Alberto Pérez

8.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
100 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Alberto Pérez is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Pérez has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Materials Chemistry and 16 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Alberto Pérez's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (62 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (45 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (29 papers). Alberto Pérez is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (62 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (45 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (29 papers). Alberto Pérez collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Canada. Alberto Pérez's co-authors include Modesto Orozco, Charles A. Laughton, Jiřı́ Šponer, Thomas E. Cheatham, F. Javier Luque, Daniel Svozil, Ken A. Dill, Agnes Noy, Justin L. MacCallum and Filip Lankaš and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Pérez

94 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Refinement of the AMBER Force Field for Nucleic Acids: Improving the Description of α/γ Conformers

2007 1.8k citations Alberto Pérez, Charles A. Laughton et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
Parmbsc1: a refined force field for DNA simulations

2015 822 citations Iván Ivani, Pablo D. Dans et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alberto Pérez United States	35	6.1k	945	687	472	408	100	6.6k
Pavel Banáš Czechia	37	4.6k 0.8×	738 0.8×	483 0.7×	289 0.6×	277 0.7×	87	5.4k
Yaakov Levy Israel	47	6.0k 1.0×	1.9k 2.0×	475 0.7×	932 2.0×	653 1.6×	161	7.4k
Adrian H. Elcock United States	38	4.4k 0.7×	1.6k 1.7×	269 0.4×	695 1.5×	391 1.0×	88	5.4k
Florence Tama Japan	34	3.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	469 0.7×	701 1.5×	347 0.9×	92	4.8k
Shoji Takada Japan	41	5.3k 0.9×	2.3k 2.4×	304 0.4×	1.1k 2.3×	711 1.7×	141	6.3k
Cristian Micheletti Italy	42	3.6k 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	450 0.7×	1.2k 2.6×	283 0.7×	168	5.3k
Martin Zacharias Germany	53	8.2k 1.3×	1.7k 1.8×	572 0.8×	748 1.6×	493 1.2×	346	10.4k
Syma Khalid United Kingdom	41	3.4k 0.6×	385 0.4×	558 0.8×	404 0.9×	350 0.9×	139	4.7k
Marianne Rooman Belgium	46	5.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.9×	227 0.3×	203 0.4×	373 0.9×	153	6.6k
Wilma K. Olson United States	51	9.0k 1.5×	924 1.0×	1.3k 1.9×	755 1.6×	304 0.7×	187	10.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Alberto Pérez

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alberto Pérez

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Mondal, Arup, et al.. (2025). ATP allosterically regulates an acyl-CoA oxidase. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7318–7318.

Santos, J., et al.. (2025). Hierarchical Extended Linkage Method (HELM)’s Deep Dive into Hybrid Clustering Strategies. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(12). 6209–6220.

Roth, Monica J., et al.. (2025). Hybrid AI/physics pipeline for miniprotein binder prioritization: application to the BRD3 ET domain. Chemical Communications. 61(96). 19028–19031.

Chang, Liwei & Alberto Pérez. (2025). Rapid estimation of protein folding pathways from sequence alone using AlphaFold2. Nature Communications. 17(1). 170–170.

Mondal, Arup, et al.. (2024). Structural Elucidation of Ubiquitin via Gas-Phase Ion/Ion Cross-Linking Reactions Using Sodium-Cationized Reagents Coupled with Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation. Analytical Chemistry. 96(21). 8518–8527. 3 indexed citations

Mondal, Arup, et al.. (2024). A Computational Pipeline for Accurate Prioritization of Protein‐Protein Binding Candidates in High‐Throughput Protein Libraries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(24). e202405767–e202405767. 5 indexed citations

Nguyen, Jonathan, Chitrak Gupta, Alberto Pérez, et al.. (2023). Disordered regions of respiratory supercomplexes offer new pathways for substrate channeling in crowded membranes. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 302a–302a. 1 indexed citations

Frontera, Antonio, et al.. (2023). Computational Study of Driving Forces in ATSP, PDIQ, and P53 Peptide Binding: C═O···C═O Tetrel Bonding Interactions at Work. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 63(10). 3018–3029. 1 indexed citations

Nguyễn, Long Thành, Santosh R. Rananaware, Nicolas C. Macaluso, et al.. (2023). Engineering highly thermostable Cas12b via de novo structural analyses for one-pot detection of nucleic acids. Cell Reports Medicine. 4(5). 101037–101037. 38 indexed citations

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Bauzá, Antonio, et al.. (2023). Structural predictions of protein–DNA binding: MELD-DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(4). 1625–1636. 26 indexed citations

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Chang, Liwei, et al.. (2023). Revolutionizing peptide‐based drug discovery: Advances in the post‐AlphaFold era. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science. 14(1). 22 indexed citations

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Piña, María de las Nieves, et al.. (2021). Importance of Anion−π Interactions in RNA GAAA and GGAG Tetraloops: A Combined MD and QM Study. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 17(10). 6624–6633. 4 indexed citations

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Shekhar, Mrinal, Genki Terashi, Chitrak Gupta, et al.. (2021). CryoFold: Determining protein structures and data-guided ensembles from cryo-EM density maps. Matter. 4(10). 3195–3216. 29 indexed citations

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Balaceanu, Alexandra, Alberto Pérez, Pablo D. Dans, & Modesto Orozco. (2018). Allosterism and signal transfer in DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(15). 7554–7565. 20 indexed citations

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Pérez, Alberto, Justin L. MacCallum, & Ken A. Dill. (2015). Accelerating molecular simulations of proteins using Bayesian inference on weak information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(38). 11846–11851. 79 indexed citations

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Ivani, Iván, Pablo D. Dans, Agnes Noy, et al.. (2015). Parmbsc1: a refined force field for DNA simulations. Nature Methods. 13(1). 55–58. 822 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dans, Pablo D., Alberto Pérez, Ignacio Faustino, Richard Lavery, & Modesto Orozco. (2012). Exploring polymorphisms in B-DNA helical conformations. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(21). 10668–10678. 69 indexed citations

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Pérez, Alberto, Filip Lankaš, F. Javier Luque, & Modesto Orozco. (2008). Towards a molecular dynamics consensus view of B-DNA flexibility. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(7). 2379–2394. 131 indexed citations

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Goni, J., Alberto Pérez, David Torrents, & Modesto Orozco. (2007). Determining promoter location based on DNA structure first-principles calculations. Genome biology. 8(12). R263–R263. 119 indexed citations

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Pérez, Alberto, Agnes Noy, Filip Lankaš, F. Javier Luque, & Modesto Orozco. (2004). The relative flexibility of B-DNA and A-RNA duplexes: database analysis. Nucleic Acids Research. 32(20). 6144–6151. 118 indexed citations

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