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D-Index
60
Citations
8857
World Ranking
9963
National Ranking
194

Thomas R. Rizzo 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 Thomas R. Rizzo sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 204 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas R. Rizzo 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 Thomas R. Rizzo sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% 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

  • 2008 - Bourke Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1998 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For development and application of double resonance and infrared photodissociation techniques to studying unimolecular reactions and vibrational spectroscopy
  • 1991 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Thomas R. Rizzo is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans primarily the fields of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields including Spectroscopy, Molecular Biology, and Organic Chemistry. Additional work extends into Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as Nutrition and Dietetics.

The main topics of Thomas R. Rizzo's research include Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications, Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis, Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography, Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research.

Thomas R. Rizzo has frequently published in several notable scientific venues. Most frequently, their work appears in Analytical Chemistry, with a total of eight publications. Other frequent venues include The Analyst, the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, and ACS Measurement Science Au.

Recent publications by Thomas R. Rizzo include:

  • Using SLIM-Based IMS-IMS Together with Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy for Glycan Analysis (2020), Analytical Chemistry
  • Toward High-Throughput Cryogenic IR Fingerprinting of Mobility-Separated Glycan Isomers (2021), ACS Measurement Science Au
  • How General Is Anomeric Retention during Collision-Induced Dissociation of Glycans? (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Multistage Ion Mobility Spectrometry Combined with Infrared Spectroscopy for Glycan Analysis (2023), Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
  • Identification of Mobility-Resolved N-Glycan Isomers (2022), Analytical Chemistry

Throughout their career, Thomas R. Rizzo has collaborated extensively with several coauthors. The most frequent collaborators include Stephan Warnke, Ahmed Ben Faleh, Ali H. Abikhodr, Priyanka Bansal, and Vasyl Yatsyna.

Thomas R. Rizzo has received several awards, including the Bourke Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2008. They were also named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998, recognized for work on double resonance and infrared photodissociation techniques applied to studying unimolecular reactions and vibrational spectroscopy. Additionally, they are a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1991.

Best Publications

  • Spectroscopic studies of cold, gas-phase biomolecular ions

    Thomas R. Rizzo;Jaime A. Stearns;Oleg V. Boyarkin

  • Electronic spectroscopy of cold, protonated tryptophan and tyrosine

    Oleg V. Boyarkin;Sébastien R. Mercier;and Anthi Kamariotis;Thomas R. Rizzo

  • The electronic spectrum of the amino acid tryptophan in the gas phase

    Thomas R. Rizzo;Young D. Park;Linda A. Peteanu;Donald H. Levy

  • Vibrational Mode-Specific Reaction of Methane on a Nickel Surface

    Rainer D. Beck;Plinio Maroni;Dimitrios C. Papageorgopoulos;Tung T. Dang

  • Conformation-specific spectroscopy and photodissociation of cold, protonated tyrosine and phenylalanine.

    Jaime A. Stearns;Sébastien Mercier;Caroline Seaiby;Monia Guidi

  • Infrared spectroscopy of hydrated amino acids in the gas phase: protonated and lithiated valine.

    Anthi Kamariotis;Oleg V. Boyarkin;Sébastien R. Mercier;Rainer D. Beck

  • State-resolved gas-surface reactivity of methane in the symmetric C-H stretch vibration on Ni(100)

    Plinio Maroni;Dimitrios C. Papageorgopoulos;Marco Sacchi;Tung T. Dang

  • A new six-dimensional analytical potential up to chemically significant energies for the electronic ground state of hydrogen peroxide

    Bernd Kuhn;Thomas R. Rizzo;David Luckhaus;Martin Quack

  • Interplay of Intra- and Intermolecular H-Bonding in a Progressively Solvated Macrocyclic Peptide

    Natalia S. Nagornova;Thomas R. Rizzo;Oleg V. Boyarkin

  • Microsolvation effects on the excited-state dynamics of protonated tryptophan.

    Sébastien R. Mercier;Oleg V. Boyarkin;Anthi Kamariotis;Matteo Guglielmi

  • Spectroscopy and conformational preferences of gas-phase helices

    Jaime A. Stearns;Caroline Seaiby;Oleg V. Boyarkin;Thomas R. Rizzo

  • DISPERSED FLUORESCENCE OF JET-COOLED TRYPTOPHAN - EXCITED-STATE CONFORMERS AND INTRAMOLECULAR EXCIPLEX FORMATION

    Thomas R. Rizzo;Yong D. Park;Donald H. Levy

  • ELECTRONIC-SPECTRUM OF THE AMINO-ACID TRYPTOPHAN COOLED IN A SUPERSONIC MOLECULAR-BEAM

    Thomas R. Rizzo;Young D. Park;Linda Peteanu;Donald H. Levy

  • Spectroscopic Signatures of Gas-Phase Helices: Ac-Phe-(Ala)5-Lys-H+ and Ac-Phe-(Ala)10-Lys-H+

    Jaime A. Stearns;Oleg V. Boyarkin;Thomas R. Rizzo

  • A direct measurement of the dissociation energy of water

    Pavlo Maksyutenko;Thomas R. Rizzo;Oleg V. Boyarkin

  • Electronic spectroscopy of tryptophan analogs in supersonic jets: 3‐Indole acetic acid, 3‐indole propionic acid, tryptamine, and N‐acetyl tryptophan ethyl ester

    Young D. Park;Thomas R. Rizzo;Linda A. Peteanu;Donald H. Levy

  • Unimolecular reactions near threshold: The overtone vibration initiated decomposition of HOOH (5νOH)

    T. M. Ticich;T. R. Rizzo;H.‐R. Dübal;F. F. Crim

  • State-Resolved Product Detection in the Overtone Vibration Initiated Unimolecular Decomposition of HOOH(6 nu sub OH),

    T. R. Rizzo;C. C. Hayden;F. F. Crim

  • Product energy partitioning in the decompositiosn of state-selectively excited HOOH and HOOD

    Thomas R. Rizzo;Carl C. Hayden;F. Fleming Crim

  • Surface reactivity of highly vibrationally excited molecules prepared by pulsed laser excitation: CH4 (2ν3) on Ni(100)

    Mathieu P. Schmid;Plinio Maroni;Rainer D. Beck;Thomas R. Rizzo

  • Microsolvation Effects on the Excited-State Dynamics of Protonated Tryptophan

    Matteo Guglielmi;Sebastien Mercier;Oleg Boyarkin;Anthi Kamariotis

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald H. Levy
Donald H. Levy University of Chicago
David E. Clemmer
David E. Clemmer Indiana University
Ursula Rothlisberger
Ursula Rothlisberger École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ivano Tavernelli
Ivano Tavernelli IBM (United States)
F. Fleming Crim
F. Fleming Crim University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jonathan Tennyson
Jonathan Tennyson University College London
Takeharu Haino
Takeharu Haino Hiroshima University
Takayuki Ebata
Takayuki Ebata Hiroshima University
Martin Quack
Martin Quack ETH Zurich
R. Benny Gerber
R. Benny Gerber Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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