Thomas B. Woolf

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Thomas B. Woolf is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas B. Woolf has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Thomas B. Woolf's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (37 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (34 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (20 papers). Thomas B. Woolf is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (37 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (34 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (20 papers). Thomas B. Woolf collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Thomas B. Woolf's co-authors include Elizabeth J. Denning, Oliver Beckstein, Naveen Michaud‐Agrawal, Benoı̂t Roux, Daniel M. Zuckerman, Jonathan N. Sachs, Jan H. Hoh, Mark J. Stevens, Paul Crozier and Horia I. Petrache and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Thomas B. Woolf

95 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

MDAnalysis: A toolkit for the analysis of molecular dynamics simulations

2011 2.7k citations Naveen Michaud‐Agrawal, Elizabeth J. Denning et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas B. Woolf United States	37	4.7k	1.3k	914	686	656	96	6.7k
Peter Eastman United States	22	4.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	423 0.6×	546 0.8×	29	7.2k
Aaron R. Dinner United States	49	4.9k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	1.4k 1.6×	355 0.5×	477 0.7×	158	9.1k
Francesco Luigi Gervasio United Kingdom	48	5.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	1.8k 2.0×	480 0.7×	493 0.8×	138	8.6k
Alessandro Barducci Switzerland	30	3.9k 0.8×	986 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	257 0.4×	403 0.6×	60	5.8k
Djamal Bouzida United States	13	4.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.9×	260 0.4×	750 1.1×	24	7.1k
Mounir Tarek France	45	3.5k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	929 1.0×	705 1.0×	1.7k 2.6×	115	6.3k
Davide Branduardi Italy	20	3.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	292 0.4×	434 0.7×	29	5.5k
Paul M. G. Curmi Australia	48	5.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	708 0.8×	993 1.4×	256 0.4×	144	7.8k
Eric Jakobsson United States	36	3.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	534 0.6×	515 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	112	4.8k
Themis Lazaridis United States	39	5.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.8×	220 0.3×	516 0.8×	103	7.0k

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Hawkins, Marquis, Daisy Duan, Janelle W. Coughlin, et al.. (2023). Associations between sleep health and obesity and weight change in adults: The Daily24 Multisite Cohort Study. Sleep Health. 9(5). 767–773. 4 indexed citations

Zhao, Di, Eliseo Güallar, Thomas B. Woolf, et al.. (2023). Association of Eating and Sleeping Intervals With Weight Change Over Time: The Daily24 Cohort. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(3). e026484–e026484. 14 indexed citations

Coughlin, Janelle W., Lindsay Martin, Di Zhao, et al.. (2022). Electronic Health Record–Based Recruitment and Retention and Mobile Health App Usage: Multisite Cohort Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(6). e34191–e34191. 16 indexed citations

Woolf, Thomas B., Janelle W. Coughlin, Lindsay Martin, et al.. (2021). Development of a Mobile App for Ecological Momentary Assessment of Circadian Data: Design Considerations and Usability Testing. JMIR Formative Research. 5(7). e26297–e26297. 5 indexed citations

Michaud‐Agrawal, Naveen, Elizabeth J. Denning, Thomas B. Woolf, & Oliver Beckstein. (2011). MDAnalysis: A toolkit for the analysis of molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 32(10). 2319–2327. 2656 indexed citations breakdown →

Beckstein, Oliver, Naveen Michaud‐Agrawal, & Thomas B. Woolf. (2009). Quantitative Analysis of Water Dynamics in and near Proteins. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 601a–601a. 6 indexed citations

Beckstein, Oliver, Elizabeth J. Denning, Juan R. Perilla, & Thomas B. Woolf. (2009). Zipping and Unzipping of Adenylate Kinase: Atomistic Insights into the Ensemble of Open ↔ Closed Transitions. Journal of Molecular Biology. 394(1). 160–176. 118 indexed citations

Denning, Elizabeth J., Paul Crozier, Jonathan N. Sachs, & Thomas B. Woolf. (2009). From the gating charge response to pore domain movement: Initial motions of Kv1.2 dynamics under physiological voltage changes. Molecular Membrane Biology. 26(8). 397–421. 12 indexed citations

Crozier, Paul, Mark J. Stevens, & Thomas B. Woolf. (2006). How a small change in retinal leads to G‐protein activation: Initial events suggested by molecular dynamics calculations. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 66(3). 559–574. 22 indexed citations

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Fernández, Erik, et al.. (2005). Simulation and Experiment of Temperature and Cosolvent Effects in Reversed Phase Chromatography of Peptides. Biotechnology Progress. 21(3). 893–896. 2 indexed citations

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Jang, Hyunbum, Paul Crozier, Mark J. Stevens, & Thomas B. Woolf. (2004). How Environment Supports a State: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Two States in Bacteriorhodopsin Suggest Lipid and Water Compensation. Biophysical Journal. 87(1). 129–145. 22 indexed citations

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Lu, Nandou, David A. Kofke, & Thomas B. Woolf. (2003). Staging Is More Important than Perturbation Method for Computation of Enthalpy and Entropy Changes in Complex Systems. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 107(23). 5598–5611. 34 indexed citations

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Stevens, Mark J., Jan H. Hoh, & Thomas B. Woolf. (2003). Insights into the Molecular Mechanism of Membrane Fusion from Simulation: Evidence for the Association of Splayed Tails. Physical Review Letters. 91(18). 188102–188102. 162 indexed citations

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Zuckerman, Daniel M. & Thomas B. Woolf. (2000). Efficient dynamic importance sampling of rare events in one dimension. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 63(1). 16702–16702. 50 indexed citations

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Petrache, Horia I., Alan Grossfield, Kevin R. MacKenzie, Donald M. Engelman, & Thomas B. Woolf. (2000). Modulation of glycophorin A transmembrane helix interactions by lipid bilayers: molecular dynamics calculations. Journal of Molecular Biology. 302(3). 727–746. 100 indexed citations

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Woolf, Thomas B.. (1998). Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Individual α-Helices of Bacteriorhodopsin in Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine. II. Interaction Energy Analysis. Biophysical Journal. 74(1). 115–131. 36 indexed citations

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Woolf, Thomas B.. (1998). Path corrected functionals of stochastic trajectories: towards relative free energy and reaction coordinate calculations. Chemical Physics Letters. 289(5-6). 433–441. 36 indexed citations

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Davis, James H., et al.. (1997). Structure and dynamics of an amphiphilic peptide in a lipid bilayer: a molecular dynamics study. Biophysical Journal. 73(6). 3039–3055. 62 indexed citations

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Crouzy, Serge, Thomas B. Woolf, & Benoı̂t Roux. (1994). A molecular dynamics study of gating in dioxolane-linked gramicidin A channels. Biophysical Journal. 67(4). 1370–1386. 50 indexed citations

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Woolf, Thomas B., G. M. Shepherd, & Charles A. Greer. (1988). Models of local electrical interactions within spiny dendrites of granule cells in mouse olfactory bulb. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 14(1). 620. 2 indexed citations

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