Sofiya Kolusheva

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
120 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Sofiya Kolusheva is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofiya Kolusheva has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Organic Chemistry, 48 papers in Microbiology and 47 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sofiya Kolusheva's work include Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications (53 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (47 papers) and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (28 papers). Sofiya Kolusheva is often cited by papers focused on Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications (53 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (47 papers) and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (28 papers). Sofiya Kolusheva collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Sofiya Kolusheva's co-authors include Raz Jelinek, Ehud Gazit, Tamar Shahal, Shira Shaham‐Niv, Laurent Boyer, Roman Volinsky, Ravit Malishev, Thomas Schräder, Susanta Kumar Bhunia and Paz Elia and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sofiya Kolusheva

119 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Self-assembling dipeptide antibacterial nanostructures with membrane disrupting activity

2017 349 citations Lee Schnaider, Sayanti Brahmachari et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sofiya Kolusheva Israel	38	2.0k	1.8k	1.6k	1.2k	1.2k	120	5.0k
Raz Jelinek Israel	54	3.0k 1.5×	3.1k 1.8×	2.1k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	3.3k 2.9×	285	9.7k
Lynne J. Waddington Australia	42	1.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.3×	235 0.1×	1.9k 1.6×	1.1k 0.9×	99	4.7k
Sandeep Verma India	42	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	142 0.1×	1.1k 0.9×	3.2k 2.8×	284	7.5k
Ádám Mechler Australia	33	965 0.5×	2.1k 1.2×	551 0.3×	378 0.3×	448 0.4×	169	4.3k
Blake R. Peterson United States	36	1.1k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	266 0.2×	251 0.2×	689 0.6×	104	3.8k
Lisandra L. Martin Australia	36	390 0.2×	1.8k 1.0×	606 0.4×	402 0.3×	638 0.5×	194	4.2k
Michael Rappolt Austria	40	1.3k 0.6×	3.2k 1.8×	179 0.1×	740 0.6×	654 0.6×	145	5.2k
Steven L. Regen United States	46	3.2k 1.6×	3.7k 2.1×	255 0.2×	839 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	279	7.4k
M. Jayne Lawrence United Kingdom	36	2.3k 1.2×	2.1k 1.2×	86 0.1×	531 0.4×	653 0.6×	173	6.4k
Eneida de Paula Brazil	42	1000 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	106 0.1×	729 0.6×	421 0.4×	230	5.8k

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Kolusheva, Sofiya, et al.. (2025). Fabricating PCPDTBT/PC61BM organic solar cells using the PVD method. Heliyon. 11(2). e41561–e41561. 2 indexed citations

Kolusheva, Sofiya, et al.. (2024). Optical and Structural Properties of Anisotropic ZnS Nanoparticle Suspensions. Langmuir. 40(43). 22982–22989.

Ezersky, Vladimir, et al.. (2024). Water-Soluble Lead Sulfide Nanoparticles: Direct Synthesis and Ligand Exchange Routes. Nanomaterials. 14(14). 1235–1235. 1 indexed citations

Kolusheva, Sofiya, et al.. (2023). Self-assembly at the interface of λ-carrageenan and amphiphilic and cationic peptides: More than meets the eye. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 652(Pt B). 1897–1907. 2 indexed citations

Arad, Elad, et al.. (2022). Native Glucagon Amyloids Catalyze Key Metabolic Reactions. ACS Nano. 16(8). 12889–12899. 25 indexed citations

Basavalingappa, Vasantha, Santu Bera, Bin Xue, et al.. (2020). Diphenylalanine-Derivative Peptide Assemblies with Increased Aromaticity Exhibit Metal-like Rigidity and High Piezoelectricity. ACS Nano. 14(6). 7025–7037. 91 indexed citations

Schnaider, Lee, Dor Zaguri, Darya Bychenko, et al.. (2020). Ultrashort Cell-Penetrating Peptides for Enhanced Sonophoresis-Mediated Transdermal Transport. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 3(12). 8395–8401. 9 indexed citations

Barber-Zucker, S., et al.. (2020). The cation diffusion facilitator protein MamM's cytoplasmic domain exhibits metal-type dependent binding modes and discriminates against Mn2+. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(49). 16614–16629. 6 indexed citations

Kolusheva, Sofiya, et al.. (2020). Tyrosine carbon dots inhibit fibrillation and toxicity of the human islet amyloid polypeptide. Nanoscale Advances. 2(12). 5866–5873. 19 indexed citations

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Basavalingappa, Vasantha, Santu Bera, Bin Xue, et al.. (2019). Mechanically rigid supramolecular assemblies formed from an Fmoc-guanine conjugated peptide nucleic acid. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5256–5256. 29 indexed citations

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Davidov, Geula, et al.. (2019). Structure and membrane-targeting of a Bordetella pertussis effector N-terminal domain. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1861(12). 183054–183054. 10 indexed citations

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Dotan, Hen, Dino Klotz, Daniel A. Grave, et al.. (2018). Two-site H2O2 photo-oxidation on haematite photoanodes. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4060–4060. 27 indexed citations

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Kolusheva, Sofiya, et al.. (2018). Understanding the Biomineralization Role of Magnetite-Interacting Components (MICs) From Magnetotactic Bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 2480–2480. 24 indexed citations

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Arad, Elad, Susanta Kumar Bhunia, Jürgen Jopp, et al.. (2018). Lysine‐Derived Carbon Dots for Chiral Inhibition of Prion Peptide Fibril Assembly. Advanced Therapeutics. 1(4). 31 indexed citations

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Schnaider, Lee, Sayanti Brahmachari, Nathan W. Schmidt, et al.. (2017). Self-assembling dipeptide antibacterial nanostructures with membrane disrupting activity. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1365–1365. 349 indexed citations breakdown →

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Malishev, Ravit, Sukhendu Nandi, Sofiya Kolusheva, et al.. (2016). Bacoside-A, an anti-amyloid natural substance, inhibits membrane disruption by the amyloidogenic determinant of prion protein through accelerating fibril formation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1858(9). 2208–2214. 15 indexed citations

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Dolai, Susmita, et al.. (2016). Colorimetric Polydiacetylene–Aerogel Detector for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(3). 2891–2898. 145 indexed citations

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Nandi, Sukhendu, et al.. (2014). Membrane analysis with amphiphilic carbon dots. Chemical Communications. 50(71). 10299–10302. 83 indexed citations

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Kolusheva, Sofiya, Noémi Kedei, Nancy E. Lewin, et al.. (2014). Synthesis, biological, and biophysical studies of DAG-indololactones designed as selective activators of RasGRP. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 22(12). 3123–3140. 13 indexed citations

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Volinsky, Roman, Mark Kliger, Tania Sheynis, Sofiya Kolusheva, & Raz Jelinek. (2007). Glass-supported lipid/polydiacetylene films for colour sensing of membrane-active compounds. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 22(12). 3247–3251. 32 indexed citations

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