Ruth Hershberg

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Ruth Hershberg is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Hershberg has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ruth Hershberg's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers). Ruth Hershberg is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers). Ruth Hershberg collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Netherlands. Ruth Hershberg's co-authors include Dmitri A. Petrov, Hanah Margalit, Shoshy Altuvia, Liron Argaman, Gill Bejerano, Jörg Vogel, E. Gerhart H. Wagner, Gail Rosen, Stefan Niemann and Sébastien Gagneux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Hershberg

36 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Selection on Codon Bias 2001 2026 2009 2017 2008 2001 250 500 750
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. Selection on Codon Bias
    2008 756 citations Ruth Hershberg, Dmitri A. Petrov profile →
  2. Novel small RNA-encoding genes in the intergenic regions of Escherichia coli
    2001 619 citations Ruth Hershberg, Hanah Margalit et al. profile →

Peers

Ruth Hershberg
Yanjie Chao China
Joseph T. Wade United States
Julie C. Dunning Hotopp United States
Alexander J. Westermann Germany
Brian J. Akerley United States
Sven Findeiß Germany
Pascal Lapierre United States
Lars Barquist Germany
Tami D. Lieberman United States
Ciarán Condon France
Yanjie Chao China
Ruth Hershberg
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Countries citing papers authored by Ruth Hershberg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ruth Hershberg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth Hershberg

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ruth Hershberg. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ruth Hershberg 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 Ruth Hershberg. Ruth Hershberg 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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Hershberg, Ruth, et al.. (2024). Pseudomonas putida Dynamics of Adaptation under Prolonged Resource Exhaustion. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(6). 1 indexed citations
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Hershberg, Ruth, et al.. (2024). Escherichia coli adaptation under prolonged resource exhaustion is characterized by extreme parallelism and frequent historical contingency. PLoS Genetics. 20(6). e1011333–e1011333. 2 indexed citations
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Grajeda‐Iglesias, Claudia, et al.. (2023). Metabolic adaptation to consume butyrate under prolonged resource exhaustion. PLoS Genetics. 19(6). e1010812–e1010812. 2 indexed citations
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Hershberg, Ruth, et al.. (2022). Rapid Adaptation Often Occurs through Mutations to the Most Highly Conserved Positions of the RNA Polymerase Core Enzyme. Genome Biology and Evolution. 14(9). 8 indexed citations
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Pennings, Pleuni S., C. Brandon Ogbunugafor, & Ruth Hershberg. (2022). Reversion is most likely under high mutation supply when compensatory mutations do not fully restore fitness costs. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(9). 7 indexed citations
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Hershberg, Ruth, et al.. (2022). Density-dependent effects are the main determinants of variation in growth dynamics between closely related bacterial strains. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(10). e1010565–e1010565. 5 indexed citations
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Avrani, Sarit, et al.. (2021). Dynamics of Adaptation During Three Years of Evolution Under Long-Term Stationary Phase. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(7). 2778–2790. 21 indexed citations
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Avrani, Sarit, et al.. (2020). Culture Volume Influences the Dynamics of Adaptation under Long-Term Stationary Phase. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(12). 2292–2301. 12 indexed citations
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Avrani, Sarit, et al.. (2020). Adaptations Accumulated under Prolonged Resource Exhaustion Are Highly Transient. mSphere. 5(4). 8 indexed citations
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Hershberg, Ruth. (2017). Antibiotic-Independent Adaptive Effects of Antibiotic Resistance Mutations. Trends in Genetics. 33(8). 521–528. 43 indexed citations
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Hershberg, Ruth, et al.. (2017). Horizontally Acquired Genes Are Often Shared between Closely Related Bacterial Species. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1536–1536. 20 indexed citations
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Hershberg, Ruth. (2015). Mutation—The Engine of Evolution: Studying Mutation and Its Role in the Evolution of Bacteria: Figure 1.. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 7(9). a018077–a018077. 60 indexed citations
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Reichenberger, Erin R., Gail Rosen, Uri Hershberg, & Ruth Hershberg. (2015). Prokaryotic Nucleotide Composition Is Shaped by Both Phylogeny and the Environment. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(5). 1380–1389. 58 indexed citations
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Barshir, Ruth, et al.. (2014). Cancer Evolution Is Associated with Pervasive Positive Selection on Globally Expressed Genes. PLoS Genetics. 10(3). e1004239–e1004239. 72 indexed citations
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Lan, Yemin, et al.. (2013). POGO-DB—a database of pairwise-comparisons of genomes and conserved orthologous genes. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D625–D632. 17 indexed citations
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Hershberg, Ruth, et al.. (2013). Elevated Mutagenesis Does Not Explain the Increased Frequency of Antibiotic Resistant Mutants in Starved Aging Colonies. PLoS Genetics. 9(11). e1003968–e1003968. 21 indexed citations
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Hershberg, Ruth, Mikhail Lipatov, Peter M. Small, et al.. (2008). High Functional Diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Driven by Genetic Drift and Human Demography. PLoS Biology. 6(12). e311–e311. 416 indexed citations
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Hershberg, Ruth, Hua Tang, & Dmitri A. Petrov. (2007). Reduced selection leads to accelerated gene loss in Shigella. Genome biology. 8(8). R164–R164. 56 indexed citations
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Hershberg, Ruth & Hanah Margalit. (2006). Co-evolution of transcription factors and their targets depends on mode of regulation. Genome biology. 7(7). R62–R62. 30 indexed citations

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