R. Skyner

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 673 citations indexed

About

R. Skyner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Skyner has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 673 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 6 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in R. Skyner's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (6 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). R. Skyner is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (6 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). R. Skyner collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and United States. R. Skyner's co-authors include John B. O. Mitchell, Colin R. Groom, James L. McDonagh, Tanja van Mourik, F. von Delft, Louise Dunnett, D. Fearon, A. Douangamath, T.J. Gorrie-Stone and J. Brandão-Neto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

R. Skyner

11 papers receiving 663 citations

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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.

A review of methods for the calculation of solution free energies and the modelling of systems in solution

2015 406 citations R. Skyner, James L. McDonagh et al. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. Skyner United Kingdom	7	204	202	178	152	90	11	673
Qingyi Yang United States	20	289 1.4×	317 1.6×	118 0.7×	193 1.3×	43 0.5×	33	871
Marina Macchiagodena Italy	17	225 1.1×	153 0.8×	143 0.8×	152 1.0×	115 1.3×	35	829
Zahra Aliakbar Tehrani Iran	13	145 0.7×	139 0.7×	146 0.8×	34 0.2×	49 0.5×	36	546
Amit Das India	17	338 1.7×	236 1.2×	103 0.6×	79 0.5×	238 2.6×	42	817
Abdelouahid Sbai Morocco	19	222 1.1×	74 0.4×	406 2.3×	320 2.1×	43 0.5×	61	820
Sourav Pal India	12	221 1.1×	156 0.8×	433 2.4×	135 0.9×	30 0.3×	19	830
Koji Okuwaki Japan	14	189 0.9×	122 0.6×	82 0.5×	141 0.9×	59 0.7×	47	487
V. Viswanathan India	15	148 0.7×	139 0.7×	250 1.4×	71 0.5×	41 0.5×	76	701
Marcin Hoffmann Poland	19	396 1.9×	251 1.2×	543 3.1×	98 0.6×	71 0.8×	113	1.3k
Osmair Vital de Oliveira Brazil	11	79 0.4×	129 0.6×	144 0.8×	97 0.6×	66 0.7×	36	468

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. Skyner

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All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Skyner, R., et al.. (2025). Application of Deep Learning to Predict the Persistence, Bioaccumulation, and Toxicity of Pharmaceuticals. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(7). 3248–3261. 4 indexed citations

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Ferla, Matteo P., Rubén Sánchez-García, R. Skyner, et al.. (2025). Fragmenstein: predicting protein–ligand structures of compounds derived from known crystallographic fragment hits using a strict conserved-binding–based methodology. Journal of Cheminformatics. 17(1). 4–4. 3 indexed citations

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Carbery, Anna, et al.. (2024). Learnt representations of proteins can be used for accurate prediction of small molecule binding sites on experimentally determined and predicted protein structures. Journal of Cheminformatics. 16(1). 32–32. 14 indexed citations

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Bray, Simon, Tim Dudgeon, R. Skyner, et al.. (2022). Galaxy workflows for fragment-based virtual screening: a case study on the SARS-CoV-2 main protease. Journal of Cheminformatics. 14(1). 22–22. 5 indexed citations

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Pearce, Nicholas M., R. Skyner, & T. Krojer. (2022). Experiences From Developing Software for Large X-Ray Crystallography-Driven Protein-Ligand Studies. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9. 861491–861491. 2 indexed citations

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Carbery, Anna, R. Skyner, F. von Delft, & Charlotte M. Deane. (2022). Fragment Libraries Designed to Be Functionally Diverse Recover Protein Binding Information More Efficiently Than Standard Structurally Diverse Libraries. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65(16). 11404–11413. 20 indexed citations

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Newman, J.A., A. Douangamath, Y. Yosaatmadja, et al.. (2021). Structure, mechanism and crystallographic fragment screening of the SARS-CoV-2 NSP13 helicase. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4848–4848. 155 indexed citations

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Douangamath, A., A.J. Powell, D. Fearon, et al.. (2021). Achieving Efficient Fragment Screening at XChem Facility at Diamond Light Source. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 40 indexed citations

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Skyner, R., John B. O. Mitchell, & Colin R. Groom. (2016). Probing the average distribution of water in organic hydrate crystal structures with radial distribution functions (RDFs). CrystEngComm. 19(4). 641–652. 11 indexed citations

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Skyner, R., James L. McDonagh, Colin R. Groom, Tanja van Mourik, & John B. O. Mitchell. (2015). A review of methods for the calculation of solution free energies and the modelling of systems in solution. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 17(9). 6174–6191. 406 indexed citations breakdown →

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Munshi, Tasnim, et al.. (2012). Building multi-component crystals from cations and co-crystals: the use of chaperones. CrystEngComm. 15(12). 2241–2250. 13 indexed citations

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