Mor Nitzan

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Mor Nitzan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mor Nitzan has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mor Nitzan's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (12 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (9 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). Mor Nitzan is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (12 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (9 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). Mor Nitzan collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Mor Nitzan's co-authors include Nir Friedman, Hanah Margalit, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Nikos Karaiskos, Marc Timme, Shahar Arzy, Michael Peer, Netta Levin, Atira Bick and Sarah Hallerberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Mor Nitzan

33 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

  1. Mapping cells through time and space with moscot
    2025 24 citations Dominik Klein, Giovanni Palla et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mor Nitzan Israel 17 675 265 155 146 137 33 1.3k
Vahid Shahrezaei United Kingdom 24 1.9k 2.8× 92 0.3× 37 0.2× 46 0.3× 538 3.9× 56 2.3k
Jangir Selimkhanov United States 13 905 1.3× 46 0.2× 20 0.1× 103 0.7× 204 1.5× 19 1.5k
Peter Woolf United States 19 1.7k 2.5× 47 0.2× 58 0.4× 233 1.6× 195 1.4× 41 2.8k
Erel Levine United States 20 1.5k 2.2× 41 0.2× 17 0.1× 61 0.4× 384 2.8× 35 2.1k
Tomáš Gedeon United States 21 684 1.0× 141 0.5× 42 0.3× 36 0.2× 203 1.5× 107 1.4k
Aaron K. Wong United States 26 2.1k 3.1× 204 0.8× 49 0.3× 198 1.4× 1.2k 8.5× 47 3.4k
Andrew B. Goryachev United Kingdom 31 1.7k 2.5× 59 0.2× 10 0.1× 198 1.4× 243 1.8× 70 2.8k
Rajiv Narayan United States 11 830 1.2× 250 0.9× 31 0.2× 88 0.6× 32 0.2× 16 1.4k
Ney Lemke Brazil 19 877 1.3× 123 0.5× 13 0.1× 43 0.3× 122 0.9× 62 1.3k
Andrew Mugler United States 19 836 1.2× 83 0.3× 26 0.2× 22 0.2× 121 0.9× 60 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Mor Nitzan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mor Nitzan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mor Nitzan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mor Nitzan. The network helps show where Mor Nitzan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mor Nitzan

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

All Works

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Klein, Dominik, Giovanni Palla, Marius Lange, et al.. (2025). Mapping cells through time and space with moscot. Nature. 638(8052). 1065–1075. 24 indexed citations breakdown →
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Raveh, Barak, et al.. (2024). Interpreting single-cell and spatial omics data using deep neural network training dynamics. Nature Computational Science. 4(12). 941–954. 5 indexed citations
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Piran, Zoe, Niv Cohen, Yedid Hoshen, & Mor Nitzan. (2024). Disentanglement of single-cell data with biolord. Nature Biotechnology. 42(11). 1678–1683. 23 indexed citations
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Mages, Simon, Inbal Avraham‐Davidi, Evan Murray, et al.. (2023). TACCO unifies annotation transfer and decomposition of cell identities for single-cell and spatial omics. Nature Biotechnology. 41(10). 1465–1473. 28 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor, et al.. (2023). scPrisma infers, filters and enhances topological signals in single-cell data using spectral template matching. Nature Biotechnology. 41(11). 1645–1654. 7 indexed citations
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Friedman, Nir, et al.. (2021). NovoSpaRc: flexible spatial reconstruction of single-cell gene expression with optimal transport. Nature Protocols. 16(9). 4177–4200. 69 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor, et al.. (2021). Programming cell growth into different cluster shapes using diffusible signals. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(11). e1009576–e1009576. 5 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor & Michael P. Brenner. (2021). Revealing lineage-related signals in single-cell gene expression using random matrix theory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(11). 4 indexed citations
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Haralampiev, Ivan, Mor Nitzan, Matthias A. Schade, et al.. (2020). Selective flexible packaging pathways of the segmented genome of influenza A virus. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4355–4355. 28 indexed citations
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Forrow, Aden, et al.. (2019). Statistical optimal transport via factored couplings. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 3 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor, Nikos Karaiskos, Nir Friedman, & Nikolaus Rajewsky. (2019). Gene expression cartography. Nature. 576(7785). 132–137. 175 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor, Ruth Eliahou, Laurent Spinelli, et al.. (2018). Temporal Dissociation of Neocortical and Hippocampal Contributions to Mental Time Travel Using Intracranial Recordings in Humans. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 12. 11–11. 9 indexed citations
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Peer, Michael, Mor Nitzan, Atira Bick, Netta Levin, & Shahar Arzy. (2017). Evidence for Functional Networks within the Human Brain's White Matter. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(27). 6394–6407. 185 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor, et al.. (2017). Model-free inference of direct network interactions from nonlinear collective dynamics. Nature Communications. 8(1). 2192–2192. 105 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor, Eytan Katzav, Reimer Kühn, & Ofer Biham. (2016). Distance distribution in configuration-model networks. Physical review. E. 93(6). 62309–62309. 20 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor, et al.. (2016). Discriminative Learning of Infection Models. 563–572. 8 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor, Pierre Fechter, Asaf Peer, et al.. (2015). A defense-offense multi-layered regulatory switch in a pathogenic bacterium. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(3). 1357–1369. 20 indexed citations
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Zenvirth, Drora, Mor Nitzan, Hanah Margalit, et al.. (2015). Degradation of Ndd1 by APC/CCdh1 generates a feed forward loop that times mitotic protein accumulation. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7075–7075. 11 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor, Karen M. Wassarman, Ofer Biham, & Hanah Margalit. (2014). Global Regulation of Transcription by a Small RNA: A Quantitative View. Biophysical Journal. 106(5). 1205–1214. 5 indexed citations
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Nitzan, Mor, et al.. (2014). Interactions between Distant ceRNAs in Regulatory Networks. Biophysical Journal. 106(10). 2254–2266. 36 indexed citations

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