Narayanan Eswar

13.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
52 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Narayanan Eswar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Narayanan Eswar has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Materials Chemistry and 13 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Narayanan Eswar's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (16 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (16 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers). Narayanan Eswar is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (16 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (16 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers). Narayanan Eswar collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Spain. Narayanan Eswar's co-authors include Andrej Săli, David Eramian, Min‐Yi Shen, Ben Webb, Ursula Pieper, Marc A. Martı́-Renom, M. S. Madhusudhan, Joachim Frank, Pawel A. Penczek and Roland Beckmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Narayanan Eswar

51 papers receiving 11.0k citations

Hit Papers

Comparative Protein Structure Modeling Using Modeller 2001 2026 2009 2017 2006 2007 2008 2001 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. Comparative Protein Structure Modeling Using Modeller
    2006 3.8k citations Narayanan Eswar, Ben Webb et al. profile →
  2. Comparative Protein Structure Modeling Using MODELLER
    2007 2.5k citations Narayanan Eswar, Ben Webb et al. Current Protocols in Protein Science profile →
  3. Protein Structure Modeling with MODELLER
    2008 1.5k citations Narayanan Eswar, David Eramian et al. Methods in molecular biology profile →
  4. Structure of the 80S Ribosome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae—tRNA-Ribosome and Subunit-Subunit Interactions
    2001 402 citations C.M.T. Spahn, Roland Beckmann et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Narayanan Eswar United States 25 8.4k 1.3k 1.2k 807 802 52 11.2k
Min‐Yi Shen United States 14 7.6k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 941 0.8× 900 1.1× 782 1.0× 20 10.4k
Ben Webb United States 12 6.9k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 899 0.8× 719 0.9× 689 0.9× 13 9.5k
Ursula Pieper United States 38 7.3k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 975 0.8× 802 1.0× 649 0.8× 81 10.8k
M. S. Madhusudhan India 28 6.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 838 0.7× 745 0.9× 774 1.0× 67 9.2k
David Eramian United States 7 6.0k 0.7× 818 0.6× 813 0.7× 677 0.8× 674 0.8× 8 8.3k
Nir Ben‐Tal Israel 57 11.8k 1.4× 1.8k 1.4× 1.8k 1.6× 760 0.9× 789 1.0× 186 15.7k
Elmar Krieger Netherlands 34 7.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 818 0.7× 934 1.2× 573 0.7× 45 11.6k
Simon C. Lovell United Kingdom 29 9.0k 1.1× 2.6k 2.0× 1.1k 0.9× 939 1.2× 857 1.1× 77 12.0k
Konstantin Arnold Switzerland 8 8.3k 1.0× 974 0.8× 1.3k 1.1× 607 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 11 13.0k
Marc A. Martı́-Renom Spain 45 11.5k 1.4× 1.6k 1.2× 1.7k 1.5× 980 1.2× 897 1.1× 123 15.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Eswar, Narayanan, et al.. (2023). Toeplitz operators on the weighted Bergman spaces of quotient domains. Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques. 188. 103340–103340. 1 indexed citations
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Eswar, Narayanan & Alladi Sitaram. (2012). Some questions on integral geometry on noncompact symmetric spaces of higher rank. Monatshefte für Mathematik. 170(2). 195–203. 2 indexed citations
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Kelly, Libusha, Ursula Pieper, Narayanan Eswar, et al.. (2009). A survey of integral α-helical membrane proteins. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 10(4). 269–280. 12 indexed citations
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Madhusudhan, M. S., Benjamin Webb, Marc A. Martı́-Renom, Narayanan Eswar, & Andrej Săli. (2009). Alignment of multiple protein structures based on sequence and structure features. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 22(9). 569–574. 74 indexed citations
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Pieper, Ursula, Ranyee A. Chiang, Shoshana Brown, et al.. (2009). Target selection and annotation for the structural genomics of the amidohydrolase and enolase superfamilies. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 10(2). 107–125. 24 indexed citations
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Carbajo, Rodrigo J., Ursula Pieper, Narayanan Eswar, et al.. (2009). A Kernel for Open Source Drug Discovery in Tropical Diseases. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 3(4). e418–e418. 24 indexed citations
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Carbajo, Rodrigo J., Ursula Pieper, Narayanan Eswar, et al.. (2009). A kernel for the Tropical Disease Initiative. Nature Biotechnology. 27(4). 320–321. 2 indexed citations
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Taylor, Derek J., Batsal Devkota, Andrew Huang, et al.. (2009). Comprehensive Molecular Structure of the Eukaryotic Ribosome. Structure. 17(12). 1591–1604. 130 indexed citations
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Pieper, Ursula, Narayanan Eswar, Benjamin Webb, et al.. (2008). MODBASE, a database of annotated comparative protein structure models and associated resources. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(Database). D347–D354. 126 indexed citations
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Eswar, Narayanan, David Eramian, Ben Webb, Min‐Yi Shen, & Andrej Săli. (2008). Protein Structure Modeling with MODELLER. Methods in molecular biology. 426. 145–159. 1510 indexed citations breakdown →
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Topf, Maya, Narayanan Eswar, Jamie J. Cannone, et al.. (2008). Structure of the Mammalian 80S Ribosome at 8.7 Å Resolution. Structure. 16(4). 535–548. 118 indexed citations
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Espadaler, Jordi, Narayanan Eswar, Enrique Querol, et al.. (2008). Prediction of enzyme function by combining sequence similarity and protein interactions. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(1). 249–249. 25 indexed citations
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Eswar, Narayanan, Ben Webb, Marc A. Martı́-Renom, et al.. (2007). Comparative Protein Structure Modeling Using MODELLER. Current Protocols in Protein Science. 50(1). 2.9.1–2.9.37. 2514 indexed citations breakdown →
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Devos, Damien P., Svetlana Dokudovskaya, Rosemary Williams, et al.. (2006). Simple fold composition and modular architecture of the nuclear pore complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(7). 2172–2177. 215 indexed citations
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Chance, Mark R., András Fiser, Andrej Săli, et al.. (2004). High-Throughput Computational and Experimental Techniques in Structural Genomics. Genome Research. 14(10b). 2145–2154. 48 indexed citations
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Eswar, Narayanan. (2003). Tools for comparative protein structure modeling and analysis. Nucleic Acids Research. 31(13). 3375–3380. 391 indexed citations
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Eswar, Narayanan, Hampapathalu Adimurthy Nagarajaram, C. Ramakrishnan, & Narayanaswamy Srinivasan. (2002). Influence of solvent molecules on the stereochemical code of glycyl residues in proteins. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 49(3). 326–334. 4 indexed citations
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Beckmann, Roland, C.M.T. Spahn, Narayanan Eswar, et al.. (2001). Architecture of the Protein-Conducting Channel Associated with the Translating 80S Ribosome. Cell. 107(3). 361–372. 299 indexed citations
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Sánchez, Roberto, Ursula Pieper, Francisco Melo, et al.. (2000). Protein structure modeling for structural genomics.. Nature Structural Biology. 7. 986–990. 165 indexed citations
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Eswar, Narayanan & C. Ramakrishnan. (1999). Secondary structures without backbone: an analysis of backbone mimicry by polar side chains in protein structures. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 12(6). 447–455. 33 indexed citations

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