Chris Oostenbrink

16.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
243 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

Chris Oostenbrink is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Oostenbrink has authored 243 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 43 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Chris Oostenbrink's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (98 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (45 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (34 papers). Chris Oostenbrink is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (98 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (45 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (34 papers). Chris Oostenbrink collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Netherlands and Switzerland. Chris Oostenbrink's co-authors include Wilfred F. van Gunsteren, Alan E. Mark, Alessandra Villa, Alpeshkumar K. Malde, Martin Stroet, Pramod C. Nair, L. Zuo, David Poger, Tomas Hansson and Nico Vermeulen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Chris Oostenbrink

241 papers receiving 13.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A biomolecular force field based on the free enthalpy of hydration and solvation: The GROMOS force‐field parameter sets 53A5 and 53A6

2004 3.1k citations Chris Oostenbrink, Wilfred F. van Gunsteren et al. profile →
An Automated Force Field Topology Builder (ATB) and Repository: Version 1.0

2011 1.5k citations Chris Oostenbrink et al. profile →
Molecular dynamics simulations

2002 548 citations Tomas Hansson, Chris Oostenbrink et al. Current Opinion in Structural Biology profile →
The GROMOS software for biomolecular simulation: GROMOS05

2005 512 citations Chris Oostenbrink, Wilfred F. van Gunsteren et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Oostenbrink Austria	48	8.0k	2.3k	2.3k	2.0k	1.5k	243	13.3k
M Abraham Australia	6	9.5k 1.2×	2.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	6	18.2k
Teemu J. Murtola Finland	27	10.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.5×	139	20.5k
Rebecca C. Wade Germany	64	10.6k 1.3×	2.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	2.7k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	288	14.5k
Adrian J. Mulholland United Kingdom	61	6.8k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	275	11.5k
Ross C. Walker United States	39	9.7k 1.2×	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	77	13.6k
Alexey V. Onufriev United States	37	13.7k 1.7×	3.4k 1.4×	2.4k 1.0×	2.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	100	19.0k
Ray Luo United States	43	12.6k 1.6×	3.3k 1.4×	2.1k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	180	17.5k
Gerrit Groenhof Finland	39	9.5k 1.2×	3.2k 1.4×	3.5k 1.5×	1.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.4×	87	18.7k
Kenno Vanommeslaeghe United States	25	6.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	38	11.2k
Yong Duan United States	41	10.5k 1.3×	3.1k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	197	14.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Oostenbrink

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Kleinjung, Jens, et al.. (2025). AllohubPy: Detecting Allosteric Signals Through An Information-theoretic Approach. Journal of Molecular Biology. 437(15). 168969–168969. 3 indexed citations

Striedner, Gerald, et al.. (2025). Activity of an anaerobic Thermoanaerobacterales hydrolase on aliphatic and aromatic polyesters. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 12. 1520680–1520680. 3 indexed citations

Case, David A., Julian C.‐H. Chen, Lillian T. Chong, et al.. (2025). Structure-Based Experimental Datasets for Benchmarking Protein Simulation Force Fields [Article v1.0]. PubMed. 6(1). 3871–3871. 1 indexed citations

Fischer, Andreas, Chris Oostenbrink, Rainer Schneider, et al.. (2024). Scar-free tag removal by CASPON® enzyme with broad physicochemical stability in biomanufacturing – A case study of five proteins. Separation and Purification Technology. 360. 130832–130832. 3 indexed citations

Rodrigues, Carolina F., et al.. (2024). Engineering A‐type Dye‐Decolorizing Peroxidases by Modification of a Conserved Glutamate Residue. ChemBioChem. 25(9). e202300872–e202300872. 3 indexed citations

Oostenbrink, Chris, et al.. (2024). Conformational dependence of chemical shifts in the proline rich region of TAU protein. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(36). 23856–23870. 1 indexed citations

Oostenbrink, Chris, et al.. (2024). Xylose Acetals ‐ a New Class of Sustainable Solvents and Their Application in Enzymatic Polycondensation. ChemSusChem. 18(6). e202401877–e202401877. 3 indexed citations

Breslmayr, Erik, Markus Blaukopf, Paul Kosma, et al.. (2023). Molecular modelling and site-directed mutagenesis provide insight into saccharide pyruvylation by the Paenibacillus alvei CsaB enzyme. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 13394–13394. 1 indexed citations

Diem, Matthias, et al.. (2023). Insights into the Binding Mode of Lipid A to the Anti-lipopolysaccharide Factor ALFPm3 from Penaeus monodon: An In Silico Study through MD Simulations. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 63(8). 2495–2504. 2 indexed citations

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Wagner, Anja, et al.. (2022). Identification of Activating Mutations in the Transmembrane and Extracellular Domains of EGFR. Biochemistry. 61(19). 2049–2062. 4 indexed citations

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Oostenbrink, Chris, et al.. (2022). On the effects of induced polarizability at the water–graphene interface via classical charge-on-spring models. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(13). 7748–7758. 6 indexed citations

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Sebastiani, Federico, Maurizio Becucci, Paul G. Furtmüller, et al.. (2021). Reaction intermediate rotation during the decarboxylation of coproheme to heme b in C. diphtheriae. Biophysical Journal. 120(17). 3600–3614. 14 indexed citations

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Laurent, Elisabeth, Clemens Grünwald‐Gruber, Daniel Maresch, et al.. (2021). Structure-guided glyco-engineering of ACE2 for improved potency as soluble SARS-CoV-2 decoy receptor. eLife. 10. 26 indexed citations

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Fischer, Andreas, Nico Lingg, Chris Oostenbrink, et al.. (2021). PROFICS: A bacterial selection system for directed evolution of proteases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(4). 101095–101095. 9 indexed citations

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Fallanza, Marcos, et al.. (2021). Fighting Against Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide-Caused Infections through Molecular Dynamics Simulations: A Review. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 61(10). 4839–4851. 9 indexed citations

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Pfanzagl, Vera, Kristina Djinović‐Carugo, Paul G. Furtmüller, et al.. (2020). Actinobacterial Coproheme Decarboxylases Use Histidine as a Distal Base to Promote Compound I Formation. ACS Catalysis. 10(10). 5405–5418. 20 indexed citations

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Margreitter, Christian, et al.. (2019). UDP-N-acetyl-α-D-galactosamine:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase from the snail Biomphalaria glabrata – structural reflections. Glycoconjugate Journal. 37(1). 15–25. 5 indexed citations

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Lin, Zhixiong, Chris Oostenbrink, & Wilfred F. van Gunsteren. (2014). On the use of one-step perturbation to investigate the dependence of NOE-derived atom–atom distance bound violations of peptides upon a variation of force-field parameters. European Biophysics Journal. 43(2-3). 113–119. 6 indexed citations

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Ruiter, Anita de & Chris Oostenbrink. (2011). Free energy calculations of protein–ligand interactions. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 15(4). 547–552. 77 indexed citations

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Hansson, Tomas, et al.. (2002). Molecular dynamics simulations. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 12(2). 190–196. 548 indexed citations breakdown →

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