B. Montgomery Pettitt

15.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
287 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

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B. Montgomery Pettitt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Montgomery Pettitt has authored 287 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Molecular Biology, 109 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 54 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in B. Montgomery Pettitt's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (94 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (85 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (71 papers). B. Montgomery Pettitt is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (94 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (85 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (71 papers). B. Montgomery Pettitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and New Zealand. B. Montgomery Pettitt's co-authors include Peter J. Rossky, Martin Karplus, Paul E. Smith, John S. Perkyns, Niharendu Choudhury, Michael Feig, Liem X. Dang, Charles L. Brooks, Arnold Vainrub and Vladimir Makarov and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

B. Montgomery Pettitt

284 papers receiving 12.7k citations

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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.

Proteins: A Theoretical Perspective of Dynamics, Structure and Thermodynamics

1990 602 citations B. Montgomery Pettitt et al. profile →
Alkali halides in water: Ion–solvent correlations and ion–ion potentials of mean force at infinite dilution

1986 485 citations B. Montgomery Pettitt et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. Montgomery Pettitt United States	62	7.5k	5.2k	2.9k	2.0k	1.8k	287	13.0k
Fumio Hirata Japan	50	4.2k 0.6×	6.2k 1.2×	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	2.8k 1.6×	285	11.1k
J. Raúl Grigera Argentina	21	3.2k 0.4×	5.1k 1.0×	3.3k 1.2×	3.2k 1.6×	1.6k 0.9×	83	12.8k
Ulrich Essmann United States	15	10.4k 1.4×	4.4k 0.8×	5.2k 1.8×	3.2k 1.6×	1.4k 0.8×	17	21.2k
Alexander P. Lyubartsev Sweden	54	4.5k 0.6×	3.2k 0.6×	2.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	173	9.8k
Hsing Lee United States	7	10.3k 1.4×	3.6k 0.7×	3.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	8	19.2k
L. Perera United States	43	12.5k 1.7×	5.2k 1.0×	3.8k 1.3×	2.5k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	141	24.3k
Kim A. Sharp United States	65	15.7k 2.1×	3.8k 0.7×	4.3k 1.5×	2.0k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	150	22.7k
Tjerk P. Straatsma United States	31	4.8k 0.6×	7.0k 1.3×	4.8k 1.7×	3.4k 1.7×	2.2k 1.2×	61	18.2k
Teresa Head‐Gordon United States	57	6.1k 0.8×	6.0k 1.1×	5.0k 1.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	243	14.7k
Douglas J. Tobias United States	68	10.9k 1.4×	9.8k 1.9×	4.3k 1.5×	2.5k 1.2×	2.5k 1.4×	229	24.5k

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Sherman, Michael B., Hong Q. Smith, Christiane E. Wobus, et al.. (2025). Murine norovirus allosteric escape mutants mimic gut activation. Journal of Virology. 99(6). e0021925–e0021925. 1 indexed citations

Pettitt, B. Montgomery, et al.. (2023). Transition Mutations in the hTERT Promoter Are Unrelated to Potential i-motif Formation in the C-Rich Strand. Biomolecules. 13(9). 1308–1308. 2 indexed citations

Henrich, Oliver, et al.. (2022). A coarse-grained representation of DNA immersed in an external protein force-field. Biophysical Journal. 121(3). 209a–209a. 1 indexed citations

Lynch, Gillian C., et al.. (2021). Contributions of higher-order proximal distribution functions to solvent structure around proteins. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 155(10). 104110–104110. 1 indexed citations

Prokhorov, Nikolai S., et al.. (2021). Quantitative description of a contractile macromolecular machine. Science Advances. 7(24). 18 indexed citations

Yu, Binhan, et al.. (2021). De novo determination of near-surface electrostatic potentials by NMR. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(25). 39 indexed citations

Yu, Binhan, B. Montgomery Pettitt, & Junji Iwahara. (2020). Dynamics of Ionic Interactions at Protein–Nucleic Acid Interfaces. Accounts of Chemical Research. 53(9). 1802–1810. 61 indexed citations

Chen, Chuanying, et al.. (2018). NMR Methods for Characterizing the Basic Side Chains of Proteins: Electrostatic Interactions, Hydrogen Bonds, and Conformational Dynamics. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 615. 285–332. 20 indexed citations

Wang, Qian & B. Montgomery Pettitt. (2014). Modeling DNA Thermodynamics under Torsional Stress. Biophysical Journal. 106(5). 1182–1193. 10 indexed citations

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Putonti, Catherine, et al.. (2004). Using statistical properties of short subsequences in microbial identification. 16(6). 363–367. 1 indexed citations

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Vainrub, Arnold & B. Montgomery Pettitt. (2003). Surface electrostatic effects in oligonucleotide microarrays: Control and optimization of binding thermodynamics. Biopolymers. 68(2). 265–270. 106 indexed citations

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Vainrub, Arnold & B. Montgomery Pettitt. (2002). Coulomb blockage of hybridization in two-dimensional DNA arrays. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 66(4). 41905–41905. 127 indexed citations

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Pettitt, B. Montgomery, et al.. (2001). Simulations of the bis-penicillamine enkephalin in sodium chloride solution: A parameter study. Biopolymers. 60(2). 134–152. 9 indexed citations

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Rudnicki, Witold R. & B. Montgomery Pettitt. (1997). Modeling the DNA‐solvent interface. Biopolymers. 41(1). 107–119. 3 indexed citations

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Pettitt, B. Montgomery, et al.. (1995). Binary-Solution Critical Opalescence: Mole Fraction versus Temperature Phase Diagram. Journal of Chemical Education. 72(6). 560–560. 9 indexed citations

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Mitra, Rahul, B. Montgomery Pettitt, & R. D. Blake. (1995). Conformational states governing the rates of spontaneous transition mutations. Biopolymers. 36(2). 169–179. 6 indexed citations

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Weerasinghe, Samantha & B. Montgomery Pettitt. (1994). Ideal chemical potential contribution in molecular dynamics simulations of the grand canonical ensemble. Molecular Physics. 82(5). 897–912. 38 indexed citations

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Holder, Michael, et al.. (1993). On the mechanism of HRV-14 antiviral compounds: slow growth as a conformational search procedure. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 36(23). 3489–3495. 4 indexed citations

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Dang, Liem X. & B. Montgomery Pettitt. (1988). A theoretical study of the inclusion complexes of β-quinol. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 89(2). 968–974. 7 indexed citations

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Matcha, Robert L. & B. Montgomery Pettitt. (1979). Theoretical Compton profile anisotropies in molecules and solids. VI. Compton profile anisotropies and chemical binding. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 70(6). 3130–3132. 12 indexed citations

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