Aaron E. Hirsh

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Aaron E. Hirsh is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron E. Hirsh has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Aaron E. Hirsh's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (7 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (6 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers). Aaron E. Hirsh is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (7 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (6 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers). Aaron E. Hirsh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Mexico. Aaron E. Hirsh's co-authors include Hunter B. Fraser, Marcus W. Feldman, Dennis P. Wall, Guy Sella, Michael B. Eisen, Curt Scharfe, Lars M. Steinmetz, Guri Giaever, Jochen Kumm and Anthony G. Tsolaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Aaron E. Hirsh

16 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 200 400 600
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.

  1. Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network
    2002 667 citations Hunter B. Fraser, Aaron E. Hirsh et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aaron E. Hirsh United States 15 2.1k 860 550 509 290 16 3.0k
Gábor Balázsi United States 32 3.3k 1.6× 1.1k 1.3× 351 0.6× 313 0.6× 55 0.2× 84 4.1k
Robert M. MacCallum United Kingdom 26 2.9k 1.3× 379 0.4× 153 0.3× 304 0.6× 76 0.3× 35 4.3k
Steven G. Widen United States 35 1.5k 0.7× 303 0.4× 1.9k 3.4× 333 0.7× 66 0.2× 112 3.9k
W M Fitch United States 35 2.1k 1.0× 989 1.1× 451 0.8× 1.1k 2.2× 55 0.2× 58 3.8k
Michael Veit Germany 38 2.2k 1.0× 495 0.6× 1.0k 1.9× 1.4k 2.7× 97 0.3× 128 4.3k
Hédia Maamar United States 11 1.1k 0.5× 480 0.6× 331 0.6× 245 0.5× 64 0.2× 14 1.6k
Bree B. Aldridge United States 24 1.4k 0.7× 394 0.5× 669 1.2× 570 1.1× 108 0.4× 45 2.4k
Núria Verdaguer Spain 37 2.1k 1.0× 462 0.5× 727 1.3× 597 1.2× 48 0.2× 105 4.0k
Jotun Hein United Kingdom 33 3.5k 1.6× 2.2k 2.5× 387 0.7× 165 0.3× 27 0.1× 115 5.2k
Richard Orton United Kingdom 29 1.2k 0.6× 305 0.4× 1.3k 2.3× 486 1.0× 51 0.2× 82 3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aaron E. Hirsh

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All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Macpherson, J. Michael, Josefa González, Daniela Witten, et al.. (2008). Nonadaptive Explanations for Signatures of Partial Selective Sweeps in Drosophila. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25(6). 1025–1042. 19 indexed citations
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Sella, Guy & Aaron E. Hirsh. (2005). The application of statistical physics to evolutionary biology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(27). 9541–9546. 286 indexed citations
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Wall, Dennis P., Aaron E. Hirsh, Hunter B. Fraser, et al.. (2005). Functional genomic analysis of the rates of protein evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(15). 5483–5488. 214 indexed citations
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Hirsh, Aaron E., Hunter B. Fraser, & Dennis P. Wall. (2004). Adjusting for Selection on Synonymous Sites in Estimates of Evolutionary Distance. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(1). 174–177. 50 indexed citations
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Fraser, Hunter B., Aaron E. Hirsh, Guri Giaever, Jochen Kumm, & Michael B. Eisen. (2004). Noise Minimization in Eukaryotic Gene Expression. PLoS Biology. 2(6). e137–e137. 320 indexed citations
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Fraser, Hunter B., Aaron E. Hirsh, Dennis P. Wall, & Michael B. Eisen. (2004). Coevolution of gene expression among interacting proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(24). 9033–9038. 178 indexed citations
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Hirsh, Aaron E., Anthony G. Tsolaki, Kathryn DeRiemer, Marcus W. Feldman, & Peter M. Small. (2004). Stable association between strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and their human host populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(14). 4871–4876. 304 indexed citations
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Tsolaki, Anthony G., Aaron E. Hirsh, Kathryn DeRiemer, et al.. (2004). Functional and evolutionary genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis : Insights from genomic deletions in 100 strains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(14). 4865–4870. 283 indexed citations
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Wall, Dennis P., Hunter B. Fraser, & Aaron E. Hirsh. (2003). Detecting putative orthologs. Bioinformatics. 19(13). 1710–1711. 200 indexed citations
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Fraser, Hunter B., Dennis P. Wall, & Aaron E. Hirsh. (2003). A simple dependence between protein evolution rate and the number of protein-protein interactions. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 3(1). 11–11. 133 indexed citations
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Hirsh, Aaron E. & Hunter B. Fraser. (2003). Rate of evolution and gene dispensability. Nature. 421(6922). 497–498. 26 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Noah A. & Aaron E. Hirsh. (2003). On the Use of Star-Shaped Genealogies in Inference of Coalescence Times. Genetics. 164(4). 1677–1682. 19 indexed citations
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Fraser, Hunter B., Aaron E. Hirsh, Lars M. Steinmetz, Curt Scharfe, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2002). Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network. Science. 296(5568). 750–752. 667 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hirsh, Aaron E. & Hunter B. Fraser. (2001). Protein dispensability and rate of evolution. Nature. 411(6841). 1046–1049. 323 indexed citations
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Čamaj, Peter, Aaron E. Hirsh, Walter Schmidt, Andreas Meinke, & Alexander von Gabain. (2001). Ligand-Mediated Protection against Phage Lysis as a Positive Selection Strategy for the Enrichment of Epitopes Displayed on the Surface of E. coli Cells. Biological Chemistry. 382(12). 1669–77. 9 indexed citations
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Hirsh, Aaron E. & Deborah M. Gordon. (2001). Distributed problem solving in social insects. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. 31(1-4). 199–221. 17 indexed citations

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