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Shmuel Pietrokovski

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
10158
World Ranking
17113
National Ranking
171

Shmuel Pietrokovski 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 Shmuel Pietrokovski sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 105 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shmuel Pietrokovski 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 Shmuel Pietrokovski sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 51 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Shmuel Pietrokovski is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions specifically in Molecular Biology. The subfields of their work also include Genetics, Reproductive Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's research interests and work topics encompass:

  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA research and splicing
  • Biochemical and structural characterization
  • Sperm and testicular function
  • Reproductive biology and fertility
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Biomedicines
  • ChemBioChem
  • Chemical Science

Their recent papers illustrate a range of biochemical and molecular biology topics:

  • Egg multivesicular bodies elicit an LC3-associated phagocytosis-like pathway to degrade paternal mitochondria after fertilization, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Biochemical and Structural Characterization of an Unusual and Naturally Split Class 3 Intein, 2020, ChemBioChem
  • Expanding and Enriching the LncRNA Gene-Disease Landscape Using the GeneCaRNA Database, 2024, Biomedicines
  • Structural and biochemical analysis of a novel atypically split intein reveals a conserved histidine specific to cysteine-less inteins, 2023, Chemical Science
  • Pls1 Is a Peroxisomal Matrix Protein with a Role in Regulating Lysine Biosynthesis, 2022, Cells

Pietrokovski frequently collaborates with colleagues including Miriam Eisenstein, Henning D. Mootz, Alon Savidor, Shani Bialik, and Adi Kimchi, each contributing to multiple publications alongside them.

Best Publications

  • Consensus-degenerate hybrid oligonucleotide primers for amplification of distantly related sequences.

    Timothy M. Rose;Emily R. Schultz;Jorja G. Henikoff;Shmuel Pietrokovski

  • Atg8: an autophagy-related ubiquitin-like protein family

    Tomer Shpilka;Hilla Weidberg;Shmuel Pietrokovski;Zvulun Elazar

  • Network analysis of protein structures identifies functional residues.

    Gil Amitai;Arye Shemesh;Einat Sitbon;Maxim Shklar

  • Gene Families: The Taxonomy of Protein Paralogs and Chimeras

    Steven Henikoff;Elizabeth A. Greene;Shmuel Pietrokovski;Peer Bork

  • Increased coverage of protein families with the blocks database servers.

    Jorja G. Henikoff;Elizabeth A. Greene;Shmuel Pietrokovski;Steven Henikoff

  • Automated construction and graphical presentation of protein blocks from unaligned sequences.

    Steven Henikoff;Jorja G. Henikoff;William J. Alford;Shmuel Pietrokovski

  • Blocks+: a non-redundant database of protein alignment blocks derived from multiple compilations.

    Steven Henikoff;Jorja G. Henikoff;Shmuel Pietrokovski

  • Searching databases of conserved sequence regions by aligning protein multiple-alignments

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  • The landscape of sex-differential transcriptome and its consequent selection in human adults

    Moran Gershoni;Shmuel Pietrokovski

  • Hsp90 recognizes a common surface on client kinases.

    Ami Citri;Daniel Harari;Galit Shohat;Parameswaran Ramakrishnan

  • Conserved sequence features of inteins (protein introns) and their use in identifying new inteins and related proteins.

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  • Modular organization of inteins and C-terminal autocatalytic domains.

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  • The autophagy-associated Atg8 gene family operates both under favourable growth conditions and under starvation stresses in Arabidopsis plants

    Silvia Sláviková;Galia Shy;Youli Yao;Rina Glozman

  • USH3A transcripts encode clarin-1, a four-transmembrane-domain protein with a possible role in sensory synapses

    Avital Adato;Sarah Vreugde;Tarja Joensuu;Nili Avidan

  • The Blocks Database—A System for Protein Classification

    Shmuel Pietrokovski;Jorja G. Henikoff;Steven Henikoff

  • Intein spread and extinction in evolution.

    Shmuel Pietrokovski

  • Doublecortin mutations cluster in evolutionarily conserved functional domains

    Tamar Sapir;David Horesh;Michal Caspi;Roee Atlas

  • Configuration of the catalytic GIY-YIG domain of intron endonuclease I-TevI: coincidence of computational and molecular findings.

    Joseph C. Kowalski;Marlene Belfort;Michelle A. Stapleton;Mathias Holpert

  • New features of the Blocks Database servers

    Jorja G. Henikoff;Steven Henikoff;Shmuel Pietrokovski

  • Mitochondrial Carrier Homolog 2 Is a Target of tBID in Cells Signaled To Die by Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha

    Michal Grinberg;Michal Schwarz;Yehudit Zaltsman;Tzipi Eini

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Henikoff
Steven Henikoff Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Adi Kimchi
Adi Kimchi Weizmann Institute of Science
Miriam Eisenstein
Miriam Eisenstein Weizmann Institute of Science
Zvulun Elazar
Zvulun Elazar Weizmann Institute of Science
Barry L. Stoddard
Barry L. Stoddard Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Edward N. Trifonov
Edward N. Trifonov University of Haifa
Avraham A. Levy
Avraham A. Levy Weizmann Institute of Science
Marlene Belfort
Marlene Belfort University at Albany, State University of New York
Doron Lancet
Doron Lancet Weizmann Institute of Science
Uri Gophna
Uri Gophna Tel Aviv University

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