Giuseppe Zaccaı̈

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
183 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Giuseppe Zaccaı̈ is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Giuseppe Zaccaı̈ has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Molecular Biology, 75 papers in Materials Chemistry and 37 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Giuseppe Zaccaı̈'s work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (82 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (69 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (31 papers). Giuseppe Zaccaı̈ is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (82 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (69 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (31 papers). Giuseppe Zaccaı̈ collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United States. Giuseppe Zaccaı̈'s co-authors include Dominique Madern, Christine Ebel, Moeava Tehei, Joachim Seelig, Martin H. Weik, B. Jacrot, Georg Büldt, Dmitri I. Svergun, Georg Büldt and Manuel Koch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Giuseppe Zaccaı̈

183 papers receiving 8.9k citations

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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.

Protein hydration in solution: Experimental observation by x-ray and neutron scattering

1998 758 citations Giuseppe Zaccaı̈ et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
How Soft Is a Protein? A Protein Dynamics Force Constant Measured by Neutron Scattering

2000 614 citations Giuseppe Zaccaı̈ profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giuseppe Zaccaı̈ France	48	6.7k	2.9k	2.0k	1.4k	1.2k	183	9.3k
Frederick W. Dahlquist United States	64	8.9k 1.3×	2.8k 1.0×	916 0.5×	2.5k 1.8×	749 0.6×	203	12.0k
Sunney I. Chan United States	57	5.9k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	2.2k 1.6×	833 0.7×	274	11.5k
Johan Åqvist Sweden	57	9.5k 1.4×	2.3k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	768 0.7×	204	13.4k
Masasuke Yoshida Japan	63	14.4k 2.1×	2.0k 0.7×	883 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	716 0.6×	288	16.1k
Pedro E. M. Lopes United States	23	7.2k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	2.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	762 0.7×	40	11.6k
Donald Bashford United States	40	7.3k 1.1×	2.0k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	932 0.7×	699 0.6×	71	10.0k
Feng Gai United States	51	4.9k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	178	7.6k
Gary J. Pielak United States	58	7.7k 1.1×	3.1k 1.1×	859 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	484 0.4×	209	9.9k
Scott E. Feller United States	41	8.7k 1.3×	1.3k 0.5×	2.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	84	11.6k
Catherine A. Royer United States	49	6.2k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	824 0.4×	710 0.5×	402 0.3×	192	8.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giuseppe Zaccaı̈

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Natali, Francesca, et al.. (2025). Determination of in cellulo proteome molecular dynamics in different halophilic Archaea. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 22(224). 20240630–20240630. 1 indexed citations

Worcester, D. L., Antonio Faraone, & Giuseppe Zaccaı̈. (2017). The Summer of 1954 and Paths to the Institut Laue-Langevin. Neutron News. 28(3). 15–19. 1 indexed citations

Heidebrecht, Tatjana, Alexander Fish, Eleonore von Castelmur, et al.. (2012). Binding of the J-Binding Protein to DNA Containing Glucosylated hmU (Base J) or 5-hmC: Evidence for a Rapid Conformational Change upon DNA Binding. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(32). 13357–13365. 11 indexed citations

Tehei, Moeava, Bruno Franzetti, Kathleen Wood, et al.. (2007). Neutron scattering reveals extremely slow cell water in a Dead Sea organism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(3). 766–771. 74 indexed citations

Ebel, Christine & Giuseppe Zaccaı̈. (2004). Crowding in extremophiles: linkage between solvation and weak protein–protein interactions, stability and dynamics, provides insight into molecular adaptation. Journal of Molecular Recognition. 17(5). 382–389. 14 indexed citations

Zaccaı̈, Giuseppe. (2003). Small Angle Scattering. 1 indexed citations

Zaccaı̈, Giuseppe. (2002). Neutrons in biology in the post genome sequencing era. Applied Physics A. 74(0). s6–s10. 3 indexed citations

Dobrijévic, M., Chahrazade El Amri, M. H. Baron, et al.. (2001). Preparation for Mars sample return: search for biosignatures and prebiotic chemistry on Mars. ESASP. 496. 333–336. 1 indexed citations

Dekker, Carien, Bogos Agianian, Martin H. Weik, et al.. (2001). Biophysical Characterization of the Influence of Salt on Tetrameric SecB. Biophysical Journal. 81(1). 455–462. 2 indexed citations

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Zaccaı̈, Giuseppe. (2000). Moist and soft, dry and stiff: a review of neutron experiments on hydration-dynamics–activity relations in the purple membrane of Halobacterium salinarum. Biophysical Chemistry. 86(2-3). 249–257. 37 indexed citations

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Bellet‐Amalric, E., et al.. (1998). Plant sterols: a neutron diffraction study of sitosterol and stigmasterol in soybean phosphatidylcholine membranes. Biophysical Chemistry. 75(1). 45–55. 17 indexed citations

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Lehnert, Ursula, Valérie Réat, Martin H. Weik, Giuseppe Zaccaı̈, & Claude Pfister. (1998). Thermal Motions in Bacteriorhodopsin at Different Hydration Levels Studied by Neutron Scattering: Correlation with Kinetics and Light-Induced Conformational Changes. Biophysical Journal. 75(4). 1945–1952. 130 indexed citations

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Esser, A F, Nicole M. Thielens, & Giuseppe Zaccaı̈. (1993). Small angle neutron scattering studies of C8 and C9 and their interactions in solution. Biophysical Journal. 64(3). 743–748. 4 indexed citations

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Serdyuk, Igor N., et al.. (1991). Experimental verification of the triple isotopic substitution method in small-angle neutron scattering. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 24(3). 243–254. 10 indexed citations

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Krueger, Susan, Giuseppe Zaccaı̈, Alexander Wlodawer, et al.. (1990). Neutron and light-scattering studies of DNA gyrase and its complex with DNA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 211(1). 211–220. 41 indexed citations

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Zaccaı̈, Giuseppe & Henryk Eisenberg. (1990). Halophilic proteins and the influence of solvent on protein stabilization. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 15(9). 333–337. 65 indexed citations

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Dencher, Norbert A., et al.. (1989). Structural changes in bacteriorhodopsin during proton translocation revealed by neutron diffraction.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 86(20). 7876–7879. 207 indexed citations

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Trewhella, Jill, J.-L. Popot, Giuseppe Zaccaı̈, & Donald M. Engelman. (1986). Localization of two chymotryptic fragments in the structure of renatured bacteriorhodopsin by neutron diffraction.. The EMBO Journal. 5(11). 3045–3049. 29 indexed citations

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Podo, Franca, et al.. (1982). The Interaction with Phospholipids of Bee Venom Melittin. Biophysical Journal. 37(1). 161–163. 20 indexed citations

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Dessen, Philippe, Giuseppe Zaccaı̈, & Sylvain Blanquet. (1982). Identification by neutron scattering of tRNA-induced aggregation of Escherichia coli Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase. Biochimie. 63(11-12). 811–813. 3 indexed citations

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