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D-Index
80
Citations
19032
World Ranking
3495
National Ranking
81

Roberta Croce 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 Roberta Croce sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 284 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Roberta Croce 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 Roberta Croce sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Roberta Croce is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work extends into several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Plant Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Renewable Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment.

The core topics of Croce's research concentrate on photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies. Further topics include light effects on plants, algal biology and biofuel production, electrochemical analysis and applications, and antioxidant activity and oxidative stress.

Notable recent scientific publications by Croce include:

  • Light harvesting in oxygenic photosynthesis: Structural biology meets spectroscopy, 2020, Science
  • Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield, 2024, The Plant Cell

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include Wojciech J. Nawrocki, Eduard Elias, Vincenzo Mascoli, Chen Hu, and Nicoletta Liguori, indicating continued partnerships across multiple studies.

Croce's work has been published frequently in several scientific venues. The most common are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
  • Photosynthesis Research
  • The Plant Cell

Best Publications

  • Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

    Donald R. Ort;Donald R. Ort;Sabeeha S. Merchant;Jean Alric;Alice Barkan

  • Natural strategies for photosynthetic light harvesting

    Roberta Croce;Herbert van Amerongen

  • Functional architecture of higher plant photosystem II supercomplexes

    Stefano Caffarri;Roman Kouril;Sami Kereiche;Egbert J. Boekema

  • Photosynthetic Quantum Yield Dynamics: From Photosystems to Leaves

    Sander W. Hogewoning;Emilie Wientjes;Emilie Wientjes;Peter Douwstra;Govert Trouwborst

  • Light harvesting in oxygenic photosynthesis: Structural biology meets spectroscopy

    Roberta Croce;Herbert van Amerongen

  • Light-harvesting in photosystem I

    Roberta Croce;Herbert van Amerongen

  • Far-red fluorescence: a direct spectroscopic marker for LHCII oligomer formation in non-photochemical quenching.

    Yuliya Miloslavina;Antje Wehner;Petar H. Lambrev;Emilie Wientjes

  • Carotenoid-binding Sites of the Major Light-harvesting Complex II of Higher Plants

    Roberta Croce;Saskia Weiss;Roberto Bassi

  • High-light vs. low-light: Effect of light acclimation on photosystem II composition and organization in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Roman Kouřil;Emilie Wientjes;Jelle B. Bultema;Roberta Croce

  • Mutational analysis of a higher plant antenna protein provides identification of chromophores bound into multiple sites

    Roberto Bassi;Roberta Croce;Daniela Cugini;Dorianna Sandonà

  • The major antenna complex of photosystem II has a xanthophyll binding site not involved in light harvesting.

    Stefano Caffarri;Roberta Croce;Jacques Breton;Roberto Bassi

  • Carotenoid-to-chlorophyll energy transfer in recombinant major light-harvesting complex (LHCII) of higher plants. I. Femtosecond transient absorption measurements.

    Roberta Croce;Marc G. Müller;Roberto Bassi;Alfred R. Holzwarth

  • Chlorophyll Binding to Monomeric Light-harvesting Complex A MUTATION ANALYSIS OF CHROMOPHORE-BINDING RESIDUES

    Rosaria Remelli;Claudio Varotto;Dorianna Sandonà;Roberta Croce

  • LHCII is an antenna of both photosystems after long-term acclimation.

    Emilie Wientjes;Herbert van Amerongen;Roberta Croce

  • Chromophore organization in the higher-plant photosystem II antenna protein CP26.

    Roberta Croce;Giusy Canino;Francesca Ros;Roberto Bassi

  • Photoprotection in the Antenna Complexes of Photosystem II ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL XANTHOPHYLLS IN CHLOROPHYLL TRIPLET QUENCHING

    Milena Mozzo;Luca Dall'Osto;Rainer Hienerwadel;Roberto Bassi

  • Singlet Energy Dissipation in the Photosystem II Light‐Harvesting Complex Does Not Involve Energy Transfer to Carotenoids

    Marc G. Müller;Petar Lambrev;Michael Reus;Emilie Wientjes

  • The Lhca antenna complexes of higher plants photosystem I

    Roberta Croce;Tomas Morosinotto;Simona Castelletti;Jacques Breton

  • The nature of a chlorophyll ligand in Lhca proteins determines the far red fluorescence emission typical of photosystem I.

    Tomas Morosinotto;Tomas Morosinotto;Jacques Breton;Roberto Bassi;Roberto Bassi;Roberta Croce

  • Light-harvesting and structural organization of Photosystem II: From individual complexes to thylakoid membrane

    Roberta Croce;Herbert van Amerongen

  • Excited state equilibration in the photosystem I-light-harvesting I complex : P700 is almost isoenergetic with its antenna

    Roberta Croce;Giuseppe Zucchelli;Flavio M. Garlaschi;Roberto Bassi

  • Light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) and its supramolecular organization in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Bartlomiej Drop;Mariam Webber-Birungi;Sathish K. N. Yadav;Alicja Filipowicz-Szymanska

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Bassi
Roberto Bassi University of Verona
Herbert van Amerongen
Herbert van Amerongen Wageningen University & Research
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rienk van Grondelle
Rienk van Grondelle Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tomas Morosinotto
Tomas Morosinotto University of Padua
Alfred R. Holzwarth
Alfred R. Holzwarth Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Egbert J. Boekema
Egbert J. Boekema University of Groningen
Jacques Breton
Jacques Breton CEA Saclay
Jan P. Dekker
Jan P. Dekker Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ralph Bock
Ralph Bock Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology

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