Gary W. Brudvig

37.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
468 papers, 31.5k citations indexed

About

Gary W. Brudvig is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary W. Brudvig has authored 468 papers receiving a total of 31.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 248 papers in Molecular Biology, 154 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 128 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gary W. Brudvig's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (233 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (105 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (97 papers). Gary W. Brudvig is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (233 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (105 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (97 papers). Gary W. Brudvig collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Netherlands. Gary W. Brudvig's co-authors include Robert H. Crabtree, James P. McEvoy, Víctor S. Batista, James D. Blakemore, John S. Vrettos, Julio C. de Paula, Christopher D. Incarvito, Julian Limburg, Charles A. Schmuttenmaer and David J. Vinyard and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gary W. Brudvig

465 papers receiving 31.0k citations

Hit Papers

Water-Splitting Chemistry... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2006 2011 2015 2018 2018 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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. Water-Splitting Chemistry of Photosystem II
    2006 1.4k citations Gary W. Brudvig et al. profile →
  2. Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement
    2011 1.2k citations Gary W. Brudvig, M. R. Gunner et al. profile →
  3. Molecular Catalysts for Water Oxidation
    2015 996 citations Robert H. Crabtree, Gary W. Brudvig et al. profile →
  4. Oxidation of Organic Compounds in Water by Unactivated Peroxymonosulfate
    2018 747 citations Gourab Banerjee, Gary W. Brudvig et al. profile →
  5. Active sites of copper-complex catalytic materials for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction
    2018 629 citations Gary W. Brudvig et al. profile →
  6. A Functional Model for O-O Bond Formation by the O 2 -Evolving Complex in Photosystem II
    1999 626 citations Robert H. Crabtree, Gary W. Brudvig et al. profile →
  7. Highly Active and Robust Cp* Iridium Complexes for Catalytic Water Oxidation
    2009 534 citations Gary W. Brudvig, Robert H. Crabtree 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Gary W. Brudvig United States 89 14.6k 11.3k 9.7k 7.1k 5.1k 468 31.5k
Wolfgang Lubitz Germany 81 12.8k 0.9× 9.9k 0.9× 6.5k 0.7× 5.2k 0.7× 4.4k 0.9× 477 26.2k
Holger Dau Germany 71 14.8k 1.0× 5.4k 0.5× 5.7k 0.6× 2.9k 0.4× 9.0k 1.8× 275 21.7k
Jay R. Winkler United States 74 5.6k 0.4× 6.8k 0.6× 5.6k 0.6× 3.0k 0.4× 5.4k 1.0× 259 18.9k
Harry B. Gray United States 112 14.1k 1.0× 11.8k 1.0× 18.7k 1.9× 12.4k 1.7× 12.3k 2.4× 850 53.1k
Brian M. Hoffman United States 85 11.4k 0.8× 9.2k 0.8× 11.8k 1.2× 9.9k 1.4× 2.8k 0.5× 694 33.1k
Devens Gust United States 79 4.8k 0.3× 5.6k 0.5× 14.8k 1.5× 1.5k 0.2× 7.8k 1.5× 329 25.5k
G. Charles Dismukes United States 64 7.3k 0.5× 6.1k 0.5× 4.0k 0.4× 3.3k 0.5× 2.3k 0.5× 213 14.4k
Ana L. Moore United States 72 4.7k 0.3× 4.7k 0.4× 12.8k 1.3× 1.2k 0.2× 6.7k 1.3× 255 21.1k
Vincenzo Balzani Italy 103 5.5k 0.4× 6.7k 0.6× 24.9k 2.6× 4.8k 0.7× 10.2k 2.0× 467 48.8k
Edward I. Solomon United States 120 9.5k 0.6× 13.7k 1.2× 20.5k 2.1× 30.0k 4.2× 6.0k 1.2× 726 59.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jiang, Han-Wei, et al.. (2025). Structure and evolution of photosystem I in the early-branching cyanobacterium Anthocerotibacter panamensis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(20). e2427090122–e2427090122. 1 indexed citations
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Debus, Richard J., et al.. (2025). Structure of the D1-Val185Asn mutated photosystem II complex with slow O–O bond formation reveals changes in the Cl1 water channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(47). e2522652122–e2522652122.
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Gisriel, Christopher J., Vasily Kurashov, David F. Iwig, et al.. (2024). Cryo-EM structure of a photosystem I variant containing an unusual plastoquinone derivative in its electron transfer chain. Science Advances. 10(48). eadp4937–eadp4937.
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Nyakuchena, James, Sarah Ostresh, Daniel Streater, et al.. (2024). Manipulating Photoconduction in Cu–Pyrene 1-D Coordination Nanosheets by Modulating Interlayer π–π Stacking. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(1). 315–320. 1 indexed citations
