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Cryo-EM

Last updated May 19, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Dari Kimanius
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
585 cit.
2
Jing Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences
270 cit.
3
Nathaniel Burman
Montana State University
216 cit.
4
Damiano Piovesan
University of Padua
216 cit.
5
Amy R. Eggers
Innovative Genomics Institute
192 cit.
6
Johannes Schwab
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
174 cit.
7
Zhang Juen
Columbia University
159 cit.
8
Matthew K. Howard
Unknown
153 cit.
9
Xintao Song
Shandong University
148 cit.
10
Bibekananda Sahoo
Case Western Reserve University
141 cit.

Rising Stars Papers

1
Data-driven regularization lowers the size barrier of cryo-EM structure determination
Nature Methods|2024
194 cit.
2
Bat-infecting merbecovirus HKU5-CoV lineage 2 can use human ACE2 as a cell entry receptor
Cell|2025
89 cit.
3
A virally encoded tRNA neutralizes the PARIS antiviral defence system
Nature|2024
71 cit.
4
MOBIDB in 2025: integrating ensemble properties and function annotations for intrinsically disordered proteins
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
71 cit.
5
Rapid DNA unwinding accelerates genome editing by engineered CRISPR-Cas9
Cell|2024
63 cit.
6
DynaMight: estimating molecular motions with improved reconstruction from cryo-EM images
Nature Methods|2024
57 cit.
7
The structure of human sweetness
Cell|2025
52 cit.
8
Molecular basis of proton sensing by G protein-coupled receptors
Cell|2025
50 cit.
9
Accurate Prediction of Protein Structural Flexibility by Deep Learning Integrating Intricate Atomic Structures and Cryo-EM Density Information
Nature Communications|2024
73 cit.
10
How NINJ1 mediates plasma membrane rupture and why NINJ2 cannot
Cell|2024
46 cit.

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Sjors H. W. Scheres
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
896 cit.
2
Hao Wu
Boston Children's Hospital
194 cit.
3
Georgios Skiniotis
Stanford Medicine
179 cit.
4
Alan Brown
Harvard University
162 cit.
5
Dirk Daelemans
Rega Institute for Medical Research
160 cit.
6
Roger Craig
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
152 cit.
7
Yuhang Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences
146 cit.
8
Keqiang Ye
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
143 cit.
9
Youxing Jiang
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
136 cit.
10
Sheng‐You Huang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
135 cit.

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Automated model building and protein identification in cryo-EM maps
Nature|2024
597 cit.
2
NINJ1 mediates plasma membrane rupture by cutting and releasing membrane disks
Cell|2024
129 cit.
3
Time-resolved cryo-EM of G-protein activation by a GPCR
Nature|2024
119 cit.
4
Axonemal structures reveal mechanoregulatory and disease mechanisms
Nature|2023
162 cit.
5
TMEM106B is a receptor mediating ACE2-independent SARS-CoV-2 cell entry
Cell|2023
160 cit.
6
Cryo-EM structure of the human cardiac myosin filament
Nature|2023
152 cit.
7
Development of an α-synuclein positron emission tomography tracer for imaging synucleinopathies
Cell|2023
143 cit.
8
Lysosomal LAMP proteins regulate lysosomal pH by direct inhibition of the TMEM175 channel
Molecular Cell|2023
136 cit.
9
Improvement of cryo-EM maps by simultaneous local and non-local deep learning
Nature Communications|2023
202 cit.
10
Structural basis of Gabija anti-phage defence and viral immune evasion
Nature|2023
108 cit.

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
David Veesler
University of Washington
31.7k cit.
2
Marcus A. Brubaker
York University
31.6k cit.
3
Jason S. McLellan
The University of Texas at Austin
29.3k cit.
4
David A. Agard
University of California, San Francisco
26.5k cit.
5
Sjors H. W. Scheres
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
22.9k cit.
6
David J. Fleet
University of Toronto
6.5k cit.
7
Hemant D. Tagare
Yale University
5.9k cit.
8
Yifan Cheng
University of California, San Francisco
5.8k cit.
9
Patrick Cramer
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
4.3k cit.
10
J.H.D. Cate
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
4.3k cit.

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
cryoSPARC: algorithms for rapid unsupervised cryo-EM structure determination
Nature Methods|2017
10.5k cit.
2
Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation
Science|2020
9.8k cit.
3
Structure, Function, and Antigenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein
Cell|2020
9.1k cit.
4
MotionCor2: anisotropic correction of beam-induced motion for improved cryo-electron microscopy
Nature Methods|2017
8.8k cit.
5
New tools for automated high-resolution cryo-EM structure determination in RELION-3
eLife|2018
5.4k cit.
6
Cryo-EM structures of tau filaments from Alzheimer’s disease
Nature|2017
2.1k cit.
7
RELION: Implementation of a Bayesian approach to cryo-EM structure determination
Journal of Structural Biology|2012
6k cit.
8
Quantifying the local resolution of cryo-EM density maps
Nature Methods|2013
2k cit.
9
Electron counting and beam-induced motion correction enable near-atomic-resolution single-particle cryo-EM
Nature Methods|2013
1.9k cit.
10
Non-uniform refinement: adaptive regularization improves single-particle cryo-EM reconstruction
Nature Methods|2020
1.8k cit.

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