Gerhard Hummer

49.9k total citations · 17 hit papers
404 papers, 34.6k citations indexed

About

Gerhard Hummer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerhard Hummer has authored 404 papers receiving a total of 34.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 265 papers in Molecular Biology, 113 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 64 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gerhard Hummer's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (116 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (81 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (48 papers). Gerhard Hummer is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (116 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (81 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (48 papers). Gerhard Hummer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Gerhard Hummer's co-authors include Jayendran C. Rasaiah, Attila Szabó, Robert B. Best, Shekhar Garde, Jerzy P. Noworyta, Lawrence R. Pratt, Angel E. Garcı́a, In‐Chul Yeh, Nicolae‐Viorel Buchete and Olga K. Dudko and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Gerhard Hummer

390 papers receiving 34.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Water conduction through the hydrophobic channel of a carbon nanotube

2001 3.0k citations Gerhard Hummer et al. profile →
System-Size Dependence of Diffusion Coefficients and Viscosities from Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Periodic Boundary Conditions

2004 1.2k citations Gerhard Hummer et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →
Osmotic water transport through carbon nanotube membranes

2003 743 citations Gerhard Hummer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Free energy reconstruction from nonequilibrium single-molecule pulling experiments

2001 679 citations Gerhard Hummer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Optimized Molecular Dynamics Force Fields Applied to the Helix−Coil Transition of Polypeptides

2009 667 citations Robert B. Best, Gerhard Hummer The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →
Intrinsic Rates and Activation Free Energies from Single-Molecule Pulling Experiments

2006 637 citations Gerhard Hummer et al. profile →
Free Energy of Ionic Hydration

1996 601 citations Gerhard Hummer et al. profile →
Water in Nonpolar Confinement: From Nanotubes to Proteins and Beyond

2007 592 citations Gerhard Hummer et al. profile →
Theory, analysis, and interpretation of single-molecule force spectroscopy experiments

2008 509 citations Gerhard Hummer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The pressure dependence of hydrophobic interactions is consistent with the observed pressure denaturation of proteins

1998 504 citations Gerhard Hummer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Native contacts determine protein folding mechanisms in atomistic simulations

2013 446 citations Robert B. Best, Gerhard Hummer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
In situ structural analysis of SARS-CoV-2 spike reveals flexibility mediated by three hinges

2020 430 citations Mateusz Sikora, Sonja Welsch et al. Science profile →
Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo

2021 201 citations Gerhard Hummer et al. Science profile →
AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores

2022 200 citations Gerhard Hummer et al. Science profile →
Disease‐linked TDP‐43 hyperphosphorylation suppresses TDP‐43 condensation and aggregation

2022 120 citations Gerhard Hummer et al. profile →
Ubiquitination regulates ER-phagy and remodelling of endoplasmic reticulum

2023 95 citations Adriana Covarrubias‐Pinto, Ramachandra M. Bhaskara et al. profile →
Passage of the HIV capsid cracks the nuclear pore

