Ben Webb

12.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
13 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Ben Webb is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Webb has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Materials Chemistry and 2 papers in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Ben Webb's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (9 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (3 papers). Ben Webb is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (9 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (3 papers). Ben Webb collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Ben Webb's co-authors include Andrej Săli, Min‐Yi Shen, Narayanan Eswar, David Eramian, Marc A. Martı́-Renom, M. S. Madhusudhan, Ursula Pieper, Keren Lasker, Dina Schneidman‐Duhovny and Daniel Russel and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Bioinformatics and PLoS Biology.

In The Last Decade

Ben Webb

13 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

Comparative Protein Structure Modeling Using Modeller 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2007 2008 2011 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Comparative Protein Structure Modeling Using Modeller
    2006 3.8k citations Narayanan Eswar, Ben Webb et al. Current Protocols in Bioinformatics profile →
  2. Comparative Protein Structure Modeling Using MODELLER
    2007 2.5k citations Narayanan Eswar, Ben Webb et al. Current Protocols in Protein Science profile →
  3. Protein Structure Modeling with MODELLER
    2008 1.5k citations Narayanan Eswar, David Eramian et al. Methods in molecular biology profile →
  4. UCSF Chimera, MODELLER, and IMP: An integrated modeling system
    2011 500 citations Zheng Rong Yang, Keren Lasker et al. Journal of Structural Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Webb United States 12 6.9k 1.1k 899 746 719 13 9.5k
M. S. Madhusudhan India 28 6.6k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 838 0.9× 687 0.9× 745 1.0× 67 9.2k
David Eramian United States 7 6.0k 0.9× 818 0.8× 813 0.9× 696 0.9× 677 0.9× 8 8.3k
Narayanan Eswar United States 25 8.4k 1.2× 1.3k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 775 1.0× 807 1.1× 52 11.2k
Min‐Yi Shen United States 14 7.6k 1.1× 1.3k 1.2× 941 1.0× 827 1.1× 900 1.3× 20 10.4k
Ursula Pieper United States 38 7.3k 1.1× 1.3k 1.2× 975 1.1× 692 0.9× 802 1.1× 81 10.8k
Lim Heo United States 23 6.1k 0.9× 899 0.8× 707 0.8× 755 1.0× 588 0.8× 38 8.3k
Benjamin Webb United States 19 5.2k 0.8× 875 0.8× 608 0.7× 595 0.8× 722 1.0× 28 7.1k
Jens Erik Nielsen Ireland 31 6.9k 1.0× 1.6k 1.5× 814 0.9× 446 0.6× 941 1.3× 62 9.6k
András Fiser United States 43 8.0k 1.2× 1.9k 1.7× 687 0.8× 581 0.8× 951 1.3× 144 11.3k
Florian Kiefer Switzerland 18 5.1k 0.7× 877 0.8× 741 0.8× 548 0.7× 441 0.6× 29 8.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Webb

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Webb

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Webb. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Webb 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 Ben Webb. Ben Webb is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Saltzberg, Daniel J., Shruthi Viswanath, Ignacia Echeverria, et al.. (2020). Using Integrative Modeling Platform to compute, validate, and archive a model of a protein complex structure. Protein Science. 30(1). 250–261. 30 indexed citations
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Gradišar, Helena, Damjan Vengust, Iva Hafner‐Bratkovič, et al.. (2013). Design of a single-chain polypeptide tetrahedron assembled from coiled-coil segments. Nature Chemical Biology. 9(6). 362–366. 259 indexed citations
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Spill, Yannick G., Seung Joong Kim, Dina Schneidman‐Duhovny, et al.. (2013). SAXS Merge: an automated statistical method to merge SAXS profiles using Gaussian processes. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 21(1). 203–208. 11 indexed citations
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Dong, Guang Qiang, Hao Fan, Dina Schneidman‐Duhovny, Ben Webb, & Andrej Săli. (2013). Optimized atomic statistical potentials: assessment of protein interfaces and loops. Bioinformatics. 29(24). 3158–3166. 96 indexed citations
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Russel, Daniel, Keren Lasker, Ben Webb, et al.. (2012). Putting the Pieces Together: Integrative Modeling Platform Software for Structure Determination of Macromolecular Assemblies. PLoS Biology. 10(1). e1001244–e1001244. 387 indexed citations
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Yang, Zheng Rong, Keren Lasker, Dina Schneidman‐Duhovny, et al.. (2011). UCSF Chimera, MODELLER, and IMP: An integrated modeling system. Journal of Structural Biology. 179(3). 269–278. 500 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lasker, Keren, Jeremy Phillips, Daniel Russel, et al.. (2010). Integrative Structure Modeling of Macromolecular Assemblies from Proteomics Data. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 9(8). 1689–1702. 56 indexed citations
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Topf, Maya, Keren Lasker, Ben Webb, et al.. (2008). Protein Structure Fitting and Refinement Guided by Cryo-EM Density. Structure. 16(2). 295–307. 274 indexed citations
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Eswar, Narayanan, David Eramian, Ben Webb, Min‐Yi Shen, & Andrej Săli. (2008). Protein Structure Modeling with MODELLER. Methods in molecular biology. 426. 145–159. 1510 indexed citations breakdown →
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Eswar, Narayanan, Ben Webb, Marc A. Martı́-Renom, et al.. (2007). Comparative Protein Structure Modeling Using MODELLER. Current Protocols in Protein Science. 50(1). 2.9.1–2.9.37. 2514 indexed citations breakdown →
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Eswar, Narayanan, Ben Webb, Marc A. Martı́-Renom, et al.. (2006). Comparative Protein Structure Modeling Using Modeller. Current Protocols in Bioinformatics. 15(1). 5.6.1–5.6. 3803 indexed citations breakdown →
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Webb, Ben, et al.. (2002). Energetic and Stereochemical Effects of the Protein Environment on Substrate:  A Theoretical Study of Methylmalonyl-CoA Mutase. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125(4). 1072–1078. 12 indexed citations
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Webb, Ben, et al.. (1997). Synthesis Of Monohydroxylated 2-Azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-3-ones.. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 7(10). 1299–1302. 11 indexed citations

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