Ran Blekhman

13.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
68 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Ran Blekhman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Blekhman has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Physiology and 13 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Ran Blekhman's work include Gut microbiota and health (44 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (14 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (12 papers). Ran Blekhman is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (44 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (14 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (12 papers). Ran Blekhman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Czechia. Ran Blekhman's co-authors include Andrew G. Clark, Jordana T. Bell, Julia K. Goodrich, Timothy D. Spector, Ruth E. Ley, Rob Knight, William Van Treuren, Jessica L. Sutter, Michelle Beaumont and Angela C. Poole and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Ran Blekhman

65 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Human Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome

2014 2.2k citations Ran Blekhman et al. Cell profile →
Host genetic variation impacts microbiome composition across human body sites

2015 514 citations Ran Blekhman et al. profile →
Social networks predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons

2015 355 citations Jenny Tung, Luis B. Barreiro et al. eLife profile →
Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome

2025 24 citations Richard J. Abdill, Vincent Rubinetti et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ran Blekhman United States	34	4.8k	1.2k	1.1k	1.1k	523	68	6.5k
Timothy D. Spector United Kingdom	29	3.9k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	908 0.9×	692 0.7×	366 0.7×	39	6.2k
Timothy L. Tickle United States	14	3.9k 0.8×	850 0.7×	783 0.7×	967 0.9×	610 1.2×	21	5.3k
Marco Severgnini Italy	39	4.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	601 0.6×	975 0.9×	841 1.6×	107	6.3k
Alexander V. Alekseyenko United States	33	4.8k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	930 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	500 1.0×	101	8.4k
Ilseung Cho United States	15	3.9k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	518 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	550 1.1×	29	5.8k
Raúl Y. Tito United States	29	3.6k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	607 0.6×	821 0.8×	512 1.0×	52	5.3k
Ron Sender Israel	9	3.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	445 0.4×	981 0.9×	571 1.1×	10	5.4k
Felix Sommer Germany	21	3.8k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	536 0.5×	933 0.9×	657 1.3×	40	5.8k
Gianluca De Bellis Italy	38	4.3k 0.9×	741 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	517 0.5×	590 1.1×	149	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Ran Blekhman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ran Blekhman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Blekhman

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

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Abdill, Richard J., Vincent Rubinetti, Daniel McDonald, et al.. (2025). Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome. Cell. 188(4). 1100–1118.e17. 24 indexed citations breakdown →

Ward, Zoë, Dominic A. Travis, Jonathan B. Clayton, et al.. (2025). Cardiometabolic disease risk in gorillas is associated with altered gut microbial metabolism. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 11(1). 33–33. 1 indexed citations

Ferretti, Pamela, Kelsey E. Johnson, Sambhawa Priya, & Ran Blekhman. (2025). Genomics of host–microbiome interactions in humans. Nature Reviews Genetics. 27(1). 62–80. 1 indexed citations

Ferretti, Pamela, Kelsey E. Johnson, Marco Rossi, et al.. (2025). Assembly of the infant gut microbiome and resistome are linked to bacterial strains in mother’s milk. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11536–11536.

Blekhman, Ran, et al.. (2024). Multi-omic approaches for host-microbiome data integration. Gut Microbes. 16(1). 2297860–2297860. 47 indexed citations

Johnson, Kelsey E., Nelmary Hernandez-Alvarado, Mark Blackstad, et al.. (2024). Human cytomegalovirus in breast milk is associated with milk composition and the infant gut microbiome and growth. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6216–6216. 3 indexed citations

Grieneisen, Laura, Allison G. Hays, Erica Cook, Ran Blekhman, & Stacey R. Tecot. (2024). Temporal patterns of gut microbiota in lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer) living in intact and disturbed habitats in a novel sample type. American Journal of Primatology. 87(1). e23656–e23656.

Roche, Kimberly, Johannes R. Björk, Mauna Dasari, et al.. (2023). Universal gut microbial relationships in the gut microbiome of wild baboons. eLife. 12. 12 indexed citations

Veseli, Iva, Matthew S. Schechter, Chiara Vanni, et al.. (2023). Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stress. eLife. 12. 8 indexed citations

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Grieneisen, Laura, Ran Blekhman, & Elizabeth A. Archie. (2023). How longitudinal data can contribute to our understanding of host genetic effects on the gut microbiome. Gut Microbes. 15(1). 2178797–2178797. 8 indexed citations

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Priya, Sambhawa, Michael B. Burns, Tonya Ward, et al.. (2022). Identification of shared and disease-specific host gene–microbiome associations across human diseases using multi-omic integration. Nature Microbiology. 7(6). 780–795. 94 indexed citations

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Muehlbauer, Amanda L., Allison L. Richards, Adnan Alazizi, et al.. (2021). Interspecies variation in hominid gut microbiota controls host gene regulation. Cell Reports. 37(8). 110057–110057. 10 indexed citations

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Abdill, Richard J., Elizabeth M. Adamowicz, & Ran Blekhman. (2020). International authorship and collaboration across bioRxiv preprints. eLife. 9. 19 indexed citations

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Abdill, Richard J. & Ran Blekhman. (2019). Tracking the popularity and outcomes of all bioRxiv preprints. eLife. 8. 100 indexed citations

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Sharma, Ashok, Barbora Pafčo, Klára Vlčková, et al.. (2019). Mapping gastrointestinal gene expression patterns in wild primates and humans via fecal RNA-seq. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 493–493. 8 indexed citations

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Devoto, Audra E., Joanne M. Santini, Matthew R. Olm, et al.. (2019). Megaphages infect Prevotella and variants are widespread in gut microbiomes. Nature Microbiology. 4(4). 693–700. 134 indexed citations

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Clark, Christopher, Patrick Blaney, Sambhawa Priya, et al.. (2018). Transposon mutagenesis screen in mice identifies TM9SF2 as a novel colorectal cancer oncogene. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 15327–15327. 23 indexed citations

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Lynch, Joshua, Karen Tang, Sambhawa Priya, et al.. (2017). HOMINID: a framework for identifying associations between host genetic variation and microbiome composition. GigaScience. 6(12). 1–7. 18 indexed citations

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Richards, Allison L., Michael B. Burns, Adnan Alazizi, et al.. (2016). Genetic and Transcriptional Analysis of Human Host Response to Healthy Gut Microbiota. mSystems. 1(4). 35 indexed citations

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Tung, Jenny, Luis B. Barreiro, Michael B. Burns, et al.. (2015). Social networks predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons. eLife. 4. 355 indexed citations breakdown →

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