Foldit Players

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
4 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Foldit Players is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Foldit Players has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 1 paper in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Foldit Players's work include Digital Games and Media (3 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Games (2 papers) and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (1 paper). Foldit Players is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (3 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Games (2 papers) and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (1 paper). Foldit Players collaborates with scholars based in United States. Foldit Players's co-authors include David Baker, Zoran Popović, Firas Khatib, Seth Cooper, J. Barbero, Andrew Leaver‐Fay, Jeehyung Lee, Adrien Treuille, Michael D. Tyka and Justin B. Siegel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Foldit Players

4 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game

2010 869 citations Seth Cooper, Firas Khatib et al. Nature profile →
Algorithm discovery by protein folding game players

2011 370 citations Firas Khatib, Seth Cooper et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Foldit Players United States	4	496	444	195	156	153	4	1.5k
Jeehyung Lee United States	7	404 0.8×	385 0.9×	162 0.8×	118 0.8×	134 0.9×	8	1.2k
Firas Khatib United States	11	632 1.3×	643 1.4×	258 1.3×	225 1.4×	204 1.3×	16	2.1k
J. Barbero Spain	8	426 0.9×	192 0.4×	172 0.9×	132 0.8×	138 0.9×	12	1.1k
Seth Cooper United States	19	790 1.6×	587 1.3×	597 3.1×	429 2.8×	675 4.4×	94	3.3k
Nancy J. Nersessian United States	26	97 0.2×	277 0.6×	340 1.7×	258 1.7×	125 0.8×	103	3.0k
Jane Greenberg United States	24	219 0.4×	121 0.3×	584 3.0×	52 0.3×	97 0.6×	128	1.4k
Jordi Duch Spain	17	63 0.1×	691 1.6×	1.0k 5.2×	335 2.1×	322 2.1×	36	4.2k
R. Capra United States	21	195 0.4×	195 0.4×	351 1.8×	313 2.0×	162 1.1×	99	2.3k
Vittorio Scarano Italy	23	63 0.1×	356 0.8×	250 1.3×	191 1.2×	375 2.5×	142	4.3k
Timothy M. Errington United States	19	31 0.1×	706 1.6×	102 0.5×	200 1.3×	31 0.2×	50	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Foldit Players

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Fields of papers citing papers by Foldit Players

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Foldit Players. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Foldit Players. The network helps show where Foldit Players may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Foldit Players

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Foldit Players. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Foldit Players 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 Foldit Players. Foldit Players is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Eiben, Christopher B., Justin B. Siegel, Jacob B. Bale, et al.. (2012). Increased Diels-Alderase activity through backbone remodeling guided by Foldit players. Nature Biotechnology. 30(2). 190–192. 193 indexed citations

2.

Khatib, Firas, Seth Cooper, Michael D. Tyka, et al.. (2011). Algorithm discovery by protein folding game players. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(47). 18949–18953. 370 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Cooper, Seth, Firas Khatib, Hao Lü, et al.. (2011). Analysis of social gameplay macros in the Foldit cookbook. 9–14. 36 indexed citations

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Cooper, Seth, Firas Khatib, Adrien Treuille, et al.. (2010). Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game. Nature. 466(7307). 756–760. 869 indexed citations breakdown →

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