Xavier Périole

11.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
48 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Xavier Périole is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Xavier Périole has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 10 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Xavier Périole's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (23 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (12 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (11 papers). Xavier Périole is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (23 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (12 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (11 papers). Xavier Périole collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Denmark. Xavier Périole's co-authors include ‪Siewert J. Marrink, D. Peter Tieleman, Clément Arnarez, Luca Monticelli, Ronald G. Larson, Senthil Kumar Kandasamy, Djurre H. de Jong, Helgi I. Ingólfsson, Tsjerk A. Wassenaar and Manuel N. Melo and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Xavier Périole

47 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

The MARTINI Coarse-Grained Force Field: Extension to Prot... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2012 2014 2009 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. The MARTINI Coarse-Grained Force Field: Extension to Proteins
    2008 2.0k citations Luca Monticelli, Senthil Kumar Kandasamy et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →
  2. Improved Parameters for the Martini Coarse-Grained Protein Force Field
    2012 1.1k citations Djurre H. de Jong, Gurpreet Singh et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →
  3. Lipid Organization of the Plasma Membrane
    2014 723 citations Helgi I. Ingólfsson, Manuel N. Melo et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Combining an Elastic Network With a Coarse-Grained Molecular Force Field: Structure, Dynamics, and Intermolecular Recognition
    2009 516 citations Xavier Périole, Marco Cavalli et al. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation profile →
  5. The power of coarse graining in biomolecular simulations
    2013 422 citations Helgi I. Ingólfsson, César A. López et al. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xavier Périole Netherlands 33 6.1k 1.1k 1.1k 773 715 48 7.6k
Helgi I. Ingólfsson United States 35 5.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 678 0.6× 476 0.6× 866 1.2× 81 6.9k
Jing Huang China 32 7.2k 1.2× 1.4k 1.2× 1.8k 1.6× 728 0.9× 663 0.9× 135 11.0k
Martin Hof Czechia 46 5.2k 0.8× 1.6k 1.4× 889 0.8× 448 0.6× 1.0k 1.4× 242 7.3k
Tomasz Róg Finland 56 7.8k 1.3× 1.7k 1.5× 541 0.5× 629 0.8× 1.2k 1.7× 176 9.7k
Lars V. Schäfer Germany 37 3.8k 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 621 0.8× 572 0.8× 106 5.8k
Herre Jelger Risselada Germany 27 5.7k 0.9× 1.5k 1.3× 1.2k 1.1× 405 0.5× 1.3k 1.8× 61 7.9k
Luca Monticelli France 45 5.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 1.7k 1.5× 349 0.5× 1.3k 1.8× 92 8.0k
Yifei Qi United States 28 6.0k 1.0× 642 0.6× 680 0.6× 770 1.0× 536 0.7× 70 8.1k
Justin A. Lemkul United States 30 4.3k 0.7× 832 0.7× 723 0.6× 425 0.5× 419 0.6× 76 6.4k
Thomas B. Woolf United States 37 4.7k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 914 0.8× 686 0.9× 656 0.9× 96 6.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vestergaard, M., Xavier Périole, Leonardo De Maria, et al.. (2019). Molecular Modeling Investigation of the Interaction between Humicola insolens Cutinase and SDS Surfactant Suggests a Mechanism for Enzyme Inactivation. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 59(5). 1977–1987. 14 indexed citations
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Pérez, Bianca, Andrea Coletta, Jannik Nedergaard Pedersen, et al.. (2018). Insight into the molecular mechanism behind PEG-mediated stabilization of biofluid lipases. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 12293–12293. 20 indexed citations
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Eerden, Floris J. van, Manuel N. Melo, Pim W. J. M. Frederix, Xavier Périole, & ‪Siewert J. Marrink. (2017). Exchange pathways of plastoquinone and plastoquinol in the photosystem II complex. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15214–15214. 187 indexed citations
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Jong, Djurre H. de, et al.. (2015). Atomistic and Coarse Grain Topologies for the Cofactors Associated with the Photosystem II Core Complex. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 119(25). 7791–7803. 44 indexed citations
