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 Huimin Zhao sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 460 publications — 93rd percentile
93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.
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 Huimin Zhao sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 104 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.
Huimin Zhao is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a total of 381 publications in these areas. Zhao's work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, organic chemistry, biomedical engineering, pharmacology, and plant science.
Much of Zhao's research centers on topics such as microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, CRISPR and genetic engineering, enzyme catalysis and immobilization, biofuel production and bioconversion, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.
Frequent collaborators in Zhao's work include Ee Lui Ang, Yifeng Wei, Nilmani Singh, Vinh Tran, and Zia Fatma. Over the course of their career, Zhao has published extensively in several scientific venues. Notable publication outlets with multiple contributions include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, ACS Synthetic Biology, ACS Catalysis, and Metabolic Engineering.
Some of their recent papers are:
Zhao has been recognized by several scientific organizations. They were named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2012 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.
Jesse R. Dixon;Inkyung Jung;Siddarth Selvaraj;Yin Shen
Huimin Zhao;Lori Giver;Zhixin Shao;Joseph A. Affholter
Zengyi Shao;Hua Zhao;Huimin Zhao
Ryan E. Cobb;Yajie Wang;Huimin Zhao
Wilfred A van der Donk;Huimin Zhao
Huimin Zhao;Frances H. Arnold
Huimin Zhao;Wilfred Adrianus van der Donk
Zehua Bao;Han Xiao;Jing Liang;Lu Zhang
S. M. Hossein Tabatabaei Yazdi;Yongbo Yuan;Jian Ma;Huimin Zhao
Huimin Zhao;Frances H. Arnold
Yajie Wang;Pu Xue;Mingfeng Cao;Tianhao Yu
Zhixin Shao;Huimin Zhao;Lori Giver;Frances H. Arnold
Ning Sun;Huimin Zhao
Wenjuan Zha;Sheryl B. Rubin-Pitel;Zengyi Shao;Huimin Zhao
Pradeep Reddy;Alejandro Ocampo;Keiichiro Suzuki;Jinping Luo
Tyler W. Johannes;Huimin Zhao
Jing Du;Zengyi Shao;Huimin Zhao
Mingzi M Zhang;Fong Tian Wong;Yajie Wang;Shangwen Luo
Jiazhang Lian;Tong Si;Nikhil U. Nair;Huimin Zhao
Fei Wen;Jie Sun;Jie Sun;Huimin Zhao
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