Simon de Vries

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Simon de Vries is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon de Vries has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Simon de Vries's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (43 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (14 papers) and Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (14 papers). Simon de Vries is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (43 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (14 papers) and Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (14 papers). Simon de Vries collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Simon de Vries's co-authors include Cees Dekker, Danny Porath, Alexey Bezryadin, Imke Schröder, Pierre Moënne‐Loccoz, Carla A.M. Marres, Leslie A. Grivell, Eric F. Johnson, Kenneth D. Karlin and Ian M. Wasser and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simon de Vries

107 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Direct measurement of electrical transport through DNA molecules

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon de Vries Netherlands	44	4.4k	1.4k	967	782	732	107	7.4k
Mireille Bruschi France	41	2.4k 0.5×	651 0.5×	882 0.9×	767 1.0×	1.3k 1.8×	147	4.9k
Cláudio M. Soares Portugal	42	3.1k 0.7×	599 0.4×	337 0.3×	827 1.1×	654 0.9×	154	5.7k
Miguel Teixeira Portugal	55	5.8k 1.3×	832 0.6×	1.8k 1.9×	1.6k 2.1×	2.6k 3.6×	254	11.1k
Bernd Ludwig Germany	42	6.6k 1.5×	593 0.4×	798 0.8×	804 1.0×	577 0.8×	175	7.8k
António V. Xavier Portugal	52	4.0k 0.9×	631 0.5×	1.5k 1.6×	1.6k 2.1×	2.2k 3.0×	191	8.1k
Wilfred R. Hagen Netherlands	50	3.1k 0.7×	750 0.6×	1.9k 2.0×	1.6k 2.0×	3.1k 4.3×	245	8.2k
Robert A. Scott United States	52	3.4k 0.8×	605 0.4×	1.5k 1.6×	1.8k 2.3×	1.3k 1.8×	191	7.8k
Richard Cammack United Kingdom	49	3.6k 0.8×	923 0.7×	1.6k 1.7×	1.5k 1.9×	3.9k 5.4×	233	8.7k
Michael A. Cusanovich United States	44	4.9k 1.1×	633 0.5×	744 0.8×	994 1.3×	1.0k 1.4×	221	6.6k
Albrecht Messerschmidt Germany	41	3.6k 0.8×	574 0.4×	1.8k 1.9×	1.7k 2.1×	732 1.0×	100	7.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon de Vries

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon de Vries

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Andersson, Jon, et al.. (2024). A Practical Approach for On-Road Measurements of Brake Wear Particles from a Light-Duty Vehicle. Atmosphere. 15(2). 224–224. 3 indexed citations

Dörner, Katerina, et al.. (2016). The multitude of iron–sulfur clusters in respiratory complex I. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1857(8). 1068–1072. 56 indexed citations

Vries, Simon de, Katerina Dörner, Marc J. F. Strampraad, & Thorsten Friedrich. (2015). Electron Tunneling Rates in Respiratory Complex I Are Tuned for Efficient Energy Conversion. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(9). 2844–2848. 57 indexed citations

Dietl, Andreas, Christina Ferousi, Wouter J. Maalcke, et al.. (2015). The inner workings of the hydrazine synthase multiprotein complex. Nature. 527(7578). 394–397. 138 indexed citations

Ludwig, Bernd, et al.. (2015). The cytochrome ba3 oxidase from Thermus thermophilus does not generate a tryptophan radical during turnover: Implications for the mechanism of proton pumping. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1847(10). 1093–1100. 5 indexed citations

Vries, Simon de, et al.. (2014). Cytochrome bd oxidase from Escherichia coli is a quinol peroxidase mechanistically adjusted to protecting the cell from hydrogen peroxide. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837. e95–e96. 1 indexed citations

Vries, Simon de, et al.. (2012). Energy transduction by respiratory metallo-enzymes: From molecular mechanism to cell physiology. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 257(1). 64–80. 23 indexed citations

Kampschreur, Marlies J., Robbert Kleerebezem, Cristian Picioreanu, et al.. (2012). Metabolic modeling of denitrification in Agrobacterium tumefaciens: a tool to study inhibiting and activating compounds for the denitrification pathway. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3. 370–370. 19 indexed citations

Cherepanov, Alexey V., et al.. (2008). The associative nature of adenylyl transfer catalyzed by T4 DNA ligase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(25). 8563–8568. 19 indexed citations

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Strampraad, Marc J. F., et al.. (2008). Very Early Reaction Intermediates Detected by Microsecond Time Scale Kinetics of Cytochrome cd1-catalyzed Reduction of Nitrite. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(41). 27403–27409. 11 indexed citations

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Vries, Simon de, et al.. (2007). Formation of a Dinitrosyl Iron Complex by NorA, a Nitric Oxide-binding Di-iron Protein from Ralstonia eutropha H16. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(28). 20292–20300. 36 indexed citations

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Cherepanov, Alexey V. & Simon de Vries. (2004). Microsecond freeze-hyperquenching: development of a new ultrafast micro-mixing and sampling technology and application to enzyme catalysis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1656(1). 1–31. 76 indexed citations

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Vries, Simon de, et al.. (2002). Dynamic mechanism of nick recognition by DNA ligase. European Journal of Biochemistry. 269(24). 5993–5999. 32 indexed citations

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Afshar, Sepideh, Eric F. Johnson, Simon de Vries, & Imke Schröder. (2001). Properties of a Thermostable Nitrate Reductase from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum. Journal of Bacteriology. 183(19). 5491–5495. 63 indexed citations

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Vries, Simon de, et al.. (1997). Purification and initial kinetic and spectroscopic characterization of NO reductase from Paracoccus denitrificans. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1318(1-2). 202–216. 127 indexed citations

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Benen, J.A.E., et al.. (1996). Cloning of the maoA Gene that Encodes Aromatic Amine Oxidase of Escherichia coli W3350 and Characterization of the Overexpressed Enzyme. European Journal of Biochemistry. 237(3). 584–591. 17 indexed citations

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Dennison, Christopher, Axel Berg, Simon de Vries, & Gerard W. Canters. (1996). ¹H NMR studies of the paramagnetic Cu_A center of cytochrome oxidase. FEBS Letters. 394(3). 340–344. 31 indexed citations

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Jong, Govardus A. H. de, Jorge Caldeira, Jie Sun, et al.. (1995). Characterization of the Interaction between PQQ and Heme c in the Quinohemoprotein Ethanol Dehydrogenase from Comamonas testosteroni. Biochemistry. 34(29). 9451–9458. 12 indexed citations

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Blackburn, Ninian J., et al.. (1994). Metal-Metal Bonding in Biology: EXAFS Evidence for a 2.5 .ANG. Copper-Copper Bond in the CuA Center of Cytochrome Oxidase. Biochemistry. 33(34). 10401–10407. 123 indexed citations

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Marres, Carla A.M. & Simon de Vries. (1991). Reduction of the Q-pool by duroquinol via the two quinone-binding sites of the QH2: cytochrome c oxidoreductase. A model for the equilibrium between cytochrome b-562 and the Q-pool. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1057(1). 51–63. 16 indexed citations

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