George Nicola

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

George Nicola is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, George Nicola has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 6 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in George Nicola's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (7 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (5 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). George Nicola is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (7 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (5 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). George Nicola collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. George Nicola's co-authors include Michael K. Gilson, Tiqing Liu, Michael Baitaluk, Jenny Chong, Christopher Davies, Robert A. Nicholas, Ilya A. Vakser, Joshua Tomberg, Ruben Abagyan and William G. Gutheil and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

George Nicola

19 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

BindingDB in 2015: A public database for medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry and systems pharmacology

2015 1.1k citations Michael K. Gilson, Tiqing Liu et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Nicola United States	13	1.1k	868	255	217	163	22	1.6k
Brian Y. Feng United States	11	1.2k 1.1×	599 0.7×	157 0.6×	212 1.0×	322 2.0×	18	1.9k
Andrea Volkamer Germany	20	1.4k 1.3×	936 1.1×	293 1.1×	203 0.9×	221 1.4×	55	2.1k
Erin S. D. Bolstad United States	11	1.3k 1.3×	942 1.1×	303 1.2×	309 1.4×	329 2.0×	15	2.3k
Allison K. Doak United States	14	1.1k 1.0×	813 0.9×	177 0.7×	208 1.0×	251 1.5×	14	1.8k
Massimo Baroni Italy	25	1.1k 1.0×	869 1.0×	146 0.6×	182 0.8×	374 2.3×	63	2.1k
Veerabahu Shanmugasundaram United States	19	766 0.7×	408 0.5×	142 0.6×	166 0.8×	137 0.8×	39	1.2k
Daniel Kühn Germany	13	1.3k 1.3×	763 0.9×	280 1.1×	250 1.2×	319 2.0×	28	1.9k
Kai Zhu United States	18	1.5k 1.4×	622 0.7×	260 1.0×	182 0.8×	454 2.8×	29	2.2k
Samo Turk Slovenia	24	1.2k 1.1×	865 1.0×	421 1.7×	409 1.9×	547 3.4×	47	2.3k
Ruth Brenk United Kingdom	27	1.5k 1.4×	659 0.8×	262 1.0×	195 0.9×	754 4.6×	61	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by George Nicola

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nicola, George, et al.. (2021). FREQUENT PROCEDURAL ERRORS AND STRUCTURAL COMPLICATIONS ON ENDODONTICAL TREATED TEETH. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 67(2). 101–106. 1 indexed citations

Nicola, George, et al.. (2021). Current Trends and Ethical Challenges in Cosmetic Dentistry. Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine. 29(4). 413–417. 2 indexed citations

Nicola, George, Irina Kufareva, Andrey V. Ilatovskiy, & Ruben Abagyan. (2020). Druggable exosites of the human kino-pocketome. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 34(3). 219–230. 3 indexed citations

Nicola, George, Michael R. Berthold, Michael P. Hedrick, & Michael K. Gilson. (2015). Connecting proteins with drug-like compounds: Open source drug discovery workflows with BindingDB and KNIME. Database. 2015. bav087–bav087. 19 indexed citations

Gilson, Michael K., et al.. (2015). BindingDB in 2015: A public database for medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry and systems pharmacology. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D1045–D1053. 1076 indexed citations breakdown →

Aissani, Nadhem, et al.. (2014). A dicarboxylic acids from Caper leaves enhance antibiotic susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to vancomycin. 3. 54–64. 3 indexed citations

Cooper, Raymond & George Nicola. (2014). Natural Products Chemistry. 14 indexed citations

Nicola, George, et al.. (2012). BindingDB: A Protein-Ligand Database for Drug Discovery. Biophysical Journal. 102(3). 61a–61a. 8 indexed citations

Nicola, George, Tiqing Liu, & Michael K. Gilson. (2012). Public Domain Databases for Medicinal Chemistry. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 55(16). 6987–7002. 56 indexed citations

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Orchard, Sandra, Pierre‐Alain Binz, Christoph H. Borchers, et al.. (2012). Ten Years of Standardizing Proteomic Data: A Report on the HUPO‐PSI Spring Workshop. PROTEOMICS. 12(18). 2767–2772. 12 indexed citations

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Nicola, George, Joshua Tomberg, R. F. Pratt, Robert A. Nicholas, & Christopher Davies. (2010). Crystal Structures of Covalent Complexes of β-Lactam Antibiotics with Escherichia coli Penicillin-Binding Protein 5: Toward an Understanding of Antibiotic Specificity. Biochemistry. 49(37). 8094–8104. 44 indexed citations

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Nicola, George & Ruben Abagyan. (2009). Structure‐Based Approaches to Antibiotic Drug Discovery. Current Protocols in Microbiology. 12(1). Unit17.2–Unit17.2. 6 indexed citations

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Nicola, George, Colin A. Smith, & Ruben Abagyan. (2008). New Method for the Assessment of All Drug-Like Pockets Across a Structural Genome. Journal of Computational Biology. 15(3). 231–240. 17 indexed citations

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Nicola, George, Colin A. Smith, Edinson Lucumi, et al.. (2007). Discovery of novel inhibitors targeting enoyl–acyl carrier protein reductase in Plasmodium falciparum by structure-based virtual screening. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 358(3). 686–691. 29 indexed citations

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Chrencik, Jill, Alexei Brooun, Michael I. Recht, et al.. (2007). Three-dimensional Structure of the EphB2 Receptor in Complex with an Antagonistic Peptide Reveals a Novel Mode of Inhibition. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(50). 36505–36513. 49 indexed citations

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Nicola, George & Ilya A. Vakser. (2007). A simple shape characteristic of protein–protein recognition. Bioinformatics. 23(7). 789–792. 29 indexed citations

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Nicola, George & Ilya A. Vakser. (2007). A simple shape characteristic of protein–protein recognition. Bioinformatics. 23(16). 2201–2201. 29 indexed citations

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Nicola, George, et al.. (2005). A large displacement of the SXN motif of Cys115-modified penicillin-binding protein 5 from Escherichia coli. Biochemical Journal. 392(1). 55–63. 14 indexed citations

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Nicola, George, et al.. (2005). Crystal Structure ofEscherichia coliPenicillin-Binding Protein 5 Bound to a Tripeptide Boronic Acid Inhibitor: A Role for Ser-110 in Deacylation. Biochemistry. 44(23). 8207–8217. 71 indexed citations

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Nicholas, Robert A., et al.. (2003). Crystal Structure of Wild-type Penicillin-binding Protein 5 from Escherichia coli. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(52). 52826–52833. 81 indexed citations

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