Richard A. Kirian

12.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Richard A. Kirian is a scholar working on Radiation, Structural Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. Kirian has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Radiation, 21 papers in Structural Biology and 21 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Richard A. Kirian's work include Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (34 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (21 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (20 papers). Richard A. Kirian is often cited by papers focused on Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (34 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (21 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (20 papers). Richard A. Kirian collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Richard A. Kirian's co-authors include Henry N. Chapman, Thomas A. White, Anton Barty, Eric Schaible, Alexander Hexemer, Wim Bras, Matthew Church, H. A. Padmore, James M. Glossinger and Alastair A. MacDowell and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Physical Review B.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Kirian

46 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard A. Kirian United States	22	1.3k	862	642	545	497	49	2.2k
Filipe R. N. C. Maia Sweden	19	492 0.4×	950 1.1×	616 1.0×	230 0.4×	211 0.4×	45	1.6k
Changyong Song South Korea	29	607 0.5×	1.5k 1.8×	1.0k 1.6×	160 0.3×	250 0.5×	89	2.6k
Péter Falus France	28	1.2k 0.9×	277 0.3×	55 0.1×	594 1.1×	117 0.2×	76	2.7k
Thomas A. White Germany	24	1.6k 1.3×	850 1.0×	700 1.1×	789 1.4×	87 0.2×	45	2.0k
Judy S. Kim United Kingdom	18	888 0.7×	176 0.2×	410 0.6×	82 0.2×	643 1.3×	38	1.6k
Maximilian Haider Germany	20	506 0.4×	316 0.4×	1.1k 1.7×	227 0.4×	483 1.0×	43	2.1k
Oleksandr Yefanov Germany	22	1.0k 0.8×	770 0.9×	553 0.9×	491 0.9×	183 0.4×	72	1.7k
D. Starodub United States	17	671 0.5×	595 0.7×	403 0.6×	168 0.3×	615 1.2×	26	1.6k
Tadashi Matsushita Japan	21	534 0.4×	422 0.5×	32 0.0×	188 0.3×	235 0.5×	89	1.5k
P. Bösecke France	18	471 0.4×	181 0.2×	51 0.1×	229 0.4×	110 0.2×	40	1.2k

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Grant, Thomas D., Andrey V. Struts, Steven D.E. Fried, et al.. (2024). Membrane protein dynamics: Insights from femtosecond time-resolved X-ray solution scattering. Biophysical Journal. 123(3). 69a–69a. 1 indexed citations

Ros, Alexandra, et al.. (2024). Comprehensive characterization of gas dynamic virtual nozzles for x-ray free-electron laser experiments. Structural Dynamics. 11(6). 64302–64302. 1 indexed citations

Roth, Nils, Daniel A. Horke, Amit K. Samanta, et al.. (2023). New aerodynamic lens injector for single particle diffractive imaging. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 1058. 168820–168820. 3 indexed citations

Awel, Salah, Nils Roth, Daniel A. Horke, et al.. (2022). Optical Funnel to Guide and Focus Virus Particles for X-Ray Diffractive Imaging. Physical Review Applied. 17(4).

Ayyer, Kartik, Andrew J. Morgan, Andrew Aquila, et al.. (2019). Low-signal limit of X-ray single particle diffractive imaging. Optics Express. 27(26). 37816–37816. 24 indexed citations

Echelmeier, Austin, Daihyun Kim, Jorvani Cruz Villarreal, et al.. (2019). 3D printed droplet generation devices for serial femtosecond crystallography enabled by surface coating. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 52(5). 997–1008. 13 indexed citations

Li, Chufeng, Xuanxuan Li, Richard A. Kirian, et al.. (2018). SPIND: a reference-based auto-indexing algorithm for sparse serial crystallography data. IUCrJ. 6(1). 72–84. 16 indexed citations

Hantke, Max F., Johan Bielecki, Olena Kulyk, et al.. (2018). Rayleigh-scattering microscopy for tracking and sizing nanoparticles in focused aerosol beams. IUCrJ. 5(6). 673–680. 21 indexed citations

Graves, W., Joe Chen, Petra Fromme, et al.. (2018). ASU Compact XFEL. JACOW. 225–228. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiaolin, Andrey V. Struts, Sébastien Boutet, et al.. (2017). Time-Resolved Wide-Angle X-Ray Scattering Reveals Protein Quake in Rhodopsin Activation. Biophysical Journal. 112(3). 506a–507a.

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Echelmeier, Austin, Garrett Nelson, Daniel James, et al.. (2015). Biphasic droplet-based sample delivery of protein crystals for serial femtosecond crystallography with an x-ray free electron laser. 1374–1376. 2 indexed citations

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Stellato, Francesco, Dominik Oberthür, Mengning Liang, et al.. (2014). Room-temperature macromolecular serial crystallography using synchrotron radiation. IUCrJ. 1(4). 204–212. 192 indexed citations

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Kirian, Richard A., Richard Bean, Kenneth R. Beyerlein, et al.. (2014). Phasing coherently illuminated nanocrystals bounded by partial unit cells. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 369(1647). 20130331–20130331. 19 indexed citations

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Barty, Anton, Richard A. Kirian, Filipe R. N. C. Maia, et al.. (2014). Cheetah: software for high-throughput reduction and analysis of serial femtosecond X-ray diffraction data. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 47(3). 1118–1131. 204 indexed citations

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Martin, Andrew V., Adrian J. D’Alfonso, Fenglin Wang, et al.. (2014). X-ray holography with a customizable reference. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4661–4661. 18 indexed citations

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White, Thomas A., Anton Barty, Francesco Stellato, et al.. (2013). Crystallographic data processing for free-electron laser sources. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 69(7). 1231–1240. 84 indexed citations

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Kirian, Richard A.. (2012). Structure determination through correlated fluctuations in x-ray scattering. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 45(22). 223001–223001. 52 indexed citations

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White, Thomas A., Richard A. Kirian, Andrew V. Martin, et al.. (2012). CrystFEL: a software suite for snapshot serial crystallography. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 45(2). 335–341. 272 indexed citations

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Hunter, Mark S., Daniel P. DePonte, David A. Shapiro, et al.. (2011). X-ray Diffraction from Membrane Protein Nanocrystals. Biophysical Journal. 100(1). 198–206. 51 indexed citations

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Saldin, D. K., H. C. Poon, V. L. Shneerson, et al.. (2010). Beyond small-angle x-ray scattering: Exploiting angular correlations. Physical Review B. 81(17). 50 indexed citations

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