Eran Elinav

65.8k total citations · 26 hit papers
208 papers, 35.0k citations indexed

About

Eran Elinav is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eran Elinav has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 35.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Immunology and 47 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Eran Elinav's work include Gut microbiota and health (99 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (31 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (27 papers). Eran Elinav is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (99 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (31 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (27 papers). Eran Elinav collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Germany and United States. Eran Elinav's co-authors include Christoph A. Thaiss, Niv Zmora, Richard A. Flavell, Danping Zheng, Maayan Levy, Timur Liwinski, Jotham Suez, Till Strowig, Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk and Eran Segal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Eran Elinav

206 papers receiving 34.4k citations

Hit Papers

Interaction between microbiot... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2020 2012 2012 2011 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Interaction between microbiota and immunity in health and disease
    2020 2.5k citations Eran Elinav et al. Cell Research profile →
  2. Inflammasome-mediated dysbiosis regulates progression of NAFLD and obesity
    2012 1.9k citations Jorge Henao‐Mejia, Eran Elinav et al. profile →
  3. Inflammasomes in health and disease
    2012 1.8k citations Till Strowig, Eran Elinav et al. profile →
  4. NLRP6 Inflammasome Regulates Colonic Microbial Ecology and Risk for Colitis
    2011 1.6k citations Eran Elinav, Till Strowig et al. profile →
  5. Inflammation-induced cancer: crosstalk between tumours, immune cells and microorganisms
    2013 1.6k citations Eran Elinav, Christoph A. Thaiss et al. profile →
  6. Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota
    2014 1.5k citations Jotham Suez, Tal Korem et al. profile →
  7. The microbiome and innate immunity
    2016 1.4k citations Christoph A. Thaiss, Niv Zmora et al. profile →
  8. You are what you eat: diet, health and the gut microbiota
    2018 1.2k citations Niv Zmora, Jotham Suez et al. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology profile →
  9. Dysbiosis and the immune system
    2017 1.2k citations Maayan Levy, Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk et al. profile →
  10. Transkingdom Control of Microbiota Diurnal Oscillations Promotes Metabolic Homeostasis
    2014 983 citations Christoph A. Thaiss, David Zeevi et al. profile →
  11. The pros, cons, and many unknowns of probiotics
    2019 958 citations Jotham Suez, Niv Zmora et al. Nature Medicine profile →
  12. The intestinal microbiota fuelling metabolic inflammation
    2019 738 citations Niv Zmora, Eran Elinav et al. profile →
  13. Microbiota-Modulated Metabolites Shape the Intestinal Microenvironment by Regulating NLRP6 Inflammasome Signaling
    2015 728 citations Maayan Levy, Christoph A. Thaiss et al. profile →
  14. Inflammasome activation and regulation: toward a better understanding of complex mechanisms
    2020 701 citations Eran Elinav et al. profile →
  15. Diet–microbiota interactions and personalized nutrition
    2019 596 citations Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk, Eran Elinav et al. profile →
  16. NLRP6 Inflammasome Orchestrates the Colonic Host-Microbial Interface by Regulating Goblet Cell Mucus Secretion
    2014 566 citations Christoph A. Thaiss, Jorge Henao‐Mejia et al. profile →
  17. Intestinal Lamina Propria Dendritic Cell Subsets Have Different Origin and Functions
    2009 561 citations Eran Elinav, Yami Shapira et al. profile →
  18. Epithelial IL-18 Equilibrium Controls Barrier Function in Colitis
    2015 442 citations Eran Elinav, Richard A. Flavell et al. profile →
  19. Our Gut Microbiome: The Evolving Inner Self
    2017 428 citations Eran Elinav, Sven Pettersson et al. profile →
  20. The role of the microbiome in NAFLD and NASH
    2018 415 citations Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk, Eran Elinav et al. profile →
  21. Microbiome and cancer
    2021 360 citations Eran Elinav et al. Cancer Cell profile →
  22. Microbiome, metabolites and host immunity
    2016 359 citations Maayan Levy, Eran Elinav et al. profile →
  23. Bile acids in glucose metabolism in health and disease
    2018 336 citations Hagit Shapiro, Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk et al. profile →
  24. Vaginal microbiome transplantation in women with intractable bacterial vaginosis
    2019 264 citations Mally Dori-Bachash, Avner Leshem et al. Nature Medicine profile →
  25. The gut microbiota regulates white adipose tissue inflammation and obesity via a family of microRNAs
    2019 243 citations Anthony Virtue, Sam J. McCright et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →
  26. The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health
    2025 16 citations Yolanda Sanz, John F. Cryan et al. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eran Elinav Israel 78 20.9k 6.9k 6.8k 5.3k 3.9k 208 35.0k
Lora V. Hooper United States 69 19.6k 0.9× 5.8k 0.8× 5.7k 0.8× 3.4k 0.6× 5.9k 1.5× 114 31.7k
Andrew T. Gewirtz United States 83 11.7k 0.6× 7.1k 1.0× 3.9k 0.6× 3.0k 0.6× 3.5k 0.9× 285 24.7k
Richard L. Gallo United States 126 14.8k 0.7× 15.5k 2.2× 3.9k 0.6× 7.2k 1.4× 4.2k 1.1× 547 56.9k
Andrew J. Macpherson Switzerland 74 14.5k 0.7× 7.3k 1.0× 3.7k 0.5× 3.2k 0.6× 5.4k 1.4× 189 28.2k
Mauro Martins Teixeira Brazil 85 10.5k 0.5× 9.2k 1.3× 4.8k 0.7× 6.0k 1.1× 3.4k 0.9× 768 32.6k
Fergus Shanahan Ireland 113 24.1k 1.2× 5.9k 0.8× 7.8k 1.1× 6.8k 1.3× 5.2k 1.3× 623 46.3k
R. Balfour Sartor United States 87 16.4k 0.8× 7.1k 1.0× 3.0k 0.4× 5.8k 1.1× 5.3k 1.4× 336 32.0k
Jerrold R. Turner United States 90 14.7k 0.7× 4.7k 0.7× 2.7k 0.4× 3.8k 0.7× 2.1k 0.5× 317 30.3k
Eugene B. Chang United States 82 14.9k 0.7× 2.6k 0.4× 5.0k 0.7× 2.3k 0.4× 3.1k 0.8× 325 24.8k
Jonathan N. Glickman United States 70 10.8k 0.5× 5.2k 0.8× 3.0k 0.4× 3.4k 0.6× 2.4k 0.6× 173 23.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eran Elinav

