Paul Tavan

6.9k citations

106 papers · 5.2k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 37

Impact in

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry top 0.5%
- Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 1%
- Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies

Papers in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 57
- Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies 46
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies 23
Spectroscopy 29
- Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications 11
- Molecular spectroscopy and chirality 11

Co-authors: Klaus Schulten Helmut Grubmüller Berthold Heymann Gerald Mathias Markus Eichinger Marco Nonella Robert Denschlag Jeanne Rubner
Journals: The Journal of Chemical Physics (26 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (11 papers)Chemical Physics Letters (7 papers)Biophysical Journal (6 papers)Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (5 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States Switzerland

In The Last Decade

Paul Tavan

105 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Ligand Binding: Molecular Mechanics Calculation of the Streptavidin-Biotin Rupture Force 1996 · 738 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1996 Science
1987 Physical review. B, Condensed matter

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1	Piperazine derivatives inhibit PrP/PrPres propagation in vitro and in vivo Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Donald Willcox, Martin Eiden, Markus Geissen, Thomas Hirschberger, Paul Tavan, Armin Giese, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Hermann Schätzl, Martin H. Groschup	2014	7
2	Electronic excitations in long polyenes revisited The Journal of Chemical Physics ·Maximilian Schmidt, Paul Tavan	2012	50
3	DFT/MM Description of Flavin IR Spectra in BLUF Domains The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ·Lukáš Chlad, Sebastian Bauer, Gerald Mathias, Paul Tavan	2011	29
4	Relaxation time prediction for a light switchable peptide by molecular dynamics Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Robert Denschlag, Wolfgang Schreier, Lukáš Chlad, Tobias E. Schrader, Florian O. Koller, Luis Moroder, Wolfgang Zinth, Paul Tavan	2010	13
5	Density Functional Theory Combined with Molecular Mechanics: The Infrared Spectra of Flavin in Solution^† Photochemistry and Photobiology ·Lukáš Chlad, Gerald Mathias, Sebastian Bauer, Paul Tavan	2010	20
6	Highly polar environments catalyze the unfolding of PrPC helix 1 European Biophysics Journal ·Kevin J. Landmark, Robert Denschlag, Paul Tavan	2010	4
7	Konformationseigenschaften des 4‐Mercaptoprolins und verwandter Derivate Angewandte Chemie ·Sergio A. Cadamuro, C. Zaccaro De Matos, Ulrike Kusebauch, Hans‐Jürgen Musiol, Christian Renner, Paul Tavan, Luis Moroder	2008	20
8	Structural Instability of the Prion Protein upon M205S/R Mutations Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations Biophysical Journal ·Thomas Hirschberger, 諦佐藤, M.J. Wondergem, Konstanze F. Winklhofer, Jörg Tatzelt, Paul Tavan	2006	31
9	Identification of Anti-prion Compounds as Efficient Inhibitors of Polyglutamine Protein Aggregation in a Zebrafish Model Journal of Biological Chemistry ·J. A. Vázquez-Diz, Sarah A. Broadley, Thomas Hirschberger, Paul Tavan, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Armin Giese, Christian Haass, F. Ulrich Hartl, Bettina Schmid	2006	84
10	Molecular Dynamics Simulations Indicate a Possible Role of Parallel β-Helices in Seeded Aggregation of Poly-Gln Biophysical Journal ·諦佐藤, Armin Giese, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Paul Tavan	2005	62
11	IR Spectra of Phosphate Ions in Aqueous Solution: Predictions of a DFT/MM Approach Compared with Observations The Journal of Physical Chemistry A ·Marco Klähn, Gerald Mathias, Carsten Kötting, Marco Nonella, Jürgen Schlitter, Klaus Gerwert, Paul Tavan	2004	134
12	Angular resolution and range of dipole–dipole correlations in water The Journal of Chemical Physics ·Gerald Mathias, Paul Tavan	2004	32
13	Structures and Vibrational Frequencies of the Quinones in Rb. sphaeroides Derived by a Combined Density Functional/Molecular Mechanics Approach The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ·Marco Nonella, Gerald Mathias, Markus Eichinger, Paul Tavan	2002	35
14	Generalized radial basis function networks for classification and novelty detection: self-organization of optimal Bayesian decision Neural Networks ·Stefano V. Albrecht, RadavaR Korać, M. Kloppenburg, Florian Metze, Paul Tavan	2000	37
15	FAMUSAMM: An algorithm for rapid evaluation of electrostatic interactions in molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Computational Chemistry ·Markus Eichinger, Helmut Grubmüller, Helmut Heller, Paul Tavan	1997	39
16	Asymptotic level density in topological feature maps IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks ·Ray Yang, Paul Tavan	1995	35
17	An associative memory that can form hypotheses: a phase-coded neural network Biological Cybernetics ·Farhad Mohsenifar, Claus Hillermeier, Bernhard Rabus, Paul Tavan	1994	1
18	Structural investigation of bacteriorhodopsin and some of its photoproducts by polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic methods-difference spectroscopy and photoselection Biophysical Journal ·Karim Fahmy, Friedrich Siebert, Paul Tavan	1991	30
19	Self-organization of associative memory and pattern classification: recurrent signal processing on topological feature maps Biological Cybernetics ·Paul Tavan, Helmut Grubmüller, Ouda WE	1990	33
20	Wavelength regulation in bacteriorhodopsin and halorhodopsin: A Pariser–Parr–Pople multireference double excitation configuration interaction study of retinal dyes The Journal of Chemical Physics ·Xi Chen, Paul Tavan	1988	36

About Paul Tavan

Paul Tavan is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, having authored 106 papers that have together received 5.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (46 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (24 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (23 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (22 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (12 papers), Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (11 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (11 papers) and Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (636 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (2.2k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (1.1k citations), Spectroscopy (876 citations) and Molecular Biology (2.4k citations). Paul Tavan has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Klaus Schulten, Helmut Grubmüller, Berthold Heymann, Gerald Mathias, Markus Eichinger, Marco Nonella, Robert Denschlag, Jeanne Rubner, Jürg Hutter and Michele Parrinello. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Chemical Physics Letters, Biophysical Journal and Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

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