Itamar Sela

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Itamar Sela is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Itamar Sela has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Itamar Sela's work include Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (13 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers) and Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials (6 papers). Itamar Sela is often cited by papers focused on Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (13 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers) and Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials (6 papers). Itamar Sela collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Australia. Itamar Sela's co-authors include Tal Pupko, Haim Ashkenazy, Kazutaka Katoh, Eugene V. Koonin, Yuri I. Wolf, H. Kroemer, C. R. Bolognesi, David B. Lukatsky, Avi Karni and Lorene Samoska and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Itamar Sela

42 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

GUIDANCE2: accurate detection of unreliable alignment reg... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 200 400 600
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. GUIDANCE2: accurate detection of unreliable alignment regions accounting for the uncertainty of multiple parameters
    2015 634 citations Itamar Sela, Haim Ashkenazy et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Itamar Sela United States 17 551 299 224 191 190 45 1.4k
Akira Noguchi Japan 25 856 1.6× 58 0.2× 96 0.4× 346 1.8× 261 1.4× 137 2.3k
Alexander Lang Germany 14 727 1.3× 285 1.0× 74 0.3× 82 0.4× 123 0.6× 37 1.9k
Peter R. Hoyt United States 16 544 1.0× 68 0.2× 110 0.5× 291 1.5× 105 0.6× 36 1.1k
Sean D. Moore United States 19 770 1.4× 312 1.0× 471 2.1× 104 0.5× 290 1.5× 38 1.9k
H. Hirose Japan 27 1.4k 2.5× 166 0.6× 44 0.2× 72 0.4× 224 1.2× 138 2.5k
Justin S. Bois United States 15 2.0k 3.7× 216 0.7× 76 0.3× 159 0.8× 184 1.0× 24 3.1k
Magnus Andersson Sweden 26 701 1.3× 324 1.1× 351 1.6× 70 0.4× 234 1.2× 109 2.1k
Andrew D. Beale United Kingdom 14 196 0.4× 94 0.3× 30 0.1× 141 0.7× 117 0.6× 22 1.3k
William S. Ryu United States 29 900 1.6× 331 1.1× 194 0.9× 92 0.5× 439 2.3× 51 3.5k
Bella Groisman Israel 12 581 1.1× 78 0.3× 216 1.0× 77 0.4× 133 0.7× 17 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Itamar Sela

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Fields of papers citing papers by Itamar Sela

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Itamar Sela

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

All Works

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Gandara, David R., Janakiraman Subramanian, Edgardo S. Santos, et al.. (2024). Impact of PROphet Test in Changing Physicians' Therapeutic Decision-Making for Checkpoint Immunotherapy in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Clinical Lung Cancer. 25(6). e252–e261.e4.
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Sela, Itamar, Yuri I. Wolf, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2021). Assessment of assumptions underlying models of prokaryotic pangenome evolution. BMC Biology. 19(1). 27–27. 7 indexed citations
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Iranzo, Jaime, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin, & Itamar Sela. (2019). Gene gain and loss push prokaryotes beyond the homologous recombination barrier and accelerate genome sequence divergence. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5376–5376. 55 indexed citations
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Belinky, Frida, Itamar Sela, Igor B. Rogozin, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2019). Crossing fitness valleys via double substitutions within codons. BMC Biology. 17(1). 105–105. 11 indexed citations
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Sela, Itamar, Yuri I. Wolf, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2018). Estimation of universal and taxon-specific parameters of prokaryotic genome evolution. PLoS ONE. 13(4). e0195571–e0195571. 4 indexed citations
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Ashkenazy, Haim, Itamar Sela, Eli Levy Karin, Giddy Landan, & Tal Pupko. (2018). Multiple Sequence Alignment Averaging Improves Phylogeny Reconstruction. Systematic Biology. 68(1). 117–130. 24 indexed citations
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Sela, Itamar, Yuri I. Wolf, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2016). Theory of prokaryotic genome evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(41). 11399–11407. 103 indexed citations
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Bahat, Hilla Sarig, Elliot Sprecher, Itamar Sela, & Julia Treleaven. (2016). Neck motion kinematics: an inter-tester reliability study using an interactive neck VR assessment in asymptomatic individuals. European Spine Journal. 25(7). 2139–2148. 30 indexed citations
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Sela, Itamar, Haim Ashkenazy, Kazutaka Katoh, & Tal Pupko. (2015). GUIDANCE2: accurate detection of unreliable alignment regions accounting for the uncertainty of multiple parameters. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(W1). W7–W14. 634 indexed citations breakdown →
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Breznitz, Zvia, Shelley Shaul, Tzipi Horowitz‐Kraus, et al.. (2013). Enhanced reading by training with imposed time constraint in typical and dyslexic adults. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1486–1486. 74 indexed citations
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Sela, Itamar, Pearla Nesher, Meltem İzzetoğlu, et al.. (2012). Frontal lobe role in simple arithmetic calculations: An fNIR study. Neuroscience Letters. 510(1). 43–47. 20 indexed citations
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Sela, Itamar, Meltem İzzetoğlu, Kurtuluş İzzetoğlu, & Banu Onaral. (2012). A Working Memory Deficit among Dyslexic Readers with No Phonological Impairment as Measured Using the N-Back Task: An fNIR Study. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e46527–e46527. 8 indexed citations
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Sela, Itamar & David B. Lukatsky. (2011). DNA Sequence Correlations Shape Nonspecific Transcription Factor-DNA Binding Affinity. Biophysical Journal. 101(1). 160–166. 38 indexed citations
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Afek, Ariel, et al.. (2011). Nonspecific Transcription-Factor-DNA Binding Influences Nucleosome Occupancy in Yeast. Biophysical Journal. 101(10). 2465–2475. 21 indexed citations
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Sela, Itamar, et al.. (2010). Anomalous decay of a prepared state due to non-Ohmic coupling to the continuum. Physical Review E. 81(3). 36219–36219. 1 indexed citations
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Sela, Itamar, G. Golan, Dalia Rivenzon‐Segal, et al.. (2010). G Protein Coupled Receptors - In Silico Drug Discovery and Design. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 10(6). 638–656. 24 indexed citations
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Sela, Itamar, I. H. Campbell, B. Laurich, et al.. (1991). Raman scattering study of InAs/GaInSb strained layer superlattices. Journal of Applied Physics. 70(10). 5608–5614. 16 indexed citations

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