Piotr Cieplak

49.5k total citations · 12 hit papers
126 papers, 41.0k citations indexed

About

Piotr Cieplak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Piotr Cieplak has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 41.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 21 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Piotr Cieplak's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (36 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (27 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (26 papers). Piotr Cieplak is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (36 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (27 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (26 papers). Piotr Cieplak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and France. Piotr Cieplak's co-authors include Peter A. Kollman, Wendy D. Cornell, Christopher I. Bayly, Junmei Wang, James W. Caldwell, Kenneth M. Merz, Thomas Fox, David M. Ferguson, Ian R. Gould and David C. Spellmeyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Piotr Cieplak

123 papers receiving 40.5k citations

Hit Papers

A Second Generation Force... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1995 1993 2000 2003 2000 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
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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. A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules
    1995 11.3k citations Wendy D. Cornell, Piotr Cieplak et al. profile →
  2. A well-behaved electrostatic potential based method using charge restraints for deriving atomic charges: the RESP model
    1993 6.7k citations Christopher I. Bayly, Piotr Cieplak et al. profile →
  3. Calculating Structures and Free Energies of Complex Molecules:  Combining Molecular Mechanics and Continuum Models
    2000 4.0k citations Peter A. Kollman, Tai‐Sung Lee et al. profile →
  4. A point‐charge force field for molecular mechanics simulations of proteins based on condensed‐phase quantum mechanical calculations
    2003 3.9k citations Yong Duan, Chun Wu et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →
  5. How well does a restrained electrostatic potential (RESP) model perform in calculating conformational energies of organic and biological molecules?
    2000 3.5k citations Junmei Wang, Piotr Cieplak et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →
  6. Continuum Solvent Studies of the Stability of DNA, RNA, and Phosphoramidate−DNA Helices
    1998 1.4k citations Piotr Cieplak, Peter A. Kollman et al. profile →
  7. Application of RESP charges to calculate conformational energies, hydrogen bond energies, and free energies of solvation
    1993 1.2k citations Wendy D. Cornell, Piotr Cieplak et al. profile →
  8. S-Nitrosylation of Drp1 Mediates β-Amyloid-Related Mitochondrial Fission and Neuronal Injury
    2009 892 citations Piotr Cieplak, Adam Godzik et al. profile →
  9. Application of the multimolecule and multiconformational RESP methodology to biopolymers: Charge derivation for DNA, RNA, and proteins
    1995 885 citations Piotr Cieplak, Wendy D. Cornell et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →
  10. A Modified Version of the Cornellet al.Force Field with Improved Sugar Pucker Phases and Helical Repeat
    1999 839 citations Piotr Cieplak, Peter A. Kollman et al. profile →
  11. The R.E.D. tools: advances in RESP and ESP charge derivation and force field library building
    2010 762 citations Piotr Cieplak et al. profile →
  12. R.E.D. Server: a web service for deriving RESP and ESP charges and building force field libraries for new molecules and molecular fragments
    2011 674 citations Piotr Cieplak et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Piotr Cieplak United States 46 26.4k 7.3k 6.7k 4.8k 4.1k 126 41.0k
Alan E. Mark Australia 74 26.8k 1.0× 8.1k 1.1× 7.6k 1.1× 5.6k 1.2× 3.5k 0.8× 242 44.1k
Kenneth M. Merz United States 73 23.0k 0.9× 8.7k 1.2× 8.0k 1.2× 6.7k 1.4× 4.7k 1.1× 374 41.5k
Jeffry D. Madura United States 37 24.2k 0.9× 8.3k 1.1× 9.7k 1.4× 4.6k 1.0× 4.2k 1.0× 127 43.4k
Darrin M. York United States 52 20.8k 0.8× 6.2k 0.8× 6.0k 0.9× 4.0k 0.8× 2.7k 0.7× 251 35.4k
Christopher I. Bayly United States 33 17.5k 0.7× 5.8k 0.8× 4.8k 0.7× 4.3k 0.9× 3.0k 0.7× 77 29.0k
Lee G. Pedersen United States 43 29.2k 1.1× 8.7k 1.2× 7.8k 1.2× 5.7k 1.2× 4.1k 1.0× 222 50.5k
Bernard R. Brooks United States 66 24.1k 0.9× 8.1k 1.1× 8.5k 1.3× 3.0k 0.6× 4.4k 1.1× 307 35.5k
James W. Caldwell United States 22 21.0k 0.8× 7.3k 1.0× 6.2k 0.9× 4.7k 1.0× 3.8k 0.9× 33 36.1k
Tom Darden United States 28 33.8k 1.3× 9.7k 1.3× 8.1k 1.2× 5.8k 1.2× 4.3k 1.0× 49 55.7k
Jeremy C. Smith United States 92 32.0k 1.2× 7.8k 1.1× 5.7k 0.9× 3.9k 0.8× 3.7k 0.9× 848 58.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Duan, Yong, Junmei Wang, Piotr Cieplak, & Ray Luo. (2025). Refinement of Atomic Polarizabilities for a Polarizable Gaussian Multipole Force Field with Simultaneous Considerations of Both Molecular Polarizability Tensors and In-Solution Electrostatic Potentials. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(3). 1428–1440. 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Shiji, Piotr Cieplak, Yong Duan, & Ray Luo. (2023). Transferability of the Electrostatic Parameters of the Polarizable Gaussian Multipole Model. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(3). 924–941. 9 indexed citations
