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Researcher · Vertex Pharmaceuticals (United States) · United States

Mark A. Murcko

Mark A. Murcko publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Computational Theory and Mathematics, on topics such as Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-1235-2869 OpenAlex
World rank
#57,894
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#22,334
of 1,627,098
Works
118
Citations
17k
Citations per work
140.9
h-index
51
i10-index 74Top 3.5% in Molecular Biology
Mark A. Murcko

What does Mark A. Murcko research?

Mark A. Murcko's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (25%), Chemistry (24%), Computer Science (10%).

Physical Sciences: 46 works · 39.2% of their workChemistry: 29 works · 24.4% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 14 works · 12.0% of their workSpectroscopy: 8 works · 7.2% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 6 works · 5.2% of their workComputer Science: 12 works · 10.3% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 12 works · 10.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 works · 4.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 35.4% of their workLife Sciences: 30 works · 25.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 30 works · 25.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 30 works · 25.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMark A. Murcko118works
Life Sciences25%Physical Sciences39%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Chemistry2924.4%
    2. Computer Science1210.3%
    3. Physics and Astronomy54.5%
  2. Everything else4235.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3025.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology25% of their works
  2. 2Organic Chemistry12% of their works
  3. 3Computational Theory and Mathematics10% of their works
  4. 4Spectroscopy7% of their works
  5. 5Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mark A. Murcko's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molecular Docking, Virtual Screening, Density Functional Theory, Drug Discovery, Peptide Synthesis, Ab Initio Parametrization, Dispersion Correction and Absolute Configuration.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Molecular Docking301 topic
  2. Virtual Screening301 topic
  3. Density Functional Theory192 topics
  4. Drug Discovery111 topic
  5. Peptide Synthesis111 topic
  6. Ab Initio Parametrization101 topic
  7. Dispersion Correction101 topic
  8. Absolute Configuration91 topic
  9. Calcineurin91 topic
  10. Chiroptical Spectroscopy91 topic
  11. NFAT91 topic
  12. Protein91 topic
  13. Structure91 topic
  14. Enzyme Regulation61 topic
  15. Nucleotide Metabolism61 topic
  16. Ribosome61 topic
  17. Translation61 topic

Where does Mark A. Murcko work?

Mark A. Murcko's main affiliation in the publication record is Vertex Pharmaceuticals (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Mark A. Murcko have?

OpenAlex counts 118 works and 16,625 citations for Mark A. Murcko, an h-index of 51, ranking #57,894 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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