Nathan Nelson

26.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
275 papers, 20.6k citations indexed

About

Nathan Nelson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Nelson has authored 275 papers receiving a total of 20.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 235 papers in Molecular Biology, 73 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 42 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Nathan Nelson's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (154 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (87 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (73 papers). Nathan Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (154 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (87 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (73 papers). Nathan Nelson collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Nathan Nelson's co-authors include Hannah Nelson, Adam Ben‐Shem, Sreekala Mandiyan, Yoshinori Moriyama, Charles F. Yocum, Felix Frolow, Wolfgang Junge, Alexey Amunts, Qing‐Rong Liu and Beatriz López‐Corcuera and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Nelson

274 papers receiving 19.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF PHOTOSYSTEMS I AND II

2006 741 citations Nathan Nelson, Charles F. Yocum profile →
Cloning and Expression of a Rat Brain GABA Transporter

1990 731 citations Nathan Nelson, Hannah Nelson et al. profile →
Crystal structure of plant photosystem I

2003 611 citations Felix Frolow, Nathan Nelson et al. profile →
The complex architecture of oxygenic photosynthesis

2004 504 citations Nathan Nelson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan Nelson Israel	81	15.8k	5.4k	3.2k	2.6k	1.4k	275	20.6k
So Iwata Japan	60	14.7k 0.9×	3.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	217	20.4k
Werner Kühlbrandt Germany	74	14.8k 0.9×	2.3k 0.4×	2.2k 0.7×	940 0.4×	2.0k 1.4×	226	17.7k
Elizabeth D. Getzoff United States	62	7.6k 0.5×	2.3k 0.4×	2.8k 0.9×	792 0.3×	490 0.3×	149	14.4k
Peter Mitchell United Kingdom	53	13.1k 0.8×	3.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	729 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	107	17.1k
L. Andrew Staehelin United States	82	14.3k 0.9×	1.8k 0.3×	8.5k 2.7×	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	240	20.4k
Robert B. Gennis United States	73	16.2k 1.0×	4.9k 0.9×	725 0.2×	1.1k 0.4×	1.9k 1.3×	444	19.7k
Hermann Schägger Germany	62	21.6k 1.4×	1.6k 0.3×	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	238 0.2×	122	28.0k
John E. Walker United Kingdom	100	30.8k 1.9×	1.5k 0.3×	1.7k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	405 0.3×	356	38.7k
Friedrich Lottspeich Germany	77	13.0k 0.8×	3.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	595 0.2×	189 0.1×	320	20.5k
Vladimir P. Skulachev Russia	71	14.7k 0.9×	4.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	291 0.1×	512 0.4×	418	20.9k

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Klaiman, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Structure of native photosystem II assembly intermediate from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1334608–1334608. 3 indexed citations

Klaiman, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Structure of Photosystem I Supercomplex Isolated from a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Cytochrome b6f Temperature-Sensitive Mutant. Biomolecules. 13(3). 537–537. 3 indexed citations

Caspy, Ido, et al.. (2023). Structure of Dunaliella photosystem II reveals conformational flexibility of stacked and unstacked supercomplexes. eLife. 12. 12 indexed citations

Nelson, Nathan. (2023). Coupling and Slips in Photosynthetic Reactions—From Femtoseconds to Eons. Plants. 12(22). 3878–3878. 2 indexed citations

Jheeta, Sohan, Elias Chatzitheodoridis, O. R. Kotsyurbenko, et al.. (2022). The Blue Earth Project: “Is Humanity Settling its own Fate on Ecological Survival?”. 13(1).

Caspy, Ido, et al.. (2021). Dimeric and high-resolution structures of Chlamydomonas Photosystem I from a temperature-sensitive Photosystem II mutant. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1380–1380. 13 indexed citations

Akhtar, Parveen, et al.. (2021). Excitation energy transfer kinetics of trimeric, monomeric and subunit-depleted Photosystem I from Synechocystis PCC 6803. Biochemical Journal. 478(7). 1333–1346. 13 indexed citations

Akhtar, Parveen, Ido Caspy, Paweł Nowakowski, et al.. (2021). Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of a Minimal Photosystem I Complex Reveals the Rate of Primary Charge Separation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(36). 14601–14612. 26 indexed citations

Caspy, Ido, Varda Liveanu, Anton Savitsky, et al.. (2021). Cryo-EM photosystem I structure reveals adaptation mechanisms to extreme high light in Chlorella ohadii. Nature Plants. 7(9). 1314–1322. 27 indexed citations

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Mazor, Yuval, Hila Toporik, & Nathan Nelson. (2012). Temperature-sensitive PSII and promiscuous PSI as a possible solution for sustainable photosynthetic hydrogen production. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1817(8). 1122–1126. 10 indexed citations

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Newbold, C. J., et al.. (2005). Propionate precursors and other metabolic intermediates as possible alternative electron acceptors to methanogenesis in ruminal fermentationin vitro. British Journal Of Nutrition. 94(1). 27–35. 157 indexed citations

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Drory, Omri, Felix Frolow, & Nathan Nelson. (2004). Crystal structure of yeast V‐ATPase subunit C reveals its stator function. EMBO Reports. 5(12). 1148–1152. 109 indexed citations

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Taiz, Lincoln, et al.. (1994). Functional analysis of conserved cysteine residues in the catalytic subunit of the yeast vacuolar H+-ATPase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1194(2). 329–334. 31 indexed citations

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Xie, Dian-Lin, et al.. (1993). Identification of the subunit carrying FeS-centers A and B in the P840-reaction center preparation of Chlorobium limicola. Photosynthesis Research. 38(1). 111–114. 17 indexed citations

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Nelson, Nathan. (1989). Structure, molecular genetics, and evolution of vacuolar H+-ATPases. Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes. 21(5). 553–571. 120 indexed citations

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Reilly, Patricia A. & Nathan Nelson. (1988). Photosystem I complex. Photosynthesis Research. 19(1-2). 73–84. 11 indexed citations

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Nelson, Nathan, S Cidon, & Yoshinori Moriyama. (1988). [48] Chromaffin granule proton pump. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 157. 619–633. 23 indexed citations

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Hicks, David, Nathan Nelson, & Charles F. Yocum. (1986). Cyanobacterial and chloroplast F1-ATPases: cross-reconstitution of photophosphorylation and subunit immunological relationships. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 851(2). 217–222. 5 indexed citations

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Nelson, Nathan, et al.. (1979). [43] ATP-Pi exchange preparation from Escherichia coli. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 55. 358–363. 7 indexed citations

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Nelson, Nathan. (1971). Workshops for the handicapped in the United States : an historical and developmental perspective. Thomas eBooks. 7 indexed citations

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