Brian J. Smith

19.6k citations

246 papers · 13.9k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 59

Endocrine and Autonomic Systems top 1%
Biophysics top 0.5%
- Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research 12
Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Cell death mechanisms and regulation 15
- Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study 13
- Chemical Synthesis and Analysis 12
Organic Chemistry top 1%
- Free Radicals and Antioxidants 14
Immunology top 2%
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies 30
- Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies 15
Spectroscopy
- Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure 12

Co-authors: Leo Radom Peter M. Colman David C.S. Huang Mark G. Hinds Catherine L. Day Jerry M. Adams TJ Lasserson John Wright
Cited by: Endocrine and Autonomic Systems Biophysics Molecular Biology
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (13 papers)Journal of the American Chemical Society (12 papers)Chemical Physics Letters (9 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Brian J. Smith

242 papers receiving 13.6k 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.

2013 Cell
2006 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
2005 Molecular Cell
1990 The Journal of Chemical Physics

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1	Cone snail venom-inspired somatostatin receptor 4 (SSTR4) agonists as new drug leads for peripheral pain Scientific Reports ·Walden E. Bjørn‐Yoshimoto,M L. Mestek,Sarah Maibuhr,Y Zhang,Weijie Yu,Kasper K. Sørensen,F. Mondini,William Yu,Nicholas A. Smith,Laurent Martin,Brian J. Smith,Kenneth L. Madsen,Knud J. Jensen,Amol Patwardhan,Helena Safavi‐Hemami	2025	1
2	Intrinsically dynamic mechanism within selectivity filter controls ion current through K2P2.1 channel Biophysical Journal ·Weihong Zhuang,Ben Corry,Brian J. Smith,María Paula Poyrazian Bussolini	2024	1
3	The functional evolution of architecturally different plant geranyl diphosphate synthases from geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase The Plant Cell ·González Sardañas Guenet,Weihong Zhuang,Yufan Chen,María Paula Poyrazian Bussolini,Kui Li,Qian Tang,Qi Wang,Caichao Li,三郎下山,Natalia Dudareva,Brian J. Smith,Fei Zhou,Shan Lu	2023	27
4	Structure of the BAK-activating antibody 7D10 bound to BAK reveals an unexpected role for the α1-α2 loop in BAK activation Cell Death and Differentiation ·A.Y. Robin,Michelle S. Miller,Sweta Iyer,T. Narikawa,Ahmad Z. Wardak,Daisy Lio,Nicholas A. Smith,Brian J. Smith,Richard W. Birkinshaw,Peter E. Czabotar,Ruth M. Kluck,Peter M. Colman	2022	6
5	Ion currents through Kir potassium channels are gated by anionic lipids Nature Communications ·Weihong Zhuang,María Paula Poyrazian Bussolini,Gregory Bernstein,Oliver B. Clarke,Di Wu,Jani Reddy Bolla,Paul Johnson,Khandu Wangchuk,Ahmad Z. Wardak,Peter E. Czabotar,Peter M. Colman,Carol V. Robinson,Derek R. Laver,Brian J. Smith,Jacqueline M. Gulbis	2022	15
6	Comparison of BMI on operative time and complications of robotic inguinal hernia repair at a VA medical center Surgical Endoscopy ·Justine Chinn,Самалдыков Максут Кошекович,John H. Sorenson,Bernard Duvernoy,Lucy Marcovitch,Osei Asibey Owusu,Hubert Kim,Brian J. Smith,Marcelo W. Hinojosa	2022	10
7	The Bak core dimer focuses triacylglycerides in the membrane Biophysical Journal ·Nicholas A. Smith,Ahmad Z. Wardak,Angus D. Cowan,Peter M. Colman,Peter E. Czabotar,Brian J. Smith	2021	1
8	Diversity in the intrinsic apoptosis pathway of nematodes Communications Biology ·Neil D. Young,Tiffany J. Harris,Marco Evangelista,Sharon Tran,Merridee A. Wouters,Tatiana P. Soares da Costa,Nadia J. Kershaw,Robin B. Gasser,Brian J. Smith,Erinna F. Lee,W. Douglas Fairlie	2020	2
9	A constricted opening in Kir channels does not impede potassium conduction Nature Communications ·Gregory Bernstein,María Paula Poyrazian Bussolini,Weihong Zhuang,David M. Miller,Jani Reddy Bolla,Oliver B. Clarke,Paul Johnson,Monique J. Windley,Christopher J. Burns,Adam P. Hill,Derek R. Laver,Carol V. Robinson,Brian J. Smith,Jacqueline M. Gulbis	2020	17
