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Robert B. Best

Active 2001–2025

110
Papers
24,877
Citations
77
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Citations

Citations per year for Robert B. Best1954: 1 citations1962: 1 citations1973: 1 citations1974: 2 citations1982: 1 citations1983: 1 citations1986: 1 citations2000: 1 citations2002: 15 citations2003: 32 citations2004: 28 citations2005: 45 citations2006: 50 citations2007: 87 citations2008: 82 citations2009: 108 citations2010: 123 citations2011: 109 citations2012: 208 citations2013: 178 citations2014: 215 citations2015: 238 citations2016: 252 citations2017: 261 citations2018: 326 citations2019: 968 citations2020: 1,025 citations2021: 1,119 citations2022: 901 citations2023: 829 citations2024: 1,169 citations2025: 741 citations2026: 59 citations1955–1961: no citations, so these years are not shown1963–1972: no citations, so these years are not shown1975–1981: no citations, so these years are not shown1984–1985: no citations, so these years are not shown1987–1999: no citations, so these years are not shown2001: no citations, so this year is not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,898 citing papers, 30.4% of this breakdownGermany: 838 citing papers, 8.8% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 696 citing papers, 7.3% of this breakdownChina: 628 citing papers, 6.6% of this breakdownFrance: 418 citing papers, 4.4% of this breakdownIndia: 288 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 276 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownCanada: 270 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownItaly: 266 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownJapan: 247 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownDenmark: 222 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownSpain: 206 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology68.5%
  • Medicine9.6%
  • Physics and Astronomy5%
  • Materials Science4%
  • Computer Science3.2%
  • Chemistry2.1%
  • Other7.6%

Topics

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics14.9%
  • Enzyme Structure and Function6.1%
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms5.9%
  • RNA Research and Splicing5.7%
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods2.8%
  • RNA modifications and cancer2.7%
  • Other61.9%

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  1. Optimization of the Additive CHARMM All-Atom Protein Force Field Targeting Improved Sampling of the Backbone ϕ, ψ and Side-Chain χ1 and χ2 Dihedral Angles

    Authors: Robert B. Best, Xiao Zhu, Jihyun Shim, Pedro E. M. Lopes, Jeetain Mittal, Michael Feig, Alexander D. MacKerell - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2012 cited by 4,756

  2. Martini 3: a general purpose force field for coarse-grained molecular dynamics

    Authors: Paulo C. T. Souza, Riccardo Alessandri, Jonathan Barnoud, Sebastian Thallmair, Ignacio Faustino, Fabian Grünewald, Ilias Patmanidis, Haleh Abdizadeh, Bart M. H. Bruininks, Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, P. Kroon, Josef Melcr, Vincent Nieto, Valentina Corradi, Hanif M. Khan, Jan Domański, Matti Javanainen, Hector Martinez‐Seara, Nathalie Reuter, Robert B. Best, Ilpo Vattulainen, Luca Monticelli, Xavier Périole, D. Peter Tieleman, Alex H. de Vries, ‪Siewert J. Marrink - Nature Methods 2021 cited by 1,565

  3. Biomolecular Phase Separation: From Molecular Driving Forces to Macroscopic Properties

    Authors: Gregory L. Dignon, Robert B. Best, Jeetain Mittal - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 2020 cited by 726

  4. Sequence determinants of protein phase behavior from a coarse-grained model

    Authors: Gregory L. Dignon, Wenwei Zheng, Young C. Kim, Robert B. Best, Jeetain Mittal - PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Comput. Biol. 2017 cited by 779

  5. Extreme dynamics in a biomolecular condensate

    Authors: Nicola Galvanetto, Miloš T. Ivanović, Aritra Chowdhury, Andrea Sottini, Mark F. Nüesch, Daniel Nettels, Robert B. Best, Benjamin Schuler - Nature 2023 cited by 357

  6. Phosphorylation of the FUS low‐complexity domain disrupts phase separation, aggregation, and toxicity

    Authors: Zachary Monahan, Veronica H. Ryan, Abigail M. Janke, Kathleen A. Burke, Shannon N. Rhoads, Gül H. Zerze, Robert N. O’Meally, Gregory L. Dignon, Alexander E. Conicella, Wenwei Zheng, Robert B. Best, Robert N. Cole, Jeetain Mittal, Frank Shewmaker, Nicolas L. Fawzi - The EMBO Journal 2017 cited by 715

  7. Relation between single-molecule properties and phase behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins

    Authors: Gregory L. Dignon, Wenwei Zheng, Robert B. Best, Young C. Kim, Jeetain Mittal - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018 cited by 475

