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

5 papers align trajectories

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.

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. profile →
Quantitative Theory for Linear Dynamics of Linear Entangled Polymers

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

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom McLeish

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tom McLeish. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tom McLeish based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Tom McLeish. Tom McLeish is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	On the origins of dance 2024 ·World Archaeology ·(unknown), Tom McLeish, John Schofield	2
2	IS THERE A DISTINCTIVE QUANTUM THEOLOGY? 2023 ·Zygon® ·Wilson C. K. Poon, Tom McLeish	1
3	Computational analysis of dynamic allostery and control in the SARS-CoV-2 main protease 2021 ·Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·(unknown), Tom McLeish	33
4	Membraneless organelles formed by liquid-liquid phase separation increase bacterial fitness 2021 ·Science Advances ·Xin Jin, Ji‐Eun Lee, Charley Schaefer, (unknown), Adam J. M. Wollman, Alex L. Payne-Dwyer, Tian Tian, Xiaowei Zhang, (unknown), Yingxing Li, Tom McLeish, Mark C. Leake, Fan Bai	84
5	Combining steady state and temperature jump IR spectroscopy to investigate the allosteric effects of ligand binding to dsDNA 2021 ·Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Gregory M. Greetham, Ian P. Clark, Michael Towrie, Anthony W. Parker, Tom McLeish, Neil T. Hunt	9
6	Stretching of Bombyx mori Silk Protein in Flow 2021 ·Molecules ·Charley Schaefer, Peter R. Laity, Chris Holland, Tom McLeish	12
7	Association and relaxation of supra-macromolecular polymers 2019 ·Soft Matter ·Stephen C. Boothroyd, (unknown), Tom McLeish, Étienne Munch, (unknown), Andrew J. Smith, Richard L. Thompson	13
8	Dynamic Transmission of Protein Allostery without Structural Change: Spatial Pathways or Global Modes? 2015 ·Biophysical Journal ·Tom McLeish, Martin J. Cann, Thomas L. Rodgers	36
9	The Role of Protein-Ligand Contacts in Allosteric Regulation of the Escherichia coli Catabolite Activator Protein 2015 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Philip D. Townsend, Thomas L. Rodgers, (unknown), (unknown), Shane A. Richards, Lucy J. Colwell, Ehmke Pohl, Mark R. Wilson, David R. W. Hodgson, Tom McLeish, Martin J. Cann	25
10	The Role of High-Dimensional Diffusive Search, Stabilization, and Frustration in Protein Folding 2014 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown), Tom McLeish, Sheena E. Radford, Emanuele Paci	6
11	Allostery without conformation change: modelling protein dynamics at multiple scales 2013 ·Physical Biology ·Tom McLeish, Thomas L. Rodgers, Mark R. Wilson	53
12	Internal friction of single polypeptide chains at high stretch 2008 ·Faraday Discussions ·Bhavin S. Khatri, (unknown), Masaru Kawakami, David J. Brockwell, D. A. Smith, Sheena E. Radford, Tom McLeish	32
13	New Dynamical Window onto the Landscape for Forced Protein Unfolding 2008 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Tom McLeish, Emanuele Paci	5
14	Molecular physics of a polymer engineering instability: Experiments and computation 2008 ·Physical Review E ·David Hassell, M. R. Mackley, Mehmet Şahin, Helen J. Wilson, Oliver G. Harlen, Tom McLeish	13
15	Viscoelastic Properties of Single Poly(ethylene glycol) Molecules 2006 ·ChemPhysChem ·Masaru Kawakami, (unknown), Bhavin S. Khatri, Tom McLeish, D. A. Smith	14
16	Entropy and Barrier-Controlled Fluctuations Determine Conformational Viscoelasticity of Single Biomolecules 2006 ·Biophysical Journal ·Bhavin S. Khatri, Masaru Kawakami, (unknown), D. A. Smith, Tom McLeish	38
17	Dynamic scaling in entangled mean-field gelation polymers 2006 ·Physical Review E ·Chinmay Das, Daniel J. Read, Mark A. Kelmanson, Tom McLeish	14
18	Protein Folding in High-Dimensional Spaces: Hypergutters and the Role of Nonnative Interactions 2004 ·Biophysical Journal ·Tom McLeish	21
19	Coarse-Grained Model Of Entropic Allostery 2004 ·Physical Review Letters ·Raymond J. Hawkins, Tom McLeish	52
20	Molecular Observation of Contour-Length Fluctuations Limiting Topological Confinement in Polymer Melts 2002 ·Physical Review Letters ·A. Wischnewski, M. Monkenbusch, Lutz Willner, Dieter Richter, Alexei E. Likhtman, Tom McLeish, B. Farago	81

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