Piero Altoè

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Piero Altoè is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Piero Altoè has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Piero Altoè's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (11 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (7 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (4 papers). Piero Altoè is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (11 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (7 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (4 papers). Piero Altoè collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Piero Altoè's co-authors include Marco Garavelli, Giorgio Orlandi, Oliver Weingart, Gaia Tomasello, Marco Stenta, Richard A. Mathies, Cristian Manzoni, Katelyn M. Spillane, Daniele Brida and Philipp Kukura and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Piero Altoè

22 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Conical intersection dynamics of the primary photoisomerization event in vision

2010 708 citations Dario Polli, Piero Altoè et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Piero Altoè Italy	15	787	770	612	356	291	22	1.6k
Rolf Diller Germany	24	726 0.9×	322 0.4×	629 1.0×	188 0.5×	354 1.2×	63	1.6k
Samer Gozem United States	26	797 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	571 0.9×	515 1.4×	424 1.5×	68	2.2k
R. A. Mathies United States	13	1.0k 1.3×	694 0.9×	755 1.2×	310 0.9×	191 0.7×	18	1.7k
Valentyn I. Prokhorenko Canada	25	719 0.9×	1.7k 2.2×	909 1.5×	348 1.0×	286 1.0×	54	2.2k
Igor Schapiro Israel	27	1.3k 1.6×	863 1.1×	935 1.5×	398 1.1×	572 2.0×	95	2.6k
Remedios González-Luque Spain	17	400 0.5×	580 0.8×	552 0.9×	439 1.2×	271 0.9×	36	1.3k
Marius Wanko Germany	19	562 0.7×	582 0.8×	456 0.7×	259 0.7×	574 2.0×	27	1.5k
Alessandro Cembran United States	26	711 0.9×	630 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	482 1.4×	817 2.8×	44	2.3k
Raymond Birge United States	16	873 1.1×	353 0.5×	661 1.1×	164 0.5×	253 0.9×	36	1.6k
Jérémie Léonard France	23	600 0.8×	579 0.8×	338 0.6×	252 0.7×	595 2.0×	75	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Piero Altoè

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Weingart, Oliver, Artur Nenov, Piero Altoè, et al.. (2018). COBRAMM 2.0 — A software interface for tailoring molecular electronic structure calculations and running nanoscale (QM/MM) simulations. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 24(9). 271–271. 54 indexed citations

Altoè, Piero, et al.. (2016). User-space APIs for dynamic power management in many-core ARMv8 computing nodes. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 675–681. 7 indexed citations

Calvaresi, Matteo, Marco Stenta, Marco Garavelli, Piero Altoè, & Andréa Bottoni. (2012). Computational Evidence for the Catalytic Mechanism of Human Glutathione S-Transferase A3-3: A QM/MM Investigation. ACS Catalysis. 2(2). 280–286. 11 indexed citations

Weingart, Oliver, Piero Altoè, Marco Stenta, et al.. (2011). Product formation in rhodopsin by fast hydrogen motions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(9). 3645–3645. 71 indexed citations

Rajput, Jyoti, Dennis B. Rahbek, Lars H. Andersen, et al.. (2010). Probing and Modeling the Absorption of Retinal Protein Chromophores in Vacuo. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(10). 1790–1793. 73 indexed citations

Polli, Dario, Piero Altoè, Oliver Weingart, et al.. (2010). Conical intersection dynamics of the primary photoisomerization event in vision. Nature. 467(7314). 440–443. 708 indexed citations breakdown →

Ippoliti, Emiliano, et al.. (2010). Spectroscopic Properties of Formaldehyde in Aqueous Solution: Insights from Car−Parrinello and TDDFT/CASPT2 Calculations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 6(11). 3403–3409. 8 indexed citations

Rajput, Jyoti, Dennis B. Rahbek, Lars H. Andersen, et al.. (2010). Probing and Modeling the Absorption of Retinal Protein Chromophores in Vacuo. Angewandte Chemie. 122(10). 1834–1837. 14 indexed citations

Conti, Irene, Piero Altoè, Marco Stenta, Marco Garavelli, & Giorgio Orlandi. (2010). Adenine deactivation in DNA resolved at the CASPT2//CASSCF/AMBER level. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 12(19). 5016–5016. 70 indexed citations

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Altoè, Piero, Alessandro Cembran, Massimo Olivucci, & Marco Garavelli. (2010). Aborted double bicycle-pedal isomerization with hydrogen bond breaking is the primary event of bacteriorhodopsin proton pumping. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(47). 20172–20177. 82 indexed citations

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Stenta, Marco, Matteo Calvaresi, Piero Altoè, et al.. (2009). Catalytic Mechanism of Diaminopimelate Epimerase: A QM/MM Investigation. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 5(7). 1915–1930. 16 indexed citations

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Altoè, Piero, Teresa Climent, Marco Stenta, et al.. (2009). Deciphering Intrinsic Deactivation/Isomerization Routes in a Phytochrome Chromophore Model. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 113(45). 15067–15073. 26 indexed citations

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Tomasello, Gaia, Gloria Olaso‐González, Piero Altoè, et al.. (2009). Electrostatic Control of the Photoisomerization Efficiency and Optical Properties in Visual Pigments: On the Role of Counterion Quenching. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(14). 5172–5186. 110 indexed citations

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Altoè, Piero, Francesco G. Gatti, Céline Frochot, et al.. (2008). Multistate Photo-Induced Relaxation and Photoisomerization Ability of Fumaramide Threads: A Computational and Experimental Study. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(1). 104–117. 24 indexed citations

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Altoè, Piero, Marco Stenta, Marco Garavelli, Theodore E. Simos, & George Maroulis. (2007). Rhodopsin and GFP Chromophores: QM∕MM Absorption Spectra in Solvent and Protein. AIP conference proceedings. 963. 689–692. 2 indexed citations

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Altoè, Piero, Marco Stenta, Andréa Bottoni, & Marco Garavelli. (2007). A tunable QM/MM approach to chemical reactivity, structure and physico-chemical properties prediction. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. 118(1). 219–240. 72 indexed citations

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Altoè, Piero, Marco Stenta, Andréa Bottoni, et al.. (2007). COBRAMM: A Tunable QM∕MM Approach to Complex Molecular Architectures. Modelling the Excited and Ground State Properties of Sized Molecular Systems. AIP conference proceedings. 963. 491–505. 8 indexed citations

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Altoè, Piero, Fernando Bernardi, Irene Conti, et al.. (2006). Light driven molecular switches: exploring and tuning their photophysical and photochemical properties. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. 117(5-6). 1041–1059. 17 indexed citations

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Altoè, Piero, Fernando Bernardi, Marco Garavelli, Giorgio Orlandi, & Fabrizia Negri. (2005). Solvent Effects on the Vibrational Activity and Photodynamics of the Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore: A Quantum-Chemical Study. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(11). 3952–3963. 135 indexed citations

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Cembran, Alessandro, Remedios González-Luque, Piero Altoè, et al.. (2005). Structure, Spectroscopy, and Spectral Tuning of the Gas-Phase Retinal Chromophore: The β-Ionone “Handle” and Alkyl Group Effect. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 109(29). 6597–6605. 74 indexed citations

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