Christopher N. Rowley

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher N. Rowley is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher N. Rowley has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Organic Chemistry, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 22 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Christopher N. Rowley's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (15 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (11 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers). Christopher N. Rowley is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (15 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (11 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers). Christopher N. Rowley collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Christopher N. Rowley's co-authors include Tom K. Woo, Ernest Awoonor‐Williams, Marc Lafrance, Keith Fagnou, Benoı̂t Roux, Saleh Riahi, Joseph Moran, Haibo Yu, Seán T. Barry and Jennifer M. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Christopher N. Rowley

68 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Catalytic Intermolecular Direct Arylation of Perfluorobenzenes

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher N. Rowley Canada	30	1.7k	1.1k	648	477	384	70	3.5k
Jeffrey D. Evanseck United States	27	1.4k 0.8×	860 0.8×	571 0.9×	469 1.0×	274 0.7×	60	2.8k
Brett R. Beno United States	22	1.6k 0.9×	690 0.6×	469 0.7×	239 0.5×	212 0.6×	56	2.6k
W. M. C. Sameera Japan	25	1.4k 0.8×	536 0.5×	443 0.7×	877 1.8×	647 1.7×	80	3.1k
István Komáromi Hungary	21	931 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	724 1.1×	790 1.7×	461 1.2×	75	4.1k
Ya‐Jun Zheng United States	27	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	256 0.4×	501 1.1×	291 0.8×	85	3.1k
Lubomı́r Rulı́šek Czechia	41	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	490 0.8×	1.1k 2.3×	834 2.2×	141	4.7k
Ricardo A. Mata Germany	32	1.2k 0.7×	731 0.7×	1.0k 1.5×	715 1.5×	840 2.2×	136	3.4k
Hans Martin Senn United Kingdom	27	1.5k 0.9×	2.1k 2.0×	1.3k 1.9×	997 2.1×	791 2.1×	55	5.2k
Robert D. J. Froese United States	34	3.2k 1.9×	700 0.6×	817 1.3×	790 1.7×	1.1k 2.8×	76	4.9k
Martin Dračínský Czechia	33	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	374 0.6×	905 1.9×	249 0.6×	279	4.3k

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Behler, Jörg, et al.. (2025). Long-Range Interactions in High-Dimensional Neural Network Potentials: A Benchmark Study for Small Organic Molecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 129(48). 12518–12528.

Rowley, Christopher N., et al.. (2024). Graph neural networks for identifying protein-reactive compounds. Digital Discovery. 3(9). 1776–1792. 1 indexed citations

Dimakos, Victoria, et al.. (2024). Controlling Reactivity and Selectivity in the Mizoroki–Heck Reaction: High Throughput Evaluation of 1,5-Diaza-3,7-diphosphacyclooctane Ligands. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(8). 5650–5660. 8 indexed citations

Rowley, Christopher N., et al.. (2023). A kinetic study of thiol addition to N-phenylchloroacetamide. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 21(22). 4702–4710. 1 indexed citations

Johnson, Erin R., et al.. (2023). A neural network potential with rigorous treatment of long-range dispersion. Digital Discovery. 2(3). 718–727. 19 indexed citations

Booth, Valerie, et al.. (2022). Interaction between Antimicrobial Peptide Magainin 2 and Nonlipid Components in the Bacterial Outer Envelope. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 126(29). 5473–5480. 4 indexed citations

Rowley, Christopher N., et al.. (2020). Benchmarking Force Field and the ANI Neural Network Potentials for the Torsional Potential Energy Surface of Biaryl Drug Fragments. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 60(12). 6258–6268. 31 indexed citations

Vant, John, Kalyanashis Jana, Mrinal Shekhar, et al.. (2020). Flexible Fitting of Small Molecules into Electron Microscopy Maps Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Neural Network Potentials. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 60(5). 2591–2604. 24 indexed citations

Rowley, Christopher N., et al.. (2020). An efficient and accurate model for water with an improved non-bonded potential. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 153(13). 134105–134105. 4 indexed citations

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Geerke, Daan P., et al.. (2020). Polarisable force fields: what do they add in biomolecular simulations?. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 61. 182–190. 65 indexed citations

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Rowley, Christopher N., et al.. (2020). Simulating protein–ligand binding with neural network potentials. Chemical Science. 11(9). 2362–2368. 52 indexed citations

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Johnson, Erin R., et al.. (2018). Evaluating the London Dispersion Coefficients of Protein Force Fields Using the Exchange-Hole Dipole Moment Model. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(26). 6690–6701. 31 indexed citations

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Awoonor‐Williams, Ernest & Christopher N. Rowley. (2018). The hydration structure of methylthiolate from QM/MM molecular dynamics. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 149(4). 45103–45103. 19 indexed citations

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Hazel, Anthony, et al.. (2018). Folding free energy landscapes of β-sheets with non-polarizable and polarizable CHARMM force fields. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 149(7). 72317–72317. 26 indexed citations

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Richmond, Edward, et al.. (2018). Ring-opening hydroarylation of monosubstituted cyclopropanes enabled by hexafluoroisopropanol. Chemical Science. 9(30). 6411–6416. 70 indexed citations

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Rowley, Christopher N., et al.. (2018). Simulations of lipid bilayers using the CHARMM36 force field with the TIP3P-FB and TIP4P-FB water models. PeerJ. 6. e5472–e5472. 36 indexed citations

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Awoonor‐Williams, Ernest, Andrew G. Walsh, & Christopher N. Rowley. (2017). Modeling covalent-modifier drugs. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1865(11). 1664–1675. 71 indexed citations

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Rowley, Christopher N., et al.. (2016). An explicit-solvent conformation search method using open software. PeerJ. 4. e2088–e2088. 9 indexed citations

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Smith, Jennifer M. & Christopher N. Rowley. (2015). Automated computational screening of the thiol reactivity of substituted alkenes. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 29(8). 725–735. 21 indexed citations

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Riahi, Saleh & Christopher N. Rowley. (2014). The CHARMM–TURBOMOLE interface for efficient and accurate QM/MM molecular dynamics, free energies, and excited state properties. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 35(28). 2076–2086. 56 indexed citations

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