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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Chemistry 49 14616 13159 3732 3054 121 58009

Piotr Cieplak publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Piotr Cieplak between 1981 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Piotr Cieplak published across 45 years, from 1981 to 2025, averaging 3.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 14 publications in 2017. 6 of the 170 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1981 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 14. Peak 14 publications in 2017. 1981: 1 publication 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 1 publication 1986: 2 publications 1987: 5 publications 1988: 3 publications 1989: 1 publication 1990: 4 publications 1991: 2 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 4 publications 1994: 2 publications 1995: 3 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 2 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 2 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 1 publication 2005: 2 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 9 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 1 publication 2017: 14 publications 2018: 5 publications 2019: 6 publications 2020: 7 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 2 publications 2025: 4 publications
1981 2025

170 publications in total across all disciplines

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Piotr Cieplak: publications per year, 1981 to 2025
Year Publications
1981 1
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 1
1986 2
1987 5
1988 3
1989 1
1990 4
1991 2
1992 0
1993 4
1994 2
1995 3
1996 5
1997 2
1998 2
1999 1
2000 2
2001 2
2002 5
2003 3
2004 1
2005 2
2006 3
2007 4
2008 2
2009 10
2010 10
2011 9
2012 4
2013 4
2014 9
2015 5
2016 1
2017 14
2018 5
2019 6
2020 7
2021 7
2022 6
2023 5
2024 2
2025 4
Total 170
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Piotr Cieplak publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Piotr Cieplak sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
250 500 750 1,000 1,250
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 61–80 to 1,295+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 1,350. Most scientists, 1,350, have 161–180 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 121–140 publications, is where this scientist sits. 61–80 publications: 66 scientists 81–100 publications: 302 scientists 101–120 publications: 623 scientists 121–140 publications: 918 scientists 141–160 publications: 1,218 scientists 161–180 publications: 1,350 scientists 181–200 publications: 1,344 scientists 201–220 publications: 1,281 scientists 221–240 publications: 1,216 scientists 241–260 publications: 1,100 scientists 261–280 publications: 979 scientists 281–300 publications: 939 scientists 301–320 publications: 764 scientists 321–340 publications: 643 scientists 341–360 publications: 628 scientists 361–380 publications: 522 scientists 381–400 publications: 459 scientists 401–420 publications: 397 scientists 421–440 publications: 327 scientists 441–460 publications: 270 scientists 461–480 publications: 265 scientists 481–500 publications: 252 scientists 501–520 publications: 201 scientists 521–540 publications: 185 scientists 541–560 publications: 148 scientists 561–580 publications: 148 scientists 581–600 publications: 132 scientists 601–620 publications: 114 scientists 621–640 publications: 104 scientists 641–660 publications: 91 scientists 661–680 publications: 92 scientists 681–700 publications: 73 scientists 701–720 publications: 57 scientists 721–740 publications: 54 scientists 741–760 publications: 67 scientists 761–780 publications: 45 scientists 781–800 publications: 46 scientists 801–820 publications: 39 scientists 821–840 publications: 32 scientists 841–860 publications: 36 scientists 861–880 publications: 29 scientists 881–900 publications: 26 scientists 901–920 publications: 24 scientists 921–940 publications: 14 scientists 941–960 publications: 23 scientists 961–980 publications: 28 scientists 981–1,000 publications: 15 scientists 1,001–1,020 publications: 29 scientists 1,021–1,040 publications: 12 scientists 1,041–1,060 publications: 19 scientists 1,061–1,080 publications: 12 scientists 1,081–1,100 publications: 6 scientists 1,101–1,120 publications: 8 scientists 1,121–1,140 publications: 12 scientists 1,141–1,160 publications: 5 scientists 1,161–1,180 publications: 6 scientists 1,181–1,200 publications: 14 scientists 1,201–1,220 publications: 7 scientists 1,221–1,240 publications: 2 scientists 1,241–1,260 publications: 6 scientists 1,261–1,280 publications: 4 scientists 1,281–1,294 publications: 6 scientists 1,295+ publications: 100 scientists
61–80 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 121 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

