Stefano Piana

21.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
87 papers, 15.7k citations indexed

About

Stefano Piana is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Piana has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 15.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Materials Chemistry and 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Stefano Piana's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (38 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (30 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers). Stefano Piana is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (38 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (30 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers). Stefano Piana collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Australia. Stefano Piana's co-authors include David E. Shaw, Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, Ron O. Dror, Paul Maragakis, John L. Klepeis, Kim Palmö, David Shaw, Paul Robustelli, Alessandro Laio and Michael P. Eastwood and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Piana

86 papers receiving 15.5k 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.

Improved side‐chain torsion potentials for the Amber ff99SB protein force field

2010 4.7k citations Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, Stefano Piana et al. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics profile →
How Fast-Folding Proteins Fold

2011 1.5k citations Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, Stefano Piana et al. profile →
Atomic-Level Characterization of the Structural Dynamics of Proteins

2010 1.4k citations David E. Shaw, Paul Maragakis et al. profile →
Developing a molecular dynamics force field for both folded and disordered protein states

2018 736 citations Paul Robustelli, Stefano Piana et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
How Robust Are Protein Folding Simulations with Respect to Force Field Parameterization?

2011 674 citations Stefano Piana, Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
Water Dispersion Interactions Strongly Influence Simulated Structural Properties of Disordered Protein States

2015 626 citations Stefano Piana, Paul Robustelli et al. profile →
Systematic Validation of Protein Force Fields against Experimental Data

2012 538 citations Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, Paul Maragakis et al. profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefano Piana

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefano Piana

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stefano Piana. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stefano Piana 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 Stefano Piana. Stefano Piana is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Effect of stress on hand movement in a laboratory setting among high school students: preliminary research 2021 ·Human Movement ·Hyungsook Kim, David M. O’Sullivan, Antonio Camurri, Yong-Hyun Park, (unknown), Stefano Piana, (unknown), Hee Seong Jeong	1
2	Analysis of Movement Quality in Full-Body Physical Activities 2019 ·ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems ·Radosław Niewiadomski, (unknown), Stefano Piana, (unknown), Gualtiero Volpe, Antonio Camurri	21
3	Developing a molecular dynamics force field for both folded and disordered protein states breakdown → 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Paul Robustelli, Stefano Piana, David E. Shaw	736
4	RNA force field with accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art protein force fields 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dazhi Tan, Stefano Piana, Robert M. Dirks, David E. Shaw	202
5	Developing Force Fields for the Accurate Simulation of Both Ordered and Disordered Protein States 2017 ·Biophysical Journal ·Paul Robustelli, Stefano Piana, David E. Shaw	1
6	Assessing the accuracy of physical models used in protein-folding simulations: quantitative evidence from long molecular dynamics simulations 2014 ·Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·Stefano Piana, John L. Klepeis, David E. Shaw	374
7	ASC-Inclusion: Interactive Emotion Games for Social Inclusion of Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions 2013 ·mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich) ·Björn W. Schuller, Erik Marchi, Simon Baron‐Cohen, Helen O’Reilly, Peter Robinson, Ian Davies, Ofer Golan, (unknown), Shahar Tal, (unknown), Natalia Meir, (unknown), Antonio Camurri, Stefano Piana, Sven Bölte, Daniel Lundqvist, Steve Berggren, (unknown), (unknown)	17
8	Refinement of protein structure homology models via long, all‐atom molecular dynamics simulations 2012 ·Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Alpan Raval, Stefano Piana, Michael P. Eastwood, Ron O. Dror, David E. Shaw	194
9	Correction 2011 ·Biophysical Journal ·Stefano Piana, Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, David Shaw	6
10	How Robust Are Protein Folding Simulations with Respect to Force Field Parameterization? breakdown → 2011 ·Biophysical Journal ·Stefano Piana, Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, David Shaw	674
11	Improved side‐chain torsion potentials for the Amber ff99SB protein force field breakdown → 2010 ·Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, Stefano Piana, Kim Palmö, Paul Maragakis, John L. Klepeis, Ron O. Dror, David E. Shaw	4652
12	Evolution of the Urban Heat Island of the city of Bologna (Italy) in the last 30 years 2010 ·The EGU General Assembly ·Francesca Ventura, Nicola Gaspari, Stefano Piana, P. Rossi	3
13	Computational Design and Experimental Testing of the Fastest-Folding β-Sheet Protein 2010 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Stefano Piana, (unknown), Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, Minghao Guo, Martin Gruebele, David Shaw	93
14	A Kinetic Model of Trp-Cage Folding from Multiple Biased Molecular Dynamics Simulations 2009 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Fabrizio Marinelli, Fabio Pietrucci, Alessandro Laio, Stefano Piana	234
15	Advillin Folding Takes Place on a Hypersurface of Small Dimensionality 2008 ·Physical Review Letters ·Stefano Piana, Alessandro Laio	28
16	Simulating micrometre-scale crystal growth from solution 2005 ·Nature ·Stefano Piana, M.M. Reyhani, Julian D. Gale	183
17	Structure and energy of a DNA dodecamer under tensile load 2005 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Stefano Piana	38
18	Molecular dynamics simulations of structural changes during procaspase 3 activation 2004 ·Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Stefano Piana, Ursula Röthlisberger	6
19	Protonation States of Methionine Aminopeptidase and Their Relevance for Inhibitor Binding and Catalytic Activity 2003 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Christian D. Klein, (unknown), Gerd Folkers, Stefano Piana, Ursula Röthlisberger	15
20	L'equivoco stravagante 2002 ·(unknown), (unknown), Stefano Piana, (unknown), Petia Petrova, Monica Minarelli, (unknown), (unknown), Marco Di Felice, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0

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