Nir Paran

4.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Nir Paran is a scholar working on Virology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Nir Paran has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Virology, 25 papers in Epidemiology and 23 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Nir Paran's work include Poxvirus research and outbreaks (24 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (17 papers) and Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (14 papers). Nir Paran is often cited by papers focused on Poxvirus research and outbreaks (24 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (17 papers) and Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (14 papers). Nir Paran collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Japan. Nir Paran's co-authors include Sharon Melamed, Tomer Israely, Hadas Tamir, Yfat Yahalom-Ronen, Ofir Israeli, Hagit Achdout, Shay Weiss, Yosef Shaul, Noam Erez and Adi Beth-Din 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

Nir Paran

57 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

The coding capacity of SARS-CoV-2 2019 2026 2021 2023 2020 2019 2021 100 200 300
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. The coding capacity of SARS-CoV-2
    2020 382 citations Yaara Finkel, Orel Mizrahi et al. Nature profile →
  2. Diagnosis of Imported Monkeypox, Israel, 2018
    2019 302 citations Noam Erez, Hagit Achdout et al. Emerging infectious diseases profile →
  3. SARS-CoV-2 uses a multipronged strategy to impede host protein synthesis
    2021 160 citations Yaara Finkel, Aharon Nachshon 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
Nir Paran Israel 24 962 772 768 659 308 58 2.0k
Sharon Melamed Israel 16 609 0.6× 534 0.7× 504 0.7× 520 0.8× 173 0.6× 35 1.3k
Zhi Hong United States 22 815 0.8× 921 1.2× 996 1.3× 309 0.5× 157 0.5× 34 2.6k
Ruben M. Markosyan United States 19 585 0.6× 624 0.8× 549 0.7× 797 1.2× 517 1.7× 24 1.7k
Shay Weiss Israel 16 863 0.9× 521 0.7× 333 0.4× 349 0.5× 199 0.6× 53 1.5k
Jing Jin United States 24 691 0.7× 630 0.8× 839 1.1× 555 0.8× 479 1.6× 65 2.3k
William R. Gallaher United States 19 728 0.8× 792 1.0× 577 0.8× 751 1.1× 384 1.2× 36 2.0k
Eleftherios Michailidis United States 24 691 0.7× 1.2k 1.5× 726 0.9× 531 0.8× 252 0.8× 46 2.1k
Karin J. Metzner Switzerland 27 640 0.7× 1.2k 1.6× 365 0.5× 1.5k 2.2× 311 1.0× 102 2.3k
Carol D. Weiss United States 27 669 0.7× 1.2k 1.6× 775 1.0× 1.6k 2.4× 756 2.5× 65 2.6k
Dennis M. Lambert United States 15 640 0.7× 1.2k 1.5× 616 0.8× 1.3k 1.9× 383 1.2× 27 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Nir Paran

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nir Paran

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nir Paran

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wirblich, Christoph, et al.. (2024). Toward the Development of a Pan-Lyssavirus Vaccine. Viruses. 16(7). 1107–1107. 2 indexed citations
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Avraham, Roy, Hagit Achdout, Noam Erez, et al.. (2023). Antiviral activity of glucosylceramide synthase inhibitors in alphavirus infection of the central nervous system. Brain Communications. 5(3). fcad086–fcad086. 6 indexed citations
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Cohen, Dani, Marina Izak, Evgeniy Stoyanov, et al.. (2023). Predictors of reinfection with pre-Omicron and Omicron variants of concern among individuals who recovered from COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 132. 72–79. 9 indexed citations
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Yahalom-Ronen, Yfat, Hadas Tamir, Sharon Melamed, et al.. (2023). VSV-ΔG-Spike Candidate Vaccine Induces Protective Immunity and Protects K18-hACE2 Mice against SARS-CoV-2 Variants. Viruses. 15(6). 1364–1364. 2 indexed citations
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Fisher, Tal, Krishna Narayanan, Makoto Kuroda, et al.. (2022). Parsing the role of NSP1 in SARS-CoV-2 infection. Cell Reports. 39(11). 110954–110954. 43 indexed citations
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Israeli, Ofir, Ohad Shifman, Shirley Lazar, et al.. (2022). Rapid Amplicon Nanopore Sequencing (RANS) for the Differential Diagnosis of Monkeypox Virus and Other Vesicle-Forming Pathogens. Viruses. 14(8). 1817–1817. 15 indexed citations
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Elia, Uri, Srinivas Ramishetti, Ronit Rosenfeld, et al.. (2021). Design of SARS-CoV-2 hFc-Conjugated Receptor-Binding Domain mRNA Vaccine Delivered via Lipid Nanoparticles. ACS Nano. 15(6). 9627–9637. 84 indexed citations
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Finkel, Yaara, Aharon Nachshon, Roni Winkler, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 uses a multipronged strategy to impede host protein synthesis. Nature. 594(7862). 240–245. 160 indexed citations breakdown →
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Finkel, Yaara, Orel Mizrahi, Aharon Nachshon, et al.. (2020). The coding capacity of SARS-CoV-2. Nature. 589(7840). 125–130. 382 indexed citations breakdown →
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Erez, Noam, Hagit Achdout, Elad Milrot, et al.. (2019). Diagnosis of Imported Monkeypox, Israel, 2018. Emerging infectious diseases. 25(5). 980–983. 302 indexed citations breakdown →
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Achdout, Hagit, Shlomo Lustig, Tomer Israely, et al.. (2017). Induction, treatment and prevention of eczema vaccinatum in atopic dermatitis mouse models. Vaccine. 35(33). 4245–4254. 9 indexed citations
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Israely, Tomer, Sharon Melamed, Hagit Achdout, et al.. (2014). TLR3 and TLR9 Agonists Improve Postexposure Vaccination Efficacy of Live Smallpox Vaccines. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e110545–e110545. 15 indexed citations
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Bengali, Zain, Panayampalli S. Satheshkumar, Zhilong Yang, et al.. (2011). Drosophila S2 Cells Are Non-Permissive for Vaccinia Virus DNA Replication Following Entry via Low pH-Dependent Endocytosis and Early Transcription. PLoS ONE. 6(2). e17248–e17248. 24 indexed citations
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Levy, Orly, Nir Paran, Avi Keysary, et al.. (2010). Establishment of cell-based reporter system for diagnosis of poxvirus infection. Journal of Virological Methods. 167(1). 23–30. 8 indexed citations
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Eyal, Osnat, Udy Olshevsky, Shlomo Lustig, et al.. (2005). Development of a tissue-culture-based enzyme-immunoassay method for the quantitation of anti-vaccinia-neutralizing antibodies in human sera. Journal of Virological Methods. 130(1-2). 15–21. 16 indexed citations
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Cooper, Arik, Nir Paran, & Yosef Shaul. (2003). The earliest steps in hepatitis B virus infection. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1614(1). 89–96. 26 indexed citations
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Paran, Nir, Arik Cooper, & Yosef Shaul. (2003). Interaction of hepatitis B virus with cells. Reviews in Medical Virology. 13(3). 137–143. 12 indexed citations

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