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2025

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
106
Citations
39864
World Ranking
1151
National Ranking
8

Dan S. Tawfik publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dan S. Tawfik sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 338 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Dan S. Tawfik D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dan S. Tawfik sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 106 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Dan S. Tawfik is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with an emphasis on molecular biology as a major subfield.

Their scientific work spans several specialized areas, including:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Enzyme structure and function
  • Protein structure and dynamics
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Bacterial genetics and biotechnology
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Photosynthetic processes and mechanisms

Tawfik has contributed extensively to the scientific literature, with a presence in prominent publication venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 13 publications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with 5 publications
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society with 3 publications
  • Protein Science with 3 publications
  • eLife with 2 publications

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Tawfik include:

  • On the evolution of chaperones and cochaperones and the expansion of proteomes across the Tree of Life, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Primordial emergence of a nucleic acid-binding protein via phase separation and statistical ornithine-to-arginine conversion, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • On the emergence of P-Loop NTPase and Rossmann enzymes from a Beta-Alpha-Beta ancestral fragment, 2020, eLife
  • Bridging Themes: Short Protein Segments Found in Different Architectures, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Liam M. Longo
  • Dragana Despotović
  • Jagoda Jabłońska
  • Michal Sharon
  • Saurav Mallik

Dan S. Tawfik is recognized as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), which signifies a formal professional affiliation in the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Enzyme Promiscuity: A Mechanistic and Evolutionary Perspective

    Olga Khersonsky;Dan S Tawfik

  • Kemp elimination catalysts by computational enzyme design

    Daniela Röthlisberger;Olga Khersonsky;Andrew M. Wollacott;Lin Jiang

  • Man-made cell-like compartments for molecular evolution

    Dan S. Tawfik;Andrew D. Griffiths

  • The Moderately Efficient Enzyme: Evolutionary and Physicochemical Trends Shaping Enzyme Parameters

    Arren Bar-Even;Elad Noor;Yonatan Savir;Wolfram Liebermeister

  • The 'evolvability' of promiscuous protein functions.

    Amir Aharoni;Leonid Gaidukov;Olga Khersonsky;Stephen McQ Gould

  • Protein dynamism and evolvability.

    Nobuhiko Tokuriki;Dan S. Tawfik

  • Stability effects of mutations and protein evolvability

    Nobuhiko Tokuriki;Dan S Tawfik

  • Structure and Evolution of the Serum Paraoxonase Family of Detoxifying and Anti-Atherosclerotic Enzymes

    Michal Harel;Amir Aharoni;Leonid Gaidukov;Boris Brumshtein

  • Antibody Multispecificity Mediated by Conformational Diversity

    Leo C. James;Pietro Roversi;Dan S. Tawfik

  • Enzyme promiscuity: evolutionary and mechanistic aspects.

    Olga Khersonsky;Cintia Roodveldt;Dan S Tawfik

  • Conformational diversity and protein evolution--a 60-year-old hypothesis revisited.

    Leo C. James;Dan S. Tawfik

  • How Protein Stability and New Functions Trade Off

    Nobuhiko Tokuriki;Francois Stricher;Luis Serrano;Dan S. Tawfik

  • Local fitness landscape of the green fluorescent protein.

    Karen S. Sarkisyan;Dmitry A. Bolotin;Margarita V. Meer;Dinara R. Usmanova;Dinara R. Usmanova

  • Automated Structure- and Sequence-Based Design of Proteins for High Bacterial Expression and Stability.

    Adi Goldenzweig;Moshe Goldsmith;Shannon E. Hill;Or Gertman

  • Amplification of complex gene libraries by emulsion PCR

    Richard Williams;Sergio G Peisajovich;Oliver J Miller;Shlomo Magdassi

  • Structure-reactivity studies of serum paraoxonase PON1 suggest that its native activity is lactonase.

    Olga Khersonsky;Dan S. Tawfik

  • Miniaturising the laboratory in emulsion droplets

    Andrew D. Griffiths;Dan S. Tawfik

  • Mutational effects and the evolution of new protein functions

    Misha Soskine;Dan S. Tawfik

  • ΜΕΘΟΔΟΣ ΔΙΑΧΩΡΙΣΜΟΥ IN VITRO

    Griffiths Andrew;Tawfik Dan

  • Robustness–epistasis link shapes the fitness landscape of a randomly drifting protein

    Shimon Bershtein;Michal Segal;Roy Bekerman;Nobuhiko Tokuriki

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew D. Griffiths
Andrew D. Griffiths PSL University
Joel L. Sussman
Joel L. Sussman Weizmann Institute of Science
Zelig Eshhar
Zelig Eshhar Weizmann Institute of Science
David Baker
David Baker University of Washington
Israel Silman
Israel Silman Weizmann Institute of Science
Shlomo Magdassi
Shlomo Magdassi Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nir Ben-Tal
Nir Ben-Tal Tel Aviv University
Arren Bar-Even
Arren Bar-Even Max Planck Society
Florian Hollfelder
Florian Hollfelder University of Cambridge
Leo C. James
Leo C. James MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

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