Uri Alon

53.5k total citations · 15 hit papers
232 papers, 35.5k citations indexed

About

Uri Alon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Uri Alon has authored 232 papers receiving a total of 35.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Molecular Biology, 56 papers in Genetics and 20 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Uri Alon's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (84 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (38 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (24 papers). Uri Alon is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (84 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (38 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (24 papers). Uri Alon collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Uri Alon's co-authors include Ron Milo, Nadav Kashtan, Shmoolik Mangan, Shai S. Shen-Orr, Shalev Itzkovitz, Dmitri B. Chklovskii, E. Dekel, Naama Barkai, Avi Mayo and Nitzan Rosenfeld and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Uri Alon

229 papers receiving 34.5k citations

Hit Papers

Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks 1999 2026 2008 2017 2002 1999 2007 2002 2006 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. Broad patterns of gene expression revealed by clustering analysis of tumor and normal colon tissues probed by oligonucleotide arrays
    1999 3.0k citations Uri Alon et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Network motifs: theory and experimental approaches
    2007 2.2k citations Uri Alon profile →
  4. Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli
    2002 2.0k citations Shai S. Shen-Orr, Ron Milo et al. profile →
  5. An Introduction to Systems Biology
    2006 1.9k citations Uri Alon profile →
  6. Structure and function of the feed-forward loop network motif
    2003 1.3k citations Uri Alon et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Superfamilies of Evolved and Designed Networks
    2004 962 citations Ron Milo, Shalev Itzkovitz et al. Science profile →
  8. Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis
    1999 850 citations Uri Alon, Michael G. Surette et al. profile →
  9. Gene Regulation at the Single-Cell Level
    2005 818 citations Nitzan Rosenfeld, Jonathan W. Young et al. Science profile →
  10. A comprehensive library of fluorescent transcriptional reporters for Escherichia coli
    2006 584 citations Shalev Itzkovitz, Michael G. Surette et al. profile →
  11. Spontaneous evolution of modularity and network motifs
    2005 577 citations Nadav Kashtan, Uri Alon Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  12. Optimality and evolutionary tuning of the expression level of a protein
    2005 574 citations E. Dekel, Uri Alon profile →
  13. Negative Autoregulation Speeds the Response Times of Transcription Networks
    2002 543 citations Nitzan Rosenfeld, Michael B. Elowitz et al. profile →
  14. Evolutionary Trade-Offs, Pareto Optimality, and the Geometry of Phenotype Space
    2012 423 citations Oren Shoval, Hila Sheftel et al. Science profile →
  15. p16-dependent increase of PD-L1 stability regulates immunosurveillance of senescent cells
    2024 51 citations Avi Mayo, Tomer Landsberger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Uri Alon Israel 74 24.5k 6.6k 4.0k 2.4k 1.8k 232 35.5k
Ron Milo Israel 71 18.7k 0.8× 2.9k 0.4× 2.9k 0.7× 822 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 136 31.0k
James J. Collins United States 142 46.3k 1.9× 10.3k 1.6× 5.7k 1.4× 1.7k 0.7× 1.8k 1.0× 336 76.3k
Pierre Baldi United States 96 15.3k 0.6× 2.0k 0.3× 760 0.2× 5.1k 2.1× 2.8k 1.6× 428 34.1k
Shalev Itzkovitz Israel 52 11.1k 0.5× 2.2k 0.3× 2.5k 0.6× 719 0.3× 788 0.4× 106 20.4k
Nir Friedman Israel 71 17.5k 0.7× 2.7k 0.4× 588 0.1× 7.8k 3.2× 1.4k 0.8× 210 30.5k
Trey Ideker United States 81 46.8k 1.9× 6.4k 1.0× 651 0.2× 1.0k 0.4× 5.0k 2.8× 246 66.9k
Pablo Tamayo United States 52 48.4k 2.0× 5.4k 0.8× 377 0.1× 5.0k 2.1× 2.2k 1.2× 149 74.2k
Zoltán N. Oltvai United States 41 17.4k 0.7× 1.8k 0.3× 2.9k 0.7× 773 0.3× 2.4k 1.3× 85 24.4k
Eduardo D. Sontag United States 77 7.6k 0.3× 1.1k 0.2× 2.3k 0.6× 2.7k 1.1× 3.3k 1.9× 472 32.3k
Daniel T. Gillespie United States 34 11.3k 0.5× 3.5k 0.5× 3.0k 0.8× 571 0.2× 969 0.5× 78 19.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Uri Alon

