2026 Ron Shamir: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	81	1019	987	18	16	309	26699
Biology and Biochemistry	88	2682	2463	28	26	332	30590

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - ACM Fellow For contributions to bioinformatics.

Overview

Ron Shamir is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has a research focus spanning multiple domains in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work encompasses various subfields including molecular biology, artificial intelligence, genetics, surgery, and epidemiology.

Their main research topics include:

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Gut microbiota and health
Algorithms and Data Compression
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Ron Shamir has published extensively in several frequent venues, such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Bioinformatics
Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
Nucleic Acids Research
PLoS Computational Biology

Among recent papers, notable examples are:

PlasClass improves plasmid sequence classification, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
DOMINO: a network-based active module identification algorithm with reduced rate of false calls, 2021, Molecular Systems Biology
SCAPP: an algorithm for improved plasmid assembly in metagenomes, 2021, Microbiome
Classification of node-positive melanomas into prognostic subgroups using keratin, immune, and melanogenesis expression patterns, 2021, Oncogene
Melanoma-Secreted Lysosomes Trigger Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cell Apoptosis and Limit Cancer Immunotherapy, 2020, Cancer Research

Ron Shamir frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors who have contributed significantly to their publications. Key frequent coauthors include:

David Pellow
Dan Coster
Ran Elkon
Lianrong Pu
Hagai Levi

In addition to research articles, Ron Shamir has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer Science+Business Media:

Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, 2021

Throughout their career, the scientist has received recognition such as the ACM Fellow award in 2012, given for contributions to bioinformatics.

Best Publications

Clustering gene expression patterns.

Amir Ben-Dor;Ron Shamir;Zohar Yakhini

1808
Citations
Modelling and analysis of gene regulatory networks

Guy Karlebach;Ron Shamir

1589
Citations
Network-based prediction of protein function

Roded Sharan;Igor Ulitsky;Ron Shamir

1343
Citations
Discovering statistically significant biclusters in gene expression data.

Amos Tanay;Roded Sharan;Ron Shamir

1205
Citations
Dynamic changes in the copy number of pluripotency and cell proliferation genes in human ESCs and iPSCs during reprogramming and time in culture.

Louise C. Laurent;Louise C. Laurent;Igor Ulitsky;Igor Ulitsky;Ileana Slavin;Ha Tran

1038
Citations
Quantification of protein half-lives in the budding yeast proteome

Archana Belle;Amos Tanay;Ledion Bitincka;Ron Shamir

851
Citations
A clustering algorithm based on graph connectivity

Erez Hartuv;Ron Shamir

702
Citations
Center CLICK: A Clustering Algorithm with Applications to Gene Expression Analysis

Roded Sharan;Ron Shamir

677
Citations
Multi-omic and multi-view clustering algorithms: review and cancer benchmark

Nimrod Rappoport;Ron Shamir

559
Citations
Revealing modularity and organization in the yeast molecular network by integrated analysis of highly heterogeneous genomewide data

Amos Tanay;Roded Sharan;Martin Kupiec;Ron Shamir

517
Citations
Cluster graph modification problems

Ron Shamir;Roded Sharan;Dekel Tsur

500
Citations
CLICK and EXPANDER: a system for clustering and visualizing gene expression data.

Roded Sharan;Adi Maron-Katz;Ron Shamir

453
Citations
How prevalent is functional alternative splicing in the human genome

Rotem Sorek;Ron Shamir;Gil Ast

452
Citations
A Faster and Simpler Algorithm for Sorting Signed Permutations by Reversals

Haim Kaplan;Ron Shamir;Robert E. Tarjan

423
Citations
A Fast Algorithm for Joint Reconstruction of Ancestral Amino Acid Sequences

Tal Pupko;Itsik Pe;Ron Shamir;Dan Graur

419
Citations
A global view of pleiotropy and phenotypically derived gene function in yeast

Aimée Marie Dudley;Daniel Maarten Janse;Amos Tanay;Ron Shamir

408
Citations
Regulatory networks define phenotypic classes of human stem cell lines

Franz-Josef Müller;Franz-Josef Müller;Louise C. Laurent;Louise C. Laurent;Dennis Kostka;Igor Ulitsky

407
Citations
EXPANDER – an integrative program suite for microarray data analysis

Ron Shamir;Adi Maron-Katz;Amos Tanay;Chaim Linhart

401
Citations
Genome-Wide In Silico Identification of Transcriptional Regulators Controlling the Cell Cycle in Human Cells

Ran Elkon;Chaim Linhart;Roded Sharan;Ron Shamir

400
Citations
Conservation and evolvability in regulatory networks: The evolution of ribosomal regulation in yeast

Amos Tanay;Aviv Regev;Ron Shamir

392
Citations
Revealing modularity and organization in the yeast molecular network by integrated analysis of highl

Amos Tanay;Roded Sharan;Martin Kupiec;Ron Shamir

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University

Igor Ulitsky Weizmann Institute of Science

Ran Elkon Tel Aviv University

Amos Tanay Weizmann Institute of Science

Richard M. Karp University of California, Berkeley

Eran Halperin University of California, Los Angeles

Haim Kaplan Tel Aviv University

Yosef Shiloh Tel Aviv University

Martin Kupiec Tel Aviv University

Martin Charles Golumbic University of Haifa

External Links

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