Alexei A. Vagin

30.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
24 papers, 24.6k citations indexed

About

Alexei A. Vagin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexei A. Vagin has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 24.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Alexei A. Vagin's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (17 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (4 papers). Alexei A. Vagin is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (17 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (4 papers). Alexei A. Vagin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Alexei A. Vagin's co-authors include Garib N. Murshudov, A. Teplyakov, Martyn Winn, Neesh Pannu, Fei Long, Andrey A. Lebedev, Roberto A. Steiner, Robert A. Nicholls, Pavol Skubák and E.J. Dodson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alexei A. Vagin

24 papers receiving 24.4k citations

Hit Papers

Overview of theCCP4 suite and current developments 1999 2026 2008 2017 2011 2011 2009 2004 1999 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Overview of theCCP4 suite and current developments
    2011 10.1k citations Martyn Winn, Charles Ballard et al. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography profile →
  2. REFMAC5 for the refinement of macromolecular crystal structures
    2011 6.8k citations Garib N. Murshudov, Pavol Skubák et al. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography profile →
  3. Molecular replacement withMOLREP
    2009 3.0k citations Alexei A. Vagin, A. Teplyakov Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography profile →
  4. REFMAC5 dictionary: organization of prior chemical knowledge and guidelines for its use
    2004 1.1k citations Alexei A. Vagin, Roberto A. Steiner et al. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography profile →
  5. Efficient anisotropic refinement of macromolecular structures using FFT
    1999 881 citations Garib N. Murshudov, Alexei A. Vagin et al. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography profile →
  6. BALBES: a molecular-replacement pipeline
    2007 653 citations Fei Long, Alexei A. Vagin et al. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography profile →
  7. An approach to multi-copy search in molecular replacement
    2000 645 citations Alexei A. Vagin, A. Teplyakov Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexei A. Vagin United Kingdom 21 17.7k 6.8k 2.6k 2.1k 1.9k 24 24.6k
Malcolm W. MacArthur United Kingdom 18 18.7k 1.1× 5.7k 0.8× 2.4k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 1.8k 1.0× 20 25.5k
E.J. Dodson United Kingdom 56 16.3k 0.9× 5.5k 0.8× 2.4k 1.0× 1.7k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 148 22.3k
W.B. Arendall United States 13 16.3k 0.9× 4.4k 0.6× 2.3k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 1.6k 0.9× 16 22.6k
Peter H. Zwart United States 31 20.6k 1.2× 6.0k 0.9× 3.4k 1.3× 2.2k 1.1× 2.4k 1.3× 60 28.6k
Nathaniel Echols United States 30 20.1k 1.1× 5.8k 0.8× 3.2k 1.3× 2.1k 1.0× 2.3k 1.2× 43 27.5k
Andrew G. W. Leslie United Kingdom 57 23.9k 1.3× 5.7k 0.8× 2.2k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 97 30.8k
T. Alwyn Jones Sweden 66 21.1k 1.2× 6.0k 0.9× 2.9k 1.1× 2.1k 1.0× 2.5k 1.3× 181 29.7k
Li‐Wei Hung United States 30 21.2k 1.2× 5.5k 0.8× 3.6k 1.4× 2.5k 1.2× 2.5k 1.4× 68 29.4k
Bernhard Lohkamp Sweden 15 16.0k 0.9× 4.0k 0.6× 2.5k 1.0× 1.9k 0.9× 2.0k 1.1× 26 22.3k
Ian Davis United States 23 20.8k 1.2× 5.3k 0.8× 3.1k 1.2× 2.2k 1.1× 2.4k 1.3× 56 28.9k