2025 26 citations Sergio Cruz-León, Sonja Welsch et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Biomolecular condensate architecture of an autophagic cargo at molecular resolution in situ 2026 ·bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) ·(unknown), Sergio Cruz-León, (unknown), (unknown), Héctor Mancilla, (unknown), (unknown), Sigrid Milles, Sonja Welsch, (unknown), Claudine Kraft, Gerhard Hummer, (unknown)	0
2	Scaling of the GROMACS Molecular Dynamics Code to 65k CPU Cores on an HPC Cluster 2025 ·Journal of Computational Chemistry ·Carsten Kutzner, (unknown), (unknown), Markus Rampp, Gerhard Hummer, Bert L. de Groot, Helmut Grubmüller	3
3	Structural pathway for PI3-kinase regulation by VPS15 in autophagy 2025 ·Science ·(unknown), (unknown), Thanh Ngoc Nguyen, (unknown), Grace Khuu, Shanlin Rao, (unknown), (unknown), Anthony T. Iavarone, Xuefeng Ren, Michael Lazarou, Gerhard Hummer, James H. Hurley	9
4	A structural pathway for class III PI 3-kinase activation by the myristoylated GTP-binding pseudokinase VPS15 2024 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), Xuefeng Ren, Shanlin Rao, (unknown), Anthony T. Iavarone, (unknown), Gerhard Hummer, James H. Hurley	2
5	Thalidomide derivatives degrade BCL-2 by reprogramming the binding surface of CRBN 2024 ·Cell Reports Physical Science ·Jianhui Wang, Marcel Heinz, Kang Han, (unknown), (unknown), Martin P. Schwalm, (unknown), Gerhard Hummer, Jun Zhou, Ivan Đikić, Xinlai Cheng	9
6	Artificial intelligence for molecular mechanism discovery 2023 ·Biophysical Journal ·Hendrik Jung, Roberto Covino, (unknown), (unknown), Peter G. Bolhuis, Christoph Dellago, Gerhard Hummer	1
7	Nanoporous Membranes of Densely Packed Carbon Nanotubes Formed by Lipid-Mediated Self-Assembly 2022 ·ACS Applied Bio Materials ·Martin Vögele, Jürgen Köfinger, Gerhard Hummer	2
8	The cryo-EM structure of the bd oxidase from M. tuberculosis reveals a unique structural framework and enables rational drug design to combat TB 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Schara Safarian, (unknown), Di Wu, Ahmad Reza Mehdipour, Kiel Hards, Liam K. Harold, (unknown), Ian Stewart, Sonja Welsch, Gerhard Hummer, Gregory M. Cook, Kurt L. Krause, Hartmut Michel	40
9	Computational epitope map of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein 2021 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Mateusz Sikora, Sören von Bülow, Florian E.C. Blanc, Michael Gecht, Roberto Covino, Gerhard Hummer	92
10	Atomic Force Microscopy-Based Force Spectroscopy and Multiparametric Imaging of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems 2020 ·Chemical Reviews ·Daniel J. Müller, Andra C. Dumitru, Cristina Lo Giudice, Hermann E. Gaub, Peter Hinterdorfer, Gerhard Hummer, James J. De Yoreo, Yves F. Dufrêne, David Alsteens	155
11	TBK1‐mediated phosphorylation of LC3C and GABARAP‐L2 controls autophagosome shedding by ATG4 protease 2019 ·EMBO Reports ·Lina Herhaus, Ramachandra M. Bhaskara, Alf Håkon Lystad, (unknown), Adriana Covarrubias‐Pinto, Florian Bonn, Anne Simonsen, Gerhard Hummer, Ivan Đikić	63
12	Finite-Size-Corrected Rotational Diffusion Coefficients of Membrane Proteins and Carbon Nanotubes from Molecular Dynamics Simulations 2019 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ·Martin Vögele, Jürgen Köfinger, Gerhard Hummer	17
13	Molecule counts in complex oligomers with single-molecule localization microscopy 2019 ·Journal of Physics D Applied Physics ·(unknown), Jakob Tómas Bullerjahn, Gerhard Hummer, Mike Heilemann, Sebastian Malkusch	9
14	Transition path sampling of rare events by shooting from the top 2017 ·The Journal of Chemical Physics ·Hendrik Jung, Kei-ichi Okazaki, Gerhard Hummer	44
15	Watching a signaling protein function in real time via 100-ps time-resolved Laue crystallography 2012 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Friedrich Schotte, Hyun Sun Cho, Ville R. I. Kaila, Hironari Kamikubo, Naranbaatar Dashdorj, Eric R. Henry, T. Graber, Robert Henning, Michaël Wulff, Gerhard Hummer, Mikio Kataoka, Philip Anfinrud	138
16	Pore opening and closing of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Fangqiang Zhu, Gerhard Hummer	136
17	Coordinate-dependent diffusion in protein folding 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Robert B. Best, Gerhard Hummer	244
18	Replica exchange simulations of transient encounter complexes in protein–protein association 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Chun Tang, G. Marius Clore, Gerhard Hummer	91
19	Reaction coordinates and rates from transition paths 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Robert B. Best, Gerhard Hummer	391
20	Cooperative water filling of a nonpolar protein cavity observed by high-pressure crystallography and simulation 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Marcus D. Collins, Gerhard Hummer, M.L. Quillin, Brian W. Matthews, Sol M. Grüner	171

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