Christophe Chipot

34.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
241 papers, 24.5k citations indexed

About

Christophe Chipot is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christophe Chipot has authored 241 papers receiving a total of 24.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 181 papers in Molecular Biology, 90 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 42 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Christophe Chipot's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (114 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (73 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (55 papers). Christophe Chipot is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (114 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (73 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (55 papers). Christophe Chipot collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and China. Christophe Chipot's co-authors include James C. Gumbart, Klaus Schulten, Emad Tajkhorshid, J. C. Phillips, Robert D. Skeel, Wei Wang, Rosemary Braun, Elizabeth Villa, Laxmikant V. Kalé and Andrew Pohorille and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Christophe Chipot

236 papers receiving 24.2k 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.

Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD

2005 13.9k citations Emad Tajkhorshid, Christophe Chipot et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →
Free Energy Calculations

2007 695 citations Christophe Chipot, Andrew Pohorille profile →
Good Practices in Free-Energy Calculations

2010 489 citations Andrew Pohorille, Christophe Chipot et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christophe Chipot France	54	16.0k	4.5k	4.4k	2.7k	2.2k	241	24.5k
Giovanni Bussi Italy	38	13.5k 0.8×	4.5k 1.0×	6.1k 1.4×	2.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	102	25.2k
L. Perera United States	43	12.5k 0.8×	5.2k 1.2×	3.8k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	141	24.3k
Wendy D. Cornell United States	19	13.1k 0.8×	3.9k 0.9×	4.6k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	36	21.8k
Kim A. Sharp United States	65	15.7k 1.0×	3.8k 0.9×	4.3k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	150	22.7k
Emad Tajkhorshid United States	74	20.8k 1.3×	3.9k 0.9×	4.1k 0.9×	4.2k 1.5×	2.5k 1.1×	358	31.4k
Helmut Grubmüller Germany	73	16.2k 1.0×	4.4k 1.0×	3.5k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	259	22.9k
Wei Wang China	65	16.8k 1.0×	3.2k 0.7×	6.7k 1.5×	4.6k 1.7×	1.8k 0.8×	476	33.1k
Szilárd Páll Sweden	6	13.3k 0.8×	2.4k 0.5×	4.0k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	15	24.9k
Roland Schulz United States	13	13.0k 0.8×	2.3k 0.5×	3.8k 0.9×	2.9k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	23	24.7k
Gerrit Groenhof Finland	39	9.5k 0.6×	3.5k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	87	18.7k

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Chipot, Christophe, et al.. (2025). Probing the orientation and membrane permeation of rhodamine voltage reporters through molecular simulations and free energy calculations. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 13(6). 2015–2028.

Lansky, Shifra, Zhaokun Wang, Oliver B. Clarke, Christophe Chipot, & Simon Scheuring. (2025). Structural dynamics and permeability of the TRPV3 pentamer. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4520–4520.

Harris, Jonathan J., Christophe Chipot, & Benoı̂t Roux. (2024). Statistical Mechanical Theories of Membrane Permeability. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 128(38). 9183–9196. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Peng, et al.. (2024). Elucidation of the noncovalent interactions driving enzyme activity guides branching enzyme engineering for α-glucan modification. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8760–8760. 6 indexed citations

Lemieux, M. Joanne, et al.. (2024). Probing the formation of a hetero-dimeric membrane transport complex with dual in vitro and in silico mutagenesis. Chemical Science. 15(35). 14310–14322.

Khan, Hanif M., et al.. (2022). Standard Binding Free Energy and Membrane Desorption Mechanism for a Phospholipase C. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 62(24). 6602–6613. 8 indexed citations

Chen, Haochuan, Shashank Pant, Wensheng Cai, et al.. (2022). A Companion Guide to the String Method with Swarms of Trajectories: Characterization, Performance, and Pitfalls. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18(3). 1406–1422. 17 indexed citations

Bignucolo, Olivier, Christophe Chipot, Stephan Kellenberger, & Benoı̂t Roux. (2022). Galvani Offset Potential and Constant-pH Simulations of Membrane Proteins. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 126(36). 6868–6877. 16 indexed citations

Caillat, Christophe, Delphine Guilligay, Nikolas Friedrich, et al.. (2021). Structure of HIV-1 gp41 with its membrane anchors targeted by neutralizing antibodies. eLife. 10. 22 indexed citations

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Kunji, Edmund R.S., et al.. (2021). Structure, substrate binding, and symmetry of the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier in its matrix-open state. Biophysical Journal. 120(23). 5187–5195. 6 indexed citations

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Gari, Raghavendar Reddy Sanganna, George R. Heath, Yining Jiang, et al.. (2021). Correlation of membrane protein conformational and functional dynamics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4363–4363. 20 indexed citations

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Lin, Yi‐Chih, Christophe Chipot, & Simon Scheuring. (2020). Annexin-V stabilizes membrane defects by inducing lipid phase transition. Nature Communications. 11(1). 230–230. 84 indexed citations

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Takahashi, Hirohide, Félix Rico, Christophe Chipot, & Simon Scheuring. (2018). α-Helix Unwinding as Force Buffer in Spectrins. ACS Nano. 12(3). 2719–2727. 38 indexed citations

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Dehez, François, Paul Schanda, Martin King, Edmund R.S. Kunji, & Christophe Chipot. (2017). Mitochondrial ADP/ATP Carrier in Dodecylphosphocholine Binds Cardiolipins with Non-native Affinity. Biophysical Journal. 113(11). 2311–2315. 12 indexed citations

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Bozzi, Aaron T., Wilhelm A. Weihofen, Abhishek Singharoy, et al.. (2016). Conserved methionine dictates substrate preference in Nramp-family divalent metal transporters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(37). 10310–10315. 67 indexed citations

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Singharoy, Abhishek, Christophe Chipot, Mahmoud Moradi, & Klaus Schulten. (2016). Chemomechanical Coupling in Hexameric Protein–Protein Interfaces Harnesses Energy within V-Type ATPases. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(1). 293–310. 42 indexed citations

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Montserret, Roland, Nathalie Saint, Christophe Vanbelle, et al.. (2010). NMR Structure and Ion Channel Activity of the p7 Protein from Hepatitis C Virus. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(41). 31446–31461. 112 indexed citations

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Chipot, Christophe & Andrew Pohorille. (2007). Free energy calculations : theory and applications in chemistry and biology. Springer eBooks. 216 indexed citations

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Leimkuhler, Benedict, Christophe Chipot, Ron Elber, et al.. (2006). New Algorithms for Macromolecular Simulation (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering). Springer eBooks. 28(2). 228–9. 5 indexed citations

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Chipot, Christophe. (2003). Rational determination of charge distributions for free energy calculations. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 24(4). 409–415. 30 indexed citations

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