Dan Bar-Yaacov

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 916 citations indexed

About

Dan Bar-Yaacov is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Bar-Yaacov has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 916 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Dan Bar-Yaacov's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (4 papers). Dan Bar-Yaacov is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (4 papers). Dan Bar-Yaacov collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Austria. Dan Bar-Yaacov's co-authors include Dan Mishmar, Schraga Schwartz, Walter Rossmanith, Ronit Nir, Noam Stern‐Ginossar, Roni Winkler, Aldema Sas‐Chen, Aharon Nachshon, Matthias David Erlacher and Modi Safra and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Dan Bar-Yaacov

12 papers receiving 905 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.

The m1A landscape on cytosolic and mitochondrial mRNA at single-base resolution

2017 478 citations Modi Safra, Aldema Sas‐Chen et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan Bar-Yaacov Israel	10	838	309	92	48	48	14	916
W.S. Sho Goh Singapore	10	1.1k 1.3×	368 1.2×	125 1.4×	32 0.7×	11 0.2×	14	1.3k
Wanzhong Ge China	16	507 0.6×	124 0.4×	48 0.5×	18 0.4×	13 0.3×	34	628
Wei‐Siang Liau United States	12	236 0.3×	52 0.2×	48 0.5×	30 0.6×	7 0.1×	15	361
Françoise S. Howe United Kingdom	9	504 0.6×	70 0.2×	49 0.5×	9 0.2×	46 1.0×	9	614
G.P. Holmquist United States	14	819 1.0×	123 0.4×	271 2.9×	14 0.3×	26 0.5×	19	1.0k
Harry Fischl United Kingdom	9	465 0.6×	85 0.3×	45 0.5×	6 0.1×	12 0.3×	10	569
Ian Bell Canada	9	1.2k 1.4×	474 1.5×	135 1.5×	11 0.2×	2 0.0×	12	1.3k
Gilad Barshad United States	7	319 0.4×	45 0.1×	73 0.8×	32 0.7×	42 0.9×	11	391
Xiaoling Liu China	4	473 0.6×	42 0.1×	37 0.4×	22 0.5×	6 0.1×	9	553
Yuewan Luo China	5	551 0.7×	42 0.1×	47 0.5×	24 0.5×	4 0.1×	6	630

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Elias, Elwyn, Nadav Sorek, Sharon Ovnat Tamir, et al.. (2025). A-to-I mRNA editing in bacteria can affect protein sequence, disulfide bond formation, and function. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(12).

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Elias, Elwyn, et al.. (2025). A-to-I mRNA editing recodes hundreds of genes in dozens of species and produces endogenous protein isoforms in bacteria. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(13).

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan. (2022). Functional analysis of ADARs in planarians supports a bilaterian ancestral role in suppressing double-stranded RNA-response. PLoS Pathogens. 18(1). e1010250–e1010250. 9 indexed citations

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, Tal Cohen, Christopher J. Klein, et al.. (2022). Mutant C. elegans mitofusin leads to selective removal of mtDNA heteroplasmic deletions across generations to maintain fitness. BMC Biology. 20(1). 40–40. 13 indexed citations

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, Yitzhak Pilpel, & Orna Dahan. (2018). RNA editing in bacteria: occurrence, regulation and significance. RNA Biology. 15(7). 863–867. 21 indexed citations

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Safra, Modi, Aldema Sas‐Chen, Ronit Nir, et al.. (2017). The m1A landscape on cytosolic and mitochondrial mRNA at single-base resolution. Nature. 551(7679). 251–255. 478 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, et al.. (2017). RNA editing in bacteria recodes multiple proteins and regulates an evolutionarily conserved toxin-antitoxin system. Genome Research. 27(10). 1696–1703. 56 indexed citations

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, Idan Frumkin, Yuka Yashiro, et al.. (2016). Mitochondrial 16S rRNA Is Methylated by tRNA Methyltransferase TRMT61B in All Vertebrates. PLoS Biology. 14(9). e1002557–e1002557. 101 indexed citations

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Levin, Liron, Dan Bar-Yaacov, Amos Bouskila, et al.. (2015). LEMONS – A Tool for the Identification of Splice Junctions in Transcriptomes of Organisms Lacking Reference Genomes. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0143329–e0143329. 5 indexed citations

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, Zena Hadjivasiliou, Liron Levin, et al.. (2015). Mitochondrial Involvement in Vertebrate Speciation? The Case of Mito-nuclear Genetic Divergence in Chameleons. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(12). 3322–3336. 41 indexed citations

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, et al.. (2014). Parkin modulates heteroplasmy of truncated mtDNA in Caenorhabditis elegans. Mitochondrion. 20. 64–70. 42 indexed citations

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, Gal Avital, Liron Levin, et al.. (2013). RNA–DNA differences in human mitochondria restore ancestral form of 16S ribosomal RNA. Genome Research. 23(11). 1789–1796. 41 indexed citations

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, et al.. (2012). Mitochondrial DNA Variation, but Not Nuclear DNA, Sharply Divides Morphologically Identical Chameleons along an Ancient Geographic Barrier. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e31372–e31372. 18 indexed citations

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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, Dan G. Blumberg, & Dan Mishmar. (2011). Mitochondrial-nuclear co-evolution and its effects on OXPHOS activity and regulation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1819(9-10). 1107–1111. 91 indexed citations

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