Rafał Szabla

1.0k total citations
37 papers, 723 citations indexed

About

Rafał Szabla is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafał Szabla has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 723 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 10 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Rafał Szabla's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (15 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (15 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (10 papers). Rafał Szabla is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (15 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (15 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (10 papers). Rafał Szabla collaborates with scholars based in Poland, Czechia and United Kingdom. Rafał Szabla's co-authors include Jiřı́ Šponer, Robert W. Góra, Judit E. Šponer, John D. Sutherland, Jianfeng Xu, Mikołaj J. Janicki, Holger Kruse, Andrzej L. Sobolewski, Nicholas J. Green and Μαρία Τσανακοπούλου and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rafał Szabla

36 papers receiving 715 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rafał Szabla Poland 16 414 346 154 137 121 37 723
Samanta Pino Italy 14 498 1.2× 715 2.1× 168 1.1× 103 0.8× 27 0.2× 24 914
Dougal J. Ritson United Kingdom 19 831 2.0× 1.0k 3.0× 393 2.6× 143 1.0× 30 0.2× 28 1.8k
Claudia Percivalle Italy 11 673 1.6× 582 1.7× 239 1.6× 223 1.6× 20 0.2× 13 1.2k
William J. Hagan United States 9 222 0.5× 340 1.0× 71 0.5× 84 0.6× 30 0.2× 19 517
Saidul Islam United Kingdom 15 557 1.3× 428 1.2× 143 0.9× 118 0.9× 23 0.2× 24 1.0k
Kristof Plankensteiner Austria 17 222 0.5× 283 0.8× 81 0.5× 77 0.6× 42 0.3× 20 513
Tynchtyk Amatov Czechia 11 365 0.9× 339 1.0× 88 0.6× 79 0.6× 19 0.2× 21 684
Colm D. Duffy United Kingdom 9 540 1.3× 667 1.9× 270 1.8× 78 0.6× 10 0.1× 10 955
Toshiko Izumi United Kingdom 7 255 0.6× 489 1.4× 172 1.1× 286 2.1× 91 0.8× 12 740
Jean‐Philippe Biron France 13 238 0.6× 155 0.4× 51 0.3× 43 0.3× 46 0.4× 21 512

Countries citing papers authored by Rafał Szabla

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rafał Szabla

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafał Szabla

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All Works

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Richard, F., et al.. (2025). Quinol–Enedione Rearrangement. Organic Letters. 27(18). 4782–4787. 5 indexed citations
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Xu, Jianfeng, Mikołaj J. Janicki, Rafał Szabla, & John D. Sutherland. (2024). Prebiotic synthesis of dihydrouridine by photoreduction of uridine in formamide. Chemical Communications. 60(55). 7081–7084. 1 indexed citations
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Janicki, Mikołaj J. & Rafał Szabla. (2024). Chalcogen Bonds Enable Efficient Photoreduction of Sulfur‐Containing Heterocycles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(1). e202413498–e202413498. 1 indexed citations
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Cumby, James, Matteo T. Degiacomi, Valentina Erastova, et al.. (2023). Course Materials for an Introduction to Data-Driven Chemistry. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 6(63). 192–192. 3 indexed citations
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Williams, Ann, et al.. (2023). The tautomer‐specific excited state dynamics of 2,6‐diaminopurine using resonance‐enhanced multiphoton ionization and quantum chemical calculations. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 100(2). 404–418. 1 indexed citations
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Kufner, Corinna L., Dian Ding, Petr Stadlbauer, et al.. (2023). Photoinduced charge separation and DNA self-repair depend on sequence directionality and stacking pattern. Chemical Science. 15(6). 2158–2166. 8 indexed citations
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Powner, Matthew W., et al.. (2022). Photochemistry of 2-thiooxazole: a plausible prebiotic precursor to RNA nucleotides. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(35). 21406–21416. 3 indexed citations
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Janicki, Mikołaj J., Rafał Szabla, Jiřı́ Šponer, & Robert W. Góra. (2022). Photoinduced water–chromophore electron transfer causes formation of guanosine photodamage. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(14). 8217–8224. 5 indexed citations
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Szabla, Rafał, et al.. (2021). Electronic absorptions of C5+ detected in the visible through action spectroscopy in a cryogenic trap. Molecular Physics. 120(3). 5 indexed citations
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Szabla, Rafał, Magdalena Zdrowowicz, Nicholas J. Green, et al.. (2021). 2,6-diaminopurine promotes repair of DNA lesions under prebiotic conditions. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3018–3018. 24 indexed citations
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Xu, Jianfeng, Nicholas J. Green, David A. Russell, et al.. (2020). Selective prebiotic formation of RNA pyrimidine and DNA purine nucleosides. Nature. 582(7810). 60–66. 109 indexed citations
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Szabla, Rafał, et al.. (2019). Photodynamics of alternative DNA base isoguanine. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(25). 13474–13485. 19 indexed citations
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Szabla, Rafał, Zoe R. Todd, Shaun Stairs, et al.. (2018). Selective prebiotic conversion of pyrimidine and purine anhydronucleosides into Watson-Crick base-pairing arabino-furanosyl nucleosides in water. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4073–4073. 35 indexed citations
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Šponer, Judit E., Rafał Szabla, Robert W. Góra, et al.. (2016). Prebiotic synthesis of nucleic acids and their building blocks at the atomic level – merging models and mechanisms from advanced computations and experiments. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 18(30). 20047–20066. 40 indexed citations
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Xu, Jianfeng, Μαρία Τσανακοπούλου, Christopher J. Magnani, et al.. (2016). A prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine β-ribonucleosides and their phosphate derivatives involving photoanomerization. Nature Chemistry. 9(4). 303–309. 105 indexed citations
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Szabla, Rafał, Robert W. Góra, Mikołaj J. Janicki, & Jiřı́ Šponer. (2016). Photorelaxation of imidazole and adenine via electron-driven proton transfer along H2O wires. Faraday Discussions. 195. 237–251. 13 indexed citations
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Szabla, Rafał, et al.. (2014). Molecular Mechanism of Diaminomaleonitrile to Diaminofumaronitrile Photoisomerization: An Intermediate Step in the Prebiotic Formation of Purine Nucleobases. Chemistry - A European Journal. 20(9). 2515–2521. 11 indexed citations
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Szabla, Rafał, Judit E. Šponer, Judit E. Šponer, et al.. (2013). Theoretical studies of the mechanism of 2-aminooxazole formation under prebiotically plausible conditions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(20). 7812–7812. 12 indexed citations
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Szabla, Rafał, Deniz Tuna, Robert W. Góra, et al.. (2013). Photochemistry of 2-Aminooxazole, a Hypothetical Prebiotic Precursor of RNA Nucleotides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 4(16). 2785–2788. 27 indexed citations

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