Eitan Yaffe

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Eitan Yaffe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Eitan Yaffe has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Eitan Yaffe's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers). Eitan Yaffe is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers). Eitan Yaffe collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and France. Eitan Yaffe's co-authors include Amos Tanay, Tom Sexton, Giacomo Cavalli, Ephraim Kenigsberg, Benjamin Leblanc, Michael Hoichman, Frédéric Bantignies, Takashi Nagano, Wendy Dean and Peter Fraser and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Eitan Yaffe

17 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Three-Dimensional Folding and Functional Organization Principles of the Drosophila Genome

2012 1.4k citations Tom Sexton, Eitan Yaffe et al. Cell profile →
Single-cell Hi-C reveals cell-to-cell variability in chromosome structure

2013 1.1k citations Takashi Nagano, Yaniv Lubling et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eitan Yaffe Israel	11	3.6k	1.1k	570	207	123	17	3.8k
Dmitry Pokholok United States	18	4.1k 1.2×	461 0.4×	512 0.9×	311 1.5×	93 0.8×	25	4.5k
Neil D. Clarke Singapore	27	3.1k 0.9×	287 0.3×	387 0.7×	149 0.7×	78 0.6×	44	3.4k
John J. Wyrick United States	30	6.1k 1.7×	922 0.8×	595 1.0×	283 1.4×	40 0.3×	80	6.5k
Eric Viara France	9	1.6k 0.4×	575 0.5×	363 0.6×	136 0.7×	24 0.2×	16	1.9k
Helen C. Causton United States	17	2.9k 0.8×	381 0.3×	495 0.9×	179 0.9×	45 0.4×	28	3.3k
Eleanor Williams United Kingdom	11	1.4k 0.4×	349 0.3×	361 0.6×	236 1.1×	136 1.1×	16	1.9k
Vsevolod J. Makeev Russia	29	2.4k 0.7×	379 0.3×	449 0.8×	299 1.4×	26 0.2×	93	3.0k
Kerstin Bystricky France	29	2.3k 0.6×	451 0.4×	292 0.5×	101 0.5×	115 0.9×	55	2.6k
Attila Becskei Switzerland	19	2.8k 0.8×	184 0.2×	852 1.5×	70 0.3×	254 2.1×	42	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eitan Yaffe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Eitan Yaffe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Eitan Yaffe based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Eitan Yaffe. Eitan Yaffe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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17 of 17 papers shown

Yaffe, Eitan, Les Dethlefsen, Arati V. Patankar, et al.. (2025). Brief antibiotic use drives human gut bacteria towards low-cost resistance. Nature. 641(8061). 182–191. 4 indexed citations

Relman, David A., et al.. (2022). Precise genotyping of circular mobile elements from metagenomic data uncovers human-associated plasmids with recent common ancestors. Genome Research. 32(5). 986–1003. 1 indexed citations

Yaffe, Eitan & David A. Relman. (2019). Tracking microbial evolution in the human gut using Hi-C reveals extensive horizontal gene transfer, persistence and adaptation. Nature Microbiology. 5(2). 343–353. 104 indexed citations

Sexton, Tom & Eitan Yaffe. (2015). Chromosome Folding: Driver or Passenger of Epigenetic State?: Figure 1.. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 7(2). a018721–a018721. 4 indexed citations

Nagano, Takashi, Yaniv Lubling, Eitan Yaffe, et al.. (2015). Single-cell Hi-C for genome-wide detection of chromatin interactions that occur simultaneously in a single cell. Nature Protocols. 10(12). 1986–2003. 116 indexed citations

Schuettengruber, Bernd, Tom Sexton, Shani Stern, et al.. (2014). Cooperativity, Specificity, and Evolutionary Stability of Polycomb Targeting in Drosophila. Cell Reports. 9(1). 219–233. 58 indexed citations

Nagano, Takashi, Yaniv Lubling, Tim J. Stevens, et al.. (2013). Single-cell Hi-C reveals cell-to-cell variability in chromosome structure. Nature. 502(7469). 59–64. 1098 indexed citations breakdown →

Yaffe, Eitan, Wen‐Ching Chan, Dimitra Georgopoulou, et al.. (2013). Cohesin-mediated interactions organize chromosomal domain architecture. The EMBO Journal. 32(24). 3119–3129. 299 indexed citations

Sexton, Tom, Eitan Yaffe, Ephraim Kenigsberg, et al.. (2012). Three-Dimensional Folding and Functional Organization Principles of the Drosophila Genome. Cell. 148(3). 458–472. 1377 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yaffe, Eitan & Amos Tanay. (2011). Probabilistic modeling of Hi-C contact maps eliminates systematic biases to characterize global chromosomal architecture. Nature Genetics. 43(11). 1059–1065. 432 indexed citations

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Yaffe, Eitan & Dan Halperin. (2010). Approximating the Pathway Axis and the Persistence Diagrams for a Collection of Balls in 3-Space. Discrete & Computational Geometry. 44(3). 660–685. 1 indexed citations

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Yaffe, Eitan, Shlomit Farkash-Amar, Andreas Polten, et al.. (2010). Comparative Analysis of DNA Replication Timing Reveals Conserved Large-Scale Chromosomal Architecture. PLoS Genetics. 6(7). e1001011–e1001011. 133 indexed citations

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Yaffe, Eitan, et al.. (2008). MolAxis: a server for identification of channels in macromolecules. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(suppl_2). W210–W215. 53 indexed citations

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Yaffe, Eitan, et al.. (2008). MolAxis: Efficient and accurate identification of channels in macromolecules. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 73(1). 72–86. 98 indexed citations

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Yaffe, Eitan & Dan Halperin. (2008). Approximating the pathway axis and the persistence diagram of a collection of balls in 3-space. 260–269. 3 indexed citations

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Yaffe, Eitan, et al.. (2007). Architectures for controller based CDP. File and Storage Technologies. 21–21. 30 indexed citations

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Yaffe, Eitan, Nili Grossman, & Eliora Z. Ron. (1979). Membrane-bound deoxyribonucleic acid from Escherichia coli: effects of replication, protein synthesis, and ribonucleic acid synthesis. Journal of Bacteriology. 137(2). 790–794. 1 indexed citations

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