Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences

Research output

Research output per year 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2024

• 255559 Citations
• 169 h-index
• 4266 Article
• 362 Chapter
• 214 Review article
• 81 Conference contribution
• 387 More
  • 62 Comment/debate
  • 60 Meeting Abstract
  • 58 Letter
  • 57 Editorial
  • 49 Book
  • 19 Report
  • 16 Special issue
  • 13 Conference article
  • 10 Paper
  • 10 Poster
  • 7 Other contribution
  • 6 Foreword/postscript
  • 5 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 4 Abstract
  • 4 Short survey
  • 3 Book/Film/Article/Arts review
  • 2 Working paper
  • 1 Catalogue essay
  • 1 Discussion paper

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Implications of the RADAR trial: the dignity of risk taking

  Speyer, H. & Roe, D., Jan 2024, In: The Lancet Psychiatry. 11, 1, p. 10 1 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• No time to lose: Pandemic agreement—Urgency over complacency; unity over fragmentation

  Bauernfeind, A., Reid, J., Mccallum, A., Sheek-Hussein, M., Magid, A., Lopes, H., Cunningham, C., Green, M. S., Koivusalo, M., Sarkar, A., Middleton, J. & Davidovitch, N., 12 Aug 2024, (Published Online) In: International Journal of Health Planning and Management.

  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Who discovered rapid eye movement sleep? The claims for precedence

  Shochat, T. & Lavie, P., 12 Apr 2024, In: Sleep. 47, 4

  University of Haifa, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• 2023

  Bullous pemphigoid and neuropsychiatric medications: An influence of drugs or of underlying conditions?

  Kridin, K., Zelber-Sagi, S., Kridin, M. & Cohen, A. D., 1 Mar 2023, In: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 88, 3, p. e137

  University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• 2022

  Global multi-stakeholder endorsement of the MAFLD definition

  May 2022, In: The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 7, 5, p. 388-390 3 p.

  University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Myocarditis After BNT162b2 COVID-19 Third Booster Vaccine in Israel

  Mevorach, D., Anis, E., Cedar, N., Hasin, T., Bromberg, M., Goldberg, L., Levi, N., Perzon, O., Magadle, N., Barhoum, B., Parnassa, E., Dichtiar, R., Hershkovitz, Y., Green, M. S., Ash, N., Keinan-Boker, L. & Alroy-Preis, S., 6 Sep 2022, In: Circulation. 146, 10, p. 802-804 3 p.

  Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Myocarditis after BNT162b2 Vaccination in Israeli Adolescents

  Mevorach, D., Anis, E., Cedar, N., Hasin, T., Bromberg, M., Goldberg, L., Parnasa, E., Dichtiar, R., Hershkovitz, Y., Ash, N., Green, M. S., Keinan-Boker, L. & Alroy-Preis, S., 10 Mar 2022, In: New England Journal of Medicine. 386, 10, p. 998-999 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Severe Covid-19 Vaccine Side-Effects are Rare in Older Adults yet are Linked With Depressive Symptoms

  Hoffman, Y., Palgi, Y., Goodwin, R., Ben-Ezra, M. & Greenblatt-Kimron, L., Jan 2022, In: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 30, 1, p. 115-116 2 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Vaccines 100%
  • Depression 87%
• 2021

  A storm in a teacup: Older adults' low prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine side-effects and their link with vaccination anxiety

  Hoffman, Y., Palgi, Y., Goodwin, R., Ben-Ezra, M. & Greenblatt-Kimron, L., 7 Dec 2021, In: International Psychogeriatrics. 33, 12, p. 1335-1337 3 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Catastrophizing thinking towards itch and pain in chronic itch patients

  Granot, M., Yakov, S., Kuperman, P., Yosipovitch, G. & Ramon, M., Mar 2021, In: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. 35, 3, p. e241-e242

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Digital Therapeutics for Type 2 Diabetes: Incorporating Coaching Support and Validating Digital Monitoring

  Fundoiano-Hershcovitz, Y., Feniger, E., Dar, S., Ritholz, M., Schorr, A. B. & Goldstein, P., Sep 2021, In: Journal of diabetes science and technology. 15, 5, p. 1188-1189 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Exaggerated neurophysiological responses to stressor in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria

  Engel-Yeger, B., Maurer, M., Hawro, T., Zubedat, S., Avital, A. & Kessel, A., Jul 2021, In: Clinical and Experimental Allergy. 51, 7, p. 936-938 3 p.

