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D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
9957
World Ranking
12192
National Ranking
441

Nicolas Vitale publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 177 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Nicolas Vitale D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicolas Vitale sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Nicolas Vitale is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in medicine as well. The work of this scientist encompasses a range of subfields including molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and epidemiology.

The main research topics addressed by Nicolas Vitale involve cellular transport and secretion, lipid membrane structure and behavior, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, and calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism.

Recent publications by the scientist include:

  • Ral GTPases promote breast cancer metastasis by controlling biogenesis and organ targeting of exosomes, 2021, eLife
  • Extracellular Cu2+ pools and their detection: From current knowledge to next-generation probes, 2021, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • ORP5 and ORP8 orchestrate lipid droplet biogenesis and maintenance at ER-mitochondria contact sites, 2022, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Mono- and Poly-unsaturated Phosphatidic Acid Regulate Distinct Steps of Regulated Exocytosis in Neuroendocrine Cells, 2020, Cell Reports
  • High prevalence for obesity in severe COVID-19: Possible links and perspectives towards patient stratification, 2020, Biochimie

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Nicolas Vitale include:

  • Stéphane Gasman
  • Stéphane Ory
  • Émeline Tanguy
  • Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz
  • Alexander Wolf

The venues where Nicolas Vitale has published most frequently are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Advances in Biological Regulation
  • Cells
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Cancer Letters

Best Publications

  • Syntenin-ALIX exosome biogenesis and budding into multivesicular bodies are controlled by ARF6 and PLD2.

    Rania Ghossoub;Frédérique Lembo;Aude Rubio;Carole Baron Gaillard

  • beta2-Adrenergic receptor regulation by GIT1, a G protein-coupled receptor kinase-associated ADP ribosylation factor GTPase-activating protein.

    Richard T. Premont;Audrey Claing;Nicolas Vitale;Jennifer L. R. Freeman

  • β-Arrestin-mediated ADP-ribosylation Factor 6 Activation and β2-Adrenergic Receptor Endocytosis

    Audrey Claing;Wei Chen;William E. Miller;Nicolas Vitale

  • Phospholipase D1: a key factor for the exocytotic machinery in neuroendocrine cells

    Nicolas Vitale;Anne‐Sophie Caumont;Sylvette Chasserot‐Golaz;Guangwei Du

  • Scrib Controls Cdc42 Localization and Activity to Promote Cell Polarization during Astrocyte Migration

    Naël Osmani;Nicolas Vitale;Jean-Paul Borg;Sandrine Etienne-Manneville;Sandrine Etienne-Manneville

  • Mammalian Scribble Forms a Tight Complex with the βPIX Exchange Factor

    Stéphane Audebert;Christel Navarro;Claire Nourry;Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz

  • Phospholipase D1 Production of Phosphatidic Acid at the Plasma Membrane Promotes Exocytosis of Large Dense-core Granules at a Late Stage

    Maria Zeniou-Meyer;Naama Zabari;Uri Ashery;Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz

  • Regulated Exocytosis in Chromaffin Cells TRANSLOCATION OF ARF6 STIMULATES A PLASMA MEMBRANE-ASSOCIATED PHOSPHOLIPASE D

    Anne-Sophie Caumont;Marie-Christine Galas;Nicolas Vitale;Dominique Aunis

  • Regulation of phospholipase D1 subcellular cycling through coordination of multiple membrane association motifs

    Guangwei Du;Yelena M. Altshuller;Nicolas Vitale;Ping Huang

  • A role for phospholipase D1 in neurotransmitter release.

    Yann Humeau;Nicolas Vitale;Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz;Jean-Luc Dupont

  • GIT proteins, A novel family of phosphatidylinositol 3,4, 5-trisphosphate-stimulated GTPase-activating proteins for ARF6.

    Nicolas Vitale;Walter A. Patton;Joel Moss;Martha Vaughan

  • Annexin 2 promotes the formation of lipid microdomains required for calcium-regulated exocytosis of dense-core vesicles.

    Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz;Nicolas Vitale;Emeline Umbrecht-Jenck;Derek Knight

  • The GIT family of ADP-ribosylation factor GTPase-activating proteins. Functional diversity of GIT2 through alternative splicing.

    Richard T. Premont;Audrey Claing;Nicolas Vitale;Stephen J. Perry

  • Dynamics and function of phospholipase D and phosphatidic acid during phagocytosis

    Matthias Corrotte;Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz;Ping Huang;Guangwei Du

  • SNARE-catalyzed fusion events are regulated by Syntaxin1A-lipid interactions

    Alice D. Lam;Petra Tryoen-Toth;Bill Tsai;Nicolas Vitale

  • REGULATED EXOCYTOSIS IN CHROMAFFIN CELLS : A POTENTIAL ROLE FOR A SECRETORY GRANULE-ASSOCIATED ARF6 PROTEIN

    Marie-Christine Galas;J. Bernd Helms;J. Bernd Helms;Nicolas Vitale;Danièle Thiersé

  • Exocytosis in chromaffin cells. Possible involvement of the heterotrimeric GTP-binding protein G(o).

    N Vitale;H Mukai;B Rouot;D Thiersé

  • Calcium-regulated exocytosis of dense-core vesicles requires the activation of ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF)6 by ARF nucleotide binding site opener at the plasma membrane.

    Nicolas Vitale;Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz;Yannick Bailly;Naoko Morinaga

  • Coupling actin and membrane dynamics during calcium-regulated exocytosis: a role for Rho and ARF GTPases.

    Marie-France Bader;Frédéric Doussau;Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz;Nicolas Vitale

  • Annexin II in exocytosis: catecholamine secretion requires the translocation of p36 to the subplasmalemmal region in chromaffin cells.

    S Chasserot-Golaz;N Vitale;I Sagot;B Delouche

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie-France Bader
Marie-France Bader Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz
Sylvette Chasserot-Golaz Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Joel Moss
Joel Moss National Institutes of Health
Martha Vaughan
Martha Vaughan National Institutes of Health
Dominique Aunis
Dominique Aunis Inserm
Catherine A. Royer
Catherine A. Royer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Richard T. Premont
Richard T. Premont University Hospitals of Cleveland
Paul Timpson
Paul Timpson Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Michael A. Frohman
Michael A. Frohman Stony Brook University
Jamel Chelly
Jamel Chelly Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology

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