Claudia Bonfio

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 883 citations indexed

About

Claudia Bonfio is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Claudia Bonfio has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 883 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Claudia Bonfio's work include Origins and Evolution of Life (12 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (6 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers). Claudia Bonfio is often cited by papers focused on Origins and Evolution of Life (12 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (6 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers). Claudia Bonfio collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Claudia Bonfio's co-authors include John D. Sutherland, Mark Skehel, Farida Begum, Laura Pellegrini, Jessica Chadwick, Madeline A. Lancaster, Sheref S. Mansy, David A. Russell, Angelica Mariani and Simone Scintilla and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Claudia Bonfio

19 papers receiving 873 citations

Hit Papers

Human CNS barrier-forming organoids with cerebrospinal fl... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Human CNS barrier-forming organoids with cerebrospinal fluid production
    2020 298 citations Laura Pellegrini, Claudia Bonfio et al. Science profile →

Peers

Claudia Bonfio
Victor S. Lelyveld United States
J.C. Fontecilla-Camps France
Luke H. Bradley United States
Lanxiang Tian China
Rihe Liu United States
D B Murphy United States
Emiliano Altamura Italy
Sylvia Tobé United States
Kalyan C. Kondapalli United States
Hangjun Wu China
Victor S. Lelyveld United States
Claudia Bonfio
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claudia Bonfio

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Claudia Bonfio. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Claudia Bonfio based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Claudia Bonfio. Claudia Bonfio is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tao, Weijian, et al.. (2025). Probing DNA melting behaviour under vibrational strong coupling. PubMed. 6. e13–e13. 3 indexed citations
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Nakashima, Karina K., Kieran O. Russell, Jan Huertas, et al.. (2025). Differential stability and dynamics of DNA-based and RNA-based coacervates affect non-enzymatic RNA chemistry. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9296–9296.
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Penocchio, Emanuele, et al.. (2025). Catalysis‐driven Active Transport Across a Liquid Membrane. Angewandte Chemie. 137(15).
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Penocchio, Emanuele, et al.. (2025). Catalysis‐driven Active Transport Across a Liquid Membrane. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(15). e202421234–e202421234. 3 indexed citations
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Russell, David A., et al.. (2023). Ring Opening of Glycerol Cyclic Phosphates Leads to a Diverse Array of Potentially Prebiotic Phospholipids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(47). 25614–25620. 8 indexed citations
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Lu, Tiemei, et al.. (2023). Interfacing Coacervates with Membranes: From Artificial Organelles and Hybrid Protocells to Intracellular Delivery. Small Methods. 7(12). e2300294–e2300294. 32 indexed citations
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Nakashima, Karina K., et al.. (2023). Nonenzymatic autocatalysis generates coacervates and controls their structure. Chem. 9(12). 3394–3396. 1 indexed citations
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Rubio‐Sánchez, Roger, Derek K. O’Flaherty, Anna Wang, et al.. (2021). Thermally Driven Membrane Phase Transitions Enable Content Reshuffling in Primitive Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(40). 16589–16598. 35 indexed citations
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Pellegrini, Laura, Claudia Bonfio, Jessica Chadwick, et al.. (2020). Human CNS barrier-forming organoids with cerebrospinal fluid production. Science. 369(6500). 298 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Ziwei, Long-Fei Wu, Jianfeng Xu, et al.. (2020). Harnessing chemical energy for the activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks. Nature Chemistry. 12(11). 1023–1028. 63 indexed citations
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Bonfio, Claudia, David A. Russell, Nicholas J. Green, Angelica Mariani, & John D. Sutherland. (2020). Activation chemistry drives the emergence of functionalised protocells. Chemical Science. 11(39). 10688–10697. 35 indexed citations
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Bonfio, Claudia. (2020). The curious case of peptide-coordinated iron–sulfur clusters: prebiotic and biomimetic insights. Dalton Transactions. 50(3). 801–807. 12 indexed citations
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Bonfio, Claudia, Cécile Caumes, Colm D. Duffy, et al.. (2019). Length-Selective Synthesis of Acylglycerol-Phosphates through Energy-Dissipative Cycling. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(9). 3934–3939. 66 indexed citations
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Bonfio, Claudia, et al.. (2018). Prebiotic iron–sulfur peptide catalysts generate a pH gradient across model membranes of late protocells. Nature Catalysis. 1(8). 616–623. 78 indexed citations
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Mariani, Angelica, Claudia Bonfio, C. Mark Johnson, & John D. Sutherland. (2018). pH-Driven RNA Strand Separation under Prebiotically Plausible Conditions. Biochemistry. 57(45). 6382–6386. 51 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaolei, David A. Russell, Claudia Bonfio, & Roger E. Summons. (2018). Glycerol configurations of environmental GDGTs investigated using a selective sn2 ether cleavage protocol. Organic Geochemistry. 128. 57–62. 14 indexed citations
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Bonfio, Claudia, Simone Scintilla, David J. Evans, et al.. (2017). UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron–sulfur clusters. Nature Chemistry. 9(12). 1229–1234. 120 indexed citations
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Bonfio, Claudia, et al.. (2017). Investigation of glutathione-derived electrostatic and hydrogen-bonding interactions and their role in defining Grx5 [2Fe–2S] cluster optical spectra and transfer chemistry. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 23(2). 241–252. 6 indexed citations
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Scintilla, Simone, Claudia Bonfio, Luca Belmonte, et al.. (2016). Duplications of an iron–sulphur tripeptide leads to the formation of a protoferredoxin. Chemical Communications. 52(92). 13456–13459. 36 indexed citations
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Belmonte, Luca, Daniele Rossetto, Michele Forlin, et al.. (2016). Cysteine containing dipeptides show a metal specificity that matches the composition of seawater. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 18(30). 20104–20108. 15 indexed citations

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