David Avnir

25.8k total citations · 11 hit papers
336 papers, 20.4k citations indexed

About

David Avnir is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, David Avnir has authored 336 papers receiving a total of 20.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Materials Chemistry, 81 papers in Organic Chemistry and 80 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in David Avnir's work include Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (49 papers), Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (40 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (28 papers). David Avnir is often cited by papers focused on Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (49 papers), Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (40 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (28 papers). David Avnir collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Germany and United States. David Avnir's co-authors include Peter Pfeifer, Michael Ottolenghi, Bezalel Peleg, Mark Pinsky, David Lévy, Hagit Zabrodsky, R. Reisfeld, Dina Farin, Santiago Álvarez and Ovadia Lev and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

David Avnir

334 papers receiving 19.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Chemistry in noninteger dimensions between two and three. I. Fractal theory of heterogeneous surfaces

1983 974 citations David Avnir et al. profile →
Shape maps and polyhedral interconversion paths in transition metal chemistry

2005 968 citations Santiago Álvarez, Pere Alemany et al. profile →
The nature of the silica cage as reflected by spectral changes and enhanced photostability of trapped Rhodamine 6G

1984 783 citations David Avnir, R. Reisfeld et al. profile →
Continuous Symmetry Measures. 5. The Classical Polyhedra

1998 705 citations Mark Pinsky, David Avnir profile →
Enzymes and Other Proteins Entrapped in Sol-Gel Materials

1994 691 citations David Avnir, Sergei Braun et al. profile →
Recent bio-applications of sol–gel materials

2005 606 citations David Avnir et al. profile →
Continuous symmetry measures

1992 596 citations Bezalel Peleg, David Avnir et al. profile →
Multiple Resolution Texture Analysis and Classification

1984 576 citations Bezalel Peleg, David Avnir et al. profile →
Organic Chemistry within Ceramic Matrixes: Doped Sol-Gel Materials

1995 547 citations David Avnir profile →
An isotherm equation for adsorption on fractal surfaces of heterogeneous porous materials

1989 492 citations David Avnir et al. Langmuir profile →
Chemistry in noninteger dimensions between two and three. II. Fractal surfaces of adsorbents

1983 428 citations David Avnir et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Avnir Israel	64	8.8k	3.1k	2.9k	2.9k	2.9k	336	20.4k
Stuart A. Rice United States	69	8.1k 0.9×	3.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	3.4k 1.2×	2.9k 1.0×	462	26.4k
Jack L. Koenig United States	66	10.7k 1.2×	2.2k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	4.6k 1.6×	2.2k 0.8×	448	27.2k
Eli Ruckenstein United States	82	12.5k 1.4×	6.0k 1.9×	1.0k 0.4×	6.2k 2.1×	1.4k 0.5×	931	29.0k
David C. Sherrington United Kingdom	70	7.2k 0.8×	7.2k 2.3×	1.5k 0.5×	2.6k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	487	24.2k
Mischa Bonn Germany	90	10.7k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	2.4k 0.8×	4.3k 1.5×	4.2k 1.5×	614	30.3k
David Lee Phillips Hong Kong	61	9.0k 1.0×	4.2k 1.4×	2.0k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	495	18.4k
Michel Dupuis United States	65	10.2k 1.2×	7.8k 2.5×	3.7k 1.3×	1.8k 0.6×	5.2k 1.8×	243	34.6k
Chi Zhang China	73	11.4k 1.3×	2.1k 0.7×	6.0k 2.0×	3.4k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	811	22.7k
Alexander Wokaun Switzerland	81	12.1k 1.4×	1.5k 0.5×	4.7k 1.6×	5.5k 1.9×	4.2k 1.5×	591	30.1k
Francesco Zerbetto Italy	61	9.1k 1.0×	9.3k 3.0×	1.2k 0.4×	2.5k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	437	18.4k

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Avnir, David, et al.. (2022). 3D-printed complex-shaped chiral organosilica porous monoliths that display enantioselectivity. Additive manufacturing. 60. 103265–103265. 4 indexed citations

