Péter Tompa

33.7k total citations · 12 hit papers
240 papers, 23.8k citations indexed

About

Péter Tompa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Péter Tompa has authored 240 papers receiving a total of 23.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 209 papers in Molecular Biology, 66 papers in Materials Chemistry and 65 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Péter Tompa's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (104 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (66 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (52 papers). Péter Tompa is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (104 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (66 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (52 papers). Péter Tompa collaborates with scholars based in Hungary, Belgium and United States. Péter Tompa's co-authors include István Simon, Mónika Fuxreiter, Zsuzsanna Dosztányi, Veronika Csizmók, Rohit V. Pappu, Vladimir N. Uversky, Clifford P. Brangwynne, Péter Friedrich, Dénes Kovács and Rita Pancsa and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Péter Tompa

239 papers receiving 23.6k citations

Hit Papers

Intrinsically unstructured proteins 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2005 2014 2018 2015 500 1000 1.5k
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. Intrinsically unstructured proteins
    2002 1.7k citations Péter Tompa Trends in Biochemical Sciences profile →
  2. IUPred: web server for the prediction of intrinsically unstructured regions of proteins based on estimated energy content
    2005 1.6k citations Zsuzsanna Dosztányi, Péter Tompa et al. profile →
  3. Classification of Intrinsically Disordered Regions and Proteins
    2014 1.6k citations Robin van der Lee, Marija Buljan et al. profile →
  4. Protein Phase Separation: A New Phase in Cell Biology
    2018 1.4k citations Steven Boeynaems, Frédéric Rousseau et al. profile →
  5. Polymer physics of intracellular phase transitions
    2015 1.1k citations Péter Tompa, Rohit V. Pappu et al. profile →
  6. Fuzzy complexes: polymorphism and structural disorder in protein–protein interactions
    2007 858 citations Péter Tompa, Mónika Fuxreiter Trends in Biochemical Sciences profile →
  7. The Pairwise Energy Content Estimated from Amino Acid Composition Discriminates between Folded and Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins
    2005 799 citations Zsuzsanna Dosztányi, Péter Tompa et al. profile →
  8. DisProt: the Database of Disordered Proteins
    2006 651 citations Ágnes Tantos, Beáta Szabó et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  9. Introducing Protein Intrinsic Disorder
    2014 590 citations Péter Tompa, Vladimir N. Uversky et al. profile →
  10. The interplay between structure and function in intrinsically unstructured proteins
    2005 572 citations Péter Tompa profile →
  11. Intrinsically disordered proteins: a 10-year recap
    2012 495 citations Péter Tompa Trends in Biochemical Sciences profile →
  12. Spontaneous driving forces give rise to protein−RNA condensates with coexisting phases and complex material properties
    2019 341 citations Steven Boeynaems, Alex S. Holehouse et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Péter Tompa Hungary 64 19.9k 4.9k 3.4k 1.8k 1.6k 240 23.8k
A. Keith Dunker United States 75 22.6k 1.1× 6.2k 1.3× 2.8k 0.8× 2.0k 1.1× 1.6k 1.0× 163 26.8k
Michaël Nilges France 64 23.8k 1.2× 7.0k 1.4× 3.1k 0.9× 2.7k 1.5× 1.2k 0.8× 219 30.5k
Geerten W. Vuister Netherlands 46 15.8k 0.8× 3.8k 0.8× 2.0k 0.6× 3.0k 1.7× 883 0.6× 120 20.2k
Luís Serrano Spain 76 19.6k 1.0× 5.5k 1.1× 2.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 788 0.5× 314 23.5k
John Kuriyan United States 99 28.8k 1.4× 4.5k 0.9× 4.9k 1.5× 1.1k 0.6× 941 0.6× 235 38.8k
Christopher J. Oldfield United States 52 14.3k 0.7× 4.0k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 913 0.6× 89 17.1k
Guang Zhu Hong Kong 32 13.7k 0.7× 3.1k 0.6× 1.9k 0.6× 2.3k 1.3× 685 0.4× 125 18.4k
Julie D. Forman‐Kay Canada 77 18.7k 0.9× 4.9k 1.0× 2.2k 0.6× 2.8k 1.6× 653 0.4× 218 21.8k
T. Alwyn Jones Sweden 66 21.1k 1.1× 6.0k 1.2× 2.5k 0.7× 762 0.4× 2.1k 1.3× 181 29.7k
Wayne A. Hendrickson United States 89 20.0k 1.0× 5.5k 1.1× 3.9k 1.1× 1.1k 0.6× 831 0.5× 300 32.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Péter Tompa

