L. Perera

55.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
141 papers, 24.3k citations indexed

About

L. Perera is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, L. Perera has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 24.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in L. Perera's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (19 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (19 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (18 papers). L. Perera is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (19 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (19 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (18 papers). L. Perera collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. L. Perera's co-authors include Max L. Berkowitz, Lee G. Pedersen, Tom Darden, Ulrich Essmann, Hsing Lee, Leping Li, Chrystal D. Bruce, Malcolm D. E. Forbes, François G. Amar and Thomas A. Darden and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

L. Perera

137 papers receiving 24.1k 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.

A smooth particle mesh Ewald method

1995 18.3k citations Ulrich Essmann, L. Perera et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
New tricks for modelers from the crystallography toolkit: the particle mesh Ewald algorithm and its use in nucleic acid simulations

1999 556 citations Tom Darden, L. Perera et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
L. Perera United States	43	12.5k	5.2k	3.8k	2.9k	2.5k	141	24.3k
Christophe Chipot France	54	16.0k 1.3×	4.5k 0.9×	4.4k 1.2×	2.0k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	241	24.5k
Wendy D. Cornell United States	19	13.1k 1.0×	3.9k 0.8×	4.6k 1.2×	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	36	21.8k
Giovanni Bussi Italy	38	13.5k 1.1×	4.5k 0.9×	6.1k 1.6×	2.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	102	25.2k
Kim A. Sharp United States	65	15.7k 1.3×	3.8k 0.7×	4.3k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	150	22.7k
David M. Ferguson United States	40	11.4k 0.9×	3.0k 0.6×	3.6k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	116	19.6k
Gerrit Groenhof Finland	39	9.5k 0.8×	3.5k 0.7×	3.2k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	87	18.7k
Giovanni Ciccotti Italy	52	14.1k 1.1×	8.6k 1.6×	6.9k 1.8×	2.5k 0.9×	3.4k 1.4×	220	29.4k
Ulrich Essmann United States	15	10.4k 0.8×	4.4k 0.8×	5.2k 1.4×	2.4k 0.8×	3.2k 1.3×	17	21.2k
Darrin M. York United States	52	20.8k 1.7×	6.0k 1.1×	6.2k 1.7×	4.0k 1.4×	3.1k 1.2×	251	35.4k
Emad Tajkhorshid United States	74	20.8k 1.7×	3.9k 0.7×	4.1k 1.1×	1.7k 0.6×	4.2k 1.7×	358	31.4k

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Kirkwood‐Donelson, Kaylie I., Prashant Rai, L. Perera, Michael B. Fessler, & Alan K. Jarmusch. (2025). Bromine-Based Derivatization of Carboxyl-Containing Metabolites for Liquid Chromatography–Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry–Mass Spectrometry. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 36(4). 888–899. 1 indexed citations

Perera, L., et al.. (2025). Ferroptosis Inducers Erastin and RSL3 Enhance Adriamycin and Topotecan Sensitivity in ABCB1/ABCG2-Expressing Tumor Cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(2). 635–635. 2 indexed citations

Petrillo, Maria Grazia, Christine M. Jewell, Carl D. Bortner, et al.. (2025). Molecular interactions of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors define novel transcription and biological functions. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(5). 108488–108488.

Min, Jungki, Tarun Keswani, Lori L. Edwards, et al.. (2024). Design of an Ara h 2 hypoallergen from conformational epitopes. Clinical & Experimental Allergy. 54(1). 46–55. 11 indexed citations

Lee, Eunice, Adam Burkholder, L. Perera, et al.. (2023). Race/ethnicity-stratified fine-mapping of the MHC locus reveals genetic variants associated with late-onset asthma. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1173676–1173676. 5 indexed citations

Kirby, Thomas W., Scott A. Gabel, Eugene F. DeRose, et al.. (2023). Targeting the Structural Maturation Pathway of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase. Biomolecules. 13(11). 1603–1603. 1 indexed citations

Perera, L., et al.. (2022). Tunable Cysteine-Targeting Electrophilic Heteroaromatic Warheads Induce Ferroptosis. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65(17). 11788–11817. 29 indexed citations

Wang, Huanchen, L. Perera, Nikolaus Jork, et al.. (2022). A structural exposé of noncanonical molecular reactivity within the protein tyrosine phosphatase WPD loop. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2231–2231. 11 indexed citations

Frazier, Meredith N., Lucas Dillard, J.M. Krahn, et al.. (2021). Characterization of SARS2 Nsp15 nuclease activity reveals it's mad about U. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(17). 10136–10149. 47 indexed citations

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Dahl, Joseph M., Natalie Thomas, L. Perera, et al.. (2021). Probing the mechanisms of two exonuclease domain mutators of DNA polymerase ϵ. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(2). 962–974. 10 indexed citations

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Perera, L., et al.. (2020). Potential SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors. Drug Discovery Today. 26(3). 804–816. 139 indexed citations

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McCormick, Elizabeth M., L. Perera, Matthew J. Longley, et al.. (2019). Mitochondrial single-stranded DNA binding protein novel de novo SSBP1 mutation in a child with single large-scale mtDNA deletion (SLSMD) clinically manifesting as Pearson, Kearns-Sayre, and Leigh syndromes. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0221829–e0221829. 31 indexed citations

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Pedersen, Lars C., Kaoru Inoue, Hanna Kim, L. Perera, & Natalie D. Shaw. (2019). A ubiquitin-like domain is required for stabilizing the N-terminal ATPase module of human SMCHD1. Communications Biology. 2(1). 255–255. 7 indexed citations

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Takaku, Motoki, Sara A. Grimm, John D. Roberts, et al.. (2018). GATA3 zinc finger 2 mutations reprogram the breast cancer transcriptional network. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1059–1059. 66 indexed citations

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Samarasekera, Radhika, Shiroma M. Handunnetti, James T. Slama, et al.. (2018). A Bioactive Resveratrol Trimer from the Stem Bark of the Sri Lankan Endemic Plant Vateria copallifera. Journal of Natural Products. 81(8). 1693–1700. 7 indexed citations

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Perera, L., Yin Li, Laurel A. Coons, et al.. (2017). Binding of bisphenol A, bisphenol AF, and bisphenol S on the androgen receptor: Coregulator recruitment and stimulation of potential interaction sites. Toxicology in Vitro. 44. 287–302. 50 indexed citations

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Perdivara, Irina, L. Perera, Marnisa Sricholpech, et al.. (2013). Unusual Fragmentation Pathways in Collagen Glycopeptides. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 24(7). 1072–1081. 17 indexed citations

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Perera, L., et al.. (2000). Heparan Sulfate Biosynthesis: A Theoretical Study of the Initial Sulfation Step by N-Deacetylase/N-Sulfotransferase. Biophysical Journal. 79(6). 2909–2917. 18 indexed citations

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Essmann, Ulrich, L. Perera, Max L. Berkowitz, et al.. (1995). A smooth particle mesh Ewald method. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 103(19). 8577–8593. 18317 indexed citations breakdown →

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Perera, L. & Max L. Berkowitz. (1992). Structure and dynamics of Cl−(H2O)20 clusters: The effect of the polarizability and the charge of the ion. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 96(11). 8288–8294. 111 indexed citations

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