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All Works

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Watson, Aleksandra A., Andrey A. Lebedev, Benjamin A. Hall, et al.. (2011). Structural Flexibility of the Macrophage Dengue Virus Receptor CLEC5A. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(27). 24208–24218. 42 indexed citations
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Winn, Martyn, Charles Ballard, Kevin Cowtan, et al.. (2011). Overview of theCCP4 suite and current developments. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 67(4). 235–242. 10064 indexed citations breakdown →
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Murshudov, Garib N., Pavol Skubák, Andrey A. Lebedev, et al.. (2011). REFMAC5 for the refinement of macromolecular crystal structures. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 67(4). 355–367. 6818 indexed citations breakdown →
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Keegan, Ronan M., Fei Long, Vincent Fazio, et al.. (2011). Evaluating the solution fromMrBUMPandBALBES. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 67(4). 313–323. 21 indexed citations
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Urusova, Darya V., Michail N. Isupov, S.V. Antonyuk, et al.. (2011). Crystal structure of D-serine dehydratase from Escherichia coli. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1824(3). 422–432. 17 indexed citations
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Cohen, Serge X., Fei Long, Alexei A. Vagin, et al.. (2007). ARP/wARPand molecular replacement: the next generation. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 64(1). 49–60. 137 indexed citations
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Lebedev, Andrey A., Anabela Isidro, Alexei A. Vagin, et al.. (2007). Structural framework for DNA translocation via the viral portal protein. The EMBO Journal. 26(7). 1984–1994. 186 indexed citations
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Lebedev, Andrey A., Alexei A. Vagin, & Garib N. Murshudov. (2007). Model preparation inMOLREPand examples of model improvement using X-ray data. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 64(1). 33–39. 115 indexed citations
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Long, Fei, Alexei A. Vagin, Paul G. Young, & Garib N. Murshudov. (2007). BALBES: a molecular-replacement pipeline. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 64(1). 125–132. 653 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ramón‐Maiques, Santiago, María Leonor Fernández-Murga, F. Gil-Ortiz, et al.. (2005). Structural Bases of Feed-back Control of Arginine Biosynthesis, Revealed by the Structures of Two Hexameric N-Acetylglutamate Kinases, from Thermotoga maritima and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Molecular Biology. 356(3). 695–713. 64 indexed citations
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Vagin, Alexei A., Roberto A. Steiner, Andrey A. Lebedev, et al.. (2004). REFMAC5 dictionary: organization of prior chemical knowledge and guidelines for its use. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 60(12). 2184–2195. 1133 indexed citations breakdown →
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Moroz, Olga V., Maria Harkiolaki, Michael Y. Galperin, et al.. (2004). The Crystal Structure of a Complex of Campylobacter jejuni dUTPase with Substrate Analogue Sheds Light on the Mechanism and Suggests the “Basic Module” for Dimeric d(C/U)TPases. Journal of Molecular Biology. 342(5). 1583–1597. 57 indexed citations
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Harris, J. Robin, Ewald Schröder, Michail N. Isupov, et al.. (2001). Comparison of the decameric structure of peroxiredoxin-II by transmission electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1547(2). 221–234. 58 indexed citations
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Vagin, Alexei A. & Michail N. Isupov. (2001). Spherically averaged phased translation function and its application to the search for molecules and fragments in electron-density maps. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 57(10). 1451–1456. 182 indexed citations
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Roper, David I., Trevor Huyton, Alexei A. Vagin, & Guy Dodson. (2000). The molecular basis of vancomycin resistance in clinically relevant Enterococci: Crystal structure of d -alanyl- d -lactate ligase (VanA). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97(16). 8921–8925. 54 indexed citations
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Schröder, Ewald, et al.. (2000). Crystal structure of decameric 2-Cys peroxiredoxin from human erythrocytes at 1.7Å resolution. Structure. 8(6). 605–615. 261 indexed citations
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Vagin, Alexei A. & A. Teplyakov. (2000). An approach to multi-copy search in molecular replacement. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 56(12). 1622–1624. 645 indexed citations breakdown →
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Greaves, Richard B., Alexei A. Vagin, & E.J. Dodson. (1999). Automated production of small-molecule dictionaries for use in crystallographic refinements. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 55(7). 1335–1339. 4 indexed citations
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Murshudov, Garib N., Alexei A. Vagin, A.N. Lebedev, Keith S. Wilson, & E.J. Dodson. (1999). Efficient anisotropic refinement of macromolecular structures using FFT. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 55(1). 247–255. 881 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vagin, Alexei A. & A. Teplyakov. (1998). A Translation-Function Approach for Heavy-Atom Location in Macromolecular Crystallography. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 54(3). 400–402. 35 indexed citations

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