Arthur J. Olson

103.2k total citations · 19 hit papers
208 papers, 80.4k citations indexed

About

Arthur J. Olson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Arthur J. Olson has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 80.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 41 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Arthur J. Olson's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (60 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (43 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (37 papers). Arthur J. Olson is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (60 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (43 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (37 papers). Arthur J. Olson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Thailand and Italy. Arthur J. Olson's co-authors include Oleg Trott, David S. Goodsell, Garrett M. Morris, Ruth Huey, Michel F. Sanner, Richard K. Belew, William Lindstrom, William E. Hart, Sargis Dallakyan and Stefano Forli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Arthur J. Olson

207 papers receiving 79.0k citations

Hit Papers

AutoDock Vina: Improving the ... 1978 2026 1994 2010 2009 2009 1998 2014 2007 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k 20.0k 25.0k
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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.

  1. AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading
    2009 26.9k citations Oleg Trott, Arthur J. Olson Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →
  2. AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
    2009 19.0k citations Garrett M. Morris, Ruth Huey et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →
  3. Automated docking using a Lamarckian genetic algorithm and an empirical binding free energy function
    1998 9.3k citations Garrett M. Morris, David S. Goodsell et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →
  4. Small-Molecule Library Screening by Docking with PyRx
    2014 2.6k citations Sargis Dallakyan, Arthur J. Olson Methods in molecular biology profile →
  5. A semiempirical free energy force field with charge‐based desolvation
    2007 1.8k citations Ruth Huey, Garrett M. Morris et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →
  6. Computational protein–ligand docking and virtual drug screening with the AutoDock suite
    2016 1.7k citations Stefano Forli, Ruth Huey et al. profile →
  7. Reduced surface: An efficient way to compute molecular surfaces
    1996 1.7k citations Michel F. Sanner, Arthur J. Olson et al. profile →
  8. Automated docking of flexible ligands: Applications of autodock
    1996 1.3k citations David S. Goodsell, Garrett M. Morris et al. profile →
  9. Automated docking of substrates to proteins by simulated annealing
    1990 967 citations David S. Goodsell, Arthur J. Olson profile →
  10. Using AutoDock for Ligand‐Receptor Docking
    2008 922 citations Garrett M. Morris, Ruth Huey et al. profile →
  11. Distributed automated docking of flexible ligands to proteins: Parallel applications of AutoDock 2.4
    1996 879 citations Garrett M. Morris, David S. Goodsell et al. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design profile →
  12. Structural Symmetry and Protein Function
    2000 733 citations David S. Goodsell, Arthur J. Olson profile →
  13. Immunogenic structure of the influenza virus hemagglutinin
    1982 674 citations Arthur J. Olson et al. profile →
  14. Proteome-wide covalent ligand discovery in native biological systems
    2016 636 citations Stefano Forli, Arthur J. Olson et al. profile →
  15. Virtual screening with AutoDock: theory and practice
    2010 528 citations Stefano Forli, David S. Goodsell et al. profile →
  16. Tomato bushy stunt virus at 2.9 Å resolution
    1978 526 citations Arthur J. Olson et al. profile →
  17. Reduced surface: an efficient way to compute molecular surfaces.
    1996 492 citations Michel F. Sanner, Arthur J. Olson et al. profile →
  18. Inhibitors of HIV‐1 Protease by Using In Situ Click Chemistry
    2006 462 citations John Muldoon, Ying‐Chuan Lin et al. profile →
  19. AutoDockFR: Advances in Protein-Ligand Docking with Explicitly Specified Binding Site Flexibility
    2015 431 citations Stefano Forli, David S. Goodsell et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Arthur J. Olson United States 58 44.4k 18.8k 18.8k 8.3k 7.7k 208 80.4k
David S. Goodsell United States 55 27.7k 0.6× 10.7k 0.6× 10.6k 0.6× 5.2k 0.6× 4.1k 0.5× 290 47.0k
Richard A. Friesner United States 96 32.3k 0.7× 12.0k 0.6× 13.4k 0.7× 4.9k 0.6× 3.9k 0.5× 369 61.8k
Garrett M. Morris United Kingdom 38 21.1k 0.5× 9.3k 0.5× 9.7k 0.5× 4.6k 0.6× 3.8k 0.5× 123 38.5k
Peter A. Kollman United States 105 68.8k 1.5× 17.0k 0.9× 11.8k 0.6× 6.2k 0.7× 3.0k 0.4× 458 116.3k
David A. Case United States 96 52.2k 1.2× 9.3k 0.5× 9.8k 0.5× 5.2k 0.6× 2.3k 0.3× 340 81.1k
William L. Jorgensen United States 109 46.8k 1.1× 18.7k 1.0× 9.9k 0.5× 4.0k 0.5× 2.8k 0.4× 466 104.8k
Christopher A. Lipinski United States 28 15.7k 0.4× 11.4k 0.6× 11.6k 0.6× 3.5k 0.4× 4.1k 0.5× 71 35.6k
