George Liapakis

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

George Liapakis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, George Liapakis has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience and 21 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in George Liapakis's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (29 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (22 papers) and Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (13 papers). George Liapakis is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (29 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (22 papers) and Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (13 papers). George Liapakis collaborates with scholars based in Greece, United States and United Kingdom. George Liapakis's co-authors include Jonathan A. Javitch, Juan Antonio Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Lei Shi, Anne D. Jensen, Søren G. F. Rasmussen, Ulrik Gether, Rui Xu, Frank Guarnieri, Terry Reisine and Wai Chi Chan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, PLoS ONE and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

George Liapakis

69 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Activation of the β2-Adrenergic Receptor Involves Disruption of an Ionic Lock between the Cytoplasmic Ends of Transmembrane Segments 3 and 6

2001 517 citations Juan Antonio Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Anne D. Jensen et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Liapakis Greece	25	2.1k	1.3k	280	259	234	71	2.8k
Jacky Marie France	29	1.7k 0.8×	620 0.5×	250 0.9×	190 0.7×	89 0.4×	59	2.8k
Patrick Vanderheyden Belgium	35	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	567 2.0×	203 0.8×	58 0.2×	111	3.2k
Mari R. Candelore United States	28	3.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.4×	333 1.2×	167 0.6×	180 0.8×	47	4.2k
Jonathan Bard United States	25	2.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	195 0.7×	112 0.4×	125 0.5×	56	3.7k
Ryan T. Strachan United States	25	2.6k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	115 0.4×	380 1.5×	46 0.2×	31	3.4k
Dan Frenkel Israel	33	1.2k 0.6×	435 0.3×	91 0.3×	313 1.2×	211 0.9×	65	3.8k
Gayathri Swaminath United States	17	1.8k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	391 1.4×	148 0.6×	27 0.1×	28	2.4k
Michael R. Tota United States	25	1.7k 0.8×	899 0.7×	154 0.6×	105 0.4×	253 1.1×	38	3.0k
Jean‐Luc Fauchère France	26	1.6k 0.8×	950 0.7×	95 0.3×	186 0.7×	47 0.2×	85	3.0k
Canan G. Nebigil France	31	1.7k 0.8×	623 0.5×	180 0.6×	51 0.2×	160 0.7×	67	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by George Liapakis

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of George Liapakis's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by George Liapakis with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites George Liapakis more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by George Liapakis

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by George Liapakis. 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 George Liapakis. The network helps show where George Liapakis may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Liapakis

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Dermitzaki, Eirini, et al.. (2024). Corticotropin-releasing hormone deficiency results in impaired analgesic response during CFA-induced inflammation. HORMONES. 23(3). 535–545. 2 indexed citations

Simal, Carmen, Alexios Vlamis‐Gardikas, Ioannis Pirmettis, et al.. (2023). Rational Design, Synthesis and Binding Affinity Studies of Anthraquinone Derivatives Conjugated to Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Analogues towards Selective Immunosuppression of Hormone-Dependent Cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(20). 15232–15232. 2 indexed citations

Sayyad, Nisar, Eirinaios I. Vrettos, Theodoros Karampelas, et al.. (2019). Development of bioactive gemcitabine-D-Lys6-GnRH prodrugs with linker-controllable drug release rate and enhanced biopharmaceutical profile. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 166. 256–266. 22 indexed citations

Kolocouris, Antonios, et al.. (2019). Effects of Cholesterol on GPCR Function: Insights from Computational and Experimental Studies. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 1135. 89–103. 36 indexed citations

Kellici, Tahsin F., George Liapakis, Andreas G. Tzakos, & Thomas Mavromoustakos. (2015). Pharmaceutical compositions for antihypertensive treatments: a patent review. Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents. 25(11). 1305–1317. 21 indexed citations

Kellici, Tahsin F., Dimitrios Ntountaniotis, George Liapakis, et al.. (2015). Rational Drug Design Paradigms: The Odyssey for Designing Better Drugs. Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening. 18(3). 238–256. 8 indexed citations

Fribourg, Miguel, George Liapakis, Javier González‐Maeso, et al.. (2014). G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling to Kir Channels in Xenopus Oocytes. Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. 15(10). 987–995. 15 indexed citations

Liapakis, George, et al.. (2014). Synthesis of substituted pyrimidines as corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) receptor ligands. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 78. 1–9. 13 indexed citations

Liapakis, George. (2014). Obtaining Structural and Functional Information for GPCRs Using the Substituted-Cysteine Accessibility Method (SCAM). Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. 15(10). 980–986. 3 indexed citations

10.

Dermitzaki, Eirini, George Liapakis, Ariadne Androulidaki, et al.. (2014). Corticotrophin-Releasing Factor (CRF) and the Urocortins Are Potent Regulators of the Inflammatory Phenotype of Human and Mouse White Adipocytes and the Differentiation of Mouse 3T3L1 Pre-Adipocytes. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e97060–e97060. 27 indexed citations

11.

Agelis, George, Serdar Durdağı, Jiřina Slaninová, et al.. (2012). The discovery of new potent non-peptide Angiotensin II AT1 receptor blockers: A concise synthesis, molecular docking studies and biological evaluation of N-substituted 5-butylimidazole derivatives. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 55. 358–374. 34 indexed citations

12.

Tselios, Theodore, Maria Venihaki, George Deraos, et al.. (2009). Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis of the Second Extracellular Loop of Type 1 Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Receptor Revealed Residues Critical for Peptide Binding. Molecular Pharmacology. 75(4). 793–800. 37 indexed citations

13.

Shi, Lei, George Liapakis, Rui Xu, et al.. (2002). β2 Adrenergic Receptor Activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(43). 40989–40996. 354 indexed citations

14.

Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Juan Antonio, Anne D. Jensen, George Liapakis, et al.. (2001). Activation of the β2-Adrenergic Receptor Involves Disruption of an Ionic Lock between the Cytoplasmic Ends of Transmembrane Segments 3 and 6. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(31). 29171–29177. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

15.

Mousa, Shaker A., et al.. (2000). Template-constrained cyclic peptide analogues of somatostatin: subtype-selective binding to somatostatin receptors and antiangiogenic activity. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 8(9). 2229–2241. 25 indexed citations

16.

Javitch, Jonathan A., Ding‐Yi Fu, George Liapakis, & Jiayun Chen. (1997). Constitutive Activation of the β2 Adrenergic Receptor Alters the Orientation of Its Sixth Membrane-spanning Segment. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(30). 18546–18549. 172 indexed citations

17.

Tallent, Melanie K., George Liapakis, Anne‐Marie O’Carroll, et al.. (1996). Somatostatin receptor subtypes SSTR2 and SSTR5 couple negatively to an L-type Ca2+ current in the pituitary cell line AtT-20. Neuroscience. 71(4). 1073–1081. 74 indexed citations

18.

Liapakis, George, et al.. (1993). Solubilization of active somatostatin receptors from rabbit retina. Biochemical Pharmacology. 45(9). 1821–1828. 11 indexed citations

19.

Thermos, Kyriaki, et al.. (1992). Effects of acute and chronic desipramine treatment on somatostatin receptors in brain. Psychopharmacology. 108(3). 363–366. 9 indexed citations

20.

Liapakis, George & Kyriaki Thermos. (1992). Characterization of [125I]Tyr11-Somatostatin binding sites in the rabbit retina. Neuropeptides. 21(1). 13–19. 16 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact