Benjamin Yakir

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Yakir is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistics and Probability and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Yakir has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Statistics and Probability and 14 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Yakir's work include Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (14 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (9 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (6 papers). Benjamin Yakir is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (14 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (9 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (6 papers). Benjamin Yakir collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Benjamin Yakir's co-authors include David Siegmund, Amander T. Clark, William E. Lowry, Kathrin Plath, Neta Lavon, Uri Ben‐David, Nissim Benvenisty, Yoav Mayshar, Ariel Darvasi and Bruce P. Lanphear and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Yakir

50 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Identification and Classification of Chromosomal Aberrations in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

2010 549 citations Yoav Mayshar, Uri Ben‐David et al. Cell stem cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Yakir Israel	24	824	403	250	228	199	51	1.9k
S. Stanley Young United States	18	439 0.5×	124 0.3×	136 0.5×	425 1.9×	101 0.5×	56	1.6k
Zhide Fang United States	19	709 0.9×	85 0.2×	52 0.2×	84 0.4×	90 0.5×	73	1.4k
Edsel A. Peña United States	22	579 0.7×	135 0.3×	27 0.1×	610 2.7×	209 1.1×	88	2.1k
Daniel M. Keenan United States	32	370 0.4×	176 0.4×	23 0.1×	121 0.5×	24 0.1×	96	2.9k
Dongjun Chung United States	20	764 0.9×	359 0.9×	49 0.2×	41 0.2×	10 0.1×	85	1.5k
R. A. Fisher United States	9	183 0.2×	108 0.3×	98 0.4×	81 0.4×	30 0.2×	11	1.2k
Jingwen Yan United States	21	720 0.9×	253 0.6×	162 0.6×	47 0.2×	5 0.0×	76	1.6k
Hyonho Chun United States	13	462 0.6×	155 0.4×	41 0.2×	146 0.6×	20 0.1×	24	1.1k
Suresh Sharma India	17	220 0.3×	29 0.1×	34 0.1×	94 0.4×	63 0.3×	109	1.1k
Zhaohua Lu United States	22	225 0.3×	112 0.3×	71 0.3×	223 1.0×	8 0.0×	74	1.6k

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Rosen, Naomi, et al.. (2025). RoAM: computational reconstruction of ancient methylomes and identification of differentially methylated regions. Genome biology. 26(1). 266–266.

Sawyer, Susanna, Pere Gelabert, Benjamin Yakir, et al.. (2024). Improved detection of methylation in ancient DNA. Genome biology. 25(1). 261–261. 3 indexed citations

Meshorer, Eran, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing DNA methylation maps of ancient populations. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(4). 1602–1612. 5 indexed citations

Yakir, Benjamin. (2013). Extremes in Random Fields. Wiley series in probability and statistics. 17 indexed citations

Siegmund, David, et al.. (2011). False discovery rate for scanning statistics. Biometrika. 98(4). 979–985. 34 indexed citations

Nissenbaum, J., Marshall Devor, Ze’ev Seltzer, et al.. (2010). Susceptibility to chronic pain following nerve injury is genetically affected by CACNG2. Genome Research. 20(9). 1180–1190. 102 indexed citations

Mayshar, Yoav, Uri Ben‐David, Neta Lavon, et al.. (2010). Identification and Classification of Chromosomal Aberrations in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell stem cell. 7(4). 521–531. 549 indexed citations breakdown →

Bronstein, Michal, Anne Pisanté, Benjamin Yakir, & Ariel Darvasi. (2008). Type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. Human Genetics. 124(1). 101–104. 23 indexed citations

Siegmund, David & Benjamin Yakir. (2008). Detecting the emergence of a signal in a noisy image. Statistics and Its Interface. 1(1). 3–12. 13 indexed citations

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Siegmund, David & Benjamin Yakir. (2007). Comprar The Statistics of Gene Mapping | Siegmund, David | 9780387496849 | Springer. 3 indexed citations

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Devor, Marshall, J. Nissenbaum, Benjamin Yakir, et al.. (2007). Sex‐specific variability and a ‘cage effect’ independently mask a neuropathic pain quantitative trait locus detected in a whole genome scan. European Journal of Neuroscience. 26(3). 681–688. 28 indexed citations

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Shifman, Sagiv, Anat Levit, Mao‐Liang Chen, et al.. (2006). A complete genetic association scan of the 22q11 deletion region and functional evidence reveal an association between DGCR2 and schizophrenia. Human Genetics. 120(2). 160–170. 30 indexed citations

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Levine, Arie, Amir Karban, Rami Eliakim, et al.. (2005). A Polymorphism in the TNF-alpha Promoter Gene is Associated with Pediatric Onset and Colonic Location of Crohn's Disease. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 100(2). 407–413. 40 indexed citations

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Levine, Arie, Raanan Shamir, Eytan Wine, et al.. (2005). TNF Promoter Polymorphisms and Modulation of Growth Retardation and Disease Severity in Pediatric Crohn's Disease. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 100(7). 1598–1604. 42 indexed citations

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Leshinsky‐Silver, Esther, Amir Karban, Benjamin Yakir, et al.. (2005). Is Age of Onset of Crohn's Disease Governed by Mutations in NOD2/Caspase Recruitment Domains 15 and Toll-Like Receptor 4? Evaluation of a Pediatric Cohort. Pediatric Research. 58(3). 499–504. 24 indexed citations

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Devor, Marshall, et al.. (2005). pain1: A neuropathic pain QTL on mouse chromosome 15 in a C3H×C58 backcross. Pain. 116(3). 289–293. 29 indexed citations

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Shifman, Sagiv, Michal Bronstein, Meira Sternfeld, et al.. (2004). COMT: A common susceptibility gene in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 128B(1). 61–64. 133 indexed citations

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Shifman, Sagiv, et al.. (2002). Quantitative technologies for allele frequency estimation of SNPs in DNA pools. Molecular and Cellular Probes. 16(6). 429–434. 44 indexed citations

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Lanphear, Bruce P., Michael Weitzman, N L Winter, et al.. (1996). Lead-contaminated house dust and urban children's blood lead levels.. American Journal of Public Health. 86(10). 1416–1421. 174 indexed citations

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Lanphear, Bruce P., Mary J. Emond, David E. Jacobs, et al.. (1995). A Side-by-Side Comparison of Dust Collection Methods for Sampling Lead-Contaminated House Dust. Environmental Research. 68(2). 114–123. 99 indexed citations

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