Sharon Avidor

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 731 citations indexed

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Sharon Avidor is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharon Avidor has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 731 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Clinical Psychology, 12 papers in Social Psychology and 10 papers in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sharon Avidor's work include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (12 papers), Aging and Gerontology Research (10 papers) and Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (9 papers). Sharon Avidor is often cited by papers focused on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (12 papers), Aging and Gerontology Research (10 papers) and Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (9 papers). Sharon Avidor collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Russia. Sharon Avidor's co-authors include Yuval Palgi, Ehud Bodner, Amit Shrira, Yaakov Hoffman, Liat Ayalon, Lia Ring, Shoshi Keisari, Yoav S. Bergman, Sara Cohen-Fridel and Zahava Solomon and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Affective Disorders, Frontiers in Psychology and Psychiatry Research.

In The Last Decade

Sharon Avidor

28 papers receiving 715 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.

The loneliness pandemic: Loneliness and other concomitants of depression, anxiety and their comorbidity during the COVID-19 outbreak

2020 404 citations Yuval Palgi, Amit Shrira et al. Journal of Affective Disorders profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sharon Avidor Israel	11	410	274	235	163	132	29	731
Ji Hyun Lee United States	9	538 1.3×	323 1.2×	374 1.6×	66 0.4×	179 1.4×	20	903
Sara Cohen-Fridel Israel	15	647 1.6×	442 1.6×	274 1.2×	239 1.5×	128 1.0×	19	1.1k
María del Sequeros Pedroso‐Chaparro Spain	12	400 1.0×	246 0.9×	287 1.2×	122 0.7×	168 1.3×	30	745
Lucía Jiménez‐Gonzalo Spain	9	365 0.9×	217 0.8×	263 1.1×	99 0.6×	134 1.0×	25	634
Daniel Alaphilippe France	12	142 0.3×	287 1.0×	195 0.8×	148 0.9×	112 0.8×	38	599
José Fernándes-Pires Spain	8	352 0.9×	217 0.8×	265 1.1×	103 0.6×	128 1.0×	23	606
Dikla Segel‐Karpas Israel	16	180 0.4×	284 1.0×	274 1.2×	211 1.3×	186 1.4×	59	724
Alice M. Eccles United Kingdom	7	351 0.9×	346 1.3×	479 2.0×	75 0.5×	263 2.0×	9	836
Shoshi Keisari Israel	14	442 1.1×	334 1.2×	182 0.8×	67 0.4×	89 0.7×	44	801
Jingyi Wang China	10	370 0.9×	274 1.0×	328 1.4×	47 0.3×	226 1.7×	49	832

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Lahav, Yael, et al.. (2025). A double betrayal: The implications of institutional betrayal for trauma-related symptoms in intimate partner violence survivors.. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 96(1). 1–10. 1 indexed citations

Ring, Lia, Sharon Avidor, & Yuval Palgi. (2023). Reclaiming hope: Subjective nearness to death as a moderator between posttraumatic stress symptoms and hope among older adults. Stress and Health. 40(1). e3283–e3283. 2 indexed citations

Avidor, Sharon, Yuval Palgi, & Zahava Solomon. (2022). The experience of aging before one's time during the coronavirus pandemic among war veterans in Israel. Psychiatry Research. 316. 114786–114786. 2 indexed citations

Avidor, Sharon, Yael Lahav, & Zahava Solomon. (2021). The longitudinal associations between attitudes to aging and attachment insecurities among combat veterans.. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 91(2). 162–170. 1 indexed citations

Ayalon, Liat & Sharon Avidor. (2021). ‘We have become prisoners of our own age’: from a continuing care retirement community to a total institution in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. Age and Ageing. 50(3). 664–667. 25 indexed citations

Palgi, Yuval, Amit Shrira, Lia Ring, et al.. (2020). The loneliness pandemic: Loneliness and other concomitants of depression, anxiety and their comorbidity during the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Affective Disorders. 275. 109–111. 404 indexed citations breakdown →

Avidor, Sharon, Yossi Levi‐Belz, & Zahava Solomon. (2020). What predicts unremitting suicidal ideation? A prospective examination of the role of subjective age in suicidal ideation among ex-prisoners of war.. Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy. 13(3). 338–348. 1 indexed citations

Palgi, Yuval, Amit Shrira, Sharon Avidor, et al.. (2019). Understanding the long-term connections between posttraumatic stress, subjective age, and successful aging among midlife and older adults. European journal of psychotraumatology. 10(1). 19 indexed citations

Palgi, Yuval, Liat Ayalon, Sharon Avidor, Dikla Segel‐Karpas, & Ehud Bodner. (2018). On the edge: The association between extreme values of proportional felt-age and functioning. Psychiatry Research. 270. 538–543. 4 indexed citations

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Shrira, Amit, Yuval Palgi, Yaakov Hoffman, et al.. (2018). Subjective Age as a Moderator in the Reciprocal Effects Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Self-Rated Physical Functioning. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 1746–1746. 16 indexed citations

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Palgi, Yuval, Sharon Avidor, Amit Shrira, et al.. (2018). Perception Counts: The Relationships of Inner Perceptions of Trauma and PTSD Symptoms Across Time. Psychiatry. 81(4). 361–375. 18 indexed citations

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Gum, Amber M., et al.. (2017). Grip strength and quality of life in the second half of life: hope as a moderator. Aging & Mental Health. 22(12). 1600–1605. 9 indexed citations

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Itzhaky, Liat, Sharon Avidor, & Zahava Solomon. (2017). Long-Term Guilt and Hostility Underlying Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in War Combatants and Ex-Prisoners of War. Journal of Loss and Trauma. 22(3). 228–239. 3 indexed citations

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Avidor, Sharon, Yafit Levin, & Zahava Solomon. (2016). Guilt as a mediator between depressive symptoms and subjective age: A 17-year longitudinal study of Israeli ex-prisoners of war.. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 88(2). 199–210. 8 indexed citations

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Bodner, Ehud, Liat Ayalon, Sharon Avidor, & Yuval Palgi. (2016). Accelerated increase and relative decrease in subjective age and changes in attitudes toward own aging over a 4-year period: results from the Health and Retirement Study. European Journal of Ageing. 14(1). 17–27. 33 indexed citations

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Avidor, Sharon, Yuval Palgi, & Zahava Solomon. (2016). Lower subjective life expectancy in later life is a risk factor for posttraumatic stress symptoms among trauma survivors.. Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy. 9(2). 198–206. 5 indexed citations

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Palgi, Yuval, Liat Ayalon, Sharon Avidor, & Ehud Bodner. (2016). Changes in positive and negative affect as predictors of change in felt age: Results from the Health and Retirement Study. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 12(6). 605–612. 7 indexed citations

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Ayalon, Liat, Yuval Palgi, Sharon Avidor, & Ehud Bodner. (2015). Accelerated increase and decrease in subjective age as a function of changes in loneliness and objective social indicators over a four-year period: results from the health and retirement study. Aging & Mental Health. 20(7). 743–751. 32 indexed citations

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Avidor, Sharon, Yael Benyamini, & Zahava Solomon. (2014). Subjective age and Health in Later Life: the Moderating Role of Posttraumatic Symptoms. European Health Psychologist. 16. 396. 1 indexed citations

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Avidor, Sharon, Yael Benyamini, & Zahava Solomon. (2014). Subjective Age and Health in Later Life: The Role of Posttraumatic Symptoms. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 71(3). 415–424. 38 indexed citations

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