Vu Thai

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Vu Thai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vu Thai has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Materials Chemistry and 3 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Vu Thai's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (2 papers). Vu Thai is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (2 papers). Vu Thai collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Sweden. Vu Thai's co-authors include Dorothee Kern, Katherine A. Henzler‐Wildman, Ming Lei, Martin Karplus, S. Jordan Kerns, Magnus Wolf‐Watz, Elan Eisenmesser, Georgia Hadjipavlou, Gregory A. Petsko and Maria Ott and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Vu Thai

8 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

A hierarchy of timescales in protein dynamics is linked to enzyme catalysis

2007 872 citations Katherine A. Henzler‐Wildman, Ming Lei et al. Nature profile →
Intrinsic motions along an enzymatic reaction trajectory

2007 734 citations Katherine A. Henzler‐Wildman, Vu Thai et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vu Thai United States	7	2.0k	866	361	306	275	8	2.2k
Kathleen G. Valentine United States	29	1.8k 0.9×	619 0.7×	633 1.8×	237 0.8×	265 1.0×	57	2.5k
William E. Meador United States	14	1.9k 1.0×	821 0.9×	332 0.9×	282 0.9×	150 0.5×	29	2.6k
Dan McElheny United States	19	2.0k 1.0×	701 0.8×	514 1.4×	211 0.7×	165 0.6×	37	2.7k
Gaohua Liu United States	26	2.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	608 1.7×	214 0.7×	96 0.3×	66	2.9k
Paul Robustelli United States	17	2.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	634 1.8×	143 0.5×	305 1.1×	28	2.8k
Ananya Majumdar United States	36	3.0k 1.5×	462 0.5×	554 1.5×	283 0.9×	194 0.7×	121	3.5k
Magnus Wolf‐Watz Sweden	24	2.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	522 1.4×	401 1.3×	303 1.1×	56	3.6k
Gouri S. Jas United States	23	1.7k 0.9×	801 0.9×	370 1.0×	153 0.5×	500 1.8×	58	2.2k
Alessandro Borgia Switzerland	21	2.1k 1.1×	805 0.9×	217 0.6×	284 0.9×	470 1.7×	27	2.5k
Nathalie Reuter Norway	34	2.1k 1.1×	558 0.6×	241 0.7×	239 0.8×	409 1.5×	94	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Vu Thai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vu Thai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Vu Thai. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Vu Thai. The network helps show where Vu Thai may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vu Thai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vu Thai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vu Thai 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 Vu Thai. Vu Thai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

1.

Thai, Vu, et al.. (2017). Protein Kinase C Controls Binding of Igo/ENSA Proteins to Protein Phosphatase 2A in Budding Yeast. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(12). 4925–4941. 14 indexed citations

2.

Kerns, S. Jordan, Roman V. Agafonov, Youngjin Cho, et al.. (2015). The energy landscape of adenylate kinase during catalysis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 22(2). 124–131. 134 indexed citations

3.

Thai, Vu, et al.. (2012). A link between mitotic entry and membrane growth suggests a novel model for cell size control. The Journal of Cell Biology. 197(1). 89–104. 52 indexed citations

4.

Balog, Eva Rose M., et al.. (2011). The Structure of a Monomeric Mutant Cks Protein Reveals Multiple Functions for a Conserved Hinge-Region Proline. Journal of Molecular Biology. 411(3). 520–528. 4 indexed citations

5.

Henzler‐Wildman, Katherine A., Vu Thai, Ming Lei, et al.. (2007). Intrinsic motions along an enzymatic reaction trajectory. Nature. 450(7171). 838–844. 734 indexed citations breakdown →

6.

Henzler‐Wildman, Katherine A., Ming Lei, Vu Thai, et al.. (2007). A hierarchy of timescales in protein dynamics is linked to enzyme catalysis. Nature. 450(7171). 913–916. 872 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Thai, Vu, Patricia Renesto, C. Andrew Fowler, et al.. (2007). Structural, Biochemical, and in Vivo Characterization of the First Virally Encoded Cyclophilin from the Mimivirus. Journal of Molecular Biology. 378(1). 71–86. 25 indexed citations

8.

Wolf‐Watz, Magnus, Vu Thai, Katherine A. Henzler‐Wildman, et al.. (2004). Linkage between dynamics and catalysis in a thermophilic-mesophilic enzyme pair. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 11(10). 945–949. 409 indexed citations

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