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Elhanan Borenstein

Elhanan Borenstein

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
14767
World Ranking
13641
National Ranking
132

Elhanan Borenstein publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elhanan Borenstein sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 199 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Elhanan Borenstein D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elhanan Borenstein sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Elhanan Borenstein is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and conducts research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's research focuses on various topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Diet and metabolism studies, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

Some of the recent papers authored by Borenstein include:

  • An open science study of ageing in companion dogs, 2022, Nature
  • Gestational diabetes is driven by microbiota-induced inflammation months before diagnosis, 2023, Gut
  • Microbial signature in IgE-mediated food allergies, 2020, Genome Medicine
  • Fecal dysbiosis in infants with cystic fibrosis is associated with early linear growth failure, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • The gut microbiome-metabolome dataset collection: a curated resource for integrative meta-analysis, 2022, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Frequent coauthors working with Borenstein include:

  • Efrat Muller
  • Kate E. Creevy
  • Daniel Promislow
  • Noah Snyder-Mackler
  • Matthew D. Dunbar

Publication venues in which the scientist has contributed most frequently are:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • GeroScience
  • Bioinformatics

In recognition of their work, Elhanan Borenstein received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Sporadic autism exomes reveal a highly interconnected protein network of de novo mutations

    Brian J. O’Roak;Laura Vives;Santhosh Girirajan;Emre Karakoc

  • Multiplex targeted sequencing identifies recurrently mutated genes in autism spectrum disorders.

    Brian J. O’Roak;Laura Vives;Wenqing Fu;Jarrett D. Egertson

  • Human Gut Microbiota from Autism Spectrum Disorder Promote Behavioral Symptoms in Mice

    Gil Sharon;Nikki Jamie Cruz;Dae Wook Kang;Michael J. Gandal

  • Metagenomic systems biology of the human gut microbiome reveals topological shifts associated with obesity and inflammatory bowel disease

    Sharon Greenblum;Peter J. Turnbaugh;Elhanan Borenstein

  • Circuitry and dynamics of human transcription factor regulatory networks.

    Shane Neph;Andrew B. Stergachis;Alex Reynolds;Richard Sandstrom

  • Metabolic modeling of species interaction in the human microbiome elucidates community-level assembly rules

    Roie Levy;Elhanan Borenstein;Elhanan Borenstein

  • The discovery of integrated gene networks for autism and related disorders

    Fereydoun Hormozdiari;Osnat Penn;Elhanan Borenstein;Evan E. Eichler

  • Large-scale reconstruction and phylogenetic analysis of metabolic environments

    Elhanan Borenstein;Martin Kupiec;Marcus W. Feldman;Eytan Ruppin

  • Conservation of trans-acting circuitry during mammalian regulatory evolution

    Andrew B. Stergachis;Shane Neph;Richard Sandstrom;Eric Haugen

  • Extensive strain-level copy number variation across human gut microbiome species

    Sharon Greenblum;Rogan Carr;Elhanan Borenstein;Elhanan Borenstein

  • The ketogenic diet influences taxonomic and functional composition of the gut microbiota in children with severe epilepsy

    Marie Lindefeldt;Alexander Eng;Hamid Darban;Annelie Bjerkner

  • Where Next for Microbiome Research

    Matthew K. Waldor;Gene Tyson;Elhanan Borenstein;Elhanan Borenstein;Howard Ochman

  • The evolution of modularity in bacterial metabolic networks

    Anat Kreimer;Elhanan Borenstein;Elhanan Borenstein;Uri Gophna;Eytan Ruppin

  • Metabolic Model-Based Integration of Microbiome Taxonomic and Metabolomic Profiles Elucidates Mechanistic Links between Ecological and Metabolic Variation.

    Cecilia Noecker;Alexander Eng;Sujatha Srinivasan;Casey M. Theriot

  • The Landscape of Type VI Secretion across Human Gut Microbiomes Reveals Its Role in Community Composition.

    Adrian J. Verster;Benjamin D. Ross;Matthew C. Radey;Yiqiao Bao

  • Human gut bacteria contain acquired interbacterial defence systems

    Benjamin D. Ross;Adrian J. Verster;Matthew C. Radey;Danica T. Schmidtke

  • Human and Extracellular DNA Depletion for Metagenomic Analysis of Complex Clinical Infection Samples Yields Optimized Viable Microbiome Profiles

    Maria T. Nelson;Christopher E. Pope;Robyn L. Marsh;Daniel J. Wolter

  • A broadly distributed toxin family mediates contact-dependent antagonism between gram-positive bacteria

    John C Whitney;S Brook Peterson;Jungyun Kim;Manuel Pazos

  • Metagenomic evidence for taxonomic dysbiosis and functional imbalance in the gastrointestinal tracts of children with cystic fibrosis.

    Ohad Manor;Roie Levy;Christopher E. Pope;Hillary S. Hayden

  • Influence of early life exposure, host genetics and diet on the mouse gut microbiome and metabolome.

    Antoine M Snijders;Sasha A Langley;Young-Mo Kim;Colin J Brislawn

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucas R. Hoffman
Lucas R. Hoffman University of Washington
Eytan Ruppin
Eytan Ruppin National Institutes of Health
Joseph D. Mougous
Joseph D. Mougous University of Washington
Samuel I. Miller
Samuel I. Miller University of Washington
Marcus W. Feldman
Marcus W. Feldman Stanford University
Evan E. Eichler
Evan E. Eichler University of Washington
Christine Queitsch
Christine Queitsch University of Washington
Uri Gophna
Uri Gophna Tel Aviv University
Omry Koren
Omry Koren Bar-Ilan University
Roded Sharan
Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University

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