Alejandro Gil-Ley

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 763 citations indexed

About

Alejandro Gil-Ley is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Gil-Ley has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 763 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 2 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Gil-Ley's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (4 papers). Alejandro Gil-Ley is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (4 papers). Alejandro Gil-Ley collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Czechia. Alejandro Gil-Ley's co-authors include Giovanni Bussi, Sandro Bottaro, Jiřı́ Šponer, Pavel Banáš, Michal Otyepka, Miroslav Krepl, Richard A. Cunha, Petr Jurečka, Giovanni Pinamonti and Nils G. Walter and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Nucleic Acids Research and Biophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Gil-Ley

10 papers receiving 758 citations

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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.

RNA Structural Dynamics As Captured by Molecular Simulations: A Comprehensive Overview

2018 398 citations Jiřı́ Šponer, Giovanni Bussi et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alejandro Gil-Ley Italy	10	677	89	63	62	50	12	763
Christina Bergonzo United States	13	769 1.1×	94 1.1×	72 1.1×	47 0.8×	45 0.9×	36	843
Samuela Pasquali France	16	814 1.2×	165 1.9×	79 1.3×	54 0.9×	52 1.0×	40	937
Joseph D. Yesselman United States	16	777 1.1×	100 1.1×	59 0.9×	76 1.2×	66 1.3×	26	930
Abir Ganguly United States	19	575 0.8×	140 1.6×	37 0.6×	78 1.3×	38 0.8×	26	759
Simon Rüdisser Switzerland	17	850 1.3×	100 1.1×	81 1.3×	55 0.9×	68 1.4×	30	1.0k
Ilan Samish Israel	10	501 0.7×	88 1.0×	33 0.5×	47 0.8×	76 1.5×	15	623
Petra Kührová Czechia	19	1.1k 1.7×	109 1.2×	141 2.2×	59 1.0×	50 1.0×	34	1.2k
Xiakun Chu United States	16	673 1.0×	215 2.4×	33 0.5×	39 0.6×	65 1.3×	46	761
Erik D. Holmstrom United States	20	905 1.3×	85 1.0×	72 1.1×	85 1.4×	37 0.7×	32	1.1k
Jürgen Walther Spain	7	1.0k 1.5×	103 1.2×	145 2.3×	68 1.1×	41 0.8×	7	1.1k

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Öztürk, Tuǧba N., Noah Schwartz, Rahul Chadda, et al.. (2025). Molecular basis for the regulation of membrane proteins through preferential lipid solvation. Nature Chemical Biology.

Chadda, Rahul, Elizabeth G. Kelley, Susana C. M. Teixeira, et al.. (2021). Membrane transporter dimerization driven by differential lipid solvation energetics of dissociated and associated states. eLife. 10. 35 indexed citations

Li, Zhuo, Jonathan D. Hirst, András Micsonai, et al.. (2018). Atomistic Details of Chymotrypsin Conformational Changes upon Adsorption on Silica. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 4(12). 4036–4050. 19 indexed citations

Šponer, Jiřı́, Giovanni Bussi, Miroslav Krepl, et al.. (2018). RNA Structural Dynamics As Captured by Molecular Simulations: A Comprehensive Overview. Chemical Reviews. 118(8). 4177–4338. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

Islam, Barira, Petr Stadlbauer, Alejandro Gil-Ley, et al.. (2017). Exploring the Dynamics of Propeller Loops in Human Telomeric DNA Quadruplexes Using Atomistic Simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 13(6). 2458–2480. 36 indexed citations

Gil-Ley, Alejandro, Sandro Bottaro, & Giovanni Bussi. (2016). RNA Conformational Ensembles: Narrowing the GAP between Experiments and Simulations with Metadynamics. Biophysical Journal. 110(3). 522a–523a.

Bottaro, Sandro, Alejandro Gil-Ley, & Giovanni Bussi. (2016). RNA folding pathways in stop motion. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(12). 5883–5891. 32 indexed citations

Gil-Ley, Alejandro, Sandro Bottaro, & Giovanni Bussi. (2016). Empirical Corrections to the Amber RNA Force Field with Target Metadynamics. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 12(6). 2790–2798. 50 indexed citations

Gil-Ley, Alejandro, et al.. (2016). Combining Simulations and Solution Experiments as a Paradigm for RNA Force Field Refinement. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 12(12). 6192–6200. 81 indexed citations

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Gil-Ley, Alejandro & Giovanni Bussi. (2015). Enhanced Conformational Sampling Using Replica Exchange with Collective-Variable Tempering. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 11(3). 1077–1085. 85 indexed citations

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Gil-Ley, Alejandro, Pedro A. Valiente, Pedro G. Pascutti, & Tirso Pons. (2011). Computational Perspectives into Plasmepsins Structure—Function Relationship: Implications to Inhibitors Design. Journal of Tropical Medicine. 2011. 1–15. 11 indexed citations

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Valiente, Pedro A., Alejandro Gil-Ley, Paulo Ricardo Batista, et al.. (2010). New parameterization approaches of the LIE method to improve free energy calculations of PlmII‐Inhibitors complexes. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 31(15). 2723–2734. 16 indexed citations

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