Doron Betel

12.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
74 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Doron Betel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Doron Betel has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Cancer Research and 18 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Doron Betel's work include MicroRNA in disease regulation (17 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers). Doron Betel is often cited by papers focused on MicroRNA in disease regulation (17 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers). Doron Betel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Italy. Doron Betel's co-authors include Chris Sander, Debora S. Marks, Michael T. Wilson, Aaron Gabow, Christina S. Leslie, Phaedra Agius, Paul Zumbo, Andrea Ventura, Ping Mu and Thomas Tuschl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Doron Betel

74 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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 microRNA.org resource: targets and expression

2007 2.1k citations Doron Betel et al. profile →
Comprehensive modeling of microRNA targets predicts functional non-conserved and non-canonical sites

2010 1.3k citations Doron Betel et al. Genome biology profile →
Comprehensive evaluation of differential gene expression analysis methods for RNA-seq data

2013 491 citations Franck Rapaport, Raya Khanin et al. Genome biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Doron Betel United States	31	5.8k	4.3k	730	575	469	74	7.7k
Kun Qu China	41	7.4k 1.3×	4.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	764 1.3×	505 1.1×	103	9.5k
Jasmine Jacob‐Hirsch Israel	41	6.9k 1.2×	2.6k 0.6×	659 0.9×	947 1.6×	334 0.7×	87	8.6k
Jin‐Wu Nam South Korea	27	9.0k 1.6×	7.6k 1.8×	974 1.3×	373 0.6×	479 1.0×	58	11.1k
Janell M. Schelter United States	17	8.0k 1.4×	5.5k 1.3×	652 0.9×	627 1.1×	670 1.4×	20	9.5k
Christina Backes Germany	46	5.4k 0.9×	4.1k 0.9×	592 0.8×	280 0.5×	527 1.1×	134	7.6k
Junho Lee South Korea	37	6.1k 1.1×	3.2k 0.8×	410 0.6×	372 0.6×	669 1.4×	142	8.6k
John C. Castle United States	33	7.2k 1.2×	3.8k 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	902 1.6×	843 1.8×	55	9.3k
Alistair R. R. Forrest Australia	45	6.0k 1.0×	2.3k 0.5×	1.2k 1.6×	620 1.1×	698 1.5×	125	7.8k
Lu Wen China	43	5.8k 1.0×	1.9k 0.4×	751 1.0×	855 1.5×	850 1.8×	193	8.1k
Kyle Kai‐How Farh United States	10	10.2k 1.8×	8.6k 2.0×	850 1.2×	363 0.6×	1.1k 2.4×	15	12.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Doron Betel

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All Works

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Chan, Jason E., William D. Tap, Cristina R. Antonescu, et al.. (2025). Deep-Learning Tool ScVital Enables Species-Agnostic Integration of Cancer Cell States. Cancer Research. 86(4). 858–872. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chao, Nathalie Saurat, Daniela Cornacchia, et al.. (2025). Identifying Age‐Modulating Compounds Using a Novel Computational Framework for Evaluating Transcriptional Age. Aging Cell. 24(7). e70075–e70075. 1 indexed citations

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Murakami, Shino, Paul Zumbo, Lukas E. Dow, et al.. (2024). Selenocysteine tRNA methylation promotes oxidative stress resistance in melanoma metastasis. Nature Cancer. 5(12). 1868–1884. 6 indexed citations

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Singhal, Anupriya, Stefan Torborg, Jung Yun Kim, et al.. (2024). A Classical Epithelial State Drives Acute Resistance to KRAS Inhibition in Pancreatic Cancer. Cancer Discovery. 14(11). 2122–2134. 21 indexed citations

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Cohen, Tal, Paul Zumbo, Michael V. Gormally, et al.. (2024). Abstract 40: Persistence but not antitumor efficacy of CAR-engineered lymphocytes is governed by a FAS/FAS ligand auto-regulatory circuit. Cancer Research. 84(6_Supplement). 40–40. 1 indexed citations

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Xia, Yu, Friederike Dündar, Paul Zumbo, et al.. (2024). Cross-species single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injury. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1611–1611. 3 indexed citations

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Boato, Francesco, Youngjae Ryu, Paul Zumbo, et al.. (2023). Activation of MAP2K signaling by genetic engineering or HF-rTMS promotes corticospinal axon sprouting and functional regeneration. Science Translational Medicine. 15(677). eabq6885–eabq6885. 22 indexed citations

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Zumbo, Paul, et al.. (2023). Hallmarks of CD8+ T cell dysfunction are established within hours of tumor antigen encounter before cell division. Nature Immunology. 24(9). 1527–1539. 64 indexed citations

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Xia, Yu, Friederike Dündar, Paul Zumbo, et al.. (2022). Activation of a transient progenitor state in the epicardium is required for zebrafish heart regeneration. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7704–7704. 29 indexed citations

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Qiang, Judy, Doron Betel, Kalesha Hack, et al.. (2022). Comparison of ACR-TIRADS to the ATA Guidelines for Thyroid Nodules: A Neck to Neck Comparison. 1(1). 1–8. 2 indexed citations

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Pan, Heng, Loïc Renaud, Ronan Chaligné, et al.. (2021). Discovery of Candidate DNA Methylation Cancer Driver Genes. Cancer Discovery. 11(9). 2266–2281. 53 indexed citations

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Rocca, Gaspare La, Bryan H. King, Xiaoyi Li, et al.. (2021). Inducible and reversible inhibition of miRNA-mediated gene repression in vivo. eLife. 10. 25 indexed citations

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Gearty, Sofia V., Friederike Dündar, Paul Zumbo, et al.. (2021). An autoimmune stem-like CD8 T cell population drives type 1 diabetes. Nature. 602(7895). 156–161. 146 indexed citations

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Galletti, Giuseppe, Chao Zhang, Ada Gjyrezi, et al.. (2020). Microtubule Engagement with Taxane Is Altered in Taxane-Resistant Gastric Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 26(14). 3771–3783. 24 indexed citations

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Kacmarczyk, Thadeous J., Xihui Zhang, Xin Yuan, et al.. (2018). “Same difference”: comprehensive evaluation of four DNA methylation measurement platforms. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 11(1). 21–21. 12 indexed citations

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Rutherford, Sarah C., Ângela Aguirres Fachel, Sheng Li, et al.. (2017). DLBCL-Derived Exosomes Provide Key Insights into Genomic Landscape in Cell of Origin and May Lead to a Novel Method of Surveillance and Therapeutic Intervention. Blood. 130. 5132–5132. 2 indexed citations

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Garrett-Bakelman, Francine E., Caroline Sheridan, Thadeous J. Kacmarczyk, et al.. (2015). Enhanced Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing for Assessment of DNA Methylation at Base Pair Resolution. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 3 indexed citations

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Garrett-Bakelman, Francine E., Caroline Sheridan, Thadeous J. Kacmarczyk, et al.. (2015). Enhanced Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing for Assessment of DNA Methylation at Base Pair Resolution. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e52246–e52246. 70 indexed citations

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Rapaport, Franck, Raya Khanin, Yupu Liang, et al.. (2013). Comprehensive evaluation of differential gene expression analysis methods for RNA-seq data. Genome biology. 14(9). R95–R95. 491 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Kailiang, Jakub Orzechowski Westholm, Kazuya Tsurudome, et al.. (2012). Neurophysiological Defects and Neuronal Gene Deregulation in Drosophila mir-124 Mutants. PLoS Genetics. 8(2). e1002515–e1002515. 48 indexed citations

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