Gil Ast

11.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Gil Ast is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Gil Ast has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Gil Ast's work include RNA Research and Splicing (60 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (52 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (44 papers). Gil Ast is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (60 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (52 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (44 papers). Gil Ast collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Gil Ast's co-authors include Galit Lev-Maor, Schraga Schwartz, Rotem Sorek, Hadas Keren, Eddo Kim, Amir Goren, Eran Meshorer, Noam Shomron, Oren Ram and Noa Sela and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gil Ast

75 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Alternative splicing and evolution: diversification, exon definition and function

2010 777 citations Galit Lev-Maor, Gil Ast et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gil Ast Israel	42	7.0k	1.0k	834	687	290	76	7.8k
Michael D. Wilson Canada	34	4.4k 0.6×	709 0.7×	841 1.0×	915 1.3×	345 1.2×	100	5.5k
Juan M. Vaquerizas Germany	36	5.3k 0.8×	839 0.8×	549 0.7×	944 1.4×	339 1.2×	59	6.2k
Sofie R. Salama United States	24	3.8k 0.5×	972 0.9×	655 0.8×	806 1.2×	241 0.8×	52	4.6k
Chia‐Lin Wei United States	26	4.4k 0.6×	831 0.8×	704 0.8×	766 1.1×	217 0.7×	55	5.1k
Hiram Clawson United States	17	4.6k 0.7×	894 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	1.7k 2.4×	259 0.9×	23	5.7k
Devon Ryan Germany	12	4.2k 0.6×	933 0.9×	481 0.6×	569 0.8×	452 1.6×	19	5.1k
Gunnar Schotta Germany	39	5.6k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	400 0.5×	829 1.2×	292 1.0×	77	6.3k
Jürg Müller Germany	40	6.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	297 0.4×	936 1.4×	322 1.1×	75	7.2k
Elliott H. Margulies United States	32	3.8k 0.5×	686 0.7×	563 0.7×	1.5k 2.1×	293 1.0×	51	5.1k
Dimos Gaidatzis Switzerland	35	6.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	1.8k 2.2×	799 1.2×	374 1.3×	44	6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Gil Ast

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gil Ast

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gil Ast

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All Works

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Lev-Maor, Galit, et al.. (2023). Human histone H1 variants impact splicing outcome by controlling RNA polymerase II elongation. Molecular Cell. 83(21). 3801–3817.e8. 8 indexed citations

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Keydar, Ifat, et al.. (2021). The upstream 5′ splice site remains associated to the transcription machinery during intron synthesis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4545–4545. 18 indexed citations

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Brownstein, Zippora, Süleyman Gülsüner, Morad Khayat, et al.. (2018). Genetics of hearing loss in the Arab population of Northern Israel. European Journal of Human Genetics. 26(12). 1840–1847. 19 indexed citations

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Ast, Gil, et al.. (2015). The alternative role of DNA methylation in splicing regulation. Trends in Genetics. 31(5). 274–280. 388 indexed citations

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Keren‐Shaul, Hadas, Galit Lev-Maor, & Gil Ast. (2013). Pre-mRNA Splicing Is a Determinant of Nucleosome Organization. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e53506–e53506. 22 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Schraga, Oren Ram, & Gil Ast. (2011). Detection and Removal of Biases in the Analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing Reads. PLoS ONE. 6(1). e16685–e16685. 69 indexed citations

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Sela, Noa, Britta Mersch, Agnes Hotz‐Wagenblatt, & Gil Ast. (2010). Characteristics of Transposable Element Exonization within Human and Mouse. PLoS ONE. 5(6). e10907–e10907. 61 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Schraga, Eran Meshorer, & Gil Ast. (2009). Chromatin organization marks exon-intron structure. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 16(9). 990–995. 467 indexed citations

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Levy, Asaf, Schraga Schwartz, & Gil Ast. (2009). Large-scale discovery of insertion hotspots and preferential integration sites of human transposed elements. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(5). 1515–1530. 26 indexed citations

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Lev-Maor, Galit, Oren Ram, Eddo Kim, et al.. (2008). Intronic Alus Influence Alternative Splicing. PLoS Genetics. 4(9). e1000204–e1000204. 119 indexed citations

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Kim, Eddo, Amir Goren, & Gil Ast. (2008). Alternative splicing and disease. RNA Biology. 5(1). 17–19. 33 indexed citations

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Goren, Amir, Eddo Kim, Maayan Amit, et al.. (2007). Alternative approach to a heavy weight problem. Genome Research. 18(2). 214–220. 11 indexed citations

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Amit, Maayan, Amanda O’Donnell, Chen Farhy, et al.. (2007). Regulation of transcription of the RNA splicing factor hSlu7 by Elk-1 and Sp1 affects alternative splicing. RNA. 13(11). 1988–1999. 13 indexed citations

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Ast, Gil. (2004). How did alternative splicing evolve?. Nature Reviews Genetics. 5(10). 773–782. 419 indexed citations

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Vig, Ida, et al.. (2004). Comparative analysis detects dependencies among the 5′ splice-site positions. RNA. 10(5). 828–840. 165 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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Shomron, Noam, et al.. (2004). Splicing Factor hSlu7 Contains a Unique Functional Domain Required to Retain the Protein within the Nucleus. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 15(8). 3782–3795. 11 indexed citations

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Lev-Maor, Galit, Rotem Sorek, Noam Shomron, & Gil Ast. (2003). The Birth of an Alternatively Spliced Exon: 3' Splice-Site Selection in Alu Exons. Science. 300(5623). 1288–1291. 346 indexed citations

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Shomron, Noam, et al.. (2003). The U1 snRNP Base Pairs with the 5′ Splice Site within a Penta-snRNP Complex. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23(10). 3442–3455. 41 indexed citations

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Richler, Carmelit, Gil Ast, Ruth Goitein, et al.. (1994). Splicing components are excluded from the transcriptionally inactive XY body in male meiotic nuclei.. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 5(12). 1341–1352. 41 indexed citations

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