Ross C. Walker

18.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
77 papers, 13.6k citations indexed

About

Ross C. Walker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ross C. Walker has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 13.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 17 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ross C. Walker's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (36 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (26 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (12 papers). Ross C. Walker is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (36 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (26 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (12 papers). Ross C. Walker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Norway. Ross C. Walker's co-authors include Romelia Salomón–Ferrer, Andreas W. Götz, David A. Case, Duncan Poole, Adrián E. Roitberg, Ian R. Gould, Mark J. Williamson, Dong Xu, Callum J. Dickson and J. Andrew McCammon and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ross C. Walker

77 papers receiving 13.5k 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.

Routine Microsecond Molecular Dynamics Simulations with AMBER on GPUs. 2. Explicit Solvent Particle Mesh Ewald

2013 2.6k citations Romelia Salomón–Ferrer, Andreas W. Götz et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →
An overview of the Amber biomolecular simulation package

2012 2.0k citations Romelia Salomón–Ferrer, David A. Case et al. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science profile →
Routine Microsecond Molecular Dynamics Simulations with AMBER on GPUs. 1. Generalized Born

2012 1.6k citations Andreas W. Götz, Mark J. Williamson et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →
Lipid14: The Amber Lipid Force Field

2014 1.0k citations Callum J. Dickson, Åge A. Skjevik et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →
Long-Time-Step Molecular Dynamics through Hydrogen Mass Repartitioning

2015 884 citations Ross C. Walker, Adrián E. Roitberg et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →
SPFP: Speed without compromise—A mixed precision model for GPU accelerated molecular dynamics simulations

2012 854 citations Andreas W. Götz, Ross C. Walker et al. profile →
GPU-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics and Free Energy Methods in Amber18: Performance Enhancements and New Features

2018 330 citations Charles Lin, Adrián E. Roitberg et al. profile →
Lipid21: Complex Lipid Membrane Simulations with AMBER

2022 177 citations Callum J. Dickson, Ross C. Walker et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ross C. Walker United States	39	9.7k	2.1k	1.7k	1.6k	1.3k	77	13.6k
Yong Duan United States	41	10.5k 1.1×	3.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	197	14.8k
Johan Åqvist Sweden	57	9.5k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	2.2k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	204	13.4k
Kenno Vanommeslaeghe United States	25	6.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	38	11.2k
Pedro E. M. Lopes United States	23	7.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	40	11.6k
Nathan Baker United States	42	10.6k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	855 0.7×	114	15.4k
M Abraham Australia	6	9.5k 1.0×	2.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.6×	6	18.2k
Ray Luo United States	43	12.6k 1.3×	3.3k 1.6×	2.1k 1.2×	2.3k 1.5×	1.4k 1.1×	180	17.5k
Rosemary Braun United States	20	10.1k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	925 0.6×	982 0.8×	46	15.8k
Tai‐Sung Lee United States	31	8.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	76	11.8k
Jing Huang China	32	7.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	761 0.6×	135	11.0k

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MacDermaid, Christopher M., et al.. (2022). RNA folding using quantum computers. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(4). e1010032–e1010032. 16 indexed citations

Dickson, Callum J., Ross C. Walker, & Ian R. Gould. (2022). Lipid21: Complex Lipid Membrane Simulations with AMBER. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 18(3). 1726–1736. 177 indexed citations breakdown →

Branson, Kim, et al.. (2021). mRNA codon optimization with quantum computers. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0259101–e0259101. 28 indexed citations

Walker, Ross C., et al.. (2021). Occupational radiation exposure in doctors: an analysis of exposure rates over 25 years. British Journal of Radiology. 94(1127). 20210602–20210602. 11 indexed citations

Ben‐Shalom, Ido, Charles Lin, Tom Kurtzman, Ross C. Walker, & Michael K. Gilson. (2019). Simulating Water Exchange to Buried Binding Sites. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 15(4). 2684–2691. 37 indexed citations

López‐Honorato, Eddie, et al.. (2017). Grain boundary complexions in silicon carbide. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 101(3). 1009–1013. 15 indexed citations

Govender, Thavendran, Glenn E. M. Maguire, Gyanu Lamichhane, et al.. (2017). Differential flap dynamics in l , d -transpeptidase2 from mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed by molecular dynamics. Molecular BioSystems. 13(6). 1223–1234. 36 indexed citations

Malmstrom, Robert D., et al.. (2017). A Kepler Workflow Tool for Reproducible AMBER GPU Molecular Dynamics. Biophysical Journal. 112(12). 2469–2474. 22 indexed citations

Han, Wen‐Ge, et al.. (2016). A broken-symmetry density functional study of structures, energies, and protonation states along the catalytic O–O bond cleavage pathway in ba₃cytochrome c oxidase from Thermus thermophilus. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 18(31). 21162–21171. 19 indexed citations

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Skjevik, Åge A., et al.. (2016). Water exit pathways and proton pumping mechanism in B-type cytochrome c oxidase from molecular dynamics simulations. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1857(9). 1594–1606. 15 indexed citations

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Mendieta‐Moreno, Jesús I., Ross C. Walker, James P. Lewis, et al.. (2014). fireball/amber: An Efficient Local-Orbital DFT QM/MM Method for Biomolecular Systems. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 10(5). 2185–2193. 39 indexed citations

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Pierce, Levi, Maria L. McGlone, Sheng Li, et al.. (2013). Distal Loop Flexibility of a Regulatory Domain Modulates Dynamics and Activity of C-Terminal Src Kinase (Csk). PLoS Computational Biology. 9(9). e1003188–e1003188. 12 indexed citations

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Salomón–Ferrer, Romelia, David A. Case, & Ross C. Walker. (2012). An overview of the Amber biomolecular simulation package. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science. 3(2). 198–210. 1957 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lawrenz, Morgan, Jeff Wereszczynski, Rommie E. Amaro, et al.. (2010). Impact of calcium on N1 influenza neuraminidase dynamics and binding free energy. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 78(11). 2523–2532. 43 indexed citations

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Zhong, Linghao, James F. Matthews, Michael F. Crowley, et al.. (2009). Computational simulations of the Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase I acting on microcrystalline cellulose Iβ: the enzyme–substrate complex. Carbohydrate Research. 344(15). 1984–1992. 49 indexed citations

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Crowley, Michael F., Mark J. Williamson, & Ross C. Walker. (2009). CHAMBER: Comprehensive support for CHARMM force fields within the AMBER software. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 109(15). 3767–3772. 73 indexed citations

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Bergonzo, Christina, Arthur J. Campbell, Ross C. Walker, & Carlos Simmerling. (2009). A partial nudged elastic band implementation for use with large or explicitly solvated systems. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 109(15). 3781–3790. 46 indexed citations

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Crowley, Michael F., Ed Uberbacher, Charles L. Brooks, et al.. (2008). Developing improved MD codes for understanding processive cellulases. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 125. 12049–12049. 3 indexed citations

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Zhong, Linghao, James F. Matthews, Michael F. Crowley, et al.. (2007). Interactions of the complete cellobiohydrolase I from Trichodera reesei with microcrystalline cellulose Iβ. Cellulose. 15(2). 261–273. 38 indexed citations

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Walker, Ross C., Ian P. Mercer, Ian R. Gould, & David R. Klug. (2006). Comparison of basis set effects and the performance of ab initio and DFT methods for probing equilibrium fluctuations. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 28(2). 478–490. 19 indexed citations

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