Yitzhak Tor

13.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
246 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Yitzhak Tor is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yitzhak Tor has authored 246 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 184 papers in Molecular Biology, 54 papers in Organic Chemistry and 27 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yitzhak Tor's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (90 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (73 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (52 papers). Yitzhak Tor is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (90 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (73 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (52 papers). Yitzhak Tor collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Italy. Yitzhak Tor's co-authors include Richard J. Fair, Nicholas J. Greco, Renatus W. Sinkeldam, Nathan W. Luedtke, Seergazhi G. Srivatsan, Haim Weizman, Dimitrios Tzalis, Dennis J. Hurley, Abraham Shanzer and Dongwon Shin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yitzhak Tor

241 papers receiving 11.0k 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.

Antibiotics and Bacterial Resistance in the 21st Century

2014 1.5k citations Yitzhak Tor et al. profile →
Fluorescent Analogs of Biomolecular Building Blocks: Design, Properties, and Applications

2010 742 citations Nicholas J. Greco, Yitzhak Tor et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yitzhak Tor United States	54	7.1k	2.7k	1.7k	968	873	246	11.2k
Ernest Giralt Spain	69	11.1k 1.6×	3.8k 1.4×	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	277 0.3×	488	17.3k
Floyd E. Romesberg United States	59	8.1k 1.2×	2.1k 0.8×	835 0.5×	428 0.4×	233 0.3×	200	10.9k
Peng George Wang United States	58	8.7k 1.2×	6.9k 2.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	310 0.4×	511	15.7k
Andrew H.‐J. Wang Taiwan	64	14.0k 2.0×	1.8k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.9×	233 0.3×	324	18.3k
W. David Wilson United States	67	11.6k 1.6×	4.6k 1.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.8×	350 0.4×	405	17.0k
Günther Jung Germany	79	13.4k 1.9×	3.7k 1.4×	779 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	393 0.5×	438	24.6k
Anne Imberty France	74	11.7k 1.7×	5.7k 2.1×	1.2k 0.7×	662 0.7×	178 0.2×	371	18.0k
Guy Dodson United Kingdom	61	10.4k 1.5×	825 0.3×	2.5k 1.5×	913 0.9×	517 0.6×	159	13.4k
Zygmunt S. Derewenda United States	60	9.3k 1.3×	909 0.3×	2.2k 1.3×	538 0.6×	651 0.7×	154	12.2k
Miki Hasegawa Japan	35	5.5k 0.8×	766 0.3×	2.7k 1.6×	480 0.5×	504 0.6×	165	10.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yitzhak Tor

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Martínez‐Fernández, Lara, Nicolas Humbert, Ludovic Richert, et al.. (2025). Exploring excited-state proton transfer reactions in isothiazologuanosine, an isofunctional fluorescent analogue of guanosine. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(37). 19820–19836.

Martínez‐Fernández, Lara, Krishna Gavvala, Elisa Bombarda, et al.. (2025). Decoding the base flipping mechanism of the SET- and RING-associated (SRA) domain of the epigenetic UHRF1 protein. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(17).

Fisher, Rachel S., et al.. (2024). Ultrasensitive detection of a responsive fluorescent thymidine analogue in DNA via pulse-shaped two-photon excitation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(42). 26823–26833. 2 indexed citations

Tor, Yitzhak. (2024). Isomorphic Fluorescent Nucleosides. Accounts of Chemical Research. 57(9). 1325–1335. 16 indexed citations

Martínez‐Fernández, Lara, Nicolas Humbert, Ludovic Richert, et al.. (2023). Photophysical characterization of isothiazologuanosine, a unique isomorphic and isofunctional fluorescent analogue of guanosine. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 446. 115075–115075. 5 indexed citations

Tor, Yitzhak, et al.. (2020). Double-headed nucleotides as xeno nucleic acids: information storage and polymerase recognition. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 18(36). 7213–7223. 10 indexed citations

Kuchlyan, Jagannath, Lara Martínez‐Fernández, Mattia Mori, et al.. (2020). What Makes Thienoguanosine an Outstanding Fluorescent DNA Probe?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(40). 16999–17014. 37 indexed citations

Didier, Pascal, Jagannath Kuchlyan, Lara Martínez‐Fernández, et al.. (2020). Deciphering the pH-dependence of ground- and excited-state equilibria of thienoguanine. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(14). 7381–7391. 11 indexed citations

Postupalenko, Viktoriia, Dmytro Dziuba, Nicolas Barthès, et al.. (2018). Environmentally Sensitive Fluorescent Nucleoside Analogues for Surveying Dynamic Interconversions of Nucleic Acid Structures. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(52). 13850–13861. 21 indexed citations

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Dwyer, Chrissa A., Bryan E. Thacker, Charles A. Glass, et al.. (2017). Guanidinylated Neomycin Conjugation Enhances Intranasal Enzyme Replacement in the Brain. Molecular Therapy. 25(12). 2743–2752. 11 indexed citations

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Ríos, Andro C. & Yitzhak Tor. (2012). Refining the Genetic Alphabet: A Late-Period Selection Pressure?. Astrobiology. 12(9). 884–891. 13 indexed citations

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Sarrazin, Stéphane, et al.. (2010). Cooperative, Heparan Sulfate‐Dependent Cellular Uptake of Dimeric Guanidinoglycosides. ChemBioChem. 11(16). 2302–2310. 28 indexed citations

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Xie, Yun, Tucker Maxson, & Yitzhak Tor. (2010). Fluorescent nucleoside analogue displays enhanced emission upon pairing with guanine. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 8(22). 5053–5053. 22 indexed citations

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Brown, Jillian R., Feng Yang, Anjana Sinha, et al.. (2008). Deoxygenated Disaccharide Analogs as Specific Inhibitors of β1–4-Galactosyltransferase 1 and Selectin-mediated Tumor Metastasis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(8). 4952–4959. 35 indexed citations

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Schuksz, Manuela, Mark M. Fuster, Jillian R. Brown, et al.. (2008). Surfen, a small molecule antagonist of heparan sulfate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(35). 13075–13080. 142 indexed citations

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Srivatsan, Seergazhi G., Nicholas J. Greco, & Yitzhak Tor. (2008). A Highly Emissive Fluorescent Nucleoside that Signals the Activity of Toxic Ribosome‐Inactivating Proteins. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(35). 6661–6665. 66 indexed citations

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Schuksz, Manuela, et al.. (2007). Guanidinylated Neomycin Delivers Large, Bioactive Cargo into Cells through a Heparan Sulfate-dependent Pathway. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(18). 13585–13591. 62 indexed citations

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Srivatsan, Seergazhi G. & Yitzhak Tor. (2007). Synthesis and enzymatic incorporation of a fluorescent pyrimidine ribonucleotide. Nature Protocols. 2(6). 1547–1555. 27 indexed citations

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Greco, Nicholas J., et al.. (2006). Alkyne-containing chelating ligands: synthesis, properties and metal coordination of 1,2-di(quinolin-8-yl)ethyne. Dalton Transactions. 2288–2288. 15 indexed citations

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Luedtke, Nathan W., Qi Liu, & Yitzhak Tor. (2004). On the Electronic Structure of Ethidium. Chemistry - A European Journal. 11(2). 495–508. 55 indexed citations

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