Dan Graur

17.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
114 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Dan Graur is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Graur has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Genetics and 20 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Dan Graur's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (58 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (36 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (23 papers). Dan Graur is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (58 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (36 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (23 papers). Dan Graur collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Dan Graur's co-authors include Giddy Landan, Wen‐Hsiung Li, William Martin, Tal Pupko, Eran Privman, O.C.K.M. Penn, Nir Ben‐Tal, Rony Armon, Takashi Gojobori and M Nei and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Dan Graur

113 papers receiving 8.1k 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.

Fundamentals of molecular evolution

1991 1.4k citations Dan Graur, Wen‐Hsiung Li et al. Journal of Human Evolution profile →
GUIDANCE: a web server for assessing alignment confidence scores

2010 537 citations Giddy Landan, Dan Graur et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Reading the entrails of chickens: molecular timescales of evolution and the illusion of precision

2003 521 citations Dan Graur et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan Graur Israel	44	5.1k	2.8k	1.6k	1.3k	1.2k	114	8.5k
Tandy Warnow United States	46	6.1k 1.2×	4.1k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	763 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	205	9.2k
M. Hasegawa Japan	19	3.1k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	32	5.9k
Naoyuki Takahata Japan	53	3.5k 0.7×	4.4k 1.6×	1.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	126	8.5k
Carol J. Bult United States	48	6.2k 1.2×	3.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	2.9k 2.4×	144	11.3k
David D. Pollock United States	36	4.0k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	773 0.6×	670 0.6×	95	5.9k
William R. Atchley United States	47	2.9k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.4×	149	8.4k
Edward L. Braun United States	42	4.5k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	139	8.4k
Graziano Pesole Italy	61	11.4k 2.2×	2.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	658 0.5×	339	15.6k
Michael P. Cummings United States	43	2.3k 0.4×	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	933 0.7×	1.8k 1.5×	92	5.8k
Michael Akam United Kingdom	57	7.9k 1.5×	3.3k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	839 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	127	10.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Graur

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Elhaik, Eran, Tatiana V. Tatarinova, Anatole A. Klyosov, & Dan Graur. (2014). The ‘extremely ancient’ chromosome that isn’t: a forensic bioinformatic investigation of Albert Perry’s X-degenerate portion of the Y chromosome. European Journal of Human Genetics. 22(9). 1111–1116. 14 indexed citations

Graur, Dan, Avner Bdolah, Z. Wollberg, & Elazar Kochva. (2013). HOMOLOGY BETWEEN SNAKE VENOM SARAFOTOXINS AND MAMMALIAN ENDOTHELINS. Israel Journal of Zoology. 35(3). 171–175. 1 indexed citations

Graur, Dan. (2013). MOLECULAR EVIDENCE CONCERNING THE PHYLOGENETIC INTEGRITY OF THE MURINAE. Israel Journal of Zoology. 40(2). 255–264.

Ezawa, Kiyoshi, Giddy Landan, & Dan Graur. (2013). Detecting negative selection on recurrent mutations using gene genealogy. BMC Genetics. 14(1). 37–37. 4 indexed citations

Graur, Dan, Yichen Zheng, Nicholas C. Price, et al.. (2013). On the Immortality of Television Sets: "Function" in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-Free Gospel of ENCODE. Genome Biology and Evolution. 5(3). 578–590. 322 indexed citations

Sabath, Niv & Dan Graur. (2010). Detection of Functional Overlapping Genes: Simulation and Case Studies. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 71(4). 308–316. 13 indexed citations

Elhaik, Eran, Dan Graur, Krešimir Josić́, & Giddy Landan. (2010). Identifying compositionally homogeneous and nonhomogeneous domains within the human genome using a novel segmentation algorithm. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(15). e158–e158. 14 indexed citations

Schneider, Adrian, Alexander Souvorov, Niv Sabath, et al.. (2009). Estimates of Positive Darwinian Selection Are Inflated by Errors in Sequencing, Annotation, and Alignment. Genome Biology and Evolution. 1. 114–118. 92 indexed citations

Berel, Dror, et al.. (2009). Revisiting the operational RNA code for amino acids: Ensemble attributes and their implications. RNA. 16(1). 141–153. 11 indexed citations

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Graur, Dan, Manolo Gouy, & David Wool. (2009). In Retrospect: Lamarck's treatise at 200. Nature. 460(7256). 688–689. 7 indexed citations

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Sorek, Rotem, Galit Lev-Maor, Tal Dagan, et al.. (2004). Minimal Conditions for Exonization of Intronic Sequences. Molecular Cell. 14(2). 221–231. 136 indexed citations

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Graur, Dan, et al.. (2002). Soft-coral natural chimerism: a window in ontogeny allows the creation of entities comprised of incongruous parts. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 231. 91–99. 66 indexed citations

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Hazkani‐Covo, Einat, et al.. (2002). The Evolutionary History of Prosaposin: Two Successive Tandem-Duplication Events Gave Rise to the Four Saposin Domains in Vertebrates. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 54(1). 30–34. 15 indexed citations

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Graur, Dan, et al.. (2000). Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution, 2nd Edition. 195 indexed citations

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Mokady, Ofer, Yossi Loya, Yair Achituv, et al.. (1999). Speciation Versus Phenotypic Plasticity in Coral Inhabiting Barnacles: Darwin's Observations in an Ecological Context. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 49(3). 367–375. 43 indexed citations

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Graur, Dan, Manolo Gouy, & Laurent Duret. (1997). Evolutionary Affinities of the Order Perissodactyla and the Phylogenetic Status of the Superordinal Taxa Ungulata and Altungulata. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 7(2). 195–200. 26 indexed citations

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Graur, Dan, et al.. (1991). Fundamentals of molecular evolution. Journal of Human Evolution. 21(3). 235–235. 1369 indexed citations breakdown →

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Graur, Dan, et al.. (1990). Phylogenetic relationships and rates of evolution in primates: Allozymic data from catarrhine and platyrrhine species. Primates. 31(1). 95–108. 10 indexed citations

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Graur, Dan, et al.. (1989). Nucleic acid composition, codon usage, and the rate of synonymous substitution in protein-coding genes. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 28(4). 286–298. 63 indexed citations

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Nei, M & Dan Graur. (1984). Extent of protein polymosphism and the neutral mutation theory. Evolutionary Biology. 17. 73–118. 226 indexed citations

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