Brian M. Hoffman

40.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
694 papers, 33.1k citations indexed

About

Brian M. Hoffman is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian M. Hoffman has authored 694 papers receiving a total of 33.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 267 papers in Materials Chemistry, 212 papers in Molecular Biology and 197 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Brian M. Hoffman's work include Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (187 papers), Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (180 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (176 papers). Brian M. Hoffman is often cited by papers focused on Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (187 papers), Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (180 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (176 papers). Brian M. Hoffman collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Brian M. Hoffman's co-authors include Lance C. Seefeldt, Dennis R. Dean, Dmitriy Lukoyanov, Anthony G. M. Barrett, Zhi‐Yong Yang, James A. Ibers, Roman Davydov, Peter E. Doan, William E. Broderick and Joshua Telser and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Brian M. Hoffman

684 papers receiving 32.1k 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.

Beyond fossil fuel–driven nitrogen transformations

2018 2.0k citations Jingguang G. Chen, Richard M. Crooks et al. Science profile →
Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase: The Next Stage

2014 1.4k citations Brian M. Hoffman, Dmitriy Lukoyanov et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian M. Hoffman United States	85	11.8k	11.4k	9.9k	9.2k	6.4k	694	33.1k
Per E. M. Siegbahn Sweden	86	8.3k 0.7×	5.8k 0.5×	9.8k 1.0×	7.7k 0.8×	2.8k 0.4×	464	29.9k
Sason Shaik Israel	101	12.1k 1.0×	5.1k 0.4×	19.6k 2.0×	7.2k 0.8×	3.6k 0.6×	614	42.3k
Keith O. Hodgson United States	83	8.5k 0.7×	5.6k 0.5×	10.1k 1.0×	5.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.2×	418	25.7k
Harry B. Gray United States	112	18.7k 1.6×	14.1k 1.2×	12.4k 1.3×	11.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.2×	850	53.1k
Edward I. Solomon United States	120	20.5k 1.7×	9.5k 0.8×	30.0k 3.0×	13.7k 1.5×	3.3k 0.5×	726	59.1k
Gary W. Brudvig United States	89	9.7k 0.8×	14.6k 1.3×	7.1k 0.7×	11.3k 1.2×	1.7k 0.3×	468	31.5k
Douglas C. Rees United States	81	5.0k 0.4×	9.5k 0.8×	4.6k 0.5×	13.8k 1.5×	3.4k 0.5×	231	27.2k
Eckard Münck United States	82	6.5k 0.6×	7.7k 0.7×	12.8k 1.3×	6.4k 0.7×	824 0.1×	278	20.9k
Eckhard Bill Germany	87	9.5k 0.8×	6.5k 0.6×	14.0k 1.4×	3.3k 0.4×	1.6k 0.3×	557	28.4k
R. H. Holm United States	86	8.3k 0.7×	12.0k 1.1×	14.1k 1.4×	3.5k 0.4×	1.4k 0.2×	491	29.9k

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Harris, Derek F., Dennis R. Dean, Brian M. Hoffman, Simone Raugei, & Lance C. Seefeldt. (2025). Toward a Unified Kinetic Model of Nitrogenase Catalysis. ACS Catalysis. 15(21). 17893–17908.

Jodts, Richard J., et al.. (2023). Computational Description of Alkylated Iron–Sulfur Organometallic Clusters. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(25). 13879–13887. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Hao, Richard J. Jodts, Donald F. Smith, et al.. (2022). Mechanism of Radical S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Adenosylation: Radical Intermediates and the Catalytic Competence of the 5′-Deoxyadenosyl Radical. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(11). 5087–5098. 24 indexed citations

Davydov, Roman, et al.. (2022). End-On Copper(I) Superoxo and Cu(II) Peroxo and Hydroperoxo Complexes Generated by Cryoreduction/Annealing and Characterized by EPR/ENDOR Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(1). 377–389. 31 indexed citations

Jodts, Richard J., et al.. (2021). Coordination of the Copper Centers in Particulate Methane Monooxygenase: Comparison between Methanotrophs and Characterization of the Cu_CSite by EPR and ENDOR Spectroscopies. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(37). 15358–15368. 35 indexed citations

