Ben Shen

21.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
304 papers, 14.5k citations indexed

About

Ben Shen is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Shen has authored 304 papers receiving a total of 14.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 242 papers in Pharmacology, 217 papers in Molecular Biology and 117 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ben Shen's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (241 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (46 papers) and Phytochemical compounds biological activities (46 papers). Ben Shen is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (241 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (46 papers) and Phytochemical compounds biological activities (46 papers). Ben Shen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Czechia. Ben Shen's co-authors include Steven G. Van Lanen, Jianhua Ju, Wen Liu, C. Richard Hutchinson, Sheng‐Xiong Huang, Liangcheng Du, Jeffrey D. Rudolf, Yi‐Qiang Cheng, Evelyn Wendt-Pienkowski and Ute Galm and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ben Shen

299 papers receiving 14.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Inhibition of eukaryotic translation elongation by cycloheximide and lactimidomycin

2010 717 citations Jianhua Ju, Ben Shen et al. profile →
A New Golden Age of Natural Products Drug Discovery

2015 487 citations Ben Shen profile →
Decoding Human Cytomegalovirus

2012 454 citations Noam Stern‐Ginossar, Ben Weisburd et al. Science profile →
Synthetic biology to access and expand nature's chemical diversity

2016 355 citations Michael J. Smanski, Ben Shen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Shen United States	60	9.7k	8.1k	3.5k	2.3k	1.1k	304	14.5k
David H. Sherman United States	66	8.5k 0.9×	8.6k 1.1×	3.8k 1.1×	3.2k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	357	15.1k
Craig A. Townsend United States	55	6.9k 0.7×	4.7k 0.6×	2.4k 0.7×	997 0.4×	1.5k 1.3×	270	11.4k
Sueharu Horinouchi Japan	72	15.8k 1.6×	6.3k 0.8×	1.8k 0.5×	2.5k 1.1×	2.7k 2.4×	347	20.6k
Sheo B. Singh United States	51	4.9k 0.5×	3.6k 0.5×	4.2k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	841 0.7×	240	10.2k
Cármen Méndez Spain	55	5.4k 0.6×	5.7k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	871 0.8×	196	8.6k
C. Richard Hutchinson United States	59	6.7k 0.7×	6.9k 0.9×	2.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 1.7×	208	10.2k
Hiroshi Tomoda Japan	48	4.8k 0.5×	3.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	998 0.9×	406	9.6k
Peter F. Leadlay United Kingdom	64	8.4k 0.9×	8.4k 1.0×	3.4k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	260	12.8k
José A. Salas Spain	51	5.0k 0.5×	5.2k 0.6×	2.9k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	697 0.6×	186	7.9k
Jon S. Thorson United States	58	7.5k 0.8×	3.7k 0.5×	4.8k 1.4×	1.5k 0.7×	638 0.6×	220	10.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Shen

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Cunyuan, et al.. (2025). Chemical Tagging of N -Alkylamine-Containing Natural Products and Pharmaceuticals through C( sp ³ )–H Functionalization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(47). 43424–43437.

An, Joon Soo, Ben Shen, Seung Bum Kim, et al.. (2025). Logical Exploration of Cinnamoyl-Containing Nonribosomal Peptides via Metabologenomic Targeting and Regulator Overexpression. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(41). 37719–37731.

Deng, Ming‐Rong, Ping Su, Edward Kalkreuter, et al.. (2024). Development of platensimycin, platencin, and platensilin overproducers by biosynthetic pathway engineering and fermentation medium optimization. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 51.

