Melissa Boersma

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Melissa Boersma is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Boersma has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Organic Chemistry and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Melissa Boersma's work include Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (6 papers), Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (3 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Melissa Boersma is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (6 papers), Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (3 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Melissa Boersma collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Melissa Boersma's co-authors include Samuel H. Gellman, John M. Denu, W. Seth Horne, Matthew A. Windsor, David J. Pagliarini, Kristin E. Dittenhafer‐Reed, Alexander S. Hebert, Derek J. Bailey, Fariba M. Assadi‐Porter and Sushmita Roy and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Boersma

27 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Calorie Restriction and SIRT3 Trigger Global Reprogramming of the Mitochondrial Protein Acetylome

2012 527 citations Alexander S. Hebert, Kristin E. Dittenhafer‐Reed et al. Molecular Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melissa Boersma United States	17	990	294	233	200	190	30	1.4k
Benjamin Fränzel Germany	14	464 0.5×	158 0.5×	86 0.4×	81 0.4×	54 0.3×	18	721
Jinming Wu China	14	600 0.6×	49 0.2×	311 1.3×	50 0.3×	102 0.5×	36	1.2k
Simona Todisco Italy	21	1.3k 1.4×	71 0.2×	154 0.7×	75 0.4×	35 0.2×	36	2.0k
Mariano Stornaiuolo Italy	23	762 0.8×	18 0.1×	165 0.7×	111 0.6×	119 0.6×	84	1.5k
Adi Y. Berman United States	8	347 0.4×	244 0.8×	124 0.5×	47 0.2×	24 0.1×	8	791
Jean‐François Dumas France	20	757 0.8×	43 0.1×	457 2.0×	41 0.2×	59 0.3×	44	1.4k
Kyu Hyung Han South Korea	19	505 0.5×	38 0.1×	65 0.3×	68 0.3×	28 0.1×	43	867
Giuseppe Iacomino Italy	20	723 0.7×	27 0.1×	148 0.6×	115 0.6×	58 0.3×	41	1.3k
Chunlei Yu China	22	718 0.7×	41 0.1×	39 0.2×	175 0.9×	77 0.4×	57	1.2k
Jung‐Ae Kim South Korea	21	1.0k 1.0×	22 0.1×	104 0.4×	127 0.6×	41 0.2×	47	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Melissa Boersma

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa Boersma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Melissa Boersma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Melissa Boersma based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Melissa Boersma. Melissa Boersma is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Selvaraju, Vaithinathan, et al.. (2025). Effect of H2O2 induced oxidative stress on volatile organic compounds in differentiated 3T3-L1 cells. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 2597–2597. 5 indexed citations

Shanmugam, S, et al.. (2025). Thermal hydrolysis of poultry byproducts for the production of microbial media. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 6107–6107. 2 indexed citations

Boersma, Melissa, et al.. (2025). Chemical factors governing growth of nutraceutical Chlorella sorokiniana on thermal hydrolysate of poultry processing waste. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances. 24. 100849–100849.

Wang, Qichen, et al.. (2025). Pretreatment Removes Organic Molecules in Anaerobic Digestates That Inhibit Algal Productivity. ACS ES&T Water. 5(9). 5327–5338.

Cohen, Noah D., et al.. (2024). Antimicrobial Residue Accumulation Contributes to Higher Levels of Rhodococcus equi Carrying Resistance Genes in the Environment of Horse-Breeding Farms. Veterinary Sciences. 11(2). 92–92. 1 indexed citations

He, Jianzhou, et al.. (2024). Biochar and surfactant synergistically enhanced PFAS destruction in UV/sulfite system at neutral pH. Chemosphere. 353. 141562–141562. 13 indexed citations

Mortley, Desmond G., et al.. (2024). Comparison of the Efficiency of Deep Eutectic and Organic Solvents in the Extraction of Phytochemicals from Cannabis sativa L.. Separations. 11(4). 106–106. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Zhenlin, Shuiming Qian, Li Lü, et al.. (2018). EBS is a bivalent histone reader that regulates floral phase transition in Arabidopsis. Nature Genetics. 50(9). 1247–1253. 105 indexed citations

Qian, Shuiming, Xinchen Lv, Li Lü, et al.. (2018). Dual recognition of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 by a plant histone reader SHL. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2425–2425. 80 indexed citations

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Su, Zhangli, Fengbin Wang, Jin Hee Lee, et al.. (2016). Reader domain specificity and lysine demethylase-4 family function. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13387–13387. 38 indexed citations

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Su, Zhangli, Melissa Boersma, Jinhee Lee, et al.. (2014). ChIP-less analysis of chromatin states. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 7(1). 7–7. 20 indexed citations

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Hayouka, Zvi, Saswata Chakraborty, Runhui Liu, et al.. (2013). Interplay among Subunit Identity, Subunit Proportion, Chain Length, and Stereochemistry in the Activity Profile of Sequence-Random Peptide Mixtures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(32). 11748–11751. 45 indexed citations

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Zhang, Na, Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran, Melissa Boersma, et al.. (2012). Metabolomic profiling reveals suppression of oxylipin biosynthesis during the early stages of legume–rhizobia symbiosis. FEBS Letters. 586(19). 3150–3158. 31 indexed citations

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Hebert, Alexander S., Kristin E. Dittenhafer‐Reed, Wei Yu, et al.. (2012). Calorie Restriction and SIRT3 Trigger Global Reprogramming of the Mitochondrial Protein Acetylome. Molecular Cell. 49(1). 186–199. 527 indexed citations breakdown →

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Teng, Xinchen, Wen‐Chih Cheng, Bing Qi, et al.. (2011). Gene-dependent cell death in yeast. Cell Death and Disease. 2(8). e188–e188. 38 indexed citations

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Boersma, Melissa, Jack Sadowsky, York Tomita, & Samuel H. Gellman. (2008). Hydrophile scanning as a complement to alanine scanning for exploring and manipulating protein–protein recognition: Application to the Bim BH3 domain. Protein Science. 17(7). 1232–1240. 66 indexed citations

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Horne, W. Seth, Melissa Boersma, Matthew A. Windsor, & Samuel H. Gellman. (2008). Sequence‐Based Design of α/β‐Peptide Foldamers That Mimic BH3 Domains. Angewandte Chemie. 120(15). 2895–2898. 23 indexed citations

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Horne, W. Seth, Melissa Boersma, Matthew A. Windsor, & Samuel H. Gellman. (2008). Sequence‐Based Design of α/β‐Peptide Foldamers That Mimic BH3 Domains. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(15). 2853–2856. 130 indexed citations

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Fuller, Clifton D., Jason E. Schillerstrom, William E. Jones, et al.. (2008). Prospective Evaluation of Pretreatment Executive Cognitive Impairment and Depression in Patients Referred for Radiotherapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 72(2). 529–533. 10 indexed citations

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Levitsky, Konstantín L., et al.. (2005). Exo‐Mechanism Proximity‐Accelerated Alkylations: Investigations of Linkers, Electrophiles and Surface Mutations in Engineered Cyclophilin–Cyclosporin Systems. ChemBioChem. 6(5). 890–899. 18 indexed citations

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