Igor Leontyev

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Igor Leontyev is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Igor Leontyev has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Igor Leontyev's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (24 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (8 papers). Igor Leontyev is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (24 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (8 papers). Igor Leontyev collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Australia. Igor Leontyev's co-authors include Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov, M. V. Basilevsky, Mikhail V. Vener, Marshall D. Newton, I.V. Rostov, Dragan M. Popović, M. Tachiya, Yu. A. Dyakov, В. Б. Сулимов and Igor V. Kurnikov and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Igor Leontyev

29 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Accounting for electronic polarization in non-polarizable force fields

2011 424 citations Igor Leontyev, Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Igor Leontyev United States	16	729	414	279	244	197	29	1.4k
Emily E. Fenn United States	14	1.2k 1.7×	314 0.8×	247 0.9×	382 1.6×	126 0.6×	16	1.6k
Halil İ. Okur Switzerland	21	929 1.3×	588 1.4×	302 1.1×	309 1.3×	121 0.6×	44	2.0k
Nicholas H. C. Lewis United States	20	931 1.3×	298 0.7×	222 0.8×	259 1.1×	384 1.9×	43	1.6k
Daniel Laría Argentina	25	1.1k 1.6×	173 0.4×	329 1.2×	461 1.9×	135 0.7×	83	1.8k
Eva Pluhařová Czechia	18	682 0.9×	318 0.8×	178 0.6×	258 1.1×	120 0.6×	40	1.2k
Abdenacer Idrissi France	23	596 0.8×	181 0.4×	314 1.1×	243 1.0×	90 0.5×	101	1.5k
Marco Masia Italy	21	866 1.2×	163 0.4×	245 0.9×	181 0.7×	169 0.9×	50	1.4k
David A. Turton United Kingdom	19	450 0.6×	164 0.4×	272 1.0×	175 0.7×	151 0.8×	26	1.2k
Nadine Schwierz Germany	20	499 0.7×	600 1.4×	215 0.8×	292 1.2×	119 0.6×	44	1.5k
Lawrence F. Scatena United States	9	770 1.1×	113 0.3×	213 0.8×	229 0.9×	190 1.0×	18	1.3k

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Doukov, Tzanko, et al.. (2025). Some Like It Hot –Structural Changes in Extremophile Rubredoxin at 120 °C. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(5). e20302–e20302. 1 indexed citations

Kamath, Ganesh, Igor V. Kurnikov, Е. Н. Воронина, et al.. (2024). Combining Force Fields and Neural Networks for an Accurate Representation of Bonded Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 128(4). 807–812. 3 indexed citations

Kamath, Ganesh, Igor V. Kurnikov, Е. Н. Воронина, et al.. (2024). The Determination of Free Energy of Hydration of Water Ions from First Principles. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(12). 5215–5224. 6 indexed citations

Leontyev, Igor, et al.. (2022). Mechanical Allosteric Couplings of Redox-Induced Conformational Changes in Respiratory Complex I. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 126(22). 4080–4088. 2 indexed citations

Leontyev, Igor, et al.. (2021). Quinone binding in respiratory complex I: Going through the eye of a needle. The squeeze-in mechanism of passing the narrow entrance of the quinone site. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 21(1). 1–12. 6 indexed citations

Kurnikov, Igor V., Ganesh Kamath, Igor Leontyev, et al.. (2018). On the importance of accounting for nuclear quantum effects in ab initio calibrated force fields in biological simulations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(36). 8878–8882. 31 indexed citations

Kamath, Ganesh, et al.. (2016). Prediction of cyclohexane-water distribution coefficient for SAMPL5 drug-like compounds with the QMPFF3 and ARROW polarizable force fields. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 30(11). 977–988. 11 indexed citations

Gee, Leland B., Igor Leontyev, Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov, et al.. (2015). Docking and Migration of Carbon Monoxide in Nitrogenase: The Case for Gated Pockets from Infrared Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics. Biochemistry. 54(21). 3314–3319. 20 indexed citations

Leontyev, Igor & Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov. (2012). Polarizable Mean-Field Model of Water for Biological Simulations with AMBER and CHARMM Force Fields. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 8(9). 3207–3216. 98 indexed citations

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Leontyev, Igor & Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov. (2011). Accounting for electronic polarization in non-polarizable force fields. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(7). 2613–2613. 424 indexed citations breakdown →

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Popović, Dragan M., et al.. (2010). Similarity of cytochrome c oxidases in different organisms. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 78(12). 2691–2698. 47 indexed citations

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Leontyev, Igor & Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov. (2010). Electronic Polarizability and the Effective Pair Potentials of Water. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 6(10). 3153–3161. 102 indexed citations

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Leontyev, Igor, et al.. (2010). Potential of mean force for ion pairs in non-aqueous solvents. Comparison of polarizable and non-polarizable MD simulations. Molecular Physics. 109(2). 217–227. 5 indexed citations

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Leontyev, Igor & Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov. (2010). Electronic Continuum Model for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biological Molecules. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 6(5). 1498–1508. 149 indexed citations

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Leontyev, Igor, et al.. (2006). Computation of hydration free energies of organic solutes with an implicit water model. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 27(5). 552–570. 7 indexed citations

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Leontyev, Igor & M. Tachiya. (2005). The reorganization energy of electron transfer in nonpolar solvents: Molecular level treatment of the solvent. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 123(22). 224502–224502. 13 indexed citations

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Basilevsky, M. V., F. V. Grigoriev, Igor Leontyev, & В. Б. Сулимов. (2005). Excluded Volume Effect for Large and Small Solutes in Water. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 109(31). 6939–6946. 10 indexed citations

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Leontyev, Igor, et al.. (2005). Molecular simulations of outersphere reorganization energies for intramolecular electron and hole transfer in polar solvents. Chemical Physics. 319(1-3). 4–15. 15 indexed citations

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Vener, Mikhail V., Igor Leontyev, & M. V. Basilevsky. (2003). Computations of solvation free energies for polyatomic ions in water in terms of a combined molecular–continuum approach. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 119(15). 8038–8046. 21 indexed citations

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Vener, Mikhail V., Igor Leontyev, Yu. A. Dyakov, M. V. Basilevsky, & Marshall D. Newton. (2002). Application of the Linearized MD Approach for Computing Equilibrium Solvation Free Energies of Charged and Dipolar Solutes in Polar Solvents. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 106(50). 13078–13088. 41 indexed citations

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