Sharma, Ajay, Nestor J. Zaluzec, Reiner Bleher, et al.. (2021). Metal ion fluxes controlling amphibian fertilization. Nature Chemistry. 13(7). 683–691. 26 indexed citations

Pierce, Andrew L., Brian M. Hoffman, Ilana J. Koch, et al.. (2021). Dietary tetradecylthioacetic acid supplementation during the fall prevents an increase in body lipid levels but does not influence precocious male maturation rate in juvenile spring Chinook salmon. Aquaculture Research. 52(11). 5483–5492. 2 indexed citations

Lingappa, Usha, Chris M. Yeager, Ajay Sharma, et al.. (2021). An ecophysiological explanation for manganese enrichment in rock varnish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(25). 31 indexed citations

Ragsdale, Stephen W., et al.. (2020). ¹³ C Electron Nuclear Double Resonance Spectroscopy Shows Acetyl-CoA Synthase Binds Two Substrate CO in Multiple Binding Modes and Reveals the Importance of a CO-Binding “Alcove”. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(36). 15362–15370. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Hao, Richard J. Jodts, Eric M. Shepard, et al.. (2020). Radical SAM Enzyme Spore Photoproduct Lyase: Properties of the Ω Organometallic Intermediate and Identification of Stable Protein Radicals Formed during Substrate-Free Turnover. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(43). 18652–18660. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Jingguang G., Richard M. Crooks, Lance C. Seefeldt, et al.. (2018). Beyond fossil fuel–driven nitrogen transformations. Science. 360(6391). 1977 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gallagher, Audrey T., et al.. (2017). A structurally-characterized peroxomanganese(iv) porphyrin from reversible O₂ binding within a metal–organic framework. Chemical Science. 9(6). 1596–1603. 37 indexed citations

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Kandela, Irawati, et al.. (2017). Discovery of the Antitumor Effects of a Porphyrazine Diol (Pz 285) in MDA-MB-231 Breast Tumor Xenograft Models in Mice. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 8(7). 705–709.

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Horitani, Masaki, Krista A. Shisler, William E. Broderick, et al.. (2016). Radical SAM catalysis via an organometallic intermediate with an Fe–[5′-C]-deoxyadenosyl bond. Science. 352(6287). 822–825. 108 indexed citations

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Jiang, Nan, Aleksey E. Kuznetsov, Judith M. Nocek, et al.. (2013). Distance-Independent Charge Recombination Kinetics in Cytochrome c –Cytochrome c Peroxidase Complexes: Compensating Changes in the Electronic Coupling and Reorganization Energies. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 117(31). 9129–9141. 22 indexed citations

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Lukoyanov, Dmitriy, Brett M. Barney, Dennis R. Dean, Lance C. Seefeldt, & Brian M. Hoffman. (2007). Connecting nitrogenase intermediates with the kinetic scheme for N ₂ reduction by a relaxation protocol and identification of the N ₂ binding state. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(5). 1451–1455. 102 indexed citations

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Matsui, Toshitaka, et al.. (2006). Compound I of Heme Oxygenase Cannot Hydroxylate Its Heme meso -Carbon. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128(4). 1090–1091. 23 indexed citations

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Barney, Brett M., Tran-Chin Yang, Robert Y. Igarashi, et al.. (2005). Intermediates Trapped during Nitrogenase Reduction of N⋮N, CH ₃ −NNH, and H ₂ N−NH ₂. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(43). 14960–14961. 106 indexed citations

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Igarashi, Robert Y., Mikhail Laryukhin, Patricia C. Dos Santos, et al.. (2005). Trapping H ^- Bound to the Nitrogenase FeMo-Cofactor Active Site during H ₂ Evolution: Characterization by ENDOR Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(17). 6231–6241. 179 indexed citations

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Lieberman, Raquel L., et al.. (2003). Purified particulate methane monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) is a dimer with both mononuclear copper and a copper-containing cluster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(7). 3820–3825. 126 indexed citations

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