Alon Chen

12.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
159 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Alon Chen is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alon Chen has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 51 papers in Social Psychology and 33 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alon Chen's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (76 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (49 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (32 papers). Alon Chen is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (76 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (49 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (32 papers). Alon Chen collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Germany and United States. Alon Chen's co-authors include Maya Lebow, Jan M. Deussing, Orna Issler, Yael Kuperman, Yehezkel Sztainberg, Shosh Gil, Wylie Vale, Adi Neufeld-Cohen, Sharon Haramati and Michael Tsoory and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alon Chen

156 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Overshadowed by the amygdala: the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis emerges as key to psychiatric disorders

2016 463 citations Maya Lebow, Alon Chen Molecular Psychiatry profile →
The Role of m6A/m-RNA Methylation in Stress Response Regulation

2018 307 citations Mareen Engel, Carola Eggert et al. Neuron profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alon Chen	3.1k	2.5k	2.0k	1.4k	1.2k	159	8.5k
Yoshifumi Watanabe	2.6k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	195	8.9k
Erno Vreugdenhil	2.8k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	2.2k 1.6×	697 0.6×	112	8.1k
Onno C. Meijer	4.3k 1.4×	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	218	10.1k
François Tronche	2.0k 0.6×	3.6k 1.4×	1.1k 0.5×	2.3k 1.6×	497 0.4×	86	10.4k
Heather A. Cameron	3.0k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	5.9k 4.3×	932 0.8×	92	13.5k
Peter Gass	1.9k 0.6×	3.0k 1.2×	992 0.5×	2.9k 2.1×	951 0.8×	82	7.7k
Eberhard Fuchs	4.6k 1.5×	1.7k 0.7×	2.4k 1.2×	4.2k 3.1×	2.1k 1.7×	150	12.4k
Joan Vaughan	4.8k 1.6×	4.8k 1.9×	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	983 0.8×	106	13.0k
Arvind Kumar	1.5k 0.5×	4.1k 1.6×	1.1k 0.6×	2.4k 1.8×	1.2k 1.0×	107	8.4k
Amelia J. Eisch	2.7k 0.9×	4.5k 1.8×	1.3k 0.6×	7.1k 5.2×	1.8k 1.5×	126	15.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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20 of 20 papers shown

Friedlander, Gilgi, et al.. (2025). Prenatal stress induces transient developmental alterations in distinct GABAergic populations and leads to long-lasting behavioral abnormalities. Neurobiology of Stress. 38. 100749–100749.

Sen, Paromita, Oskar Ortiz, Elena Brivio, et al.. (2024). A bipolar disorder-associated missense variant alters adenylyl cyclase 2 activity and promotes mania-like behavior. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(1). 97–110. 3 indexed citations

Kos, Aron, Juan Pablo López, Joeri Bordes, et al.. (2023). Early life adversity shapes social subordination and cell type–specific transcriptomic patterning in the ventral hippocampus. Science Advances. 9(48). eadj3793–eadj3793. 18 indexed citations

Genewsky, Andreas, Daniel E. Heinz, Sebastian F. Kaltwasser, et al.. (2022). Why do mice squeak? Toward a better understanding of defensive vocalization. iScience. 25(7). 104657–104657. 9 indexed citations

Furman, Orit, Michael Tsoory, & Alon Chen. (2021). Differential chronic social stress models in male and female mice. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55(9-10). 2777–2793. 35 indexed citations

Heinz, Daniel E., et al.. (2021). CB1 receptors in corticotropin‐releasing factor neurons selectively control the acoustic startle response in male mice. Genes Brain & Behavior. 20(8). e12775–e12775. 3 indexed citations

Bortolozzi, Analı́a, et al.. (2021). Oligonucleotides as therapeutic tools for brain disorders: Focus on major depressive disorder and Parkinson's disease. Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 227. 107873–107873. 30 indexed citations

Lamp, Daniel, Martin Jastroch, Matthias Eder, et al.. (2020). Loss of the psychiatric risk factor SLC6A15 is associated with increased metabolic functions in primary hippocampal neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. 53(2). 390–401. 8 indexed citations

Forkosh, Oren, Stoyo Karamihalev, Simone Roeh, et al.. (2019). Identity domains capture individual differences from across the behavioral repertoire. Nature Neuroscience. 22(12). 2023–2028. 65 indexed citations

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Amitai, Maya, Michal Taler, Maya Lebow, et al.. (2019). Increased circulatory IL-6 during 8-week fluoxetine treatment is a risk factor for suicidal behaviors in youth. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 87. 301–308. 28 indexed citations

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Schroeder, M., Mira Jakovcevski, Alessia Luoni, et al.. (2018). Placental miR-340 mediates vulnerability to activity based anorexia in mice. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1596–1596. 24 indexed citations

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Schroeder, M., et al.. (2018). Sex dependent impact of gestational stress on predisposition to eating disorders and metabolic disease. Molecular Metabolism. 17. 1–16. 18 indexed citations

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Engel, Mareen, Carola Eggert, Paul M. Kaplick, et al.. (2018). The Role of m6A/m-RNA Methylation in Stress Response Regulation. Neuron. 99(2). 389–403.e9. 307 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lebow, Maya & Alon Chen. (2016). Overshadowed by the amygdala: the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis emerges as key to psychiatric disorders. Molecular Psychiatry. 21(4). 450–463. 463 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amitai, Maya, Michal Taler, Miri Carmel, et al.. (2016). The Relationship Between Plasma Cytokine Levels and Response to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment in Children and Adolescents with Depression and/or Anxiety Disorders. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 26(8). 727–732. 67 indexed citations

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Amitai, Maya, Sefi Kronenberg, Miri Carmel, et al.. (2016). Pharmacogenetics of citalopram-related side effects in children with depression and/or anxiety disorders. Journal of Neural Transmission. 123(11). 1347–1354. 18 indexed citations

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Chen, Alon, et al.. (2016). Genetic predisposition for high stress reactivity amplifies effects of early-life adversity. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 70. 85–97. 31 indexed citations

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Lauriola, Mattia, Yehoshua Enuka, Amit Zeisel, et al.. (2014). Diurnal suppression of EGFR signalling by glucocorticoids and implications for tumour progression and treatment. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5073–5073. 49 indexed citations

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Neufeld-Cohen, Adi, Michael Tsoory, Andrew K. Evans, et al.. (2010). A triple urocortin knockout mouse model reveals an essential role for urocortins in stress recovery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(44). 19020–19025. 74 indexed citations

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Chen, Alon, et al.. (1999). Selective Expression of Neuropeptides in the Rat Mammary Gland: Somatostatin Gene Is Expressed During Lactation1. Endocrinology. 140(12). 5915–5921. 11 indexed citations

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