Ada Yonath

12.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
173 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Ada Yonath is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ada Yonath has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Genetics and 30 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ada Yonath's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (133 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (84 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (39 papers). Ada Yonath is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (133 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (84 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (39 papers). Ada Yonath collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Germany and United States. Ada Yonath's co-authors include Anat Bashan, Raz Zarivach, F. Franceschi, Heike Bartels, Ilana Agmon, Frank Schluenzen, Frank Schlünzen, J. Harms, Ante Tocilj and W. Traub and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ada Yonath

172 papers receiving 8.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Structural basis for the interaction of antibiotics with the peptidyl transferase centre in eubacteria

2001 813 citations Frank Schlünzen, Raz Zarivach et al. profile →
Structure of Functionally Activated Small Ribosomal Subunit at 3.3 Å Resolution

2000 761 citations Frank Schluenzen, Ante Tocilj et al. profile →
High Resolution Structure of the Large Ribosomal Subunit from a Mesophilic Eubacterium

2001 714 citations Frank Schluenzen, Raz Zarivach et al. profile →
A High Resolution Structure of an Inhibitor Complex of the Extracellular Nuclease of Staphylococcus aureus

1971 219 citations Ada Yonath et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ada Yonath Israel	48	7.3k	1.9k	1.2k	626	613	173	8.9k
Daniel N. Wilson Germany	68	10.5k 1.4×	2.9k 1.6×	561 0.5×	1.5k 2.4×	887 1.4×	181	12.6k
Lode Wyns Belgium	55	7.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	443 0.7×	154	9.9k
Stephen Matthews United Kingdom	51	3.9k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	457 0.4×	708 1.1×	870 1.4×	212	6.9k
J.H.D. Cate United States	62	14.7k 2.0×	2.2k 1.2×	765 0.6×	1.2k 1.9×	458 0.7×	154	17.0k
Nenad Ban Switzerland	66	15.1k 2.1×	2.8k 1.5×	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 2.2×	884 1.4×	173	17.8k
Tilman Schirmer Switzerland	55	6.9k 0.9×	2.9k 1.6×	940 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	554 0.9×	116	9.9k
John E. Ladbury United Kingdom	56	9.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	501 0.8×	339 0.6×	175	12.3k
Jeremy H. Lakey United Kingdom	53	5.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	505 0.4×	757 1.2×	504 0.8×	195	8.2k
V. Ramakrishnan United Kingdom	77	20.3k 2.8×	4.3k 2.3×	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 2.3×	622 1.0×	167	22.2k
James C.A. Bardwell United States	56	8.3k 1.1×	2.4k 1.3×	1.9k 1.6×	825 1.3×	330 0.5×	137	10.5k

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Rajan, K. Shanmugha, Ada Yonath, Ella Zimmerman, et al.. (2025). Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1921). 20230393–20230393. 1 indexed citations

Shalev-Benami, Moran, Ana Victoria Ibarra‐Meneses, Ada Yonath, et al.. (2023). Systematic Exploration of Functional Group Relevance for Anti-Leishmanial Activity of Anisomycin. Biomedicines. 11(9). 2541–2541. 1 indexed citations

Kulakova, Liudmila, et al.. (2022). Cryo-EM structure of the ancient eukaryotic ribosome from the human parasite Giardia lamblia. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(3). 1770–1782. 11 indexed citations

Yonath, Ada. (2011). X-ray crystallography at the heart of life science. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 21(5). 622–626. 15 indexed citations

Bashan, Anat, Matthew J. Belousoff, Chen Davidovich, & Ada Yonath. (2010). Linking the RNA world to modern life: The proto-ribosome conception. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 40(4). 425–429. 4 indexed citations

Belousoff, Matthew J., Chen Davidovich, Anat Bashan, & Ada Yonath. (2010). On the development towards the modern world: A plausible role of uncoded peptides in the rnaworld. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 40(4). 415–420. 5 indexed citations

Belousoff, Matthew J., Chen Davidovich, Ella Zimmerman, et al.. (2010). Ancient machinery embedded in the contemporary ribosome. Biochemical Society Transactions. 38(2). 422–427. 48 indexed citations

Bashan, Anat & Ada Yonath. (2008). Correlating ribosome function with high-resolution structures. Trends in Microbiology. 16(7). 326–335. 53 indexed citations

Davidovich, Chen, et al.. (2007). Induced-fit tightens pleuromutilins binding to ribosomes and remote interactions enable their selectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(11). 4291–4296. 159 indexed citations

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Baram, David & Ada Yonath. (2004). From peptide‐bond formation to cotranslational folding: dynamic, regulatory and evolutionary aspects. FEBS Letters. 579(4). 948–954. 35 indexed citations

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Ben‐Zeev, Efrat, Raz Zarivach, Menachem Shoham, Ada Yonath, & Miriam Eisenstein. (2003). Prediction of the Structure of the Complex Between the 30S Ribosomal Subunit and Colicin E3 via Weighted-Geometric Docking. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 20(5). 669–675. 5 indexed citations

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Bashan, Anat, Raz Zarivach, Frank Schluenzen, et al.. (2003). Ribosomal crystallography: Peptide bond formation and its inhibition. Biopolymers. 70(1). 19–41. 40 indexed citations

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Yonath, Ada. (2003). Structural Insight Into Functional Aspects of Ribosomal RNA Targeting. ChemBioChem. 4(10). 1008–1017. 17 indexed citations

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Zarivach, Raz, Anat Bashan, Frank Schluenzen, et al.. (2002). Initiation and Inhibition of Protein Biosynthesis - Studies at High Resolution. Current Protein and Peptide Science. 3(1). 55–65. 7 indexed citations

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Harms, J., Ante Tocilj, Inna Levin, et al.. (1999). Elucidating the medium-resolution structure of ribosomal particles: an interplay between electron cryo-microscopy and X-ray crystallography. Structure. 7(8). 931–941. 32 indexed citations

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Yonath, Ada & F. Franceschi. (1998). Functional universality and evolutionary diversity: insights from the structure of the ribosome. Structure. 6(6). 679–684. 21 indexed citations

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Berkovitch‐Yellin, Z., William S. Bennett, & Ada Yonath. (1992). Aspects in Structural Studies on Ribosomes. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 27(4-5). 403–444. 22 indexed citations

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Glotz, Carola, et al.. (1987). Three-dimensional crystals of ribosomes and their subunits from eu- and archaebacteria.. PubMed. 15(5). 953–60. 12 indexed citations

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Yonath, Ada, et al.. (1983). A compact three‐dimensional crystal form of the large ribosomal subunit from Bacillus stearothermophilus. FEBS Letters. 163(1). 69–72. 5 indexed citations

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Wittmann, H. G., et al.. (1982). Crystallization of Escherichia coli ribosomes. FEBS Letters. 146(1). 217–220. 40 indexed citations

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