Michael E. Himmel

39.6k total citations · 11 hit papers
342 papers, 29.5k citations indexed

About

Michael E. Himmel is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael E. Himmel has authored 342 papers receiving a total of 29.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 272 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 172 papers in Molecular Biology and 93 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Michael E. Himmel's work include Biofuel production and bioconversion (257 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (94 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (84 papers). Michael E. Himmel is often cited by papers focused on Biofuel production and bioconversion (257 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (94 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (84 papers). Michael E. Himmel collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Israel. Michael E. Himmel's co-authors include David K. Johnson, William S. Adney, Shi-You Ding, John O. Baker, Mark R. Nimlos, Gregg T. Beckham, John W. Brady, Stephen R. Decker, Sunkyu Park and Philip A. Parilla and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael E. Himmel

339 papers receiving 28.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Biomass Recalcitrance: Engineering Plants and Enzymes for Biofuels Production

2007 3.4k citations Michael E. Himmel, Shi-You Ding et al. profile →
Cellulose crystallinity index: measurement techniques and their impact on interpreting cellulase performance

2010 2.7k citations John O. Baker, Michael E. Himmel et al. Biotechnology for Biofuels profile →
Wood-Derived Materials for Green Electronics, Biological Devices, and Energy Applications

2016 1.3k citations Peter N. Ciesielski, Michael E. Himmel et al. profile →
Outlook for cellulase improvement: Screening and selection strategies

2006 974 citations Michael E. Himmel et al. profile →
How biotech can transform biofuels

2008 831 citations Michael E. Himmel, James D. McMillan et al. profile →
Deconstruction of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals

2011 752 citations Gregg T. Beckham, Michael E. Himmel et al. profile →
How Does Plant Cell Wall Nanoscale Architecture Correlate with Enzymatic Digestibility?

2012 607 citations Shi-You Ding, Michael E. Himmel et al. profile →
Fungal Cellulases

2015 603 citations Christina M. Payne, Brandon C. Knott et al. profile →
Visualizing lignin coalescence and migration through maize cell walls following thermochemical pretreatment

2008 566 citations Bryon S. Donohoe, Stephen R. Decker et al. profile →
In planta expression of A. cellulolyticus Cel5A endocellulase reduces cell wall recalcitrance in tobacco and maize

2011 443 citations Roman Brunecky, Michael E. Himmel et al. Biotechnology for Biofuels profile →
Multi-scale visualization and characterization of lignocellulosic plant cell wall deconstruction during thermochemical pretreatment

2011 422 citations Bryon S. Donohoe, Michael E. Himmel et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael E. Himmel United States	77	21.9k	11.5k	8.7k	6.0k	5.9k	342	29.5k
Charles E. Wyman United States	84	24.8k 1.1×	10.4k 0.9×	4.9k 0.6×	3.7k 0.6×	3.5k 0.6×	224	27.7k
Gregg T. Beckham United States	90	19.9k 0.9×	7.8k 0.7×	6.0k 0.7×	6.0k 1.0×	5.3k 0.9×	342	30.6k
Blake A. Simmons United States	80	15.7k 0.7×	8.9k 0.8×	3.5k 0.4×	2.9k 0.5×	3.3k 0.6×	443	25.1k
Bruce E. Dale United States	79	18.8k 0.9×	9.7k 0.8×	3.5k 0.4×	2.7k 0.4×	2.7k 0.5×	331	23.8k
Arthur J. Ragauskas United States	110	40.0k 1.8×	9.1k 0.8×	13.3k 1.5×	6.1k 1.0×	10.2k 1.7×	875	56.1k
Lee R. Lynd United States	69	17.9k 0.8×	12.0k 1.0×	3.0k 0.4×	4.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.4×	262	23.0k
Bo Mattìasson Sweden	78	9.2k 0.4×	12.4k 1.1×	2.7k 0.3×	2.1k 0.3×	1.6k 0.3×	719	27.4k
Brian H. Davison United States	40	10.5k 0.5×	4.2k 0.4×	2.3k 0.3×	1.7k 0.3×	2.3k 0.4×	174	13.9k
Vincent G. H. Eijsink Norway	82	9.4k 0.4×	14.8k 1.3×	2.2k 0.3×	7.8k 1.3×	6.5k 1.1×	391	24.3k
Yusuf Chisti New Zealand	73	11.6k 0.5×	9.1k 0.8×	1.6k 0.2×	2.0k 0.3×	1.5k 0.3×	349	30.3k

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Brunecky, Roman, Yudong Li, Stephen R. Decker, & Michael E. Himmel. (2025). Advancing continuous enzymatic hydrolysis for improved biomass saccharification. Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts. 18(1). 82–82. 1 indexed citations

Stickel, Jonathan J., et al.. (2025). Rheological properties of enzymatically hydrolyzed corn stover pretreated via deacetylation and mechanical refining. Journal of Rheology. 69(3). 315–327.

