Leigh Willard

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 905 citations indexed

About

Leigh Willard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Leigh Willard has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 905 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Materials Chemistry and 1 paper in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Leigh Willard's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (2 papers). Leigh Willard is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (2 papers). Leigh Willard collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. Leigh Willard's co-authors include Robert F. Boyko, Brian D. Sykes, David S. Wishart, John R. Bagu, Pierre Lavigne, Frederic M. Richards, Wolfram Gronwald, Frank D. Sönnichsen, Krishna Rajarathnam and A. D. Richmond and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Protein Science and Computer applications in the biosciences.

In The Last Decade

Leigh Willard

5 papers receiving 888 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.

VADAR: a web server for quantitative evaluation of protein structure quality

2003 750 citations Leigh Willard Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leigh Willard Canada	4	654	164	87	74	72	5	905
P. Sampathkumar United States	8	626 1.0×	133 0.8×	89 1.0×	50 0.7×	57 0.8×	11	921
Yuan Feng United States	3	712 1.1×	146 0.9×	76 0.9×	35 0.5×	86 1.2×	4	984
John D. Landua United States	9	634 1.0×	157 1.0×	65 0.7×	58 0.8×	49 0.7×	17	1.0k
Yunyi Wei United States	17	885 1.4×	117 0.7×	69 0.8×	160 2.2×	72 1.0×	31	1.7k
Alexey V. Gribenko United States	16	839 1.3×	331 2.0×	57 0.7×	44 0.6×	49 0.7×	22	1.1k
Pamela Lane United States	13	778 1.2×	138 0.8×	95 1.1×	60 0.8×	33 0.5×	22	1.2k
Eyal Akiva United States	16	892 1.4×	201 1.2×	61 0.7×	57 0.8×	54 0.8×	21	1.2k
T. Lundqvist Sweden	18	856 1.3×	275 1.7×	47 0.5×	70 0.9×	101 1.4×	24	1.2k
Martha Quesada United States	4	699 1.1×	140 0.9×	165 1.9×	66 0.9×	39 0.5×	4	907
Francisco Conejero‐Lara Spain	21	918 1.4×	289 1.8×	60 0.7×	70 0.9×	46 0.6×	61	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leigh Willard

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Willard, Leigh. (2003). VADAR: a web server for quantitative evaluation of protein structure quality. Nucleic Acids Research. 31(13). 3316–3319. 750 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lavigne, Pierre, et al.. (2000). Structure‐based thermodynamic analysis of the dissociation of protein phosphatase‐1 catalytic subunit and microcystin‐LR docked complexes. Protein Science. 9(2). 252–264. 63 indexed citations

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Gronwald, Wolfram, Leigh Willard, Robert F. Boyko, et al.. (1998). CAMRA: Chemical shift based computer aided protein NMR assignments. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 12(3). 395–405. 42 indexed citations

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Wishart, David S., Robert F. Boyko, Leigh Willard, Frederic M. Richards, & Brian D. Sykes. (1994). SEQSEE: a comprehensive program suite for protein sequence analysis. Computer applications in the biosciences. 10(2). 121–132. 49 indexed citations

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McGlynn, T. A., et al.. (1990). The universe online: optical disks for astronomical archiving. 10(1). 85–94. 1 indexed citations

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