Noam Sobel

10.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Noam Sobel is a scholar working on Sensory Systems, Biomedical Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Noam Sobel has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Sensory Systems, 46 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 34 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Noam Sobel's work include Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (78 papers), Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (46 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (34 papers). Noam Sobel is often cited by papers focused on Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (78 papers), Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (46 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (34 papers). Noam Sobel collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Russia. Noam Sobel's co-authors include John D. E. Gabrieli, Gary H. Glover, Rehan M Khan, Joel D. Mainland, Yaara Yeshurun, Edith V. Sullivan, Adam K. Anderson, John E. Desmond, Vivek Prabhakaran and Iris Stappen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Noam Sobel

91 papers receiving 6.9k citations

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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.

Dissociated neural representations of intensity and valence in human olfaction

2003 858 citations Gary H. Glover, John D. E. Gabrieli et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Noam Sobel Israel	46	4.8k	2.7k	2.0k	1.9k	1.9k	91	7.0k
Jay A. Gottfried United States	39	3.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	3.6k 1.9×	1.8k 1.0×	80	7.9k
Johan N. Lundström Sweden	45	3.4k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	666 0.4×	133	5.8k
Charles J. Wysocki United States	39	3.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	441 0.2×	1.5k 0.8×	96	5.4k
David V. Smith United States	48	2.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	2.8k 1.4×	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	154	6.5k
Marilyn Jones‐Gotman Canada	47	3.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	3.4k 1.8×	2.5k 1.3×	95	9.1k
Moustafa Bensafi France	35	2.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	498 0.3×	695 0.4×	124	3.3k
Jean‐Pierre Royet France	33	1.6k 0.3×	720 0.3×	781 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	731 0.4×	54	4.0k
Burton M. Slotnick United States	41	2.4k 0.5×	660 0.2×	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	134	5.0k
Rachel S. Herz United States	29	2.1k 0.4×	686 0.3×	574 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	498 0.3×	55	3.6k
Regina M. Sullivan United States	60	2.7k 0.6×	410 0.2×	1.0k 0.5×	2.4k 1.3×	2.5k 1.3×	191	10.8k

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Snitz, Kobi, et al.. (2024). An electronic nose can identify humans by the smell of their ear. Chemical Senses. 49. 1 indexed citations

Perl, Ofer, et al.. (2020). Are humans constantly but subconsciously smelling themselves?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1800). 20190372–20190372. 16 indexed citations

Endevelt–Shapira, Yaara, et al.. (2019). Women Have Reduced Ability to Discriminate Body Odors During the Withdrawal Period of Oral Contraception. Chemosensory Perception. 13(2). 123–131. 5 indexed citations

Perl, Ofer, Aharon Ravia, Mica Rubinson, et al.. (2019). Human non-olfactory cognition phase-locked with inhalation. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(5). 501–512. 134 indexed citations

Geva‐Sagiv, Maya, et al.. (2016). Measuring and Characterizing the Human Nasal Cycle. PLoS ONE. 11(10). e0162918–e0162918. 75 indexed citations

Secundo, Lavi, Kobi Snitz, Kineret Weissler, et al.. (2015). Individual olfactory perception reveals meaningful nonolfactory genetic information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(28). 8750–8755. 36 indexed citations

Charland‐Verville, Vanessa, Damien Lesenfants, Lee Sela, et al.. (2014). Detection of response to command using voluntary control of breathing in disorders of consciousness. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 1020–1020. 16 indexed citations

Arzi, Anat, et al.. (2014). Olfactory Aversive Conditioning during Sleep Reduces Cigarette-Smoking Behavior. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(46). 15382–15393. 65 indexed citations

Yeshurun, Yaara, Liron Rozenkrantz, Sagit Shushan, et al.. (2011). Human Tears Contain a Chemosignal. Science. 331(6014). 226–230. 145 indexed citations

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Arzi, Anat & Noam Sobel. (2010). Spatial Perception: Time Tells Where a Smell Comes From. Current Biology. 20(13). R563–R564. 3 indexed citations

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Yeshurun, Yaara, Yadin Dudai, & Noam Sobel. (2008). Working memory across nostrils.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 122(5). 1031–1037. 21 indexed citations

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Bensafi, Moustafa, Noam Sobel, & Rehan M Khan. (2007). Hedonic-Specific Activity in Piriform Cortex During Odor Imagery Mimics That During Odor Perception. Journal of Neurophysiology. 98(6). 3254–3262. 119 indexed citations

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Spors, Hartwig & Noam Sobel. (2007). Male Behavior by Knockout. Neuron. 55(5). 689–693. 7 indexed citations

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Johnson, Brad, C.S. Russell, Rehan M Khan, & Noam Sobel. (2006). A Comparison of Methods for Sniff Measurement Concurrent with Olfactory Tasks in Humans. Chemical Senses. 31(9). 795–806. 43 indexed citations

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Porter, Jess, Brent A. Craven, Rehan M Khan, et al.. (2006). Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans. Nature Neuroscience. 10(1). 27–29. 249 indexed citations

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Mainland, Joel D., et al.. (2005). Olfactory Impairments in Patients with Unilateral Cerebellar Lesions Are Selective to Inputs from the Contralesional Nostril. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(27). 6362–6371. 52 indexed citations

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Mainland, Joel D., Natasha Young, Brad Johnson, et al.. (2002). One nostril knows what the other learns. Nature. 419(6909). 802–802. 74 indexed citations

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Sobel, Noam, et al.. (2001). The Scented Brain. Neuron. 31(4). 512–514. 18 indexed citations

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Sobel, Noam, Vivek Prabhakaran, John E. Desmond, et al.. (1998). Sniffing and smelling: separate subsystems in the human olfactory cortex. Nature. 392(6673). 282–286. 382 indexed citations

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Sobel, Noam, Vivek Prabhakaran, John E. Desmond, et al.. (1997). A method for functional magnetic resonance imaging of olfaction. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 78(1-2). 115–123. 55 indexed citations

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