Irine Ronin

3.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
14 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Irine Ronin is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Irine Ronin has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Genetics, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Irine Ronin's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (5 papers). Irine Ronin is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (5 papers). Irine Ronin collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Irine Ronin's co-authors include Nathalie Q. Balaban, Orit Gefen, Noam Shoresh, Irit Levin-Reisman, Ofer Fridman, Maskit Bar‐Meir, Jiafeng Liu, Asher Brauner, Chana Gabay and Adiel Loinger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Irine Ronin

12 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Antibiotic tolerance facilitates the evolution of resistance

2017 874 citations Irit Levin-Reisman, Irine Ronin et al. Science profile →
Optimization of lag time underlies antibiotic tolerance in evolved bacterial populations

2014 431 citations Ofer Fridman, Irine Ronin et al. Nature profile →
Effect of tolerance on the evolution of antibiotic resistance under drug combinations

2020 331 citations Jiafeng Liu, Orit Gefen et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Irine Ronin Israel	12	1.3k	1.1k	874	430	394	14	2.6k
Orit Gefen Israel	12	1.5k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	400 0.9×	376 1.0×	16	3.1k
Ofer Fridman Israel	7	939 0.7×	671 0.6×	614 0.7×	239 0.6×	248 0.6×	8	1.9k
Iris Keren United States	11	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	937 1.1×	482 1.1×	377 1.0×	11	2.8k
Dijun Du United Kingdom	16	1.1k 0.8×	602 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	320 0.7×	258 0.7×	22	2.3k
Bram Van den Bergh Belgium	16	963 0.7×	819 0.7×	679 0.8×	351 0.8×	277 0.7×	29	1.8k
Etienne Maisonneuve France	13	1.1k 0.9×	757 0.7×	445 0.5×	341 0.8×	341 0.9×	16	1.9k
Frédéric Kerff Belgium	24	1.5k 1.1×	535 0.5×	825 0.9×	203 0.5×	284 0.7×	67	3.0k
Marin Vulić United States	16	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	918 1.1×	595 1.4×	548 1.4×	22	2.8k
Chih‐Chia Su United States	32	916 0.7×	584 0.5×	976 1.1×	269 0.6×	208 0.5×	60	2.6k
Amy K. Cain Australia	27	874 0.7×	353 0.3×	780 0.9×	418 1.0×	409 1.0×	70	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Irine Ronin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Irine Ronin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Irine Ronin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Irine Ronin 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 Irine Ronin. Irine Ronin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Gefen, Orit, et al.. (2026). Differentiation between regulated and disrupted growth arrests allows tailoring of effective treatments for antibiotic persistence. Science Advances. 12(1). eadt6577–eadt6577. 1 indexed citations

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Gefen, Orit, et al.. (2025). Uncovering phenotypic inheritance from single cells with Microcolony-seq. Cell. 188(19). 5313–5331.e18.

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Gefen, Orit, Ronen Fluss, Irit Levin-Reisman, et al.. (2022). Prevalence of Antibiotic Tolerance and Risk for Reinfection Among Escherichia coli Bloodstream Isolates: A Prospective Cohort Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 75(10). 1706–1713. 15 indexed citations

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Levin-Reisman, Irit, et al.. (2021). Observation of universal ageing dynamics in antibiotic persistence. Nature. 600(7888). 290–294. 57 indexed citations

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Liu, Jiafeng, Orit Gefen, Irine Ronin, Maskit Bar‐Meir, & Nathalie Q. Balaban. (2020). Effect of tolerance on the evolution of antibiotic resistance under drug combinations. Science. 367(6474). 200–204. 331 indexed citations breakdown →

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Levin-Reisman, Irit, Asher Brauner, Irine Ronin, & Nathalie Q. Balaban. (2019). Epistasis between antibiotic tolerance, persistence, and resistance mutations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(29). 14734–14739. 142 indexed citations

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Levin-Reisman, Irit, et al.. (2017). Antibiotic tolerance facilitates the evolution of resistance. Science. 355(6327). 826–830. 874 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ronin, Irine, et al.. (2017). A long-term epigenetic memory switch controls bacterial virulence bimodality. eLife. 6. 48 indexed citations

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Fridman, Ofer, et al.. (2014). Optimization of lag time underlies antibiotic tolerance in evolved bacterial populations. Nature. 513(7518). 418–421. 431 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fridman, Ofer, et al.. (2014). Systematic identification and quantification of phase variation in commensal and pathogenic Escherichia coli. Genome Medicine. 6(11). 112–112. 18 indexed citations

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Ronin, Irine, et al.. (2013). HipA-mediated antibiotic persistence via phosphorylation of the glutamyl-tRNA-synthetase. Nature Communications. 4(1). 3001–3001. 197 indexed citations

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Gefen, Orit, Ofer Fridman, Irine Ronin, & Nathalie Q. Balaban. (2013). Direct observation of single stationary-phase bacteria reveals a surprisingly long period of constant protein production activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(1). 556–561. 143 indexed citations

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Loinger, Adiel, Irine Ronin, Irit Levin-Reisman, et al.. (2010). Regulation of phenotypic variability by a threshold-based mechanism underlies bacterial persistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(28). 12541–12546. 270 indexed citations

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Levin-Reisman, Irit, Orit Gefen, Ofer Fridman, et al.. (2010). Automated imaging with ScanLag reveals previously undetectable bacterial growth phenotypes. Nature Methods. 7(9). 737–739. 122 indexed citations

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