Thomas R. M. Barends

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Thomas R. M. Barends is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas R. M. Barends has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Thomas R. M. Barends's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (21 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (10 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (9 papers). Thomas R. M. Barends is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (21 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (10 papers) and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (9 papers). Thomas R. M. Barends collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Thomas R. M. Barends's co-authors include Ilme Schlichting, Andreas Dietl, Mike S. M. Jetten, Robert L. Shoeman, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, Arjan Pol, Ahmad F. Khadem, Jelle Eygensteyn, R. Bruce Doak and Jochen Reinstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Thomas R. M. Barends

43 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Rare earth metals are essential for methanotrophic life in volcanic mudpots

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas R. M. Barends Germany	24	1.3k	765	299	254	233	45	2.3k
Michele Cianci Italy	28	1.2k 0.9×	591 0.8×	66 0.2×	85 0.3×	17 0.1×	86	2.3k
Eric van Genderen Switzerland	21	277 0.2×	607 0.8×	249 0.8×	110 0.4×	189 0.8×	46	1.5k
Axel Bergmann Germany	23	781 0.6×	229 0.3×	949 3.2×	19 0.1×	50 0.2×	70	3.2k
Inger Andersson Sweden	31	2.9k 2.2×	587 0.8×	80 0.3×	54 0.2×	41 0.2×	97	4.3k
Francis E. Jenney United States	34	1.9k 1.5×	688 0.9×	77 0.3×	64 0.3×	10 0.0×	70	3.4k
Christopher Dennison United Kingdom	35	1.8k 1.4×	574 0.8×	98 0.3×	17 0.1×	14 0.1×	130	3.4k
Martin F. Hohmann‐Marriott Norway	22	1.1k 0.9×	120 0.2×	24 0.1×	22 0.1×	168 0.7×	41	1.9k
Corie Y. Ralston United States	26	1.0k 0.8×	495 0.6×	13 0.0×	90 0.4×	23 0.1×	72	1.9k
Daniel C. Brune United States	38	2.5k 1.9×	338 0.4×	70 0.2×	29 0.1×	9 0.0×	70	3.8k
Birgit Fischer Germany	25	278 0.2×	343 0.4×	124 0.4×	189 0.7×	92 0.4×	61	1.6k

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Gorel, A., Robert L. Shoeman, Elisabeth Hartmann, et al.. (2025). Testing the limits: serial crystallography using unpatterned fixed targets. IUCrJ. 12(6). 692–709.

Akram, M., et al.. (2024). Redox potential tuning by calcium ions in a novel c-type cytochrome from an anammox organism. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(2). 108082–108082.

Coquelle, Nicolas, Thomas R. M. Barends, Elke De Zitter, et al.. (2022). Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on fatty-acid photodecarboxylase: lessons learned. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 78(9). 1131–1142. 9 indexed citations

Akram, M., Andreas Dietl, Melanie Müller, & Thomas R. M. Barends. (2021). Purification of the key enzyme complexes of the anammox pathway from DEMON sludge. Biopolymers. 112(6). e23428–e23428. 16 indexed citations

Picone, Nunzia, Andreas Dietl, Arjan Pol, et al.. (2021). Neodymium as Metal Cofactor for Biological Methanol Oxidation: Structure and Kinetics of an XoxF1-Type Methanol Dehydrogenase. mBio. 12(5). e0170821–e0170821. 14 indexed citations

Dietl, Andreas, et al.. (2020). Structure of the 4-hydroxy-tetrahydrodipicolinate synthase from the thermoacidophilic methanotroph Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV and the phylogeny of the aminotransferase pathway. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 76(5). 199–208. 4 indexed citations

Akram, M., Andreas Dietl, Ulrike Mersdorf, et al.. (2019). A 192-heme electron transfer network in the hydrazine dehydrogenase complex. Science Advances. 5(4). eaav4310–eaav4310. 62 indexed citations

Pol, Arjan, et al.. (2018). Similar but Not the Same: First Kinetic and Structural Analyses of a Methanol Dehydrogenase Containing a Europium Ion in the Active Site. ChemBioChem. 19(11). 1147–1153. 70 indexed citations

Doak, R. Bruce, Gabriela Nass Kovács, A. Gorel, et al.. (2018). Crystallography on a chip – without the chip: sheet-on-sheet sandwich. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 74(10). 1000–1007. 57 indexed citations

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Boutet, Sébastien, L. Foucar, Thomas R. M. Barends, et al.. (2015). Characterization and use of the spent beam for serial operation of LCLS. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 22(3). 634–643. 12 indexed citations

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Dietl, Andreas, Christina Ferousi, Wouter J. Maalcke, et al.. (2015). The inner workings of the hydrazine synthase multiprotein complex. Nature. 527(7578). 394–397. 138 indexed citations

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Tarnawski, Mirosław, Thomas R. M. Barends, & Ilme Schlichting. (2015). Structural analysis of an oxygen-regulated diguanylate cyclase. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 71(11). 2158–2177. 40 indexed citations

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Zeymer, Cathleen, Thomas R. M. Barends, Nicolas D. Werbeck, Ilme Schlichting, & Jochen Reinstein. (2014). Elements in nucleotide sensing and hydrolysis of the AAA+ disaggregation machine ClpB: a structure-based mechanistic dissection of a molecular motor. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 70(2). 582–595. 18 indexed citations

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Maalcke, Wouter J., Andreas Dietl, Sophie J. Marritt, et al.. (2013). Structural Basis of Biological NO Generation by Octaheme Oxidoreductases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(3). 1228–1242. 84 indexed citations

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Barends, Thomas R. M., Anna Scherer, Elisabeth Hartmann, et al.. (2013). Combining crystallography and EPR: crystal and solution structures of the multidomain cochaperone DnaJ. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 69(8). 1540–1552. 31 indexed citations

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Smeulders, Marjan J., Arjan Pol, Hanka Venselaar, et al.. (2013). Bacterial CS2 Hydrolases from Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans Strains Are Homologous to the Archaeal Catenane CS2 Hydrolase. Journal of Bacteriology. 195(18). 4046–4056. 27 indexed citations

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Tarnawski, Mirosław, Thomas R. M. Barends, Elisabeth Hartmann, & Ilme Schlichting. (2013). Structures of the catalytic EAL domain of theEscherichia colidirect oxygen sensor. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 69(6). 1045–1053. 7 indexed citations

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Barends, Thomas R. M., L. Foucar, Sabine Botha, et al.. (2013). De novo protein crystal structure determination from X-ray free-electron laser data. Nature. 505(7482). 244–247. 199 indexed citations

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Barends, Thomas R. M., Elisabeth Hartmann, Julia J. Griese, et al.. (2009). Structure and mechanism of a bacterial light-regulated cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase. Nature. 459(7249). 1015–1018. 237 indexed citations

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Barends, Thomas R. M., Tatiana Domratcheva, Lars Blumenstein, et al.. (2008). Structure and Mechanistic Implications of a Tryptophan Synthase Quinonoid Intermediate. ChemBioChem. 9(7). 1024–1028. 46 indexed citations

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