Pavan Kumar Behara

619 total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 363 citations indexed

About

Pavan Kumar Behara is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pavan Kumar Behara has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 363 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Pavan Kumar Behara's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers), Machine Learning in Materials Science (5 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (2 papers). Pavan Kumar Behara is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers), Machine Learning in Materials Science (5 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (2 papers). Pavan Kumar Behara collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Pavan Kumar Behara's co-authors include Joshua T. Horton, John D. Chodera, David Dotson, David L. Mobley, Daniel J. Cole, Simon Boothroyd, Yuanqing Wang, Trevor Gokey, Jeffrey Wagner and Michael R. Shirts and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and Biophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Pavan Kumar Behara

11 papers receiving 353 citations

Hit Papers

Development and Benchmarking of Open Force Field 2.0.0: T... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 2023 25 50 75 100
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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. Development and Benchmarking of Open Force Field 2.0.0: The Sage Small Molecule Force Field
    2023 111 citations Simon Boothroyd, Pavan Kumar Behara et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →
  2. SPICE, A Dataset of Drug-like Molecules and Peptides for Training Machine Learning Potentials
    2023 104 citations Peter Eastman, Pavan Kumar Behara et al. Scientific Data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pavan Kumar Behara United States 9 206 154 136 42 32 11 363
Mojtaba Haghighatlari United States 11 316 1.5× 183 1.2× 163 1.2× 36 0.9× 58 1.8× 15 476
Xingyi Guan United States 8 224 1.1× 91 0.6× 122 0.9× 50 1.2× 40 1.3× 12 331
Alice E. A. Allen United States 9 313 1.5× 109 0.7× 119 0.9× 83 2.0× 48 1.5× 15 466
Farhad Ramezanghorbani United States 5 252 1.2× 108 0.7× 135 1.0× 54 1.3× 60 1.9× 7 336
Marius R. Bittermann Netherlands 6 220 1.1× 74 0.5× 93 0.7× 45 1.1× 27 0.8× 13 286
Riccardo Petraglia Switzerland 7 263 1.3× 131 0.9× 170 1.3× 41 1.0× 47 1.5× 10 439
Camille Bilodeau United States 10 206 1.0× 195 1.3× 172 1.3× 17 0.4× 48 1.5× 19 462
Adam C. Mater Australia 4 254 1.2× 130 0.8× 177 1.3× 15 0.4× 53 1.7× 6 471
Carlos H. Borca United States 14 258 1.3× 126 0.8× 53 0.4× 59 1.4× 59 1.8× 25 602
Luis Itza Vazquez-Salazar Switzerland 7 124 0.6× 56 0.4× 68 0.5× 43 1.0× 17 0.5× 10 247

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pavan Kumar Behara

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All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Behara, Pavan Kumar, Michael M. Henry, Hugo MacDermott-Opeskin, et al.. (2024). Machine-learned molecular mechanics force fields from large-scale quantum chemical data. Chemical Science. 15(32). 12861–12878. 22 indexed citations
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Behara, Pavan Kumar, Hyesu Jang, Joshua T. Horton, et al.. (2024). Benchmarking Quantum Mechanical Levels of Theory for Valence Parametrization in Force Fields. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 128(32). 7888–7902. 6 indexed citations
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Behara, Pavan Kumar, Matthew W. Thompson, Trevor Gokey, et al.. (2024). The Open Force Field Initiative: Open Software and Open Science for Molecular Modeling. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 128(29). 7043–7067. 15 indexed citations
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Boothroyd, Simon, Pavan Kumar Behara, David F. Hahn, et al.. (2023). Development and Benchmarking of Open Force Field 2.0.0: The Sage Small Molecule Force Field. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(11). 3251–3275. 111 indexed citations breakdown →
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Horton, Joshua T., Simon Boothroyd, Pavan Kumar Behara, David L. Mobley, & Daniel J. Cole. (2023). A transferable double exponential potential for condensed phase simulations of small molecules. Digital Discovery. 2(4). 1178–1187. 13 indexed citations
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Eastman, Peter, Pavan Kumar Behara, David Dotson, et al.. (2023). SPICE, A Dataset of Drug-like Molecules and Peptides for Training Machine Learning Potentials. Scientific Data. 10(1). 11–11. 104 indexed citations breakdown →
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Behara, Pavan Kumar, Simon Boothroyd, David Dotson, et al.. (2023). Development and benchmarking of an open, self-consistent force field for proteins and small molecules from the open force field initiative. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 421a–421a. 1 indexed citations
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Horton, Joshua T., Simon Boothroyd, Jeffrey Wagner, et al.. (2022). Open Force Field BespokeFit: Automating Bespoke Torsion Parametrization at Scale. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 62(22). 5622–5633. 35 indexed citations
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Behara, Pavan Kumar & Michel Dupuis. (2019). Electron transfer in extended systems: characterization by periodic density functional theory including the electronic coupling. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(19). 10609–10623. 15 indexed citations
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Liu, Yang, Hanguang Zhang, Pavan Kumar Behara, et al.. (2018). Synthesis and Anisotropic Electrocatalytic Activity of Covellite Nanoplatelets with Fixed Thickness and Tunable Diameter. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(49). 42417–42426. 11 indexed citations
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Behara, Pavan Kumar, et al.. (2013). Review on alumina trihydrate precipitation mechanisms and effect of Bayer impurities on hydrate particle growth rate. International Journal of Mineral Processing. 125. 137–148. 30 indexed citations

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