Paul Tavan

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
106 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Paul Tavan is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Tavan has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 48 papers in Molecular Biology and 29 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Paul Tavan's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (46 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (24 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (23 papers). Paul Tavan is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (46 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (24 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (23 papers). Paul Tavan collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Paul Tavan's co-authors include Klaus Schulten, Helmut Grubmüller, Berthold Heymann, Gerald Mathias, Markus Eichinger, Marco Nonella, Robert Denschlag, Jeanne Rubner, Jürg Hutter and Michele Parrinello and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul Tavan

105 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.

Ligand Binding: Molecular Mechanics Calculation of the Streptavidin-Biotin Rupture Force

1996 738 citations Helmut Grubmüller, Paul Tavan et al. profile →
Electronic excitations in finite and infinite polyenes

1987 460 citations Paul Tavan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Tavan Germany	37	2.4k	2.2k	1.1k	876	868	106	5.2k
Jennifer L. Herek Netherlands	38	1.5k 0.6×	3.0k 1.4×	639 0.6×	622 0.7×	831 1.0×	102	4.9k
Ernst‐Walter Knapp Germany	40	3.6k 1.5×	1.9k 0.9×	897 0.8×	696 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	137	5.9k
Thomas L. C. Jansen Netherlands	42	1.8k 0.7×	4.1k 1.9×	907 0.8×	1.9k 2.1×	906 1.0×	130	5.4k
Yuan‐Chung Cheng Taiwan	29	2.7k 1.2×	5.0k 2.3×	1.5k 1.3×	892 1.0×	769 0.9×	76	7.4k
Young Min Rhee South Korea	34	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	321 0.3×	655 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	168	4.0k
Vladimir Chernyak United States	42	1.2k 0.5×	4.5k 2.1×	877 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	1.4k 1.6×	219	7.0k
Jennifer P. Ogilvie United States	29	1.3k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	874 0.8×	914 1.0×	416 0.5×	75	3.8k
Gerhard Stock Germany	53	4.2k 1.8×	5.0k 2.3×	855 0.7×	2.3k 2.6×	1.6k 1.8×	166	9.0k
Marcus Motzkus Germany	40	898 0.4×	4.3k 2.0×	569 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	374 0.4×	140	5.6k
David M. Jonas United States	38	1.6k 0.7×	5.0k 2.3×	1.1k 1.0×	2.2k 2.5×	562 0.6×	89	6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Tavan

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Eiden, Martin, Markus Geissen, Thomas Hirschberger, et al.. (2014). Piperazine derivatives inhibit PrP/PrPres propagation in vitro and in vivo. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 445(1). 23–29. 7 indexed citations

Schmidt, Maximilian & Paul Tavan. (2012). Electronic excitations in long polyenes revisited. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 136(12). 124309–124309. 50 indexed citations

Bauer, Sebastian, et al.. (2011). DFT/MM Description of Flavin IR Spectra in BLUF Domains. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 115(38). 11239–11253. 29 indexed citations

Denschlag, Robert, Wolfgang Schreier, Tobias E. Schrader, et al.. (2010). Relaxation time prediction for a light switchable peptide by molecular dynamics. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 12(23). 6204–6204. 13 indexed citations

Mathias, Gerald, et al.. (2010). Density Functional Theory Combined with Molecular Mechanics: The Infrared Spectra of Flavin in Solution^†. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 87(3). 511–523. 20 indexed citations

Denschlag, Robert, et al.. (2010). Highly polar environments catalyze the unfolding of PrPC helix 1. European Biophysics Journal. 39(8). 1177–1192. 4 indexed citations

Cadamuro, Sergio A., Ulrike Kusebauch, Hans‐Jürgen Musiol, et al.. (2008). Konformationseigenschaften des 4‐Mercaptoprolins und verwandter Derivate. Angewandte Chemie. 120(11). 2174–2177. 20 indexed citations

Hirschberger, Thomas, et al.. (2006). Structural Instability of the Prion Protein upon M205S/R Mutations Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biophysical Journal. 90(11). 3908–3918. 31 indexed citations

Broadley, Sarah A., Thomas Hirschberger, Paul Tavan, et al.. (2006). Identification of Anti-prion Compounds as Efficient Inhibitors of Polyglutamine Protein Aggregation in a Zebrafish Model. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(12). 9195–9203. 84 indexed citations

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Giese, Armin, et al.. (2005). Molecular Dynamics Simulations Indicate a Possible Role of Parallel β-Helices in Seeded Aggregation of Poly-Gln. Biophysical Journal. 88(4). 2442–2451. 62 indexed citations

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Klähn, Marco, Gerald Mathias, Carsten Kötting, et al.. (2004). IR Spectra of Phosphate Ions in Aqueous Solution: Predictions of a DFT/MM Approach Compared with Observations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 108(29). 6186–6194. 134 indexed citations

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Mathias, Gerald & Paul Tavan. (2004). Angular resolution and range of dipole–dipole correlations in water. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 120(9). 4393–4403. 32 indexed citations

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Nonella, Marco, Gerald Mathias, Markus Eichinger, & Paul Tavan. (2002). 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. 107(1). 316–322. 35 indexed citations

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Albrecht, Stefano V., et al.. (2000). Generalized radial basis function networks for classification and novelty detection: self-organization of optimal Bayesian decision. Neural Networks. 13(10). 1075–1093. 37 indexed citations

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Eichinger, Markus, Helmut Grubmüller, Helmut Heller, & Paul Tavan. (1997). FAMUSAMM: An algorithm for rapid evaluation of electrostatic interactions in molecular dynamics simulations.. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 18(14). 1729–1749. 39 indexed citations

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Tavan, Paul, et al.. (1995). Asymptotic level density in topological feature maps. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. 6(1). 230–236. 35 indexed citations

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Hillermeier, Claus, et al.. (1994). An associative memory that can form hypotheses: a phase-coded neural network. Biological Cybernetics. 72(2). 119–132. 1 indexed citations

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Fahmy, Karim, Friedrich Siebert, & Paul Tavan. (1991). Structural investigation of bacteriorhodopsin and some of its photoproducts by polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic methods-difference spectroscopy and photoselection. Biophysical Journal. 60(5). 989–1001. 30 indexed citations

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Tavan, Paul, et al.. (1990). Self-organization of associative memory and pattern classification: recurrent signal processing on topological feature maps. Biological Cybernetics. 64(2). 95–105. 33 indexed citations

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Tavan, Paul, et al.. (1988). Wavelength regulation in bacteriorhodopsin and halorhodopsin: A Pariser–Parr–Pople multireference double excitation configuration interaction study of retinal dyes. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 88(8). 4884–4896. 36 indexed citations

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