Avigdor Eldar

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Avigdor Eldar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Avigdor Eldar has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Avigdor Eldar's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (14 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (13 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers). Avigdor Eldar is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (14 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (13 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers). Avigdor Eldar collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Avigdor Eldar's co-authors include Michael B. Elowitz, Naama Barkai, Ben‐Zion Shilo, Shaul Pollak, Hilary L. Ashe, Dalia Rosin, Ruslan Dorfman, Shira Omer Bendori, Roee R. Vidavski and Andreas Möglich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Avigdor Eldar

41 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Functional roles for noise in genetic circuits 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 250 500 750 1000
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. Functional roles for noise in genetic circuits
    2010 1.1k citations Avigdor Eldar et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Avigdor Eldar Israel 25 2.4k 838 324 321 312 43 3.1k
Rainer Merkl Germany 33 2.7k 1.1× 475 0.6× 455 1.4× 433 1.3× 355 1.1× 105 3.8k
Konstantin Schütze Germany 6 3.5k 1.5× 590 0.7× 485 1.5× 494 1.5× 536 1.7× 9 5.1k
Tâm Mignot France 33 2.1k 0.9× 1.4k 1.7× 810 2.5× 199 0.6× 168 0.5× 79 2.9k
Gürol M. Süel United States 25 3.1k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 405 1.3× 188 0.6× 495 1.6× 48 4.2k
James N. Sturgis France 40 3.6k 1.5× 750 0.9× 482 1.5× 228 0.7× 357 1.1× 102 4.7k
Tobias Bollenbach Germany 26 1.7k 0.7× 510 0.6× 129 0.4× 594 1.9× 132 0.4× 40 2.9k
Jack Merrin Austria 16 1.8k 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 356 1.1× 475 1.5× 402 1.3× 26 3.4k
Robert B. Bourret United States 33 3.5k 1.5× 2.2k 2.6× 611 1.9× 396 1.2× 572 1.8× 73 4.4k
Jie Xiao United States 31 2.5k 1.1× 1.3k 1.6× 656 2.0× 227 0.7× 201 0.6× 116 3.9k
Michael D. Manson United States 39 2.8k 1.2× 1.9k 2.2× 625 1.9× 294 0.9× 216 0.7× 76 4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Avigdor Eldar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Avigdor Eldar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Avigdor Eldar. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Avigdor Eldar. The network helps show where Avigdor Eldar may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Avigdor Eldar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Avigdor Eldar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Avigdor Eldar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Avigdor Eldar. Avigdor Eldar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Eldar, Avigdor, et al.. (2026). A DNA recognition-mimicry switch governs induction in arbitrium phages. Cell Host & Microbe. 34(2). 291–303.e10.
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Bendori, Shira Omer, et al.. (2025). Expression level of anti-phage defence systems controls a trade-off between protection range and autoimmunity. Nature Microbiology. 10(8). 1954–1962. 2 indexed citations
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Zamora‐Caballero, Sara, et al.. (2024). Extracellular proteolysis of tandemly duplicated pheromone propeptides affords additional complexity to bacterial quorum sensing. PLoS Biology. 22(8). e3002744–e3002744. 1 indexed citations
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Bendori, Shira Omer, et al.. (2024). Arbitrium communication controls phage lysogeny through non-lethal modulation of a host toxin–antitoxin defence system. Nature Microbiology. 9(1). 150–160. 15 indexed citations
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Sol, Francisca Gallego del, Sara Zamora‐Caballero, Manuela Torres‐Puente, et al.. (2023). Characterization of a unique repression system present in arbitrium phages of the SPbeta family. Cell Host & Microbe. 31(12). 2023–2037.e8. 7 indexed citations
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Bär, Markus, et al.. (2022). Biophysical aspects underlying the swarm to biofilm transition. Science Advances. 8(24). eabn8152–eabn8152. 26 indexed citations
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Gestel, Jordi van, et al.. (2021). Short-range quorum sensing controls horizontal gene transfer at micron scale in bacterial communities. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2324–2324. 78 indexed citations
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Bendori, Shira Omer, et al.. (2021). Dormant phages communicate via arbitrium to control exit from lysogeny. Nature Microbiology. 7(1). 145–153. 41 indexed citations
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Eldar, Avigdor, et al.. (2021). A mobile genetic element increases bacterial host fitness by manipulating development. eLife. 10. 30 indexed citations
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Pollak, Shaul, et al.. (2018). Clonality and non-linearity drive facultative-cooperation allele diversity. The ISME Journal. 13(3). 824–835. 4 indexed citations
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Bendori, Shira Omer, Julie S. Valastyan, Xiaobo Ke, et al.. (2016). Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing. PLoS Biology. 14(2). e1002386–e1002386. 54 indexed citations
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Bendori, Shira Omer, et al.. (2016). Transient Duplication-Dependent Divergence and Horizontal Transfer Underlie the Evolutionary Dynamics of Bacterial Cell–Cell Signaling. PLoS Biology. 14(12). e2000330–e2000330. 26 indexed citations
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Herzog, Ido M., et al.. (2015). Tobramycin and Nebramine as Pseudo‐oligosaccharide Scaffolds for the Development of Antimicrobial Cationic Amphiphiles. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(11). 4340–4349. 40 indexed citations
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Eldar, Avigdor, et al.. (2012). Estimation of Genetic, Phenotypic and Environmental Parameters of Morphometric Traits in Sudanese Rabbit. Asian Journal of Animal Sciences. 6(4). 174–181. 2 indexed citations
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Ohlendorf, Robert, Roee R. Vidavski, Avigdor Eldar, Keith Moffat, & Andreas Möglich. (2012). From Dusk till Dawn: One-Plasmid Systems for Light-Regulated Gene Expression. Journal of Molecular Biology. 416(4). 534–542. 197 indexed citations
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Eldar, Avigdor & Naama Barkai. (2004). Interpreting clone-mediated perturbations of morphogen profiles. Developmental Biology. 278(1). 203–207. 13 indexed citations
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Eldar, Avigdor, Dalia Rosin, Ben‐Zion Shilo, & Naama Barkai. (2003). Self-Enhanced Ligand Degradation Underlies Robustness of Morphogen Gradients. Developmental Cell. 5(4). 635–646. 246 indexed citations
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Eldar, Avigdor, et al.. (2002). Robustness of the BMP morphogen gradient in Drosophila embryonic patterning. Nature. 419(6904). 304–308. 370 indexed citations

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