Benjamin A. Shoemaker

21.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
38 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

About

Benjamin A. Shoemaker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin A. Shoemaker has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 10 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Benjamin A. Shoemaker's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (17 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (12 papers). Benjamin A. Shoemaker is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (17 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (12 papers). Benjamin A. Shoemaker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and China. Benjamin A. Shoemaker's co-authors include Jian Zhang, Asta Gindulytė, Siqian He, Evan Bolton, Paul Thiessen, Sunghwan Kim, Bo Yu, Jie Chen, Tiejun Cheng and Leonid Zaslavsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin A. Shoemaker

38 papers receiving 14.5k citations

Hit Papers

PubChem Substance and Compound datab... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2015 2020 2018 2022 2000 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. PubChem Substance and Compound databases
    2015 3.8k citations Sunghwan Kim, Paul Thiessen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. PubChem in 2021: new data content and improved web interfaces
    2020 2.6k citations Sunghwan Kim, Jie Chen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. PubChem 2019 update: improved access to chemical data
    2018 2.3k citations Sunghwan Kim, Jie Chen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. PubChem 2023 update
    2022 1.8k citations Sunghwan Kim, Jie Chen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. Speeding molecular recognition by using the folding funnel: The fly-casting mechanism
    2000 821 citations Benjamin A. Shoemaker, Peter G. Wolynes et al. profile →
  6. PubChem BioAssay: 2017 update
    2016 452 citations Yanli Wang, Stephen H. Bryant et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  7. PubChem's BioAssay Database
    2011 444 citations Y. Wang, J. Xiao et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  8. PubChem 2025 update
    2024 221 citations Sunghwan Kim, Jie Chen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin A. Shoemaker United States 28 8.3k 4.9k 2.1k 1.3k 1.2k 38 14.7k
Evan Bolton United States 28 7.3k 0.9× 5.1k 1.0× 1.6k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 71 14.6k
Asta Gindulytė United States 19 5.9k 0.7× 4.5k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 27 12.5k
Paul Thiessen United States 24 6.0k 0.7× 4.3k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 38 12.8k
Sunghwan Kim United States 28 6.0k 0.7× 4.3k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 139 13.2k
Siqian He United States 13 6.1k 0.7× 4.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 14 12.4k
Dongsheng Cao China 57 6.6k 0.8× 5.7k 1.2× 2.0k 1.0× 907 0.7× 822 0.7× 275 14.6k
Tiejun Cheng United States 24 5.3k 0.6× 4.1k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 916 0.8× 42 10.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kim, Sunghwan, Jie Chen, Tiejun Cheng, et al.. (2024). PubChem 2025 update. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(D1). D1516–D1525. 221 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kondić, Todor, Randolph R. Singh, Benjamin A. Shoemaker, et al.. (2023). Adding open spectral data to MassBank and PubChem using open source tools to support non-targeted exposomics of mixtures. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 25(11). 1788–1801. 15 indexed citations
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Kim, Sunghwan, Jie Chen, Tiejun Cheng, et al.. (2022). PubChem 2023 update. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(D1). D1373–D1380. 1787 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kim, Sunghwan, Jie Chen, Tiejun Cheng, et al.. (2020). PubChem in 2021: new data content and improved web interfaces. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D1388–D1395. 2581 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kim, Sunghwan, Jie Chen, Tiejun Cheng, et al.. (2018). PubChem 2019 update: improved access to chemical data. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(D1). D1102–D1109. 2321 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kim, Sunghwan, Benjamin A. Shoemaker, Evan Bolton, & Stephen H. Bryant. (2018). Finding Potential Multitarget Ligands Using PubChem. Methods in molecular biology. 1825. 63–91. 15 indexed citations
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Goncearenco, Alexander, Minghui Li, Franco L. Simonetti, Benjamin A. Shoemaker, & Anna R. Panchenko. (2017). Exploring Protein-Protein Interactions as Drug Targets for Anti-cancer Therapy with In Silico Workflows. Methods in molecular biology. 1647. 221–236. 30 indexed citations
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Kim, Sunghwan, Paul Thiessen, Tiejun Cheng, et al.. (2016). Literature information in PubChem: associations between PubChem records and scientific articles. Journal of Cheminformatics. 8(1). 32–32. 57 indexed citations
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Li, Minghui, Stephen C. Kales, Benjamin A. Shoemaker, et al.. (2015). Balancing Protein Stability and Activity in Cancer: A New Approach for Identifying Driver Mutations Affecting CBL Ubiquitin Ligase Activation. Cancer Research. 76(3). 561–571. 27 indexed citations
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Wang, Yanli, Tuğba Önal-Süzek, Jian Zhang, et al.. (2013). PubChem BioAssay: 2014 update. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D1075–D1082. 222 indexed citations
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Fong, Jessica H., Benjamin A. Shoemaker, & Anna R. Panchenko. (2011). Intrinsic protein disorder in human pathways. Molecular BioSystems. 8(1). 320–326. 13 indexed citations
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Shoemaker, Benjamin A., Dapeng Zhang, Manoj Tyagi, et al.. (2011). IBIS (Inferred Biomolecular Interaction Server) reports, predicts and integrates multiple types of conserved interactions for proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(D1). D834–D840. 70 indexed citations
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Wang, Y., J. Xiao, Tuğba Önal-Süzek, et al.. (2011). PubChem's BioAssay Database. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(D1). D400–D412. 444 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lobanov, Michail Yu., Benjamin A. Shoemaker, Sergiy O. Garbuzynskiy, et al.. (2009). ComSin: database of protein structures in bound (complex) and unbound (single) states in relation to their intrinsic disorder. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(suppl_1). D283–D287. 25 indexed citations
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Dayhoff, Judith E., Benjamin A. Shoemaker, Stephen H. Bryant, & Anna R. Panchenko. (2009). Evolution of Protein Binding Modes in Homooligomers. Journal of Molecular Biology. 395(4). 860–870. 59 indexed citations
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Tyagi, Manoj, Benjamin A. Shoemaker, Stephen H. Bryant, & Anna R. Panchenko. (2009). Exploring functional roles of multibinding protein interfaces. Protein Science. 18(8). 1674–1683. 25 indexed citations
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Wolf, Yuri I., Thomas Madej, Vladimir N. Babenko, Benjamin A. Shoemaker, & Anna R. Panchenko. (2007). Long-term trends in evolution of indels in protein sequences. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7(1). 19–19. 33 indexed citations
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Mariño‐Ramírez, Leonardo, Maricel G. Kann, Benjamin A. Shoemaker, & David Landsman. (2005). Histone structure and nucleosome stability. Expert Review of Proteomics. 2(5). 719–729. 232 indexed citations
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Shoemaker, Benjamin A., Anna R. Panchenko, & Stephen H. Bryant. (2005). Finding biologically relevant protein domain interactions: Conserved binding mode analysis. Protein Science. 15(2). 352–361. 61 indexed citations
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Shoemaker, Benjamin A., Jin Wang, & Peter G. Wolynes. (1999). Exploring structures in protein folding funnels with free energy functionals: the transition state ensemble. Journal of Molecular Biology. 287(3). 675–694. 93 indexed citations

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