Ofer Biham

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Ofer Biham is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ofer Biham has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 44 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 39 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ofer Biham's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (25 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (25 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (20 papers). Ofer Biham is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (25 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (25 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (20 papers). Ofer Biham collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Ofer Biham's co-authors include Ofer Malcai, Daniel A. Lidar, A. Alan Middleton, Dov Levine, Gianfranco Vidali, David Avnir, Adiel Loinger, Azi Lipshtat, Yishai Shimoni and Nathalie Q. Balaban and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ofer Biham

125 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Self-organization and a d... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 100 200 300 400 500
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. Self-organization and a dynamical transition in traffic-flow models
    1992 580 citations Ofer Biham et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ofer Biham 1.1k 1.0k 865 747 510 127 4.9k
Mogens H. Jensen 940 0.8× 1.3k 1.3× 2.1k 2.4× 1.6k 2.2× 136 0.3× 196 6.5k
Yves Pomeau 2.4k 2.1× 893 0.9× 4.4k 5.1× 2.7k 3.6× 358 0.7× 256 15.3k
Kurt E. Shuler 1.8k 1.6× 616 0.6× 1.6k 1.8× 341 0.5× 411 0.8× 102 7.6k
W. Ebeling 3.9k 3.4× 1.3k 1.3× 2.9k 3.3× 1.6k 2.1× 471 0.9× 409 9.4k
Norman H. Packard 225 0.2× 1.3k 1.3× 2.3k 2.6× 471 0.6× 1.3k 2.5× 77 7.0k
Andrea L. Bertozzi 208 0.2× 701 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 696 0.9× 634 1.2× 279 11.9k
Stephen Wiggins 1.8k 1.6× 813 0.8× 7.9k 9.1× 607 0.8× 395 0.8× 222 14.3k
Charles R. Doering 869 0.8× 799 0.8× 2.7k 3.1× 1.1k 1.4× 90 0.2× 161 7.0k
P. L. Krapivsky 688 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 4.4k 5.1× 2.5k 3.3× 270 0.5× 264 8.1k
Yuri A. Kuznetsov 780 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 4.5k 5.3× 267 0.4× 320 0.6× 254 14.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ofer Biham

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ofer Biham

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ofer Biham. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ofer Biham 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 Ofer Biham. Ofer Biham 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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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2025). The joint distribution of first return times and of the number of distinct sites visited by a 1D random walk before returning to the origin. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2025(1). 13203–13203.
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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2025). Phase transition in evolving networks that combine preferential attachment and random node deletion. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2025(1). 13401–13401. 1 indexed citations
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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2023). Distribution of the number of cycles in directed and undirected random regular graphs of degree 2. Physical review. E. 107(2). 24308–24308.
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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2023). Distribution of shortest path lengths on trees of a given size in subcritical Erdős-Rényi networks. Physical review. E. 108(4). 1 indexed citations
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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2022). The mean and variance of the distribution of shortest path lengths of random regular graphs. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 55(26). 265005–265005. 5 indexed citations
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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2022). Structure of networks that evolve under a combination of growth and contraction. Physical review. E. 106(4). 44305–44305. 4 indexed citations
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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2021). Analytical results for the distribution of cover times of random walks on random regular graphs. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 55(1). 15003–15003. 5 indexed citations
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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2021). Fate of articulation points and bredges in percolation. Physical review. E. 103(4). 42302–42302. 3 indexed citations
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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2021). Analytical results for the distribution of first return times of random walks on random regular graphs. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 54(32). 325001–325001. 8 indexed citations
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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2020). Statistical analysis of edges and bredges in configuration model networks. Physical review. E. 102(1). 12314–12314. 4 indexed citations
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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (2018). Revealing the microstructure of the giant component in random graph ensembles. Physical review. E. 97(4). 42318–42318. 19 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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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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Loinger, Adiel, Irine Ronin, Irit Levin-Reisman, et al.. (2010). Regulation of phenotypic variability by a threshold-based mechanism underlies bacterial persistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(28). 12541–12546. 270 indexed citations
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Petit, Franck Le, Baruch Barzel, Ofer Biham, E. Roueff, & J. Le Bourlot. (2009). Incorporation of stochastic chemistry on dust grains \n in the Meudon PDR code using moment equations. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 21 indexed citations
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Krug, Joachim, et al.. (2009). Accurate rate coefficients for models of interstellar gas-grain chemistry. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 14 indexed citations
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Shimoni, Yishai, Shoshy Altuvia, Hanah Margalit, & Ofer Biham. (2009). Stochastic Analysis of the SOS Response in Escherichia coli. PLoS ONE. 4(5). e5363–e5363. 39 indexed citations
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Lipshtat, Azi & Ofer Biham. (2003). Moment equations for chemical reactions on interstellar dust grains. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 400(2). 585–593. 25 indexed citations
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Biham, Eli, Ofer Biham, David Biron, Markus Grassl, & Daniel A. Lidar. (1998). Exact Solution of Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm for Arbitrary Initial Amplitude Distribution. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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