Attila Gürsoy

11.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
134 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Attila Gürsoy is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Attila Gürsoy has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 22 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Attila Gürsoy's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (60 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (37 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (36 papers). Attila Gürsoy is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (60 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (37 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (36 papers). Attila Gürsoy collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, United States and Israel. Attila Gürsoy's co-authors include Özlem Keskin, Ruth Nussinov, Nurcan Tunçbağ, Laxmikant V. Kalé, Klaus Schulten, Robert D. Skeel, N. Krawetz, J. C. Phillips, Róbert Brunner and Aritomo Shinozaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Attila Gürsoy

133 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

NAMD2: Greater Scalabilit... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. NAMD2: Greater Scalability for Parallel Molecular Dynamics
    1999 2.1k citations Laxmikant V. Kalé, Attila Gürsoy et al. profile →
  2. Principles of Protein−Protein Interactions: What are the Preferred Ways For Proteins To Interact?
    2008 517 citations Özlem Keskin, Attila Gürsoy 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
Attila Gürsoy Türkiye 41 6.4k 1.5k 1.3k 656 544 134 8.3k
Özlem Keskin Türkiye 52 7.6k 1.2× 1.9k 1.3× 2.0k 1.5× 770 1.2× 566 1.0× 166 9.5k
Jie Liang United States 38 6.3k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.2× 474 0.7× 462 0.8× 186 8.7k
Jens Erik Nielsen Ireland 31 6.9k 1.1× 941 0.6× 1.6k 1.2× 541 0.8× 539 1.0× 62 9.6k
Philippe Derreumaux France 56 7.8k 1.2× 1.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.2× 325 0.5× 413 0.8× 223 10.2k
Chung‐Jung Tsai United States 52 8.7k 1.4× 1.5k 1.0× 2.1k 1.6× 875 1.3× 838 1.5× 132 10.4k
Daniel R. Roe United States 20 5.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 320 0.5× 512 0.9× 38 7.7k
Jason Swails United States 15 7.2k 1.1× 1.6k 1.0× 1.5k 1.1× 549 0.8× 600 1.1× 19 10.3k
Nikolay V. Dokholyan United States 66 10.3k 1.6× 1.1k 0.7× 2.4k 1.8× 968 1.5× 732 1.3× 370 14.7k
Martin Zacharias Germany 53 8.2k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 1.7k 1.3× 554 0.8× 808 1.5× 346 10.4k
Carlos J. Camacho United States 39 4.9k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 478 0.7× 585 1.1× 119 6.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Attila Gürsoy

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All Works

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Keskin, Özlem, et al.. (2025). DeepAllo: allosteric site prediction using protein language model (pLM) with multitask learning. Bioinformatics. 41(6). 4 indexed citations
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Çelik, Ebru, S. Güler, Attila Gürsoy, et al.. (2025). Alterations in vaginal microbiome in women with short cervix: longitudinal study of microbial diversity and impact of vaginal progesterone treatment. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 66(2). 217–225. 1 indexed citations
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Ramelot, Theresa A., Attila Gürsoy, Hyunbum Jang, et al.. (2024). Tumor-derived RHOA mutants interact with effectors in the GDP-bound state. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7176–7176. 5 indexed citations
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Picón-Pagès, Pol, Anna García-Elías, Marta Tajes, et al.. (2024). Shared Proteins and Pathways of Cardiovascular and Cognitive Diseases: Relation to Vascular Cognitive Impairment. Journal of Proteome Research. 23(2). 560–573. 1 indexed citations
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Keskin, Özlem, et al.. (2024). ProInterVal: Validation of Protein–Protein Interfaces through Learned Interface Representations. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 64(8). 2979–2987. 3 indexed citations
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Tunçbağ, Nurcan, et al.. (2023). Structural coverage of the human interactome. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(1). 4 indexed citations
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Çelik, Ebru, Mert Ahmet Kuşkucu, Özlem Doğan, et al.. (2022). Alterations in vaginal microbiota among pregnant women with COVID‐19. Journal of Medical Virology. 95(1). e28132–e28132. 5 indexed citations
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Nussinov, Ruth, Hyunbum Jang, Attila Gürsoy, Özlem Keskin, & Vadim Gaponenko. (2021). Inhibition of Nonfunctional Ras. Cell chemical biology. 28(2). 121–133. 27 indexed citations
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Muratcioğlu, Serena, Cihan Aydın, Elif Nur Firat‐Karalar, et al.. (2020). Oncogenic K-Ras4B Dimerization Enhances Downstream Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Signaling. Journal of Molecular Biology. 432(4). 1199–1215. 14 indexed citations
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Yang, Xinping, Hui Cheng, Jianhong Chen, et al.. (2019). Head and Neck Cancers Promote an Inflammatory Transcriptome through Coactivation of Classic and Alternative NF-κB Pathways. Cancer Immunology Research. 7(11). 1760–1774. 26 indexed citations
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Gürsoy, Attila, et al.. (2013). Designing and characterizing small molecule inhibitor(s) for mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) for therapeutic benefit of Cancer. 1 indexed citations
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Tunçbağ, Nurcan, Gozde Kar, Attila Gürsoy, Özlem Keskin, & Ruth Nussinov. (2009). Towards inferring time dimensionality in protein–protein interaction networks by integrating structures: the p53 example. Molecular BioSystems. 5(12). 1770–1778. 71 indexed citations
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Güney, Emre, Nurcan Tunçbağ, Özlem Keskin, & Attila Gürsoy. (2007). HotSprint: database of computational hot spots in protein interfaces. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(Database). D662–D666. 90 indexed citations
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Sinop, Ali Kemal, et al.. (2005). PHR: A Parallel Hierarchical Radiosity System with Dynamic Load Balancing. The Journal of Supercomputing. 31(3). 249–263. 1 indexed citations
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Keskin, Özlem, Deniz Yüret, Attila Gürsoy, Metin Türkay, & Burak Erman. (2004). Relationships between amino acid sequence and backbone torsion angle preferences. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 55(4). 992–998. 39 indexed citations
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Gürsoy, Attila, et al.. (1999). Parallel Hierarchical Radiosity.. Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. 1634–1640. 1 indexed citations
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Gürsoy, Attila, et al.. (1999). Mechanisms for Programming SMP Clusters.. Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. 1723–1729. 2 indexed citations
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Kalé, Laxmikant V. & Attila Gürsoy. (1995). Modularity, reuse and efficiency with message-driven libraries. PPSC. 91(2). 738–743. 6 indexed citations

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