Pascal Auffinger

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Pascal Auffinger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pascal Auffinger has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Pascal Auffinger's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (41 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (35 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (20 papers). Pascal Auffinger is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (41 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (35 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (20 papers). Pascal Auffinger collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Czechia. Pascal Auffinger's co-authors include Éric Westhof, Franklin A. Hays, P Shing Ho, Henri Grosjean, Rob Benne, Luigi D’Ascenzo, Shirley Louise‐May, Yaser Hashem, Łukasz Bielecki and Andrea C. Vaiana and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Pascal Auffinger

55 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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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.

Halogen bonds in biological molecules

2004 1.4k citations Pascal Auffinger, Franklin A. Hays et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Modification and Editing of RNA

1998 556 citations Pascal Auffinger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pascal Auffinger France	34	3.2k	1.2k	650	572	570	56	4.8k
Stacey D. Wetmore Canada	35	2.8k 0.9×	906 0.7×	451 0.7×	1.0k 1.8×	274 0.5×	200	4.1k
Jan Florián United States	41	3.1k 1.0×	774 0.6×	754 1.2×	1.2k 2.1×	304 0.5×	99	4.9k
D. L. Beveridge United States	25	2.2k 0.7×	731 0.6×	526 0.8×	523 0.9×	122 0.2×	37	3.7k
Doree Sitkoff United States	17	2.6k 0.8×	485 0.4×	888 1.4×	1.3k 2.2×	470 0.8×	27	4.9k
M. Vijayan India	37	3.7k 1.2×	681 0.6×	1.2k 1.9×	1.4k 2.4×	382 0.7×	223	5.2k
Dmytro М. Hovorun Ukraine	42	2.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	403 0.6×	1.6k 2.7×	190 0.3×	172	3.9k
Salvatore Profeta United States	13	2.6k 0.8×	438 0.4×	1.0k 1.6×	813 1.4×	181 0.3×	21	4.3k
Yuji Mochizuki Japan	36	1.8k 0.6×	543 0.4×	817 1.3×	517 0.9×	359 0.6×	196	4.2k
Miroslav Z. Papiz United Kingdom	26	4.5k 1.4×	387 0.3×	1.8k 2.7×	480 0.8×	271 0.5×	49	6.3k
Stephen M. Prince United Kingdom	20	3.7k 1.2×	452 0.4×	1.3k 2.1×	280 0.5×	227 0.4×	49	5.0k

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Kırmızıaltın, Serdal, et al.. (2026). Cat_Wiz: a stereochemistry-guided toolkit for locating, diagnosing, and annotating Mg2+ ions in RNA structures. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(4).

Leonarski, Filip, et al.. (2024). Principles of ion binding to RNA inferred from the analysis of a 1.55 Å resolution bacterial ribosome structure – Part I: Mg2+. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(1). 4 indexed citations

Bussi, Giovanni, Massimiliano Bonomi, Paraskevi Gkeka, et al.. (2024). RNA dynamics from experimental and computational approaches. Structure. 32(9). 1281–1287. 6 indexed citations

Zirbel, Craig L. & Pascal Auffinger. (2022). Lone Pair…π Contacts and Structure Signatures of r(UNCG) Tetraloops, Z-Turns, and Z-Steps: A WebFR3D Survey. Molecules. 27(14). 4365–4365. 7 indexed citations

Auffinger, Pascal, Eric Ennifar, & Luigi D’Ascenzo. (2020). Deflating the RNA Mg ²⁺ bubble: stereochemistry to the rescue!. RNA. 27(3). 243–252. 19 indexed citations

D’Ascenzo, Luigi, Quentin Vicens, & Pascal Auffinger. (2018). Identification of receptors for UNCG and GNRA Z-turns and their occurrence in rRNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(15). 7989–7997. 11 indexed citations

D’Ascenzo, Luigi, Filip Leonarski, Quentin Vicens, & Pascal Auffinger. (2016). Revisiting GNRA and UNCG folds: U-turns versus Z-turns in RNA hairpin loops. RNA. 23(3). 259–269. 32 indexed citations

D’Ascenzo, Luigi, Filip Leonarski, Quentin Vicens, & Pascal Auffinger. (2016). ‘Z-DNA like’ fragments in RNA: a recurring structural motif with implications for folding, RNA/protein recognition and immune response. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(12). 5944–5956. 37 indexed citations

Auffinger, Pascal, Luigi D’Ascenzo, & Eric Ennifar. (2016). Sodium and Potassium Interactions with Nucleic Acids. PubMed. 16. 167–201. 33 indexed citations

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D’Ascenzo, Luigi & Pascal Auffinger. (2015). A comprehensive classification and nomenclature of carboxyl–carboxyl(ate) supramolecular motifs and related catemers: implications for biomolecular systems. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials. 71(2). 164–175. 59 indexed citations

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Vaiana, Andrea C., E. Westhof, & Pascal Auffinger. (2006). A molecular dynamics simulation study of an aminoglycoside/A-site RNA complex: conformational and hydration patterns. Biochimie. 88(8). 1061–1073. 65 indexed citations

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Auffinger, Pascal, Franklin A. Hays, Éric Westhof, & P Shing Ho. (2004). Halogen bonds in biological molecules. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(48). 16789–16794. 1447 indexed citations breakdown →

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Auffinger, Pascal, Łukasz Bielecki, & Éric Westhof. (2003). Symmetric K+ and Mg2+ Ion-binding Sites in the 5S rRNA Loop E Inferred from Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Journal of Molecular Biology. 335(2). 555–571. 77 indexed citations

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Auffinger, Pascal & Éric Westhof. (2002). Melting of the solvent structure around a RNA duplex: a molecular dynamics simulation study. Biophysical Chemistry. 95(3). 203–210. 26 indexed citations

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Auffinger, Pascal & Éric Westhof. (2001). Water and ion binding around r(UpA)12and d(TpA)12Oligomers - comparison with RNA and DNA (CpG)12 duplexes. Journal of Molecular Biology. 305(5). 1057–1072. 98 indexed citations

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Auffinger, Pascal & Éric Westhof. (2000). RNA solvation: A molecular dynamics simulation perspective. Biopolymers. 56(4). 266–274. 47 indexed citations

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Auffinger, Pascal & Éric Westhof. (1998). Hydration of RNA Base Pairs. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 16(3). 693–707. 71 indexed citations

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Auffinger, Pascal & Éric Westhof. (1998). Simulations of the molecular dynamics of nucleic acids. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 8(2). 227–236. 126 indexed citations

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Auffinger, Pascal & Éric Westhof. (1997). Rules governing the orientation of the 2′-hydroxyl group in RNA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 274(1). 54–63. 140 indexed citations

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Auffinger, Pascal & Georges Wipff. (1991). Quantitative Studies on Molecular Recognition: Free Energy Perturbation Simulations on M+/222 Cryptates in Water and in Methanol. AIP conference proceedings. 239. 223–224. 1 indexed citations

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