2026 Alon Warburg: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	48	18508	16980	188	173	125	5957

Overview

Alon Warburg is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Plant Science, Epidemiology, Insect Science, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics cover:

Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
Insect Pest Control Strategies
Trypanosoma species research and implications
Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
Plant and animal studies
Mosquito-borne diseases and control
Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences

Frequent coauthors of Alon Warburg include:

Ibrahim Abbasi
Ikram Salah
Nadav Davidovitch
Burt P. Kotler
Yuri Vainer

The scientist has published research in several academic venues, notably:

Acta Tropica
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Journal of Vector Ecology
Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Alon Warburg include:

"Ecology of Leishmaniasis in an urbanized landscape: Relationship of sand fly densities, and Leishmania tropica infection rates with reservoir host colonies" (2020, Acta Tropica)
"A conserved odorant receptor underpins borneol-mediated repellency in culicine mosquitoes" (2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
"Effects of larval rearing substrates on some life-table parameters of Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies" (2021, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
"A next-generation (DNA) sequencing (NGS)-based method for identifying the sources of sugar meals in mosquito vectors of West Nile virus in Israel" (2022, Journal of Vector Ecology)
"Large scale systemic control short-circuits pathogen transmission by interrupting the sand rat (Psammomys obesus)-to-sand fly (Phlebotomus papatasi) Leishmania major transmission cycle" (2022, Medical and Veterinary Entomology)

Best Publications

Saliva of Lutzomyia longipalpis sibling species differs in its composition and capacity to enhance leishmaniasis.

Alon Warburg;Elvira Saraiva;Gregory C. Lanzaro;Richard G. Titus

193
Citations
Lutzomyia longipalpis is a species complex : genetic divergence and interspecific hybrid sterility among three populations

Gregory C. Lanzaro;Katherine Ostrovska;Marco V. Herrero;Phillip G. Lawyer

190
Citations
Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in northern Israel.

Raymond L. Jacobson;Carol L. Eisenberger;Milena Svobodova;Gad Baneth

175
Citations
Distinct Transmission Cycles of Leishmania tropica in 2 Adjacent Foci, Northern Israel

Milena Svobodova;Jan Votypka;Jitka Peckova;Vít Dvorak

170
Citations
Recent advances in phlebotomine sand fly research related to leishmaniasis control.

Paul A Bates;Jerôme Depaquit;Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati;Shaden Kamhawi

150
Citations
Leishmaniasis in Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Charles L Jaffe;Gad Baneth;Ziad A Abdeen;Yosef Schlein

119
Citations
Identification of blood meals imbibed by phlebotomine sand flies using cytochrome b PCR and reverse line blotting.

Ibrahim Abbasi;Ruben Cunio;Alon Warburg

110
Citations
Developmentally regulated infectivity of malaria sporozoites for mosquito salivary glands and the vertebrate host.

M G Touray;A Warburg;A Laughinghouse;A U Krettli

110
Citations
SALIVARY GLANDS OF THE SAND FLY PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI CONTAIN PHARMACOLOGICALLY ACTIVE AMOUNTS OF ADENOSINE AND 5'-AMP

José M. C. Ribeiro;Oren Katz;Lewis K. Pannell;John Waitumbi

109
Citations
Variation in the salivary peptide, maxadilan, from species in the Lutzomyia longipalpis complex.

G. C. Lanzaro;A. H. C. S. Lopes;J. M. C. Ribeiro;C. B. Shoemaker

108
Citations
Breeding Sites of Phlebotomus sergenti, the Sand Fly Vector of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Judean Desert

Aviad Moncaz;Roy Faiman;Oscar D. Kirstein;Alon Warburg

101
Citations
Leishmania tropica in rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis) in a focus of human cutaneous leishmaniasis.

Dalit Talmi-Frank;Charles L. Jaffe;Abedelmajeed Nasereddin;Alon Warburg

100
Citations
Sporogonic development of a malaria parasite in vitro.

Alon Warburg;Louis H. Miller

100
Citations
Theileria infection in domestic ruminants in northern Ethiopia

Hagos Gebrekidan;Asrat Hailu;Aysheshm Kassahun;Iva Rohoušová

95
Citations
Adenosine, AMP, and protein phosphatase activity in sandfly saliva.

Oren Katz;John N. Waitumbi;Ronnie Zer;Alon Warburg

91
Citations
MULTIFARIOUS CHARACTERIZATION OF LEISHMANIA TROPICA FROM A JUDEAN DESERT FOCUS, EXPOSING INTRASPECIFIC DIVERSITY AND INCRIMINATING PHLEBOTOMUS SERGENTI AS ITS VECTOR

Lionel F. Schnur;Abdelmageed Nasereddin;Carol L. Eisenberger;Charles L. Jaffe

89
Citations
Sergentomyia schwetzi is not a competent vector for Leishmania donovani and other Leishmania species pathogenic to humans

Jovana Sadlova;Vit Dvorak;Veronika Seblova;Alon Warburg

85
Citations
Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of the Palestinian West Bank: Potential Vectors of Leishmaniasis

Samir S. Sawalha;Muhamad S. Shtayeh;Haroun M. Khanfar;Alon Warburg

83
Citations
Research priorities for the control of phlebotomine sand flies.

Alon Warburg;Roy Faiman

83
Citations
Comparison of mosquito control programs in seven urban sites in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.

Daniel E. Impoinvil;Sajjad Ahmad;Adriana Troyo;Adriana Troyo;Joseph Keating

82
Citations