Thomas Willems

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Thomas Willems is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Willems has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Willems's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (2 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers). Thomas Willems is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (2 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers). Thomas Willems collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and United Kingdom. Thomas Willems's co-authors include Maciej Harańczyk, Michaeel Kazi, Juan Meza, Chris H. Rycroft, Melissa Gymrek, Yaniv Erlich, Gareth Highnam, David Mittelman, Jie Yuan and Dina Zielinski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, Nature Methods and Biophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Willems

11 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Algorithms and tools for high-throughput geometry-based analysis of crystalline porous materials

2011 1.5k citations Thomas Willems, Chris H. Rycroft et al. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Willems United States	10	1.1k	988	582	414	409	12	2.3k
Satoshi Watanabe Japan	25	549 0.5×	511 0.5×	1.1k 1.9×	188 0.5×	156 0.4×	92	2.5k
Krishnan Damodaran United States	28	319 0.3×	428 0.4×	342 0.6×	245 0.6×	47 0.1×	83	2.2k
Gregory V. Barnett United States	17	368 0.3×	331 0.3×	561 1.0×	254 0.6×	47 0.1×	22	1.3k
Brian R. Cherry United States	20	434 0.4×	788 0.8×	255 0.4×	86 0.2×	30 0.1×	47	1.6k
Marcus Richter Germany	15	447 0.4×	936 0.9×	167 0.3×	84 0.2×	37 0.1×	27	1.7k
Changlin Liu China	22	202 0.2×	419 0.4×	273 0.5×	450 1.1×	81 0.2×	78	1.6k
Xinyi Wan China	23	142 0.1×	210 0.2×	557 1.0×	211 0.5×	97 0.2×	44	1.6k
Benjamin D. Allen United States	20	174 0.2×	358 0.4×	557 1.0×	68 0.2×	44 0.1×	31	1.2k
Guozhong Xu China	19	92 0.1×	375 0.4×	684 1.2×	209 0.5×	39 0.1×	77	1.9k
Junhui Peng United States	25	87 0.1×	1.1k 1.1×	609 1.0×	141 0.3×	57 0.1×	56	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Willems

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Wessel, Ineke, Julie Krans, Casper J. Albers, et al.. (2025). Evidence That Tetris Reduces Immediate but Not Subsequent Daily Intrusions of a Trauma Film: A Multilab Replication Study. Collabra Psychology. 11(1).

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Willems, Thomas, et al.. (2023). An exploratory in silico comparison of open-source codon harmonization tools. Microbial Cell Factories. 22(1). 227–227. 1 indexed citations

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Willems, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Novel Alkaloids from Marine Actinobacteria: Discovery and Characterization. Marine Drugs. 20(1). 6–6. 21 indexed citations

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Willems, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Alkaloids from Marine Fungi: Promising Antimicrobials. Antibiotics. 9(6). 340–340. 34 indexed citations

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Willems, Thomas, Dina Zielinski, Jie Yuan, et al.. (2017). Genome-wide profiling of heritable and de novo STR variations. Nature Methods. 14(6). 590–592. 161 indexed citations

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Gymrek, Melissa, Thomas Willems, David Reich, & Yaniv Erlich. (2017). Interpreting short tandem repeat variations in humans using mutational constraint. Nature Genetics. 49(10). 1495–1501. 50 indexed citations

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Willems, Thomas, Melissa Gymrek, G. David Poznik, Chris Tyler‐Smith, & Yaniv Erlich. (2016). Population-Scale Sequencing Data Enable Precise Estimates of Y-STR Mutation Rates. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 98(5). 919–933. 59 indexed citations

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Gymrek, Melissa, Thomas Willems, Audrey Guilmatre, et al.. (2015). Abundant contribution of short tandem repeats to gene expression variation in humans. Nature Genetics. 48(1). 22–29. 245 indexed citations

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Willems, Thomas, Melissa Gymrek, Gareth Highnam, David Mittelman, & Yaniv Erlich. (2014). The landscape of human STR variation. Genome Research. 24(11). 1894–1904. 176 indexed citations

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Martin, Richard L., Thomas Willems, Li‐Chiang Lin, et al.. (2012). Similarity‐Driven Discovery of Zeolite Materials for Adsorption‐Based Separations. ChemPhysChem. 13(16). 3595–3597. 39 indexed citations

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Willems, Thomas, Chris H. Rycroft, Michaeel Kazi, Juan Meza, & Maciej Harańczyk. (2011). Algorithms and tools for high-throughput geometry-based analysis of crystalline porous materials. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 149(1). 134–141. 1459 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meyer, Frédérick de, Jocelyn M. Rodgers, Thomas Willems, & Berend Smit. (2010). Molecular Simulation of the Effect of Cholesterol on Lipid-Mediated Protein-Protein Interactions. Biophysical Journal. 99(11). 3629–3638. 64 indexed citations

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