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Number of Chemistry scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 17,934 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
61–80 66
81–100 302
101–120 623
121–140 918 121
141–160 1,218
161–180 1,350
181–200 1,344
201–220 1,281
221–240 1,216
241–260 1,100
261–280 979
281–300 939
301–320 764
321–340 643
341–360 628
361–380 522
381–400 459
401–420 397
421–440 327
441–460 270
461–480 265
481–500 252
501–520 201
521–540 185
541–560 148
561–580 148
581–600 132
601–620 114
621–640 104
641–660 91
661–680 92
681–700 73
701–720 57
721–740 54
741–760 67
761–780 45
781–800 46
801–820 39
821–840 32
841–860 36
861–880 29
881–900 26
901–920 24
921–940 14
941–960 23
961–980 28
981–1,000 15
1,001–1,020 29
1,021–1,040 12
1,041–1,060 19
1,061–1,080 12
1,081–1,100 6
1,101–1,120 8
1,121–1,140 12
1,141–1,160 5
1,161–1,180 6
1,181–1,200 14
1,201–1,220 7
1,221–1,240 2
1,241–1,260 6
1,261–1,280 4
1,281–1,294 6
1,295+ 100
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Piotr Cieplak D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Piotr Cieplak sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
250 500 750 1,000
Bar chart with 61 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 159+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 1,051. Most scientists, 1,051, have 56–57 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 48–49 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40–41 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

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Number of Chemistry scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 17,934 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 289
42–43 612
44–45 808
46–47 776
48–49 835 49
50–51 861
52–53 872
54–55 933
56–57 1,051
58–59 930
60–61 882
62–63 834
64–65 731
66–67 775
68–69 683
70–71 646
72–73 561
74–75 501
76–77 437
78–79 388
80–81 354
82–83 292
84–85 275
86–87 254
88–89 235
90–91 185
92–93 192
94–95 155
96–97 163
98–99 125
100–101 105
102–103 105
104–105 112
106–107 88
108–109 68
110–111 69
112–113 65
114–115 79
116–117 61
118–119 44
120–121 37
122–123 40
124–125 33
126–127 26
128–129 34
130–131 35
132–133 25
134–135 27
136–137 17
138–139 16
140–141 20
142–143 20
144–145 15
146–147 9
148–149 9
150–151 16
152–153 11
154–155 9
156–157 3
158 3
159+ 98
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Overview

Piotr Cieplak is affiliated with the Discovery Institute in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their publications span multiple subfields such as molecular biology, atomic and molecular physics and optics, infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, and cancer research.

Their research topics primarily focus on protein structure and dynamics, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, and infectious disease-related studies including SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, Toxoplasma gondii, HIV, as well as vaccine and immunoinformatics approaches.

Cieplak's frequent coauthors include Yong Duan, Ray Luo, Haixin Wei, Shiji Zhao, and Sergey A. Shiryaev, reflecting strong collaborative ties in their research efforts.

The scientist has published in several notable venues, with the most frequent publication venues being the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Chemical Biology, The Journal of Chemical Physics, and Biophysical Journal.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Cieplak include:

  • Epitope-resolved profiling of the SARS-CoV-2 antibody response identifies cross-reactivity with endemic human coronaviruses, 2021, Cell Reports Medicine
  • The Antimalarial Natural Product Salinipostin A Identifies Essential α/β Serine Hydrolases Involved in Lipid Metabolism in P. falciparum Parasites, 2020, Cell Chemical Biology
  • S-nitrosylated TDP-43 triggers aggregation, cell-to-cell spread, and neurotoxicity in hiPSCs and in vivo models of ALS/FTD, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Efficient formulation of polarizable Gaussian multipole electrostatics for biomolecular simulations, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • PyRESP: A Program for Electrostatic Parameterizations of Additive and Induced Dipole Polarizable Force Fields, 2022, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Best Publications

  • A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules

    Wendy D. Cornell;Piotr Cieplak;Piotr Cieplak;Christopher I. Bayly;Christopher I. Bayly;Ian R. Gould;Ian R. Gould

  • A well-behaved electrostatic potential based method using charge restraints for deriving atomic charges: the RESP model

    Christopher I. Bayly;Piotr Cieplak;Wendy Cornell;Peter A. Kollman

  • How Well Does a Restrained Electrostatic Potential (RESP) Model Perform in Calculating Conformational Energies of Organic and Biological Molecules

    Junmei Wang;Piotr Cieplak;Piotr Cieplak;Peter A. Kollman

  • Calculating Structures and Free Energies of Complex Molecules: Combining Molecular Mechanics and Continuum Models

    Peter A. Kollman;Irina Massova;Carolina Reyes;Bernd Kuhn

  • A point-charge force field for molecular mechanics simulations of proteins based on condensed-phase quantum mechanical calculations.

