Jimin Pei

13.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
96 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Jimin Pei is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jimin Pei has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Materials Chemistry and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jimin Pei's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (25 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (22 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (20 papers). Jimin Pei is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (25 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (22 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (20 papers). Jimin Pei collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Jimin Pei's co-authors include Nick V. Grishin, Bong-Hyun Kim, Lisa N. Kinch, Masato Kato, Steven L. McKnight, Shanhai Xie, Hamid Mirzaei, Tina W. Han, Leeju C. Wu and Yingming Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jimin Pei

94 papers receiving 9.3k 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.

Cell-free Formation of RNA Granules: Low Complexity Sequence Domains Form Dynamic Fibers within Hydrogels

2012 1.5k citations Masato Kato, Tina W. Han et al. Cell profile →
Substrate and Functional Diversity of Lysine Acetylation Revealed by a Proteomics Survey

2006 1.2k citations Sung Chan Kim, Robert W. Sprung et al. Molecular Cell profile →
PROMALS3D: a tool for multiple protein sequence and structure alignments

2008 1.0k citations Jimin Pei, Bong-Hyun Kim et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Cell-free Formation of RNA Granules: Bound RNAs Identify Features and Components of Cellular Assemblies

2012 639 citations Tina W. Han, Masato Kato et al. Cell profile →
Structure prediction for CASP8 with all‐atom refinement using Rosetta

2009 380 citations Ruslan I. Sadreyev, Jimin Pei et al. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jimin Pei United States	37	7.5k	891	857	692	632	96	9.4k
Florian Gnad Germany	37	11.3k 1.5×	530 0.6×	909 1.1×	1.7k 2.4×	1.9k 3.1×	54	13.6k
Jinrong Min Canada	50	8.7k 1.2×	372 0.4×	1.0k 1.2×	294 0.4×	850 1.3×	185	10.2k
Kosuke Morikawa Japan	56	7.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	1.8k 2.2×	591 0.9×	371 0.6×	196	9.0k
Martina Schnölzer Germany	54	5.6k 0.8×	200 0.2×	572 0.7×	898 1.3×	1.2k 1.9×	174	9.0k
Boris Maček Germany	55	10.7k 1.4×	665 0.7×	1.7k 1.9×	1.6k 2.2×	1.1k 1.8×	203	14.7k
Judit Villén United States	53	16.1k 2.1×	438 0.5×	889 1.0×	2.7k 3.9×	1.5k 2.4×	105	19.6k
Daniel Schwartz United States	25	4.5k 0.6×	297 0.3×	371 0.4×	739 1.1×	693 1.1×	48	5.9k
Ileana M. Cristea United States	56	5.6k 0.7×	170 0.2×	757 0.9×	791 1.1×	828 1.3×	190	9.4k
Lea Sistonen Finland	58	9.5k 1.3×	227 0.3×	665 0.8×	2.6k 3.7×	913 1.4×	137	11.8k
Ryuichiro Ishitani Japan	60	10.7k 1.4×	540 0.6×	1.7k 1.9×	504 0.7×	1.3k 2.1×	150	13.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Jing, Andriy Kryshtafovych, Jimin Pei, et al.. (2025). Assessment of Protein Complex Predictions in CASP16 : Are We Making Progress?. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 94(1). 106–130.

Pei, Jimin, Antonina Andreeva, Sara Chuguransky, et al.. (2024). Bridging the Gap between Sequence and Structure Classifications of Proteins with AlphaFold Models. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(22). 168764–168764. 5 indexed citations

Fu, Botao, Jimin Pei, & Huaijun Ji. (2024). Numerical simulation of three-dimensional seepage field in a tailing pond under multiple operating conditions. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 28027–28027. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Jing, et al.. (2023). Recent advances in predicting and modeling protein–protein interactions. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 48(6). 527–538. 36 indexed citations

Pei, Jimin & Qian Cong. (2023). Computational analysis of regulatory regions in human protein kinases. Protein Science. 32(10). e4764–e4764. 3 indexed citations

Schaeffer, R. Dustin, et al.. (2023). Pathogenic mutation hotspots in protein kinase domain structure. Protein Science. 32(9). e4750–e4750. 6 indexed citations

Pei, Jimin & Qian Cong. (2023). AFTM: a database of transmembrane regions in the human proteome predicted by AlphaFold. Database. 2023. 5 indexed citations

Schaeffer, R. Dustin, Jing Zhang, Lisa N. Kinch, et al.. (2023). Classification of domains in predicted structures of the human proteome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(12). 20 indexed citations

Pei, Jimin, Jing Zhang, & Qian Cong. (2022). Human mitochondrial protein complexes revealed by large-scale coevolution analysis and deep learning-based structure modeling. Bioinformatics. 38(18). 4301–4311. 28 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanjie, Jimin Pei, Nick V. Grishin, & William J. Snell. (2015). The cytoplasmic domain of the gamete membrane fusion protein HAP2 targets the protein to the fusion site in Chlamydomonas and regulates the fusion reaction. Development. 142(5). 962–71. 30 indexed citations

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Tong, Jing, Ruslan I. Sadreyev, Jimin Pei, Lisa N. Kinch, & Nick V. Grishin. (2015). Using homology relations within a database markedly boosts protein sequence similarity search. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(22). 7003–7008. 8 indexed citations

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Pei, Jimin & Nick V. Grishin. (2015). C2H2 zinc finger proteins of the SP/KLF, Wilms tumor, EGR, Huckebein, and Klumpfuss families in metazoans and beyond. Gene. 573(1). 91–99. 22 indexed citations

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Xu, Darui, et al.. (2014). LocNES: a computational tool for locating classical NESs in CRM1 cargo proteins. Bioinformatics. 31(9). 1357–1365. 108 indexed citations

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Liao, Yuxing, Jimin Pei, Hua Cheng, & Nick V. Grishin. (2014). An Ancient Autoproteolytic Domain Found in GAIN, ZU5 and Nucleoporin98. Journal of Molecular Biology. 426(24). 3935–3945. 11 indexed citations

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Pei, Jimin & Nick V. Grishin. (2013). A New Family of Predicted Krüppel-Like Factor Genes and Pseudogenes in Placental Mammals. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e81109–e81109. 43 indexed citations

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Han, Tina W., Masato Kato, Shanhai Xie, et al.. (2012). Cell-free Formation of RNA Granules: Bound RNAs Identify Features and Components of Cellular Assemblies. Cell. 149(4). 768–779. 639 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pei, Jimin & Nick V. Grishin. (2011). Unexpected diversity in Shisa-like proteins suggests the importance of their roles as transmembrane adaptors. Cellular Signalling. 24(3). 758–769. 52 indexed citations

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Pei, Jimin, Bong-Hyun Kim, & Nick V. Grishin. (2008). PROMALS3D: a tool for multiple protein sequence and structure alignments. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(7). 2295–2300. 1044 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kim, Sung Chan, Robert W. Sprung, Yue Chen, et al.. (2006). Substrate and Functional Diversity of Lysine Acetylation Revealed by a Proteomics Survey. Molecular Cell. 23(4). 607–618. 1233 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cai, Wei, Jimin Pei, & Nick V. Grishin. (2004). Reconstruction of ancestral protein sequences and its applications. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 4(1). 33–33. 96 indexed citations

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