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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
109
Citations
73705
World Ranking
985
National Ranking
7

Uri Alon 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 Uri Alon sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 342 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Uri Alon 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 Uri Alon sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Uri Alon is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, engaging in research situated primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine.

The scope of their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Artificial Intelligence, Physiology, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Their research topics emphasize Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Birth, Development, and Health, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity.

Notable recent publications by Uri Alon include:

  • "Tumour heterogeneity and the evolutionary trade-offs of cancer," 2020, Nature reviews. Cancer
  • "On the Bottleneck of Graph Neural Networks and its Practical Implications," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Neural reverse engineering of stripped binaries using augmented control flow graphs," 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • "p16-dependent increase of PD-L1 stability regulates immunosurveillance of senescent cells," 2024, Nature Cell Biology
  • "Senescent cell accumulation mechanisms inferred from parabiosis," 2020, GeroScience

Uri Alon frequently publishes alongside collaborators who contribute significantly to their body of work. Frequent co-authors include Avi Mayo, Omer Karin, Tomer Milo, A. Bar, and Yael Korem Kohanim.

Their research findings often appear in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), iScience, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Nature Communications. The majority of publications are concentrated in bioRxiv with a notable presence in arXiv as well.

Uri Alon has been recognized by the scientific community with awards, including membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks

    R. Milo;S. Shen-Orr;S. Itzkovitz;N. Kashtan

  • Broad patterns of gene expression revealed by clustering analysis of tumor and normal colon tissues probed by oligonucleotide arrays.

    U. Alon;N. Barkai;D. A. Notterman;K. Gish

  • An introduction to systems biology : design principles of biological circuits

    Uri Alon

  • Network motifs: theory and experimental approaches

    Uri Alon

  • Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli

    Shai S. Shen-Orr;Ron Milo;Shmoolik Mangan;Uri Alon

  • Structure and function of the feed-forward loop network motif

    S. Mangan;U. Alon

  • Superfamilies of evolved and designed networks.

    Ron Milo;Shalev Itzkovitz;Nadav Kashtan;Reuven Levitt

  • Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis

    U. Alon;M. G. Surette;N. Barkai;S. Leibler

  • Gene Regulation at the Single-Cell Level

    Nitzan Rosenfeld;Jonathan W. Young;Uri Alon;Peter S. Swain

  • Dynamics of the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop in individual cells

    Galit Lahav;Nitzan Rosenfeld;Alex Sigal;Naama Geva-Zatorsky

  • An introduction to systems biology

    Uri Alon

  • Spontaneous evolution of modularity and network motifs

    Nadav Kashtan;Uri Alon

  • A comprehensive library of fluorescent transcriptional reporters for Escherichia coli

    Alon Zaslaver;Anat Bren;Michal Ronen;Shalev Itzkovitz

  • Optimality and evolutionary tuning of the expression level of a protein

    Erez Dekel;Uri Alon

  • Negative autoregulation speeds the response times of transcription networks.

    Nitzan Rosenfeld;Michael B Elowitz;Uri Alon

  • Generation of oscillations by the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop: A theoretical and experimental study

    Ruth Lev Bar-Or;Ruth Maya;Lee A. Segel;Uri Alon

  • Transcriptional Gene Expression Profiles of Colorectal Adenoma, Adenocarcinoma, and Normal Tissue Examined by Oligonucleotide Arrays

    Daniel A. Notterman;Uri Alon;Alexander J. Sierk;Arnold J. Levine

  • Biological networks: the tinkerer as an engineer.

    U. Alon

  • Oscillations and variability in the p53 system

    Naama Geva-Zatorsky;Nitzan Rosenfeld;Shalev Itzkovitz;Ron Milo

  • Efficient sampling algorithm for estimating subgraph concentrations and detecting network motifs

    N. Kashtan;S. Itzkovitz;R. Milo;U. Alon

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron Milo
Ron Milo Weizmann Institute of Science
Shalev Itzkovitz
Shalev Itzkovitz Weizmann Institute of Science
Bradley A. Warady
Bradley A. Warady Children's Mercy Hospital
Eran Yahav
Eran Yahav Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Omer Levy
Omer Levy Deep Mind
Eduardo D. Sontag
Eduardo D. Sontag Northeastern University
Gabi Ben-Dor
Gabi Ben-Dor Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Michael B. Elowitz
Michael B. Elowitz California Institute of Technology
Michael G. Surette
Michael G. Surette McMaster University
Paolo Milani
Paolo Milani University of Milan

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