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Huang, Zhen, Shiji Zhao, Piotr Cieplak, et al.. (2023). Optimal Scheme to Achieve Energy Conservation in Induced Dipole Models. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(15). 5047–5057. 7 indexed citations
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Shiryaev, Sergey A., Piotr Cieplak, Anton Cheltsov, Robert Liddington, & Alexey V. Terskikh. (2023). Dual function of Zika virus NS2B-NS3 protease. PLoS Pathogens. 19(11). e1011795–e1011795. 6 indexed citations
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Frączyk, Tomasz & Piotr Cieplak. (2022). Neglected N-Truncated Amyloid-β Peptide and Its Mixed Cu–Zn Complexes. The Protein Journal. 41(3). 361–368. 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Shiji, Haixin Wei, Piotr Cieplak, Yong Duan, & Ray Luo. (2022). PyRESP: A Program for Electrostatic Parameterizations of Additive and Induced Dipole Polarizable Force Fields. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18(6). 3654–3670. 20 indexed citations
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Ratnikov, Boris I., et al.. (2021). Quantitative profiling of protease specificity. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(2). e1008101–e1008101. 9 indexed citations
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Strongin, Alex Y., Alex Sloutsky, & Piotr Cieplak. (2020). A Note on the Potential BCG Vaccination – COVID-19 Molecular Link. Coronaviruses. 1(1). 4–6. 3 indexed citations
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Ratnikov, Boris I., Piotr Cieplak, Kosi Gramatikoff, et al.. (2014). Basis for substrate recognition and distinction by matrix metalloproteinases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(40). 70 indexed citations
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Wang, Junmei, Piotr Cieplak, Jie Li, et al.. (2011). Development of Polarizable Models for Molecular Mechanical Calculations II: Induced Dipole Models Significantly Improve Accuracy of Intermolecular Interaction Energies. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 115(12). 3100–3111. 115 indexed citations
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Deng, Nanjie & Piotr Cieplak. (2010). Free Energy Profile of RNA Hairpins: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study. Biophysical Journal. 98(4). 627–636. 53 indexed citations
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Cieplak, Piotr, et al.. (2009). Polarization effects in molecular mechanical force fields. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 21(33). 333102–333102. 265 indexed citations
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Remacle, Albert G., Sergey A. Shiryaev, Eok‐Soo Oh, et al.. (2008). Substrate Cleavage Analysis of Furin and Related Proprotein Convertases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(30). 20897–20906. 111 indexed citations
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Yang, Lijiang, Junmei Wang, Yong Duan, et al.. (2006). New-Generation Amber United-Atom Force Field. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 110(26). 13166–13176. 157 indexed citations
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Duan, Yong, Chun Wu, Shibasish Chowdhury, et al.. (2003). A point‐charge force field for molecular mechanics simulations of proteins based on condensed‐phase quantum mechanical calculations. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 24(16). 1999–2012. 3867 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cieplak, Piotr, Wendy D. Cornell, Christopher I. Bayly, & Peter A. Kollman. (1995). Application of the multimolecule and multiconformational RESP methodology to biopolymers: Charge derivation for DNA, RNA, and proteins. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 16(11). 1357–1377. 885 indexed citations breakdown →
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Szczȩśniak, M. M., Grzegorz Chałasiński, Sławomir M. Cybulski, & Piotr Cieplak. (1993). Ab initio study of the potential energy surface of CH4-H2O. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 98(4). 3078–3089. 97 indexed citations
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Cieplak, Piotr & Maciej Geller. (1989). Solvation of the tautomeric forms of 2-oxopyrimidine in chloroform solution: a Monte Carlo simulation. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 184(3-4). 221–230. 1 indexed citations
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Cieplak, Piotr & Maciej Geller. (1985). Hydration of the tautomeric forms of 2-oxopyrimidine. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 22(1-5). 247–258.

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