Jacov Tal

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Jacov Tal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Animal Science and Zoology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacov Tal has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Animal Science and Zoology. Recurrent topics in Jacov Tal's work include Virus-based gene therapy research (12 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (10 papers) and Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (4 papers). Jacov Tal is often cited by papers focused on Virus-based gene therapy research (12 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (10 papers) and Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (4 papers). Jacov Tal collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Canada. Jacov Tal's co-authors include Bhupendra P. Doctor, Peter P. McCann, Guo-hua Zeng, K. Pardhasaradhi, Richard K. Gordon, Shoshana Arad, Mahmoud Huleihel, J. Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus and Murray P. Deutscher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Jacov Tal

21 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

S‐Adenosylmetliionine and methylation 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 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. S‐Adenosylmetliionine and methylation
    1996 736 citations Richard K. Gordon, Jacov Tal et al. The FASEB Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jacov Tal Israel 12 739 229 226 174 139 21 1.3k
Kiminori Matsubara Japan 26 1.1k 1.4× 200 0.9× 131 0.6× 298 1.7× 251 1.8× 75 2.4k
Seiji Kawamoto Japan 29 982 1.3× 79 0.3× 54 0.2× 164 0.9× 290 2.1× 119 2.5k
Thomas W. Keenan United States 21 1.3k 1.8× 170 0.7× 66 0.3× 99 0.6× 104 0.7× 40 2.6k
Jóna Freysdóttir Iceland 21 265 0.4× 61 0.3× 175 0.8× 140 0.8× 28 0.2× 65 1.3k
Byeong Jae Lee South Korea 26 1.4k 1.9× 103 0.4× 72 0.3× 131 0.8× 38 0.3× 70 2.6k
Junmei Zhang China 24 1.6k 2.1× 160 0.7× 34 0.2× 150 0.9× 18 0.1× 67 2.2k
B. K. Ghosh India 18 785 1.1× 301 1.3× 38 0.2× 151 0.9× 19 0.1× 57 1.5k
S. Himmelhoch Israel 21 530 0.7× 180 0.8× 32 0.1× 282 1.6× 43 0.3× 47 1.7k
Irina A. Rodionova United States 22 883 1.2× 226 1.0× 47 0.2× 118 0.7× 31 0.2× 36 1.3k
Makoto Tanaka Japan 19 351 0.5× 129 0.6× 24 0.1× 80 0.5× 12 0.1× 72 1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jacov Tal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacov Tal

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

All Works

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Gitelman, Inna, et al.. (2004). Viral inoculation of mouse embryos in utero. Journal of Virological Methods. 120(1). 1–8. 9 indexed citations
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Tal, Jacov, et al.. (2004). Host Cell Specificity of Minute Virus of Mice in the Developing Mouse Embryo. Journal of Virology. 78(17). 9474–9486. 14 indexed citations
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Davis, Claytus, et al.. (2003). The P4 promoter of the parvovirus minute virus of mice is developmentally regulated in transgenic P4-LacZ mice. Virology. 306(2). 268–279. 7 indexed citations
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Tal, Jacov, et al.. (2002). Activity of Porphyridium sp. polysaccharide against herpes simplex viruses in vitro and in vivo. Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods. 50(2-3). 189–200. 151 indexed citations
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Huleihel, Mahmoud, et al.. (2001). Antiviral effect of red microalgal polysaccharides on Herpes simplex and Varicella zoster viruses. Journal of Applied Phycology. 13(2). 127–134. 107 indexed citations
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Tal, Jacov. (2000). Adeno-associated virus-based vectors in gene therapy. Journal of Biomedical Science. 7(4). 279–291. 45 indexed citations
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Tal, Jacov, et al.. (2000). Expression of the Insect Parvovirus GmDNV in Vivo: The Structural and Nonstructural Proteins Are Encoded by Opposite DNA Strands. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 75(2). 126–132. 4 indexed citations
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Tal, Jacov. (2000). Adeno-Associated Virus-Based Vectors in Gene Therapy. Journal of Biomedical Science. 7(4). 279–291. 5 indexed citations
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Arad, Shoshana, et al.. (1996). An Early Gene of the Chlorella Virus PBCV-1 Encodes a Functional Aspartate Transcarbamylase. Virology. 221(1). 151–158. 9 indexed citations
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Gordon, Richard K., Jacov Tal, Guo-hua Zeng, et al.. (1996). S‐Adenosylmetliionine and methylation. The FASEB Journal. 10(4). 471–480. 736 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tal, Jacov, et al.. (1993). Insecticidal potential of the insect parvovirus GmDNV. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology. 22(3-4). 345–356. 19 indexed citations
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Tijssen, Peter, et al.. (1990). Expression of densonucleosis virus GmDNV in Galleria mellonella larvae: Size analysis and in vitro translation of viral transcription products. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 56(2). 175–180. 8 indexed citations
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Tratschin, Jon Duri, Jacov Tal, & Barrie J. Carter. (1986). Negative and Positive Regulation in trans of Gene Expression from Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors in Mammalian Cells by a Viral rep Gene Product. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 6(8). 2884–2894. 10 indexed citations
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Heimer, Yair M., et al.. (1983). Differential Inhibition of cellular RNA by photosensitized trioxalen. Nucleic Acids Research. 11(18). 6453–6464. 4 indexed citations
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Fujita, Donald J., Jacov Tal, Harold Varmus, & J. Michael Bishop. (1978). env Gene of Chicken RNA Tumor Viruses: Extent of Conservation in Cellular and Viral Genomes. Journal of Virology. 27(3). 465–474. 18 indexed citations
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Tal, Jacov, Hsing-Jien Kung, Harold Varmus, & J. Michael Bishop. (1977). Characterization of dna complementary to nucleotide sequences adjacent to poly(A) at the 3′-terminus of the avian sarcoma virus genome. Virology. 79(1). 183–197. 41 indexed citations
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Tal, Jacov. (1975). The cleavage of transfer RNA by a single strand specific endonuclease from Neurospora crassa. Nucleic Acids Research. 2(7). 1073–1082. 7 indexed citations
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Tal, Jacov, Elizabeth A. Craig, Stephen G. Zimmer, & Heschel J. Raskas. (1974). Localization of Adenovirus 2 Messenger RNAs to Segments of the Viral Genome Defined by Endonuclease R·R1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 71(10). 4057–4061. 28 indexed citations
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Tal, Jacov, Uriel Z. Littauer, & Murray P. Deutscher. (1972). Biological Activity of Escherichia coli tRNAPhe Modified in Its C‐C‐A Terminus. European Journal of Biochemistry. 28(4). 478–491. 43 indexed citations

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