  University of Haifa, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Factors associated with current posttraumatic stress disorder among COVID-19 vaccinated older adults in Israel

  Palgi, Y., Greenblatt-Kimron, L., Hoffman, Y., Goodwin, R. & Ben-Ezra, M., Oct 2021, In: Journal of Psychiatric Research. 142, p. 272-274 3 p.

  University of Haifa, Ariel University, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Israel 100%
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders 88%
  • Ageism 84%
  • Vaccines 54%
  • Vaccination 28%

• Increasing the clinical interpretability of PHQ-9 through equipercentile linking with health utility values by EQ-5D-3L

  Furukawa, T. A., Levine, S. Z., Buntrock, C. & Cuijpers, P., 1 Nov 2021, In: Evidence-Based Mental Health. 24, 4, p. E6

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Mental health care of patients with breast cancer in Bangladesh

  Alam, M. Z. B., Hia, M. S., Gidron, Y. & Al-Hakeem, M., 1 Jan 2021, In: The Lancet Psychiatry. 8, 1, p. 18-19 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• No psychological vaccination: Vaccine hesitancy is associated with negative psychiatric outcomes among Israelis who received COVID-19 vaccination

  Palgi, Y., Bergman, Y. S., Ben-David, B. & Bodner, E., 15 May 2021, In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 287, p. 352-353 2 p.

  University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

  • vaccination 100%
  • Israeli 78%
  • Vaccination 71%
  • Vaccines 67%
  • Psychiatry 66%

• Reply to: “Assessment of hepatic fibrosis in MAFLD: a new player in the evaluation of residual cardiovascular risk?”

  Zelber-Sagi, S., Schonmann, Y., Yeshua, H. & Bentov, I., Mar 2021, In: Digestive and Liver Disease. 53, 3, p. 385-386 2 p.

  University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Training Nurses to Better Deal with Ethical Dilemmas during Pandemics

  Sperling, D., 12 Dec 2021, In: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 15, 6, p. 671-672 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2020

  Antidepressants and the Risk of Dementia: Appropriate Consideration of Confounding by Indication

  Kodesh, A., Sandin, S., Reichenberg, A., Pedersen, N. L., Ericsson, M., Karlsson, I. K., Davidson, M. & Levine, S. Z., Apr 2020, In: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 28, 4, p. 499-500 2 p.

  University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Author response: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, liver fibrosis score and cognitive function in middle-aged adults: The Framingham study

  Weinstein, G., Davis-Plourde, K. L., Beiser, A. S. & Seshadri, S., 1 May 2020, In: Liver International. 40, 5, p. 1240 1 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Did the hesitancy in declaring COVID-19 a pandemic reflect a need to redefine the term?

  Green, M. S., 28 Mar 2020, In: The Lancet. 395, 10229, p. 1034-1035 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Response to Van Orden's Commentary on “COVID-19 Related Loneliness and Psychiatric Symptoms Among Older Adults: The Buffering Role of Subjective Age”

  Hoffman, Y. S. G., Shrira, A., Bodner, E. & Palgi, Y., Nov 2020, In: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 28, 11, p. 1208-1209 2 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• The loneliness pandemic: Loneliness and other concomitants of depression, anxiety and their comorbidity during the COVID-19 outbreak

  Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ring, L., Bodner, E., Avidor, S., Bergman, Y., Cohen-Fridel, S., Keisari, S. & Hoffman, Y., 1 Oct 2020, In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 275, p. 109-111 3 p.

