George Némethy

18.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
134 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

George Némethy is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, George Némethy has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Spectroscopy and 24 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in George Némethy's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (44 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (31 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers). George Némethy is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (44 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (31 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers). George Némethy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Australia. George Némethy's co-authors include Harold A. Scheraga, Daniel E. Koshland, Marcia S. Pottle, Ashoka Ray, Sydney Leach, S. Scott Zimmerman, Tatsuo Ooi, Motohisa Oobatake, Ettore Benedetti and Shirley Rumsey and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

George Némethy

133 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Comparison of Experimental Binding Data and Theoretical Models in Proteins Containing Subunits^*

1966 2.4k citations George Némethy et al. Biochemistry profile →
Structure of Water and Hydrophobic Bonding in Proteins. I. A Model for the Thermodynamic Properties of Liquid Water

1962 879 citations George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
THE STRUCTURE OF WATER AND HYDROPHOBIC BONDING IN PROTEINS. III. THE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF HYDROPHOBIC BONDS IN PROTEINS^1,2

1962 833 citations George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga profile →
Energy parameters in polypeptides. 9. Updating of geometrical parameters, nonbonded interactions, and hydrogen bond interactions for the naturally occurring amino acids

1983 808 citations George Némethy, Marcia S. Pottle et al. profile →
Accessible surface areas as a measure of the thermodynamic parameters of hydration of peptides.

1987 632 citations George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Conformational Analysis of the 20 Naturally Occurring Amino Acid Residues Using ECEPP

1977 631 citations Marcia S. Pottle, George Némethy et al. profile →
Energy parameters in polypeptides. 10. Improved geometrical parameters and nonbonded interactions for use in the ECEPP/3 algorithm, with application to proline-containing peptides

1992 575 citations George Némethy, Kenneth D. Gibson et al. profile →
Structure of Water and Hydrophobic Bonding in Proteins. II. Model for the Thermodynamic Properties of Aqueous Solutions of Hydrocarbons

1962 534 citations George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Effects on protein structure and function of replacing tryptophan with 5-hydroxytryptophan: Single-tryptophan mutants of the N-terminal domain of the bacteriophage λ repressor 1996 ·Journal of Protein Chemistry ·David C. Kombo, George Némethy, Kenneth D. Gibson, J. B. Alexander Ross, S. Rackovsky, Harold A. Scheraga	3
2	Computer-aided Discrimination between Active and Inactive Mutants of the N-terminal Domain of the Bacteriophage λ Repressor 1996 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·David C. Kombo, George Némethy, Kenneth D. Gibson, S. Rackovsky, Harold A. Scheraga	4
3	The energy of formation of internal loops in triple‐helical collagen polypeptides 1995 ·Biopolymers ·Marta Paterlini, George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	27
4	Structure of the Type I Collagen Molecule Based on Conformational Energy Computations: The Triple-stranded Helix and the N-terminal Telopep tide 1995 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Luigi Vitagliano, George Némethy, Adriana Zagari, Harold A. Scheraga	27
5	ChemInform Abstract: Conformational Energy Calculations on Polypeptides and Proteins. 1995 ·ChemInform ·Maximiliano Vásquez, George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	1
6	The effect of the L‐azetidine‐2‐carboxylic acid residue on protein conformation. IV. Local substitutions in the collagen triple helix 1994 ·Biopolymers ·Adriana Zagari, (unknown), Kenneth D. Gibson, George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	24
7	Stabilization of the triple-helical structure of natural collagen by side-chain interactions 1993 ·Biochemistry ·Luigi Vitagliano, George Némethy, Adriana Zagari, Harold A. Scheraga	45
8	Energetics of the structure and chain tilting of antiparallel β‐barrels in proteins 1990 ·Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Kuo‐Chen Chou, Armin Heckel, George Némethy, Shirley Rumsey, Louis Carlacci, Harold A. Scheraga	21
9	Prediction of probable pathways of folding in globular proteins 1988 ·Journal of Protein Chemistry ·Takeshi Kikuchi, George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	12
10	Prediction of the packing arrangement of strands in β-sheets of globular proteins 1988 ·Journal of Protein Chemistry ·Takeshi Kikuchi, George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	14
11	Prediction of the location of structural domains in globular proteins 1988 ·Journal of Protein Chemistry ·Takeshi Kikuchi, George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	49
12	Interactions between two β-sheets energetics of β/β packing in proteins 1986 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Kuo‐Chen Chou, George Némethy, Shirley Rumsey, Robert W. Tuttle, Harold A. Scheraga	38
13	Folding of the twisted .beta.-sheet in bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor 1985 ·Biochemistry ·Kuo Chen Chou, George Némethy, Marcia S. Pottle, Harold A. Scheraga	24
14	Hydrogen bonding involving the ornithine side chain of gramicidin S 1984 ·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	22
15	Strong interaction between disulfide derivatives and aromatic groups in peptides and proteins 1981 ·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	38
16	Influence of hydration on the conformational stability and formation of bends in terminally blocked dipeptides 1979 ·Biopolymers ·Zachary I. Hodes, George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	26
17	Cyclized dipeptide model for a beta-bend. 1979 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·R. Deslauriers, Sydney Leach, Frederick R. Maxfield, E. Minasian, (unknown), Yvonne C. Meinwald, George Némethy, Marcia S. Pottle, Ian D. Rae, Harold A. Scheraga, Evelyn R. Stimson, (unknown)	15
18	Computation of the sterically allowed conformations of peptides 1966 ·Biopolymers ·Sydney Leach, George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	122
19	Structure of Water and Hydrophobic Bonding in Proteins. II. Model for the Thermodynamic Properties of Aqueous Solutions of Hydrocarbons breakdown → 1962 ·The Journal of Chemical Physics ·George Némethy, Harold A. Scheraga	534
20	The Contribution of Hydrophobic Bonds to the Thermal Stability of Protein Conformations 1962 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Harold A. Scheraga, George Némethy, Izchak Z. Steinberg	174

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