Cristian Bologa

9.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
88 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Cristian Bologa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cristian Bologa has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 11 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Cristian Bologa's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (31 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (8 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (7 papers). Cristian Bologa is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (31 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (8 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (7 papers). Cristian Bologa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Romania and Denmark. Cristian Bologa's co-authors include Tudor I. Oprea, Oleg Ursu, Larry A. Sklar, Eric R. Prossnitz, Anna Gaulton, Anne Hersey, Bissan Al‐Lazikani, Rita Santos, A. Patrícia Bento and Anneli Karlsson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Cristian Bologa

86 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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 comprehensive map of molecular drug targets

2016 1.6k citations Oleg Ursu, Cristian Bologa et al. profile →
Virtual and biomolecular screening converge on a selective agonist for GPR30

2006 692 citations Cristian Bologa, Susan Young et al. profile →
How many rare diseases are there?

2019 279 citations Cristian Bologa, Giovanni Bocci et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cristian Bologa United States	30	3.3k	1.4k	1.4k	553	484	88	5.8k
Roberto Sánchez United States	32	5.6k 1.7×	695 0.5×	692 0.5×	541 1.0×	340 0.7×	66	7.2k
Ferrán Sanz Spain	35	5.1k 1.5×	767 0.5×	1.6k 1.2×	397 0.7×	520 1.1×	187	8.8k
A.C.W. Pike United Kingdom	38	4.5k 1.3×	4.6k 3.2×	857 0.6×	1.2k 2.2×	672 1.4×	60	8.5k
David B. Ascher Australia	46	6.9k 2.1×	1.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.9×	808 1.5×	1.7k 3.5×	187	11.8k
Douglas E. V. Pires Australia	35	5.1k 1.5×	821 0.6×	2.3k 1.7×	480 0.9×	1.5k 3.1×	93	8.8k
Ruili Huang United States	48	3.3k 1.0×	602 0.4×	2.6k 1.9×	641 1.2×	618 1.3×	219	8.0k
Bridget K. Wagner United States	34	3.6k 1.1×	746 0.5×	553 0.4×	608 1.1×	628 1.3×	83	5.7k
Douglas S. Auld United States	42	4.8k 1.4×	365 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	663 1.2×	625 1.3×	120	7.1k
Ajit Jadhav United States	50	5.1k 1.5×	498 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 1.9×	929 1.9×	150	8.1k
Ismail Kola Australia	43	4.0k 1.2×	760 0.5×	831 0.6×	1.1k 2.0×	233 0.5×	94	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Cristian Bologa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cristian Bologa

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All Works

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Teixeira, J. Pedro, et al.. (2025). Relationship between Rate of Hypernatremia Correction and Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients. Kidney360. 6(8). 1305–1316.

Metzger, Vincent T., Daniel C. Cannon, Jeremy J. Yang, et al.. (2024). TIN-X version 3: update with expanded dataset and modernized architecture for enhanced illumination of understudied targets. PeerJ. 12. e17470–e17470. 1 indexed citations

Sirimulla, Suman, et al.. (2024). Abstract 3535: Seeking novel therapeutic targets in oncology using machine learning. Cancer Research. 84(6_Supplement). 3535–3535.

Roumelioti, Maria‐Eleni, et al.. (2023). Outcomes of Hospital-Acquired Hypernatremia. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 18(11). 1396–1407. 2 indexed citations

Kelleher, Keith J., Timothy Sheils, Stephen L. Mathias, et al.. (2022). Pharos 2023: an integrated resource for the understudied human proteome. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(D1). D1405–D1416. 50 indexed citations

Binder, Jessica, Oleg Ursu, Cristian Bologa, et al.. (2022). Machine learning prediction and tau-based screening identifies potential Alzheimer’s disease genes relevant to immunity. Communications Biology. 5(1). 125–125. 26 indexed citations

Yang, Jeremy J., Christophe G Lambert, Cristian Bologa, et al.. (2021). TIGA: target illumination GWAS analytics. Bioinformatics. 37(21). 3865–3873. 8 indexed citations

Sheils, Timothy, Stephen L. Mathias, Keith J. Kelleher, et al.. (2020). TCRD and Pharos 2021: mining the human proteome for disease biology. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D1334–D1346. 90 indexed citations

Christianson, Dawn R., Andrey S. Dobroff, Bettina Proneth, et al.. (2015). Ligand-directed targeting of lymphatic vessels uncovers mechanistic insights in melanoma metastasis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(8). 2521–2526. 12 indexed citations

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Bologa, Cristian, Oleg Ursu, Liliana Halip, Ramona Curpăn, & Tudor I. Oprea. (2015). CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DESCRIPTOR INTEGRATION IMPROVES COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF IN VIVO RAT TOXICITY.. PubMed. 60(2-3). 219–226. 3 indexed citations

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Ioannidis, Anastasios, Maria Magana, Cristian Bologa, et al.. (2015). Defining the microbial effluxome in the content of the host-microbiome interaction. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 6. 31–31. 3 indexed citations

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Curpăn, Ramona, Sorin Avram, Robert Vianello, & Cristian Bologa. (2014). Exploring the biological promiscuity of high-throughput screening hits through DFT calculations. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 22(8). 2461–2468. 14 indexed citations

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Chigaev, Alexandre, Yelena Smagley, Mark K. Haynes, et al.. (2014). FRET detection of lymphocyte function–associated antigen-1 conformational extension. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 26(1). 43–54. 15 indexed citations

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Strouse, J. Jacob, Irena Ivnitski‐Steele, Anna Waller, et al.. (2013). Fluorescent substrates for flow cytometric evaluation of efflux inhibition in ABCB1, ABCC1, and ABCG2 transporters. Analytical Biochemistry. 437(1). 77–87. 50 indexed citations

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Curpăn, Ramona, Peter C. Simons, Dayong Zhai, et al.. (2011). High-Throughput Screen for the Chemical Inhibitors of Antiapoptotic Bcl-2 Family Proteins by Multiplex Flow Cytometry. Assay and Drug Development Technologies. 9(5). 465–474. 21 indexed citations

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Slack, Jay P., Anne Brockhoff, Stephan Born, et al.. (2010). Modulation of Bitter Taste Perception by a Small Molecule hTAS2R Antagonist. Current Biology. 20(12). 1104–1109. 129 indexed citations

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Haynes, Mark K., J. Jacob Strouse, Anna Waller, et al.. (2009). Detection of Intracellular Granularity Induction in Prostate Cancer Cell Lines by Small Molecules Using the HyperCyt® High-Throughput Flow Cytometry System. SLAS DISCOVERY. 14(6). 596–609. 21 indexed citations

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Chigaev, Alexandre, et al.. (2009). Real-time Analysis of Conformation-sensitive Antibody Binding Provides New Insights into Integrin Conformational Regulation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(21). 14337–14346. 37 indexed citations

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Chigaev, Alexandre, Anna Waller, D. Włodek, et al.. (2009). Conformational mAb as a Tool for Integrin Ligand Discovery. Assay and Drug Development Technologies. 7(5). 507–515. 14 indexed citations

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Avram, Speranța, Cristian Bologa, & Maria‐Luiza Flonta. (2005). Quantitative structure-activity relationship by CoMFA for cyclic urea and nonpeptide-cyclic cyanoguanidine derivatives on wild type and mutant HIV-1 protease. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 11(2). 105–115. 9 indexed citations

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