Rob Phillips

22.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
187 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Rob Phillips is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Phillips has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Molecular Biology, 45 papers in Materials Chemistry and 36 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Rob Phillips's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (33 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (32 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (29 papers). Rob Phillips is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (33 papers), Microstructure and mechanical properties (32 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (29 papers). Rob Phillips collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and France. Rob Phillips's co-authors include Ron Milo, Yinon M. Bar‐On, Ellad B. Tadmor, M. Ortíz, Paul A. Wiggins, Hernán G. García, Jané Kondev, Ronald E. Miller, Tristan Ursell and Pierre Sens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Rob Phillips

183 papers receiving 14.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The biomass distribution on Earth

2018 1.9k citations Rob Phillips et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Quasicontinuum analysis of defects in solids

1996 1.1k citations Rob Phillips et al. profile →
Emerging roles for lipids in shaping membrane-protein function

2009 805 citations Rob Phillips, Tristan Ursell et al. profile →
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers

2020 684 citations Rob Phillips et al. eLife profile →
Transcriptional regulation by the numbers: models

2005 558 citations Hernán G. García, Jané Kondev et al. profile →
An adaptive finite element approach to atomic-scale mechanics—the quasicontinuum method

1999 478 citations Rob Phillips et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rob Phillips United States	54	6.8k	3.2k	2.0k	2.0k	1.9k	187	14.9k
Herbert Levine United States	84	7.5k 1.1×	3.1k 0.9×	926 0.5×	272 0.1×	2.7k 1.4×	461	24.0k
R. M. Stroud United States	67	6.1k 0.9×	4.5k 1.4×	243 0.1×	851 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	376	16.4k
Jørgen Kjems Denmark	86	29.5k 4.3×	2.5k 0.8×	453 0.2×	1.1k 0.5×	3.2k 1.6×	495	38.5k
Robijn Bruinsma United States	58	3.3k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	368 0.2×	1.3k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	220	10.5k
Jayanth R. Banavar United States	64	3.2k 0.5×	3.6k 1.1×	625 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	309	14.4k
Yasuhiro Minami Japan	60	9.7k 1.4×	2.3k 0.7×	217 0.1×	589 0.3×	2.4k 1.2×	220	24.5k
Michiru Nishita Japan	37	6.8k 1.0×	2.3k 0.7×	214 0.1×	581 0.3×	2.4k 1.2×	65	18.4k
Victor W. Hsu United States	40	5.8k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	213 0.1×	586 0.3×	2.3k 1.2×	82	18.0k
P. Mazur United States	65	3.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	855 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	2.3k 1.2×	341	19.2k
David R. Nelson United States	99	4.3k 0.6×	11.0k 3.4×	749 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	4.3k 2.2×	410	42.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob Phillips

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rob Phillips. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rob Phillips based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Rob Phillips. Rob Phillips is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Yang, Fan, Shichen Liu, Heun Jin Lee, Rob Phillips, & Matt Thomson. (2025). Dynamic flow control through active matter programming language. Nature Materials. 24(4). 615–625. 4 indexed citations

Einav, Tal, et al.. (2025). Glycolysis model shows that allostery maintains high ATP and limits accumulation of intermediates. Biophysical Journal. 124(10). 1562–1586. 5 indexed citations

García, Hernán G., et al.. (2024). Deciphering regulatory architectures of bacterial promoters from synthetic expression patterns. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(12). e1012697–e1012697. 1 indexed citations

García, Hernán G., et al.. (2024). Flexibility and sensitivity in gene regulation out of equilibrium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(46). e2411395121–e2411395121. 7 indexed citations

Suresh, Pooja, et al.. (2022). Modeling and mechanical perturbations reveal how spatially regulated anchorage gives rise to spatially distinct mechanics across the mammalian spindle. eLife. 11.

Chure, Griffin, Nathan M. Belliveau, Michael Anaya, et al.. (2020). Sequence-dependent dynamics of synthetic and endogenous RSSs in V(D)J recombination. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(12). 6726–6739. 7 indexed citations

Ireland, William T., Nicholas S. McCarty, Nathan M. Belliveau, et al.. (2020). Deciphering the regulatory genome of Escherichia coli, one hundred promoters at a time. eLife. 9. 31 indexed citations

Chure, Griffin, Nathan M. Belliveau, Tal Einav, et al.. (2019). Predictive shifts in free energy couple mutations to their phenotypic consequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(37). 18275–18284. 21 indexed citations

Einav, Tal & Rob Phillips. (2019). How the avidity of polymerase binding to the –35/–10 promoter sites affects gene expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(27). 13340–13345. 26 indexed citations

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Hueschen, Christina L., et al.. (2019). Microtubule End-Clustering Maintains a Steady-State Spindle Shape. Current Biology. 29(4). 700–708.e5. 17 indexed citations

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Belliveau, Nathan M., Stephanie L. Barnes, William T. Ireland, et al.. (2018). Systematic approach for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(21). E4796–E4805. 60 indexed citations

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Jones, Daniel, et al.. (2018). Measuring cis-regulatory energetics in living cells using allelic manifolds. eLife. 7. 16 indexed citations

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Phillips, Rob, et al.. (2015). Predicting the impact of promoter variability on regulatory outputs. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 18238–18238. 9 indexed citations

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Phillips, Rob & Joe Brierley. (2014). Fluid responsiveness is about stroke volume, and not pulse pressure Yogi: the power of Doppler fluid management and cardiovascular monitoring. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing. 29(1). 197–200. 5 indexed citations

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Weinert, Franz M., Robert C. Brewster, Mattias Rydenfelt, Rob Phillips, & Willem K. Kegel. (2014). Scaling of Gene Expression with Transcription-Factor Fugacity. Physical Review Letters. 113(25). 258101–258101. 33 indexed citations

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Johnson, Stephanie L., Jan-Willem van de Meent, Rob Phillips, Chris H. Wiggins, & Martin Lindén. (2014). Multiple LacI-mediated loops revealed by Bayesian statistics and tethered particle motion. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(16). 10265–10277. 24 indexed citations

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Johnson, Stephanie L., Yi‐Ju Chen, & Rob Phillips. (2013). Poly(dA:dT)-Rich DNAs Are Highly Flexible in the Context of DNA Looping. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e75799–e75799. 33 indexed citations

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García, Hernán G., et al.. (2011). Thermodynamics of Biological Processes. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 492. 27–59. 41 indexed citations

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Ursell, Tristan, Ashutosh Agrawal, & Rob Phillips. (2011). Lipid Bilayer Mechanics in a Pipette with Glass-Bilayer Adhesion. Biophysical Journal. 101(8). 1913–1920. 28 indexed citations

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Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth, Rob Phillips, Eun Young Ha, et al.. (2010). Leveraging Hidden Dialogue State to Select Tutorial Moves. 66–73. 8 indexed citations

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