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55
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11506
World Ranking
15005
National Ranking
150

Uri Gophna 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 Gophna sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 196 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Uri Gophna 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 Gophna sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Uri Gophna is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with publications also covering Medicine. The subfields of their work include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Insect Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics of Uri Gophna's research encompass:

  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences

Their recent notable publications include:

  • "Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages" (2022), published in Cell
  • "Antibiotic resistance: turning evolutionary principles into clinical reality" (2020), published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • "Mining metatranscriptomes reveals a vast world of viroid-like circular RNAs" (2023), published in Cell
  • "Carriage of Colibactin-producing Bacteria and Colorectal Cancer Risk" (2020), published in Trends in Microbiology
  • "Horizontal Gene Transfer in Archaea-From Mechanisms to Genome Evolution" (2022), published in Annual Review of Microbiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Uri Gophna include:

  • Leah Reshef
  • Iris Dotan
  • Uri Neri
  • Vadim Dubinsky
  • Simon Roux

The most common publication venues where Uri Gophna has contributed are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nutrients
  • Gastroenterology

Best Publications

  • Differences between Tissue-Associated Intestinal Microfloras of Patients with Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    Uri Gophna;Katrin Sommerfeld;Sharon Gophna;W. Ford Doolittle

  • Competitive and cooperative metabolic interactions in bacterial communities.

    Shiri Freilich;Raphy Zarecki;Omer Eilam;Ella Shtifman Segal

  • Oscillospira: a Central, Enigmatic Component of the Human Gut Microbiota

    Tom Konikoff;Uri Gophna

  • Oscillospira and related bacteria - From metagenomic species to metabolic features.

    Uri Gophna;Tom Konikoff;Henrik Bjørn Nielsen

  • Bacterial type III secretion systems are ancient and evolved by multiple horizontal-transfer events.

    Uri Gophna;Eliora Z. Ron;Dan Graur

  • The large-scale organization of the bacterial network of ecological co-occurrence interactions

    Shiri Freilich;Anat Kreimer;Isacc Meilijson;Uri Gophna

  • Curli fibers mediate internalization of Escherichia coli by eukaryotic cells.

    U. Gophna;M. Barlev;R. Seijffers;T. A. Oelschlager

  • Genotype Is a Stronger Determinant than Sex of the Mouse Gut Microbiota

    Amir Kovacs;Noa Ben-Jacob;Hanna Tayem;Eran Halperin

  • The evolution of modularity in bacterial metabolic networks

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

  • Antibiotic resistance: turning evolutionary principles into clinical reality.

    Dan I Andersson;Nathalie Q Balaban;Fernando Baquero;Patrice Courvalin

  • The complexity hypothesis revisited: connectivity rather than function constitutes a barrier to horizontal gene transfer

    Ofir Cohen;Uri Gophna;Tal Pupko;Tal Pupko

  • Gastric microbiota is altered in oesophagitis and Barrett's oesophagus and further modified by proton pump inhibitors

    Itay Amir;Fred M. Konikoff;Fred M. Konikoff;Michal Oppenheim;Uri Gophna;Uri Gophna

  • Interactions between the intestinal microbiota and bile acids in gallstones patients.

    Nirit Keren;Nirit Keren;Fred M. Konikoff;Fred M. Konikoff;Yossi Paitan;Gila Gabay

  • Harnessing the landscape of microbial culture media to predict new organism-media pairings

    Matthew A. Oberhardt;Matthew A. Oberhardt;Raphy Zarecki;Sabine Gronow;Elke Lang

  • Archaea in and on the Human Body: Health Implications and Future Directions.

    Mor N. Lurie-Weinberger;Uri Gophna

  • Association between translation efficiency and horizontal gene transfer within microbial communities

    Tamir Tuller;Yana Girshovich;Yael Sella;Avi Kreimer

  • Low Species Barriers in Halophilic Archaea and the Formation of Recombinant Hybrids

    Adit Naor;Pascal Lapierre;Moshe Mevarech;R. Thane Papke

  • No evidence of inhibition of horizontal gene transfer by CRISPR–Cas on evolutionary timescales

    Uri Gophna;David M Kristensen;Yuri I Wolf;Ovidiu Popa

  • Virulence factors of septicemic Escherichia coli strains.

    Daphna Mokady;Uri Gophna;Eliora Z. Ron

  • The formation of Escherichia coli curli amyloid fibrils is mediated by prion-like peptide repeats.

    Izhack Cherny;Liat Rockah;Orlev Levy-Nissenbaum;Uri Gophna

Frequent Co-Authors

Eliora Z. Ron
Eliora Z. Ron Tel Aviv University
Eytan Ruppin
Eytan Ruppin National Institutes of Health
Martin Kupiec
Martin Kupiec Tel Aviv University
Tal Pupko
Tal Pupko Tel Aviv University
W. Ford Doolittle
W. Ford Doolittle Dalhousie University
Elhanan Borenstein
Elhanan Borenstein Tel Aviv University
Tamir Tuller
Tamir Tuller Tel Aviv University
Yehuda Benayahu
Yehuda Benayahu Tel Aviv University
Joerg Hacker
Joerg Hacker University of Würzburg
Roded Sharan
Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University

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