Or Zuk

14.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
38 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Or Zuk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Or Zuk has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Or Zuk's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (7 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (5 papers). Or Zuk is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (7 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (5 papers). Or Zuk collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Greece. Or Zuk's co-authors include Eric S. Lander, Aviv Regev, Manuel Garber, Shamil Sunyaev, Eliana Hechter, John L. Rinn, Maite Huarte, David M. Feldser, Ido Amit and Mitchell Guttman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Or Zuk

36 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Chromatin signature reveals over a thousand highly conserved large non-coding RNAs in mammals

2009 3.3k citations Mitchell Guttman, Ido Amit et al. profile →
A Large Intergenic Noncoding RNA Induced by p53 Mediates Global Gene Repression in the p53 Response

2010 1.7k citations Maite Huarte, Mitchell Guttman et al. Cell profile →
The mystery of missing heritability: Genetic interactions create phantom heritability

2012 1.0k citations Or Zuk, Eliana Hechter et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Thousands of samples are needed to generate a robust gene list for predicting outcome in cancer

2006 506 citations Liat Ein‐Dor, Or Zuk et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
A Composite of Multiple Signals Distinguishes Causal Variants in Regions of Positive Selection

2010 362 citations Manuel Garber, Or Zuk et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Or Zuk Israel	22	6.4k	4.7k	1.7k	595	440	38	8.9k
Zhenyu Xuan United States	36	7.7k 1.2×	4.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	392 0.7×	535 1.2×	85	9.4k
Igor Ulitsky Israel	48	9.5k 1.5×	6.6k 1.4×	587 0.3×	557 0.9×	321 0.7×	94	11.2k
Sylvain Foissac France	15	11.3k 1.8×	3.4k 0.7×	2.6k 1.5×	852 1.4×	550 1.3×	28	13.6k
Christina Backes Germany	46	5.4k 0.8×	4.1k 0.9×	527 0.3×	592 1.0×	280 0.6×	134	7.6k
Tim R. Mercer Australia	40	12.8k 2.0×	10.0k 2.1×	952 0.5×	571 1.0×	339 0.8×	80	15.1k
Philipp Kapranov United States	39	8.0k 1.3×	3.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	2.1k 3.6×	775 1.8×	94	11.2k
Erik van Nimwegen Switzerland	44	6.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	451 0.8×	471 1.1×	91	7.8k
Moran N. Cabili United States	14	7.1k 1.1×	5.8k 1.2×	608 0.3×	335 0.6×	163 0.4×	17	8.2k
Alistair R. R. Forrest Australia	45	6.0k 0.9×	2.3k 0.5×	698 0.4×	1.2k 2.0×	620 1.4×	125	7.8k
Runsheng Chen China	49	8.6k 1.3×	5.5k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	467 0.8×	434 1.0×	230	11.4k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dolinsky, Yan & Or Zuk. (2025). Explicit Computations for Delayed Semistatic Hedging. SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics. 16(1). 29–52.

Zuk, Or, et al.. (2023). A phase transition for the probability of being a maximum among random vectors with general iid coordinates. Statistics & Probability Letters. 199. 109847–109847.

Lencz, Todd, Daniel Backenroth, Einat Granot‐Hershkovitz, et al.. (2021). Utility of polygenic embryo screening for disease depends on the selection strategy. eLife. 10. 40 indexed citations

Stupp, Doron, et al.. (2021). Co-evolution based machine-learning for predicting functional interactions between human genes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6454–6454. 17 indexed citations

Hertzberg, Libi, Nicola Maggio, Assif Yitzhaky, et al.. (2020). Comprehensive Gene Expression Analysis Detects Global Reduction of Proteasome Subunits in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 47(3). 785–795. 14 indexed citations

Gal-Oz, Shani T., Bárbara Maier, Hideyuki Yoshida, et al.. (2019). ImmGen report: sexual dimorphism in the immune system transcriptome. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4295–4295. 158 indexed citations

Shay, Tal, Vladimir Jojic, Or Zuk, et al.. (2013). Conservation and divergence in the transcriptional programs of the human and mouse immune systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(8). 2946–2951. 253 indexed citations

Jojic, Vladimir, Tal Shay, Katelyn Sylvia, et al.. (2013). Identification of transcriptional regulators in the mouse immune system. Nature Immunology. 14(6). 633–643. 143 indexed citations

Zuk, Or, Eliana Hechter, Shamil Sunyaev, & Eric S. Lander. (2012). The mystery of missing heritability: Genetic interactions create phantom heritability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(4). 1193–1198. 1007 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zuk, Or, Liat Ein‐Dor, & Eytan Domany. (2012). Ranking Under Uncertainty.. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. 466–473. 1 indexed citations

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Amir, Amnon & Or Zuk. (2011). Bacterial Community Reconstruction Using Compressed Sensing. Journal of Computational Biology. 18(11). 1723–1741. 21 indexed citations

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Huarte, Maite, Mitchell Guttman, David M. Feldser, et al.. (2010). A Large Intergenic Noncoding RNA Induced by p53 Mediates Global Gene Repression in the p53 Response. Cell. 142(3). 409–419. 1688 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shental, Noam, Ariel Amir, & Or Zuk. (2010). Identification of rare alleles and their carriers using compressed se(que)nsing. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(19). e179–e179. 34 indexed citations

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Goren, Alon, Fatih Ozsolak, Noam Shoresh, et al.. (2009). Chromatin profiling by directly sequencing small quantities of immunoprecipitated DNA. Nature Methods. 7(1). 47–49. 89 indexed citations

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Tabach, Yuval, Ran Brosh, Anat Reiner‐Benaim, et al.. (2007). Wide-Scale Analysis of Human Functional Transcription Factor Binding Reveals a Strong Bias towards the Transcription Start Site. PLoS ONE. 2(8). e807–e807. 49 indexed citations

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Zuk, Or. (2006). The Relative Entropy Rate For Two Hidden Markov Processes. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

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Zuk, Or, et al.. (2006). On the number of samples needed to learn the correct structure of a Bayesian network. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. 560–567. 13 indexed citations

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Zuk, Or, Eytan Domany, Ido Kanter, & Michael Aizenman. (2006). From Finite-System Entropy to Entropy Rate for a Hidden Markov Process. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 13(9). 517–520. 13 indexed citations

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Tsafrir, Dafna, et al.. (2005). Sorting points into neighborhoods (SPIN): data analysis and visualization by ordering distance matrices. Computer applications in the biosciences. 21(10). 2301–2308. 113 indexed citations

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Tabach, Yuval, Michael Milyavsky, Igor Shats, et al.. (2005). The promoters of human cell cycle genes integrate signals from two tumor suppressive pathways during cellular transformation. Molecular Systems Biology. 1(1). 2005.0022–2005.0022. 64 indexed citations

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