Edward Lyman

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Edward Lyman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Edward Lyman has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Edward Lyman's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (44 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (20 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers). Edward Lyman is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (44 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (20 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers). Edward Lyman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Edward Lyman's co-authors include Daniel M. Zuckerman, Gregory A. Voth, Richard W. Pastor, Haosheng Cui, Alexander J. Sodt, Ilya Levental, Erdinç Sezgin, Kandice R. Levental, Milka Doktorova and Joseph H. Lorent and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Edward Lyman

67 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Plasma membranes are asymmetric in lipid unsaturation, packing and protein shape

2020 488 citations Joseph H. Lorent, Kandice R. Levental et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →
Cell membranes sustain phospholipid imbalance via cholesterol asymmetry

2025 33 citations Milka Doktorova, Jessica L. Symons et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Edward Lyman United States	28	2.6k	686	612	352	336	71	3.1k
Tsjerk A. Wassenaar Netherlands	24	4.3k 1.6×	656 1.0×	501 0.8×	555 1.6×	505 1.5×	52	5.3k
Alf Honigmann Germany	31	3.5k 1.3×	477 0.7×	1.2k 1.9×	289 0.8×	678 2.0×	68	4.8k
George Khelashvili United States	38	2.9k 1.1×	503 0.7×	367 0.6×	182 0.5×	318 0.9×	99	3.6k
Changbong Hyeon South Korea	44	3.8k 1.4×	907 1.3×	746 1.2×	880 2.5×	470 1.4×	117	5.0k
Clément Arnarez Netherlands	14	2.4k 0.9×	455 0.7×	245 0.4×	263 0.7×	323 1.0×	18	2.8k
Simon Ebbinghaus Germany	25	2.1k 0.8×	783 1.1×	359 0.6×	695 2.0×	302 0.9×	80	3.4k
Erdinç Sezgin United Kingdom	38	4.6k 1.7×	736 1.1×	917 1.5×	409 1.2×	966 2.9×	101	6.2k
Jonathan N. Sachs United States	32	2.7k 1.0×	736 1.1×	333 0.5×	171 0.5×	332 1.0×	81	3.5k
Durba Sengupta India	27	2.6k 1.0×	365 0.5×	283 0.5×	283 0.8×	261 0.8×	88	3.4k
Daniel Lévy France	39	3.4k 1.3×	778 1.1×	562 0.9×	485 1.4×	425 1.3×	92	4.5k

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Lyman, Edward, et al.. (2025). Signatures of glassy dynamics in highly ordered lipid bilayers with emergence of soft dynamic channels. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162(14). 1 indexed citations

Ji, Jingjing & Edward Lyman. (2025). Lipid–GPCR interactions in an asymmetric plasma membrane model. Faraday Discussions. 259(0). 545–558.

Lyman, Edward, et al.. (2025). Paternal Contributions to Biopsychosocial Outcomes of Children With Cancer: A Scoping Review. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 72(7). e31752–e31752.

Conflitti, Paolo, Edward Lyman, Mark S.P. Sansom, et al.. (2025). Functional dynamics of G protein-coupled receptors reveal new routes for drug discovery. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 24(4). 251–275. 15 indexed citations

Lyman, Edward, et al.. (2025). Sphingomyelin slows interfacial hydrogen-bonding dynamics in lipid membranes. Biophysical Journal. 124(7). 1158–1165. 1 indexed citations

Fitzgerald, J.E.F., Richard M. Venable, Richard W. Pastor, & Edward Lyman. (2023). Surface viscosities of several lipids determined from equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 227a–227a. 1 indexed citations

Lyman, Edward, et al.. (2021). Changes in pairwise correlations during running reshape global network state in the main olfactory bulb. Journal of Neurophysiology. 125(5). 1612–1623. 3 indexed citations

Doktorova, Milka, Jessica L. Symons, Kandice R. Levental, Edward Lyman, & Ilya Levental. (2021). Challenging the Dogma - Cell Plasma Membranes are Asymmetric not only in Phospholipid Composition but also Abundance. Biophysical Journal. 120(3). 147a–147a. 4 indexed citations

Lyman, Edward. (2021). Membrane Fluidity: Both Fundamental and Functional. Biophysical Journal. 120(3). 193a–193a. 1 indexed citations

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Lorent, Joseph H., Kandice R. Levental, Lakshmi Ganesan, et al.. (2020). Plasma membranes are asymmetric in lipid unsaturation, packing and protein shape. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(6). 644–652. 488 indexed citations breakdown →

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Levental, Ilya, et al.. (2020). Composition dependence of cholesterol flip-flop rates in physiological mixtures. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. 232. 104967–104967. 8 indexed citations

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Schneider, Falk, Martyna Lukoseviciute, Tatjana Sauka‐Spengler, et al.. (2019). Nanoscale dynamics of cholesterol in the cell membrane. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(34). 12599–12609. 54 indexed citations

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Baumeier, Björn, et al.. (2018). Predicting Spectral Properties of Polarity Sensitive Dyes with QM/MM Simulation. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 272a–272a. 1 indexed citations

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Arnarez, Clément, et al.. (2017). Identification of Two New Cholesterol Interaction Sites on the A2A Adenosine Receptor. Biophysical Journal. 113(11). 2415–2424. 61 indexed citations

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Heberle, Frederick A., et al.. (2017). Nanoscale Structure of Lipid Bilayers Revealed by In-Silico and Experimental Small Angle Neutron Scattering. Biophysical Journal. 112(3). 468a–468a. 1 indexed citations

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Sodt, Alexander J., Richard W. Pastor, & Edward Lyman. (2015). Hexagonal Substructure and Hydrogen Bonding in Liquid-Ordered Phases Containing Palmitoyl Sphingomyelin. Biophysical Journal. 109(5). 948–955. 110 indexed citations

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Lyman, Edward, et al.. (2013). Predictions for Cholesterol Interaction Sites on the A2A Adenosine Receptor. Biophysical Journal. 104(2). 536a–536a. 26 indexed citations

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Lyman, Edward, et al.. (2012). Agonist Dynamics and Conformational Selection during Microsecond Simulations of the A2A Adenosine Receptor. Biophysical Journal. 102(9). 2114–2120. 28 indexed citations

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Ayton, Gary S., Edward Lyman, & Gregory A. Voth. (2009). Hierarchical coarse-graining strategy for protein-membrane systems to access mesoscopic scales. Faraday Discussions. 144. 347–357. 52 indexed citations

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Lyman, Edward, Chris Higgs, Byungchan Kim, et al.. (2009). A Role for a Specific Cholesterol Interaction in Stabilizing the Apo Configuration of the Human A 2A Adenosine Receptor. Structure. 17(12). 1660–1668. 105 indexed citations

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