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Milo, Tomer, et al.. (2025). Hormone circuit explains why most HPA drugs fail for mood disorders and predicts the few that work. Molecular Systems Biology. 21(3). 254–273. 1 indexed citations
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Glass, David S., Tomer Milo, Yael Korem Kohanim, et al.. (2025). Unifying regulatory motifs in endocrine circuits. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11017–11017.
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Bar, A., Rocio Moran, Netta Mendelson Cohen, et al.. (2025). Pregnancy and postpartum dynamics revealed by millions of lab tests. Science Advances. 11(13). eadr7922–eadr7922. 4 indexed citations
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Tendler, Avichai, et al.. (2023). Major depressive disorder and bistability in an HPA-CNS toggle switch. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(12). e1011645–e1011645. 6 indexed citations
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Bar, A., Omer Karin, Avi Mayo, Danny Ben‐Zvi, & Uri Alon. (2023). Rules for body fat interventions based on an operating point mechanism. iScience. 26(2). 106047–106047. 5 indexed citations
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Landsberger, Tomer, Ido Amit, & Uri Alon. (2023). Geroprotective interventions converge on gene expression programs of reduced inflammation and restored fatty acid metabolism. GeroScience. 46(2). 1627–1639. 7 indexed citations
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Brody, Shaked, Uri Alon, & Eran Yahav. (2023). On the Expressivity Role of LayerNorm in Transformers’ Attention. 14211–14221. 5 indexed citations
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Levy‐Tzedek, Shelly, Galia S. Moran, Uri Alon, & Neta Sal‐Man. (2018). Peer power. EMBO Reports. 19(12). 6 indexed citations
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Shoval, Oren, Hila Sheftel, Guy Shinar, et al.. (2012). Evolutionary Trade-Offs, Pareto Optimality, and the Geometry of Phenotype Space. Science. 336(6085). 1157–1160. 423 indexed citations breakdown →
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Noy, Lior, et al.. (2012). A Quantitative Study of Creative Leaps. ICCC. 72–76. 8 indexed citations
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Shoval, Oren, Uri Alon, & Eduardo D. Sontag. (2011). Input symmetry invariance, and applications to biological systems. 2233–2238. 1 indexed citations
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Alon, Uri. (2010). How to Build a Motivated Research Group. Molecular Cell. 37(2). 151–152. 11 indexed citations
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Rahat, Ofer, Uri Alon, Yaakov Levy, & Gideon Schreiber. (2009). Understanding hydrogen-bond patterns in proteins using network motifs. Bioinformatics. 25(22). 2921–2928. 16 indexed citations
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Kashtan, Nadav, Avi Mayo, Tomer Kalisky, & Uri Alon. (2009). An Analytically Solvable Model for Rapid Evolution of Modular Structure. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(4). e1000355–e1000355. 33 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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Rosenfeld, Nitzan, Jonathan W. Young, Uri Alon, Peter S. Swain, & Michael B. Elowitz. (2005). Gene Regulation at the Single-Cell Level. Science. 307(5717). 1962–1965. 818 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kashtan, Nadav & Uri Alon. (2005). Spontaneous evolution of modularity and network motifs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(39). 13773–13778. 577 indexed citations breakdown →
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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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Mayo, Avi, et al.. (2003). Detailed map of a cis-regulatory input function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(13). 7702–7707. 246 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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