2026 James A. Shapiro: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	55	3576	3375	1548	1451	129	12512

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Research.com Recognitions

1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

James A. Shapiro is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their body of work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Surgery, and Cancer Research.

The main topics addressed in Shapiro's research include:

Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
RNA Research and Splicing
RNA modifications and cancer
Pancreatic function and diabetes

Frequent publication venues for Shapiro's research are:

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Cancers
Biosystems
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Recent academic papers authored by Shapiro include:

All living cells are cognitive (2020), published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
What prevents mainstream evolutionists teaching the whole truth about how genomes evolve? (2021), published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
What can evolutionary biology learn from cancer biology? (2021), published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Engines of innovation: biological origins of genome evolution (2022), published in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
How Chaotic Is Genome Chaos? (2021), published in Cancers

Shapiro has collaborated frequently with these coauthors:

David L. Bigam
Denis Noble
Maryam Ebadi
Vera C. Mazurak
Vickie E. Baracos

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1994.

Best Publications

THINKING ABOUT BACTERIAL POPULATIONS AS MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS

James A. Shapiro

1224
Citations
Mobile Genetic Elements

James Allen Shapiro

998
Citations
DNA: Insertion Elements, Plasmids, and Episomes.

A. I. Bukhari;James Allen Shapiro;Sankar Lal Adhya

805
Citations
BACTERIA AS MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS

James A. Shapiro

768
Citations
Molecular model for the transposition and replication of bacteriophage Mu and other transposable elements.

James A. Shapiro

646
Citations
Why repetitive DNA is essential to genome function.

James A. Shapiro;Richard von Sternberg;Richard von Sternberg

402
Citations
Evolution: A View from the 21st Century

James A. Shapiro

296
Citations
Periodic phenomena in Proteus mirabilis swarm colony development.

Oliver Rauprich;Mitsugu Matsushita;Cornelis J. Weijer;Florian Siegert

294
Citations
Mutations caused by the insertion of genetic material into the galactose operon of Escherichia coli.

J.A. Shapiro

279
Citations
Observations on the formation of clones containing araB-lacZ cistron fusions.

James A. Shapiro

273
Citations
The significances of bacterial colony patterns

James A. Shapiro

254
Citations
Isolation of pure lac operon DNA.

Jim Shapiro;Lorne Machattie;Lorne Machattie;Larry Eron;Garret Ihler;Garret Ihler

249
Citations
Regulation of alkane oxidation in Pseudomonas putida.

A Grund;J Shapiro;M Fennewald;P Bacha

221
Citations
Revisiting the central dogma in the 21st century.

James A. Shapiro

220
Citations
Bacteria are small but not stupid: cognition, natural genetic engineering and socio-bacteriology.

James A. Shapiro

218
Citations
The galactose operon of E. coli K-12. II. A deletion analysis of operon structure and polarity.

James A. Shapiro;Sankar L. Adhya

207
Citations
Natural genetic engineering in evolution

J. A. Shapiro

188
Citations
The galactose operon of E. coli K-12. I. Structural and pleiotropic mutations of the operon

Sankar L. Adhya;James A. Shapiro

180
Citations
A 21st century view of evolution: genome system architecture, repetitive DNA, and natural genetic engineering

James A. Shapiro

165
Citations
How life changes itself: the Read-Write (RW) genome.

James A. Shapiro

154
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Beckwith Harvard University

Sankar Adhya National Institutes of Health

Jerrold R. Turner Brigham and Women's Hospital

Bruce E. Rittmann Arizona State University

Eugene B. Chang University of Chicago

Stanley N. Cohen Stanford University

Mark W. Musch University of Chicago

Cornelis J. Weijer University of Dundee

Florian Siegert Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Ka Yee C. Lee University of Chicago

External Links

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