Avi Mayo

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
90 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Avi Mayo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Avi Mayo has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Avi Mayo's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (24 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (13 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (8 papers). Avi Mayo is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (24 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (13 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (8 papers). Avi Mayo collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Avi Mayo's co-authors include Uri Alon, Yuval Hart, E. Dekel, Hila Sheftel, Michael G. Surette, Jacob D. Bekenstein, Alon Zaslaver, Oren Shoval, Miri Adler and Avichai Tendler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Avi Mayo

86 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Fibroblast polarization is a matrix-rigidity-dependent process controlled by focal adhesion mechanosensing

2011 445 citations Avi Mayo et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →
Evolutionary Trade-Offs, Pareto Optimality, and the Geometry of Phenotype Space

2012 423 citations Oren Shoval, Hila Sheftel et al. Science profile →
Cell-to-cell spread of HIV permits ongoing replication despite antiretroviral therapy

2011 418 citations E. Dekel, Avi Mayo et al. profile →
p16-dependent increase of PD-L1 stability regulates immunosurveillance of senescent cells

2024 51 citations Amit Agrawal, Avi Mayo et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Avi Mayo Israel	40	2.8k	972	589	558	486	90	5.9k
David C. Samuels United States	50	5.9k 2.1×	1.4k 1.4×	158 0.3×	183 0.3×	134 0.3×	197	8.6k
Christophe Zimmer France	40	3.0k 1.1×	329 0.3×	363 0.6×	289 0.5×	673 1.4×	82	6.6k
E. Dekel Israel	39	3.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	318 0.5×	245 0.4×	879 1.8×	98	7.4k
Allan Jacobson United States	55	11.5k 4.0×	791 0.8×	789 1.3×	422 0.8×	246 0.5×	170	14.3k
James R. Williamson United States	67	13.8k 4.9×	2.0k 2.0×	179 0.3×	340 0.6×	561 1.2×	251	17.0k
Arjun Raj United States	50	14.4k 5.0×	2.1k 2.1×	522 0.9×	926 1.7×	686 1.4×	116	16.7k
Hari Shroff United States	40	2.8k 1.0×	371 0.4×	621 1.1×	362 0.6×	2.7k 5.5×	109	8.0k
Aaron R. Dinner United States	49	4.9k 1.7×	606 0.6×	736 1.2×	1.7k 3.1×	477 1.0×	158	9.1k
Jürgen M. Plitzko Germany	62	7.2k 2.5×	648 0.7×	1.2k 2.0×	205 0.4×	779 1.6×	162	11.2k
David Martin United States	34	6.8k 2.4×	1.2k 1.3×	823 1.4×	679 1.2×	233 0.5×	79	11.3k

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Milo, Tomer, et al.. (2025). Hormone circuit explains why most HPA drugs fail for mood disorders and predicts the few that work. Molecular Systems Biology. 21(3). 254–273. 1 indexed citations

Glass, David S., Tomer Milo, Yael Korem Kohanim, et al.. (2025). Unifying regulatory motifs in endocrine circuits. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11017–11017.

Glass, David S., et al.. (2025). Principles of bacteriostatic and bactericidal antibiotics at subinhibitory concentrations. mBio. 16(11). e0206625–e0206625.

Bar, A., Rocio Moran, Netta Mendelson Cohen, et al.. (2025). Pregnancy and postpartum dynamics revealed by millions of lab tests. Science Advances. 11(13). eadr7922–eadr7922. 4 indexed citations

Agrawal, Amit, Avi Mayo, Lior Roitman, et al.. (2024). p16-dependent increase of PD-L1 stability regulates immunosurveillance of senescent cells. Nature Cell Biology. 26(8). 1336–1345. 51 indexed citations breakdown →

Tendler, Avichai, et al.. (2023). Major depressive disorder and bistability in an HPA-CNS toggle switch. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(12). e1011645–e1011645. 6 indexed citations

Bren, Anat, David S. Glass, Yael Korem Kohanim, Avi Mayo, & Uri Alon. (2023). Tradeoffs in bacterial physiology determine the efficiency of antibiotic killing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(51). e2312651120–e2312651120. 14 indexed citations

Bar, A., Omer Karin, Avi Mayo, Danny Ben‐Zvi, & Uri Alon. (2023). Rules for body fat interventions based on an operating point mechanism. iScience. 26(2). 106047–106047. 5 indexed citations

Mayer, Shimrit, Tomer Milo, Coral Halperin, et al.. (2023). The tumor microenvironment shows a hierarchy of cell-cell interactions dominated by fibroblasts. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5810–5810. 97 indexed citations

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Katzir, Itay, et al.. (2021). Senescent cells and the incidence of age‐related diseases. Aging Cell. 20(3). e13314–e13314. 55 indexed citations

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Tendler, Avichai, A. Bar, Omer Karin, et al.. (2021). Hormone seasonality in medical records suggests circannual endocrine circuits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(7). 53 indexed citations

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Sheftel, Hila, Pablo Székely, Avi Mayo, Guy Sella, & Uri Alon. (2018). Evolutionary trade-offs and the structure of polymorphisms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1747). 20170105–20170105. 15 indexed citations

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Drayman, Nir, Omer Karin, Avi Mayo, et al.. (2017). Dynamic Proteomics of Herpes Simplex Virus Infection. mBio. 8(6). 23 indexed citations

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Adler, Miri, Pablo Székely, Avi Mayo, & Uri Alon. (2017). Optimal Regulatory Circuit Topologies for Fold-Change Detection. Cell Systems. 4(2). 171–181.e8. 49 indexed citations

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Shoval, Oren, Hila Sheftel, Guy Shinar, et al.. (2012). Evolutionary Trade-Offs, Pareto Optimality, and the Geometry of Phenotype Space. Science. 336(6085). 1157–1160. 423 indexed citations breakdown →

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Noy, Lior, et al.. (2012). A Quantitative Study of Creative Leaps. ICCC. 72–76. 8 indexed citations

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Shinar, Guy, Avi Mayo, Haixia Ji, & Martin Feinberg. (2011). Constraints on Reciprocal Flux Sensitivities in Biochemical Reaction Networks. Biophysical Journal. 100(6). 1383–1391. 6 indexed citations

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Kashtan, Nadav, Avi Mayo, Tomer Kalisky, & Uri Alon. (2009). An Analytically Solvable Model for Rapid Evolution of Modular Structure. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(4). e1000355–e1000355. 33 indexed citations

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Ninfa, Alexander J., Nicolás Perry, Stephen Atkins, et al.. (2007). Using Two‐Component Systems and Other Bacterial Regulatory Factors for the Fabrication of Synthetic Genetic Devices. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 422. 488–512. 13 indexed citations

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Mayo, Avi, et al.. (2003). Detailed map of a cis-regulatory input function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(13). 7702–7707. 246 indexed citations

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