Cornelia Spetea

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Cornelia Spetea is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Cornelia Spetea has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Plant Science and 18 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Cornelia Spetea's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (54 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (20 papers) and Algal biology and biofuel production (18 papers). Cornelia Spetea is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (54 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (20 papers) and Algal biology and biofuel production (18 papers). Cornelia Spetea collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Hungary and France. Cornelia Spetea's co-authors include Imre Vass, Andrei Herdean, Benoı̂t Schoefs, Bertil Andersson, Torill Hundal, Björn Lundin, Éva Hideg, Steen Husted, Amos B. Oppenheim and Sidsel Birkelund Schmidt and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Cornelia Spetea

68 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

The Impacts of Phosphorus Deficiency on the Photosynthetic Electron Transport Chain

2018 330 citations Andrei Herdean, Anurag Sharma et al. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Cornelia Spetea	2.1k	1.8k	576	378	216	71	3.2k
Paula Mulo	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	519 0.9×	377 1.0×	115 0.5×	60	2.8k
Szilvia Z. Tóth	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	537 0.9×	272 0.7×	184 0.9×	66	2.6k
Ivar Virgin	2.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	562 1.0×	672 1.8×	209 1.0×	22	2.6k
Fabrice Franck	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.9×	357 0.9×	190 0.9×	76	3.1k
Stefano Cazzaniga	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 1.9×	451 1.2×	197 0.9×	60	2.7k
Hualing Mi	1.8k 0.8×	727 0.4×	717 1.2×	379 1.0×	150 0.7×	67	2.2k
Christof Klughammer	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	356 0.6×	451 1.2×	144 0.7×	32	2.1k
Prasanna Mohanty	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	401 0.7×	216 0.6×	252 1.2×	70	2.4k
Alexandrina Stirbet	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	359 0.6×	258 0.7×	241 1.1×	29	2.7k
N. Murata	3.2k 1.5×	2.4k 1.4×	868 1.5×	332 0.9×	343 1.6×	66	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cornelia Spetea

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Walker, Charlotte E., et al.. (2025). The thylakoid- and pyrenoid-localized phosphate transporter PHT4-9 is essential for photosynthesis in Chlamydomonas. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 198(1).

Spetea, Cornelia, et al.. (2025). Optimizing algal hydrogen photoproduction: a simplified and efficient protocol for anoxic induction in a semi‐autotrophic approach. Physiologia Plantarum. 177(2). e70232–e70232. 3 indexed citations

Spetea, Cornelia, et al.. (2025). Rethinking the dark-to-light transition approach for triggering algal hydrogen photoproduction: A perspective mini-review. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 160. 150608–150608.

Zvereva, Anna S., Matteo Grenzi, Qun Yang, et al.. (2025). The burning glass effect of water droplets triggers a high light-induced calcium response in the chloroplast stroma. Current Biology. 35(11). 2642–2658.e7. 1 indexed citations

Payne-Dwyer, Alex L., Cécile Lefoulon, Nicky Atkinson, et al.. (2024). Bestrophin-like protein 4 is involved in photosynthetic acclimation to light fluctuations in Chlamydomonas. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 196(4). 2374–2394. 3 indexed citations

Villanova, Valeria, Johan Engelbrektsson, Niklas Strömberg, Susanne Ekendahl, & Cornelia Spetea. (2024). Unveiling the ecological resilience and industrial potential of Skeletonema marinoi through mixotrophic cultivation in Nordic winter condition. Physiologia Plantarum. 176(3). e14308–e14308. 2 indexed citations

Gollan, Peter J., et al.. (2023). Photosynthetic and transcriptome responses to fluctuating light in Arabidopsis thylakoid ion transport triple mutant. Plant Direct. 7(10). e534–e534. 8 indexed citations

Villanova, Valeria, et al.. (2023). Two-phase microalgae cultivation for RAS water remediation and high-value biomass production. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1186537–1186537. 8 indexed citations

Villanova, Valeria, Christian Galasso, Giovanni Andrea Vitale, et al.. (2022). Mixotrophy in a Local Strain of Nannochloropsis granulata for Renewable High-Value Biomass Production on the West Coast of Sweden. Marine Drugs. 20(7). 424–424. 9 indexed citations

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Cheregi, Otilia, Johan Engelbrektsson, Mats X. Andersson, et al.. (2021). Marine microalgae for outdoor biomass production—A laboratory study simulating seasonal light and temperature for the west coast of Sweden. Physiologia Plantarum. 173(2). 543–554. 16 indexed citations

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Herdean, Andrei, Otilia Cheregi, Anurag Sharma, et al.. (2019). K+ and Cl− channels/transporters independently fine-tune photosynthesis in plants. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8639–8639. 30 indexed citations

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Nziengui, Hugues, Ilka N. Abreu, Jan Šimura, et al.. (2017). Enhanced Secondary- and Hormone Metabolism in Leaves of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Medicago truncatula. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 175(1). 392–411. 81 indexed citations

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Solymosi, Katalin, Mats X. Andersson, Áron Keresztes, et al.. (2015). Mycorrhiza Symbiosis Increases the Surface for Sunlight Capture in Medicago truncatula for Better Photosynthetic Production. PLoS ONE. 10(1). e0115314–e0115314. 29 indexed citations

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Beebo, Azeez, John Mathai, Benoı̂t Schoefs, & Cornelia Spetea. (2013). Assessment of the requirement for aquaporins in the thylakoid membrane of plant chloroplasts to sustain photosynthetic water oxidation. FEBS Letters. 587(14). 2083–2089. 31 indexed citations

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Allahverdiyeva, Yagut, Fikret Mamedov, Maija Holmström, et al.. (2009). Comparison of the electron transport properties of the psbo1 and psbo2 mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1787(10). 1230–1237. 37 indexed citations

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Lundin, Björn, et al.. (2008). Towards understanding the functional difference between the two PsbO isoforms in Arabidopsis thaliana—insights from phenotypic analyses of psbo knockout mutants. Photosynthesis Research. 98(1-3). 405–414. 36 indexed citations

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Lundin, Björn, Tatiana Shutova, Said Eshaghi, et al.. (2006). Subsequent events to GTP binding by the plant PsbO protein: Structural changes, GTP hydrolysis and dissociation from the photosystem II complex. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1767(6). 500–508. 40 indexed citations

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Kanervo, Eira, Cornelia Spetea, Yoshitaka Nishiyama, et al.. (2003). Dissecting a cyanobacterial proteolytic system: efficiency in inducing degradation of the D1 protein of photosystem II in cyanobacteria and plants. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1607(2-3). 131–140. 21 indexed citations

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Spetea, Cornelia, Éva Hideg, & Imre Vass. (1997). Low pH accelerates light-induced damage of photosystem II by enhancing the probability of the donor-side mechanism of photoinhibition. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1318(1-2). 275–283. 27 indexed citations

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Friso, Giulia, Imre Vass, Cornelia Spetea, James Barber, & Roberto Barbato. (1995). UV-B-induced degradation of the D1 protein in isolated reaction centres of Photosystem II. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1231(1). 41–46. 23 indexed citations

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