Michael J. Rust

13.5k citations

54 papers · 10.8k · 1 hit paper · h-index 26

Impact in

Biophysics top 0.01%
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems top 0.5%
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin

Papers in

Endocrine and Autonomic Systems 27
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin 27
Cell Biology 17
- Cellular Mechanics and Interactions 9
- Microtubule and mitosis dynamics 8
- Cellular transport and secretion 6

Co-authors: Xiaowei Zhuang (10 shared papers)Mark Bates (2 shared papers)Melike Lakadamyali (5 shared papers)Hazen P. Babcock (1 shared paper)Erin K. O’Shea (2 shared papers)Feng Zhang (1 shared paper)Hilde M. van der Schaar (2 shared papers)Jan Wilschut (2 shared papers)
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (8 papers)Soft Matter (5 papers)Nature Communications (4 papers)Current Biology (4 papers)Science (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Netherlands France

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Michael J. Rust

49 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Michael J. Rust's Hit Papers

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Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) 2006 · 6.4k citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2006 Nature Methods

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1	Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) Nature Methods ·Michael J. Rust, Mark Bates, Xiaowei Zhuang Hit paper breakdown →	2006	6402
2	Visualizing infection of individual influenza viruses Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J. Rust, Hazen P. Babcock, Xiaowei Zhuang	2003	621
3	Ligands for Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis Are Differentially Sorted into Distinct Populations of Early Endosomes Cell ·Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J. Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang	2006	473
4	Dissecting the Cell Entry Pathway of Dengue Virus by Single-Particle Tracking in Living Cells PLoS Pathogens ·Hilde M. van der Schaar, Michael J. Rust, Chen Chen, Heidi H. van der Ende-Metselaar, Jan Wilschut, Xiaowei Zhuang, Jolanda M. Smit	2008	425
5	Assembly of endocytic machinery around individual influenza viruses during viral entry Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Michael J. Rust, Melike Lakadamyali, Feng Zhang, Xiaowei Zhuang	2004	386
6	Ordered Phosphorylation Governs Oscillation of a Three-Protein Circadian Clock Science ·Michael J. Rust, Joseph S. Markson, William S. Lane, Daniel S. Fisher, Erin K. O’Shea	2007	313
7	Endocytosis of influenza viruses Microbes and Infection ·Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J. Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang	2004	280
8	Imaging Poliovirus Entry in Live Cells PLoS Biology ·Boerries Brandenburg, Lily Y. Lee, Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J. Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang, James M. Hogle	2007	255
9	Characterization of the Early Events in Dengue Virus Cell Entry by Biochemical Assays and Single-Virus Tracking Journal of Virology ·Hilde M. van der Schaar, Michael J. Rust, Barry-Lee Waarts, Heidi H. van der Ende-Metselaar, Jan Wilschut, Xiaowei Zhuang, Jolanda M. Smit +1 other	2007	229
10	Light-Driven Changes in Energy Metabolism Directly Entrain the Cyanobacterial Circadian Oscillator Science ·Michael J. Rust, Susan S. Golden, Erin K. O’Shea	2011	192
11	A protein fold switch joins the circadian oscillator to clock output in cyanobacteria Science ·Yong‐Gang Chang, Susan Cohen, Connie Phong, William K. Myers, Yong-Ick Kim, Roger Tseng, JENNY LI-CHUN LIN, Joseph S. Boyd	2015	154
12	Single-molecule enzymology of RNA: Essential functional groups impact catalysis from a distance Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David Rueda, Gregory Bokinsky, Maria M. Rhodes, Michael J. Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang, Nils G. Walter	2004	121
13	Multistate Effects in Calculations of the Electronic Coupling Element for Electron Transfer Using the Generalized Mulliken−Hush Method The Journal of Physical Chemistry A ·Michael J. Rust, Jason Lappe, Robert J. Cave	2002	98
14	Robust and tunable circadian rhythms from differentially sensitive catalytic domains Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Connie Phong, Joseph S. Markson, Crystal M. Wilhoite, Michael J. Rust	2012	85
15	Small Rad51 and Dmc1 Complexes Often Co-occupy Both Ends of a Meiotic DNA Double Strand Break PLoS Genetics ·Jennifer Grubb, Annie Zhang, Michael J. Rust, Douglas K. Bishop +1 other	2015	73
16	Rhythms in Energy Storage Control the Ability of the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock to Reset Current Biology ·Gopal K. Pattanayak, Connie Phong, Michael J. Rust	2014	72
17	Myosin-driven actin-microtubule networks exhibit self-organized contractile dynamics Science Advances ·Gloria Lee, Gregor Leech, Michael J. Rust, Moumita Das, Ryan James McGorty, Jennifer L. Ross, Rae M. Robertson‐Anderson	2021	59
18	Mixtures of opposing phosphorylations within hexamers precisely time feedback in the cyanobacterial circadian clock Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·JENNY LI-CHUN LIN, Justin Chew, Udaysankar Chockanathan, Michael J. Rust	2014	44
19	Controlling the Cyanobacterial Clock by Synthetically Rewiring Metabolism Cell Reports ·Gopal K. Pattanayak, Guillaume Lambert, Kevin Bernat, Michael J. Rust	2015	42
20	Varying crosslinking motifs drive the mesoscale mechanics of actin-microtubule composites Scientific Reports ·Shea N. Ricketts, Madison L. Francis, Michael J. Rust, Moumita Das, Jennifer L. Ross, Rae M. Robertson‐Anderson +1 other	2019	38

About Michael J. Rust

Michael J. Rust is a scholar working on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cell Biology, Biophysics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics, having authored 54 papers that have together received 10.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (27 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (9 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (8 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (6 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (2 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (2 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (2 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biophysics (4.2k citations), Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (838 citations), Cell Biology (1.2k citations), Structural Biology (160 citations) and Acoustics and Ultrasonics (86 citations). Michael J. Rust has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and France. Frequent co-authors include Xiaowei Zhuang, Mark Bates, Melike Lakadamyali, Hazen P. Babcock, Erin K. O’Shea, Feng Zhang, Hilde M. van der Schaar, Jan Wilschut, Jolanda M. Smit and Heidi H. van der Ende-Metselaar. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Soft Matter, Nature Communications, Current Biology and Science.

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