Nicolas Ferré

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Ferré is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Ferré has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 48 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 44 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Ferré's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (48 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (35 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (21 papers). Nicolas Ferré is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (48 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (35 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (21 papers). Nicolas Ferré collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and United States. Nicolas Ferré's co-authors include Massimo Olivucci, Roland Lindh, Miquel Huix‐Rotllant, Tadeusz Andruniów, Luca De Vico, Isabelle Navizet, Luis Serrano‐Andrés, Luis Manuel Frutos, Per‐Åke Malmqvist and Michal Pitoňák and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Ferré

104 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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MOLCAS 7: The Next Generation

2009 1.4k citations Francesco Aquilante, Luca De Vico et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Ferré France	39	2.1k	2.1k	2.0k	1.7k	1.0k	105	5.8k
Linda A. Peteanu United States	33	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	75	5.4k
Delmar S. Larsen United States	42	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	2.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	100	5.8k
Stephen R. Meech United Kingdom	45	2.2k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	2.1k 2.1×	201	6.9k
Masahide Terazima Japan	42	1.6k 0.7×	2.4k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	2.1k 2.1×	327	6.8k
Robert R. Birge United States	50	3.4k 1.6×	2.2k 1.1×	3.3k 1.6×	2.2k 1.3×	980 1.0×	192	8.1k
Robert Bittl Germany	51	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	3.4k 1.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	184	7.1k
Sergey A. Kovalenko Germany	42	1.1k 0.5×	2.3k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	2.6k 2.5×	157	5.9k
Taiha Joo South Korea	42	799 0.4×	2.3k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	3.5k 2.1×	1.8k 1.7×	145	7.1k
Josef Wachtveitl Germany	47	2.9k 1.4×	1.5k 0.7×	3.3k 1.6×	3.3k 2.0×	1.1k 1.1×	250	7.6k
Vladimir Chernyak United States	42	877 0.4×	4.5k 2.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	219	7.0k

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Fay, Thomas P., Nicolas Ferré, & Miquel Huix‐Rotllant. (2024). Efficient Polarizable QM/MM Using the Direct Reaction Field Hamiltonian with Electrostatic Potential Fitted Multipole Operators. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 21(1). 183–201.

Ledentu, Vincent, et al.. (2024). Investigating the Origin of Automatic Rhodopsin Modeling Outliers Using the Microbial Gloeobacter Rhodopsin as Testbed. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 128(50). 12368–12378. 2 indexed citations

Pieri, Elisa, Oliver Weingart, Miquel Huix‐Rotllant, et al.. (2024). Modeling pH-Dependent Biomolecular Photochemistry. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(2). 842–855. 2 indexed citations

Kaliakin, Danil, et al.. (2023). Assessment of the Electron Correlation Treatment on the Quantum-Classical Dynamics of Retinal Protonated Schiff Base Models: XMS-CASPT2, RMS-CASPT2, and REKS Methods. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(22). 8189–8200. 13 indexed citations

Ledentu, Vincent, et al.. (2023). Automatic Rhodopsin Modeling with Multiple Protonation Microstates. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 127(44). 9365–9380. 3 indexed citations

Pedraza‐González, Laura, Daniele Padula, Luca De Vico, et al.. (2022). On the fluorescence enhancement of arch neuronal optogenetic reporters. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6432–6432. 19 indexed citations

Filatov, Michael, Marco Paolino, Andrea Cappelli, et al.. (2022). Towards the engineering of a photon-only two-stroke rotary molecular motor. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6433–6433. 30 indexed citations

Rigaud, Baptiste, et al.. (2022). Stressing the differences in alizarin and purpurin dyes through UV-visible light absorption and ¹ H-NMR spectroscopies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(32). 19452–19462. 10 indexed citations

Chatterjee, Gourab, Ajay Jha, Alejandro Blanco-González, et al.. (2022). Torsionally broken symmetry assists infrared excitation of biomimetic charge-coupled nuclear motions in the electronic ground state. Chemical Science. 13(32). 9392–9400. 4 indexed citations

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Pieri, Elisa, et al.. (2019). CpHMD-Then-QM/MM Identification of the Amino Acids Responsible for the Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin pH-Dependent Electronic Absorption Spectrum. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 15(8). 4535–4546. 16 indexed citations

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Orozco‐Gonzalez, Yoelvis, Madushanka Manathunga, Marı́a del Carmen Marı́n, et al.. (2017). An Average Solvent Electrostatic Configuration Protocol for QM/MM Free Energy Optimization: Implementation and Application to Rhodopsin Systems. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 13(12). 6391–6404. 30 indexed citations

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Marı́n, Marı́a del Carmen, Johanna Brazard, Hideki Kandori, et al.. (2017). Effect of point mutations on the ultrafast photo-isomerization of Anabaena sensory rhodopsin. Faraday Discussions. 207(0). 55–75. 11 indexed citations

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Stenrup, Michael, Elisa Pieri, Vincent Ledentu, & Nicolas Ferré. (2017). pH-Dependent absorption spectrum of a protein: a minimal electrostatic model of Anabaena sensory rhodopsin. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(21). 14073–14084. 8 indexed citations

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Hou, Cong, Ya‐Jun Liu, Nicolas Ferré, & Wei‐Hai Fang. (2014). Understanding Bacterial Bioluminescence: A Theoretical Study of the Entire Process, from Reduced Flavin to Light Emission. Chemistry - A European Journal. 20(26). 7979–7986. 43 indexed citations

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Ferré, Nicolas, et al.. (2013). QM/MM Study on the Light Emitters of Aequorin Chemiluminescence, Bioluminescence, and Fluorescence: A General Understanding of the Bioluminescence of Several Marine Organisms. Chemistry - A European Journal. 19(26). 8466–8472. 43 indexed citations

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Aquilante, Francesco, Luca De Vico, Nicolas Ferré, et al.. (2009). MOLCAS 7: The Next Generation. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 31(1). 224–247. 1426 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ferré, Nicolas, et al.. (2009). Imidazoline‐N‐oxyl: A DFT Study of Its Protonation Reaction. ChemPhysChem. 10(14). 2419–2428. 2 indexed citations

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Andruniów, Tadeusz, Simona Fantacci, Filippo De Angelis, Nicolas Ferré, & Massimo Olivucci. (2005). Mechanism of the Initial Conformational Transition of a Photomodulable Peptide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(37). 6077–6081. 15 indexed citations

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Ferré, Nicolas & Massimo Olivucci. (2003). The amide bond: pitfalls and drawbacks of the link atom scheme. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 632(1-3). 71–82. 38 indexed citations

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Ferré, Nicolas, Xavier Assfeld, & Jean‐Louis Rivail. (2002). Specific force field parameters determination for the hybrid ab initio QM/MM LSCF method. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 23(6). 610–624. 99 indexed citations

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