Robert MacColl

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Robert MacColl is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert MacColl has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 15 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Robert MacColl's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (53 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (31 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (13 papers). Robert MacColl is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (53 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (31 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (13 papers). Robert MacColl collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hungary and Australia. Robert MacColl's co-authors include Donald S. Berns, Leslie E. Eisele, Abdellah Menikh, Gerald J. Mizejewski, Mercedes R. Edwards, William A. Samsonoff, Carmen A. Mannella, Frank Maley, Haibo Liu and Samuel P. Mickan and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Robert MacColl

92 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Cyanobacterial Phycobilisomes 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Cyanobacterial Phycobilisomes
    1998 501 citations Robert MacColl profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert MacColl United States 27 1.9k 1.1k 567 307 276 92 2.7k
Michael Schaefer United States 30 2.5k 1.3× 755 0.7× 349 0.6× 475 1.5× 241 0.9× 54 3.6k
Noam Adir Israel 37 2.8k 1.5× 1.0k 0.9× 450 0.8× 262 0.9× 374 1.4× 111 4.5k
Lu‐Ning Liu United Kingdom 40 2.7k 1.4× 1.2k 1.1× 250 0.4× 310 1.0× 284 1.0× 111 3.7k
Donald S. Berns United States 28 1.3k 0.7× 833 0.8× 466 0.8× 224 0.7× 240 0.9× 98 2.1k
Miguel Á. De la Rosa Spain 36 3.4k 1.8× 709 0.6× 130 0.2× 661 2.2× 738 2.7× 190 4.2k
Laurens Mets United States 31 2.2k 1.2× 454 0.4× 130 0.2× 622 2.0× 589 2.1× 52 2.9k
Eiji Hase Japan 21 817 0.4× 562 0.5× 130 0.2× 177 0.6× 120 0.4× 125 1.5k
Martin F. Hohmann‐Marriott Norway 22 1.1k 0.6× 618 0.6× 128 0.2× 143 0.5× 145 0.5× 41 1.9k
Edward A. Berry United States 34 4.2k 2.2× 606 0.6× 223 0.4× 356 1.2× 445 1.6× 65 5.5k
Haijun Liu United States 29 1.8k 0.9× 577 0.5× 219 0.4× 153 0.5× 313 1.1× 85 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert MacColl

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert MacColl

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All Works

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Saxl, Ruth L., Gladys F. Maley, Christoph Hauer, et al.. (2007). Significance of mutations on the structural perturbation of thymidylate synthase: Implications for their involvement in subunit exchange. Protein Science. 16(7). 1439–1448. 4 indexed citations
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MacColl, Robert. (2004). Allophycocyanin and energy transfer. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1657(2-3). 73–81. 122 indexed citations
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MacColl, Robert, Leslie E. Eisele, & Abdellah Menikh. (2003). Allophycocyanin: Trimers, monomers, subunits, and homodimers. Biopolymers. 72(5). 352–365. 30 indexed citations
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Mickan, Samuel P., Abdellah Menikh, Haibo Liu, et al.. (2002). Label-free bioaffinity detection using terahertz technology. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 47(21). 3789–3795. 122 indexed citations
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Menikh, Abdellah, Robert MacColl, Carmen A. Mannella, & Xicheng Zhang. (2002). Terahertz Biosensing Technology: Frontiers and Progress. ChemPhysChem. 3(8). 655–655. 57 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Anja, Robert MacColl, Barbara Lindau‐Shepard, David R. Buckler, & James A. Dias. (2001). Hormone-induced Conformational Change of the Purified Soluble Hormone Binding Domain of Follitropin Receptor Complexed with Single Chain Follitropin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(26). 23373–23381. 46 indexed citations
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Eisele, Leslie E., Robert MacColl, Gerald J. Mizejewski, et al.. (2001). Studies on a growth‐inhibitory peptide derived from alpha‐fetoprotein and some analogs. Journal of Peptide Research. 57(1). 29–38. 29 indexed citations
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MacColl, Robert, et al.. (2001). Interrelationships among biological activity, disulfide bonds, secondary structure, and metal ion binding for a chemically synthesized 34-amino-acid peptide derived from α-fetoprotein. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1528(2-3). 127–134. 20 indexed citations
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Thomsen, J., Andrea De Biase, Szymon Kaczanowski, et al.. (2001). The Basal Transcription Factors TBP and TFB from the Mesophilic Archaeon Methanosarcina mazeii: Structure and Conformational Changes upon Interaction with Stress-gene Promoters. Journal of Molecular Biology. 309(3). 589–603. 9 indexed citations
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Mahale, Smita D., John Cavanagh, Anja Schmidt, Robert MacColl, & James A. Dias. (2001). Autologous Biological Response Modification of the Gonadotropin Receptor. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(15). 12410–12419. 12 indexed citations
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Haas, Wolfgang, Robert MacColl, & Jeffrey A. Banas. (1998). Circular dichroism analysis of the glucan binding domain of Streptococcus mutans glucan binding protein-A. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1384(1). 112–120. 15 indexed citations
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Edwards, Mercedes R., et al.. (1997). Thermophilic C-phycocyanin: effect of temperature, monomer stability, and structure. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1321(2). 157–164. 33 indexed citations
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Edwards, Mercedes R., Robert MacColl, & Leslie E. Eisele. (1996). Some physical properties of an unusual C-phycocyanin isolated from a photosynthetic thermophile. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1276(1). 64–70. 23 indexed citations
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MacColl, Robert & Leslie E. Eisele. (1996). R-phycoerythrins having two conformations for the same aggregate. Biophysical Chemistry. 61(2-3). 161–167. 4 indexed citations
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MacColl, Robert, et al.. (1994). Chromophore Topography and Exciton Splitting in Phycocyanin 645. Biochemistry. 33(21). 6418–6423. 7 indexed citations
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Figge, James, Sándor Vajda, Qinglin Zhu, et al.. (1993). The binding domain structure of retinoblastoma‐binding proteins. Protein Science. 2(2). 155–164. 15 indexed citations
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MacColl, Robert. (1991). Fluorescence studies on R-phycoerythrin and C-phycoerythrin. Journal of Fluorescence. 1(2). 135–140. 14 indexed citations
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MacColl, Robert, et al.. (1990). Effect of oligosaccharides and chloride on the oligomeric structures of external, internal, and deglycosylated invertase. Biochemistry. 29(10). 2482–2487. 34 indexed citations
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MacColl, Robert, et al.. (1990). Biliprotein light-harvesting strategies, phycoerythrin 566. Biochemistry. 29(2). 430–435. 10 indexed citations
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Kaufman, Gerald I., et al.. (1978). Automated acquisition and analysis of data from the photoelectric scanner of the model E analytical ultracentrifuge. Analytical Biochemistry. 86(2). 371–377. 8 indexed citations

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