Sharma was honored by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

[5] In 2005, Yog Raj Sharma's published article on "Pars plana vitrectomy vs scleral buckling in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment" in Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica and in November 2021, American society of retina specialists cited it as top 100 publications on retinal detachment management in the last ~121 years.

[citation needed] Dr Sharma called it 'the singular biggest achievement of his career" in an article published in Daily Excelsior, Jammu in December 2021.

[8] He went to USA in 1979 to pursue higher studies, obtained a degree from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) in 1979[2][8][6] and continued there till 1982 as a member of faculty of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Yale University School of Medicine.

[2][8] He has published 193 medical papers in national and international peer reviewed journals[9][12] and holds a ResearchGate score of 34.86,[13] putting him in the upper 8 percent of the online repository publications,[2] with his citation index standing above 1000.

[2] The Government of India included him the Republic Day honours list, in 2015, for the civilian award of Padma Shri.