John Westbrook

22.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
103 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

John Westbrook is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, John Westbrook has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Molecular Biology, 49 papers in Materials Chemistry and 13 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in John Westbrook's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (43 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (38 papers) and Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research (17 papers). John Westbrook is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (43 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (38 papers) and Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research (17 papers). John Westbrook collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. John Westbrook's co-authors include Helen M. Berman, Philip E. Bourne, Zukang Feng, Christine Zardecki, Bohdan Schneider, Wolfgang F. Bluhm, Talapady N. Bhat, Gary L. Gilliland, Helge Weissig and Jasmine Young and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

John Westbrook

101 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

The Protein Data Bank

2002 2.0k citations Helen M. Berman, Talapady N. Bhat et al. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography profile →
The nucleic acid database. A comprehensive relational database of three-dimensional structures of nucleic acids

1992 800 citations Helen M. Berman, Wilma K. Olson et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
The RCSB Protein Data Bank: redesigned web site and web services

2010 516 citations Wolfgang F. Bluhm, David S. Goodsell et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The TRUST Principles for digital repositories

2020 189 citations Dawei Lin, Jonathan Crabtree et al. Scientific Data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Westbrook United States	39	7.0k	2.3k	1.4k	791	616	103	9.6k
John L. Klepeis United States	24	7.0k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	970 1.2×	819 1.3×	33	10.6k
Michael P. Eastwood United States	27	6.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	802 1.0×	888 1.4×	42	8.8k
Viktor Horn̆ák United States	29	6.7k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	651 0.8×	964 1.6×	48	8.6k
Jason Swails United States	15	7.2k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	989 1.3×	717 1.2×	19	10.3k
Lauren Wickstrom United States	17	6.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	817 1.0×	617 1.0×	23	8.8k
Bruce Tidor United States	52	6.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	828 0.6×	538 0.7×	907 1.5×	130	9.0k
Nikolay V. Dokholyan United States	66	10.3k 1.5×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	495 0.6×	636 1.0×	370	14.7k
Olgun Guvench United States	28	5.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.8×	764 1.2×	53	9.4k
Jie Liang United States	38	6.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	464 0.6×	405 0.7×	186	8.7k
Philippe Derreumaux France	56	7.8k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	336 0.4×	723 1.2×	223	10.2k

Countries citing papers authored by John Westbrook

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Westbrook

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Westbrook

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Choudhary, Preeti, Zukang Feng, John M. Berrisford, et al.. (2024). PDB NextGen Archive: centralizing access to integrated annotations and enriched structural information by the Worldwide Protein Data Bank. Database. 2024. 6 indexed citations

Feng, Zukang, John Westbrook, Raul Sala, et al.. (2021). Enhanced validation of small-molecule ligands and carbohydrates in the Protein Data Bank. Structure. 29(4). 393–400.e1. 21 indexed citations

Vallat, Brinda, Benjamin Webb, Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, et al.. (2021). New system for archiving integrative structures. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 77(12). 1486–1496. 25 indexed citations

Lin, Dawei, Jonathan Crabtree, Ingrid Dillo, et al.. (2020). The TRUST Principles for digital repositories. Scientific Data. 7(1). 144–144. 189 indexed citations breakdown →

Segura, Joan, Yana Rose, John Westbrook, S.K. Burley, & José M. Duarte. (2020). RCSB Protein Data Bank 1D tools and services. Bioinformatics. 36(22-23). 5526–5527. 19 indexed citations

Westbrook, John, et al.. (2020). Impact of the Protein Data Bank on antineoplastic approvals. Drug Discovery Today. 25(5). 837–850. 20 indexed citations

Goodsell, David S., Christine Zardecki, Luigi Di Costanzo, et al.. (2019). RCSB Protein Data Bank: Enabling biomedical research and drug discovery. Protein Science. 29(1). 52–65. 233 indexed citations

Laurel, Haak, et al.. (2019). Recommendations for Supporting ORCID in Repositories. Figshare.

Fong, Carlton J., et al.. (2015). Behavioral, Psychological, Educational, and Vocational Interventions to Facilitate Employment Outcomes for Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 11(1). 1–81. 10 indexed citations

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Fong, Carlton J., et al.. (2013). Protocol for a Systematic Review: Behavioral, Psychological, Educational, and Vocational Interventions to Facilitate Employment Outcomes for Cancer Survivors. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 9(1). 1–33. 2 indexed citations

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Trewhella, Jill, Wayne A. Hendrickson, Gerard J. Kleywegt, et al.. (2013). Report of the wwPDB Small-Angle Scattering Task Force: Data Requirements for Biomolecular Modeling and the PDB. Structure. 21(6). 875–881. 60 indexed citations

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Berman, Helen M., John Westbrook, Andrei Kouranov, et al.. (2008). The protein structure initiative structural genomics knowledgebase. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(Database). D365–D368. 80 indexed citations

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Berman, Helen M. & John Westbrook. (2004). The Impact of Structural Genomics on the Protein Data Bank. PubMed. 4(4). 247–252. 24 indexed citations

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Berman, Helen M., Talapady N. Bhat, Wolfgang F. Bluhm, et al.. (2002). The Protein Data Bank (PDB) | NIST. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 58. 4 indexed citations

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Feng, Zukang, et al.. (2002). Data annotation, processing methods, and tools at the PDB and NDB. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 58(s1). c214–c214. 1 indexed citations

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Westbrook, John. (2002). The Protein Data Bank: unifying the archive. Nucleic Acids Research. 30(1). 245–248. 229 indexed citations

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Gendron, Patrick, Russ B. Altman, James W. Brown, et al.. (2002). RNAML: A standard syntax for exchanging RNA information. RNA. 8(6). 707–717. 76 indexed citations

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Bhat, Talapady N., Philip E. Bourne, Zukang Feng, et al.. (2001). The PDB Data Uniformity Project | NIST. Nucleic Acids Research. 29(1). 1 indexed citations

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Berman, Helen M., Anke Gelbin, & John Westbrook. (1996). Nucleic acid crystallography: A view from the nucleic acid database. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 66(3). 255–288. 20 indexed citations

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Berman, Helen M., Wilma K. Olson, D. L. Beveridge, et al.. (1992). The nucleic acid database. A comprehensive relational database of three-dimensional structures of nucleic acids. Biophysical Journal. 63(3). 751–759. 800 indexed citations breakdown →

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