Efrat Shema

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Efrat Shema is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Efrat Shema has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Oncology and 6 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Efrat Shema's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (14 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (9 papers). Efrat Shema is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (14 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (9 papers). Efrat Shema collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Czechia. Efrat Shema's co-authors include Moshe Oren, Lorenzo Galluzzi, Sherene Loi, Ilio Vitale, Neri Minsky, B Bernstein, Eran Segal, Yair Field, Jason D. Buenrostro and Itay Tirosh and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Efrat Shema

32 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Intratumoral heterogeneity in cancer progression and response to immunotherapy

2021 503 citations Ilio Vitale, Efrat Shema et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Efrat Shema Israel	18	1.8k	499	333	245	151	32	2.3k
Jasper Mullenders Netherlands	17	2.0k 1.1×	651 1.3×	440 1.3×	192 0.8×	204 1.4×	25	2.7k
Keiko Morotomi‐Yano Japan	17	1.2k 0.7×	454 0.9×	216 0.6×	194 0.8×	73 0.5×	28	1.5k
Alessandro Cuomo Italy	24	1.8k 1.0×	350 0.7×	250 0.8×	252 1.0×	113 0.7×	48	2.3k
Caroline Kim-Kiselak United States	11	1.0k 0.6×	363 0.7×	265 0.8×	117 0.5×	195 1.3×	12	1.4k
Rachael E. Hawtin United States	18	1.3k 0.7×	645 1.3×	237 0.7×	320 1.3×	167 1.1×	53	2.0k
Ivan Smirnov United States	23	1.5k 0.8×	231 0.5×	364 1.1×	154 0.6×	153 1.0×	36	2.0k
Eran Hodis United States	11	1.4k 0.8×	573 1.1×	424 1.3×	195 0.8×	162 1.1×	16	2.2k
Marc Damelin United States	17	1.2k 0.7×	738 1.5×	248 0.7×	185 0.8×	68 0.5×	39	1.9k
Julie M. Bailis United States	21	1.5k 0.8×	788 1.6×	273 0.8×	194 0.8×	124 0.8×	55	2.0k
Graham MacLeod Canada	14	1.9k 1.0×	344 0.7×	432 1.3×	115 0.5×	143 0.9×	22	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Efrat Shema

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Oren, Roni, Bareket Dassa, A.N. Plotnikov, et al.. (2024). Dual targeting of histone deacetylases and MYC as potential treatment strategy for H3-K27M pediatric gliomas. eLife. 13. 3 indexed citations

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Furth, Noa, Avishay Spitzer, Tomer‐Meir Salame, et al.. (2024). Oncogenic IDH1 ^mut drives robust loss of histone acetylation and increases chromatin heterogeneity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(1). e2403862122–e2403862122. 2 indexed citations

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Alcolea, Maria P., Direna Alonso‐Curbelo, Chiara Ambrogio, et al.. (2024). Cancer Hallmarks: Piecing the Puzzle Together. Cancer Discovery. 14(4). 674–682. 7 indexed citations

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Oren, Roni, Bareket Dassa, A.N. Plotnikov, et al.. (2024). Dual targeting of histone deacetylases and MYC as potential treatment strategy for H3-K27M pediatric gliomas. eLife. 13. 3 indexed citations

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Shema, Efrat. (2023). A single-molecule liquid biopsy for cancer diagnosis. Nature reviews. Cancer. 23(5). 271–271. 2 indexed citations

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Furth, Noa, Ekaterina N. Andreishcheva, Daniel Jones, et al.. (2022). Multiplexed, single-molecule, epigenetic analysis of plasma-isolated nucleosomes for cancer diagnostics. Nature Biotechnology. 41(2). 212–221. 56 indexed citations

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Nissim‐Rafinia, Malka, Moria Maman, Nofar Harpaz, et al.. (2022). PRC2-independent actions of H3.3K27M in embryonic stem cell differentiation. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(4). 1662–1673. 6 indexed citations

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Aylon, Yael, Noa Furth, Giuseppe Mallel, et al.. (2022). Breast cancer plasticity is restricted by a LATS1-NCOR1 repressive axis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7199–7199. 5 indexed citations

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Furth, Noa & Efrat Shema. (2022). It’s all in the combination: decoding the epigenome for cancer research and diagnostics. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 73. 101899–101899. 6 indexed citations

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Furth, Noa, Bareket Dassa, Lawryn H. Kasper, et al.. (2022). H3-K27M-mutant nucleosomes interact with MLL1 to shape the glioma epigenetic landscape. Cell Reports. 39(7). 110836–110836. 30 indexed citations

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Furth, Noa, Adina Weinberger, Amiel A. Dror, et al.. (2021). Unified platform for genetic and serological detection of COVID-19 with single-molecule technology. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0255096–e0255096. 2 indexed citations

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Vitale, Ilio, Efrat Shema, Sherene Loi, & Lorenzo Galluzzi. (2021). Intratumoral heterogeneity in cancer progression and response to immunotherapy. Nature Medicine. 27(2). 212–224. 503 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kim, Kyung Lock, Peter van Galen, Volker Hovestadt, et al.. (2021). Systematic detection of m6A-modified transcripts at single-molecule and single-cell resolution. Cell Reports Methods. 1(5). 100061–100061. 10 indexed citations

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Shema, Efrat, B Bernstein, & Jason D. Buenrostro. (2018). Single-cell and single-molecule epigenomics to uncover genome regulation at unprecedented resolution. Nature Genetics. 51(1). 19–25. 126 indexed citations

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Shema, Efrat, Daniel Jones, Noam Shoresh, et al.. (2016). Single-molecule decoding of combinatorially modified nucleosomes. Science. 352(6286). 717–721. 101 indexed citations

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Shema, Efrat, Miroslav Nikolov, Mahmood Haj‐Yahya, et al.. (2013). Systematic Identification of Proteins Binding to Chromatin-Embedded Ubiquitylated H2B Reveals Recruitment of SWI/SNF to Regulate Transcription. Cell Reports. 4(3). 601–608. 75 indexed citations

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Shema, Efrat, Jaehoon Kim, Robert G. Roeder, & Moshe Oren. (2011). RNF20 Inhibits TFIIS-Facilitated Transcriptional Elongation to Suppress Pro-oncogenic Gene Expression. Molecular Cell. 42(4). 477–488. 83 indexed citations

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Shema, Efrat, Moshe Oren, & Neri Minsky. (2011). Detection and characterization of ubiquitylated H2B in mammalian cells. Methods. 54(3). 326–330. 2 indexed citations

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Minsky, Neri, et al.. (2008). Monoubiquitinated H2B is associated with the transcribed region of highly expressed genes in human cells. Nature Cell Biology. 10(4). 483–488. 291 indexed citations

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Shema, Efrat, Itay Tirosh, Yael Aylon, et al.. (2008). The histone H2B-specific ubiquitin ligase RNF20/hBRE1 acts as a putative tumor suppressor through selective regulation of gene expression. Genes & Development. 22(19). 2664–2676. 224 indexed citations

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