Tomáš Polı́vka

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
145 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Tomáš Polı́vka is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomáš Polı́vka has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Molecular Biology, 63 papers in Biochemistry and 54 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Tomáš Polı́vka's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (116 papers), Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress (63 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (53 papers). Tomáš Polı́vka is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (116 papers), Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress (63 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (53 papers). Tomáš Polı́vka collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, United States and Sweden. Tomáš Polı́vka's co-authors include Villy Sundström, Harry A. Frank, Donatas Zigmantas, Roger G. Hiller, Jennifer L. Herek, Marcel Fuciman, Torbjörn Pascher, Tõnu Pullerits, Arkady Yartsev and Pavel Chábera and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tomáš Polı́vka

144 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

Ultrafast Dynamics of Carotenoid Excited States−From Solu... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Ultrafast Dynamics of Carotenoid Excited States−From Solution to Natural and Artificial Systems
    2004 720 citations Tomáš Polı́vka, Villy Sundström profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tomáš Polı́vka Czechia 47 5.0k 2.7k 2.0k 1.8k 1.6k 145 7.5k
Hideki Hashimoto Japan 40 3.0k 0.6× 2.2k 0.8× 759 0.4× 1.3k 0.7× 978 0.6× 266 5.7k
Donatas Zigmantas Sweden 37 3.6k 0.7× 3.6k 1.3× 527 0.3× 732 0.4× 850 0.5× 81 6.1k
John T. M. Kennis Netherlands 46 4.8k 1.0× 1.9k 0.7× 998 0.5× 686 0.4× 1.2k 0.7× 121 7.0k
Hugo Scheer Germany 48 7.6k 1.5× 2.9k 1.1× 2.3k 1.1× 393 0.2× 1.7k 1.0× 339 9.4k
Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzki United States 35 2.6k 0.5× 1.0k 0.4× 1.6k 0.8× 543 0.3× 1.7k 1.0× 146 4.5k
Herbert van Amerongen Netherlands 60 10.0k 2.0× 5.2k 1.9× 1.6k 0.8× 845 0.5× 1.2k 0.8× 196 12.1k
Alfred R. Holzwarth Germany 65 10.6k 2.1× 5.0k 1.9× 1.9k 0.9× 653 0.4× 2.8k 1.8× 247 13.6k
Yasushi Koyama Japan 36 2.6k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 778 0.4× 1.3k 0.7× 586 0.4× 104 3.7k
Roger G. Hiller Australia 40 3.9k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 704 0.4× 534 0.3× 113 4.8k
Leonas Valkūnas Lithuania 41 3.9k 0.8× 4.2k 1.6× 391 0.2× 377 0.2× 1.2k 0.8× 211 6.8k

