C. Piras

3.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
11 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

C. Piras is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Piras has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 6 papers in Materials Chemistry and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in C. Piras's work include Hydrogen Storage and Materials (5 papers), Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (5 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (3 papers). C. Piras is often cited by papers focused on Hydrogen Storage and Materials (5 papers), Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (5 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (3 papers). C. Piras collaborates with scholars based in France, Chile and Sweden. C. Piras's co-authors include Juan C. Fontecilla‐Camps, Michel Frey, Anne Volbeda, E. Claude Hatchikian, Claude E. Hatchikian, Pierre Legrand, Yvain Nicolet, Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps, Marie‐Hélène Charon and Elsa D. Garcin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

C. Piras

11 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Crystal structure of the nickel–iron hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio gigas

1995 1.3k citations Anne Volbeda, Marie‐Hélène Charon et al. Nature profile →
Desulfovibrio desulfuricans iron hydrogenase: the structure shows unusual coordination to an active site Fe binuclear center

1999 1.2k citations Yvain Nicolet, C. Piras et al. Structure profile →
Structure of the [NiFe] Hydrogenase Active Site: Evidence for Biologically Uncommon Fe Ligands

1996 539 citations Anne Volbeda, Elsa D. Garcin et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. Piras France	7	2.8k	801	664	589	444	11	3.1k
Carole Baffert France	35	2.0k 0.7×	861 1.1×	778 1.2×	870 1.5×	484 1.1×	61	3.2k
Hideaki Ogata Germany	25	3.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	876 1.3×	991 1.7×	631 1.4×	62	4.5k
Gustav Berggren Sweden	28	2.5k 0.9×	753 0.9×	789 1.2×	797 1.4×	551 1.2×	78	3.1k
Olaf Rüdiger Germany	31	3.5k 1.3×	1.0k 1.3×	672 1.0×	1.8k 3.1×	388 0.9×	58	4.5k
Erica J. Lyon United States	13	1.8k 0.7×	614 0.8×	601 0.9×	383 0.7×	145 0.3×	14	2.0k
Claude E. Hatchikian France	19	1.6k 0.6×	473 0.6×	396 0.6×	402 0.7×	391 0.9×	26	2.1k
Gerald D. Watt United States	31	1.1k 0.4×	468 0.6×	324 0.5×	379 0.6×	912 2.1×	114	2.9k
Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps France	14	1.5k 0.5×	410 0.5×	439 0.7×	365 0.6×	272 0.6×	18	1.8k
Vincent Fourmond France	37	3.6k 1.3×	755 0.9×	496 0.7×	1.9k 3.3×	544 1.2×	98	4.4k
Sven T. Stripp Germany	32	2.2k 0.8×	516 0.6×	520 0.8×	654 1.1×	500 1.1×	67	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. Piras

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Piras, C., Renée Båge, Göran Andersson, et al.. (2014). 159 CHANGES IN PROTEIN EXPRESSION PROFILES IN BOVINE ENDOMETRIAL EPITHELIAL CELLS (bEEC) FOLLOWING E. COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE CHALLENGE. Reproduction Fertility and Development. 27(1). 170–170. 1 indexed citations

Contreras‐Martel, Carlos, José Martínez‐Oyanedel, Marta Bunster, et al.. (2001). Crystallization and 2.2 Å resolution structure of R-phycoerythrin fromGracilaria chilensis: a case of perfect hemihedral twinning. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 57(1). 52–60. 49 indexed citations

Nicolet, Yvain, C. Piras, Pierre Legrand, Claude E. Hatchikian, & Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps. (1999). Desulfovibrio desulfuricans iron hydrogenase: the structure shows unusual coordination to an active site Fe binuclear center. Structure. 7(1). 13–23. 1183 indexed citations breakdown →

Mazza, Gilbert, Dominique Housset, C. Piras, et al.. (1999). Structural features of the interaction between an anti-clonotypic antibody and its cognate T-cell antigen receptor. Journal of Molecular Biology. 287(4). 773–780. 4 indexed citations

Mazza, Gilbert, Dominique Housset, C. Piras, et al.. (1998). Glimpses at the recognition of peptide/MHC complexes by T‐cell antigen receptors. Immunological Reviews. 163(1). 187–196. 19 indexed citations

Gruez, Arnaud, et al.. (1998). X-ray crystallographic analysis of the heterotrimeric globular heads of human C1q. Molecular Immunology. 35(6-7). 331–331. 4 indexed citations

Fontecilla‐Camps, Juan C., Michel Frey, Elsa D. Garcin, et al.. (1997). Hydrogenase: A hydrogen-metabolizing enzyme. What do the crystal structures tell us about its mode of action?. Biochimie. 79(11). 661–666. 56 indexed citations

Volbeda, Anne, Elsa D. Garcin, C. Piras, et al.. (1996). Structure of the [NiFe] Hydrogenase Active Site: Evidence for Biologically Uncommon Fe Ligands. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 118(51). 12989–12996. 539 indexed citations breakdown →

Volbeda, Anne, Marie‐Hélène Charon, C. Piras, et al.. (1995). Crystal structure of the nickel–iron hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio gigas. Nature. 373(6515). 580–587. 1265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Volbeda, Anne, Marie‐Hélène Charon, C. Piras, et al.. (1995). Crystal structure of [NiFe] hydrogenase. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 59(2-3). 637–637. 6 indexed citations

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Charon, Marie‐Hélène, et al.. (1994). Crystallization and Preliminary X-ray Diffraction Study of the Nickel-binding Protein NikA of Escherichia coli. Journal of Molecular Biology. 243(2). 353–355. 12 indexed citations

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