Stephen R. Meech

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
201 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Stephen R. Meech is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen R. Meech has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 84 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 79 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Stephen R. Meech's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (87 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (84 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (66 papers). Stephen R. Meech is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (87 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (84 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (66 papers). Stephen R. Meech collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Hungary. Stephen R. Meech's co-authors include David Phillips, Ismael A. Heisler, Peter J. Tonge, Neil Smith, Andrew A. Jaye, K. L. Litvinenko, Neil T. Hunt, Kamila Mazur, Jamie Conyard and Keitaro Yoshihara 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

Stephen R. Meech

201 papers receiving 6.8k citations

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Photophysics of some common fluorescence standards

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Author						Papers	Cites
Stephen R. Meech	2.7k	2.2k	2.2k	2.1k	1.8k	201	6.9k
Wolfgang Zinth	4.1k 1.5×	4.1k 1.9×	3.4k 1.6×	2.5k 1.2×	3.0k 1.7×	220	10.0k
Nicolas Ferré	2.1k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	105	5.8k
Marco Garavelli	4.2k 1.6×	2.6k 1.2×	3.3k 1.5×	2.8k 1.3×	2.7k 1.5×	225	9.0k
Tahei Tahara	4.8k 1.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	2.7k 1.3×	2.3k 1.3×	214	8.9k
K. Möbius	1.5k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	681 0.3×	1.7k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	211	5.1k
Robert Bittl	1.8k 0.7×	3.4k 1.5×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	184	7.1k
N. P. Érnsting	3.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	3.6k 1.7×	2.3k 1.3×	150	7.0k
Dongping Zhong	2.2k 0.8×	3.4k 1.6×	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	148	6.5k
Gerald J. Small	4.9k 1.9×	4.0k 1.8×	2.0k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	249	8.3k
Manuela Merchán	4.1k 1.6×	2.4k 1.1×	899 0.4×	3.6k 1.7×	1.7k 1.0×	158	7.9k

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Iuliano, James N., Gregory M. Greetham, Partha Malakar, et al.. (2025). Ultrafast photophysics of a positive reversibly switchable fluorescent protein. Chemical Science. 16(36). 16955–16969. 1 indexed citations

Green, Dale, et al.. (2024). Ultrafast and Coherent Dynamics in a Solvent Switchable “Pink Box” Perylene Diimide Dimer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(39). e202407242–e202407242. 5 indexed citations

Page, Philip C. Bulman, et al.. (2024). Substituent effects on the photophysics of the kaede chromophore. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(46). 29048–29059. 1 indexed citations

Anstöter, Cate S., Lluı́s Blancafort, Kyril M. Solntsev, et al.. (2023). Alkylated green fluorescent protein chromophores: dynamics in the gas phase and in aqueous solution. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(35). 23626–23636. 7 indexed citations

Fekete, Zsuzsanna, et al.. (2023). Single Amino Acid Mutation Decouples Photochemistry of the BLUF Domain from the Enzymatic Function of OaPAC and Drives the Enzyme to a Switched-on State. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(5). 168312–168312. 3 indexed citations

Addison, Kiri, et al.. (2023). Photophysics of the red-form Kaede chromophore. Chemical Science. 14(14). 3763–3775. 5 indexed citations

Tasior, Mariusz, et al.. (2023). Excited-state symmetry breaking in quadrupolar pull–push–pull molecules: dicyanovinyl vs. cyanophenyl acceptors. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(34). 22689–22699. 18 indexed citations

Zhuang, Bo, Zsuzsanna Fekete, Peter J. Tonge, et al.. (2023). Photocycle alteration and increased enzymatic activity in genetically modified photoactivated adenylate cyclase OaPAC. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(8). 105056–105056. 4 indexed citations

Wonderen, Jessica H. van, Katrin Adamczyk, Xiaojing Wu, et al.. (2021). Nanosecond heme-to-heme electron transfer rates in a multiheme cytochrome nanowire reported by a spectrally unique His/Met-ligated heme. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(39). 38 indexed citations

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Roy, Palas, et al.. (2021). Ultrafast Excimer Formation and Solvent Controlled Symmetry Breaking Charge Separation in the Excitonically Coupled Subphthalocyanine Dimer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(19). 10568–10572. 56 indexed citations

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Lukács, András, et al.. (2020). Radical Formation in the Photoactivated Adenylate Cyclase OaPAC Revealed by Ultrafast Spectroscopy. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 608a–608a. 1 indexed citations

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Wonderen, Jessica H. van, Christopher R. Hall, Xiuyun Jiang, et al.. (2019). Ultrafast Light-Driven Electron Transfer in a Ru(II)tris(bipyridine)-Labeled Multiheme Cytochrome. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(38). 15190–15200. 35 indexed citations

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Bakker, Huib J., Stephen R. Meech, & Edwin J. Heilweil. (2018). Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 122(18). 4389–4389. 3 indexed citations

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Laptenok, Sergey P., András Lukács, Agnieszka A. Gil, et al.. (2015). Complete Proton Transfer Cycle in GFP and Its T203V and S205V Mutants. Angewandte Chemie. 127(32). 9435–9439. 4 indexed citations

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Laptenok, Sergey P., András Lukács, Agnieszka A. Gil, et al.. (2015). Complete Proton Transfer Cycle in GFP and Its T203V and S205V Mutants. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(32). 9303–9307. 28 indexed citations

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Addison, Kiri, et al.. (2013). Ultrafast excited state dynamics of the green fluorescent protein chromophore and its kindling fluorescent protein analogue. Faraday Discussions. 163. 277–277. 26 indexed citations

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Conyard, Jamie, Kiri Addison, Ismael A. Heisler, et al.. (2012). Ultrafast dynamics in the power stroke of a molecular rotary motor. Nature Chemistry. 4(7). 547–551. 173 indexed citations

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Heisler, Ismael A., Kamila Mazur, Sayuri Yamaguchi, Keisuke Tominaga, & Stephen R. Meech. (2011). Measuring acetic acid dimer modes by ultrafast time-domain Raman spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(34). 15573–15573. 33 indexed citations

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Stoner‐Ma, Deborah, Andrew A. Jaye, Kate L. Ronayne, et al.. (2008). Ultrafast electronic and vibrational dynamics of stabilized A state mutants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP): Snipping the proton wire. Chemical Physics. 350(1-3). 193–200. 15 indexed citations

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White, Gaye F., K. L. Litvinenko, Stephen R. Meech, Davıd L. Andrews, & Andrew J. Thomson. (2004). Multiphoton-excited luminescence of a lanthanide ion in a protein complex: Tb3+ bound to transferrin. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 3(1). 47–55. 45 indexed citations

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