Micha Ilan

6.3k total citations
120 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Micha Ilan is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Ecology and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Micha Ilan has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Biotechnology, 39 papers in Ecology and 33 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Micha Ilan's work include Marine Sponges and Natural Products (93 papers), Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (33 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (32 papers). Micha Ilan is often cited by papers focused on Marine Sponges and Natural Products (93 papers), Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (33 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (32 papers). Micha Ilan collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Italy. Micha Ilan's co-authors include Shmuel Carmeli, Joanna Aizenberg, Yossi Loya, Laura Steindler, Sven Beer, Dorothée Huchon, Muki Shpigel, Eran Hadas, Oded Yarden and Adi Lavy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Micha Ilan

116 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Micha Ilan Israel	40	2.3k	1.4k	1.0k	741	620	120	4.3k
Isabel M. Müller Germany	42	2.7k 1.2×	341 0.2×	523 0.5×	1.2k 1.7×	912 1.5×	129	4.5k
Margo G. Haygood United States	43	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.8×	2.2k 3.0×	263 0.4×	90	5.1k
Yehuda Benayahu Israel	43	1.3k 0.6×	4.0k 2.9×	526 0.5×	674 0.9×	491 0.8×	224	6.3k
Franz Brümmer Germany	31	780 0.3×	475 0.3×	318 0.3×	733 1.0×	278 0.4×	105	2.8k
Xavier Turón Spain	61	2.7k 1.2×	4.2k 3.0×	686 0.7×	2.2k 3.0×	2.1k 3.4×	239	9.6k
Kirsten Benkendorff Australia	35	457 0.2×	900 0.6×	221 0.2×	531 0.7×	279 0.5×	158	3.7k
Tao Zhang China	36	310 0.1×	721 0.5×	442 0.4×	1.2k 1.6×	68 0.1×	210	5.1k
Tilmann Harder Germany	34	538 0.2×	1.8k 1.3×	168 0.2×	573 0.8×	1.2k 1.9×	76	3.9k
Chiaki Kato Japan	41	947 0.4×	2.6k 1.8×	138 0.1×	2.9k 4.0×	61 0.1×	205	5.5k
Andrew R. Davis Australia	42	456 0.2×	2.0k 1.5×	70 0.1×	418 0.6×	788 1.3×	196	5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Micha Ilan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Taboada, Sergi, Sigal Shefer, Yaron Tikochinski, et al.. (2025). Deep connections: exploring the genetic connectivity of mesophotic and shallow-water populations of the sponge Axinella polypoides. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 39183–39183.

Carmeli, Shmuel, et al.. (2024). Diversity and Activity of Bacteria Cultured from a Cup—The Sponge Calyx nicaeensis. Marine Drugs. 22(10). 440–440.

Ilan, Micha, et al.. (2023). High variability and enhanced nocturnal oxygen uptake in coral reef sponges. Limnology and Oceanography. 68(7). 1517–1529. 1 indexed citations

Ilan, Micha, Dario Cavallo, Andrea Dodero, et al.. (2023). Seasonal Molecular Difference in Fibrillar Collagen Extracts Derived from the Marine Sponge Chondrosia reniformis (Nardo, 1847) and Their Impact on Its Derived Biomaterials. Marine Drugs. 21(4). 210–210. 11 indexed citations

Hååg, Petra, et al.. (2022). Cytotoxic Alkylynols of the Sponge Cribrochalina vasculum: Structure, Synthetic Analogs and SAR Studies. Marine Drugs. 20(4). 265–265. 3 indexed citations

Cohen, Eyal, Micha Ilan, & Oded Yarden. (2021). The Culturable Mycobiome of Mesophotic Agelas oroides: Constituents and Changes Following Sponge Transplantation to Shallow Water. Journal of Fungi. 7(7). 567–567. 5 indexed citations

Keren, Ray, Adi Lavy, Boaz Mayzel, & Micha Ilan. (2015). Culturable associated-bacteria of the sponge Theonella swinhoei show tolerance to high arsenic concentrations. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 154–154. 21 indexed citations

Viktorsson, Kristina, Petra Hååg, Katarina Färnegårdh, et al.. (2014). Marine Sponge Cribrochalina vasculum Compounds Activate Intrinsic Apoptotic Signaling and Inhibit Growth Factor Signaling Cascades in Non–Small Cell Lung Carcinoma. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 13(12). 2941–2954. 11 indexed citations

Mayzel, Boaz, Joanna Aizenberg, & Micha Ilan. (2014). The Elemental Composition of Demospongiae from the Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e95775–e95775. 24 indexed citations

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Mayzel, Boaz, Markus Haber, & Micha Ilan. (2014). Chemical Defense Against Fouling in the Solitary Ascidian Phallusia nigra. Biological Bulletin. 227(3). 232–241. 9 indexed citations

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Wysokowski, Marcin, Vasilii V. Bazhenov, Mikhail V. Tsurkan, et al.. (2013). Isolation and identification of chitin in three-dimensional skeleton of Aplysina fistularis marine sponge. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 62. 94–100. 79 indexed citations

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Ehrlich, Hermann, Paul Simon, Mykhaylo Motylenko, et al.. (2013). Extreme Biomimetics: formation of zirconium dioxide nanophase using chitinous scaffolds under hydrothermal conditions. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 1(38). 5092–5092. 72 indexed citations

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Duarte, Ana Rita C., Joana Moreira‐Silva, Tiago H. Silva, et al.. (2012). Marine sponges as natural scaffolds : decellularization by supercritical fluid technology and cellularization with osteoblasts for tissue engineering applications. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. 6(1). 171–172. 2 indexed citations

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Belinky, Frida, Amir Szitenberg, Tamar Feldstein, et al.. (2012). ALG11 – A new variable DNA marker for sponge phylogeny: Comparison of phylogenetic performances with the 18S rDNA and the COI gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63(3). 702–713. 27 indexed citations

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Ilan, Micha, et al.. (2011). Comments on a skeleton design paradigm for a demosponge. Journal of Structural Biology. 175(3). 415–424. 10 indexed citations

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Haber, Markus, et al.. (2011). Marine-Based Cultivation of Diacarnus Sponges and the Bacterial Community Composition of Wild and Maricultured Sponges and Their Larvae. Marine Biotechnology. 13(6). 1169–1182. 26 indexed citations

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Paz, Zahi, Irina S. Druzhinina, M.M. Aveskamp, et al.. (2010). Diversity and potential antifungal properties of fungi associated with a Mediterranean sponge. Fungal Diversity. 42(1). 17–26. 94 indexed citations

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Belinky, Frida, Chagai Rot, Micha Ilan, & Dorothée Huchon. (2008). The complete mitochondrial genome of the demosponge Negombata magnifica (Poecilosclerida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47(3). 1238–1243. 15 indexed citations

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Steindler, Laura, Sven Beer, & Micha Ilan. (2002). Photosymbiosis in Intertidal and Subtidal Tropical Sponges. Symbiosis. 33(3). 263–273. 49 indexed citations

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Ilan, Micha, et al.. (1996). Progress towards cell cultures from a marine sponge that produces bioactive compounds. 4(3). 145–149. 40 indexed citations

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