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Anne-Laure Barra

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
41
Citations
5472
World Ranking
17799
National Ranking
790

Anne-Laure Barra 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 Anne-Laure Barra sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 131 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Anne-Laure Barra 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 Anne-Laure Barra sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Anne-Laure Barra is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Materials Science, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy, and Biophysics.

The scientist's work addresses multiple main topics spanning crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, magnetism in coordination complexes, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, advanced NMR techniques and applications, electron spin resonance studies, and molecular junctions and nanostructures.

Among recent scientific contributions, notable papers include:

  • Quantum dynamics of a single molecule magnet on superconducting Pb(111), 2020, published in Nature Materials
  • Graphite Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Investigation, 2023, published in Chemistry of Materials
  • The Origin of Magnetic Anisotropy and Single-Molecule Magnet Behavior in Chromium(II)-Based Extended Metal Atom Chains, 2020, published in Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemical tuning of spin clock transitions in molecular monomers based on nuclear spin-free Ni(II), 2021, published in Chemical Science
  • Playing with Magnetic Anisotropy in Hexacoordinated Mononuclear Ni(II) Complexes, An Interplay Between Symmetry and Geometry, 2020, published in Applied Magnetic Resonance

Anne-Laure Barra frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Their most frequent coauthors include:

  • Andrea Cornia, with 14 joint publications
  • Roberta Sessoli, with 13 joint publications
  • Federico Totti, with 11 joint publications
  • Edwige Otero, with 10 joint publications
  • Philippe Sainctavit, with 10 joint publications

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues, with the highest number of contributions in The Cambridge Structural Database. Other frequent publication venues include Chemistry of Materials, Applied Magnetic Resonance, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, and Zenodo at the CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research.

Best Publications

  • Alternating current susceptibility, high field magnetization, and millimeter band EPR evidence for a ground S = 10 state in [Mn12O12(Ch3COO)16(H2O)4].2CH3COOH.4H2O

    Andrea Caneschi;Dante Gatteschi;Roberta Sessoli;Anne Laure Barra

  • Superparamagnetic-like behavior in an octanuclear iron cluster

    A.-L. Barra;P. Debrunner;D. Gatteschi;Ch. E. Schulz

  • Single-Molecule Magnet Behavior of a Tetranuclear Iron(III) Complex. The Origin of Slow Magnetic Relaxation in Iron(III) Clusters

    A. L. Barra;A. Caneschi;Andrea Cornia;F. Fabrizi De Biani

  • High-frequency EPR spectra of a molecular nanomagnet: Understanding quantum tunneling of the magnetization

    Anne Laure Barra;Dante Gatteschi;Roberta Sessoli

  • How Perfect Can Graphene Be

    Petr Neugebauer;Milan Orlita;Milan Orlita;Clément Faugeras;Anne-Laure Barra

  • Magnetic anisotropy of the antiferromagnetic ring [Cr8F8Piv16].

    Joris van Slageren;Roberta Sessoli;Dante Gatteschi;Andrew A. Smith

  • Tuning anisotropy barriers in a family of tetrairon(III) single-molecule magnets with an S=5 ground state

    Stefania Accorsi;Anne-Laure Barra;Andrea Caneschi;Guillaume Chastanet

  • EPR spectroscopy at very high field

    A.L. Barra;L.C. Brunel;J.B. Robert

  • Magnetic properties of high-nuclearity spin clusters. Fourteen- and fifteen-oxovanadium(IV) clusters

    Anne Laure Barra;Dante Gatteschi;Luca Pardi;Achim Mueller

  • Electronic Structure of Manganese(III) Compounds from High-frequency EPR Spectra

    Anne‐Laure Barra;Dante Gatteschi;Roberta Sessoli;Gian Luca Abbati

  • Ising-type magnetic anisotropy and single molecule magnet behaviour in mononuclear trigonal bipyramidal Co(II) complexes

    Renaud Ruamps;Luke J. Batchelor;Régis Guillot;Georges Zakhia

  • High-Frequency EPR Spectra of [Fe8O2(OH)12(tacn)6]Br8: A Critical Appraisal of the Barrier for the Reorientation of the Magnetization in Single-Molecule Magnets

    Anne Laure Barra;Dante Gatteschi;Roberta Sessoli

  • Origin of second-order transverse magnetic anisotropy in Mn12-acetate.

    Andrea Cornia;R. Sessoli;L. Sorace;D. Gatteschi

  • Enhanced ion anisotropy by nonconventional coordination geometry: single-chain magnet behavior for a [{Fe(II)L}2{Nb(IV)(CN)8}] helical chain compound designed with heptacoordinate Fe(II).

