Emad Tajkhorshid

44.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
358 papers, 31.4k citations indexed

About

Emad Tajkhorshid is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Emad Tajkhorshid has authored 358 papers receiving a total of 31.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 276 papers in Molecular Biology, 64 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 47 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Emad Tajkhorshid's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (89 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (76 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (36 papers). Emad Tajkhorshid is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (89 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (76 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (36 papers). Emad Tajkhorshid collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Emad Tajkhorshid's co-authors include Klaus Schulten, James C. Gumbart, Christophe Chipot, J. C. Phillips, Elizabeth Villa, Laxmikant V. Kalé, Wei Wang, Rosemary Braun, Robert D. Skeel and Yi Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Emad Tajkhorshid

345 papers receiving 31.1k citations

Hit Papers

Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD 2002 2026 2010 2018 2005 2002 2005 2003 2024 4.0k 8.0k 12.0k
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.

  1. Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD
    2005 13.9k citations Emad Tajkhorshid et al. profile →
  2. Control of the Selectivity of the Aquaporin Water Channel Family by Global Orientational Tuning
    2002 743 citations Emad Tajkhorshid et al. Science profile →
  3. Structural mechanism of plant aquaporin gating
    2005 655 citations Emad Tajkhorshid, Richard Neutze et al. Nature profile →
  4. Free energy calculation from steered molecular dynamics simulations using Jarzynski’s equality
    2003 641 citations Emad Tajkhorshid et al. profile →
  5. A Gram-negative-selective antibiotic that spares the gut microbiome
    2024 68 citations Po‐Chao Wen, Jessica R. Holmes et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Emad Tajkhorshid United States 74 20.8k 4.2k 4.1k 3.9k 3.4k 358 31.4k
Wonpil Im United States 64 20.2k 1.0× 2.6k 0.6× 2.7k 0.7× 3.1k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 319 27.4k
Mark S.P. Sansom United Kingdom 90 24.8k 1.2× 4.3k 1.0× 2.3k 0.6× 3.1k 0.8× 4.4k 1.3× 611 31.7k
D. Peter Tieleman Canada 80 22.2k 1.1× 4.3k 1.0× 3.4k 0.8× 5.4k 1.4× 1.7k 0.5× 271 29.3k
Wei Wang China 65 16.8k 0.8× 4.6k 1.1× 6.7k 1.6× 3.2k 0.8× 1.5k 0.4× 476 33.1k
Christophe Chipot France 54 16.0k 0.8× 2.7k 0.7× 4.4k 1.1× 4.5k 1.1× 1.5k 0.4× 241 24.5k
Junmei Wang China 67 25.1k 1.2× 3.0k 0.7× 7.1k 1.7× 4.1k 1.0× 2.5k 0.7× 416 45.8k
Darrin M. York United States 52 20.8k 1.0× 3.1k 0.7× 6.2k 1.5× 6.0k 1.5× 1.3k 0.4× 251 35.4k
Helmut Grubmüller Germany 73 16.2k 0.8× 2.3k 0.6× 3.5k 0.8× 4.4k 1.1× 2.0k 0.6× 259 22.9k
Enrico Gratton United States 109 20.7k 1.0× 9.4k 2.2× 2.8k 0.7× 5.2k 1.3× 2.4k 0.7× 723 40.5k
Bert L. de Groot Germany 66 15.7k 0.8× 2.4k 0.6× 3.4k 0.8× 2.0k 0.5× 1.5k 0.4× 229 21.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emad Tajkhorshid

