Colin A. Smith

24.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Colin A. Smith is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin A. Smith has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Spectroscopy and 11 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Colin A. Smith's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (22 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (10 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (8 papers). Colin A. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (22 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (10 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (8 papers). Colin A. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Colin A. Smith's co-authors include Elizabeth J. Want, Gary Siuzdak, Ruben Abagyan, Grace O’Maille, Tanja Kortemme, Sunia A. Trauger, Wilasinee Uritboonthai, Bert L. de Groot, Christian Griesinger and David Ban and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Colin A. Smith

50 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

XCMS: Processing Mass Spectrometry Data for Metabolite Profiling Using Nonlinear Peak Alignment, Matching, and Identification

2006 3.8k citations Colin A. Smith, Ruben Abagyan et al. profile →
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2005 1.7k citations Colin A. Smith, Ruben Abagyan et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin A. Smith United States	20	5.4k	1.8k	847	646	479	56	7.2k
Thomas Metz United States	60	4.5k 0.8×	2.1k 1.2×	611 0.7×	436 0.7×	768 1.6×	192	8.7k
Huub C. J. Hoefsloot Netherlands	40	4.7k 0.9×	941 0.5×	1.4k 1.6×	991 1.5×	613 1.3×	137	8.7k
Craig Knox Canada	17	6.3k 1.2×	755 0.4×	513 0.6×	398 0.6×	455 0.9×	20	9.9k
Andrew W. Nicholls United Kingdom	24	4.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	624 0.7×	299 0.5×	782 1.6×	43	5.5k
Christophe Junot France	40	3.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	575 0.7×	804 1.2×	548 1.1×	125	5.9k
Eoin Fahy United States	34	7.5k 1.4×	2.4k 1.4×	500 0.6×	550 0.9×	789 1.6×	64	10.5k
Markus Ralser United Kingdom	56	7.9k 1.5×	1.3k 0.7×	571 0.7×	794 1.2×	814 1.7×	166	11.3k
Henrik Antti Sweden	42	5.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 1.2×	751 1.2×	783 1.6×	96	8.3k
Georgios Theodoridis Greece	49	6.1k 1.1×	3.2k 1.8×	1.7k 2.0×	672 1.0×	800 1.7×	297	10.6k
John P. Shockcor United States	29	4.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	658 0.8×	505 0.8×	536 1.1×	70	6.1k

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Grabe, Michael, et al.. (2025). Deep learning–guided design of dynamic proteins. Science. 388(6749). eadr7094–eadr7094. 10 indexed citations

Park, Sojeong, Scott Houliston, Jennifer Liddle, et al.. (2024). Heat‐induced structural and chemical changes to a computationally designed miniprotein. Protein Science. 33(6). e4991–e4991. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Colin A., et al.. (2024). Analysis of chi angle distributions in free amino acids via multiplet fitting of proton scalar couplings. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 103–120.

Walters, Kylie J., et al.. (2024). Effects of Xylanase A double mutation on substrate specificity and structural dynamics. Journal of Structural Biology. 216(2). 108082–108082. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Colin A., et al.. (2023). Predicting binding affinity changes from long‐distance mutations using molecular dynamics simulations and Rosetta. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 91(7). 920–932. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Colin A., et al.. (2023). Oxidation of Dueling Cysteine Promotes Subunit Exchange in SOD1. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 2 indexed citations

Jiménez-Hoyos, Carlos A., et al.. (2022). Prediction of Fluorophore Brightness in Designed Mini Fluorescence Activating Proteins. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18(5). 3190–3203. 1 indexed citations

O’Neil, Alison, et al.. (2021). Free energy calculations of ALS‐causing SOD1 mutants reveal common perturbations to stability and dynamics along the maturation pathway. Protein Science. 30(9). 1804–1817. 9 indexed citations

Park, Sojeong, et al.. (2020). Resolving overlapped signals with automated FitNMR analytical peak modeling. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 318. 106773–106773. 10 indexed citations

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Smith, Colin A., Artur Mazur, Ashok K. Rout, et al.. (2019). Enhancing NMR derived ensembles with kinetics on multiple timescales. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 74(1). 27–43. 10 indexed citations

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Gliebe, John, et al.. (2018). An Agent-Based Gaming Approach to Simulating the Evolution of Commodity Flows. 17(3). 429–454. 2 indexed citations

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Ban, David, Colin A. Smith, Bert L. de Groot, Christian Griesinger, & Donghan Lee. (2017). Recent advances in measuring the kinetics of biomolecules by NMR relaxation dispersion spectroscopy. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 628. 81–91. 21 indexed citations

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Smith, Colin A., et al.. (2012). Design of a Phosphorylatable PDZ Domain with Peptide-Specific Affinity Changes. Structure. 21(1). 54–64. 14 indexed citations

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Smith, Colin A., et al.. (2010). RosettaBackrub--a web server for flexible backbone protein structure modeling and design. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(Web Server). W569–W575. 85 indexed citations

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Friedland, Gregory D., et al.. (2008). A Simple Model of Backbone Flexibility Improves Modeling of Side-chain Conformational Variability. Journal of Molecular Biology. 380(4). 757–774. 61 indexed citations

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Vining, Kelly, et al.. (2007). Identification of Resistance Gene Analogs and Verticillium Wilt Resistance-like Sequences in Mentha longifolia. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 132(4). 541–550. 10 indexed citations

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Nicola, George, Colin A. Smith, Edinson Lucumi, et al.. (2007). Discovery of novel inhibitors targeting enoyl–acyl carrier protein reductase in Plasmodium falciparum by structure-based virtual screening. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 358(3). 686–691. 29 indexed citations

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Vining, Kelly, et al.. (2005). Mentha longifolia (L.) L.: A Model Species for Mint Genetic Research. HortScience. 40(5). 1225–1229. 24 indexed citations

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Smith, Colin A., et al.. (2000). The Clinical Enquiry Service; Benign intracranial hypertension. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 26(3). 169–169. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Colin A., et al.. (1973). Sodium/water reactions. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 28(2). 56–7.

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