Yaakov Hoffman

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Yaakov Hoffman is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaakov Hoffman has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Clinical Psychology, 14 papers in Social Psychology and 14 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Yaakov Hoffman's work include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (20 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (14 papers) and Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (13 papers). Yaakov Hoffman is often cited by papers focused on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (20 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (14 papers) and Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (13 papers). Yaakov Hoffman collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United Kingdom and Russia. Yaakov Hoffman's co-authors include Amit Shrira, Yuval Palgi, Ehud Bodner, Ephraim S. Grossman, Yoav S. Bergman, Sharon Avidor, Lia Ring, Sara Cohen-Fridel, Shoshi Keisari and Gary M. Diamond and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Yaakov Hoffman

52 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

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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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yaakov Hoffman Israel	15	794	398	319	184	162	53	1.2k
Amanda A. Sesker United States	16	814 1.0×	486 1.2×	470 1.5×	228 1.2×	162 1.0×	36	1.4k
Ji Hyun Lee United States	9	538 0.7×	323 0.8×	374 1.2×	179 1.0×	112 0.7×	20	903
Sara Cohen-Fridel Israel	15	647 0.8×	442 1.1×	274 0.9×	128 0.7×	106 0.7×	19	1.1k
Yoav S. Bergman Israel	20	691 0.9×	626 1.6×	423 1.3×	237 1.3×	140 0.9×	65	1.5k
Carsten Hinrichsen Denmark	13	647 0.8×	466 1.2×	629 2.0×	413 2.2×	159 1.0×	20	1.5k
Peter Tavel Czechia	17	409 0.5×	279 0.7×	274 0.9×	161 0.9×	98 0.6×	107	1.0k
Teresa Mayordomo Spain	16	465 0.6×	311 0.8×	150 0.5×	186 1.0×	100 0.6×	42	1.0k
Shoshi Keisari Israel	14	442 0.6×	334 0.8×	182 0.6×	89 0.5×	99 0.6×	44	801
Sara Cloonan United States	10	700 0.9×	358 0.9×	310 1.0×	210 1.1×	129 0.8×	20	1.1k
Kimberly Wallace United States	9	788 1.0×	486 1.2×	193 0.6×	204 1.1×	138 0.9×	10	1.3k

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Gazit, Tali, Yoav S. Bergman, Yaakov Hoffman, Gali H. Weissberger, & Amit Shrira. (2025). The effect of positive and negative daily social media emotional experiences on older adults’ subjective age: Unveiling the negativity bias in WhatsApp groups. New Media & Society. 28(3). 929–950. 1 indexed citations

Palgi, Yuval, Lee Greenblatt‐Kimron, Yaakov Hoffman, et al.. (2024). PTSD symptoms and subjective traumatic outlook in the Israel-Hamas war: Capturing a broader picture of posttraumatic reactions. Psychiatry Research. 339. 116096–116096. 12 indexed citations

Greenblatt‐Kimron, Lee, Yaakov Hoffman, Menachem Ben‐Ezra, Robin Goodwin, & Yuval Palgi. (2022). COVID-19 post-vaccination depression in older Israeli adults: the role of negative world assumptions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9. 45–48. 6 indexed citations

Cohn‐Schwartz, Ella, Yaakov Hoffman, & Amit Shrira. (2022). Reciprocal associations of posttraumatic stress symptoms and cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults: The mediating role of depression. International Psychogeriatrics. 36(2). 119–129. 2 indexed citations

Hoffman, Yaakov, Yafit Levin, Yuval Palgi, et al.. (2022). Vaccine hesitancy prospectively predicts nocebo side-effects following COVID-19 vaccination. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 20018–20018. 10 indexed citations

Cohn‐Schwartz, Ella, Yaakov Hoffman, & Amit Shrira. (2022). The effect of pre-pandemic PTSD and depression symptoms on mental distress among older adults during COVID-19. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 151. 633–637. 6 indexed citations

Shrira, Amit, et al.. (2021). Subjective Age and Late-Life Functional Status: Mediating and Moderating Effects. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 77(1). 61–70. 3 indexed citations

Hoffman, Yaakov, Yaira Hamama‐Raz, Menachem Ben‐Ezra, & Osnat Lavenda. (2021). A Dissociation Between Two Cognitive Biases in Acute Stress Disorder: Preliminary Evidence for the Reverse Gambling Fallacy. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 45(4). 783–794. 1 indexed citations

Greenblatt‐Kimron, Lee, Lia Ring, Yaakov Hoffman, et al.. (2021). Subjective accelerated aging moderates the association between COVID-19 health worries and peritraumatic distress among older adults. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. e16–e16. 11 indexed citations

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Bodner, Ehud, Amit Shrira, Yaakov Hoffman, & Yoav S. Bergman. (2020). Day-to-Day Variability in Subjective Age and Ageist Attitudes and Their Association With Depressive Symptoms. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 76(5). 836–844. 27 indexed citations

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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 →

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Hoffman, Yaakov, et al.. (2019). “Spidey Can”: Preliminary Evidence Showing Arachnophobia Symptom Reduction Due to Superhero Movie Exposure. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 10. 354–354. 6 indexed citations

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Grossman, Ephraim S., et al.. (2018). Preliminary evidence linking complex-PTSD to insomnia in a sample of Yazidi genocide survivors. Psychiatry Research. 271. 161–166. 18 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Yaakov. (2017). Who is afraid of ISIS? ISIS anxiety and its correlates. Stress and Health. 34(1). 84–92. 11 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Yaakov, Amit Shrira, Ehud Bodner, & Menachem Ben‐Ezra. (2017). Prime and prejudice: The effect of priming context and prejudicial attitudes on post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms following immigrant violence. Psychiatry Research. 254. 224–231. 4 indexed citations

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Lavenda, Osnat, Ephraim S. Grossman, Menachem Ben‐Ezra, & Yaakov Hoffman. (2017). Exploring DSM-5 criterion A in Acute Stress Disorder symptoms following natural disaster. Psychiatry Research. 256. 458–460. 7 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Yaakov & Amit Shrira. (2017). Shadows of the past and threats of the future: ISIS anxiety among grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Psychiatry Research. 253. 220–225. 8 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Yaakov, et al.. (2016). Unitization of route knowledge. Psychological Research. 81(6). 1241–1254. 3 indexed citations

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Grossman, Ephraim S., Yaakov Hoffman, Itai Berger, & Ari Z. Zivotofsky. (2015). Beating their chests: University students with ADHD demonstrate greater attentional abilities on an inattentional blindness paradigm.. Neuropsychology. 29(6). 882–887. 21 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Yaakov & Joseph Tzelgov. (2012). Representation of unattended material in memory. Consciousness and Cognition. 21(3). 1504–1508. 3 indexed citations

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