Ron Milo

49.2k total citations · 19 hit papers
136 papers, 31.0k citations indexed

About

Ron Milo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Ron Milo has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 31.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Ron Milo's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (42 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (24 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (15 papers). Ron Milo is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (42 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (24 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (15 papers). Ron Milo collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Ron Milo's co-authors include Uri Alon, Ron Sender, Shai Fuchs, Shai S. Shen-Orr, Yinon M. Bar‐On, Shalev Itzkovitz, Nadav Kashtan, Rob Phillips, Εlad Noor and Arren Bar‐Even and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Ron Milo

133 papers receiving 30.3k citations

Hit Papers

Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2016 2002 2018 2016 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks
    2002 4.7k citations Ron Milo, Shai S. Shen-Orr et al. Science profile →
  2. Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body
    2016 3.3k citations Ron Sender, Ron Milo et al. profile →
  3. Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli
    2002 2.0k citations Shai S. Shen-Orr, Ron Milo et al. profile →
  4. The biomass distribution on Earth
    2018 1.9k citations Yinon M. Bar‐On, Rob Phillips et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Are We Really Vastly Outnumbered? Revisiting the Ratio of Bacterial to Host Cells in Humans
    2016 1.4k citations Ron Sender, Ron Milo et al. profile →
  6. Superfamilies of Evolved and Designed Networks
    2004 962 citations Ron Milo, Shalev Itzkovitz et al. Science profile →
  7. The Moderately Efficient Enzyme: Evolutionary and Physicochemical Trends Shaping Enzyme Parameters
    2011 729 citations Arren Bar‐Even, Εlad Noor et al. profile →
  8. BioNumbers—the database of key numbers in molecular and cell biology
    2009 725 citations Ron Milo, Uri Moran et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  9. Protection of BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster against Covid-19 in Israel
    2021 708 citations Yinon M. Bar‐On, Yair Goldberg et al. profile →
  10. SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers
    2020 684 citations Yinon M. Bar‐On, Avi I. Flamholz et al. eLife profile →
  11. Cell-to-cell spread of HIV permits ongoing replication despite antiretroviral therapy
    2011 418 citations Alex Sigal, Ron Milo et al. profile →
  12. What is the total number of protein molecules per cell volume? A call to rethink some published values
    2013 416 citations Ron Milo profile →
  13. Conversion of Escherichia coli to Generate All Biomass Carbon from CO2
    2019 370 citations Shmuel Gleizer, Yinon M. Bar‐On et al. profile →
  14. Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass
    2020 369 citations Yinon M. Bar‐On, Ron Milo et al. profile →
  15. Protection and Waning of Natural and Hybrid Immunity to SARS-CoV-2
    2022 263 citations Yair Goldberg, Micha Mandel et al. profile →
  16. The distribution of cellular turnover in the human body
    2021 220 citations Ron Sender, Ron Milo profile →
  17. The total mass, number, and distribution of immune cells in the human body
    2023 123 citations Ron Sender, Εlad Noor et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  18. Estimating disease severity of Omicron and Delta SARS-CoV-2 infections
    2022 120 citations Alex Sigal, Ron Milo et al. profile →
  19. The global biomass of wild mammals
    2023 73 citations Ron Sender, Yuval Rosenberg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ron Milo Israel 71 18.7k 2.9k 2.9k 2.7k 2.5k 136 31.0k
Adam P. Arkin United States 84 30.0k 1.6× 788 0.3× 7.6k 2.6× 2.2k 0.8× 3.4k 1.4× 362 43.5k
James J. Collins United States 142 46.3k 2.5× 5.7k 2.0× 10.3k 3.6× 4.3k 1.6× 12.6k 5.1× 336 76.3k
Jeremy C. Smith United States 92 32.0k 1.7× 439 0.2× 4.2k 1.4× 1.7k 0.6× 5.5k 2.2× 848 58.8k
Daniel Ramage United States 20 21.9k 1.2× 820 0.3× 2.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.4× 579 0.2× 28 42.3k
Trey Ideker United States 81 46.8k 2.5× 651 0.2× 6.4k 2.2× 1.8k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 246 66.9k
Pierre Baldi United States 96 15.3k 0.8× 760 0.3× 2.0k 0.7× 887 0.3× 1.1k 0.4× 428 34.1k
Nitin S. Baliga United States 46 26.6k 1.4× 306 0.1× 3.9k 1.3× 1.9k 0.7× 828 0.3× 144 41.8k
Charles R. Cantor United States 85 24.3k 1.3× 520 0.2× 5.8k 2.0× 1.6k 0.6× 2.7k 1.1× 341 34.7k
Douglas B. Kell United Kingdom 99 22.1k 1.2× 255 0.1× 2.4k 0.8× 2.2k 0.8× 5.6k 2.3× 560 40.6k
Christian von Mering Switzerland 68 45.6k 2.4× 427 0.1× 6.3k 2.2× 2.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.5× 134 69.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ron Milo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ron Milo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ron Milo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ron Milo 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 Ron Milo. Ron Milo 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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Pins, Benoit de, Jagoda Jabłońska, Itai Sharon, et al.. (2025). Rubisco is slow across the tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(47). e2501433122–e2501433122.