    Yong Duan;Chun Wu;Shibasish Chowdhury;Mathew C. Lee

  • Continuum Solvent Studies of the Stability of DNA, RNA, and Phosphoramidate−DNA Helices

    Jayashree Srinivasan;Thomas E. Cheatham;Piotr Cieplak;Peter A. Kollman

  • Application of RESP charges to calculate conformational energies, hydrogen bond energies, and free energies of solvation

    Wendy D. Cornell;Piotr Cieplak;Christopher I. Bayly;Peter A. Kollman

  • S-Nitrosylation of Drp1 Mediates β-Amyloid-Related Mitochondrial Fission and Neuronal Injury

    Dong-Hyung Cho;Tomohiro Nakamura;Jianguo Fang;Piotr Cieplak

  • The R.E.D. tools: advances in RESP and ESP charge derivation and force field library building

    François-Yves Dupradeau;Adrien Pigache;Thomas Zaffran;Corentin Savineau

  • Application of the multimolecule and multiconformational RESP methodology to biopolymers: Charge derivation for DNA, RNA, and proteins

    Piotr Cieplak;Wendy D. Cornell;Christopher I. Bayly;Peter A. Kollman

  • A modified version of the Cornell et al. force field with improved sugar pucker phases and helical repeat.

    Thomas E. Cheatham;Piotr Cieplak;Peter A. Kollman

  • R.E.D. Server: a web service for deriving RESP and ESP charges and building force field libraries for new molecules and molecular fragments

    Enguerran Vanquelef;Sabrina Simon;Gaelle Marquant;Elodie Garcia

  • Molecular mechanical models for organic and biological systems going beyond the atom centered two body additive approximation: aqueous solution free energies of methanol and N‐methyl acetamide, nucleic acid base, and amide hydrogen bonding and chloroform/water partition coefficients of the nucleic acid bases

    Piotr Cieplak;James W. Caldwell;Peter A. Kollman

  • A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 5179−5197

    Wendy D. Cornell;Piotr Cieplak;Christopher I. Bayly;Ian R. Gould

  • Polarization effects in molecular mechanical force fields.

    Piotr Cieplak;François Yves Dupradeau;Yong Duan;Junmei Wang

  • New-Generation Amber United-Atom Force Field

    Lijiang Yang;Chun Hu Tan;Meng Juei Hsieh;Junmei Wang

  • Strike a balance: optimization of backbone torsion parameters of AMBER polarizable force field for simulations of proteins and peptides.

    Zhi-Xiang Wang;Wei Zhang;Wei Zhang;Chun Wu;Chun Wu;Hongxing Lei

  • A theoretical study of tautomerism in the gas phase and aqueous solution: a combined use of state-of-the-art ab initio quantum mechanics and free energy perturbation methods

    Piotr Cieplak;Paul Bash;U. Chandra Singh;Peter A. Kollman

  • Molecular dynamics and free energy analyses of cathepsin D-inhibitor interactions: insight into structure-based ligand design.

    Shuanghong Huo;Junmei Wang;Piotr Cieplak;Piotr Cieplak;Peter A. Kollman

  • A new water potential including polarization: Application to gas‐phase, liquid, and crystal properties of water

    Piotr Cieplak;Peter Kollman;Terry Lybrand

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Kollman
Peter A. Kollman University of California, San Francisco
Alex Y. Strongin
Alex Y. Strongin Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Junmei Wang
Junmei Wang University of Pittsburgh
Ray Luo
Ray Luo University of California, Irvine
Jeffrey W. Smith
Jeffrey W. Smith Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Adam Godzik
Adam Godzik University of California, Riverside
Matthew Bogyo
Matthew Bogyo Stanford University
Stuart A. Lipton
Stuart A. Lipton Scripps Research Institute
Thomas E. Cheatham
Thomas E. Cheatham University of Utah
Mark S. Chee
Mark S. Chee Illumina (United States)

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