  8. Extreme disorder in an ultrahigh-affinity protein complex

    Authors: Alessandro Borgia, Madeleine B. Borgia, Katrine Bugge, Vera M. Kissling, Pétur O. Heidarsson, Catarina B. Fernandes, Andrea Sottini, Andrea Soranno, Karin Buholzer, Daniel Nettels, Birthe B. Kragelund, Robert B. Best, Benjamin Schuler - Nature 2018 cited by 697

  9. Molecular Details of Protein Condensates Probed by Microsecond Long Atomistic Simulations

    Authors: Wenwei Zheng, Gregory L. Dignon, Nina Jovic, Xichen Xu, Roshan Mammen Regy, Nicolas L. Fawzi, Young C. Kim, Robert B. Best, Jeetain Mittal - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2020 cited by 251

  10. Balanced Protein–Water Interactions Improve Properties of Disordered Proteins and Non-Specific Protein Association

    Authors: Robert B. Best, Wenwei Zheng, Jeetain Mittal - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2014 cited by 718

  11. A Data-Driven Hydrophobicity Scale for Predicting Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation of Proteins

    Authors: Thomas Dannenhoffer-Lafage, Robert B. Best - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2021 cited by 168

  12. Optimized Molecular Dynamics Force Fields Applied to the Helix−Coil Transition of Polypeptides

    Authors: Robert B. Best, Gerhard Hummer - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2009 cited by 914

  13. Native contacts determine protein folding mechanisms in atomistic simulations

    Authors: Robert B. Best, Gerhard Hummer, William A. Eaton - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 cited by 632

  14. Polarizable Atomic Multipole-Based AMOEBA Force Field for Proteins

    Authors: Yue Shi, Zhen Xia, Jiajing Zhang, Robert B. Best, Chuanjie Wu, Jay W. Ponder, Pengyu Ren - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2013 cited by 725

  15. Mechanism of membrane-tethered mitochondrial protein synthesis

    Authors: Yuzuru Itoh, Juni Andréll, Austin Choi, Uwe Richter, Priyanka Maiti, Robert B. Best, Antoni Barrientos, Brendan J. Battersby, Alexey Amunts - Science 2021 cited by 166

  16. Theoretical and Data-Driven Approaches for Biomolecular Condensates

    Authors: Kadi L. Saar, Daoyuan Qian, Lydia L. Good, Alexey S. Morgunov, Rosana Collepardo‐Guevara, Robert B. Best, Tuomas P. J. Knowles - Chemical Reviews 2023 cited by 61

  17. Reaction coordinates and rates from transition paths

    Authors: Robert B. Best, Gerhard Hummer - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2005 cited by 518

  18. Improving the Performance of the Amber RNA Force Field by Tuning the Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions

    Authors: Petra Kührová, Vojtěch Mlýnský, Marie Zgarbová, Miroslav Krepl, Giovanni Bussi, Robert B. Best, Michal Otyepka, Jiřı́ Šponer, Pavel Banáš - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2019 cited by 153

  19. Physics-based computational and theoretical approaches to intrinsically disordered proteins

    Authors: Joan–Emma Shea, Robert B. Best, Jeetain Mittal - Current Opinion in Structural Biology 2021 cited by 159

  20. Release of linker histone from the nucleosome driven by polyelectrolyte competition with a disordered protein

    Authors: Pétur O. Heidarsson, Davide Mercadante, Andrea Sottini, Daniel Nettels, Madeleine B. Borgia, Alessandro Borgia, Sinan Kilic, Beat Fierz, Robert B. Best, Benjamin Schuler - Nature Chemistry 2022 cited by 76

  21. Polyelectrolyte interactions enable rapid association and dissociation in high-affinity disordered protein complexes

    Authors: Andrea Sottini, Alessandro Borgia, Madeleine B. Borgia, Katrine Bugge, Daniel Nettels, Aritra Chowdhury, Pétur O. Heidarsson, Franziska Zosel, Robert B. Best, Birthe B. Kragelund, Benjamin Schuler - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 113

  22. Computer Folding of RNA Tetraloops: Identification of Key Force Field Deficiencies

    Authors: Petra Kührová, Robert B. Best, Sandro Bottaro, Giovanni Bussi, Jiřı́ Šponer, Michal Otyepka, Pavel Banáš - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2016 cited by 163

  23. Inferring properties of disordered chains from FRET transfer efficiencies

    Authors: Wenwei Zheng, Gül H. Zerze, Alessandro Borgia, Jeetain Mittal, Benjamin Schuler, Robert B. Best - The Journal of Chemical Physics 2018 cited by 116

  24. Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics

    Authors: Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, Robert B. Best, Mark A. DePristo, Christopher M. Dobson, Michele Vendruscolo - Nature Cell Biology 2005 cited by 729