Babak Borhan

6.9k total citations
149 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Babak Borhan is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Babak Borhan has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Organic Chemistry, 54 papers in Molecular Biology and 34 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Babak Borhan's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (25 papers), Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (24 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (23 papers). Babak Borhan is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (25 papers), Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (24 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (23 papers). Babak Borhan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Italy. Babak Borhan's co-authors include Benjamin R. Travis, Daniel C. Whitehead, Arvind Jaganathan, Richard J. Staples, Chrysoula Vasileiou, Roozbeh Yousefi, Radha S. Narayan, Meenakshi Sivakumar, Marina Tanasova and Kumar Dilip Ashtekar and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Babak Borhan

146 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Babak Borhan United States 42 3.2k 1.6k 1.2k 1.1k 932 149 5.6k
Tomohiko Ohwada Japan 40 2.9k 0.9× 1.7k 1.0× 464 0.4× 386 0.3× 905 1.0× 198 5.0k
Roberto Quesada Spain 33 1.4k 0.4× 1.7k 1.0× 341 0.3× 1.3k 1.1× 2.7k 2.9× 103 4.5k
Carsten Strohmann Germany 48 6.4k 2.0× 1.7k 1.0× 2.9k 2.4× 893 0.8× 266 0.3× 412 9.0k
Ehud Keinan Israel 46 3.7k 1.2× 2.8k 1.7× 881 0.7× 806 0.7× 694 0.7× 218 6.7k
Yong Zhang United States 43 2.8k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 1.2k 1.0× 897 0.8× 369 0.4× 196 5.3k
Ignacio Alfonso Spain 35 2.2k 0.7× 2.2k 1.4× 444 0.4× 650 0.6× 1.4k 1.6× 154 4.2k
Juan M. Cuerva Spain 45 4.7k 1.5× 816 0.5× 900 0.7× 2.1k 1.8× 626 0.7× 205 6.5k
Francesco G. Gatti Italy 28 1.8k 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 268 0.2× 708 0.6× 742 0.8× 105 3.1k
Ulrich Koert Germany 36 2.4k 0.7× 2.0k 1.2× 246 0.2× 1.0k 0.9× 576 0.6× 231 4.9k
J. Carlos Menéndez Spain 44 7.3k 2.3× 2.1k 1.3× 952 0.8× 707 0.6× 306 0.3× 294 9.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Babak Borhan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Babak Borhan

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All Works

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Santos, Elizabeth Moreira dos, Wei Sheng, Alireza Ghanbarpour, et al.. (2024). Regulation of Absorption and Emission in a Protein/Fluorophore Complex. ACS Chemical Biology. 19(8). 1725–1732. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Zheng, Hadi Gholami, Kumar Dilip Ashtekar, et al.. (2023). Structure Guided Design of VANOL-Imidodiphosphorimidate Catalysts for the Catalytic Enantioselective Bromospiroketalization Reaction. ACS Catalysis. 14(1). 426–436. 7 indexed citations
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Démoulin, Baptiste, Margherita Maiuri, Tetyana Berbasova, et al.. (2021). Control of Protonated Schiff Base Excited State Decay within Visual Protein Mimics: A Unified Model for Retinal Chromophores. Chemistry - A European Journal. 27(66). 16389–16400. 7 indexed citations
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Santos, Elizabeth Moreira dos, Wei Sheng, Alireza Ghanbarpour, et al.. (2021). Design of Large Stokes Shift Fluorescent Proteins Based on Excited State Proton Transfer of an Engineered Photobase. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(37). 15091–15102. 58 indexed citations
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Manathunga, Madushanka, Yoelvis Orozco‐Gonzalez, Alireza Ghanbarpour, et al.. (2020). Computational and Spectroscopic Characterization of the Photocycle of an Artificial Rhodopsin. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(11). 4245–4252. 4 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Aritra, et al.. (2020). Ritter-enabled catalytic asymmetric chloroamidation of olefins. Chemical Science. 12(5). 1834–1842. 8 indexed citations
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Asad, Muhammad Hassham Hassan Bin, Fahad Khan, Ghulam Murtaza, et al.. (2020). Biological Evaluation of Newly Synthesized Biaryl Guanidine Derivatives to Arrest β‐Secretase Enzymatic Activity Involved in Alzheimer’s Disease. BioMed Research International. 2020(1). 8934289–8934289. 8 indexed citations
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Ghanbarpour, Alireza, Cody Pinger, Elizabeth Moreira dos Santos, et al.. (2019). Engineering the hCRBPII Domain-Swapped Dimer into a New Class of Protein Switches. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(43). 17125–17132. 13 indexed citations
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Bates, Matthew, Margaret Young, Jianzhou He, et al.. (2019). Modulating cellular cytotoxicity and phototoxicity of fluorescent organic salts through counterion pairing. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 15288–15288. 39 indexed citations
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Wang, Wenjing, et al.. (2016). Domain-Swapped Dimers of Intracellular Lipid-Binding Proteins: Evidence for Ordered Folding Intermediates. Structure. 24(9). 1590–1598. 8 indexed citations
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Jaganathan, Arvind, et al.. (2015). Highly Stereoselective Intermolecular Haloetherification and Haloesterification of Allyl Amides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(33). 9517–9522. 53 indexed citations
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Tanasova, Marina, Mercy Anyika, & Babak Borhan. (2015). Sensing Remote Chirality: Stereochemical Determination of β‐, γ‐, and δ‐Chiral Carboxylic Acids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(14). 4274–4278. 54 indexed citations
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Nosrati, Meisam, Wenjing Wang, Tetyana Berbasova, et al.. (2014). Structures of holo wild-type human cellular retinol-binding protein II (hCRBPII) bound to retinol and retinal. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 70(12). 3226–3232. 15 indexed citations
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Wang, Wenjing, James H. Geiger, & Babak Borhan. (2013). The photochemical determinants of color vision. BioEssays. 36(1). 65–74. 34 indexed citations
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Borhan, Babak, et al.. (2012). Selectivity of labeled bromoethylamine for protein alkylation. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 18(9). 4547–4556. 2 indexed citations
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Schomaker, Jennifer M., et al.. (2011). Selectivity in the Addition Reactions of Organometallic Reagents to Aziridine‐2‐carboxaldehydes: The Effects of Protecting Groups and Substitution Patterns. Chemistry - A European Journal. 17(44). 12326–12339. 12 indexed citations
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Vasileiou, Chrysoula, et al.. (2008). Dissection of the critical binding determinants of cellular retinoic acid binding protein II by mutagenesis and fluorescence binding assay. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 76(2). 281–290. 14 indexed citations
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Tsomaia, Natia, Chrysoula Vasileiou, Babak Borhan, et al.. (2005). Defining the Retinoid Binding Site in the Rod Cyclic Nucleotide-gated Channel. The Journal of General Physiology. 126(5). 453–460. 12 indexed citations
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Fujimoto, Yukari, Jun Ishihara, Shôjirô Maki, et al.. (2001). On the Bioactive Conformation of the Rhodopsin Chromophore: Absolute Sense of Twist around the 6-s-cis Bond. Chemistry - A European Journal. 7(19). 4198–4204. 35 indexed citations

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