Melina Shamshoum

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 886 citations indexed

About

Melina Shamshoum is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melina Shamshoum has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 886 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 6 papers in Biotechnology and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Melina Shamshoum's work include Biofuel production and bioconversion (9 papers), Enzyme Production and Characterization (6 papers) and Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (4 papers). Melina Shamshoum is often cited by papers focused on Biofuel production and bioconversion (9 papers), Enzyme Production and Characterization (6 papers) and Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (4 papers). Melina Shamshoum collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Singapore. Melina Shamshoum's co-authors include Edward A. Bayer, Yinon M. Bar‐On, Ron Milo, Niv Antonovsky, Shmuel Gleizer, Roee Ben-Nissan, Ghil Jona, Arren Bar‐Even, Εlad Noor and Raphael Lamed and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Melina Shamshoum

12 papers receiving 872 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.

Conversion of Escherichia coli to Generate All Biomass Carbon from CO2

2019 370 citations Shmuel Gleizer, Roee Ben-Nissan et al. Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melina Shamshoum Israel	10	575	450	230	139	127	12	886
Joseph A. Rollin United States	10	567 1.0×	600 1.3×	96 0.4×	91 0.7×	73 0.6×	14	990
Junior Te’o Australia	21	671 1.2×	607 1.3×	320 1.4×	80 0.6×	173 1.4×	43	1.1k
Kentaro Inokuma Japan	23	1.0k 1.8×	881 2.0×	246 1.1×	105 0.8×	73 0.6×	41	1.4k
Adam J. Wargacki United States	6	550 1.0×	270 0.6×	150 0.7×	222 1.6×	46 0.4×	6	943
Benedikt M. Blossom Denmark	12	342 0.6×	335 0.7×	139 0.6×	197 1.4×	216 1.7×	17	640
Jonathan Lo United States	17	500 0.9×	429 1.0×	91 0.4×	101 0.7×	26 0.2×	22	731
Arul M. Varman United States	14	539 0.9×	365 0.8×	142 0.6×	199 1.4×	99 0.8×	28	798
YongKeun Chang South Korea	14	268 0.5×	191 0.4×	259 1.1×	154 1.1×	57 0.4×	29	721
Y.-H. Percival Zhang United States	7	541 0.9×	296 0.7×	78 0.3×	84 0.6×	26 0.2×	9	769
Derrick Lewis United States	12	326 0.6×	281 0.6×	164 0.7×	24 0.2×	53 0.4×	20	555

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melina Shamshoum

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12 of 12 papers shown

Pins, Benoit de, Yinon M. Bar‐On, Melina Shamshoum, et al.. (2024). A systematic exploration of bacterial form I rubisco maximal carboxylation rates. The EMBO Journal. 43(14). 3072–3083. 5 indexed citations

Shamshoum, Melina, et al.. (2023). 2-NBDG Uptake in Gossypium hirsutum in vitro ovules: exploring tissue-specific accumulation and its impact on hexokinase-mediated glycolysis regulation. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1242150–1242150. 2 indexed citations

Davidi, Dan, Melina Shamshoum, Zhijun Guo, et al.. (2020). Highly active rubiscos discovered by systematic interrogation of natural sequence diversity. The EMBO Journal. 39(18). e104081–e104081. 77 indexed citations

Gleizer, Shmuel, Roee Ben-Nissan, Yinon M. Bar‐On, et al.. (2019). Conversion of Escherichia coli to Generate All Biomass Carbon from CO2. Cell. 179(6). 1255–1263.e12. 370 indexed citations breakdown →

Moraïs, Sarah, Melina Shamshoum, Raphael Lamed, et al.. (2018). Assembly of Synthetic Functional Cellulosomal Structures onto the Cell Surface of Lactobacillus plantarum, a Potent Member of the Gut Microbiome. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(8). 32 indexed citations

Barak, Yoav, Melina Shamshoum, Ilya Borovok, et al.. (2017). How does cellulosome composition influence deconstruction of lignocellulosic substrates in Clostridium (Ruminiclostridium) thermocellum DSM 1313?. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 10(1). 222–222. 46 indexed citations

Moraïs, Sarah, Melina Shamshoum, Matthew A. Smith, et al.. (2016). Enhancement of cellulosome-mediated deconstruction of cellulose by improving enzyme thermostability. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 9(1). 164–164. 54 indexed citations

Artzi, Lior, Ely Morag, Melina Shamshoum, & Edward A. Bayer. (2016). Cellulosomal expansin: functionality and incorporation into the complex. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 9(1). 61–61. 37 indexed citations

Vazana, Yael, et al.. (2015). Significance of Relative Position of Cellulases in Designer Cellulosomes for Optimized Cellulolysis. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0127326–e0127326. 39 indexed citations

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Artzi, Lior, Bareket Dassa, Ilya Borovok, et al.. (2014). Cellulosomics of the cellulolytic thermophile Clostridium clariflavum. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 7(1). 100–100. 59 indexed citations

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Arfi, Yonathan, Melina Shamshoum, Ilana Rogachev, Yoav Peleg, & Edward A. Bayer. (2014). Integration of bacterial lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases into designer cellulosomes promotes enhanced cellulose degradation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(25). 9109–9114. 93 indexed citations

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Vazana, Yael, Yoav Barak, Tamar Unger, et al.. (2013). A synthetic biology approach for evaluating the functional contribution of designer cellulosome components to deconstruction of cellulosic substrates. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 6(1). 182–182. 72 indexed citations

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