2026 Benjamin Weiss: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	49	1142	973	18	16	191	10141

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Mathematics

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Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Benjamin Weiss is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their work primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield. Additional areas of study include Computational Theory and Mathematics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Mathematical Physics, and Finance.

The scientist's research topics cover several specialized areas, including:

RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
RNA modifications and cancer
RNA research and splicing
PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer
Polyamine metabolism and applications
CRISPR and genetic engineering
Genetic neurodegenerative diseases

Recent publications by Benjamin Weiss reflect their focus on molecular mechanisms related to translation and stress response. Key papers include:

"Not4 and Not5 modulate translation elongation by Rps7A ubiquitination, Rli1 moonlighting, and condensates that exclude eIF5A" (2021, Cell Reports)
"eIF4E3 forms an active eIF4F complex during stresses (eIF4FS) targeting mTOR and re-programs the translatome" (2021, Nucleic Acids Research)
"Inhibitors of eIF4G1-eIF1 uncover its regulatory role of ER/UPR stress-response genes independent of eIF2α-phosphorylation" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
"Not1 and Not4 inversely determine mRNA solubility that sets the dynamics of co-translational events" (2023, Genome biology)
"Topological characteristic factors and nilsystems" (2023, Journal of the European Mathematical Society)

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cell Reports
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nucleic Acids Research
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Benjamin Weiss's research, with frequent co-authors being:

George E. Allen
Olesya O. Panasenko
Zoltán Villányi
Marina Zagatti
Christine Polte

Honors awarded to Benjamin Weiss include being named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.

Best Publications

Entropy and isomorphism theorems for actions of amenable groups

Donald S. Ornstein;Benjamin Weiss

949
Citations
An amenable equivalence relation is generated by a single transformation

A. Connes;J. Feldman;B. Weiss

666
Citations
Mean topological dimension

Elon Lindenstrauss;Benjamin Weiss

525
Citations
Subshifts of finite type and sofic systems

Benjamin Weiss

415
Citations
Entropy and data compression schemes

D.S. Ornstein;B. Weiss

414
Citations
Sensitive dependence on initial conditions

E Glasner;B Weiss

404
Citations
Ergodic theory of amenable group actions. I: The Rohlin lemma

Donald S. Ornstein;Benjamin Weiss

345
Citations
TOPOLOGICAL DYNAMICS AND COMBINATORIAL NUMBER THEORY

H. Furstenberg;B. Weiss

251
Citations
Equivalence of measure preserving transformations

Donald S. Ornstein;Daniel J. Rudolph;Benjamin Weiss

202
Citations
How Sampling Reveals a Process

Donald S. Ornstein;Benjamin Weiss

181
Citations
Single Orbit Dynamics

Benjamin Weiss

170
Citations
Commuting measure-preserving transformations

Yitzhak Katznelson;Benjamin Weiss

162
Citations
Geodesic flows are Bernoullian

Donald Ornstein;Donald Ornstein;Benjamin Weiss;Benjamin Weiss

161
Citations
The Shannon-McMillan-Breiman theorem for a class of amenable groups

Donald Ornstein;Donald Ornstein;Benjamin Weiss;Benjamin Weiss

157
Citations
Ergodic Theory and Configurations in Sets of Positive Density

Hillel Fürstenberg;Yitzchak Katznelson;Benjamin Weiss

154
Citations
WEAK ORBIT EQUIVALENCE OF CANTOR MINIMAL SYSTEMS

Eli Glasner;Benjamin Weiss

147
Citations
Equivalence of topological Markov shifts

Unknown

129
Citations
Entropy and mixing for amenable group actions.

Daniel J. Rudolph;Benjamin Weiss

126
Citations
Statistical properties of chaotic systems

D. S. Ornstein;B. Weiss

123
Citations
A simple proof of some ergodic theorems

Yitzhak Katznelson;Benjamin Weiss

123
Citations
On the interplay between measurable and topological dynamics

E. Glasner;B. Weiss

120
Citations
Groups of measure preserving transformations

Benjamin Weiss

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eli Glasner Tel Aviv University

Donald S. Ornstein Stanford University

Sergiu Hart Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Vitaly Bergelson The Ohio State University

Alexander S. Kechris California Institute of Technology

Yuri Kifer Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Xiangdong Ye University of Science and Technology of China

Alain Connes Collège de France

Shmuel Friedland University of Illinois at Chicago

Saharon Shelah Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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