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D-Index
62
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10960
World Ranking
9035
National Ranking
322

Alain Boussac publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alain Boussac sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 201 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Alain Boussac D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alain Boussac sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alain Boussac is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans several areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with a primary emphasis on photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

The main fields of study for Boussac include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Within these, subfields of particular focus are Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Infectious Diseases, and Plant Science.

Their research topics cover various scientific themes such as:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Light Effects on Plants
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens Research
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus

Boussac has published regularly in multiple journals and venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
  • Photosynthesis Research
  • mBio
  • eLife

Representative recent papers include:

  • A Novel Enterococcus faecalis Heme Transport Regulator (FhtR) Senses Host Heme To Control Its Intracellular Homeostasis, 2021, mBio
  • Impact of energy limitations on function and resilience in long-wavelength Photosystem II, 2022, eLife
  • What can we still learn from the electrochromic band-shifts in Photosystem II?, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
  • Probing the role of arginine 323 of the D1 protein in photosystem II function, 2020, Physiologia Plantarum
  • Probing the proton release by Photosystem II in the S1 to S2 high-spin transition, 2022, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Boussac include:

  • Julien Sellés
  • Miwa Sugiura
  • A. William Rutherford
  • Stefania Viola
  • Makoto Nakamura

Best Publications

  • Electronic structure of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II prior to O-O bond formation

    Nicholas Cox;Marius Retegan;Frank Neese;Dimitrios A. Pantazis

  • EPR signals from modified charge accumulation states of the oxygen evolving enzyme in Ca2+-deficient photosystem II.

    Boussac A;Zimmermann Jl;Rutherford Aw

  • Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f–containing photosystems

    Dennis J. Nürnberg;Jennifer Morton;Stefano Santabarbara;Alison Telfer

  • Histidine oxidation in the oxygen-evolving photosystem-II enzyme

    Alain Boussac;Jean-Luc Zimmermann;A. William Rutherford;Jérôme Lavergne

  • Structural changes in the Mn4Ca cluster and the mechanism of photosynthetic water splitting

    Yulia Pushkar;Junko Yano;Kenneth Sauer;Kenneth Sauer;Alain Boussac

  • Detection of the Water-Binding Sites of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Using W-Band 17O Electron–Electron Double Resonance-Detected NMR Spectroscopy

    Leonid Rapatskiy;Nicholas Cox;Anton Savitsky;William M. Ames

  • Nature of the inhibition of the oxygen-evolving enzyme of photosystem II induced by sodium chloride washing and reversed by the addition of calcium(2+) or strontium(2+)

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  • Effect of Ca2+/Sr2+ Substitution on the Electronic Structure of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II: A Combined Multifrequency EPR, 55Mn-ENDOR, and DFT Study of the S2 State

    Nicholas Cox;Leonid Rapatskiy;Ji-Hu Su;Dimitrios A. Pantazis;Dimitrios A. Pantazis

  • Photosystem II and photosynthetic oxidation of water: an overview.

    Charilaos Goussias;Alain Boussac;A. William Rutherford

  • Biosynthetic Ca2+/Sr2+ Exchange in the Photosystem II Oxygen-evolving Enzyme of Thermosynechococcus elongatus

    Alain Boussac;Fabrice Rappaport;Patrick Carrier;Jean-Marc Verbavatz

  • Conversion of the Spin State of the Manganese Complex in Photosystem II Induced by Near-Infrared Light

    Boussac A;Girerd Jj;Rutherford Aw

  • Water Photolysis in Biology

    A. W. Rutherford;A. Boussac

  • CGFS-type monothiol glutaredoxins from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 and other evolutionary distant model organisms possess a glutathione-ligated [2Fe-2S] cluster.

    Antoine Picciocchi;Cyril Saguez;Alain Boussac;Corinne Cassier-Chauvat

  • Ammonia binding to the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II identifies the solvent-exchangeable oxygen bridge (μ-oxo) of the manganese tetramer

    Montserrat Pérez Navarro;William M. Ames;Håkan Nilsson;Thomas Lohmiller

  • Hydrogen Bonding of Redox-Active Tyrosine Z of Photosystem II Probed by FTIR Difference Spectroscopy†

    Catherine Berthomieu;Rainer Hienerwadel;Alain Boussac;Jacques Breton

  • X-ray crystallography identifies two chloride binding sites in the oxygen evolving centre of Photosystem II

    James W. Murray;Karim Maghlaoui;Joanna Kargul;Naoko Ishida

  • Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy of photosystem II tyrosine D using site-directed mutagenesis and specific isotope labeling.

    Rainer Hienerwadel;Alain Boussac;Jacques Breton;Bruce A. Diner

  • Rapid formation of the stable tyrosyl radical in photosystem II

    Peter Faller;Richard J. Debus;Klaus Brettel;Miwa Sugiura

  • A NEW MANGANESE DINUCLEAR COMPLEX WITH PHENOLATE LIGANDS AND A SINGLE UNSUPPORTED OXO BRIDGE. STORAGE OF TWO POSITIVE CHARGES WITHIN LESS THAN 500 MV. RELEVANCE TO PHOTOSYNTHESIS

    Olivier Horner;† Elodie Anxolabéhère-Mallart;† Marie-France Charlot;Lyuba Tchertanov

  • The stable tyrosyl radical in photosystem II: why D?

    A.William Rutherford;Alain Boussac;Peter Faller

  • Inhibition of tyrosine Z photooxidation after formation of the S3-state in calcium-depleted and chloride-depleted photosystem-II

    Boussac A;Sétif P;Rutherford Aw

Frequent Co-Authors

A. William Rutherford
A. William Rutherford Imperial College London
Fabrice Rappaport
Fabrice Rappaport Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rutherford Aw
Rutherford Aw Imperial College London
Takumi Noguchi
Takumi Noguchi Nagoya University
Johannes Messinger
Johannes Messinger Umeå University
Frank Neese
Frank Neese Max Planck Society
Jian-Ren Shen
Jian-Ren Shen Okayama University
Jacques Breton
Jacques Breton CEA Saclay
Dimitrios A. Pantazis
Dimitrios A. Pantazis Max Planck Society
Wolfgang Lubitz
Wolfgang Lubitz Max Planck Society

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