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R. David Britt

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Chemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
17916
World Ranking
5272
National Ranking
1643

R. David Britt 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 R. David Britt sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 308 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

R. David Britt 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 R. David Britt sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Bioinorganic Chemistry Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

R. David Britt is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with significant contributions to materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, inorganic chemistry, molecular biology, and organic chemistry.

Their work spans several key scientific topics, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes

R. David Britt has published extensively, with frequent appearances in several scholarly journals and databases. Notably, their highest number of publications is found in The Cambridge Structural Database, followed by the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Biochemistry, Science, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Ultrahard magnetism from mixed-valence dilanthanide complexes with metal-metal bonding, 2022, Science
  • Biosynthesis of fluopsin C, a copper-containing antibiotic from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 2021, Science
  • A Uranium(II) Arene Complex That Acts as a Uranium(I) Synthon, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Bioassembly of complex iron-sulfur enzymes: hydrogenases and nitrogenases, 2020, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Reactive high-spin iron(IV)-oxo sites through dioxygen activation in a metal-organic framework, 2023, Science

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Guodong Rao, Lizhi Tao, David A. Marchiori, Colin A. Gould, and Jeffrey R. Long.

R. David Britt has been recognized with the Bioinorganic Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2019 and was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Molecular tuning of CO2-to-ethylene conversion.

    Fengwang Li;Arnaud Thevenon;Alonso Rosas-Hernández;Ziyun Wang

  • Electrochemical Water Oxidation with Cobalt-Based Electrocatalysts from pH 0–14: The Thermodynamic Basis for Catalyst Structure, Stability, and Activity

    James B. Gerken;J. Gregory McAlpin;Jamie Y. C. Chen;Matthew L. Rigsby

  • Ultrahard magnetism from mixed-valence dilanthanide complexes with metal-metal bonding

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  • EPR evidence for Co(IV) species produced during water oxidation at neutral pH.

    J Gregory McAlpin;Yogesh Surendranath;Mircea Dinca;Troy A Stich

  • 55Mn ENDOR of the S2-State Multiline EPR Signal of Photosystem II: Implications on the Structure of the Tetranuclear Mn Cluster

    Jeffery M Peloquin;Kristy A Campbell;David W. Randall;Mark A Evanchik

  • Synthetic model of the asymmetric [Mn3CaO4] cubane core of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II

    Shreya Mukherjee;Jamie A. Stull;Junko Yano;Theocharis C. Stamatatos

  • EPR/ENDOR characterization of the physical and electronic structure of the OEC Mn cluster.

    Jeffrey M. Peloquin;R.David Britt

  • Recent pulsed EPR studies of the photosystem II oxygen-evolving complex: implications as to water oxidation mechanisms.

    R.David Britt;Kristy A Campbell;Jeffrey M Peloquin;M.Lane Gilchrist

  • A protein fold switch joins the circadian oscillator to clock output in cyanobacteria

    Yong-Gang Chang;Susan E. Cohen;Connie Phong;William K. Myers

  • General and efficient simulation of pulse EPR spectra

    Stefan Stoll;R. David Britt

  • Proximity of the manganese cluster of photosystem II to the redox-active tyrosine YZ.

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  • A High-Spin Iron(IV)–Oxo Complex Supported by a Trigonal Nonheme Pyrrolide Platform

    Julian P. Bigi;S.W.Hill Harman;Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser;Damon M. Robles

  • Ammonia binds to the catalytic manganese of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Evidence by electron spin-echo envelope modulation spectroscopy

    R. David Britt;Jean Luc Zimmermann;Kenneth Sauer;Melvin P. Klein

  • Dual-Mode EPR Study of Mn(III) Salen and the Mn(III) Salen-Catalyzed Epoxidation of cis-β-Methylstyrene

    Kristy A. Campbell;Matthew R. Lashley;Justin K. Wyatt;Michael H. Nantz

  • Electronic structure description of a [Co(III)3Co(IV)O4] cluster: a model for the paramagnetic intermediate in cobalt-catalyzed water oxidation.

    J. Gregory McAlpin;Troy A. Stich;C. Andre Ohlin;Yogesh Surendranath

  • Spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of the trinuclear Cu cluster active site of the multicopper oxidase laccase: nature of its coordination unsaturation.

    Liliana Quintanar;Jungjoo Yoon;Constantino P Aznar;Amy E Palmer

  • Dual-Mode EPR Detects the Initial Intermediate in Photoassembly of the Photosystem II Mn Cluster: The Influence of Amino Acid Residue 170 of the D1 Polypeptide on Mn Coordination

    Kristy A. Campbell;Dee Ann Force;Peter J. Nixon;François Dole

  • Identification of histidine at the catalytic site of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex.

    Xiao-Song Tang;B. A. Diner;B. S. Larsen;M. L. Gilchrist

  • The state of manganese in the photosynthetic apparatus

    Vittal K. Yachandra;R.D. Guiles;Ann McDermott;R.David Britt

  • 55Mn Pulsed ENDOR Demonstrates That the Photosystem II “Split” EPR Signal Arises from a Magnetically-Coupled Mangano−Tyrosyl Complex

    Jeffrey M. Peloquin;and Kristy A. Campbell;R. David Britt

  • 55Mn ESE-ENDOR of a Mixed Valence Mn(III)Mn(IV) Complex: Comparison with the Mn Cluster of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Complex

    David W. Randall;Bradley E. Sturgeon;James A. Ball;Gary A. Lorigan

  • Manganese−Tyrosine Interaction in the Photosystem II Oxygen-Evolving Complex

    Xiao-Song Tang, ,§;David W. Randall;Dee Ann Force;Bruce A. Diner, ,§ and

Frequent Co-Authors

John Arnold
John Arnold University of California, Berkeley
Stephen P. Cramer
Stephen P. Cramer Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
James R. Swartz
James R. Swartz Stanford University
Kenneth Sauer
Kenneth Sauer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael A. Marletta
Michael A. Marletta University of California, Berkeley
Richard J. Debus
Richard J. Debus University of California, Riverside
Thomas G. Spiro
Thomas G. Spiro University of Washington
Bradley M. Tebo
Bradley M. Tebo Oregon Health & Science University
Philip P. Power
Philip P. Power University of California, Davis
James C. Fettinger
James C. Fettinger University of California, Davis

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