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Xiao, Langqiu, Jacob A. Spies, Colton Sheehan, et al.. (2024). Electron Transfer Dynamics at Dye-Sensitized SnO 2 /TiO 2 Core/Shell Electrodes in Aqueous/Nonaqueous Electrolyte Mixtures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(26). 18117–18127. 5 indexed citations
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Amin, Muhamed, et al.. (2024). Mapping the Oxygens in the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II by Their Nucleophilicity Using Quantum Descriptors. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(3). 1414–1422. 1 indexed citations
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Kwon, Gihan, Kim Kisslinger, Sooyeon Hwang, et al.. (2023). Multielectrode electrochemical cell for in situ structural characterization of amorphous thin-film catalysts using high-energy X-ray scattering. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 56(5). 1392–1402. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Jimin, et al.. (2023). Bridging the Coordination Chemistry of Small Compounds and Metalloproteins Using Machine Learning. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 64(7). 2586–2593. 8 indexed citations
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Mao, Junjun, Josh V. Vermaas, Jimin Wang, et al.. (2023). Computing the Relative Affinity of Chlorophylls a and b to Light-Harvesting Complex II. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 127(51). 10974–10986. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Haoyi, Lu Ma, Xingxu Yan, et al.. (2023). Selective Methane Oxidation by Heterogenized Iridium Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(2). 769–773. 32 indexed citations
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Younan, Sabrina, et al.. (2022). Terahertz Conductivity of Semiconducting 2H and Metallic 1T Phases of Molybdenum Disulfide. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(35). 8319–8326. 7 indexed citations
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Gisriel, Christopher J., Gaozhong Shen, Vasily Kurashov, et al.. (2022). Structure of a dimeric photosystem II complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(1). 102815–102815. 25 indexed citations
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Hu, Gongfang, Liam S. Sharninghausen, Shashi Bhushan Sinha, et al.. (2021). Accessing Molecular Dimeric Ir Water Oxidation Catalysts from Coordination Precursors. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(18). 14349–14356. 14 indexed citations
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Neu, Jens, et al.. (2020). Ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy provides insight into charge transfer efficiency and dynamics in artificial photosynthesis. Photosynthesis Research. 151(2). 145–153. 5 indexed citations
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Beromi, Megan Mohadjer, Gary W. Brudvig, Nilay Hazari, Hannah M. C. Lant, & Brandon Q. Mercado. (2019). Synthesis and Reactivity of Paramagnetic Nickel Polypyridyl Complexes Relevant to C(sp2)–C(sp3)Coupling Reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(18). 6094–6098. 102 indexed citations
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Beromi, Megan Mohadjer, Gary W. Brudvig, Nilay Hazari, Hannah M. C. Lant, & Brandon Q. Mercado. (2019). Synthesis and Reactivity of Paramagnetic Nickel Polypyridyl Complexes Relevant to C(sp2)–C(sp3)Coupling Reactions. Angewandte Chemie. 131(18). 6155–6159. 11 indexed citations
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Beromi, Megan Mohadjer, Gourab Banerjee, Gary W. Brudvig, et al.. (2018). Modifications to the Aryl Group of dppf-Ligated Ni σ-Aryl Precatalysts: Impact on Speciation and Catalytic Activity in Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling Reactions. Organometallics. 37(21). 3943–3955. 26 indexed citations
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McConnell, Iain, V.M. Grigoryants, Charles P. Scholes, et al.. (2011). EPR–ENDOR Characterization of (17O, 1H, 2H) Water in Manganese Catalase and Its Relevance to the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(3). 1504–1512. 68 indexed citations
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Mantel, Claire, Hongyu Chen, Robert H. Crabtree, et al.. (2005). High‐Spin Chloro Mononuclear MnIII Complexes: A Multifrequency High‐Field EPR Study. ChemPhysChem. 6(3). 541–546. 26 indexed citations
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Szalai, Veronika A. & Gary W. Brudvig. (1998). How Plants Produce Dioxygen. American Scientist. 86(6). 542–542. 1 indexed citations

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