Tom Chou

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
130 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Tom Chou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Chou has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Tom Chou's work include HIV Research and Treatment (10 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (10 papers) and Diffusion and Search Dynamics (10 papers). Tom Chou is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (10 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (10 papers) and Diffusion and Search Dynamics (10 papers). Tom Chou collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Tom Chou's co-authors include Greg Lakatos, Maria R. D’Orsogna, K. Mallick, R. K. P. Zia, Sally Blower, Detlef Lohse, Lucas Böttcher, David R. Nelson, Sarah A. Nowak and Chris Greenman and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Tom Chou

125 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics: from a paradigmatic model to biological transport

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Chou United States	27	769	547	526	390	295	130	2.8k
Michael W. Deem United States	42	1.2k 1.6×	436 0.8×	87 0.2×	347 0.9×	115 0.4×	144	6.6k
Donald J. Jacobs United States	29	2.2k 2.8×	335 0.6×	102 0.2×	240 0.6×	114 0.4×	105	4.1k
Vitaly Volpert France	31	506 0.7×	139 0.3×	417 0.8×	317 0.8×	121 0.4×	305	5.2k
Joseph Rudnick United States	39	984 1.3×	2.1k 3.8×	550 1.0×	1.1k 2.8×	92 0.3×	148	6.0k
Stefan Klumpp Germany	34	3.2k 4.1×	1.1k 2.0×	561 1.1×	576 1.5×	45 0.2×	122	5.2k
Flavio Seno Italy	33	2.3k 2.9×	535 1.0×	213 0.4×	556 1.4×	44 0.1×	114	3.8k
Aaron R. Dinner United States	49	4.9k 6.4×	498 0.9×	72 0.1×	514 1.3×	106 0.4×	158	9.1k
M. Gregory Forest United States	33	711 0.9×	278 0.5×	343 0.7×	1.2k 3.0×	66 0.2×	206	4.5k
Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen United Kingdom	33	331 0.4×	1.9k 3.5×	317 0.6×	1.1k 2.8×	70 0.2×	178	4.9k
Daniel Coombs Canada	35	892 1.2×	72 0.1×	84 0.2×	114 0.3×	336 1.1×	85	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Chou

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All Works

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Li, Xiangting & Tom Chou. (2023). Stochastic nucleosome disassembly mediated by remodelers and histone fragmentation. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(20). 2 indexed citations

Böttcher, Lucas, Tom Chou, & Maria R. D’Orsogna. (2023). Modeling and forecasting age-specific drug overdose mortality in the United States. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 232(11). 1743–1752. 4 indexed citations

Li, Xiangting & Tom Chou. (2022). Stochastic dynamics and ribosome-RNAP interactions in transcription-translation coupling. Biophysical Journal. 122(1). 254–266. 4 indexed citations

Böttcher, Lucas, Maria R. D’Orsogna, & Tom Chou. (2021). A statistical model of COVID-19 testing in populations: effects of sampling bias and testing errors. arXiv (Cornell University). 13 indexed citations

Chuang, Yao-Li, et al.. (2019). A Mathematical Model of the Effects of Aging on Naive T Cell Populations and Diversity. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 81(7). 2783–2817. 10 indexed citations

D’Orsogna, Maria R., et al.. (2018). The Effects of Statistical Multiplicity of Infection on Virus Quantification and Infectivity Assays. Biophysical Journal. 114(12). 2974–2985. 12 indexed citations

D’Orsogna, Maria R., et al.. (2017). Perturbing the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Stress Response System: Mathematical Modeling to Improve Diagnosis of Post-Traumatic and Related Stress Disorders. Biophysical Journal. 112(3). 284a–284a. 1 indexed citations

Chou, Tom & Chris Greenman. (2016). A kinetic theory for age-structured stochastic birth-death processes. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2016. 1 indexed citations

Chou, Tom & Chris Greenman. (2016). A Hierarchical Kinetic Theory of Birth, Death and Fission in Age-Structured Interacting Populations. Journal of Statistical Physics. 164(1). 49–76. 29 indexed citations

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Greenman, Chris & Tom Chou. (2016). Kinetic theory of age-structured stochastic birth-death processes. Physical review. E. 93(1). 12112–12112. 20 indexed citations

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Goyal, Sidhartha, Sanggu Kim, Irvin S. Y. Chen, & Tom Chou. (2015). Mechanisms of blood homeostasis: lineage tracking and a neutral model of cell populations in rhesus macaques. BMC Biology. 13(1). 85–85. 22 indexed citations

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Chou, Tom & Michael Siegel. (2013). The mechanics of retinal detachment. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 3 indexed citations

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Chikere, Kelechi, Tom Chou, Paul R. Gorry, & Benhur Lee. (2012). Affinofile profiling: How efficiency of CD4/CCR5 usage impacts the biological and pathogenic phenotype of HIV. Virology. 435(1). 81–91. 21 indexed citations

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Chou, Tom & Michael Siegel. (2012). A mechanical model of retinal detachment. Physical Biology. 9(4). 46001–46001. 14 indexed citations

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Nowak, Sarah A. & Tom Chou. (2010). Models of dynamic extraction of lipid tethers from cell membranes. Physical Biology. 7(2). 26002–26002. 11 indexed citations

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Chou, Tom, et al.. (2004). Physics of RecA-Mediated Homologous Recognition. Biophysical Journal. 87(3). 1466–1477. 19 indexed citations

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Blower, Sally & Tom Chou. (2004). Modeling the emergence of the 'hot zones': tuberculosis and the amplification dynamics of drug resistance. Nature Medicine. 10(10). 1111–1116. 168 indexed citations

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Chou, Tom. (2004). Water Alignment, Dipolar Interactions, and Multiple Proton Occupancy during Water-Wire Proton Transport. Biophysical Journal. 86(5). 2827–2836. 15 indexed citations

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Chou, Tom, et al.. (2001). Statistical Thermodynamics of Membrane Bending-Mediated Protein–Protein Attractions. Biophysical Journal. 80(3). 1075–1087. 49 indexed citations

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Cusack, Bernadette, Tom Chou, Karen Jansen, Daniel McCormick, & Elliott Richelson. (2000). Analysis of binding sites and efficacy of a species‐specific peptide at rat and human neurotensin receptors. Journal of Peptide Research. 55(1). 72–80. 8 indexed citations

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