Roberta Croce

16.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
203 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

Roberta Croce is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberta Croce has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 188 papers in Molecular Biology, 96 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 84 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Roberta Croce's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (186 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (96 papers) and Light effects on plants (75 papers). Roberta Croce is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (186 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (96 papers) and Light effects on plants (75 papers). Roberta Croce collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Italy and France. Roberta Croce's co-authors include Herbert van Amerongen, Roberto Bassi, Emilie Wientjes, Stefano Caffarri, Alfred R. Holzwarth, Egbert J. Boekema, Jacques Breton, Tomas Morosinotto, Roman Kouřil and Nicoletta Liguori and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Roberta Croce

199 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Natural strategies for photosynthetic light harvesting

2014 780 citations Roberta Croce, Herbert van Amerongen profile →
Light harvesting in oxygenic photosynthesis: Structural biology meets spectroscopy

2020 241 citations Roberta Croce, Herbert van Amerongen Science profile →
Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield

2024 83 citations Roberta Croce et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Roberta Croce	10.2k	4.7k	4.4k	3.1k	2.2k	203	11.9k
Herbert van Amerongen	10.0k 1.0×	3.0k 0.6×	4.1k 0.9×	5.2k 1.7×	1.6k 0.7×	196	12.1k
Alexander V. Ruban	14.0k 1.4×	8.7k 1.9×	3.9k 0.9×	3.1k 1.0×	2.7k 1.2×	254	17.0k
Bertil Andersson	11.0k 1.1×	4.9k 1.0×	3.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	2.3k 1.0×	174	12.6k
Alfred R. Holzwarth	10.6k 1.0×	3.1k 0.7×	4.2k 1.0×	5.0k 1.6×	1.9k 0.8×	247	13.6k
Roberto Bassi	17.0k 1.7×	9.1k 1.9×	5.3k 1.2×	3.2k 1.0×	4.4k 2.0×	288	19.7k
C. Neil Hunter	12.7k 1.3×	2.5k 0.5×	4.0k 0.9×	4.6k 1.5×	3.2k 1.4×	367	14.9k
Г. Ренгер	8.9k 0.9×	2.8k 0.6×	3.5k 0.8×	3.9k 1.3×	2.0k 0.9×	259	10.6k
Govind Jee	7.4k 0.7×	4.8k 1.0×	2.2k 0.5×	2.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	235	10.8k
Imre Vass	7.1k 0.7×	3.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.3×	2.3k 1.1×	208	9.5k
Jan M. Anderson	8.8k 0.9×	6.1k 1.3×	2.3k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	145	10.9k

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Wang, Yu, et al.. (2025). Addition of longer wavelength absorbing chlorophylls into crops could increase their photosynthetic productivity by 26%. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7933–7933. 2 indexed citations

Croce, Roberta, et al.. (2025). Acclimation to white light in a far‐red light specialist: insights from Acaryochloris marinaMBIC11017. New Phytologist. 247(1). 128–143.

Hu, Chen, et al.. (2023). Drought affects both photosystems in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist. 240(2). 663–675. 50 indexed citations

Zamora, Ricardo A., Chen Hu, Roberta Croce, et al.. (2022). Light- and Redox-Dependent Force Spectroscopy Reveals that the Interaction between Plastocyanin and Plant Photosystem I Is Favored when One Partner Is Ready for Electron Transfer. ACS Nano. 16(9). 15155–15164. 6 indexed citations

Novoderezhkin, Vladimir I. & Roberta Croce. (2022). The location of the low-energy states in Lhca1 favors excitation energy transfer to the core in the plant PSI-LHCI supercomplex. Photosynthesis Research. 156(1). 59–74. 14 indexed citations

Liguori, Nicoletta, et al.. (2021). Harvesting Far-Red Light with Plant Antenna Complexes Incorporating Chlorophyll d. Biomacromolecules. 22(8). 3313–3322. 28 indexed citations

Zamora, Ricardo A., et al.. (2021). Distance and Potential Dependence of Charge Transport Through the Reaction Center of Individual Photosynthetic Complexes. Small. 18(7). e2104366–e2104366. 8 indexed citations

Mascoli, Vincenzo, Andrius Gelžinis, Jevgenij Chmeliov, Leonas Valkūnas, & Roberta Croce. (2020). Light-harvesting complexes access analogue emissive states in different environments. Chemical Science. 11(22). 5697–5709. 12 indexed citations

Croce, Roberta & Herbert van Amerongen. (2020). Light harvesting in oxygenic photosynthesis: Structural biology meets spectroscopy. Science. 369(6506). 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mascoli, Vincenzo, Luca Bersanini, & Roberta Croce. (2020). Far-red absorption and light-use efficiency trade-offs in chlorophyll f photosynthesis. Nature Plants. 6(8). 1044–1053. 63 indexed citations

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Tros, Martijn, Vladimir I. Novoderezhkin, Roberta Croce, Rienk van Grondelle, & Elisabet Romero. (2020). Complete mapping of energy transfer pathways in the plant light-harvesting complex Lhca4. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(44). 25720–25729. 6 indexed citations

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Bag, Pushan, Volha U. Chukhutsina, Zishan Zhang, et al.. (2020). Direct energy transfer from photosystem II to photosystem I confers winter sustainability in Scots Pine. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6388–6388. 55 indexed citations

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Nawrocki, Wojciech J., et al.. (2019). Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Exhibits De Facto Constitutive NPQ Capacity in Physiologically Relevant Conditions. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 182(1). 472–479. 29 indexed citations

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Capretti, Antonio, et al.. (2019). Nanophotonics of higher-plant photosynthetic membranes. Light Science & Applications. 8(1). 5–5. 30 indexed citations

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Tian, Lijin, et al.. (2019). pH dependence, kinetics and light-harvesting regulation of nonphotochemical quenching in Chlamydomonas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(17). 8320–8325. 63 indexed citations

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Duan, Hong-Guang, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Emilie Wientjes, et al.. (2017). Primary Charge Separation in the Photosystem II Reaction Center Revealed by a Global Analysis of the Two-dimensional Electronic Spectra. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 37 indexed citations

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Tian, Lijin, Pengqi Xu, Volha U. Chukhutsina, Alfred R. Holzwarth, & Roberta Croce. (2017). Zeaxanthin-dependent nonphotochemical quenching does not occur in photosystem I in the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(18). 4828–4832. 38 indexed citations

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Oort, Bart van, et al.. (2017). Light-harvesting complexes of Botryococcus braunii. Photosynthesis Research. 135(1-3). 191–201. 9 indexed citations

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Chukhutsina, Volha U., Rikard Fristedt, Tomas Morosinotto, & Roberta Croce. (2017). Photoprotection strategies of the alga Nannochloropsis gaditana. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1858(7). 544–552. 30 indexed citations

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Fristedt, Rikard, et al.. (2016). Carbon Supply and Photoacclimation Cross Talk in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 172(3). 1494–1505. 55 indexed citations

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