Giovanni Finazzi

12.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Giovanni Finazzi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Giovanni Finazzi has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Molecular Biology, 45 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 42 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Giovanni Finazzi's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (107 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (45 papers) and Algal biology and biofuel production (37 papers). Giovanni Finazzi is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (107 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (45 papers) and Algal biology and biofuel production (37 papers). Giovanni Finazzi collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and Germany. Giovanni Finazzi's co-authors include Françis-André Wollman, Stephan Eberhard, Pierre Cardol, Pierre Joliot, Giorgio Forti, Dimitris Petroutsos, Fabrice Rappaport, Chris Bowler, Éric Maréchal and Benjamin Bailleul and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Giovanni Finazzi

132 papers receiving 9.2k 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 Dynamics of Photosynthesis

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giovanni Finazzi France	54	6.9k	3.4k	3.3k	1.6k	1.5k	134	9.3k
Sabeeha Merchant United States	71	9.6k 1.4×	5.4k 1.6×	3.5k 1.1×	975 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	195	14.6k
Michael Hippler Germany	48	5.8k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	620 0.4×	136	7.4k
Gilles Peltier France	61	7.9k 1.1×	4.9k 1.5×	3.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	995 0.7×	137	10.6k
Tomas Morosinotto Italy	47	4.9k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	729 0.5×	151	6.9k
Itzhak Ohad Israel	53	7.5k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	3.1k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	553 0.4×	164	9.2k
G. Dean Price Australia	58	7.3k 1.1×	4.0k 1.2×	2.9k 0.9×	439 0.3×	1.9k 1.3×	128	10.6k
Anastasios Melis United States	69	12.0k 1.7×	8.9k 2.6×	4.5k 1.4×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	213	17.3k
Jean‐David Rochaix Switzerland	63	10.2k 1.5×	3.2k 0.9×	3.4k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	340 0.2×	178	11.3k
Beverley R. Green Canada	40	4.9k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	1.5k 0.4×	747 0.5×	829 0.6×	113	6.0k
Himadri B. Pakrasi United States	65	9.2k 1.3×	5.0k 1.5×	1.4k 0.4×	980 0.6×	619 0.4×	230	11.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giovanni Finazzi

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Giustini, Cécile, Mattia Storti, Denis Baurain, et al.. (2025). A Mitochondrially Related Plastidial Transporter Regulates Photosynthesis in the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Physiologia Plantarum. 177(6). e70640–e70640.

Albanese, Pascal, Dimitri Tolleter, Cécile Giustini, et al.. (2025). Photoreceptor-induced LHL4 protects the photosystem II monomer in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(7). e2418687122–e2418687122. 2 indexed citations

Tolleter, Dimitri, Edward Smith, Clarisse Uwizeye, et al.. (2024). The Arabidopsis leaf quantitative atlas: a cellular and subcellular mapping through unified data integration. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. e2–e2. 2 indexed citations

Ruiz‐Sola, M. Águila, Serena Flori, Yizhong Yuan, et al.. (2023). Light-independent regulation of algal photoprotection by CO2 availability. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1977–1977. 29 indexed citations

Smith, Edward, Tiina Tosens, Ülo Niinemets, et al.. (2023). Improving photosynthetic efficiency toward food security: Strategies, advances, and perspectives. Molecular Plant. 16(10). 1547–1563. 60 indexed citations

Liu, Shun, Mattia Storti, Giovanni Finazzi, Chris Bowler, & Richard G. Dorrell. (2022). A metabolic, phylogenomic and environmental atlas of diatom plastid transporters from the model species Phaeodactylum. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 950467–950467. 7 indexed citations

Storti, Mattia, Vasco Giovagnetti, Xue Zhao, et al.. (2022). Impaired photoprotection in Phaeodactylum tricornutum KEA3 mutants reveals the proton regulatory circuit of diatoms light acclimation. New Phytologist. 234(2). 578–591. 11 indexed citations

Annunziata, Rossella, Bruno Hay Mele, Pina Marotta, et al.. (2022). Trade-off between sex and growth in diatoms: Molecular mechanisms and demographic implications. Science Advances. 8(3). eabj9466–eabj9466. 14 indexed citations

Wilson, Sam, et al.. (2021). Protection of photosystem I during sudden light stress depends on ferredoxin:NADP(H) reductase abundance and interactions. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 188(2). 1028–1042. 17 indexed citations

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Krämer, Manuela, Laura Mosebach, Anja Krieger‐Liszkay, et al.. (2021). Regulation of photosynthetic electron flow on dark to light transition by ferredoxin:NADP(H) oxidoreductase interactions. eLife. 10. 22 indexed citations

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Decelle, Johan, Giulia Veronesi, Charlotte LeKieffre, et al.. (2021). Subcellular architecture and metabolic connection in the planktonic photosymbiosis between Collodaria (radiolarians) and their microalgae. Environmental Microbiology. 23(11). 6569–6586. 22 indexed citations

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Giustini, Cécile, Alexandra Kraut, Yohann Couté, et al.. (2019). Identification of the Arabidopsis Calmodulin-Dependent NAD ⁺ Kinase That Sustains the Elicitor-Induced Oxidative Burst. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 181(4). 1449–1458. 21 indexed citations

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Villanova, Valeria, Antonio Emidio Fortunato, Dipali Singh, et al.. (2017). Investigating mixotrophic metabolism in the model diatomPhaeodactylum tricornutum. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1728). 20160404–20160404. 86 indexed citations

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Flori, Serena, Pierre‐Henri Jouneau, Benjamin Bailleul, et al.. (2017). Plastid thylakoid architecture optimizes photosynthesis in diatoms. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15885–15885. 82 indexed citations

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Carraretto, Luca, Enrico Teardo, Vanessa Checchetto, et al.. (2016). Ion channels in plant bioenergetic organelles chloroplast and mitochondria: from molecular identification to function.. Molecular Plant Pathology. 9(3). 371–395. 1 indexed citations

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Gäbelein, Philipp, Risa Mutoh, Hideaki Tanaka, et al.. (2016). Calredoxin represents a novel type of calcium-dependent sensor-responder connected to redox regulation in the chloroplast. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11847–11847. 44 indexed citations

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Bailleul, Benjamin, Nicolas Berne, Omer Murik, et al.. (2015). Energetic coupling between plastids and mitochondria drives CO2 assimilation in diatoms. Nature. 524(7565). 366–369. 265 indexed citations

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Carraretto, Luca, Elide Formentin, Enrico Teardo, et al.. (2013). A Thylakoid-Located Two-Pore K ⁺ Channel Controls Photosynthetic Light Utilization in Plants. Science. 342(6154). 114–118. 125 indexed citations

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TERASHIMA, M., Dimitris Petroutsos, Meike Hüdig, et al.. (2012). Calcium-dependent regulation of cyclic photosynthetic electron transfer by a CAS, ANR1, and PGRL1 complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(43). 17717–17722. 119 indexed citations

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Finazzi, Giovanni, Fabrice Rappaport, Mark Fleischmann, et al.. (2002). Involvement of state transitions in the switch between linear and cyclic electron flow in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. EMBO Reports. 3(3). 280–285. 193 indexed citations

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