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Ville R. I. Kaila

Ville R. I. Kaila

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
46
Citations
6454
World Ranking
16177
National Ranking
242

Ville R. I. Kaila 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 Ville R. I. Kaila sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 191 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ville R. I. Kaila 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 Ville R. I. Kaila sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ville R. I. Kaila is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology. Their research spans across several specialized subfields including Materials Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The core topics of Ville R. I. Kaila's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, ATP Synthase and ATPases Research, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Enzyme Structure and Function, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Ville R. I. Kaila are:

  • Architecture of bacterial respiratory chains, 2021, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Structure of inhibitor-bound mammalian complex I, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Conformational dynamics modulate the catalytic activity of the molecular chaperone Hsp90, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Reciprocal Coupling in Chemically Fueled Assembly: A Reaction Cycle Regulates Self-Assembly and Vice Versa, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Redox-coupled proton pumping drives carbon concentration in the photosynthetic complex I, 2020, Nature Communications

Ville R. I. Kaila collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors, including Ana P. Gámiz-Hernández, Patricia Saura, Sophie L. Mader, Alexander Jussupow, and Maximilian C. Pöverlein.

The primary venues for their publications include Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Proton-coupled electron transfer in cytochrome oxidase.

    Ville R. I. Kaila;Michael I. Verkhovsky;Mårten Wikström

  • New Perspectives on Proton Pumping in Cellular Respiration

    Mårten Wikström;Vivek Sharma;Ville R. I. Kaila;Jonathan P. Hosler

  • Architecture of bacterial respiratory chains.

    Ville R I Kaila;Mårten Wikström

  • Watching a signaling protein function in real time via 100-ps time-resolved Laue crystallography

    Friedrich Schotte;Hyun Sun Cho;Ville R. I. Kaila;Hironari Kamikubo

  • Glutamic acid 242 is a valve in the proton pump of cytochrome c oxidase

    Ville R. I. Kaila;Michael I. Verkhovsky;Gerhard Hummer;Mårten Wikström

  • Long-range proton-coupled electron transfer in biological energy conversion: towards mechanistic understanding of respiratory complex I

    Ville R. I. Kaila

  • Benchmarking the Performance of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Methods on Biochromophores.

    Yihan Shao;Ye Mei;Dage Sundholm;Ville R. I. Kaila

  • Redox-induced activation of the proton pump in the respiratory complex I

    Vivek Sharma;Galina Belevich;Ana P. Gamiz-Hernandez;Tomasz Róg

  • Site-specific ubiquitylation and SUMOylation using genetic-code expansion and sortase.

    Maximilian Fottner;Andreas-David Brunner;Verena Bittl;Daniel Horn-Ghetko

  • The low spin - high spin equilibrium in the S2-state of the water oxidizing enzyme

    Alain Boussac;Ilke Ugur;Antoine Marion;Miwa Sugiura

  • Redox-coupled substrate water reorganization in the active site of Photosystem II - the role of calcium in substrate water delivery

    Ilke Ugur;A. William Rutherford;Ville R.I. Kaila

  • Symmetry-related proton transfer pathways in respiratory complex I.

    Andrea Di Luca;Ana P. Gamiz-Hernandez;Ville R. I. Kaila

  • Electrostatics, hydration, and proton transfer dynamics in the membrane domain of respiratory complex I

    Ville R.I. Kaila;Ville R.I. Kaila;Mårten Wikström;Gerhard Hummer

  • The identity of the transient proton loading site of the proton-pumping mechanism of cytochrome c oxidase

    Ville R.I. Kaila;Vivek Sharma;Mårten Wikström

  • Correlating kinetic and structural data on ubiquinone binding and reduction by respiratory complex I.

    Justin G. Fedor;Andrew J. Y. Jones;Andrea Di Luca;Ville R. I. Kaila

  • Structure of inhibitor-bound mammalian complex I

    Hannah R. Bridges;Justin G. Fedor;James N. Blaza;James N. Blaza;Andrea Di Luca;Andrea Di Luca

  • Conformational processing of oncogenic v-Src kinase by the molecular chaperone Hsp90

    Edgar E. Boczek;Lasse G. Reefschläger;Marco Dehling;Tobias J. Struller

  • Redox-coupled quinone dynamics in the respiratory complex I

    Judith Warnau;Judith Warnau;Vivek Sharma;Ana Patricia L Gámiz-Hernández;Andrea Di Luca

  • Accessory NUMM (NDUFS6) subunit harbors a Zn-binding site and is essential for biogenesis of mitochondrial complex I.

    Katarzyna Kmita;Christophe Wirth;Judith Warnau;Sergio Guerrero-Castillo;Sergio Guerrero-Castillo

  • Energetics and dynamics of a light-driven sodium-pumping rhodopsin

    Carl-Mikael Suomivuori;Carl-Mikael Suomivuori;Ana P. Gamiz-Hernandez;Dage Sundholm;Ville R. I. Kaila

  • Conformational dynamics modulate the catalytic activity of the molecular chaperone Hsp90.

    Sophie L. Mader;Abraham Lopez;Jannis Lawatscheck;Qi Luo;Qi Luo

  • Protein-Induced Color Shift of Carotenoids in β-Crustacyanin.

    Ana P. Gamiz‐Hernandez;Iva Neycheva Angelova;Robert Send;Dage Sundholm

Frequent Co-Authors

Mårten Wikström
Mårten Wikström University of Helsinki
Gerhard Hummer
Gerhard Hummer Max Planck Society
Dage Sundholm
Dage Sundholm University of Helsinki
Johannes Buchner
Johannes Buchner Technical University of Munich
Michael Groll
Michael Groll Technical University of Munich
Michael I. Verkhovsky
Michael I. Verkhovsky University of Helsinki
Michael Sattler
Michael Sattler Technical University of Munich
Helge B. Bode
Helge B. Bode Goethe University Frankfurt
Ulrich Brandt
Ulrich Brandt Radboud University
Alain Boussac
Alain Boussac Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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