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Chemistry

D-Index
88
Citations
26648
World Ranking
2299
National Ranking
18

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
89
Citations
27276
World Ranking
2570
National Ranking
27

Birte Svensson 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 Birte Svensson sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 663 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Birte Svensson 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 Birte Svensson sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Birte Svensson is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark and has an extensive research record in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, along with contributions to agricultural and biological sciences and nursing. Their work spans a variety of specialized subfields, including nutrition and dietetics, biotechnology, food science, molecular biology, and plant science.

Their research focuses on topics related to enzyme production and characterization, microbial metabolites in food biotechnology, food composition and properties, proteins in food systems, phytase and its applications, carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis, and glycosylation and glycoproteins research.

Several journals frequently publish their work, notably Food Hydrocolloids and the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, each with 10 publications. Additional frequent venues include Molecules, Carbohydrate Polymers, and Food Bioscience.

Birte Svensson collaborates regularly with a set of coauthors, including Yuxiang Bai and Marie Sofie Møller, both associated with 25 joint publications. Other notable collaborators are Zhengyu Jin and Yu Wang, each with 16 coauthored works, along with Peter Westh, involved in 14 joint publications.

Their recent papers include:

  • Food-derived non-phenolic α-amylase and α-glucosidase inhibitors for controlling starch digestion rate and guiding diabetes-friendly recipes, 2021, LWT
  • Maltogenic α-amylase hydrolysis of wheat starch granules: Mechanism and relation to starch retrogradation, 2021, Food Hydrocolloids
  • O-/N-/S-Specificity in Glycosyltransferase Catalysis: From Mechanistic Understanding to Engineering, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Wheat ATIs: Characteristics and Role in Human Disease, 2021, Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Recent advances in enzyme biotechnology on modifying gelatinized and granular starch, 2022, Trends in Food Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Relationship of sequence and structure to specificity in the alpha-amylase family of enzymes.

    E. A. MacGregor;S. Janecek;Birte Svensson

  • Protein engineering in the alpha-amylase family: catalytic mechanism, substrate specificity, and stability.

    Birte Svensson

  • Identification of oxygen and zinc vacancy optical signals in ZnO

    T. Moe Børseth;B. G. Svensson;A. Yu. Kuznetsov;Peter Klason

  • α-Amylase: an enzyme specificity found in various families of glycoside hydrolases.

    Štefan Janeček;Birte Svensson;E. Ann MacGregor

  • Starch- and glycogen-debranching and branching enzymes: prediction of structural features of the catalytic (beta/alpha)8-barrel domain and evolutionary relationship to other amylolytic enzymes.

    Hans M. Jespersen;E. Ann MacGregor;Bernard Henrissat;Michael R. Sierks

  • Crystal and molecular structure of barley alpha-amylase.

    Anders Kadziola;Jun-ichi Abe;Birte Svensson;Richard Haser

  • Glucoamylase: structure/function relationships, and protein engineering.

    Jørgen Sauer;Bent W. Sigurskjold;Ulla Christensen;Torben P. Frandsen

  • Proteome analysis of grain filling and seed maturation in barley.

    Christine Finnie;Sabrina Melchior;Peter Roepstorff;Birte Svensson

  • Glucoamylases G1 and G2 from Aspergillus niger are synthesized from two different but closely related mRNAs

    E. Boel;I. Hjort;Birte Svensson;F. Norris

  • Comparison of the domain-level organization of starch hydrolases and related enzymes

    H M Jespersen;E A MacGregor;M R Sierks;B Svensson

  • Molecular structure of a barley alpha-amylase-inhibitor complex: implications for starch binding and catalysis.

    Anders Kadziola;Morten Søgaard;Birte Svensson;Richard Haser

  • Structure specificity and function of cyclomaltodextrinase, a multispecific enzyme of the α-amylase family

    Kwan-Hwa Park;Tae-Jip Kim;Tae-Kyou Cheong;Jung-Wan Kim

  • Site-directed mutagenesis of histidine 93, aspartic acid 180, glutamic acid 205, histidine 290, and aspartic acid 291 at the active site and tryptophan 279 at the raw starch binding site in barley alpha-amylase 1.

    M. Søgaard;A. Kadziola;R. Haser;Birte Svensson

  • Sequence homology between putative raw-starch binding domains from different starch-degrading enzymes

    B Svensson;H Jespersen;M R Sierks;E A MacGregor

  • Domain evolution in the alpha-amylase family.

    Stefan Janecek;Birte Svensson;Bernard Henrissat

  • The complete amino acid sequence of the glycoprotein, glucoamylase G1 from Aspergillus niger

    Birte Svensson;Kjeld Larsen;Ib Svendsen;Esper Boel

  • Proteinaceous α-amylase inhibitors

    Birte Svensson;Kenji Fukuda;Peter K. Nielsen;Birgit C. Bønsager

  • The carbohydrate-binding module family 20 – diversity, structure, and function

    Camilla Christiansen;Camilla Christiansen;Camilla Christiansen;Maher Abou Hachem;Štefan Janeček;Anders Viksø-Nielsen

  • Regional distant sequence homology between amylases, α-glucosidases and transglucanosylases

    Birte Svensson

  • A circularly permuted α-amylase-type α/β-barrel structure in glucan-synthesizing glucosyltransferases

    E.Ann MacGregor;Hans M. Jespersen;Birte Svensson

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathalie Juge
Nathalie Juge Norwich Research Park
Ib Svendsen
Ib Svendsen Carlsberg Laboratory
Todd R. Klaenhammer
Todd R. Klaenhammer North Carolina State University
Peter Roepstorff
Peter Roepstorff University of Southern Denmark
Gary Williamson
Gary Williamson Monash University
Jens Ø. Duus
Jens Ø. Duus Technical University of Denmark
Motomitsu Kitaoka
Motomitsu Kitaoka Niigata University
Bent O. Petersen
Bent O. Petersen University of Copenhagen
Kristoffer Almdal
Kristoffer Almdal Technical University of Denmark
Anders Hallén
Anders Hallén Royal Institute of Technology

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