Benfeard Williams

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 944 citations indexed

About

Benfeard Williams is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benfeard Williams has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 944 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Benfeard Williams's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (2 papers). Benfeard Williams is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (2 papers). Benfeard Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Benfeard Williams's co-authors include Robert A. Gelman, Karl A. Piez, Bo Zhao, Qi Zhang, Sharon L. Guffy, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Jasmin Federizon, Alexander Eletsky, Thomas Szyperski and Xiaohui Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Benfeard Williams

12 papers receiving 902 citations

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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.

Collagen fibril formation. Optimal in vitro conditions and preliminary kinetic results.

1978 411 citations Benfeard Williams, Robert A. Gelman et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benfeard Williams United States	9	452	352	168	156	98	12	944
Shiamalee Perumal United Kingdom	8	336 0.7×	219 0.6×	97 0.6×	78 0.5×	99 1.0×	10	709
Christine‐Maria Horejs United Kingdom	13	202 0.4×	272 0.8×	284 1.7×	149 1.0×	68 0.7×	38	811
Robert Langer United States	8	286 0.6×	475 1.3×	282 1.7×	57 0.4×	104 1.1×	10	1.2k
Lisa D. Muiznieks Canada	18	453 1.0×	491 1.4×	298 1.8×	163 1.0×	67 0.7×	29	1.3k
Felipe García Quiroz United States	14	488 1.1×	840 2.4×	195 1.2×	203 1.3×	30 0.3×	25	1.6k
Gloria A. Di Lullo United States	5	374 0.8×	229 0.7×	175 1.0×	104 0.7×	154 1.6×	8	970
Catherine M. Bellingham Canada	12	449 1.0×	222 0.6×	201 1.2×	96 0.6×	78 0.8×	14	992
Antonietta Pepe Italy	25	711 1.6×	628 1.8×	337 2.0×	147 0.9×	139 1.4×	89	1.8k
Stacey C. Skaalure United States	17	326 0.7×	176 0.5×	402 2.4×	139 0.9×	204 2.1×	21	997
Ann‐Sofie Andersson Sweden	11	99 0.2×	482 1.4×	386 2.3×	150 1.0×	52 0.5×	15	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benfeard Williams

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

Stoeckel, Luke E., et al.. (2025). Clinically meaningful outcomes in Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease related dementias trials. Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions. 11(1). e70058–e70058. 1 indexed citations

Guffy, Sharon L., Benfeard Williams, Bo Zhao, & Qi Zhang. (2020). An excited state underlies gene regulation of a transcriptional riboswitch. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jian, et al.. (2019). Limits in accuracy and a strategy of RNA structure prediction using experimental information. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(11). 5563–5572. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuliang, Mohtadin Hashemi, Zhengjian Lv, et al.. (2018). High-speed atomic force microscopy reveals structural dynamics of α-synuclein monomers and dimers. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 148(12). 123322–123322. 56 indexed citations

Williams, Benfeard, Bo Zhao, Arpit Tandon, et al.. (2017). Structure modeling of RNA using sparse NMR constraints. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(22). 12638–12647. 17 indexed citations

Lackey, Lela, et al.. (2017). Comparative Visualization of the RNA Suboptimal Conformational Ensemble In Vivo. Biophysical Journal. 113(2). 290–301. 31 indexed citations

Williams, Benfeard, Marino Convertino, Jhuma Das, & Nikolay V. Dokholyan. (2017). Molecular Mechanisms of the R61T Mutation in Apolipoprotein E4: A Dynamic Rescue. Biophysical Journal. 113(10). 2192–2198. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Bo, Sharon L. Guffy, Benfeard Williams, & Qi Zhang. (2017). An excited state underlies gene regulation of a transcriptional riboswitch. Nature Chemical Biology. 13(9). 968–974. 95 indexed citations

Jacobs, Timothy M., Benfeard Williams, Tishan Williams, et al.. (2016). Design of structurally distinct proteins using strategies inspired by evolution. Science. 352(6286). 687–690. 105 indexed citations

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Williams, Benfeard, Marino Convertino, Jhuma Das, & Nikolay V. Dokholyan. (2015). ApoE4-specific Misfolded Intermediate Identified by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(10). e1004359–e1004359. 17 indexed citations

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Gelman, Robert A., Benfeard Williams, & Karl A. Piez. (1979). Collagen fibril formation. Evidence for a multistep process.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 254(1). 180–186. 199 indexed citations

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Williams, Benfeard, et al.. (1978). Collagen fibril formation. Optimal in vitro conditions and preliminary kinetic results.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 253(18). 6578–6585. 411 indexed citations breakdown →

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