Ryan Hibbs

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Ryan Hibbs is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Hibbs has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Ryan Hibbs's work include Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (31 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (18 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (17 papers). Ryan Hibbs is often cited by papers focused on Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (31 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (18 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (17 papers). Ryan Hibbs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. Ryan Hibbs's co-authors include Eric Gouaux, Colleen Noviello, Jinfeng Teng, Claudio L. Morales-Pérez, Jeong Joo Kim, Richard M. Walsh, Anant Gharpure, Shaotong Zhu, Palmer Taylor and Motoyuki Hattori and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Hibbs

42 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Principles of activation and permeation in an anion-selective Cys-loop receptor

2011 816 citations Ryan Hibbs, Eric Gouaux Nature profile →
Structure of a human synaptic GABAA receptor

2018 394 citations Shaotong Zhu, Colleen Noviello et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan Hibbs United States	23	3.0k	1.3k	491	336	231	43	3.9k
Katjuša Brejc United States	11	3.3k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	592 1.2×	469 1.4×	116 0.5×	14	3.8k
Pierre‐Jean Corringer France	36	6.0k 2.0×	2.2k 1.7×	712 1.5×	687 2.0×	108 0.5×	89	6.5k
Demetrios K. Vassilatis United States	21	1.8k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	276 0.6×	214 0.6×	298 1.3×	31	3.8k
Joseph W. Lynch Australia	41	3.8k 1.3×	3.2k 2.5×	296 0.6×	338 1.0×	209 0.9×	122	5.9k
Jean‐Luc Galzi France	35	4.3k 1.4×	2.1k 1.6×	347 0.7×	658 2.0×	74 0.3×	71	5.3k
Francisco J. Barrantes Argentina	47	5.6k 1.9×	2.1k 1.6×	266 0.5×	459 1.4×	89 0.4×	219	7.1k
Scott B. Hansen United States	23	2.6k 0.9×	743 0.6×	398 0.8×	302 0.9×	50 0.2×	44	3.1k
Vladimir Yarov‐Yarovoy United States	44	5.3k 1.8×	2.4k 1.9×	182 0.4×	203 0.6×	225 1.0×	137	7.5k
Sarah C. R. Lummis United Kingdom	45	4.7k 1.6×	2.6k 2.0×	1.1k 2.2×	452 1.3×	405 1.8×	177	6.5k
Sonia Bertrand Switzerland	36	4.7k 1.6×	2.0k 1.5×	595 1.2×	915 2.7×	85 0.4×	67	5.4k

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Pham, Minh, et al.. (2025). Autoimmune mechanisms elucidated through muscle acetylcholine receptor structures. Cell. 188(9). 2390–2406.e20. 7 indexed citations

Teng, Jinfeng, et al.. (2024). Structural insights into GABAA receptor potentiation by Quaalude. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5244–5244. 3 indexed citations

Teng, Jinfeng, et al.. (2023). Structural interplay of anesthetics and paralytics on muscle nicotinic receptors. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3169–3169. 6 indexed citations

Allard, Corey AH, Wendy A. Valencia‐Montoya, Lena van Giesen, et al.. (2023). Sensory specializations drive octopus and squid behaviour. Nature. 616(7956). 378–383. 19 indexed citations

Hibbs, Ryan, et al.. (2023). A simple flash and freeze system for cryogenic time-resolved electron microscopy. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 10. 1129225–1129225. 4 indexed citations

Zhuang, Yuxuan, Colleen Noviello, Ryan Hibbs, Rebecca J. Howard, & Erik Lindahl. (2022). Differential interactions of resting, activated, and desensitized states of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor with lipidic modulators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(43). e2208081119–e2208081119. 22 indexed citations

Basta, Tamara, Jinfeng Teng, Myeongseon Lee, et al.. (2022). Structural mechanism of muscle nicotinic receptor desensitization and block by curare. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(4). 386–394. 46 indexed citations

Noviello, Colleen, Anant Gharpure, Nuriya Mukhtasimova, et al.. (2021). Structure and gating mechanism of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Cell. 184(8). 2121–2134.e13. 187 indexed citations

Worrell, Brady T., et al.. (2021). Purification of a native nicotinic receptor. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 653. 189–206. 10 indexed citations

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Brams, Marijke, Cédric Govaerts, Kumiko Kambara, et al.. (2020). Modulation of the Erwinia ligand-gated ion channel (ELIC) and the 5-HT3 receptor via a common vestibule site. eLife. 9. 17 indexed citations

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Zhuang, Yuxuan, Anant Gharpure, Ryan Hibbs, Rebecca J. Howard, & Erik Lindahl. (2020). Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Ligand Binding and Ion Permeation in a Ganglionic Nicotinic Receptor. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 584a–584a. 1 indexed citations

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Kim, Jeong Joo, Anant Gharpure, Jinfeng Teng, et al.. (2020). Shared structural mechanisms of general anaesthetics and benzodiazepines. Nature. 585(7824). 303–308. 238 indexed citations

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Teng, Jinfeng, Brady T. Worrell, Colleen Noviello, et al.. (2020). Structure of the Native Muscle-type Nicotinic Receptor and Inhibition by Snake Venom Toxins. Neuron. 106(6). 952–962.e5. 142 indexed citations

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Gharpure, Anant, Jinfeng Teng, Yuxuan Zhuang, et al.. (2019). Agonist Selectivity and Ion Permeation in the α3β4 Ganglionic Nicotinic Receptor. Neuron. 104(3). 501–511.e6. 135 indexed citations

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Althoff, Thorsten, Ryan Hibbs, Surajit Banerjee, & Eric Gouaux. (2014). X-ray structures of GluCl in apo states reveal a gating mechanism of Cys-loop receptors. Nature. 512(7514). 333–337. 204 indexed citations

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Hibbs, Ryan & Eric Gouaux. (2011). Principles of activation and permeation in an anion-selective Cys-loop receptor. Nature. 474(7349). 54–60. 816 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hibbs, Ryan, Gerlind Sulzenbacher, Jianxin Shi, et al.. (2009). Structural determinants for interaction of partial agonists with acetylcholine binding protein and neuronal α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. The EMBO Journal. 28(19). 3040–3051. 137 indexed citations

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Taylor, Palmer, et al.. (2007). Structure-guided drug design: Conferring selectivity among neuronal nicotinic receptor and acetylcholine-binding protein subtypes. Biochemical Pharmacology. 74(8). 1164–1171. 38 indexed citations

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Hibbs, Ryan, Todd T. Talley, & Palmer Taylor. (2004). Acrylodan-conjugated Cysteine Side Chains Reveal Conformational State and Ligand Site Locations of the Acetylcholine-binding Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(27). 28483–28491. 45 indexed citations

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Taylor, Palmer, Scott B. Hansen, Todd T. Talley, Ryan Hibbs, & Zoran Radić. (2004). Contemporary paradigms for cholinergic ligand design guided by biological structure. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 14(8). 1875–1877. 1 indexed citations

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