Barak Gordon

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Barak Gordon is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Barak Gordon has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Epidemiology, 12 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 10 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Barak Gordon's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (9 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (8 papers). Barak Gordon is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (9 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (8 papers). Barak Gordon collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Czechia. Barak Gordon's co-authors include Arnon Afek, Dorit Tzur, Estela Derazne, Amir Tirosh, Ari Shamiss, Assaf Rudich, Ari Shamis, Nir Ayalon, Iris Shai and Shlomo Vinker and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Barak Gordon

54 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Adolescent BMI Trajectory and Risk of Diabetes versus Coronary Disease

2011 507 citations Amir Tirosh, Iris Shai et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barak Gordon Israel	19	516	300	269	231	228	61	1.6k
Diana P. Pozuelo‐Carrascosa Spain	23	418 0.8×	231 0.8×	136 0.5×	111 0.5×	269 1.2×	71	1.5k
Audrey C. Choh United States	25	718 1.4×	364 1.2×	500 1.9×	253 1.1×	784 3.4×	55	2.1k
Wayne Wisemandle United States	20	451 0.9×	174 0.6×	278 1.0×	144 0.6×	381 1.7×	40	2.0k
Gabriel Cavada Chile	23	293 0.6×	160 0.5×	210 0.8×	190 0.8×	129 0.6×	143	1.7k
Marwan Jumean United States	12	560 1.1×	326 1.1×	134 0.5×	161 0.7×	538 2.4×	37	1.5k
Mabel Yap Singapore	9	673 1.3×	178 0.6×	149 0.6×	243 1.1×	598 2.6×	9	1.7k
Chris Cowell Australia	29	926 1.8×	137 0.5×	385 1.4×	217 0.9×	634 2.8×	74	2.3k
Angela Jacques Australia	21	471 0.9×	159 0.5×	218 0.8×	290 1.3×	196 0.9×	152	1.8k
Gowri Raman United States	19	336 0.7×	96 0.3×	150 0.6×	391 1.7×	137 0.6×	51	1.9k
Stephen W. Farrell United States	22	558 1.1×	508 1.7×	111 0.4×	86 0.4×	924 4.1×	56	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barak Gordon

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zubedat, Salman, et al.. (2025). Attention Regulation Among Sleep‐Deprived Air‐Force Pilots. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 103(6). e70052–e70052.

Gordon, Barak, et al.. (2025). EEG-based prediction of reaction time during sleep deprivation. SLEEP. 48(7).

Gidron, Yori, et al.. (2025). Pre-training heart rate variability as a predictor of Air Force Academy completion. PLoS ONE. 20(8). e0327406–e0327406.

Lotan, Raphael, Ran Thein, Barak Gordon, et al.. (2023). Is There an Association between BMI, Height, and Gender and Long-Bone Fractures during Childhood and Adolescence? A Large Cross-Sectional Population Study of 911,206 Subjects. Children. 10(6). 984–984. 1 indexed citations

Ketko, Itay, Gilad Twig, Barak Gordon, et al.. (2021). Self-reported symptoms in healthy young adults to predict potential coronavirus disease 2019. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 27(4). 618–623. 6 indexed citations

Afek, Arnon, Gilad Twig, Eran Pras, et al.. (2019). Myopia and Childhood Migration. Ophthalmology. 127(6). 713–723. 12 indexed citations

Levy, Yuval, et al.. (2018). Aviator’s Fluid Balance During Military Flight. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. 89(2). 94–98. 4 indexed citations

Sterkin, Anna, Yuval Levy, Russell Pokroy, et al.. (2017). Vision improvement in pilots with presbyopia following perceptual learning. Vision Research. 152. 61–73. 33 indexed citations

Gordon, Barak, Gilad Twig, Joseph Mendlovic, et al.. (2017). Immigration to Israel during childhood is associated with diabetes at adolescence: a study of 2.7 million adolescents. Diabetologia. 60(11). 2226–2230. 9 indexed citations

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Grossman, Alon, et al.. (2017). Hearing threshold shifts among military pilots of the Israeli Air Force. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. 164(1). 46–51. 5 indexed citations

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Gordon, Barak, et al.. (2016). Hearing Loss in Israeli Air Force Aviators: Natural History and Risk Factors. Military Medicine. 181(7). 687–692. 4 indexed citations

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Klang, Eyal, et al.. (2015). Scrotal Hematoma Precipitated by Centrifuge Training in a Fighter Pilot with an Asymptomatic Varicocele. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. 86(12). 1063–1065. 2 indexed citations

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Sterkin, Anna, Oren Yehezkel, Maria Lev, et al.. (2014). Perceptual learning improves near vision in pilots with eye aging.. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 1173–1173. 4 indexed citations

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Twig, Gilad, Estela Derazne, Dorit Tzur, et al.. (2014). The immigration effect on obesity and overweight in Israeli Jewish male adolescents born 1970–1993. Annals of Epidemiology. 24(6). 424–431. 4 indexed citations

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Gordon, Barak, Arnon Afek, Estela Derazne, et al.. (2014). The Association Between Body Mass Index and Increased Utilization of Healthcare Services: A Retrospective Cohort Study of 51, 521 Young Adult Males. Endocrine Practice. 20(7). 638–645. 5 indexed citations

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Hershkovich, Oded, Barak Gordon, Estela Derazne, et al.. (2013). Associations of Body Mass Index and Body Height With Low Back Pain in 829,791 Adolescents. American Journal of Epidemiology. 178(4). 603–609. 73 indexed citations

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Levi, Zohar, Ari Shamiss, Gerald Fraser, et al.. (2013). The Increasing Prevalence of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Among Jewish Adolescents and the Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Diagnosis. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 19(9). 1–1. 15 indexed citations

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Hershkovich, Oded, Alon Friedlander, Barak Gordon, et al.. (2013). Association between body mass index, body height, and the prevalence of spinal deformities. The Spine Journal. 14(8). 1581–1587. 37 indexed citations

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Twig, Gilad, Arnon Afek, Ari Shamiss, et al.. (2012). White Blood Cell Count and the Risk for Coronary Artery Disease in Young Adults. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e47183–e47183. 57 indexed citations

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Tirosh, Amir, Iris Shai, Arnon Afek, et al.. (2011). Adolescent BMI Trajectory and Risk of Diabetes Versus Coronary Disease. Survey of Anesthesiology. 55(6). 296–297. 3 indexed citations

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