Chen Davidovich

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Chen Davidovich is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chen Davidovich has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cancer Research and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Chen Davidovich's work include RNA modifications and cancer (18 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (12 papers). Chen Davidovich is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (18 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (12 papers). Chen Davidovich collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Israel. Chen Davidovich's co-authors include Thomas R. Cech, Karen J. Goodrich, Anne R. Gooding, Léon Zheng, Ada Yonath, Anat Bashan, Xueyin Wang, Martin A. Smith, Jill P. Mesirov and Byron Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Chen Davidovich

35 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

RNA Duplex Map in Living Cells Reveals Higher-Order Trans... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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. RNA Duplex Map in Living Cells Reveals Higher-Order Transcriptome Structure
    2016 460 citations Chen Davidovich, Anne R. Gooding et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chen Davidovich United States 20 1.9k 768 221 106 106 37 2.2k
En‐Duo Wang China 28 2.1k 1.1× 196 0.3× 169 0.8× 8 0.1× 41 0.4× 117 2.3k
Kozo Tomita Japan 31 1.9k 1.0× 158 0.2× 351 1.6× 7 0.1× 107 1.0× 78 2.3k
Felipe Trajtenberg Uruguay 18 788 0.4× 121 0.2× 308 1.4× 18 0.2× 97 0.9× 29 1.1k
Hédia Maamar United States 11 1.1k 0.6× 125 0.2× 480 2.2× 9 0.1× 88 0.8× 14 1.6k
Eva Maria Novoa Spain 26 2.6k 1.4× 807 1.1× 156 0.7× 3 0.0× 85 0.8× 54 2.8k
Nicolas Garreau de Loubresse France 7 1.6k 0.8× 50 0.1× 131 0.6× 10 0.1× 155 1.5× 7 1.8k
Gilbert Eriani France 26 3.1k 1.6× 46 0.1× 616 2.8× 6 0.1× 95 0.9× 87 3.4k
Sebastian Kirchner Germany 14 666 0.3× 118 0.2× 68 0.3× 7 0.1× 45 0.4× 24 1.1k
Suganthi Balasubramanian United States 18 1.2k 0.6× 192 0.3× 207 0.9× 4 0.0× 170 1.6× 26 1.3k
Sabine Ottilie United States 19 1.2k 0.6× 143 0.2× 122 0.6× 13 0.1× 80 0.8× 34 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chen Davidovich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chen Davidovich

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Boudes, Marion, et al.. (2025). Modular Cloning of Multigene Vectors for the Baculovirus System and Yeast. Journal of Molecular Biology. 437(7). 168943–168943. 1 indexed citations
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Peng, Yongyi, Cheng Huang, Hariprasad Venugopal, et al.. (2025). Structures of tRNA-bound CRISPR-Cas13 reveal universal HEPN RNase mechanisms. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).
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Deevy, Orla, Jingjing Li, Karsten Hokamp, et al.. (2025). Dominant-negative effects of Weaver syndrome-associated EZH2 variants. Genes & Development. 39(21-22). 1355–1376.
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Yildiz, Umut, Michael Uckelmann, Vita Levina, et al.. (2024). Histone H3.3 lysine 9 and 27 control repressive chromatin at cryptic enhancers and bivalent promoters. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7557–7557. 3 indexed citations
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Bi, Yue, Fuyi Li, Cong Wang, et al.. (2024). Advancing microRNA target site prediction with transformer and base-pairing patterns. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(19). 11455–11465. 1 indexed citations
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Cech, Thomas R., Chen Davidovich, & Richard G. Jenner. (2024). PRC2-RNA interactions: Viewpoint from Tom Cech, Chen Davidovich, and Richard Jenner. Molecular Cell. 84(19). 3593–3595. 3 indexed citations
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Healy, Evan, Qi Zhang, Guizhi Sun, et al.. (2024). The apparent loss of PRC2 chromatin occupancy as an artifact of RNA depletion. Cell Reports. 43(3). 113858–113858. 14 indexed citations
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Healy, Evan, et al.. (2024). Inseparable RNA binding and chromatin modification activities of a nucleosome-interacting surface in EZH2. Nature Genetics. 56(6). 1193–1202. 10 indexed citations
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Ito, Shinsuke, Michael Uckelmann, Masatoshi Wakamori, et al.. (2023). H2A Ubiquitination Alters H3-tail Dynamics on Linker-DNA to Enhance H3K27 Methylation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 435(4). 167936–167936. 8 indexed citations
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Gilan, Omer, Charles C. Bell, Kathy Knezevic, et al.. (2023). CRISPR–ChIP reveals selective regulation of H3K79me2 by Menin in MLL leukemia. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 30(10). 1592–1606. 12 indexed citations
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Bravo, Jack P. K., Julia Acker, Chen Davidovich, et al.. (2021). Structural basis of rotavirus RNA chaperone displacement and RNA annealing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(41). 21 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qi, Robert Warneford-Thomson, Richard Lauman, et al.. (2019). RNA exploits an exposed regulatory site to inhibit the enzymatic activity of PRC2. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(3). 237–247. 77 indexed citations
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Wang, Xueyin, Karen J. Goodrich, Anne R. Gooding, et al.. (2017). Targeting of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 to RNA by Short Repeats of Consecutive Guanines. Molecular Cell. 65(6). 1056–1067.e5. 166 indexed citations
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Davidovich, Chen, Xueyin Wang, Catherine Cifuentes‐Rojas, et al.. (2015). Toward a Consensus on the Binding Specificity and Promiscuity of PRC2 for RNA. Molecular Cell. 57(3). 552–558. 159 indexed citations
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Davidovich, Chen & Thomas R. Cech. (2015). The recruitment of chromatin modifiers by long noncoding RNAs: lessons from PRC2. RNA. 21(12). 2007–2022. 235 indexed citations
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Belousoff, Matthew J., Chen Davidovich, Anat Bashan, & Ada Yonath. (2010). On the development towards the modern world: A plausible role of uncoded peptides in the rnaworld. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 40(4). 415–420. 5 indexed citations
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Bashan, Anat, Matthew J. Belousoff, Chen Davidovich, & Ada Yonath. (2010). Linking the RNA world to modern life: The proto-ribosome conception. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 40(4). 425–429. 4 indexed citations
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Davidovich, Chen, Matthew J. Belousoff, Anat Bashan, & Ada Yonath. (2009). The evolving ribosome: from non-coded peptide bond formation to sophisticated translation machinery. Research in Microbiology. 160(7). 487–492. 55 indexed citations
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Wekselman, Itai, Chen Davidovich, Ilana Agmon, et al.. (2008). Ribosome's mode of function: myths, facts and recent results. Journal of Peptide Science. 15(3). 122–130. 25 indexed citations
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Davidovich, Chen, et al.. (2007). Induced-fit tightens pleuromutilins binding to ribosomes and remote interactions enable their selectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(11). 4291–4296. 159 indexed citations

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