Alp Kucukelbir

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Alp Kucukelbir is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Surfaces, Coatings and Films. According to data from OpenAlex, Alp Kucukelbir has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Structural Biology, 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films. Recurrent topics in Alp Kucukelbir's work include Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (3 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (3 papers) and Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference (3 papers). Alp Kucukelbir is often cited by papers focused on Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (3 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (3 papers) and Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference (3 papers). Alp Kucukelbir collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Alp Kucukelbir's co-authors include Hemant D. Tagare, Fred J. Sigworth, David M. Blei, Jon McAuliffe, Hongwei Wang, Murali Rao, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Azadeh Kushki, Achille Nazaret and Zhaoran Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Methods, Journal of Structural Biology and Figshare.

In The Last Decade

Alp Kucukelbir

9 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Quantifying the local resolution of cryo-EM density maps 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 400 800 1.2k
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. Quantifying the local resolution of cryo-EM density maps
    2013 1.4k citations Alp Kucukelbir, Fred J. Sigworth et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alp Kucukelbir United States 4 1.1k 285 175 144 132 9 1.5k
Toshio Moriya Japan 19 932 0.9× 280 1.0× 137 0.8× 102 0.7× 78 0.6× 68 1.7k
Muyuan Chen United States 19 810 0.8× 331 1.2× 145 0.8× 153 1.1× 157 1.2× 40 1.4k
Daniel Roderer Germany 14 831 0.8× 210 0.7× 102 0.6× 170 1.2× 118 0.9× 22 1.2k
Markus Stabrin Germany 8 764 0.7× 320 1.1× 105 0.6× 101 0.7× 74 0.6× 10 1.2k
Rubén Sánchez-García Spain 11 760 0.7× 163 0.6× 133 0.8× 91 0.6× 120 0.9× 28 1.2k
Arne Moeller Germany 23 1.4k 1.3× 335 1.2× 156 0.9× 210 1.5× 135 1.0× 59 2.3k
Josué Gómez-Blanco Spain 18 1.1k 1.1× 421 1.5× 199 1.1× 200 1.4× 227 1.7× 31 1.9k
Dennis Quentin Germany 9 699 0.7× 194 0.7× 80 0.5× 196 1.4× 85 0.6× 9 1.2k
Felipe Merino Germany 23 1.4k 1.3× 364 1.3× 218 1.2× 185 1.3× 98 0.7× 32 2.2k
Derek J. Taylor United States 24 1.9k 1.8× 165 0.6× 97 0.6× 221 1.5× 150 1.1× 68 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Alp Kucukelbir

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alp Kucukelbir

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Alp Kucukelbir. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Alp Kucukelbir. The network helps show where Alp Kucukelbir may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alp Kucukelbir

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alp Kucukelbir. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alp Kucukelbir based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alp Kucukelbir. Alp Kucukelbir is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Blei, David M., et al.. (2024). Treeffuser: probabilistic prediction via conditional diffusions with gradient-boosted trees. 118296–118325. 1 indexed citations
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Blei, David M., Alp Kucukelbir, & Jon McAuliffe. (2023). Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians. Figshare. 46 indexed citations
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Williams, Bryan M., et al.. (2020). Accelerating Product Chemistry Refinement Using Machine Learning. 1886–1895. 1 indexed citations
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Kucukelbir, Alp, Zhaoran Wang, & David M. Blei. (2017). Evaluating Bayesian Models with Posterior Dispersion Indices. International Conference on Machine Learning. 1925–1934. 1 indexed citations
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Kucukelbir, Alp & David M. Blei. (2015). Population empirical Bayes. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. 444–453. 2 indexed citations
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Tagare, Hemant D., Alp Kucukelbir, Fred J. Sigworth, Hongwei Wang, & Murali Rao. (2015). Directly reconstructing principal components of heterogeneous particles from cryo-EM images. Journal of Structural Biology. 191(2). 245–262. 51 indexed citations
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Kucukelbir, Alp, Fred J. Sigworth, & Hemant D. Tagare. (2013). Quantifying the local resolution of cryo-EM density maps. Nature Methods. 11(1). 63–65. 1403 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kucukelbir, Alp, Fred J. Sigworth, & Hemant D. Tagare. (2012). A Bayesian adaptive basis algorithm for single particle reconstruction. Journal of Structural Biology. 179(1). 56–67. 16 indexed citations
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Kucukelbir, Alp, Azadeh Kushki, & Konstantinos N. Plataniotis. (2009). A new stochastic estimator for tremor frequency tracking. 421–424. 2 indexed citations

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