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Liguori, Nicoletta, Xavier Périole, ‪Siewert J. Marrink, & Roberta Croce. (2015). From light-harvesting to photoprotection: structural basis of the dynamic switch of the major antenna complex of plants (LHCII). Scientific Reports. 5(1). 15661–15661. 119 indexed citations
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Arnarez, Clément, Jaakko J. Uusitalo, Marcelo F. Masman, et al.. (2014). Dry Martini, a Coarse-Grained Force Field for Lipid Membrane Simulations with Implicit Solvent. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 11(1). 260–275. 220 indexed citations
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Arnarez, Clément, Jean‐Pierre Mazat, Juan Elezgaray, ‪Siewert J. Marrink, & Xavier Périole. (2013). Evidence for Cardiolipin Binding Sites on the Membrane-Exposed Surface of the Cytochrome bc 1. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(8). 3112–3120. 131 indexed citations
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Ingólfsson, Helgi I., César A. López, Jaakko J. Uusitalo, et al.. (2013). The power of coarse graining in biomolecular simulations. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science. 4(3). 225–248. 422 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chu, Byron C.H., et al.. (2013). Molecular dynamics simulations reveal that apo‐HisJ can sample a closed conformation. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 82(3). 386–398. 11 indexed citations
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Périole, Xavier & ‪Siewert J. Marrink. (2012). The Martini Coarse-Grained Force Field. Methods in molecular biology. 924. 533–565. 116 indexed citations
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Jong, Djurre H. de, Gurpreet Singh, William F. Bennett, et al.. (2012). Improved Parameters for the Martini Coarse-Grained Protein Force Field. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 9(1). 687–697. 1119 indexed citations breakdown →
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Périole, Xavier, et al.. (2011). A Structurally Flexible Protein Backbone for the MARTINI Coarse Grained Force Field. Biophysical Journal. 100(3). 613a–613a. 1 indexed citations
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Périole, Xavier, Marco Cavalli, ‪Siewert J. Marrink, & Marco Ceruso. (2009). Combining an Elastic Network With a Coarse-Grained Molecular Force Field: Structure, Dynamics, and Intermolecular Recognition. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 5(9). 2531–2543. 516 indexed citations breakdown →
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Périole, Xavier, et al.. (2008). Probing the free energy landscape of the FBP28WW domain using multiple techniques. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 30(7). 1059–1068. 6 indexed citations
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Monticelli, Luca, Senthil Kumar Kandasamy, Xavier Périole, et al.. (2008). The MARTINI Coarse-Grained Force Field: Extension to Proteins. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 4(5). 819–834. 2004 indexed citations breakdown →
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Périole, Xavier, Thomas Huber, ‪Siewert J. Marrink, & Thomas P. Sakmar. (2007). G Protein-Coupled Receptors Self-Assemble in Dynamics Simulations of Model Bilayers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129(33). 10126–10132. 261 indexed citations
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Périole, Xavier & Alan E. Mark. (2007). Convergence and sampling efficiency in replica exchange simulations of peptide folding in explicit solvent. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 126(1). 14903–14903. 109 indexed citations
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Ceruso, Marc A., Xavier Périole, & Harel Weinstein. (2004). Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Transducin: Interdomain and Front to Back Communication in Activation and Nucleotide Exchange. Journal of Molecular Biology. 338(3). 469–481. 36 indexed citations
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Périole, Xavier, David Allouche, A. Ramı́rez-Solı́s, et al.. (1998). New Effective Potentials Extraction Method for the Interaction between Cations and Water. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 102(43). 8579–8587. 28 indexed citations
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Périole, Xavier, David Allouche, J. P. Daudey, & Yves‐Henri Sanejouand. (1997). Simple Two-Body Cation−Water Interaction Potentials Derived from ab Initio Calculations. Comparison to Results Obtained with an Empirical Approach. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 101(25). 5018–5025. 49 indexed citations

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