Francis Atkinson

7.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
17 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Francis Atkinson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francis Atkinson has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 5 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Francis Atkinson's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (9 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (4 papers) and Metal complexes synthesis and properties (3 papers). Francis Atkinson is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (9 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (4 papers) and Metal complexes synthesis and properties (3 papers). Francis Atkinson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Colombia. Francis Atkinson's co-authors include Anna Gaulton, Louisa J. Bellis, John P. Overington, Mark Davies, Anne Hersey, George Papadatos, Andrew R. Leach, Michał Nowotka, Nathan Dedman and A. Patrícia Bento and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Francis Atkinson

17 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

The ChEMBL database in 2017

2016 1.6k citations Anna Gaulton, Anne Hersey et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
ChEMBL web services: streamlining access to drug discovery data and utilities

2015 464 citations Mark Davies, Michał Nowotka et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
An open source chemical structure curation pipeline using RDKit

2020 386 citations A. Patrícia Bento, Anne Hersey et al. Journal of Cheminformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francis Atkinson United Kingdom	11	1.8k	1.7k	557	373	344	17	2.8k
Michał Nowotka United Kingdom	8	2.2k 1.2×	2.1k 1.2×	587 1.1×	493 1.3×	353 1.0×	11	3.3k
Nathan Dedman United Kingdom	7	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	426 0.8×	335 0.9×	252 0.7×	7	2.3k
Ryan G. Coleman United States	16	1.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	476 0.9×	315 0.8×	357 1.0×	22	3.4k
Anneli Karlsson Sweden	9	1.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.5×	395 0.7×	345 0.9×	283 0.8×	14	3.8k
María Paula Magariños Argentina	7	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	398 0.7×	304 0.8×	225 0.7×	9	2.3k
Nathan Brown United Kingdom	27	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	428 0.8×	317 0.8×	550 1.6×	60	2.7k
David Méndez Colombia	5	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	402 0.7×	300 0.8×	214 0.6×	10	2.1k
John W. Davies Switzerland	30	2.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	324 0.6×	490 1.3×	385 1.1×	41	3.3k
Dragos Horvath France	31	2.0k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	784 1.4×	377 1.0×	561 1.6×	139	3.3k
Meir Glick United States	33	2.3k 1.3×	2.0k 1.2×	389 0.7×	560 1.5×	288 0.8×	71	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Francis Atkinson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francis Atkinson

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

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17 of 17 papers shown

Sykes, Richard A., Christopher J. Kingsbury, Andrew G. P. Maloney, et al.. (2024). What has scripting ever done for us? The CSD Python application programming interface (API). Journal of Applied Crystallography. 57(4). 1235–1250. 7 indexed citations

Bento, A. Patrícia, Anne Hersey, Eloy Félix, et al.. (2020). An open source chemical structure curation pipeline using RDKit. Journal of Cheminformatics. 12(1). 51–51. 386 indexed citations breakdown →

Bosc, Nicolas, Francis Atkinson, Eloy Félix, et al.. (2019). Large scale comparison of QSAR and conformal prediction methods and their applications in drug discovery. Journal of Cheminformatics. 11(1). 4–4. 106 indexed citations

Hunter, Fiona, Francis Atkinson, A. Patrícia Bento, et al.. (2018). A large-scale dataset of in vivo pharmacology assay results. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180230–180230. 10 indexed citations

Barker, Michael D., John Liddle, Francis Atkinson, et al.. (2018). Discovery of potent and selective Spleen Tyrosine Kinase inhibitors for the topical treatment of inflammatory skin disease. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 28(21). 3458–3462. 18 indexed citations

Thiel, Christoph, Hélène E. Aschmann, Vanessa Baier, et al.. (2017). A Comparative Analysis of Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity in Clinically Relevant Situations. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(2). e1005280–e1005280. 9 indexed citations

Gaulton, Anna, Anne Hersey, Michał Nowotka, et al.. (2016). The ChEMBL database in 2017. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(D1). D945–D954. 1589 indexed citations breakdown →

Davies, Mark, Michał Nowotka, George Papadatos, et al.. (2015). ChEMBL web services: streamlining access to drug discovery data and utilities. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(W1). W612–W620. 464 indexed citations breakdown →

Davies, Mark, Michał Nowotka, George Papadatos, et al.. (2014). MyChEMBL: A Virtual Platform for Distributing Cheminformatics Tools and Open Data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 334–337. 10 indexed citations

10.

Ochoa, Rodrigo, Mark Davies, George Papadatos, Francis Atkinson, & John P. Overington. (2013). myChEMBL: a virtual machine implementation of open data and cheminformatics tools. Bioinformatics. 30(2). 298–300. 17 indexed citations

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Bellis, Louisa J., Ruth A. Akhtar, Bissan Al‐Lazikani, et al.. (2011). Collation and data-mining of literature bioactivity data for drug discovery. Biochemical Society Transactions. 39(5). 1365–1370. 24 indexed citations

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Christopher, J.A., Francis Atkinson, B.D. Bax, et al.. (2009). 1-Aryl-3,4-dihydroisoquinoline inhibitors of JNK3. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 19(8). 2230–2234. 29 indexed citations

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Angell, Richard, Francis Atkinson, Murray J. B. Brown, et al.. (2006). N-(3-Cyano-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1-benzothien-2-yl)amides as potent, selective, inhibitors of JNK2 and JNK3. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 17(5). 1296–1301. 70 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Francis, Helen E. Blackwell, Nathan C. Brown, et al.. (1996). Synthesis of the 17-electron cations [FeL(L′)(NO)₂]⁺(L, L′= PPh₃, OPPh₃): structure and bonding in four-co-ordinate metal dinitrosyls, and implications for the identity of paramagnetic iron dinitrosyl complex catalysts. Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 3491–3502. 34 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Francis, Nathan C. Brown, Neil G. Connelly, et al.. (1996). Paramagnetic tetrahedral dinitrosyliron complexes containing redox-active cyanomanganese ligands. Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 1959–1959. 9 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Francis, Neil G. Connelly, John Crossley, & A.G. Orpen. (1994). Arenediazonium ion insertion into an iron–phosphine bond; synthesis and crystal structure of [Fe(NO)₂{PPh₂CH₂CH₂P(Ph)₂NN(C₆H₄F-p)}][PF₆]·OC₄H₈. Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 1161–1162. 3 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Francis, et al.. (1993). Spin delocalisation and the geometry of redox-active cyanomanganesecarbonyl ligands in heteropolynuclear complexes of rhodium(I). Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 1441–1441. 21 indexed citations

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