  University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Loneliness 100%
  • comorbidity 96%
  • Pandemics 83%
  • Disease Outbreaks 69%
  • Comorbidity 61%
• 2019

  Emotion identification among people with serious mental illnesses: The role of specific emotions and sex

  Hasson-Ohayon, I., Mashiach-Eizenberg, M., Lavi-Rotenberg, A., Brüne, M. & Roe, D., Sep 2019, In: Psychiatry Research. 279, p. 378-379 2 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• If you’ve employed one person with autism …: An individual difference approach to the autism advantage at work

  Bury, S. M., Hedley, D., Uljarević, M., Dissanayake, C. & Gal, E., 1 Aug 2019, In: Autism. 23, 6, p. 1607-1608 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  • Autistic Disorder 100%
  • Individuality 96%
  • autism 96%
  • human being 52%
  • austin 24%

• Is there evidence for sex differences in the association between diabetes and cancer?

  Dankner, R., Boker, L. K. & Freedman, L. S., 1 Jan 2019, In: Diabetologia. 62, 1, p. 199-200 2 p.

  Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2018

  Complex PTSD and its correlates amongst female Yazidi victims of sexual slavery living in post-ISIS camps

  Hoffman, Y. S. G., Grossman, E. S., Shrira, A., Kedar, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Dinnayi, M., Koren, L., Bayan, R., Palgi, Y. & Zivotofsky, A. Z., Feb 2018, In: World Psychiatry. 17, 1, p. 112-113 2 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, Ariel University, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Deaths of children and women in Gaza hostilities – Authors' reply

  Rubin, L., Belmaker, I., Somekh, E., Rudolf, M. & Grossman, Z., 10 Feb 2018, In: The Lancet. 391, 10120, p. 540 1 p.

  University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Future time perspective, loneliness, and depressive symptoms among middle-aged adults: A mediation model

  Bergman, Y. S. & Segel-Karpas, D., 1 Dec 2018, In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 241, p. 173-175 3 p.

  Ariel University, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  • Loneliness 100%
  • Middle Aged 79%
  • mediation 65%
  • Depression 51%
  • Time Perception 31%

• Inequalities in non-communicable diseases in Israel – Authors' reply

  Muhsen, K., Green, M. S., Soskolne, V. & Neumark, Y., 10 Feb 2018, In: The Lancet. 391, 10120, p. 537 1 p.

  Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2017

  Association between 900 steps a day and functional decline in older hospitalized patients

  Agmon, M., Zisberg, A., Gil, E., Rand, D., Gur-Yaish, N. & Azriel, M., 1 Feb 2017, In: JAMA Internal Medicine. 177, 2, p. 272-274 3 p.

  University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Mammal domestication and the symbiotic spectrum

  Dekel, Y., Machluf, Y., Brand, R., Partouche, O. N., Ben-Shlomo, I. & Bercovich, D., 3 Jul 2017, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114, 27, p. E5280

  University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Regarding the Role of EI in Candidate Selection in Nursing Programs. A Response to Smith (2016) BSN Programs Admittance Criteria

  Zysberg, L. & Zisberg, A., 1 Jan 2017, In: Nursing Forum. 52, 1, p. 68-69 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• The effect of different terror exposures on the course of schizophrenia: A twenty-year follow-up of a random sample

  Weinstein, Y., Gelkopf, M., Roe, D. & Levine, S. Z., Nov 2017, In: Schizophrenia Research. 189, p. 215-216 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• 2016

  A youthful age identity mitigates the effect of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms on successful aging

  Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Hoffman, Y. & Bodner, E., 1 Feb 2016, In: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 24, 2, p. 174-175 2 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders 100%
  • Health 24%

• Reasons for discontinuing attendance at a group intervention among people with serious mental illness

  Roe, D., Hasson-Ohayon, I. & Gornemann, M. I., 1 Sep 2016, In: Psychiatric Services. 67, 9, p. 1043 1 p.

  University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Reply: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for pain: is it too early to standardise repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation protocols?

