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Erez Y. Levanon

Erez Y. Levanon

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
57
Citations
18728
World Ranking
3368
National Ranking
34

Erez Y. Levanon publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Erez Y. Levanon sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 141 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Erez Y. Levanon D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Erez Y. Levanon sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Erez Y. Levanon is affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focused emphasis on Molecular Biology. Additional subfields of study include Epidemiology, Immunology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Genetics.

The main topics addressed in their work include RNA regulation and disease, RNA research and splicing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, CRISPR and genetic engineering, cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, viral infections and immunology research, as well as interferon and immune responses.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Levanon are:

  • Eli Eisenberg
  • Roni Cohen-Fultheim
  • Eli Kopel
  • Shay Ben-Aroya
  • Ilana Buchumenski

Levanon has published extensively in several journals and venues, with the most frequent ones being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Trends in Genetics

Selected recent papers from Levanon's research include:

  • Inherited retinal diseases: Linking genes, disease-causing variants, and relevant therapeutic modalities, 2021, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
  • A Parkinson's disease CircRNAs Resource reveals a link between circSLC8A1 and oxidative stress, 2020, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Landscape of adenosine-to-inosine RNA recoding across human tissues, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The cell line A-to-I RNA editing catalogue, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research

Best Publications

  • m6A mRNA methylation facilitates resolution of naïve pluripotency toward differentiation

    Shay Geula;Sharon Moshitch-Moshkovitz;Dan Dominissini;Abed Al Fatah Mansour

  • Human housekeeping genes, revisited.

    Eli Eisenberg;Erez Y. Levanon

  • Analysis of Intron Sequences Reveals Hallmarks of Circular RNA Biogenesis in Animals

    Andranik Ivanov;Sebastian Memczak;Emanuel Wyler;Francesca Torti

  • Human housekeeping genes are compact

    Eli Eisenberg;Erez Y. Levanon

  • Systematic identification of abundant A-to-I editing sites in the human transcriptome

    Erez Y Levanon;Erez Y Levanon;Eli Eisenberg;Rodrigo Yelin;Sergey Nemzer

  • Widespread occurrence of antisense transcription in the human genome

    Rodrigo Yelin;Dvir Dahary;Rotem Sorek;Erez Y. Levanon

  • Loss of ADAR1 in tumours overcomes resistance to immune checkpoint blockade.

    Jeffrey J. Ishizuka;Jeffrey J. Ishizuka;Robert T. Manguso;Robert T. Manguso;Collins K. Cheruiyot;Collins K. Cheruiyot;Kevin Bi;Kevin Bi

  • Genome-Wide Identification of Human RNA Editing Sites by Parallel DNA Capturing and Sequencing

    Jin Billy Li;Erez Y. Levanon;Jung-Ki Yoon;John Aach

  • A-to-I RNA editing occurs at over a hundred million genomic sites, located in a majority of human genes.

    Lily Bazak;Ami Haviv;Michal Barak;Jasmine Jacob-Hirsch;Jasmine Jacob-Hirsch

  • A-to-I RNA editing — immune protector and transcriptome diversifier

    Eli Eisenberg;Erez Y Levanon

  • Human thrombospondin polypeptide

    Liat Mintz;Hanqing Xie;Dvir Dahary;Erez Levanon

  • Altered adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing in human cancer

    Nurit Paz;Erez Y. Levanon;Erez Y. Levanon;Ninette Amariglio;Ninette Amariglio;Amy B. Heimberger

  • Methods and systems for annotating biomolecular sequences

    Alex Diber;Sarah Pollock;Zurit Levine;Sergey Nemzer

  • Elevated RNA Editing Activity Is a Major Contributor to Transcriptomic Diversity in Tumors.

    Nurit Paz-Yaacov;Lily Bazak;Ilana Buchumenski;Hagit T. Porath

  • Trade-off between Transcriptome Plasticity and Genome Evolution in Cephalopods.

    Noa Liscovitch-Brauer;Shahar Alon;Hagit T. Porath;Boaz Elstein

  • Preferential attachment in the protein network evolution.

    Eli Eisenberg;Erez Y. Levanon

  • Evolutionarily conserved human targets of adenosine to inosine RNA editing

    Erez Y. Levanon;Martina Hallegger;Yaron Kinar;Ronen Shemesh

  • A genome-wide map of hyper-edited RNA reveals numerous new sites

    Hagit T. Porath;Shai Carmi;Erez Y. Levanon

  • RNA-editing-mediated exon evolution

    Galit Lev-Maor;Rotem Sorek;Rotem Sorek;Erez Y Levanon;Erez Y Levanon;Nurit Paz

  • Corrigendum: Genome-wide adaptive complexes to underground stresses in blind mole rats Spalax.

    Xiaodong Fang;Eviatar Nevo;Lijuan Han;Erez Y. Levanon

Frequent Co-Authors

Gideon Rechavi
Gideon Rechavi Sheba Medical Center
Rotem Sorek
Rotem Sorek Weizmann Institute of Science
Ninette Amariglio
Ninette Amariglio Sheba Medical Center
Jin Billy Li
Jin Billy Li Stanford University
Elon Pras
Elon Pras Tel Aviv University
George M. Church
George M. Church Harvard University
Xiaodong Fang
Xiaodong Fang Beijing Genomics Institute
Eviatar Nevo
Eviatar Nevo University of Haifa
Hanna Mandel
Hanna Mandel Rambam Health Care Campus
Gil Ast
Gil Ast Tel Aviv University

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