Nir Ben‐Tal

22.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
186 papers, 15.7k citations indexed

About

Nir Ben‐Tal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nir Ben‐Tal has authored 186 papers receiving a total of 15.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Materials Chemistry and 19 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Nir Ben‐Tal's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (67 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (36 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (35 papers). Nir Ben‐Tal is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (67 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (36 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (35 papers). Nir Ben‐Tal collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Türkiye. Nir Ben‐Tal's co-authors include Tal Pupko, Eric Martz, Haim Ashkenazy, Itay Mayrose, Fabian Glaser, Barry Honig, Shiran Abadi, Elona Erez, Sarel J. Fleishman and Amit Kessel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Nir Ben‐Tal

184 papers receiving 15.5k 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.

ConSurf 2016: an improved methodology to estimate and visualize evolutionary conservation in macromolecules

2016 2.2k citations Haim Ashkenazy, Shiran Abadi et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
ConSurf 2010: calculating evolutionary conservation in sequence and structure of proteins and nucleic acids

2010 1.5k citations Haim Ashkenazy, Eric Martz et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
ConSurf 2005: the projection of evolutionary conservation scores of residues on protein structures

2005 1.1k citations Itay Mayrose, Eric Martz et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
ConSurf: Identification of Functional Regions in Proteinsby Surface-Mapping of Phylogenetic Information

2002 993 citations Tal Pupko, Eric Martz et al. profile →
PredictProtein—an open resource for online prediction of protein structural and functional features

2014 455 citations Haim Ashkenazy, Nir Ben‐Tal et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a “face‐lifted” ConSurf

2023 186 citations Elon Yariv, Amit Kessel et al. Protein Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nir Ben‐Tal Israel	57	11.8k	1.8k	1.8k	1.3k	978	186	15.7k
James U. Bowie United States	62	13.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	2.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	822 0.8×	157	17.4k
Rolf Boelens Netherlands	64	13.2k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	2.6k 1.5×	883 0.7×	888 0.9×	318	17.1k
Nikolaus Grigorieff United States	64	12.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	581 0.6×	134	18.6k
Nathan Baker United States	42	10.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	2.2k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	748 0.8×	114	15.4k
Todd O. Yeates United States	67	17.9k 1.5×	1.7k 0.9×	3.6k 2.0×	1.0k 0.8×	578 0.6×	199	21.7k
B.A. Wallace United Kingdom	61	13.1k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	918 0.7×	669 0.7×	253	17.8k
Elizabeth Villa United States	39	14.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	3.1k 1.7×	1.7k 1.2×	883 0.9×	83	20.5k
Sunhwan Jo United States	34	12.6k 1.1×	999 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	916 0.9×	69	17.0k
Guang Zhu Hong Kong	32	13.7k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	3.1k 1.8×	1.9k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	125	18.4k
Geerten W. Vuister Netherlands	46	15.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	3.8k 2.2×	2.0k 1.5×	1.1k 1.2×	120	20.2k

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Frenkel‐Pinter, Moran, et al.. (2025). A building blocks perspective on protein emergence and evolution. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 91. 102996–102996. 2 indexed citations

Kolodny, Rachel, et al.. (2025). Interpretable prediction of zinc ion location in proteins with ZincSight. Protein Science. 34(11). e70350–e70350.

Kolodny, Rachel, et al.. (2024). Reused Protein Segments Linked to Functional Dynamics. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(9). 2 indexed citations

Ben‐Tal, Nir, et al.. (2023). Computational analysis of long-range allosteric communications in CFTR. eLife. 12. 7 indexed citations

Masrati, Gal, Amit Kessel, & Nir Ben‐Tal. (2023). Cation/proton antiporters: novel structure-driven pharmaceutical opportunities. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. 44(5). 258–262. 1 indexed citations

Ben‐Tal, Nir, et al.. (2023). Computational analysis of long-range allosteric communications in CFTR. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations

Masrati, Gal, et al.. (2022). Allosteric links between the hydrophilic N‐terminus and transmembrane core of human Na ⁺ /H ⁺ antiporter NHA2. Protein Science. 31(12). e4460–e4460. 4 indexed citations

Ben‐Tal, Nir, et al.. (2022). Similar protein segments shared between domains of different evolutionary lineages. Protein Science. 31(9). e4407–e4407. 16 indexed citations

Shelef, Omri, Sara Gutkin, Michal Mandelboim, et al.. (2022). Ultrasensitive chemiluminescent neuraminidase probe for rapid screening and identification of small-molecules with antiviral activity against influenza A virus in mammalian cells. Chemical Science. 13(42). 12348–12357. 29 indexed citations

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Kolodny, Rachel, Sergey Nepomnyachiy, Dan S. Tawfik, & Nir Ben‐Tal. (2021). Bridging Themes: Short Protein Segments Found in Different Architectures. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(6). 2191–2208. 41 indexed citations

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Caspy, Ido, et al.. (2021). Dimeric and high-resolution structures of Chlamydomonas Photosystem I from a temperature-sensitive Photosystem II mutant. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1380–1380. 13 indexed citations

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Pereira, Joana, et al.. (2021). Gram-negative outer-membrane proteins with multiple β-barrel domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(31). 10 indexed citations

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Masrati, Gal, Ramakanta Mondal, Abraham Rimon, et al.. (2020). An angular motion of a conserved four-helix bundle facilitates alternating access transport in the TtNapA and EcNhaA transporters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(50). 31850–31860. 8 indexed citations

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Longo, Liam M., et al.. (2020). On the emergence of P-Loop NTPase and Rossmann enzymes from a Beta-Alpha-Beta ancestral fragment. eLife. 9. 64 indexed citations

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Masrati, Gal, et al.. (2019). ConSurf‐DB: An accessible repository for the evolutionary conservation patterns of the majority of PDB proteins. Protein Science. 29(1). 258–267. 137 indexed citations

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Masrati, Gal, Manish Dwivedi, Abraham Rimon, et al.. (2018). Broad phylogenetic analysis of cation/proton antiporters reveals transport determinants. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4205–4205. 65 indexed citations

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Nepomnyachiy, Sergey, Nir Ben‐Tal, & Rachel Kolodny. (2017). Complex evolutionary footprints revealed in an analysis of reused protein segments of diverse lengths. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(44). 11703–11708. 58 indexed citations

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Zhu, Wenjun, Yonatan Gur, Anna Minz‐Dub, et al.. (2017). BcXYG1, a Secreted Xyloglucanase from Botrytis cinerea, Triggers Both Cell Death and Plant Immune Responses. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 175(1). 438–456. 88 indexed citations

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Ashkenazy, Haim, Shiran Abadi, Eric Martz, et al.. (2016). ConSurf 2016: an improved methodology to estimate and visualize evolutionary conservation in macromolecules. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(W1). W344–W350. 2170 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shental-Bechor, Dalit, Tsafi Danieli, Yoav I. Henis, & Nir Ben‐Tal. (2002). Long-range effects on the binding of the influenza HA to receptors are mediated by changes in the stability of a metastable HA conformation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1565(1). 81–90. 6 indexed citations

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