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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
15144
World Ranking
6770
National Ranking
58

Chemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
15172
World Ranking
5676
National Ranking
38

Yuval Shoham 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 Yuval Shoham sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 248 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yuval Shoham 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 Yuval Shoham sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Yuval Shoham is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel and has a research focus primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their publications cover a variety of subfields including Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, and Biotechnology.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, notably Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Biofuel Production and Bioconversion, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Micro and Nano Robotics, Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks, Enzyme Production and Characterization, and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Yuval Shoham include:

  • "Deciphering Cellodextrin and Glucose Uptake in Clostridium thermocellum" (2022), published in mBio
  • "Cellulose to electricity conversion by an enzymatic biofuel cell" (2021), published in Sustainable Energy & Fuels
  • "Hamiltonian Dynamics and Structural States of Two-Dimensional Active Particles" (2023), published in Physical Review Letters
  • "Cross-utilization of β-galactosides and cellobiose in Geobacillus stearothermophilus" (2020), published in Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Carbohydrate-Binding Capability and Functional Conformational Changes of AbnE, an Arabino-oligosaccharide Binding Protein" (2020), published in Journal of Molecular Biology

Yuval Shoham frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • G. Shoham
  • Smadar Shulami
  • R. Salama
  • Shifra Lansky
  • Nidaa S. Herzallh

They have published multiple works in various journals, with notable frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Communications Biology
  • mBio
  • Sustainable Energy & Fuels
  • Physical Review Letters

Their research often integrates biochemical, molecular, and engineering perspectives, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to scientific problems ranging from microbial metabolism to applications in bioenergy and nanotechnology.

Best Publications

  • The Cellulosomes: Multienzyme Machines for Degradation of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides

    Edward A. Bayer;Jean-Pierre Belaich;Yuval Shoham;Raphael Lamed

  • Cellulose, cellulases and cellulosomes

    Edward A Bayer;Henri Chanzy;Raphael Lamed;Yuval Shoham

  • Crystal structure of a bacterial family-III cellulose-binding domain: a general mechanism for attachment to cellulose.

    J. Tormo;R. Lamed;A. J. Chirino;E. Morag

  • Microbial hemicellulases.

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  • Cellulosomes-structure and ultrastructure.

    Edward A. Bayer;Linda J.W. Shimon;Yuval Shoham;Raphael Lamed

  • The cellulosome concept as an efficient microbial strategy for the degradation of insoluble polysaccharides.

    Yuval Shoham;Raphael Lamed;Edward A. Bayer

  • Degradation of cellulose substrates by cellulosome chimeras. Substrate targeting versus proximity of enzyme components.

    Henri Pierre Fierobe;Edward A. Bayer;Chantal Tardif;Chantal Tardif;Mirjam Czjzek

  • Purification and characterization of a thermostable xylanase from Bacillus stearothermophilus T-6.

    A. Khasin;I. Alchanati;Yuval Shoham

  • Species-specificity of the cohesin-dockerin interaction between Clostridium thermocellum and Clostridium cellulolyticum: prediction of specificity determinants of the dockerin domain.

    Sandrine Pagès;Anne Bélaïch;Jean-Pierre Bélaïch;Jean-Pierre Bélaïch;Ely Morag

  • Design and Production of Active Cellulosome Chimeras SELECTIVE INCORPORATION OF DOCKERIN-CONTAINING ENZYMES INTO DEFINED FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXES

    Henri-Pierre Fierobe;Adva Mechaly;Chantal Tardif;Chantal Tardif;Anne Belaich

  • Cellulosomal scaffoldin-like proteins from Ruminococcus flavefaciens.

    Shin-You Ding;Shin-You Ding;Marco T Rincon;Raphael Lamed;Jennifer C Martin

  • The glucuronic acid utilization gene cluster from Bacillus stearothermophilus T-6.

    Smadar Shulami;Orit Gat;Abraham L. Sonenshein;Yuval Shoham

  • Ten years of CAZypedia: a living encyclopedia of carbohydrate-active enzymes

    Wade Abbott;Orly Alber;Ed Bayer;Jean-Guy Berrin

  • Expression, purification, and characterization of the cellulose-binding domain of the scaffoldin subunit from the cellulosome of Clostridium thermocellum.

    E Morag;A Lapidot;D Govorko;R Lamed

  • Crystal structure and snapshots along the reaction pathway of a family 51 α‐l‐arabinofuranosidase

    Klaus Hövel;Dalia Shallom;Karsten Niefind;Valery Belakhov

  • Expression, purification and subunit-binding properties of cohesins 2 and 3 of the Clostridium thermocellum cellulosome

    Sima Yaron;Ely Morag;Edward A Bayer;Raphael Lamed

  • The Structure of an Inverting GH43 beta-Xylosidase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus with its Substrate Reveals the Role of the Three Catalytic Residues.

    Christian Brüx;Alon Ben-David;Dalia Shallom-Shezifi;Maya Leon

  • Biosynthesis of estragole and methyl-eugenol in sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L). Developmental and chemotypic association of allylphenol O-methyltransferase activities.

    Efraim Lewinsohn;Iris Ziv-Raz;Iris Ziv-Raz;Nativ Dudai;Yaacov Tadmor

  • Matching fusion protein systems for affinity analysis of two interacting families of proteins: the cohesin-dockerin interaction

    Yoav Barak;Tal Handelsman;David Nakar;Adva Mechaly

  • Clostridium thermocellum cellulosomal genes are regulated by extracytoplasmic polysaccharides via alternative sigma factors

    Yakir Nataf;Liat Bahari;Hamutal Kahel-Raifer;Ilya Borovok

  • CelI, a Noncellulosomal Family 9 Enzyme from Clostridium thermocellum, Is a Processive Endoglucanase That Degrades Crystalline Cellulose

    Rachel Gilad;Larisa Rabinovich;Sima Yaron;Edward A. Bayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. Bayer
Edward A. Bayer Weizmann Institute of Science
Raphael Lamed
Raphael Lamed Tel Aviv University
Jean-Pierre Belaich
Jean-Pierre Belaich Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Felix Frolow
Felix Frolow Tel Aviv University
Dietmar Schomburg
Dietmar Schomburg Technische Universität Braunschweig
Linda J. W. Shimon
Linda J. W. Shimon Weizmann Institute of Science
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Mirjam Czjzek
Mirjam Czjzek Sorbonne University
Eugene Rosenberg
Eugene Rosenberg Tel Aviv University
Abraham L. Sonenshein
Abraham L. Sonenshein Tufts University

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