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Moradi, Mahmoud, et al.. (2025). Conformational free energy landscape of a glutamate transporter and microscopic details of its transport mechanism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(10). e2416381122–e2416381122. 1 indexed citations
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Wen, Po‐Chao, Jessica R. Holmes, Hyang Yeon Lee, et al.. (2024). A Gram-negative-selective antibiotic that spares the gut microbiome. Nature. 630(8016). 429–436. 68 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Jie, Yuanyuan Yu, Yurong He, et al.. (2024). WSB1/2 target chromatin-bound lysine-methylated RelA for proteasomal degradation and NF-κB termination. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(9). 4969–4984. 4 indexed citations
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Grace, Christy R., Yupeng Li, Carlos C. Rodríguez, et al.. (2024). The carboxy terminus causes interfacial assembly of oleate hydratase on a membrane bilayer. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(2). 105627–105627. 8 indexed citations
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Stone, John E., João V. Ribeiro, Jan Saam, et al.. (2023). VMD as a Platform for Interactive Small Molecule Preparation and Visualization in Quantum and Classical Simulations. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 63(15). 4664–4678. 45 indexed citations
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Singaram, Indira, Ashutosh Sharma, Shashank Pant, et al.. (2022). Targeting lipid–protein interaction to treat Syk-mediated acute myeloid leukemia. Nature Chemical Biology. 19(2). 239–250. 14 indexed citations
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Wen, Po‐Chao, et al.. (2022). Role of internal loop dynamics in antibiotic permeability of outer membrane porins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(8). 28 indexed citations
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Thompson, James R., Sepehr Dehghani‐Ghahnaviyeh, Shashank Pant, et al.. (2022). Cryo‐EM structures of human ABCA7 provide insights into its phospholipid translocation mechanisms. The EMBO Journal. 42(3). e111065–e111065. 16 indexed citations
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Rasouli, Ali, Qin Yu, Sepehr Dehghani‐Ghahnaviyeh, et al.. (2022). Differential dynamics and direct interaction of bound ligands with lipids in multidrug transporter ABCG2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(1). e2213437120–e2213437120. 25 indexed citations
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Bohn, Stefan, Sandra K. Schuller, Jakob Meier‐Credo, et al.. (2021). Structural insights into photosystem II assembly. Nature Plants. 7(4). 524–538. 125 indexed citations
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Gruebele, Martin, et al.. (2021). Molecular mechanism of capsid disassembly in hepatitis B virus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(36). 22 indexed citations
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Shekhar, Mrinal, Genki Terashi, Chitrak Gupta, et al.. (2021). CryoFold: Determining protein structures and data-guided ensembles from cryo-EM density maps. Matter. 4(10). 3195–3216. 29 indexed citations
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Ge, Jingpeng, Johannes Elferich, Sepehr Dehghani‐Ghahnaviyeh, et al.. (2021). Molecular mechanism of prestin electromotive signal amplification. Cell. 184(18). 4669–4679.e13. 62 indexed citations
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Sprenger, Janina, Anda Trifan, Neal Patel, et al.. (2021). Calmodulin complexes with brain and muscle creatine kinase peptides. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 121–132. 5 indexed citations
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Yu, Kuai, et al.. (2019). A network of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate binding sites regulates gating of the Ca 2+ -activated Cl − channel ANO1 (TMEM16A). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(40). 19952–19962. 53 indexed citations
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Henderson, Brandon J., et al.. (2018). Menthol Stereoisomers Exhibit Different Effects on α4β2 nAChR Upregulation and Dopamine Neuron Spontaneous Firing. eNeuro. 5(6). ENEURO.0465–18.2018. 17 indexed citations
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Fanning, Sean W., Christopher G. Mayne, Venkatasubramanian Dharmarajan, et al.. (2016). Estrogen receptor alpha somatic mutations Y537S and D538G confer breast cancer endocrine resistance by stabilizing the activating function-2 binding conformation. eLife. 5. 215 indexed citations
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Fischer, Gerhard W., et al.. (2013). Subangstrom Resolution X-Ray Structure Details Aquaporin-Water Interactions. Science. 340(6138). 1346–1349. 174 indexed citations
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Moradi, Mahmoud & Emad Tajkhorshid. (2013). Mechanistic picture for conformational transition of a membrane transporter at atomic resolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(47). 18916–18921. 112 indexed citations
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Shaikh, Saher A., Po‐Chao Wen, Giray Enkavi, Zhijian Huang, & Emad Tajkhorshid. (2010). Capturing Functional Motions of Membrane Channels and Transporters with Molecular Dynamics Simulation. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience. 7(12). 2481–2500. 8 indexed citations

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