Uri Gophna

10.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
163 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Uri Gophna is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Uri Gophna has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Molecular Biology, 56 papers in Genetics and 46 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Uri Gophna's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (38 papers), Gut microbiota and health (33 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (28 papers). Uri Gophna is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (38 papers), Gut microbiota and health (33 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (28 papers). Uri Gophna collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Uri Gophna's co-authors include Tom Konikoff, Eliora Z. Ron, Eytan Ruppin, W. Ford Doolittle, Mor N. Lurie-Weinberger, Shiri Freilich, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, Leah Reshef, Roded Sharan and Anat Kreimer and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Uri Gophna

162 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Competitive and cooperative metabolic interactions in bacterial communities

2011 392 citations Shiri Freilich, Uri Gophna et al. profile →
Oscillospira and related bacteria – From metagenomic species to metabolic features

2016 312 citations Uri Gophna, Tom Konikoff et al. Environmental Microbiology profile →

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Fields of papers citing papers by Uri Gophna

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Uri Gophna

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Internal in-frame translation generates Cas11b, which is important for effective interference in an archaeal CRISPR-Cas system 2025 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Anna Sailer, Joachim Brendel, Aleksandar Chernev, S. König, Thorsten Bischler, Tom Gräfenhan, Henning Urlaub, Uri Gophna, Anita Marchfelder	1
2	Skin microbiome bacteria enriched following long sun exposure can reduce oxidative damage 2023 ·Research in Microbiology ·(unknown), (unknown), Leah Reshef, Dvora Biran, Eliora Z. Ron, Uri Gophna	13
3	An archaeal Cas3 protein facilitates rapid recovery from DNA damage 2023 ·PubMed ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andrew F. Gardner, Leah Reshef, (unknown), (unknown), Thorsten Allers, Anita Marchfelder, Uri Gophna	4
4	Differences in homologous recombination and maintenance of heteropolyploidy between Haloferax volcanii and Haloferax mediterranei 2022 ·G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Uri Gophna, Thorsten Allers, (unknown)	6
5	Escherichia coli Strains from Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases have Disease-specific Genomic Adaptations 2022 ·Journal of Crohn s and Colitis ·(unknown), Leah Reshef, Keren M. Rabinowitz, Nir Wasserberg, Iris Dotan, Uri Gophna	9
6	The Evolutionary Origins of Extreme Halophilic Archaeal Lineages 2021 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·(unknown), Uri Neri, (unknown), (unknown), R. Thane Papke, Uri Gophna, J. Peter Gogarten	22
7	The Associations between Diet and Socioeconomic Disparities and the Intestinal Microbiome in Preadolescence 2021 ·Nutrients ·(unknown), (unknown), Rebecca Goldsmith, Wasef Na’amnih, Eias Kassem, Asher Ornoy, Uri Gophna, Khitam Muhsen	19
8	Adaptation induced by self-targeting in a type I-B CRISPR-Cas system 2020 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), Omer S. Alkhnbashi, (unknown), (unknown), Thorsten Allers, Rolf Backofen, Uri Gophna, Anita Marchfelder	7
9	Protein Splicing Activity of the Haloferax volcanii PolB-c Intein Is Sensitive to Homing Endonuclease Domain Mutations 2020 ·Biochemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Uri Gophna, (unknown), Kenneth V. Mills	6
10	Direct sequencing of RNA with MinION Nanopore: detecting mutations based on associations 2019 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Noam Harel, (unknown), Uri Gophna, Adi Stern	22
11	Adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with decreased fecal calprotectin in patients with ulcerative colitis after pouch surgery 2019 ·European Journal of Nutrition ·Lihi Godny, Lea Reshef, Tamar Pfeffer‐Gik, Idan Goren, Henit Yanai, Hagit Tulchinsky, Uri Gophna, Iris Dotan	69
12	Coordinated change at the colony level in fruit bat fur microbiomes through time 2018 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Oren Kolodny, (unknown), Leah Reshef, Lee Harten, Abraham Hefetz, Uri Gophna, Marcus W. Feldman, Yossi Yovel	44
13	Oscillospira and related bacteria – From metagenomic species to metabolic features breakdown → 2016 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Uri Gophna, Tom Konikoff, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen	312
14	Low Species Barriers in Halophilic Archaea and the Formation of Recombinant Hybrids 2012 ·Current Biology ·Adit Naor, Pascal Lapierre, Moshe Mevarech, R. Thane Papke, Uri Gophna	97
15	In situ transplant analysis of free-living bacteria in a lotic ecosystem 2012 ·Research in Microbiology ·(unknown), (unknown), Uri Gophna	3
16	Lateral acquisition of genes is affected by the friendliness of their products 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Uri Gophna, Yanay Ofran	13
17	Decoupling Environment-Dependent and Independent Genetic Robustness across Bacterial Species 2010 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Shiri Freilich, Anat Kreimer, Elhanan Borenstein, Uri Gophna, Roded Sharan, Eytan Ruppin	29
18	Metabolic-network-driven analysis of bacterial ecological strategies 2009 ·Genome biology ·Shiri Freilich, Anat Kreimer, Elhanan Borenstein, Nir Yosef, Roded Sharan, Uri Gophna, Eytan Ruppin	82
19	YersiniaHPI in septicemicEscherichia colistrains isolated from diverse hosts 2001 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Uri Gophna, Tobias A. Oelschlaeger, J. Häcker, Eliora Z. Ron	44
20	Yersinia HPI in septicemic Escherichia coli strains isolated from diverse hosts 2001 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Uri Gophna	2

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