Michal Chowers

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Michal Chowers is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Michal Chowers has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Infectious Diseases, 25 papers in Epidemiology and 19 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Michal Chowers's work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (17 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (16 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (15 papers). Michal Chowers is often cited by papers focused on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (17 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (16 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (15 papers). Michal Chowers collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Canada. Michal Chowers's co-authors include Celsa A. Spina, Douglas D. Richman, J C Guatelli, T. Jesse Kwoh, Pnina Shitrit, Miriam Weinberger, N J Fitch, Ruth Lang, Michael Giladi and Ella Mendelson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Michal Chowers

91 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. BNT162b2 vaccine breakthrough: clinical characteristics of 152 fully vaccinated hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Israel
    2021 199 citations Tal Brosh‐Nissimov, Efrat Orenbuch‐Harroch et al. Clinical Microbiology and Infection profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michal Chowers 2.0k 1.0k 920 864 406 92 3.3k
Antonino Di 2.6k 1.3× 535 0.5× 952 1.0× 740 0.9× 310 0.8× 149 4.0k
Helmut Albrecht 1.4k 0.7× 865 0.8× 311 0.3× 1.0k 1.2× 493 1.2× 121 3.1k
Tom F.W. Wolfs 1.9k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 451 0.5× 2.2k 2.5× 519 1.3× 134 5.1k
Carlos Brites 1.9k 0.9× 727 0.7× 592 0.6× 925 1.1× 1.1k 2.6× 244 4.3k
Anu Kantele 1.8k 0.9× 512 0.5× 1.2k 1.3× 934 1.1× 853 2.1× 160 4.5k
Abraham Alabi 1.4k 0.7× 651 0.6× 544 0.6× 549 0.6× 410 1.0× 75 2.6k
Pathom Sawanpanyalert 2.1k 1.1× 407 0.4× 876 1.0× 1.8k 2.1× 478 1.2× 165 4.0k
Raymond Tzer Pin Lin 2.0k 1.0× 398 0.4× 1.1k 1.2× 1.2k 1.4× 204 0.5× 91 3.6k
Roberto Luzzati 1.9k 1.0× 296 0.3× 372 0.4× 1.5k 1.7× 191 0.5× 158 3.9k
Daan W. Notermans 4.1k 2.1× 2.0k 1.9× 500 0.5× 2.4k 2.8× 852 2.1× 131 6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michal Chowers

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All Works

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Saciuk, Yaki, Daniel Nevo, Michal Chowers, & Uri Obolski. (2025). Penicillin allergy as an instrumental variable for estimating antibiotic effects on resistance. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1088–1088. 1 indexed citations
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Shitrit, Pnina, Michal Chowers, & Khitam Muhsen. (2023). The development and validation of screening tools for semi-automated surveillance of surgical site infection following various surgeries. Frontiers in Medicine. 10. 1023385–1023385. 1 indexed citations
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Levy, Itzchak, Daniel Elbirt, Eduardo Shahar, et al.. (2023). Factors Associated with Virological Failure in First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in Patients Diagnosed with HIV-1 between 2010 and 2018 in Israel. Viruses. 15(12). 2439–2439. 4 indexed citations
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Chowers, Michal, et al.. (2023). Prediction of ciprofloxacin resistance in hospitalized patients using machine learning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 43–43. 12 indexed citations
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Brosh‐Nissimov, Tal, Khetam Hussein, Yonit Wiener‐Well, et al.. (2022). Hospitalized Patients With Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 During the Omicron Wave in Israel: Benefits of a Fourth Vaccine Dose. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76(3). e234–e239. 25 indexed citations
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Chowers, Michal, et al.. (2022). Estimating the impact of cefuroxime versus cefazolin and amoxicillin/clavulanate use on future collateral resistance: a retrospective comparison. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 77(7). 1992–1995. 7 indexed citations
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Shitrit, Pnina, et al.. (2021). Nosocomial outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a highly vaccinated population, Israel, July 2021. Eurosurveillance. 26(39). 42 indexed citations
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Shitrit, Pnina, et al.. (2021). Validation of a semiautomated system for surveillance of surgical site infection after cesarean section. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 43(10). 1505–1507. 4 indexed citations
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Shitrit, Pnina, et al.. (2021). Risk factors for surgical site infections following open versus laparoscopic colectomies: a cohort study. BMC Surgery. 21(1). 376–376. 13 indexed citations
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Brosh‐Nissimov, Tal, Efrat Orenbuch‐Harroch, Michal Chowers, et al.. (2021). BNT162b2 vaccine breakthrough: clinical characteristics of 152 fully vaccinated hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Israel. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 27(11). 1652–1657. 199 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ben‐Ami, Ronen, Galia Rahav, Danny Alon, et al.. (2020). Rituximab identified as an independent risk factor for severe PJP: A case-control study. PLoS ONE. 15(9). e0239042–e0239042. 18 indexed citations
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Chowers, Michal, Daniel Chemtob, Orna Mor, et al.. (2020). Continuum of HIV care of newly diagnosed individuals in Israel, 2011–2015: a population-based cohort study. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 31(4). 326–334. 1 indexed citations
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Gefen, Tal, Tal Capucha, Haitham Hajjo, et al.. (2020). Direct on-the-spot detection of SARS-CoV-2 in patients. Experimental Biology and Medicine. 245(14). 1187–1193. 32 indexed citations
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Ram, Daniela, Dena Leshkowitz, Dimitri Gonzalez, et al.. (2014). Evaluation of GS Junior and MiSeq next-generation sequencing technologies as an alternative to Trugene population sequencing in the clinical HIV laboratory. Journal of Virological Methods. 212. 12–16. 17 indexed citations
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Chowers, Michal, et al.. (2013). Economic Evaluation of Universal Antenatal HIV Screening Compared with Current “At Risk” Policy in Israel. Value in Health. 16(7). A359–A359. 1 indexed citations
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Elis, Avishay, et al.. (2009). Cryptococcal meningitis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients.. PubMed. 11(7). 437–9. 13 indexed citations
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Green, Manfred S., Miriam Weinberger, Hanna Bin, et al.. (2005). Long-term Death Rates, West Nile Virus Epidemic, Israel, 2000. Emerging infectious diseases. 11(11). 1754–1757. 21 indexed citations
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Spina, Celsa A., T. Jesse Kwoh, Michal Chowers, J C Guatelli, & Douglas D. Richman. (1994). The importance of nef in the induction of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication from primary quiescent CD4 lymphocytes.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 179(1). 115–123. 360 indexed citations

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