducting Qubits. Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 199(1-2). 475–481. 4 indexed citations
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Piquer, Lidia Rosado, et al.. (2019). Hysteresis enhancement on a hybrid Dy(iii) single molecule magnet/iron oxide nanoparticle system. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 6(3). 705–714. 7 indexed citations
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Morita, T., Marko Damjanović, Keiichi Katoh, et al.. (2018). Comparison of the Magnetic Anisotropy and Spin Relaxation Phenomenon of Dinuclear Terbium(III) Phthalocyaninato Single-Molecule Magnets Using the Geometric Spin Arrangement. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(8). 2995–3007. 103 indexed citations
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Schmitz, Sebastian, Jan van Leusen, Natalya V. Izarova, et al.. (2016). Supramolecular 3d–4f single-molecule magnet architectures. Dalton Transactions. 45(41). 16148–16152. 21 indexed citations
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Vallejo, Julia, Alejandro Pascual–Álvarez, Joan Cano, et al.. (2013). Field‐Induced Hysteresis and Quantum Tunneling of the Magnetization in a Mononuclear Manganese(III) Complex. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(52). 14075–14079. 153 indexed citations
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Mereacre, Valeriu, Yanhua Lan, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Christopher E. Anson, & Annie K. Powell. (2012). A family of dodecanuclear Mn<sub>11</sub>Ln single-molecule magnets. Comptes Rendus Chimie. 7 indexed citations
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Tasiopoulos, Anastasios J., A. Vinslava, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Khalil A. Abboud, & George Christou. (2004). Giant Single‐Molecule Magnets: A {Mn84} Torus and Its Supramolecular Nanotubes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43(16). 2117–2121. 825 indexed citations breakdown →
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Murugesu, Muralee, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Khalil A. Abboud, & George Christou. (2004). New Structural Motifs in Manganese Single‐Molecule Magnetism from the Use of Triethanolamine Ligands. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(6). 892–896. 142 indexed citations
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Wernsdorfer, Wolfgang, S. Bhaduri, Raluca Tiron, David N. Hendrickson, & George Christou. (2002). Spin-Spin Cross Relaxation in Single-Molecule Magnets. Physical Review Letters. 89(19). 197201–197201. 109 indexed citations

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