M. Scott Shell

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
138 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

M. Scott Shell is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Scott Shell has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Materials Chemistry, 37 papers in Molecular Biology and 27 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in M. Scott Shell's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (31 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (29 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (22 papers). M. Scott Shell is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (31 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (29 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (22 papers). M. Scott Shell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. M. Scott Shell's co-authors include Ken A. Dill, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Aviel Chaimovich, S. Banu Ozkan, Thomas R. Weikl, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, Tanmoy Sanyal, Jacob I. Monroe, L. Gary Leal and W. G. Noid and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

M. Scott Shell

123 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Protein Folding Problem

2008 813 citations Ken A. Dill, S. Banu Ozkan et al. profile →
The relative entropy is fundamental to multiscale and inverse thermodynamic problems

2008 463 citations M. Scott Shell The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. Scott Shell United States	36	2.5k	2.0k	1.1k	828	781	138	5.2k
Pieter Rein ten Wolde Netherlands	41	2.8k 1.1×	3.5k 1.8×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	855 1.1×	109	7.7k
Christine Peter Germany	36	1.7k 0.7×	2.4k 1.2×	573 0.5×	781 0.9×	288 0.4×	121	4.4k
Tommaso Bellini Italy	44	1.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	581 0.7×	161	5.5k
Ard A. Louis United Kingdom	44	2.5k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.5×	587 0.7×	673 0.9×	110	5.9k
Jonathan P. K. Doye United Kingdom	52	3.2k 1.3×	2.9k 1.5×	959 0.9×	2.3k 2.7×	860 1.1×	126	7.8k
Sung Chul Bae United States	28	3.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	781 0.9×	968 1.2×	72	5.4k
Roland Roth Germany	43	3.0k 1.2×	940 0.5×	2.3k 2.1×	1.1k 1.3×	700 0.9×	149	6.1k
Rosa Di Felice Italy	39	1.5k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	839 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	413 0.5×	128	4.8k
Philip Ball United Kingdom	33	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	1.8k 2.2×	159 0.2×	474	6.8k
Dieter W. Heermann Germany	40	2.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	869 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	2.5k 3.2×	163	7.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. Scott Shell

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jiao, Sally & M. Scott Shell. (2024). Inverse design of pore wall chemistry and topology through active learning of surface group interactions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(12). 4 indexed citations

Mahanta, Debasish Das, et al.. (2024). Bridging the Gap in Cryopreservation Mechanism: Unraveling the Interplay between Structure, Dynamics, and Thermodynamics in Cryoprotectant Aqueous Solutions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 128(15). 3720–3731. 10 indexed citations

Moon, Joshua D., et al.. (2024). Nanoscale water–polymer interactions tune macroscopic diffusivity of water in aqueous poly(ethylene oxide) solutions. Chemical Science. 15(7). 2495–2508. 8 indexed citations

Murphy, Elizabeth, et al.. (2024). Accelerated Prediction of Phase Behavior for Block Copolymer Libraries Using a Molecularly Informed Field Theory. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(43). 29751–29758. 6 indexed citations

Franck, John M., et al.. (2024). Computation of Overhauser dynamic nuclear polarization processes reveals fundamental correlation between water dynamics, structure, and solvent restructuring entropy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(20). 14637–14650. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Kai-Chieh, Matthew Mecklenburg, José A. Rodríguez, et al.. (2024). Crystallization-Induced Flower-like Superstructures via Peptoid Helix Assembly. ACS Macro Letters. 13(4). 423–428. 1 indexed citations

Bates, Morgan W., et al.. (2024). Control over Conformational Landscapes of Polypeptoids by Monomer Sequence Patterning. Macromolecules. 57(4). 1469–1477. 7 indexed citations

Delaney, Kris T., Kevin Shen, Rohini Gupta, et al.. (2023). Molecularly informed field theory for estimating critical micelle concentrations of intrinsically disordered protein surfactants. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(24). 9 indexed citations

Mahanta, Debasish Das, et al.. (2023). Local solvation structures govern the mixing thermodynamics of glycerol–water solutions. Chemical Science. 14(26). 7381–7392. 29 indexed citations

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Shell, M. Scott. (2023). Money, Language, and Thought.

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Leal, L. Gary, et al.. (2020). Universal Gas Adsorption Mechanism for Flat Nanobubble Morphologies. Physical Review Letters. 125(14). 28 indexed citations

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Monroe, Jacob I., et al.. (2020). Affinity of small-molecule solutes to hydrophobic, hydrophilic, and chemically patterned interfaces in aqueous solution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(1). 25 indexed citations

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Howard, Michael P., Wesley F. Reinhart, Tanmoy Sanyal, et al.. (2018). Evaporation-induced assembly of colloidal crystals. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 149(9). 94901–94901. 28 indexed citations

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Shell, M. Scott, et al.. (2011). Smoothing Protein Energy Landscapes by Integrating Folding Models with Structure Prediction. Biophysical Journal. 101(9). 2251–2259. 4 indexed citations

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Voelz, Vincent A., M. Scott Shell, & Ken A. Dill. (2009). Predicting Peptide Structures in Native Proteins from Physical Simulations of Fragments. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(2). e1000281–e1000281. 29 indexed citations

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Shell, M. Scott, S. Banu Ozkan, Vincent A. Voelz, Guohong Wu, & Ken A. Dill. (2009). Blind Test of Physics-Based Prediction of Protein Structures. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 917–924. 36 indexed citations

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Shell, M. Scott. (2005). Stutter. Harvard University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Shell, M. Scott & Pablo G. Debenedetti. (2004). Thermodynamics and the glass transition in model energy landscapes. Physical Review E. 69(5). 51102–51102. 12 indexed citations

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Shell, M. Scott. (2002). American Babel : literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni. Harvard University Press eBooks. 18 indexed citations

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Shell, M. Scott, et al.. (1993). Elizabeth's glass : with "The glass of the Sinful Soul" (1544) by Elizabeth I, and "Epistle dedicatory" & "Conclusion" (1548) by John Bale. University of Nebraska Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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