Sharon Amit

9.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
109 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Sharon Amit is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharon Amit has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Infectious Diseases, 28 papers in Epidemiology and 16 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Sharon Amit's work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (26 papers), COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (14 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (10 papers). Sharon Amit is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (26 papers), COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (14 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (10 papers). Sharon Amit collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Australia. Sharon Amit's co-authors include Yinon Ben‐Neriah, Eli Pikarsky, Eithan Galun, Simcha Urieli-Shoval, Rinat Abramovitch, Ilan Stein, Rinnat M. Porat, Gili Regev‐Yochay, Jens Andersen and Ada Hatzubai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Sharon Amit

100 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

NF-κB functions as a tumour promoter in inflammation-associated cancer

2004 2.1k citations Sharon Amit et al. profile →
Covid-19 Breakthrough Infections in Vaccinated Health Care Workers

2021 814 citations Tal Gonen, Yaniv Lustig et al. profile →
Axin-mediated CKI phosphorylation of β-catenin at Ser 45: a molecular switch for the Wnt pathway

2002 587 citations Sharon Amit et al. profile →
Identification of the receptor component of the IκBα–ubiquitin ligase

1998 557 citations Sharon Amit et al. profile →
BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine and correlates of humoral immune responses and dynamics: a prospective, single-centre, longitudinal cohort study in health-care workers

2021 232 citations Yaniv Lustig, Gili Regev‐Yochay et al. profile →
Early rate reductions of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 in BNT162b2 vaccine recipients

2021 200 citations Sharon Amit, Gili Regev‐Yochay et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sharon Amit Israel	25	2.2k	1.9k	1.1k	1.1k	1.1k	109	6.1k
Ailong Huang China	45	3.0k 1.4×	2.8k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	618 0.6×	560 0.5×	265	8.1k
Qiuwei Pan Netherlands	46	2.2k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	809 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	235	7.9k
Kin‐Hang Kok Hong Kong	32	1.5k 0.7×	3.6k 1.8×	370 0.3×	1.3k 1.1×	542 0.5×	67	5.8k
Yushun Wan China	18	2.2k 1.0×	6.9k 3.6×	431 0.4×	834 0.8×	566 0.5×	30	9.3k
Lisa E. Gralinski United States	30	1.2k 0.5×	4.1k 2.1×	292 0.3×	981 0.9×	288 0.3×	53	5.9k
Jian Shang China	19	2.1k 0.9×	7.5k 3.9×	197 0.2×	863 0.8×	553 0.5×	58	9.7k
Qiwei Zhang China	35	1.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.2×	340 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	440 0.4×	203	5.9k
Yu Wang China	37	2.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	770 0.7×	247	5.9k
Jingmin Zhao China	26	1.1k 0.5×	4.5k 2.4×	317 0.3×	666 0.6×	813 0.8×	90	8.0k
Yanjun Zhang China	26	735 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	210 0.2×	427 0.4×	335 0.3×	194	3.5k

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Gilboa, Mayan, Maylis Layan, Gili Joseph, et al.. (2025). Factors Associated With the Transmission of the Delta Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variant in Households: The Israeli COVID-19 Family Study (ICoFS). The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 231(4). e734–e742.

Nesher, Lior, Tal Brosh‐Nissimov, Sharon Amit, et al.. (2025). Invasive Mould Infections Following Combat‐Related Injuries—A Retrospective Cohort Study. Mycoses. 68(2). e70028–e70028. 2 indexed citations

Gilboa, Mayan, Gili Regev‐Yochay, Eyal Meltzer, et al.. (2025). Antibiotic Use and the Risk of Hospital-Onset Clostridioides Difficile Infection. JAMA Network Open. 8(8). e2525252–e2525252.

Barda, Noam, Yaniv Lustig, Victoria Indenbaum, et al.. (2024). Risk factors and correlates of protection against XBB SARS-CoV-2 infection among health care workers. Vaccine. 42(26). 126308–126308. 4 indexed citations

Zahavi, I, Nathan Hasson, Elad Goldberg, et al.. (2024). Shorter vs. standard-duration antibiotic therapy for nocardiosis: a multi-center retrospective cohort study. Infection. 53(3). 1115–1127.