Berk Hess Sweden 42 45.1k 1.0× 9.9k 0.5× 6.3k 0.3× 3.8k 0.5× 2.0k 0.3× 119 83.5k
Ruth Huey United States 15 18.7k 0.4× 8.9k 0.5× 8.4k 0.4× 4.4k 0.5× 3.5k 0.5× 23 34.2k
Thomas E. Ferrin United States 43 35.6k 0.8× 4.6k 0.2× 4.6k 0.2× 5.0k 0.6× 2.4k 0.3× 93 55.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Casey, Mary C., Grant A. L. Bare, Karen A. Kirby, et al.. (2024). Identification of clickable HIV-1 capsid-targeting probes for viral replication inhibition. Cell chemical biology. 31(3). 477–486.e7. 7 indexed citations
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Autin, Ludovic, et al.. (2022). Integrative structural modelling and visualisation of a cellular organelle. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. e11–e11. 7 indexed citations
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Goodsell, David S., Michel F. Sanner, Arthur J. Olson, & Stefano Forli. (2020). TheAutoDocksuite at 30. Protein Science. 30(1). 31–43. 141 indexed citations
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Autin, Ludovic, et al.. (2019). Parallel Generation and Visualization of Bacterial Genome Structures. Computer Graphics Forum. 38(7). 57–68. 5 indexed citations
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Goodsell, David S., Ludovic Autin, & Arthur J. Olson. (2019). Illustrate: Software for Biomolecular Illustration. Structure. 27(11). 1716–1720.e1. 80 indexed citations
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Dallakyan, Sargis & Arthur J. Olson. (2014). Small-Molecule Library Screening by Docking with PyRx. Methods in molecular biology. 1263. 243–250. 2621 indexed citations breakdown →
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Davenport, Jodi L., et al.. (2014). Identifying Affordances of 3D Printed Tangible Models for Understanding Core Biological Concepts.. Grantee Submission. 1 indexed citations
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Gallicchio, Emilio, Nanjie Deng, Peng He, et al.. (2014). Virtual screening of integrase inhibitors by large scale binding free energy calculations: the SAMPL4 challenge. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 28(4). 475–490. 48 indexed citations
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Johnson, Graham T., David S. Goodsell, Ludovic Autin, et al.. (2014). 3D molecular models of whole HIV-1 virions generated with cellPACK. Faraday Discussions. 169. 23–44. 43 indexed citations
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Chowdhury, Rezaul, et al.. (2013). Protein-Protein Docking with F2Dock 2.0 and GB-Rerank. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e51307–e51307. 27 indexed citations
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Lin, Ying‐Chuan, Alexander L. Perryman, Arthur J. Olson, et al.. (2011). Structural basis for drug and substrate specificity exhibited by FIV encoding a chimeric FIV/HIV protease. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 67(6). 540–548. 7 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Séan, Anne‐Claude Gavin, Nils Gehlenborg, et al.. (2010). Visualizing biological data—now and in the future. Nature Methods. 7(S3). S2–S4. 92 indexed citations
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Morris, Garrett M., Ruth Huey, William Lindstrom, et al.. (2009). AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 30(16). 2785–2791. 19046 indexed citations breakdown →
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Trott, Oleg & Arthur J. Olson. (2009). AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 31(2). 455–461. 26907 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leelamanit, Wichet, et al.. (2009). Rediocides A and G as Potential Antitoxins Against Cobra Venom. Chemistry & Biodiversity. 6(9). 1404–1414. 9 indexed citations
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Jiang, Zhengfan, Philippe Georgel, Chenglong Li, et al.. (2006). Details of Toll-like receptor:adapter interaction revealed by germ-line mutagenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(29). 10961–10966. 113 indexed citations
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Brik, Ashraf, John Muldoon, Ying‐Chuan Lin, et al.. (2003). Rapid Diversity‐Oriented Synthesis in Microtiter Plates for In Situ Screening of HIV Protease Inhibitors. ChemBioChem. 4(11). 1246–1248. 133 indexed citations
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Duncan, Bruce S. & Arthur J. Olson. (1996). Applications of Evolutionary Programming for the Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions.. 411–417. 6 indexed citations
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Goodsell, David S. & Arthur J. Olson. (1989). Molecular applications of volume rendering and 3-D texture maps. 27–31. 7 indexed citations
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Connolly, Michael L. & Arthur J. Olson. (1985). GRANNY, a companion to GRAMPS for the real-time manipulation of macromolecular models. Computers & Chemistry. 9(1). 1–6. 34 indexed citations

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