  Klein, M. M., Treister, R., Raij, T., Pascual-Leone, A., Park, L., Nurmikko, T., Lenz, F., Lefaucheur, J. P., Lang, M., Hallett, M., Fox, M., Costello, A., Carr, D. B., Ayache, S. S. & Oaklander, A. L., 1 May 2016, In: Pain. 157, 5, p. 1175-1176 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Response to the Letter to the Editor: Experimental Comparison of Parametric Versus Nonparametric Analyses of Data from the Cold Pressor Test

  Treister, R., Nielsen, C. S., Stubhaug, A., Farrar, J. T., Pud, D., Sawilowsky, S. & Oaklander, A. L., 1 Jan 2016, In: Journal of Pain. 17, 1, p. 128-129 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Response to The relationship between serum uric acid levels and NAFLD

  Zelber-Sagi, S., Ben-Assuli, O., Rabinowich, L., Shalev, V., Shibolet, O. & Chodick, G., 1 May 2016, In: Liver International. 36, 5, p. 769-770 2 p.

  University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• 2015

  Association between media use, acute stress disorder and psychological distress

  Goodwin, R., Palgi, Y., Lavenda, O., Hamama-Raz, Y. & Ben-Ezra, M., 15 Jun 2015, In: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 84, 4, p. 253-254 2 p.

  University of Haifa, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• From Hiroshima to Fukushima: PTSD symptoms and radiation stigma across regions in Japan

  Ben-Ezra, M., Shigemura, J., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Lavenda, O., Suzuki, M. & Goodwin, R., 1 Jan 2015, In: Journal of Psychiatric Research. 60, p. 185-186 2 p.

  Ariel University, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Impact of the body worlds exhibition on mental health indices and death-related fears: A before-after study

  Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y. & Goodwin, R., 1 Apr 2015, In: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 76, 4, p. 467 1 p.

  Ariel University, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• SMPD1 mutations and Parkinson disease

  Dagan, E., Adir, V., Schlesinger, I., Borochowitz, Z., Ayoub, M., Mory, A., Nassar, M., Kurolap, A., Aharon-Peretz, J. & Gershoni-Baruch, R., 1 Oct 2015, In: Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 21, 10, p. 1296-1297 2 p., 2742.

  University of Haifa, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
• 2014

  Fear of aging moderates post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among older adults exposed to hurricane sandy

  Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Goodwin, R., Hamama-Raz, Y. & Ben-Ezra, M., Jul 2014, In: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 22, 7, p. 741 1 p.

  University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University, Ariel University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Improving mental health is key to reduce violence in Israel and Gaza

  Canetti, D., Hall, B. J., Greene, T., Kane, J. C. & Hobfoll, S. E., 2014, In: The Lancet. 384, 9942, p. 493-494 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Re: Author's reply

  Agmon, M., Belza, B., Nguyen, H. Q., Logsdon, R. G. & Kelly, V. E., 4 Jul 2014, In: Clinical Interventions in Aging. 9, p. 1039-1042 4 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Response to Letter to the Editor: Comment on Laufer etal. entitled "Effectiveness of thermal and athermal short-wave diathermy for the management of knee osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis"

  Laufer, Y. & Dar, G., Apr 2014, In: Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 22, 4, p. 607-608 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2013

  Against all odds: A preliminary study comparing hospital personnel and rescue personnel reactions to Haiti's earthquake

  Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Soffer, Y. & Shrira, A., Jan 2013, In: General Hospital Psychiatry. 35, 1, p. e1

  Ariel University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  • Haiti 100%
  • Hospital Personnel 97%
  • Earthquakes 91%
  • Mobile Health Units 50%
  • Occupational Groups 49%

• Comparing symptom response among antipsychotic medications in CATIE

  Levine, S. Z., Rabinowitz, J., Ascher-Svanum, H., Faries, D. E. & Lawson, A. H., Feb 2013, In: Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 33, 1, p. 123-126 4 p.

  University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Do these large numbers contrast multiple smaller-number prior studies? RE: Kauther et al. 2012, Cervical range of motion and strength in 4,293 young male adults with chronic neck pain. European Spine Journal 21:1522-1527

  Sarig-Bahat, H., May 2013, In: European Spine Journal. 22, 5, p. 1191-1192 2 p.

  University of Haifa

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access