Stein‐Zamir, Chen, Hanna Shoob, Nitza Abramson, et al.. (2023). Invasive Disease Due to Neisseria meningitidis: Surveillance and Trends in Israel Prior to and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Microorganisms. 11(9). 2212–2212.

Gilboa, Mayan, Tal Gonen, Noam Barda, et al.. (2023). Factors Associated With Protection From SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Infection and Disease Among Vaccinated Health Care Workers in Israel. JAMA Network Open. 6(5). e2314757–e2314757. 20 indexed citations

Barda, Noam, Mayan Gilboa, Keren Asraf, et al.. (2022). The Association Between Prebooster Vaccination Antibody Levels and the Risk of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76(7). 1315–1317. 12 indexed citations

Barda, Noam, Mayan Gilboa, Victoria Indenbaum, et al.. (2022). Immunogenicity and efficacy of fourth BNT162b2 and mRNA1273 COVID-19 vaccine doses; three months follow-up. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7711–7711. 16 indexed citations

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Barda, Noam, Mayan Gilboa, Keren Asraf, et al.. (2022). Comparing immunogenicity and efficacy of two different mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines as a fourth dose; six-month follow-up, Israel, 27 December 2021 to 24 July 2022. Eurosurveillance. 27(39). 5 indexed citations

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Israeli, Ofir, Ohad Shifman, Shirley Lazar, et al.. (2022). Rapid Amplicon Nanopore Sequencing (RANS) for the Differential Diagnosis of Monkeypox Virus and Other Vesicle-Forming Pathogens. Viruses. 14(8). 1817–1817. 15 indexed citations

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Amit, Sharon, et al.. (2022). Viral load dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants following multiple vaccine doses and previous infection. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6706–6706. 29 indexed citations

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Lustig, Yaniv, Carmit Cohen, Asaf Biber, et al.. (2021). Immunoglobulin (Ig)A seropositivity against SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare workers in Israel, 4 April to 13 July 2020: an observational study. Eurosurveillance. 26(48).

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Furth, Noa, Adina Weinberger, Amiel A. Dror, et al.. (2021). Unified platform for genetic and serological detection of COVID-19 with single-molecule technology. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0255096–e0255096. 2 indexed citations

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Brosh‐Nissimov, Tal, et al.. (2021). Oropharyngeal shedding of herpesviruses before and after BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination against COVID-19. Vaccine. 39(40). 5729–5731. 23 indexed citations

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Fouks, Yuval, Shiri Shinar, Ariel Many, et al.. (2018). Empirical Antibiotic Treatment of Obstetric and Gynecologic Surgical Site Infections: Are the Right Pathogens Being Targeted?. Journal of Gynecologic Surgery. 34(5). 229–233. 1 indexed citations

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Rottenstreich, Amihai, et al.. (2018). Risk factors, clinical course and outcomes of pregnancy-related group A streptococcal infections: retrospective 13-year cohort study. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 25(2). 251.e1–251.e4. 9 indexed citations

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Braun, Tzipi, Ayelet Di Segni, James E. Squires, et al.. (2017). Fecal microbial characterization of hospitalized patients with suspected infectious diarrhea shows significant dysbiosis. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 1088–1088. 27 indexed citations

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Leshem‐Rubinow, Eran, Sharon Amit, Arie Steinvil, et al.. (2014). Frequency, Pattern, and Cause of Fever Following Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. The American Journal of Cardiology. 113(6). 1001–1005. 8 indexed citations

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Amit, Sharon, Hagit Mishali, T. Kotlovsky, Mitchell J. Schwaber, & Yehuda Carmeli. (2014). Bloodstream infections among carriers of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: etiology, incidence and predictors. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 21(1). 30–34. 52 indexed citations

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