Benjamin B. Machta

2.9k total citations
38 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Benjamin B. Machta is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin B. Machta has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 7 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Benjamin B. Machta's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (12 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (6 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (6 papers). Benjamin B. Machta is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (12 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (6 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (6 papers). Benjamin B. Machta collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Poland. Benjamin B. Machta's co-authors include James P. Sethna, Mark K. Transtrum, Sarah L. Veatch, Ahmed El Hady, Ricky Chachra, Sarah A. Shelby, Ethan N. Chiang, Barbara Baird, David A. Holowka and Stefanos Papanikolaou and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin B. Machta

36 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin B. Machta United States 19 802 313 289 287 199 38 1.8k
Steve Pressé United States 18 605 0.8× 174 0.6× 191 0.7× 247 0.9× 379 1.9× 66 1.3k
Kyoung J. Lee South Korea 26 534 0.7× 567 1.8× 288 1.0× 555 1.9× 142 0.7× 73 2.5k
Laurent Bourdieu France 24 734 0.9× 721 2.3× 793 2.7× 342 1.2× 338 1.7× 44 2.4k
Miloš Dolnik United States 27 1.1k 1.3× 481 1.5× 315 1.1× 993 3.5× 129 0.6× 74 2.9k
José M. G. Vilar Spain 25 1.9k 2.4× 306 1.0× 238 0.8× 944 3.3× 118 0.6× 60 3.1k
Jean‐Baptiste Masson France 25 797 1.0× 387 1.2× 255 0.9× 77 0.3× 224 1.1× 77 2.1k
Silvina Ponce Dawson Argentina 24 650 0.8× 119 0.4× 131 0.5× 701 2.4× 90 0.5× 96 2.2k
А. Н. Заикин Russia 5 291 0.4× 493 1.6× 267 0.9× 476 1.7× 80 0.4× 17 1.7k
David Lacoste France 22 523 0.7× 468 1.5× 321 1.1× 347 1.2× 37 0.2× 60 1.4k
Radek Erban United Kingdom 26 1.3k 1.6× 305 1.0× 115 0.4× 414 1.4× 128 0.6× 71 2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin B. Machta

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All Works

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Mattingly, Henry H., et al.. (2026). E. coli chemosensing accuracy is not limited by stochastic molecule arrivals. Nature Physics. 22(1). 123–130.
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Wagner, Günter P., et al.. (2025). Pseudo-perplexity in one fell swoop for protein fitness estimation. 3(3). 1 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B., et al.. (2024). A bifurcation integrates information from many noisy ion channels and allows for milli-Kelvin thermal sensitivity in the snake pit organ. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(6). e2308215121–e2308215121. 12 indexed citations
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Bagheri, Yousef, et al.. (2023). Experimental investigations of coupled polymer and membrane phase transitions. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 78a–78a. 1 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B., et al.. (2023). Far from Asymptopia: Unbiased High-Dimensional Inference Cannot Assume Unlimited Data. Entropy. 25(3). 434–434. 1 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B., et al.. (2023). Physical Constraints in Intracellular Signaling: The Cost of Sending a Bit. Physical Review Letters. 131(6). 68401–68401. 13 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B., et al.. (2022). Thermodynamic stability and critical points in multicomponent mixtures with structured interactions. Physical Review Research. 4(3). 17 indexed citations
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Gomis‐Pérez, Carolina, et al.. (2022). Rapid propagation of membrane tension at retinal bipolar neuron presynaptic terminals. Science Advances. 8(1). eabl4411–eabl4411. 27 indexed citations
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Transtrum, Mark K., et al.. (2022). Information geometry for multiparameter models: new perspectives on the origin of simplicity. Reports on Progress in Physics. 86(3). 35901–35901. 16 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B., et al.. (2021). Irreversibility in dynamical phases and transitions. Nature Communications. 12(1). 392–392. 25 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B., et al.. (2019). A Scaling Law From Discrete to Continuous Solutions of Channel Capacity Problems in the Low-Noise Limit. Journal of Statistical Physics. 176(1). 214–227. 6 indexed citations
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Veatch, Sarah L., et al.. (2018). Ion channels can be allosterically regulated by membrane domains near a de-mixing critical point. The Journal of General Physiology. 150(12). 1769–1777. 18 indexed citations
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Mattingly, Henry H., et al.. (2018). Rational Ignorance: Simpler Models Learn More Information from Finite Data. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 1 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B., et al.. (2016). Conditions that Stabilize Membrane Domains Also Antagonize n -Alcohol Anesthesia. Biophysical Journal. 111(3). 537–545. 31 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B., et al.. (2015). Information Geometry and the Renormalization Group. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B.. (2015). Dissipation Bound for Thermodynamic Control. Physical Review Letters. 115(26). 260603–260603. 32 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B., et al.. (2015). Non-Markovian Protein Dynamics in a Near-Critical Membrane Model. Biophysical Journal. 108(2). 437a–437a. 1 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B. & Ahmed El Hady. (2015). Mechanical Surface Waves Accompany Action Potential Propagation. Biophysical Journal. 108(2). 206a–207a. 78 indexed citations
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Machta, Benjamin B., et al.. (2013). Liquid General Anesthetics Lower Critical Temperatures in Plasma Membrane Vesicles. Biophysical Journal. 105(12). 2751–2759. 94 indexed citations

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