Duncan Laverty

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Duncan Laverty is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Duncan Laverty has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 1 paper in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Duncan Laverty's work include Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (6 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (6 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (3 papers). Duncan Laverty is often cited by papers focused on Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (6 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (6 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (3 papers). Duncan Laverty collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Belgium. Duncan Laverty's co-authors include A.R. Aricescu, Els Pardon, Jasenko Zivanov, Tomas Malinauskas, Jan Steyaert, Rooma Desai, Keith W. Miller, Simonas Masiulis, Tomasz Uchański and Michael J. Marks and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Duncan Laverty

8 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

GABAA receptor signalling mechanisms revealed by structural pharmacology

2018 399 citations Simonas Masiulis, Rooma Desai et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Duncan Laverty United Kingdom	7	816	585	75	55	47	8	1.0k
Simonas Masiulis United Kingdom	9	799 1.0×	560 1.0×	49 0.7×	49 0.9×	33 0.7×	14	1.1k
Emily Days United States	20	944 1.2×	822 1.4×	60 0.8×	62 1.1×	81 1.7×	34	1.3k
Rooma Desai United States	17	1.1k 1.4×	815 1.4×	46 0.6×	69 1.3×	70 1.5×	25	1.5k
Shaotong Zhu United States	9	526 0.6×	408 0.7×	53 0.7×	59 1.1×	39 0.8×	17	875
Joachim Ramerstorfer Austria	14	556 0.7×	502 0.9×	43 0.6×	47 0.9×	42 0.9×	18	771
Sonja Sučić Austria	23	649 0.8×	582 1.0×	104 1.4×	19 0.3×	56 1.2×	52	1.3k
Anant Gharpure United States	7	699 0.9×	270 0.5×	78 1.0×	54 1.0×	70 1.5×	10	897
Mario Mezler Germany	16	345 0.4×	602 1.0×	99 1.3×	35 0.6×	97 2.1×	38	902
Maria V. Yelshanskaya United States	16	923 1.1×	802 1.4×	33 0.4×	26 0.5×	69 1.5×	33	1.4k
Stephan A. Pless Denmark	24	1.2k 1.5×	563 1.0×	37 0.5×	78 1.4×	69 1.5×	61	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Duncan Laverty

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Fields of papers citing papers by Duncan Laverty

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Duncan Laverty

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Duncan Laverty. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Duncan Laverty based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Duncan Laverty. Duncan Laverty is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Day, Philip J., Duncan Laverty, Juan A. Bueren‐Calabuig, et al.. (2024). Protein engineering enables a soakable crystal form of human CDK7 primed for high-throughput crystallography and structure-based drug design. Structure. 32(8). 1040–1048.e3. 3 indexed citations

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Masiulis, Simonas, Rooma Desai, Tomasz Uchański, et al.. (2018). GABAA receptor signalling mechanisms revealed by structural pharmacology. Nature. 565(7740). 454–459. 399 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laverty, Duncan, Rooma Desai, Tomasz Uchański, et al.. (2018). Cryo-EM structure of the human α1β3γ2 GABAA receptor in a lipid bilayer. Nature. 565(7740). 516–520. 223 indexed citations

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Laverty, Duncan, Philip Thomas, Martin J. Field, et al.. (2017). Crystal structures of a GABAA-receptor chimera reveal new endogenous neurosteroid-binding sites. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 24(11). 977–985. 147 indexed citations

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Fourati, Zaineb, Reinis R. Ruza, Duncan Laverty, et al.. (2016). Barbiturates Bind in the GLIC Ion Channel Pore and Cause Inhibition by Stabilizing a Closed State. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(5). 1550–1558. 15 indexed citations

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Laverty, Duncan, et al.. (2014). Inhibitory Neurosteroids and the GABAA Receptor. Advances in pharmacology. 72. 165–187. 29 indexed citations

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O’Neill, Heidi C., Duncan Laverty, Natalie E. Patzlaff, et al.. (2012). Mice expressing the ADNFLE valine 287 leucine mutation of the Β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit display increased sensitivity to acute nicotine administration and altered presynaptic nicotinic receptor function. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 103(3). 603–621. 24 indexed citations

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Grady, Sharon R., Outi Salminen, Duncan Laverty, et al.. (2007). The subtypes of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on dopaminergic terminals of mouse striatum. Biochemical Pharmacology. 74(8). 1235–1246. 206 indexed citations

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