Alahuhta, Markus, et al.. (2024). Long-Term Stability of Nicotinamide Cofactors in Common Aqueous Buffers: Implications for Cell-Free Biocatalysis. Molecules. 29(22). 5453–5453. 3 indexed citations

Wei, Hui, Wei Wang, Yat‐Chen Chou, et al.. (2023). Prospects for engineering Ralstonia eutropha and Zymomonas mobilis for the autotrophic production of 2,3-butanediol from CO2 and H2. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 100074–100074. 5 indexed citations

Cerro, Carlos del, Erika Erickson, Tao Dong, et al.. (2021). Intracellular pathways for lignin catabolism in white-rot fungi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(9). 140 indexed citations

Alahuhta, Markus, Qi Xu, Eric P. Knoshaug, et al.. (2021). Chimeric cellobiohydrolase I expression, activity, and biochemical properties in three oleaginous yeast. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 14(1). 6–6. 6 indexed citations

Li, Yaohao, Xiaoyang Guan, Yuan Ruan, et al.. (2020). Carbohydrate-binding module O-mannosylation alters binding selectivity to cellulose and lignin. Chemical Science. 11(34). 9262–9271. 17 indexed citations

Lunin, V.V., Hsin‐Tzu Wang, Vivek S. Bharadwaj, et al.. (2020). Molecular Mechanism of Polysaccharide Acetylation by the Arabidopsis Xylan O -acetyltransferase XOAT1. The Plant Cell. 32(7). 2367–2382. 44 indexed citations

Ciesielski, Peter N., Ryan Wagner, Vivek S. Bharadwaj, et al.. (2019). Nanomechanics of cellulose deformation reveal molecular defects that facilitate natural deconstruction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(20). 9825–9830. 53 indexed citations

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Mittal, Ashutosh, Heidi M. Pilath, Yves Parent, et al.. (2019). Chemical and Structural Effects on the Rate of Xylan Hydrolysis during Dilute Acid Pretreatment of Poplar Wood. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 7(5). 4842–4850. 12 indexed citations

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Kothari, Ninad, Samarthya Bhagia, Yunqiao Pu, et al.. (2019). Cellulose hydrolysis byClostridium thermocellumis agnostic to substrate structural properties in contrast to fungal cellulases. Green Chemistry. 21(10). 2810–2822. 12 indexed citations

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Taylor, Larry E., Brandon C. Knott, John O. Baker, et al.. (2018). Engineering enhanced cellobiohydrolase activity. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1186–1186. 73 indexed citations

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Xu, Qi, Eric P. Knoshaug, Wei Wang, et al.. (2017). Expression and secretion of fungal endoglucanase II and chimeric cellobiohydrolase I in the oleaginous yeast Lipomyces starkeyi. Microbial Cell Factories. 16(1). 126–126. 13 indexed citations

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Amore, Antonella, Brandon C. Knott, Nitin T. Supekar, et al.. (2017). Distinct roles of N- and O-glycans in cellulase activity and stability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(52). 13667–13672. 76 indexed citations

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Donohoe, Bryon S., Hui Wei, Ashutosh Mittal, et al.. (2017). Towards an Understanding of Enhanced Biomass Digestibility by In Planta Expression of a Family 5 Glycoside Hydrolase. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 4389–4389. 8 indexed citations

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Jakes, Joseph E., Bryon S. Donohoe, Peter N. Ciesielski, et al.. (2016). Directed plant cell-wall accumulation of iron: embedding co-catalyst for efficient biomass conversion. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 9(1). 225–225. 12 indexed citations

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Guan, Xiaoyang, Chen Zeng, Eric R. Greene, et al.. (2015). Molecular-scale features that govern the effects of O-glycosylation on a carbohydrate-binding module. Chemical Science. 6(12). 7185–7189. 28 indexed citations

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Olek, Anna T., Catherine Rayon, Lee Makowski, et al.. (2014). The Structure of the Catalytic Domain of a Plant Cellulose Synthase and Its Assembly into Dimers. The Plant Cell. 26(7). 2996–3009. 50 indexed citations

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Kern, Marcelo, J.E. McGeehan, S.D. Streeter, et al.. (2013). Structural characterization of a unique marine animal family 7 cellobiohydrolase suggests a mechanism of cellulase salt tolerance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(25). 10189–10194. 82 indexed citations

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Wu, Miao, Gregg T. Beckham, A.M. Larsson, et al.. (2013). Crystal Structure and Computational Characterization of the Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase GH61D from the Basidiomycota Fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(18). 12828–12839. 148 indexed citations

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