Orna Dahan

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Orna Dahan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Orna Dahan has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Orna Dahan's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (12 papers). Orna Dahan is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (12 papers). Orna Dahan collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and France. Orna Dahan's co-authors include Yitzhak Pilpel, Avihu H. Yona, Martin Kupiec, Amir Mitchell, Bella Groisman, Yuval Dorfan, Tao Pan, Tamir Tuller, John M. Zaborske and Hila Gingold and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Orna Dahan

26 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

An Evolutionarily Conserved Mechanism for Controlling the... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 200 400 600
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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. An Evolutionarily Conserved Mechanism for Controlling the Efficiency of Protein Translation
    2010 633 citations Tamir Tuller, Yuval Dorfan et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Orna Dahan Israel 20 2.0k 472 234 145 111 29 2.3k
Ilan Wapinski United States 15 1.6k 0.8× 522 1.1× 337 1.4× 237 1.6× 88 0.8× 38 2.0k
Song Sun United States 23 1.5k 0.7× 435 0.9× 265 1.1× 91 0.6× 169 1.5× 37 2.6k
Rasmus Wernersson Denmark 15 1.1k 0.6× 264 0.6× 204 0.9× 137 0.9× 110 1.0× 27 1.6k
Stephen M. J. Searle United Kingdom 11 1.5k 0.8× 371 0.8× 391 1.7× 160 1.1× 85 0.8× 12 2.1k
Gregory Von Kuster United States 6 1.2k 0.6× 327 0.7× 275 1.2× 276 1.9× 165 1.5× 6 1.9k
Daniel Barrell United Kingdom 12 1.6k 0.8× 230 0.5× 255 1.1× 103 0.7× 108 1.0× 14 2.1k
A. N. Fedorov Russia 24 1.9k 1.0× 322 0.7× 330 1.4× 186 1.3× 167 1.5× 93 2.4k
Anne‐Ruxandra Carvunis United States 17 1.6k 0.8× 344 0.7× 254 1.1× 122 0.8× 110 1.0× 35 1.9k
Enrique Viguera Spain 17 1.2k 0.6× 571 1.2× 229 1.0× 192 1.3× 158 1.4× 27 1.7k
Sasha F. Levy United States 22 1.4k 0.7× 795 1.7× 172 0.7× 116 0.8× 195 1.8× 34 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Orna Dahan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Orna Dahan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Orna Dahan

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

All Works

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Elias, Elwyn, Nadav Sorek, Sharon Ovnat Tamir, et al.. (2025). A-to-I mRNA editing in bacteria can affect protein sequence, disulfide bond formation, and function. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(12).
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Dahan, Orna, et al.. (2024). The evolutionary safety of mutagenic drugs should be assessed before drug approval. PLoS Biology. 22(3). e3002570–e3002570.
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Dahan, Orna, et al.. (2024). Cell-autonomous adaptation: an overlooked avenue of adaptation in human evolution. Trends in Genetics. 41(1). 12–22.
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Zande, Pétra Vande, Anna Selmecki, Orna Dahan, et al.. (2024). Aneuploidy Can Be an Evolutionary Diversion on the Path to Adaptation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(3). 4 indexed citations
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Rak, Roni, Michal Polonsky, Yuriko Sakaguchi, et al.. (2021). Dynamic changes in tRNA modifications and abundance during T cell activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(42). 36 indexed citations
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Yakhini, Zohar, et al.. (2021). A broad analysis of splicing regulation in yeast using a large library of synthetic introns. PLoS Genetics. 17(9). e1009805–e1009805. 18 indexed citations
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Mordret, Ernest, Orna Dahan, Omer Asraf, et al.. (2019). Systematic Detection of Amino Acid Substitutions in Proteomes Reveals Mechanistic Basis of Ribosome Errors and Selection for Translation Fidelity. Molecular Cell. 75(3). 427–441.e5. 84 indexed citations
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Dahan, Orna, et al.. (2019). Harnessing robotic automation and web-based technologies to modernize scientific outreach. PLoS Biology. 17(6). e3000348–e3000348. 1 indexed citations
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Bar-Yaacov, Dan, et al.. (2017). RNA editing in bacteria recodes multiple proteins and regulates an evolutionarily conserved toxin-antitoxin system. Genome Research. 27(10). 1696–1703. 56 indexed citations
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Sagi, Dror, Roni Rak, Hila Gingold, et al.. (2016). Tissue- and Time-Specific Expression of Otherwise Identical tRNA Genes. PLoS Genetics. 12(8). e1006264–e1006264. 48 indexed citations
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Bloom‐Ackermann, Zohar, et al.. (2014). A Comprehensive tRNA Deletion Library Unravels the Genetic Architecture of the tRNA Pool. PLoS Genetics. 10(1). e1004084–e1004084. 66 indexed citations
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Shalem, Ophir, Lucas B. Carey, Danny Zeevi, et al.. (2013). Measurements of the Impact of 3′ End Sequences on Gene Expression Reveal Wide Range and Sequence Dependent Effects. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(3). e1002934–e1002934. 22 indexed citations
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Gingold, Hila, Orna Dahan, & Yitzhak Pilpel. (2012). Dynamic changes in translational efficiency are deduced from codon usage of the transcriptome. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(20). 10053–10063. 48 indexed citations
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Shalem, Ophir, Bella Groisman, Mordechai Choder, Orna Dahan, & Yitzhak Pilpel. (2011). Transcriptome Kinetics Is Governed by a Genome-Wide Coupling of mRNA Production and Degradation: A Role for RNA Pol II. PLoS Genetics. 7(9). e1002273–e1002273. 70 indexed citations
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Dahan, Orna, Hila Gingold, & Yitzhak Pilpel. (2011). Regulatory mechanisms and networks couple the different phases of gene expression. Trends in Genetics. 27(8). 316–322. 68 indexed citations
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Tuller, Tamir, Yuval Dorfan, John M. Zaborske, et al.. (2010). An Evolutionarily Conserved Mechanism for Controlling the Efficiency of Protein Translation. Cell. 141(2). 344–354. 633 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mitchell, Amir, Bella Groisman, Avihu H. Yona, et al.. (2009). Adaptive prediction of environmental changes by microorganisms. Nature. 460(7252). 220–224. 405 indexed citations
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Dahan, Orna. (2004). The Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene CDC40/PRP17 controls cell cycle progression through splicing of the ANC1 gene. Nucleic Acids Research. 32(8). 2529–2540. 35 indexed citations
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