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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Yale University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
92
Citations
32176
World Ranking
1868
National Ranking
688

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer 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 Sharon Hammes-Schiffer sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 595 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer 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 Sharon Hammes-Schiffer sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Bourke Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the development and application of a theory for protoncoupled electron transfer clarifying the roles of hydrogen tunneling and protein motion in enzymes and fundamental insight into electronproton correlation in nuclearelectronic orbital methods and multicomponent density functional theory
  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has an extensive body of work in physical and theoretical chemistry, with a focus on atomic and molecular physics, optics, materials chemistry, and renewable energy.

The scientist's research covers various topics including academic writing and publishing, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, advanced chemical physics studies, photochemistry and electron transfer studies, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, electrochemical analysis and applications, as well as porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Gerald J. Meyer, Gregory D. Scholes, Cynthia J. Burrows, Shu Wang, and Hyun Jae Kim.

They have published numerous papers in reputable scientific venues. Among these venues are:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Some of the recent papers by Sharon Hammes-Schiffer include:

  • "Electrocatalysis in Alkaline Media and Alkaline Membrane-Based Energy Technologies," 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • "Unraveling Two Pathways for Electrochemical Alcohol and Aldehyde Oxidation on NiOOH," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Theoretical Modeling of Electrochemical Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer," 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • "Bioinspiration in Light Harvesting and Catalysis," 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Multicomponent Quantum Chemistry: Integrating Electronic and Nuclear Quantum Effects via the Nuclear-Electronic Orbital Method," 2020, Chemical Reviews

The scientist has been recognized with multiple awards and honors, including fellowship distinctions from prominent scientific societies. These awards include:

  • Bourke Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2020
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2011
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2010, for contributions to proton-coupled electron transfer theory and electron-proton correlation methods
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1998

Best Publications

  • Proton transfer in solution: Molecular dynamics with quantum transitions

    Sharon Hammes‐Schiffer;John C. Tully

  • A Perspective on Enzyme Catalysis

    Stephen J. Benkovic;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Software for the frontiers of quantum chemistry: An overview of developments in the Q-Chem 5 package

    Evgeny Epifanovsky;Andrew T.B. Gilbert;Andrew T.B. Gilbert;Xintian Feng;Xintian Feng;Joonho Lee

  • Theory of Coupled Electron and Proton Transfer Reactions

    Sharon Hammes-Schiffer;Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov

  • Relating Protein Motion to Catalysis

    Sharon Hammes-Schiffer;Stephen J. Benkovic

  • Hydrogenase Enzymes and Their Synthetic Models: The Role of Metal Hydrides.

    David Schilter;James M. Camara;Mioy T. Huynh;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Network of coupled promoting motions in enzyme catalysis

    Pratul K. Agarwal;Salomon R. Billeter;P. T. Ravi Rajagopalan;Stephen J. Benkovic

  • Theoretical Perspectives on Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions

    Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Solution, Proteins, and Electrochemistry

    Sharon Hammes-Schiffer;Alexander V. Soudackov

  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Moving Together and Charging Forward

    Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Theory of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Energy Conversion Processes

    Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Multiconfigurational nuclear-electronic orbital approach: Incorporation of nuclear quantum effects in electronic structure calculations

    Simon P. Webb;Tzvetelin Iordanov;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Unraveling Two Pathways for Electrochemical Alcohol and Aldehyde Oxidation on NiOOH.

    Michael T Bender;Yan Choi Lam;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer;Kyoung-Shin Choi

  • Artificial Photosynthesis and Solar Fuels

    Leif Hammarström;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Theoretical Modeling of Electrochemical Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer.

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  • Free-Energy Landscape of Enzyme Catalysis†

    Stephen J. Benkovic;Gordon G. Hammes;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Quinone 1 e– and 2 e–/2 H+ Reduction Potentials: Identification and Analysis of Deviations from Systematic Scaling Relationships

    Mioy T. Huynh;Colin W. Anson;Andrew C. Cavell;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Hydrogen tunneling and protein motion in enzyme reactions

    Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Flexibility, Diversity, and Cooperativity: Pillars of Enzyme Catalysis

    Gordon G. Hammes;Stephen J. Benkovic;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Hydrogen tunneling and protein motion in enzyme reactions.

    Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Improvement of the Internal Consistency in Trajectory Surface Hopping

    Jian Yun Fang;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Derivation of rate expressions for nonadiabatic proton-coupled electron transfer reactions in solution

    Alexander Soudackov;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Theoretical analysis of mechanistic pathways for hydrogen evolution catalyzed by cobaloximes.

    Brian H. Solis;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Soybean Lipoxygenase

    Elizabeth Hatcher;and Alexander V. Soudackov;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne B. McCoy
Anne B. McCoy University of Washington
Prashant V. Kamat
Prashant V. Kamat University of Notre Dame
Gregory D. Scholes
Gregory D. Scholes Princeton University
Marc A. Hillmyer
Marc A. Hillmyer University of Minnesota
Sébastien Lecommandoux
Sébastien Lecommandoux Bordeaux INP
Vincent M. Rotello
Vincent M. Rotello University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gilbert C. Walker
Gilbert C. Walker University of Toronto
Shu Wang
Shu Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Paul S. Weiss
Paul S. Weiss University of California, Los Angeles
Stuart J. Rowan
Stuart J. Rowan University of Chicago

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