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All Works

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Sauer, Paul, Lorenzo Cupellini, Markus Sutter, et al.. (2024). Structural and quantum chemical basis for OCP-mediated quenching of phycobilisomes. Science Advances. 10(14). eadk7535–eadk7535. 10 indexed citations
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Özcan, Emrah, et al.. (2024). Ultrafast spectroscopy of the hydrophilic carotenoid crocin at various pH. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(13). 10225–10233.
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Kuznetsova, Valentyna, et al.. (2022). Carotenoid responds to excess energy dissipation in the LH2 complex from Rhodoblastus acidophilus. Photosynthesis Research. 154(1). 75–87. 5 indexed citations
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Kuznetsova, Valentyna, et al.. (2021). Plant LHC-like proteins show robust folding and static non-photochemical quenching. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6890–6890. 20 indexed citations
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Domínguez-Martín, María Agustina, et al.. (2020). Excited-State Properties of Canthaxanthin in Cyanobacterial Carotenoid-Binding Proteins HCP2 and HCP3. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 124(24). 4896–4905. 14 indexed citations
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Bould, Jonathan, Kamil Lang, Kaplan Kirakci, et al.. (2020). A Series of Ultra-Efficient Blue Borane Fluorophores. Inorganic Chemistry. 59(23). 17058–17070. 14 indexed citations
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West, Robert G., et al.. (2020). Energy transfer pathways in the CAC light-harvesting complex of Rhodomonas salina. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1861(11). 148280–148280. 9 indexed citations
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Farci, Domenica, David Bína, Radek Litvín, et al.. (2020). Photophysics of deinoxanthin, the keto-carotenoid bound to the main S-layer unit of Deinococcus radiodurans. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 19(4). 495–503. 10 indexed citations
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Kuznetsova, Valentyna, María Agustina Domínguez-Martín, Han Bao, et al.. (2019). Comparative ultrafast spectroscopy and structural analysis of OCP1 and OCP2 from Tolypothrix. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1861(2). 148120–148120. 22 indexed citations
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Kuznetsova, Valentyna, Robert G. West, Gürkan Keşan, et al.. (2018). Nonconjugated Acyloxy Group Deactivates the Intramolecular Charge-Transfer State in the Carotenoid Fucoxanthin. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(11). 2922–2930. 11 indexed citations
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West, Robert G., Marcel Fuciman, David Bína, et al.. (2018). Equilibration Dependence of Fucoxanthin S1 and ICT Signatures on Polarity, Proticity, and Temperature by Multipulse Femtosecond Absorption Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(29). 7264–7276. 16 indexed citations
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Kuznetsova, Valentyna, Pavel Chábera, Radek Litvín, Tomáš Polı́vka, & Marcel Fuciman. (2017). Effect of Isomerization on Excited-State Dynamics of Carotenoid Fucoxanthin. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121(17). 4438–4447. 10 indexed citations
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Pinnola, Alberta, et al.. (2016). Electron transfer between carotenoid and chlorophyll contributes to quenching in the LHCSR1 protein from Physcomitrella patens. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1857(12). 1870–1878. 49 indexed citations
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Niedzwiedzki, Dariusz M., Tomasz Tronina, Haijun Liu, et al.. (2016). Carotenoid-induced non-photochemical quenching in the cyanobacterial chlorophyll synthase–HliC/D complex. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1857(9). 1430–1439. 57 indexed citations
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Keşan, Gürkan, Radek Litvín, David Bína, et al.. (2015). Efficient light-harvesting using non-carbonyl carotenoids: Energy transfer dynamics in the VCP complex from Nannochloropsis oceanica. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1857(4). 370–379. 34 indexed citations
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Durchan, Milan, Gürkan Keşan, Václav Šlouf, et al.. (2014). Highly efficient energy transfer from a carbonyl carotenoid to chlorophyll a in the main light harvesting complex of Chromera velia. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837(10). 1748–1755. 19 indexed citations
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Polı́vka, Tomáš, Juan B. Arellano, Petr Hříbek, et al.. (2011). Self-assembly and energy transfer in artificial light-harvesting complexes of bacteriochlorophyll c with astaxanthin. Photosynthesis Research. 111(1-2). 193–204. 9 indexed citations
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Polı́vka, Tomáš, et al.. (2011). An intramolecular charge transfer state of carbonyl carotenoids: implications for excited state dynamics of apo-carotenals and retinal. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(22). 10787–10787. 32 indexed citations
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Polı́vka, Tomáš, Torbjörn Pascher, & Roger G. Hiller. (2008). Energy Transfer in the Peridinin-Chlorophyll Protein Complex Reconstituted with Mixed Chlorophyll Sites. Biophysical Journal. 94(8). 3198–3207. 14 indexed citations
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Zigmantas, Donatas, Tomáš Polı́vka, Roger G. Hiller, & Villy Sundström. (2001). Energy transfer pathways in the peridinin chlorophyll-a protein complex as revealed by the near-infrared time-resolved spectroscopy. Science Access. 3(1). 1 indexed citations

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