Bader, Chantal D., et al.. (2023). Interplay of emerging and established technologies drives innovation in natural product antibiotic discovery. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 75. 102359–102359. 3 indexed citations

Shi, Jing, Bo Zhang, Dong Yang, et al.. (2023). Discovery and biosynthetic pathway analysis of cyclopentane–β-lactone globilactone A. Nature Synthesis. 3(1). 99–110. 6 indexed citations

Luo, Jun, Dong Yang, Fransiskus Hindra, et al.. (2021). Discovery of ammosesters by mining the Streptomyces uncialis DCA2648 genome revealing new insight into ammosamide biosynthesis. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 48(3-4). 9 indexed citations

Cao, Mingming, Chengjian Zheng, Dong Yang, et al.. (2021). Cryptic Sulfur Incorporation in Thioangucycline Biosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(13). 7140–7147. 18 indexed citations

Hindra, Fransiskus, Dong Yang, Jun Luo, et al.. (2021). Submerged fermentation of Streptomyces uncialis providing a biotechnology platform for uncialamycin biosynthesis, engineering, and production. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 48(3-4). 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiao, Emma King‐Smith, Liao‐Bin Dong, et al.. (2020). Divergent synthesis of complex diterpenes through a hybrid oxidative approach. Science. 369(6505). 799–806. 116 indexed citations

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Zheng, Chengjian, Edward Kalkreuter, Bo‐Yi Fan, et al.. (2020). PtmC Catalyzes the Final Step of Thioplatensimycin, Thioplatencin, and Thioplatensilin Biosynthesis and Expands the Scope of Arylamine N-Acetyltransferases. ACS Chemical Biology. 16(1). 96–105. 9 indexed citations

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Pan, Guohui, Zhengren Xu, Zhi‐Kai Guo, et al.. (2017). Discovery of the leinamycin family of natural products by mining actinobacterial genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(52). E11131–E11140. 85 indexed citations

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Stern‐Ginossar, Noam, Ben Weisburd, Annette Michalski, et al.. (2012). Decoding Human Cytomegalovirus. Science. 338(6110). 1088–1093. 454 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Yihua, Michael J. Smanski, & Ben Shen. (2010). Improvement of secondary metabolite production in Streptomyces by manipulating pathway regulation. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 86(1). 19–25. 86 indexed citations

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Chen, Yihua, Evelyn Wendt-Pienkowski, Jianhua Ju, et al.. (2010). Characterization of FdmV as an Amide Synthetase for Fredericamycin A Biosynthesis in Streptomyces griseus ATCC 43944. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(50). 38853–38860. 20 indexed citations

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Adler, Joel T., Mackenzie R. Cook, Yinggang Luo, et al.. (2009). Tautomycetin and tautomycin suppress the growth of medullary thyroid cancer cells via inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3β. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 8(4). 914–920. 32 indexed citations

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Chen, Yihua, et al.. (2009). In Vivo Investigation of the Roles of FdmM and FdmM1 in Fredericamycin Biosynthesis Unveiling a New Family of Oxygenases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(37). 24735–24743. 18 indexed citations

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Liao, Rijing, Lian Duan, Chun Lei, et al.. (2009). Thiopeptide Biosynthesis Featuring Ribosomally Synthesized Precursor Peptides and Conserved Posttranslational Modifications. Chemistry & Biology. 16(2). 141–147. 156 indexed citations

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Tang, Gong-Li, Yi‐Qiang Cheng, & Ben Shen. (2007). Chain Initiation in the Leinamycin-producing Hybrid Nonribosomal Peptide/Polyketide Synthetase from Streptomyces atroolivaceus S-140. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(28). 20273–20282. 45 indexed citations

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Lanen, Steven G. Van, Shuangjun Lin, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Neil L. Kelleher, & Ben Shen. (2006). Substrate Specificity of the Adenylation Enzyme SgcC1 Involved in the Biosynthesis of the Enediyne Antitumor Antibiotic C-1027. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(40). 29633–29640. 28 indexed citations

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Pastuskovas, Cinthia V., et al.. (2005). Tissue distribution, metabolism, and excretion of the antibody-drug conjugate Herceptin-monomethyl auristatin E in rats. Cancer Research. 65. 1195–1196. 5 indexed citations

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