Sergey Shmakov

10.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
30 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Sergey Shmakov is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Insect Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergey Shmakov has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Insect Science and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sergey Shmakov's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (28 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (10 papers). Sergey Shmakov is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (28 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (10 papers). Sergey Shmakov collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and United Kingdom. Sergey Shmakov's co-authors include Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, Konstantin Severinov, Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Feng Zhang, Omar O. Abudayyeh, Yuri I. Wolf, David Cox, Ekaterina Semenova and Silvana Konermann and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sergey Shmakov

30 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector

2016 1.7k citations Omar O. Abudayyeh, Jonathan S. Gootenberg et al. Science profile →
Discovery and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems

2015 919 citations Sergey Shmakov, Omar O. Abudayyeh et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems

2017 761 citations Sergey Shmakov, Aaron A. Smargon et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Cas13b Is a Type VI-B CRISPR-Associated RNA-Guided RNase Differentially Regulated by Accessory Proteins Csx27 and Csx28

2017 434 citations Aaron A. Smargon, David Cox 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
Sergey Shmakov United States	23	4.9k	839	708	662	643	30	5.3k
Ekaterina Semenova United States	34	5.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.6×	904 1.3×	839 1.3×	560 0.9×	68	6.4k
Francisco J. M. Mojica Spain	22	5.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.7×	1.3k 1.8×	769 1.2×	631 1.0×	35	6.4k
Melissa Richards United States	5	4.6k 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.7×	555 0.8×	598 0.9×	7	5.1k
Giedrius Gasiūnas Lithuania	22	4.3k 0.9×	993 1.2×	381 0.5×	514 0.8×	463 0.7×	25	4.5k
Lucas B. Harrington United States	16	6.1k 1.2×	776 0.9×	340 0.5×	555 0.8×	632 1.0×	21	6.6k
Hélène Deveau Canada	12	6.1k 1.2×	1.3k 1.6×	2.1k 2.9×	737 1.1×	752 1.2×	15	6.9k
Michael P. Terns United States	49	7.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	831 1.2×	645 1.0×	517 0.8×	99	8.2k
Patrick Essletzbichler Austria	9	7.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	288 0.4×	687 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	11	8.4k
Raymond H.J. Staals Netherlands	27	3.0k 0.6×	663 0.8×	873 1.2×	592 0.9×	375 0.6×	44	3.4k
Josiane E. Garneau Canada	6	3.0k 0.6×	690 0.8×	992 1.4×	380 0.6×	310 0.5×	6	3.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergey Shmakov

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All Works

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Zilberzwige‐Tal, Shai, Han Altae-Tran, Soumya Kannan, et al.. (2025). Reprogrammable RNA-targeting CRISPR systems evolved from RNA toxin-antitoxins. Cell. 188(7). 1925–1940.e20. 9 indexed citations

Li, Ming, Feiyue Cheng, Haiying Yu, et al.. (2021). Toxin-antitoxin RNA pairs safeguard CRISPR-Cas systems. Science. 372(6541). 73 indexed citations

Moya-Beltrán, Ana, Kira S. Makarova, Lillian G. Acuña, et al.. (2021). Evolution of Type IV CRISPR-Cas Systems: Insights from CRISPR Loci in Integrative Conjugative Elements of Acidithiobacillia. The CRISPR Journal. 4(5). 656–672. 22 indexed citations

Benler, Sean, Natalya Yutin, Dmitry Antipov, et al.. (2021). Thousands of previously unknown phages discovered in whole-community human gut metagenomes. Microbiome. 9(1). 78–78. 118 indexed citations

Alkhnbashi, Omer S., et al.. (2020). CRISPRidentify: identification of CRISPR arrays using machine learning approach. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(4). e20–e20. 53 indexed citations

Fedorova, Iana, Georgii Pobegalov, Olga Musharova, et al.. (2020). PpCas9 from Pasteurella pneumotropica — a compact Type II-C Cas9 ortholog active in human cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(21). 12297–12309. 16 indexed citations

Shmakov, Sergey, et al.. (2020). CRISPR Arrays Away from cas Genes. The CRISPR Journal. 3(6). 535–549. 21 indexed citations

Makarova, Kira S., Yuri I. Wolf, Sergey Shmakov, et al.. (2020). Unprecedented Diversity of Unique CRISPR-Cas-Related Systems and Cas1 Homologs in Asgard Archaea. The CRISPR Journal. 3(3). 156–163. 17 indexed citations

Shmakov, Sergey, Guilhem Faure, Kira S. Makarova, et al.. (2019). Systematic prediction of functionally linked genes in bacterial and archaeal genomes. Nature Protocols. 14(10). 3013–3031. 18 indexed citations

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Faure, Guilhem, Sergey Shmakov, Winston X. Yan, et al.. (2019). CRISPR–Cas in mobile genetic elements: counter-defence and beyond. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 17(8). 513–525. 180 indexed citations

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Shmakov, Sergey, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Konstantin Severinov, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2018). Systematic prediction of genes functionally linked to CRISPR-Cas systems by gene neighborhood analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(23). E5307–E5316. 104 indexed citations

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Peters, Joseph E., Kira S. Makarova, Sergey Shmakov, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2017). Recruitment of CRISPR-Cas systems by Tn7-like transposons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(35). E7358–E7366. 186 indexed citations

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Shmakov, Sergey, et al.. (2017). The CRISPR Spacer Space Is Dominated by Sequences from Species-Specific Mobilomes. mBio. 8(5). 157 indexed citations

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Smargon, Aaron A., David Cox, Neena Pyzocha, et al.. (2017). Cas13b Is a Type VI-B CRISPR-Associated RNA-Guided RNase Differentially Regulated by Accessory Proteins Csx27 and Csx28. Molecular Cell. 65(4). 618–630.e7. 434 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hudaiberdiev, Sanjarbek, Sergey Shmakov, Yuri I. Wolf, et al.. (2017). Phylogenomics of Cas4 family nucleases. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1). 232–232. 55 indexed citations

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Shmakov, Sergey, Aaron A. Smargon, David Scott, et al.. (2017). Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 15(3). 169–182. 761 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abudayyeh, Omar O., Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Silvana Konermann, et al.. (2016). C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector. Science. 353(6299). aaf5573–aaf5573. 1689 indexed citations breakdown →

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Krupovìč, Mart, Sergey Shmakov, Kira S. Makarova, Patrick Forterre, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2016). Recent Mobility of Casposons, Self-Synthesizing Transposons at the Origin of the CRISPR-Cas Immunity. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(2). 375–386. 30 indexed citations

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Lopatina, Anna, et al.. (2016). Metagenomic Analysis of Bacterial Communities of Antarctic Surface Snow. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 398–398. 45 indexed citations

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Shmakov, Sergey, Omar O. Abudayyeh, Kira S. Makarova, et al.. (2015). Discovery and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems. Molecular Cell. 60(3). 385–397. 919 indexed citations breakdown →

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