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D-Index
77
Citations
21882
World Ranking
3996
National Ranking
1268

Stephen W. Ragsdale 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 Stephen W. Ragsdale sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 264 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen W. Ragsdale 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 Stephen W. Ragsdale sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% 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

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Stephen W. Ragsdale is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions across related subfields including molecular biology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, cell biology, inorganic chemistry, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide, metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, hemoglobin structure and function, porphyrin metabolism and disorders, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, neonatal health and biochemistry, and enzyme structure and function.

Recent scholarly articles by Stephen W. Ragsdale include:

  • Structure determination of the HgcAB complex using metagenome sequence data: insights into microbial mercury methylation (2020), Communications Biology
  • Crystallographic Characterization of the Carbonylated A-Cluster in Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase/Acetyl-CoA Synthase (2020), ACS Catalysis
  • Ferric heme as a CO/NO sensor in the nuclear receptor Rev-Erbß by coupling gas binding to electron transfer (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Heme oxygenase-2 is post-translationally regulated by heme occupancy in the catalytic site (2020), Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • The heme-regulatory motifs of heme oxygenase-2 contribute to the transfer of heme to the catalytic site for degradation (2020), Journal of Biological Chemistry

Stephen W. Ragsdale frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Angela S. Fleischhacker
  • Ritimukta Sarangi
  • Liu Liu
  • Vittal K. Yachandra
  • Junko Yano

The scientist has published repeatedly in key venues such as the Journal of Biological Chemistry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of the American Chemical Society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.

Stephen W. Ragsdale was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Frontiers, Opportunities, and Challenges in Biochemical and Chemical Catalysis of CO2 Fixation

    Aaron M. Appel;John E. Bercaw;Andrew B. Bocarsly;Holger Dobbek

  • Acetogenesis and the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway of CO2 Fixation

    Stephen W. Ragsdale;Elizabeth Pierce

  • The many faces of vitamin B12: catalysis by cobalamin-dependent enzymes.

    Ruma Banerjee;Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • Structure, Function, and Mechanism of the Nickel Metalloenzymes,CO Dehydrogenase, and Acetyl-CoA Synthase

    Mehmet Can;Fraser A. Armstrong;Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • A Ni-Fe-Cu Center in a Bifunctional Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase/ Acetyl-CoA Synthase

    Tzanko I. Doukov;Tina M. Iverson;Javier Seravalli;Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • Life with carbon monoxide.

    Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • Efficient and Clean Photoreduction of CO2 to CO by Enzyme-Modified TiO2 Nanoparticles Using Visible Light

    Thomas W. Woolerton;Sally Sheard;Erwin Reisner;Elizabeth Pierce

  • Nickel-based Enzyme Systems

    Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • Nickel-Containing Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase/Acetyl-CoA Synthase†,‡

    Stephen W. Ragsdale;Manoj Kumar

  • Enzymology of the wood-Ljungdahl pathway of acetogenesis.

    Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • Enzymology of the acetyl-CoA pathway of CO2 fixation.

    Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • The complete genome sequence of Moorella thermoacetica (f. Clostridium thermoaceticum).

    Elizabeth Pierce;Gary Xie;Gary Xie;Ravi D. Barabote;Ravi D. Barabote;Elizabeth Saunders;Elizabeth Saunders

  • Properties of purified carbon monoxide dehydrogenase from Clostridium thermoaceticum, a nickel, iron-sulfur protein.

    S W Ragsdale;J E Clark;L G Ljungdahl;L L Lundie

  • Pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase and its radical intermediate.

    Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • The acetyl-CoA pathway of autotrophic growth

    Harland G. Wood;Steve W. Ragsdale;Ewa Pezacka

  • Rapid and efficient electrocatalytic CO2/CO interconversions by Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans CO dehydrogenase I on an electrode.

    Alison Parkin;Javier Seravalli;Kylie A. Vincent;Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • CO2 photoreduction at enzyme-modified metal oxide nanoparticles

    Thomas W. Woolerton;Sally Sheard;Elizabeth Pierce;Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • Metals and their scaffolds to promote difficult enzymatic reactions

    Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • The role of pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase in pyruvate synthesis during autotrophic growth by the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway

    Cristina Furdui;Stephen W. Ragsdale

  • Visible light-driven CO2 reduction by enzyme coupled CdS nanocrystals

    Yatendra S. Chaudhary;Yatendra S. Chaudhary;Thomas W. Woolerton;Christopher S. Allen;Jamie H. Warner

  • Mechanism of reductive activation of cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase: an electron paramagnetic resonance spectroelectrochemical study

    Ruma V. Banerjee;Scott R. Harder;Stephen W. Ragsdale;Rowena G. Matthews

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Cramer
Stephen P. Cramer Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Fraser A. Armstrong
Fraser A. Armstrong University of Oxford
Brian M. Hoffman
Brian M. Hoffman Northwestern University
Joshua Telser
Joshua Telser Roosevelt University
Ritimukta Sarangi
Ritimukta Sarangi SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Thomas G. Spiro
Thomas G. Spiro University of Washington
Thomas C. Brunold
Thomas C. Brunold University of Wisconsin–Madison
R. David Britt
R. David Britt University of California, Davis
Judy D. Wall
Judy D. Wall University of Missouri

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