Protein Structure and Dynamics

Protein Structure and Dynamics is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 64k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the prediction and analysis of protein structures using methods such as molecular dynamics simulations, force fields, homology modeling, and circular dichroism. It also explores topics related to intrinsically disordered proteins, enzyme catalysis, and the effects of macromolecular crowding on protein behavior.

Protein
Structure
Prediction
Molecular Dynamics
Force Field
Homology Modeling
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Circular Dichroism
Enzyme Catalysis
Macromolecular Crowding

Research works: 64k
In the world top 10%: 6.2k
Top-10% rate: 9.8%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +0%
Largest producer: United States

Protein Structure and Dynamics

Which countries lead Protein Structure and Dynamics research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.3k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 2.3k works
2 China 1.2k works
3 India 580 works
4 Germany 496 works
5 United Kingdom 388 works
6 Japan 361 works
7 France 323 works
8 Italy 239 works
9 Spain 167 works
10 Russia 161 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States2,303 · 36.8%China1,237 · 19.8%India580 · 9.3%Germany496 · 7.9%6 others listed1,639 · 26.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Protein Structure and Dynamics research?

By volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 149 works
2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 93 works
3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 77 works
4 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 62 works
5 Max Planck SocietyGermany 57 works
6 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 44 works
7 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 40 works
8 University of California San DiegoUnited States 40 works
9 Peking UniversityChina 38 works
10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Protein Structure and Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Protein Structure and Dynamics include Christopher J L Murray, Yoshua Bengio and Rob Knight.

1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
2 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
3 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
5 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
6 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
7 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
8 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
9 Jun Wang China 340k citations
10 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Protein Structure and Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Protein Structure and Dynamics is "Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4" (Ulrich K. Laemmli, 1970), with 252,153 citations. Next come "A short history of SHELX" (87,903) and "VMD: Visual molecular dynamics" (68,537).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4 Ulrich K. Laemmli · Nature Open access	Aug 1970	252,153
2	A short history of SHELX George M. Sheldrick · Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography Open access	21 Dec 2007	87,903
3	VMD: Visual molecular dynamics William F Humphrey Jr, Andrew Dalke, Klaus J. Schulten · Journal of Molecular Graphics	Feb 1996	68,537
4	UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis Eric F. Pettersen, Thomas D. Goddard, Conrad C. Huang et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry	Jul 2004	48,801
5	Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold John Jumper et al. · Nature Open access	15 Jul 2021	47,486

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Where is Protein Structure and Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Protein Structure and Dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Shanghai (China) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rehovot.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 225 works
2 ParisFrance 165 works
3 ShanghaiChina 120 works
4 LondonUnited Kingdom 100 works
5 TokyoJapan 99 works
6 New YorkUnited States 91 works
7 MoscowRussia 83 works
8 HangzhouChina 83 works
9 ChicagoUnited States 73 works
10 CambridgeUnited States 72 works

