Philippe Ferrara

1.9k total citations
18 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Philippe Ferrara is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Ferrara has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Philippe Ferrara's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). Philippe Ferrara is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). Philippe Ferrara collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and Germany. Philippe Ferrara's co-authors include Amedeo Caflisch, Joannis Apostolakis, Holger Gohlke, G. Klebe, D.J. Price, Charles L. Brooks, Jörg Gsponer, A. Baldereschi, N. Binggeli and Andrea Cavalli and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Ferrara

18 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Philippe Ferrara Switzerland 15 1.3k 496 348 269 189 18 1.6k
Yoshifumi Fukunishi Japan 25 1.2k 1.0× 335 0.7× 529 1.5× 319 1.2× 226 1.2× 116 1.9k
Nuria Plattner Switzerland 14 1.4k 1.1× 376 0.8× 253 0.7× 284 1.1× 262 1.4× 21 1.8k
John Mongan United States 8 1.9k 1.5× 530 1.1× 317 0.9× 499 1.9× 313 1.7× 8 2.3k
Rafal Wiewiora United States 7 1.5k 1.2× 571 1.2× 365 1.0× 301 1.1× 193 1.0× 10 2.1k
Junichi Higo Japan 31 2.0k 1.6× 789 1.6× 234 0.7× 517 1.9× 482 2.6× 113 2.4k
Joannis Apostolakis Germany 23 1.3k 1.0× 412 0.8× 545 1.6× 290 1.1× 201 1.1× 28 1.7k
Chaya Stern United States 4 1.3k 1.0× 497 1.0× 339 1.0× 292 1.1× 186 1.0× 5 1.9k
Yutong Zhao China 4 1.3k 1.0× 454 0.9× 286 0.8× 275 1.0× 199 1.1× 7 1.8k
Daniel Trzesniak Switzerland 12 1.2k 0.9× 445 0.9× 120 0.3× 483 1.8× 237 1.3× 16 1.7k
Michael E. Wall United States 26 1.4k 1.1× 539 1.1× 133 0.4× 149 0.6× 162 0.9× 71 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Philippe Ferrara

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Ferrara, Philippe & Edgar Jacoby. (2007). Evaluation of the utility of homology models in high throughput docking. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 13(8). 897–905. 32 indexed citations
2.
Ferrara, Philippe, John P. Priestle, Eric Vangrevelinghe, & Edgar Jacoby. (2006). New Developments and Applications of Docking and High-Throughput Docking for Drug Design and in silico Screening. Current Computer - Aided Drug Design. 2(1). 83–91. 5 indexed citations
3.
Jacoby, Edgar, Ansgar Schuffenhauer, Khalil Azzaoui, et al.. (2004). Molecular Informatics as an Enabling in silico Technology Platform for Drug Discovery. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 58(9). 577–577. 3 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Philippe, Holger Gohlke, D.J. Price, G. Klebe, & Charles L. Brooks. (2004). Assessing Scoring Functions for Protein−Ligand Interactions. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 47(12). 3032–3047. 395 indexed citations
5.
Cavalli, Andrea, Philippe Ferrara, & Amedeo Caflisch. (2002). Weak temperature dependence of the free energy surface and folding pathways of structured peptides. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 47(3). 305–314. 58 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Philippe & Amedeo Caflisch. (2001). Native topology or specific interactions: what is more important for protein folding?. Journal of Molecular Biology. 306(4). 837–850. 52 indexed citations
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Gsponer, Jörg, Philippe Ferrara, & Amedeo Caflisch. (2001). Flexibility of the murine prion protein and its Asp178Asn mutant investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. 20(2). 169–182. 49 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Philippe, Joannis Apostolakis, & Amedeo Caflisch. (2001). Evaluation of a fast implicit solvent model for molecular dynamics simulations. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 46(1). 24–33. 256 indexed citations
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Gorfe, Alemayehu A., Philippe Ferrara, Amedeo Caflisch, et al.. (2001). Calculation of protein ionization equilibria with conformational sampling: pKa of a model leucine zipper, GCN4 and barnase. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 46(1). 41–60. 49 indexed citations
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Binggeli, N., Philippe Ferrara, & A. Baldereschi. (2001). Band-offset trends in nitride heterojunctions. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 63(24). 39 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Philippe, Joannis Apostolakis, & Amedeo Caflisch. (2000). Computer simulations of protein folding by targeted molecular dynamics. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 39(3). 252–260. 60 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Philippe, Joannis Apostolakis, & Amedeo Caflisch. (2000). Targeted Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Protein Unfolding. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 104(18). 4511–4518. 35 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Philippe, et al.. (2000). Free Energy Surface of the Helical Peptide Y(MEARA)6. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 104(43). 10080–10086. 53 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Philippe, Joannis Apostolakis, & Amedeo Caflisch. (2000). Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Folding of Two Model Peptides Investigated by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 104(20). 5000–5010. 122 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Philippe & Amedeo Caflisch. (2000). Folding simulations of a three-stranded antiparallel β-sheet peptide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97(20). 10780–10785. 162 indexed citations
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Apostolakis, Joannis, Philippe Ferrara, & Amedeo Caflisch. (1999). Calculation of conformational transitions and barriers in solvated systems: Application to the alanine dipeptide in water. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 110(4). 2099–2108. 184 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Philippe, N. Binggeli, & A. Baldereschi. (1997). Band discontinuities in zinc-blende and wurtzite AlN/SiC heterostructures. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 55(12). R7418–R7426. 20 indexed citations
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Binggeli, N., Philippe Ferrara, & A. Baldereschi. (1997). Band Offsets In GaN/AlN and AlN/SiC Heterojunctions. MRS Proceedings. 482. 4 indexed citations

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