David van der Spoel

80.7k citations
176 papers · 67.3k · 12 hit papers · h-index 61

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David van der Spoel

173 papers receiving 66.4k citations

David van der Spoel's Hit Papers

The need to implement FAIR principles in biomolecular simulations 2025 · 37 citations
370+10+20Years since publication5.0k10.0k15.0k

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David van der Spoel
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  • Structural Biology 1.5k
  • Molecular Biology 32.8k
  • Filtration and Separation 889
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry 3.6k
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 11.1k
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GROMACS: Fast, flexible, and free
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200515956
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GROMACS 4: Algorithms for Highly Efficient, Load-Balanced, and Scalable Molecular Simulation
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200814144
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GROMACS: A message-passing parallel molecular dynamics implementation
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19958882
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GROMACS 4.5: a high-throughput and highly parallel open source molecular simulation toolkit
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20136411
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GROMACS 3.0: a package for molecular simulation and trajectory analysis
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20016260
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Potential for biomolecular imaging with femtosecond X-ray pulses
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20001616
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g_wham—A Free Weighted Histogram Analysis Implementation Including Robust Error and Autocorrelation Estimates
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20101399
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Femtosecond diffractive imaging with a soft-X-ray free-electron laser
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2006817
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Water Determines the Structure and Dynamics of Proteins
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2016783
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Force Field Benchmark of Organic Liquids: Density, Enthalpy of Vaporization, Heat Capacities, Surface Tension, Isothermal Compressibility, Volumetric Expansion Coefficient, and Dielectric Constant
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2011647
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A systematic study of water models for molecular simulation: Derivation of water models optimized for use with a reaction field
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1998595
12 2006438
13 2008430
14 2002396
15 2005301
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GROMACS - A PARALLEL COMPUTER FOR MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS
1993286
17 2006273
18 2014265
19 2000260
20 2003257

About David van der Spoel

David van der Spoel is a scholar working on Spectroscopy, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, having authored 176 papers that have together received 67.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (65 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (41 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (19 papers), Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (18 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (17 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Structural Biology (1.5k citations), Molecular Biology (32.8k citations), Filtration and Separation (889 citations), Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (3.6k citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (11.1k citations). David van der Spoel has collaborated with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Berk Hess, Erik R. Lindahl, Herman J. C. Berendsen, Carsten Kutzner, Rudi van Drunen, Gerrit Groenhof, Alan Edward Mark, Paul J. van Maaren, Jochen S. Hub and Per Olof Larsson. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, The Journal of Chemical Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

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