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Pins, Benoit de, Yinon M. Bar‐On, Melina Shamshoum, et al.. (2024). A systematic exploration of bacterial form I rubisco maximal carboxylation rates. The EMBO Journal. 43(14). 3072–3083. 5 indexed citations
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Prywes, Noam, Luke M. Oltrogge, Benoit de Pins, et al.. (2024). Mapping the kinetic landscape of rubisco. Biophysical Journal. 123(3). 19a–19a. 1 indexed citations
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Pins, Benoit de, Ghil Jona, Shmuel Gleizer, et al.. (2024). Autotrophic growth of Escherichia coli is achieved by a small number of genetic changes. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Yuval, et al.. (2023). The global biomass and number of terrestrial arthropods. Science Advances. 9(5). eabq4049–eabq4049. 47 indexed citations
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Sender, Ron, Yuval Rosenberg, Yinon M. Bar‐On, et al.. (2023). The global biomass of wild mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(10). e2204892120–e2204892120. 73 indexed citations breakdown →
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Goldberg, Yair, Ofra Amir, Micha Mandel, et al.. (2023). Measuring vaccine protection when the population is mostly vaccinated. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 163. 111–116. 2 indexed citations
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Balash, Yacov, Esther Kahana, Amos D. Korczyn, et al.. (2023). Is There Horizontal Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease?. Neuroepidemiology. 57(3). 156–161. 1 indexed citations
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Amir, Ofra, Yair Goldberg, Micha Mandel, et al.. (2022). Initial protection against SARS-CoV-2 omicron lineage infection in children and adolescents by BNT162b2 in Israel: an observational study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 23(1). 67–73. 12 indexed citations
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Sender, Ron, Yinon M. Bar‐On, Sang Woo Park, et al.. (2022). The unmitigated profile of COVID-19 infectiousness. eLife. 11. 10 indexed citations
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Sender, Ron, Yinon M. Bar‐On, Shmuel Gleizer, et al.. (2021). The total number and mass of SARS-CoV-2 virions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(25). 169 indexed citations
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Gleizer, Shmuel, et al.. (2019). Point mutations in topoisomerase I alter the mutation spectrum in E. coli and impact the emergence of drug resistance genotypes. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(2). 761–769. 9 indexed citations
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Bar‐On, Yinon M. & Ron Milo. (2019). The global mass and average rate of rubisco. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(10). 4738–4743. 161 indexed citations
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Davidi, Dan, Εlad Noor, Wolfram Liebermeister, et al.. (2016). Global characterization of in vivo enzyme catalytic rates and their correspondence to in vitro k cat measurements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(12). 3401–3406. 186 indexed citations
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Flamholz, Avi I., Εlad Noor, Arren Bar‐Even, & Ron Milo. (2011). eQuilibrator--the biochemical thermodynamics calculator. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(D1). D770–D775. 433 indexed citations
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Bar‐Even, Arren, Εlad Noor, Nathan E. Lewis, & Ron Milo. (2010). Design and analysis of synthetic carbon fixation pathways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(19). 8889–8894. 374 indexed citations
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Cohen, Ariel, Naama Geva‐Zatorsky, Eran Eden, et al.. (2008). Dynamic Proteomics of Individual Cancer Cells in Response to a Drug. Science. 322(5907). 1511–1516. 465 indexed citations
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Milo, Ron, et al.. (2007). The relationship between evolutionary and physiological variation in hemoglobin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(43). 16998–17003. 29 indexed citations
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Milo, Ron, Nadav Kashtan, Shalev Itzkovitz, M. E. J. Newman, & Uri Alon. (2003). Uniform generation of random graphs with arbitrary degree sequences. arXiv (Cornell University). 24 indexed citations
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Milo, Ron, Shai S. Shen-Orr, Shalev Itzkovitz, et al.. (2002). Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks. Science. 298(5594). 824–827. 4738 indexed citations breakdown →

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