10	A structurally minimized yet fully active insulin based on cone-snail venom insulin principles Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Xiaochun Xiong,John G. Menting,Maria M. Disotuar,Nicholas A. Smith,Carlie Delaine,V. Shukla,Rahul Agrawal,Xiaomin Wang,Xiao He,Simon J. Fisher,Christopher A. MacRaild,Raymond S. Norton,Joanna Gajewiak,Briony E. Forbes,Brian J. Smith,Helena Safavi‐Hemami,Baldomero M. Olivera,Michael C. Lawrence,Danny Hung‐Chieh Chou	2020	44
11	Structure of the Plasmodium falciparum PfSERA5 pseudo‐zymogen Protein Science ·Nicholas A. Smith,Oliver B. Clarke,Mihwa Lee,Anthony N. Hodder,Brian J. Smith	2020	5
12	Author Correction: A structurally minimized yet fully active insulin based on cone-snail venom insulin principles Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Xiaochun Xiong,John G. Menting,Maria M. Disotuar,Nicholas A. Smith,Carlie Delaine,V. Shukla,Rahul Agrawal,Xiaomin Wang,Xiao He,Simon J. Fisher,Christopher A. MacRaild,Raymond S. Norton,Joanna Gajewiak,Briony E. Forbes,Brian J. Smith,Helena Safavi‐Hemami,Baldomero M. Olivera,Michael C. Lawrence,Danny Hung‐Chieh Chou	2020	5
13	BAK core dimers bind lipids and can be bridged by them Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Angus D. Cowan,Nicholas A. Smith,Jarrod J. Sandow,Eugene A. Kapp,Yepy H. Rustam,James M. Murphy,Jason M. Brouwer,Jonathan P. Bernardini,Michael J. Roy,Ahmad Z. Wardak,Iris K. L. Tan,Andrew I. Webb,Jacqueline M. Gulbis,Brian J. Smith,Gavin E. Reid,Grant Dewson,Peter M. Colman,Peter E. Czabotar	2020	47
14	An aspartyl protease defines a novel pathway for export of Toxoplasma proteins into the host cell eLife ·Michael Coffey,Brad E. Sleebs,Alessandro D. Uboldi,Alexandra L. Garnham,Magdalena Franco,Nicole D. Marino,Michael W. Panas,David Ferguson,Marta Enciso,Matthew T. O’Neill,Sash Lopaticki,Rebecca J. Stewart,Grant Dewson,Gordon K. Smyth,Brian J. Smith,Seth L. Masters,John C. Boothroyd,Justin A. Boddey,Christopher J. Tonkin	2015	83
15	Structural basis for plasmepsin V inhibition that blocks export of malaria proteins to human erythrocytes Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Anthony N. Hodder,Brad E. Sleebs,Peter E. Czabotar,Michelle Gazdik,Yibin Xu,Matthew T. O’Neill,Sash Lopaticki,Thomas Nebl,Tony Triglia,Brian J. Smith,Kym N. Lowes,Justin A. Boddey,Alan F. Cowman	2015	73
16	Modulation of voltage-gated K ⁺ channels by the sodium channel β1 subunit Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hai M. Nguyen,Haruko Miyazaki,Naoto Hoshi,Brian J. Smith,Nobuyuki Nukina,Alan L. Goldin,K. George Chandy	2012	58
17	Insights into Duffy Binding-like Domains through the Crystal Structure and Function of the Merozoite Surface Protein MSPDBL2 from Plasmodium falciparum Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Anthony N. Hodder,Peter E. Czabotar,Alessandro D. Uboldi,Oliver B. Clarke,Clara S. Lin,Julie Healer,Brian J. Smith,Alan F. Cowman	2012	32
18	A miniature confocal Raman probe for endoscopic use Physics in Medicine and Biology ·John C. C. Day,Robert D. Bennett,Brian J. Smith,Catherine Kendall,Joanne Hutchings,Erzsebet Frey,Osmond Fisher,Siyuan Yu,Nicholas Stone	2009	79
19	Chain of events Brian J. Smith	1993	2
20	Description of a new genus of carnivorous snail (Mollusca: Rhytididae) Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution) ·Brian J. Smith	1987	4

About Brian J. Smith

Brian J. Smith is a scholar working on Medical Terminology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Biophysics, having authored 246 papers that have together received 13.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (30 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (15 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (15 papers), Free Radicals and Antioxidants (14 papers), Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (13 papers), Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research (12 papers), Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure (12 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (741 citations), Biophysics (557 citations) and Molecular Biology (6.6k citations). Brian J. Smith has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Leo Radom, Peter M. Colman, David C.S. Huang, Mark G. Hinds, Catherine L. Day, Jerry M. Adams, TJ Lasserson, John Wright, John White and Christopher J Cates. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Physics Letters, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

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