Where it is the local speciality

RehovotIL · 21.3 works17×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Protein Structure and Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Protein Structure and Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and University College London score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States	88.3	22.3%	8.2×	40	+15.9%
2	Harvard UniversityUnited States	78.2	21.9%	1.6×	36	-10.7%
3	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	77.9	18.8%	2.7×	30	+6.2%
4	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland	77.6	20.1%	8.3×	24	+19.3%
5	ETH ZurichSwitzerland	76.9	15.6%	7.0×	34	-5.0%
6	Stanford UniversityUnited States	75.0	17.9%	3.3×	35	-6.5%
7	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	73.7	18.6%	4.1×	34	-22.6%
8	University of California San DiegoUnited States	69.8	10.9%	5.8×	40	+2.0%
9	Peking UniversityChina	69.0	14.1%	2.6×	38	+58.1%
10	University of CopenhagenDenmark	68.1	16.5%	4.2×	28	+7.0%
11	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States	67.8	18.5%	3.7×	18	+2.7%
12	Zhejiang UniversityChina	66.8	16.5%	1.6×	30	+152.1%
13	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States	65.9	16.7%	5.2×	21	+13.0%
14	Technical University of MunichGermany	65.6	16.7%	4.2×	26	-1.8%
15	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States	65.3	13.5%	3.6×	24	+55.9%
16	Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States	65.1	24.9%	5.3×	15	+30.5%
17	University of ChicagoUnited States	64.9	7.7%	6.0×	36	+15.5%
18	University of GroningenNetherlands	63.8	15.3%	3.4×	16	+8.7%
19	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States	63.3	11.5%	5.5×	33	-5.5%
20	Universität HamburgGermany	63.1	14.9%	3.8×	20	+58.1%
21	New York UniversityUnited States	63.0	13.9%	3.2×	25	+10.4%
22	Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael	62.0	13.2%	21.5×	21	-16.3%
23	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	61.8	13.6%	2.9×	29	-11.6%
24	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States	61.7	24.4%	4.0×	20	-24.6%
25	Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States	61.2	14.5%	5.0×	22	+17.4%
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina	60.5	10.8%	1.6×	33	+70.0%
27	Westlake UniversityChina	60.2	15.5%	14.0×	12	+382.2%
28	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	59.4	20.5%	2.8×	16	+37.8%
29	University of WashingtonUnited States	59.3	15.9%	2.9×	23	-22.4%
30	Yale UniversityUnited States	59.3	11.7%	2.5×	19	+53.0%
31	Boston UniversityUnited States	59.0	14.6%	4.7×	16	+37.3%
32	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States	58.9	10.7%	4.0×	26	+9.6%
33	Princeton UniversityUnited States	58.5	17.3%	4.9×	15	+3.8%
34	University of TorontoCanada	58.3	14.5%	1.8×	25	-18.6%
35	Texas A&M UniversityUnited States	57.8	12.0%	3.3×	19	+20.3%
36	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	57.3	9.0%	2.6×	18	+13.3%
37	University of PaduaItaly	56.6	15.0%	3.5×	20	+9.5%
38	University of BaselSwitzerland	56.5	20.3%	5.2×	14	-26.0%
39	Virginia TechUnited States	56.4	9.8%	5.2×	20	+68.1%
40	Central South UniversityChina	55.5	16.2%	1.1×	14	+53.3%
41	Masaryk UniversityCzechia	55.3	14.8%	8.9×	18	-19.1%
42	Macao Polytechnic UniversityChina	49.4	13.1%	15.2×	9	-
43	Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUnited States	47.5	11.0%	13.0×	11	+28.0%
44	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	45.9	17.9%	1.8×	10	-3.8%
45	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States	44.6	19.8%	3.5×	9	-29.5%
46	Koç UniversityTürkiye	44.2	8.5%	8.7×	9	+158.7%
47	KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden	43.2	4.4%	3.7×	10	+22.4%
48	Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchIndia	43.1	3.3%	34.0×	27	-19.0%
49	Lehigh UniversityUnited States	41.5	16.5%	12.4×	10	-19.5%
50	National University of SingaporeSingapore	36.4	6.3%	1.4×	11	+5.9%
51	Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences	35.3	8.2%	69.1×	8	-
52	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research KolkataIndia	35.0	8.5%	16.9×	8	+196.5%
53	KU LeuvenBelgium	30.8	12.0%	1.4×	10	-39.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Protein Structure and Dynamics, country by country

Is Protein Structure and Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Protein Structure and Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

Fractional works of Protein Structure and Dynamics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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Who leads protein structure research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Protein Structure and Dynamics research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.3k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

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Which countries lead Protein Structure and Dynamics research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Protein Structure and Dynamics research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Protein Structure and Dynamics?

What are the most cited papers in Protein Structure and Dynamics?

Where is Protein Structure and Dynamics research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Protein Structure and Dynamics?

Is Protein Structure and Dynamics research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

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Questions people ask

Who leads protein structure research?

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