Cristian Ilioaia

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Cristian Ilioaia is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Cristian Ilioaia has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Plant Science and 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Cristian Ilioaia's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (26 papers), Light effects on plants (14 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (8 papers). Cristian Ilioaia is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (26 papers), Light effects on plants (14 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (8 papers). Cristian Ilioaia collaborates with scholars based in France, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Cristian Ilioaia's co-authors include Rienk van Grondelle, Alexander V. Ruban, Peter Horton, Bruno Robert, Andrew A. Pascal, Tjaart P. J. Krüger, Rudi Berera, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, Herbert van Amerongen and John T. M. Kennis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Cristian Ilioaia

30 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Identification of a mechanism of photoprotective energy dissipation in higher plants

2007 734 citations Alexander V. Ruban, Rudi Berera et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cristian Ilioaia France	17	1.6k	655	559	538	299	30	1.8k
Christopher D. P. Duffy United Kingdom	21	1.7k 1.1×	828 1.3×	629 1.1×	597 1.1×	281 0.9×	39	2.0k
Heiko Lokstein Germany	27	1.7k 1.1×	561 0.9×	495 0.9×	468 0.9×	445 1.5×	78	2.1k
Emilie Wientjes Netherlands	26	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.8×	609 1.1×	903 1.7×	333 1.1×	46	2.5k
Petar H. Lambrev Hungary	27	2.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.8×	918 1.6×	754 1.4×	375 1.3×	87	2.7k
Kebin Wang China	6	1.3k 0.8×	427 0.7×	398 0.7×	410 0.8×	264 0.9×	20	1.5k
Rudi Berera Netherlands	16	1.3k 0.8×	417 0.6×	664 1.2×	463 0.9×	427 1.4×	18	2.0k
Lu-Lu Gui China	8	1.4k 0.9×	423 0.6×	392 0.7×	399 0.7×	242 0.8×	14	1.6k
Marc G. Müller Germany	23	1.9k 1.2×	667 1.0×	947 1.7×	841 1.6×	222 0.7×	39	2.2k
Thomas J. Avenson United States	14	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	293 0.5×	422 0.8×	238 0.8×	20	2.0k
Maxime Alexandre Netherlands	15	894 0.6×	391 0.6×	187 0.3×	413 0.8×	306 1.0×	20	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cristian Ilioaia

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ilioaia, Cristian, et al.. (2024). Functional organization of 3D plant thylakoid membranes as seen by high resolution microscopy. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1865(4). 149493–149493. 3 indexed citations

D’Haene, Sandrine, et al.. (2021). Absence of far-red emission band in aggregated core antenna complexes. Biophysical Journal. 120(9). 1680–1691. 1 indexed citations

Li, Fei, Cheng Liu, Chunhong Yang, et al.. (2021). A new, unquenched intermediate of LHCII. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296. 100322–100322. 8 indexed citations

Ilioaia, Cristian, Andrew Gall, Bruno Robert, et al.. (2020). A Genetic Toolbox for the New Model Cyanobacterium Cyanothece PCC 7425: A Case Study for the Photosynthetic Production of Limonene. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 586601–586601. 13 indexed citations

Ilioaia, Cristian, et al.. (2017). Apoprotein heterogeneity increases spectral disorder and a step-wise modification of the B850 fluorescence peak position. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1859(2). 137–144. 2 indexed citations

Llansola‐Portoles, Manuel J., Radek Litvín, Cristian Ilioaia, et al.. (2017). Pigment structure in the violaxanthin–chlorophyll-a-binding protein VCP. Photosynthesis Research. 134(1). 51–58. 19 indexed citations

Wang, Ke, Manuel J. Llansola‐Portoles, Cristian Ilioaia, et al.. (2016). Probing the pigment binding sites in LHCII with resonance Raman spectroscopy: The effect of mutations at S123. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1857(9). 1490–1496. 6 indexed citations

Krüger, Tjaart P. J., Cristian Ilioaia, Matthew P. Johnson, Alexander V. Ruban, & Rienk van Grondelle. (2014). Disentangling the low-energy states of the major light-harvesting complex of plants and their role in photoprotection. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837(7). 1027–1038. 63 indexed citations

Krüger, Tjaart P. J., Cristian Ilioaia, Matthew P. Johnson, et al.. (2013). The Specificity of Controlled Protein Disorder in the Photoprotection of Plants. Biophysical Journal. 105(4). 1018–1026. 24 indexed citations

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Mendes-Pinto, Maria M., et al.. (2013). Mechanisms Underlying Carotenoid Absorption in Oxygenic Photosynthetic Proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(26). 18758–18765. 43 indexed citations

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Chmeliov, Jevgenij, Leonas Valkūnas, Tjaart P. J. Krüger, Cristian Ilioaia, & Rienk van Grondelle. (2013). Fluorescence blinking of single major light-harvesting complexes. New Journal of Physics. 15(8). 85007–85007. 15 indexed citations

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Krüger, Tjaart P. J., Cristian Ilioaia, Matthew P. Johnson, et al.. (2012). Controlled Disorder in Plant Light-Harvesting Complex II Explains Its Photoprotective Role. Biophysical Journal. 102(11). 2669–2676. 82 indexed citations

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Ilioaia, Cristian, Tjaart P. J. Krüger, Matthew P. Johnson, et al.. (2011). Fluorescence dynamics of plant light harvesting complexes studied by single molecule spectroscopy. European Biophysics Journal. 40(1). 176–177. 1 indexed citations

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Ilioaia, Cristian, et al.. (2011). Photoprotection in Plants Involves a Change in Lutein 1 Binding Domain in the Major Light-harvesting Complex of Photosystem II. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(31). 27247–27254. 55 indexed citations

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Krüger, Tjaart P. J., Vladimir I. Novoderezhkin, Cristian Ilioaia, & Rienk van Grondelle. (2010). Fluorescence Spectral Dynamics of Single LHCII Trimers. Biophysical Journal. 98(12). 3093–3101. 127 indexed citations

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Ilioaia, Cristian, Matthew P. Johnson, Peter Horton, & Alexander V. Ruban. (2008). Induction of Efficient Energy Dissipation in the Isolated Light-harvesting Complex of Photosystem II in the Absence of Protein Aggregation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(43). 29505–29512. 87 indexed citations

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Ruban, Alexander V., Rudi Berera, Cristian Ilioaia, et al.. (2007). Identification of a mechanism of photoprotective energy dissipation in higher plants. Nature. 450(7169). 575–578. 734 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ruban, Alexander V., Svetlana E. Solovieva, Cristian Ilioaia, et al.. (2006). Plasticity in the Composition of the Light Harvesting Antenna of Higher Plants Preserves Structural Integrity and Biological Function. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(21). 14981–14990. 40 indexed citations

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Kovács, László, Sami Kereı̈che, Cristian Ilioaia, et al.. (2006). Lack of the Light-Harvesting Complex CP24 Affects the Structure and Function of the Grana Membranes of Higher Plant Chloroplasts. The Plant Cell. 18(11). 3106–3120. 205 indexed citations

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Ilioaia, Cristian, et al.. (2005). Magnetic anisotropy and magnetotransport properties of nanostructured Fe-Pt thin films. Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials. 7(6). 3063–3067. 3 indexed citations

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