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lázár, Tamás, et al.. (2025). Phase-separating fusion proteins drive cancer by upsetting transcription regulation. Genome biology. 26(1). 330–330. 1 indexed citations
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Lengerer, Birgit, Joris Van Lindt, Sébastien Carpentier, et al.. (2024). Recurrent evolution of adhesive defence systems in amphibians by parallel shifts in gene expression. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5612–5612. 1 indexed citations
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Lázár, Tamás, Attila Mészáros, Quentin Galand, et al.. (2024). C9orf72-linked arginine-rich dipeptide repeats aggravate pathological phase separation of G3BP1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(50). e2402847121–e2402847121. 1 indexed citations
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Rocha, Fernando, et al.. (2023). Quantification of Surface Tension Effects and Nucleation‐and‐Growth Rates during Self‐Assembly of Biological Condensates. Advanced Science. 10(23). e2301501–e2301501. 3 indexed citations
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Groot, Anke de, Stefan Magez, Didier Vertommen, et al.. (2023). Biophysical characterization of the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein's N‐terminal domain. Protein Science. 33(1). e4852–e4852. 4 indexed citations
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Michiels, Emiel, Anna Bratek‐Skicki, Mathias De Decker, et al.. (2021). Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation Enhances TDP-43 LCD Aggregation but Delays Seeded Aggregation. Biomolecules. 11(4). 548–548. 33 indexed citations
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Boeynaems, Steven, Alex S. Holehouse, Venera Weinhardt, et al.. (2019). Spontaneous driving forces give rise to protein−RNA condensates with coexisting phases and complex material properties. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(16). 7889–7898. 341 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mészáros, Bálint, Gábor Erdős, Beáta Szabó, et al.. (2019). PhaSePro: the database of proteins driving liquid–liquid phase separation. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(D1). D360–D367. 138 indexed citations
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Contreras-Martos, Sara, Alessandro Piai, Simone Kosol, et al.. (2017). Linking functions: an additional role for an intrinsically disordered linker domain in the transcriptional coactivator CBP. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 32 indexed citations
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Fischer, Baptiste, Beatriz M. Bonini, Héctor Quezada, et al.. (2017). Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate couples glycolytic flux to activation of Ras. Nature Communications. 8(1). 922–922. 144 indexed citations
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Boeynaems, Steven, Mathias De Decker, Péter Tompa, & Ludo Van Den Bosch. (2017). Arginine-rich Peptides Can Actively Mediate Liquid-liquid Phase Separation. BIO-PROTOCOL. 7(17). e2525–e2525. 27 indexed citations
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Guharoy, Mainak, Pallab Bhowmick, & Péter Tompa. (2016). Design Principles Involving Protein Disorder Facilitate Specific Substrate Selection and Degradation by the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(13). 6723–6731. 40 indexed citations
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Aouacheria, Abdel, Christophe Combet, Péter Tompa, & J. Marie Hardwick. (2015). Redefining the BH3 Death Domain as a ‘Short Linear Motif’. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 40(12). 736–748. 44 indexed citations
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Lee, Robin van der, Marija Buljan, Benjamin Lang, et al.. (2014). Classification of Intrinsically Disordered Regions and Proteins. Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 1 indexed citations
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Tantos, Ágnes, Beáta Szabó, András Láng, et al.. (2013). Multiple fuzzy interactions in the moonlighting function of thymosin-β4. PubMed. 1(1). e26204–e26204. 10 indexed citations
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Fuxreiter, Mónika & Péter Tompa. (2012). Fuzziness : structural disorder in protein complexes. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 23 indexed citations
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Hegyi, Hédi & Péter Tompa. (2011). Increased structural disorder of proteins encoded on human sex chromosomes. Molecular BioSystems. 8(1). 229–236. 19 indexed citations
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Tompa, Péter, et al.. (2009). Limitations of Induced Folding in Molecular Recognition by Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. ChemPhysChem. 10(9-10). 1415–1419. 84 indexed citations
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Kovács, Dénes, Éva Kalmár, Zsolt Török, & Péter Tompa. (2008). Chaperone Activity of ERD10 and ERD14, Two Disordered Stress-Related Plant Proteins. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 147(1). 381–390. 325 indexed citations
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Tompa, Péter, Éva Schád, & Péter Friedrich. (2003). A Sensitive and Continuous Fluorometric Activity Assay Using a Natural Substrate: Microtubule-Associated Protein 2. Humana Press eBooks. 144. 137–141. 3 indexed citations

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