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  • Giant Ising-type magnetic anisotropy in trigonal bipyramidal Ni(II) complexes: experiment and theory.

    Renaud Ruamps;Rémi Maurice;Luke Batchelor;Martial Boggio-Pasqua

  • High-frequency EPR spectra of

    Barra Al;Gatteschi D;Sessoli R

  • Origin of the magnetic anisotropy in heptacoordinate Ni(II) and Co(II) complexes.

    Renaud Ruamps;Luke J. Batchelor;Rémi Maurice;Rémi Maurice;Rémi Maurice;Nayanmoni Gogoi;Nayanmoni Gogoi

  • Energy-barrier enhancement by ligand substitution in tetrairon(III) single-molecule magnets.

    Andrea Cornia;Antonio C. Fabretti;Pierfrancesco Garrisi;Cecilia Mortalò

  • High-Frequency EPR Spectroscopy of Large Metal Ion Clusters: From Zero Field Splitting to Quantum Tunneling of the Magnetization

    Anne-Laure Barra;Louis-Claude Brunel;Dante Gatteschi;Luca Pardi

  • Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Intermolecular Interactions in a New Family of Mn4 Complexes with an Energy Barrier to Magnetization Reversal

    Colette Boskovic;Roland Bircher;Philip L. W. Tregenna-Piggott;Hans U. Güdel

  • The magnetic möbius strip: synthesis, structure, and magnetic studies of odd-numbered antiferromagnetically coupled wheels.

    Olivier Cador;Dante Gatteschi;Roberta Sessoli;Finn K. Larsen

  • EPR of molecular nanomagnets

    Dante Gatteschi;Anne Laure Barra;Andrea Caneschi;Andrea Cornia

  • Very Large Ising‐Type Magnetic Anisotropy in a Mononuclear NiII Complex

    Guillaume Rogez;Guillaume Rogez;Jean‐Noël Rebilly;Anne‐Laure Barra;Lorenzo Sorace

  • [ReF6]2−: A Robust Module for the Design of Molecule-Based Magnetic Materials†

    Kasper S. Pedersen;Kasper S. Pedersen;Marc Sigrist;Mikkel A. Sørensen;Anne-Laure Barra

  • Molecule-Based Magnets: Ferro- and Antiferromagnetic Interactions in Copper(II)-Polyorganosiloxanolate Clusters.

    Eva Rentschler;Dante Gatteschi;Andrea Cornia;Antonio C. Fabretti

  • Single-molecule-magnet carbon-nanotube hybrids.

    Lapo Bogani;Chiara Danieli;Elisa Biavardi;Nedjnta Bendiab

  • Magnetostructural correlations in Tetrairon(III) single-molecule magnets.

    Luisa Gregoli;Chiara Danieli;Anne-Laure Barra;Petr Neugebauer

  • Large Magnetic Anisotropy in Pentacoordinate NiII Complexes

    Jean-Noël Rebilly;Gaëlle Charron;Eric Rivière;Régis Guillot

  • The origin of transverse anisotropy in axially symmetric single molecule magnets.

    Anne-Laure Barra;Andrea Caneschi;Andrea Cornia;Dante Gatteschi

  • Examples of high-frequency EPR studies in bioinorganic chemistry.

    K. Kristoffer Andersson;Peter P. Schmidt;Peter P. Schmidt;Bettina Katterle;Bettina Katterle;Kari R. Strand

  • Graphite Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Investigation

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  • Is the axial zero-field splitting parameter of tetragonally elongated high-spin manganese(III) complexes always negative?

    Susanne Mossin;Høgni Weihe;Anne-Laure Barra

  • Efficient cross-effect dynamic nuclear polarization without depolarization in high-resolution MAS NMR.

    Frédéric Mentink-Vigier;Guinevere Mathies;Yangping Liu;Anne-Laure Barra

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberta Sessoli
Roberta Sessoli University of Florence
Dante Gatteschi
Dante Gatteschi University of Florence
Andrea Cornia
Andrea Cornia University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Lorenzo Sorace
Lorenzo Sorace University of Florence
Talal Mallah
Talal Mallah University of Paris-Saclay
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Régis Guillot
Régis Guillot University of Paris-Saclay
Grigore A. Timco
Grigore A. Timco University of Manchester
Eric Rivière
Eric Rivière University of Paris-Saclay
Andrea Caneschi
Andrea Caneschi University of Florence

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