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sanz, Yolanda, John F. Cryan, Mélanie Deschasaux, et al.. (2025). The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 22(8). 534–555. 16 indexed citations breakdown →
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Abdeen, Suhaib K., et al.. (2025). Diet-microbiome interactions in cancer. Cancer Cell. 43(4). 680–707. 8 indexed citations
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Nobs, Samuel Philip & Eran Elinav. (2024). A microbial iron fist to fight tumors. Nature Immunology. 25(5). 720–721. 2 indexed citations
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Eli‐Berchoer, Luba, et al.. (2024). Gingival spatial analysis reveals geographic immunological variation in a microbiota-dependent and -independent manner. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 10(1). 142–142. 1 indexed citations
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Cauchemez, Simon, Giulio Cossu, Nathalie M. Delzenne, et al.. (2024). Standing the test of COVID-19: charting the new frontiers of medicine. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 6 indexed citations
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Nobs, Samuel Philip & Eran Elinav. (2024). Complement(ing) the microbiome in infants through breastmilk. Cell Research. 34(7). 469–470. 1 indexed citations
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Nobs, Samuel Philip & Eran Elinav. (2023). Nonnutritive sweeteners and glucose intolerance: Where do we go from here?. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 133(10). 3 indexed citations
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Eli‐Berchoer, Luba, Chen Nadler, Hagit Shapiro, et al.. (2023). Langerhans cells shape postnatal oral homeostasis in a mechanical-force-dependent but microbiota and IL17-independent manner. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5628–5628. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guorong, Qin Wang, Wanyin Tao, et al.. (2022). Glucosylated nanoparticles for the oral delivery of antibiotics to the proximal small intestine protect mice from gut dysbiosis. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 6(7). 867–881. 59 indexed citations
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Montassier, Emmanuel, Rafael Valdés‐Mas, Éric Batard, et al.. (2021). Probiotics impact the antibiotic resistance gene reservoir along the human GI tract in a person-specific and antibiotic-dependent manner. Nature Microbiology. 6(8). 1043–1054. 145 indexed citations
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Raddatz, Günter, Julian Gutekunst, Monther Abu-Remaileh, et al.. (2020). The microbiota programs DNA methylation to control intestinal homeostasis and inflammation. Nature Microbiology. 5(4). 610–619. 129 indexed citations
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Kolodziejczyk, Aleksandra A., Sara Federici, Niv Zmora, et al.. (2020). Acute liver failure is regulated by MYC- and microbiome-dependent programs. Nature Medicine. 26(12). 1899–1911. 104 indexed citations
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Virtue, Anthony, Sam J. McCright, Jasmine M. Wright, et al.. (2019). The gut microbiota regulates white adipose tissue inflammation and obesity via a family of microRNAs. Science Translational Medicine. 11(496). 243 indexed citations breakdown →
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Suez, Jotham, Niv Zmora, & Eran Elinav. (2019). Probiotics in the next-generation sequencing era. Gut Microbes. 11(1). 77–93. 56 indexed citations
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Geva‐Zatorsky, Naama, Eran Elinav, & Sven Pettersson. (2019). When Cultures Meet: The Landscape of “Social” Interactions between the Host and Its Indigenous Microbes. BioEssays. 41(10). e1900002–e1900002. 3 indexed citations
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Korem, Tal, David Zeevi, Jotham Suez, et al.. (2015). Growth dynamics of gut microbiota in health and disease inferred from single metagenomic samples. Science. 349(6252). 1101–1106. 310 indexed citations
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Hu, Bo, Eran Elinav, Samuel Huber, et al.. (2013). Microbiota-induced activation of epithelial IL-6 signaling links inflammasome-driven inflammation with transmissible cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(24). 9862–9867. 261 indexed citations
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Henao‐Mejia, Jorge, Eran Elinav, Christoph A. Thaiss, & Richard A. Flavell. (2013). The Intestinal Microbiota in Chronic Liver Disease. Advances in immunology. 117. 73–97. 51 indexed citations
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Hu, Bo, Eran Elinav, Samuel Huber, et al.. (2010). Inflammation-induced tumorigenesis in the colon is regulated by caspase-1 and NLRC4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(50). 21635–21640. 383 indexed citations
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Elinav, Eran, Iddo Z. Ben‐Dov, Yami Shapira, et al.. (2006). Acute Hepatitis A Infection in Pregnancy Is Associated With High Rates of Gestational Complications and Preterm Labor. Gastroenterology. 130(4). 1129–1134. 90 indexed citations

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