Avnir, David, et al.. (2020). The near-symmetry of protein oligomers: NMR-derived structures. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 8367–8367. 11 indexed citations

Lemieux, Robert P., et al.. (2018). Chiral organosilica particles and their use as inducers of conformational deracemization of liquid crystal phases. Chemical Physics Letters. 696. 112–118. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Vijay Bhooshan, Olga Girshevitz, David Avnir, Aharon Gedanken, & Ze’ev Porat. (2017). Stiffening of Metallic Gallium Particles by Entrapment of Organic Molecules. Crystal Growth & Design. 17(4). 2041–2045. 5 indexed citations

Pedahzur, Rami, et al.. (2015). Antibacterial activity of silver-killed bacteria: the "zombies" effect. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 9555–9555. 145 indexed citations

Avnir, David, et al.. (2008). Bioactive enzyme–metal composites: The entrapment of acid phosphatase within gold and silver. Biomaterials. 30(7). 1263–1267. 45 indexed citations

Pinsky, Mark, David Casanova, Pere Alemany, et al.. (2007). Symmetry operation measures. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 29(2). 190–197. 54 indexed citations

Abu‐Reziq, Raed, Jochanan Blum, & David Avnir. (2004). Three‐Phase Microemulsion/Sol–Gel System for Aqueous Catalysis with Hydrophobic Chemicals. Chemistry - A European Journal. 10(4). 958–962. 25 indexed citations

Álvarez, Santiago, David Avnir, Miquel Llunell, & Mark Pinsky. (2002). Continuous symmetry maps and shape classification. The case of six-coordinated metal compoundsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: tables of CSD refcodes, structural parameters and symmetry measures for the studied compounds. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/nj/b2/b202096n/. New Journal of Chemistry. 26(8). 996–1009. 408 indexed citations

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Pinsky, Mark, Kenny B. Lipkowitz, & David Avnir. (2001). Continuous Symmetry Measures. VI. The Relations Between Polyhedral Point-Group/Subgroup Symmetries. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry. 30(1). 109–120. 24 indexed citations

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Avnir, David & Sergei Braun. (1996). Biochemical aspects of sol-gel science and technology : a special issue of the Journal of sol-gel science and technology. Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Biham, Ofer, et al.. (1996). Apparent fractality emerging from models of random distributions. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 53(4). 3342–3358. 59 indexed citations

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Buch, V., Erez Gershgoren, Hagit Hel‐Or, & David Avnir. (1995). Symmetry loss as a criterion for cluster melting, with application to (D2)13. Chemical Physics Letters. 247(1-2). 149–153. 21 indexed citations

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Samuel, Joshua, Michael Ottolenghi, & David Avnir. (1992). Reactions at the gas-phase-porous-solid interface: Mechanisms and effects of surface geometry around room temperature. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 191(1-4). 153–167. 4 indexed citations

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Avnir, David & Amatzya Y. Meyer. (1991). Quantifying the degree of molecular shape distortion. a chirality measure. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 226(3-4). 211–222. 19 indexed citations

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Avnir, David, et al.. (1991). Fractal analysis of surface geometry effects on catalytic reactions. Surface Science Letters. 248(1-2). A240–A240. 35 indexed citations

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Peleg, Bezalel, et al.. (1990). Two-dimensional rotational dynamic chirality and a chirality scale. Langmuir. 6(11). 1691–1695. 26 indexed citations

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Avnir, David. (1989). The Fractal approach to heterogeneous chemistry : surfaces, colloids, polymers. Wiley eBooks. 166 indexed citations

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Reisfeld, R., et al.. (1983). Fluorescence of rare earth ions adsorbed on porous vycor glass. Chemical Physics Letters. 99(3). 238–239. 44 indexed citations

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Avnir, David, et al.. (1975). Disubstituted “K-region” arene oxides. Tetrahedron. 31(19). 2457–2459. 9 indexed citations

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