Tom McLeish

17.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
233 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

Tom McLeish is a scholar working on Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom McLeish has authored 233 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, 84 papers in Materials Chemistry and 82 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Tom McLeish's work include Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (114 papers), Polymer crystallization and properties (73 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (53 papers). Tom McLeish is often cited by papers focused on Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (114 papers), Polymer crystallization and properties (73 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (53 papers). Tom McLeish collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Tom McLeish's co-authors include Scott T. Milner, Alexei E. Likhtman, Ronald G. Larson, N. Boden, Amalia Aggeli, R. C. Ball, Timothy P. Lodge, Mark Bell, Daniel J. Read and Oliver G. Harlen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tom McLeish

226 papers receiving 13.0k 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.

Hierarchical self-assembly of chiral rod-like molecules as a model for peptide β-sheet tapes, ribbons, fibrils, and fibers

2001 911 citations Tom McLeish et al. profile →
Responsive gels formed by the spontaneous self-assembly of peptides into polymeric β-sheet tapes

1997 738 citations Tom McLeish, Sheena E. Radford et al. profile →
Tube theory of entangled polymer dynamics

2002 722 citations Tom McLeish profile →
Molecular constitutive equations for a class of branched polymers: The pom-pom polymer

1998 614 citations Tom McLeish et al. Journal of Rheology profile →
Quantitative Theory for Linear Dynamics of Linear Entangled Polymers

2002 536 citations Alexei E. Likhtman, Tom McLeish profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Tom McLeish	6.8k	6.6k	3.8k	2.5k	2.4k	233	13.4k
Martin Kröger	4.0k 0.6×	4.3k 0.6×	5.6k 1.5×	1.2k 0.5×	2.1k 0.9×	286	13.8k
Ralph H. Colby	4.4k 0.6×	9.8k 1.5×	7.2k 1.9×	3.1k 1.2×	5.0k 2.1×	498	23.4k
Peter D. Olmsted	2.2k 0.3×	1.3k 0.2×	2.4k 0.6×	367 0.1×	1.5k 0.6×	117	6.5k
Friedrich Kremer	1.6k 0.2×	4.2k 0.6×	7.5k 2.0×	1.1k 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	345	14.8k
George Fytas	1.4k 0.2×	2.3k 0.4×	5.4k 1.4×	991 0.4×	2.1k 0.9×	322	9.6k
Robert Simha	1.6k 0.2×	3.7k 0.6×	4.5k 1.2×	466 0.2×	1.1k 0.5×	213	12.4k
A. N. Semenov	1.1k 0.2×	1.4k 0.2×	2.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	2.7k 1.1×	176	7.1k
Anna C. Balazs	575 0.1×	4.7k 0.7×	8.0k 2.1×	1.9k 0.8×	5.2k 2.1×	400	18.0k
Andrey V. Dobrynin	561 0.1×	2.5k 0.4×	3.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	3.7k 1.6×	199	12.2k
Alexei R. Khokhlov	737 0.1×	1.8k 0.3×	3.8k 1.0×	861 0.3×	4.0k 1.7×	343	10.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

McLeish, Tom, et al.. (2024). On the origins of dance. World Archaeology. 56(4). 417–426. 2 indexed citations

Poon, Wilson C. K. & Tom McLeish. (2023). IS THERE A DISTINCTIVE QUANTUM THEOLOGY?. Zygon®. 58(1). 1 indexed citations

McLeish, Tom, et al.. (2021). Computational analysis of dynamic allostery and control in the SARS-CoV-2 main protease. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(174). 20200591–20200591. 33 indexed citations

Jin, Xin, Ji‐Eun Lee, Charley Schaefer, et al.. (2021). Membraneless organelles formed by liquid-liquid phase separation increase bacterial fitness. Science Advances. 7(43). eabh2929–eabh2929. 84 indexed citations

Greetham, Gregory M., Ian P. Clark, Michael Towrie, et al.. (2021). Combining steady state and temperature jump IR spectroscopy to investigate the allosteric effects of ligand binding to dsDNA. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(28). 15352–15363. 9 indexed citations

Schaefer, Charley, Peter R. Laity, Chris Holland, & Tom McLeish. (2021). Stretching of Bombyx mori Silk Protein in Flow. Molecules. 26(6). 1663–1663. 12 indexed citations

Boothroyd, Stephen C., et al.. (2019). Association and relaxation of supra-macromolecular polymers. Soft Matter. 15(26). 5296–5307. 13 indexed citations

McLeish, Tom, Martin J. Cann, & Thomas L. Rodgers. (2015). Dynamic Transmission of Protein Allostery without Structural Change: Spatial Pathways or Global Modes?. Biophysical Journal. 109(6). 1240–1250. 36 indexed citations

Smithson, Hannah E., et al.. (2014). All the colours of the rainbow. Nature Physics. 10(8). 540–542. 2 indexed citations

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McLeish, Tom. (2013). PRESENT PUZZLES OF ENTANGLED POLYMERS.

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Khatri, Bhavin S., Masaru Kawakami, David J. Brockwell, et al.. (2008). Internal friction of single polypeptide chains at high stretch. Faraday Discussions. 139. 35–35. 32 indexed citations

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McLeish, Tom, et al.. (2008). New Dynamical Window onto the Landscape for Forced Protein Unfolding. Physical Review Letters. 101(24). 248104–248104. 5 indexed citations

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Hassell, David, M. R. Mackley, Mehmet Şahin, et al.. (2008). Molecular physics of a polymer engineering instability: Experiments and computation. Physical Review E. 77(5). 50801–50801. 13 indexed citations

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Khatri, Bhavin S., et al.. (2006). Entropy and Barrier-Controlled Fluctuations Determine Conformational Viscoelasticity of Single Biomolecules. Biophysical Journal. 92(6). 1825–1835. 38 indexed citations

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Neelov, Igor M., David B. Adolf, Tom McLeish, & Emanuele Paci. (2006). Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Dextran Extension by Constant Force in Single Molecule AFM. Biophysical Journal. 91(10). 3579–3588. 24 indexed citations

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McLeish, Tom. (2006). A theory for heterogeneous states of polymer melts produced by single chain crystal melting. Soft Matter. 3(1). 83–87. 27 indexed citations

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McLeish, Tom. (2004). Protein Folding in High-Dimensional Spaces: Hypergutters and the Role of Nonnative Interactions. Biophysical Journal. 88(1). 172–183. 21 indexed citations

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Hawkins, Raymond J. & Tom McLeish. (2004). Coarse-Grained Model Of Entropic Allostery. Physical Review Letters. 93(9). 98104–98104. 52 indexed citations

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Graham, R., Alexei E. Likhtman, Tom McLeish, & Scott T. Milner. (2003). Microscopic theory of linear, entangled polymer chains under rapid deformation including chain stretch and convective constraint release. Journal of Rheology. 47(5). 1171–1200. 407 indexed citations

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Read, Daniel J., P. I. C. Teixeira, R. A. Duckett, J. Sweeney, & Tom McLeish. (2002). Theoretical and finite-element investigation of the mechanical response of spinodal structures. The European Physical Journal E. 8(1). 15–31. 4 indexed citations

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