Yehuda Shoenfeld

98.8k total citations · 11 hit papers
1.6k papers, 63.1k citations indexed

About

Yehuda Shoenfeld is a scholar working on Rheumatology, Immunology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Yehuda Shoenfeld has authored 1.6k papers receiving a total of 63.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 671 papers in Rheumatology, 584 papers in Immunology and 282 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Yehuda Shoenfeld's work include Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research (577 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (269 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (187 papers). Yehuda Shoenfeld is often cited by papers focused on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research (577 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (269 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (187 papers). Yehuda Shoenfeld collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Italy and United States. Yehuda Shoenfeld's co-authors include Miri Blank, Nancy Agmon‐Levin, Gisele Zandman‐Goddard, Yaniv Sherer, Howard Amital, Boris Gilburd, Jacob George, Ricard Cervera, Shaye Kivity and Yair Levy and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Yehuda Shoenfeld

1.6k papers receiving 61.0k 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.

  1. Effects of tobacco smoke on immunity, inflammation and autoimmunity
    2009 704 citations Yehuda Shoenfeld, Howard Amital et al. Journal of Autoimmunity profile →
  2. ‘ASIA’ – Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants
    2010 668 citations Yehuda Shoenfeld, Nancy Agmon‐Levin Journal of Autoimmunity profile →
  3. Vitamin D effects on musculoskeletal health, immunity, autoimmunity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, fertility, pregnancy, dementia and mortality—A review of recent evidence
    2013 636 citations Paweł Płudowski, Michael F. Holick et al. Autoimmunity Reviews profile →
  4. Pathogenesis and natural history of osteonecrosis
    2002 595 citations Yehuda Shoenfeld et al. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism profile →
  5. Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: international consensus statement on classification criteria and treatment guidelines
    2003 547 citations Ricard Cervera, Doruk Erkan et al. profile →
  6. Obesity in autoimmune diseases: Not a passive bystander
    2014 500 citations Yehuda Shoenfeld et al. Autoimmunity Reviews profile →
  7. Hydroxychloroquine: From Malaria to Autoimmunity
    2011 455 citations Yehuda Shoenfeld et al. profile →
  8. Covid-19 and autoimmunity
    2020 352 citations Howard Amital, Yehuda Shoenfeld et al. Autoimmunity Reviews profile →
  9. The microbiome in autoimmune diseases
    2018 337 citations Yehuda Shoenfeld et al. profile →
  10. The SARS-CoV-2 as an instrumental trigger of autoimmunity
    2021 317 citations Arad Dotan, Paula David et al. Autoimmunity Reviews profile →
  11. Antiphospholipid syndrome
    2018 235 citations Yehuda Shoenfeld et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yehuda Shoenfeld Israel 115 23.0k 20.2k 8.5k 8.3k 8.2k 1.6k 63.1k
Paul Emery United Kingdom 123 45.9k 2.0× 18.2k 0.9× 7.7k 0.9× 17.3k 2.1× 5.8k 0.7× 1.0k 67.0k
T. Huizinga Netherlands 113 28.4k 1.2× 14.7k 0.7× 4.6k 0.5× 6.9k 0.8× 6.6k 0.8× 1.1k 49.4k
Tadamitsu Kishimoto Japan 145 8.2k 0.4× 34.0k 1.7× 5.5k 0.6× 8.8k 1.1× 22.3k 2.7× 643 77.6k
Georg Schett Germany 118 22.5k 1.0× 18.0k 0.9× 5.5k 0.6× 6.1k 0.7× 21.6k 2.6× 1.1k 59.6k
Iain B. McInnes United Kingdom 112 24.4k 1.1× 25.5k 1.3× 3.0k 0.4× 10.3k 1.2× 12.2k 1.5× 738 58.4k
David Isenberg United Kingdom 102 27.9k 1.2× 22.8k 1.1× 5.4k 0.6× 4.5k 0.5× 6.0k 0.7× 969 45.8k
Lars Klareskog Sweden 109 22.1k 1.0× 13.8k 0.7× 4.2k 0.5× 5.1k 0.6× 6.1k 0.7× 657 42.3k
Marc Feldmann United Kingdom 114 15.6k 0.7× 23.9k 1.2× 2.3k 0.3× 5.5k 0.7× 11.3k 1.4× 556 53.8k
Peter E. Lipsky United States 107 13.8k 0.6× 23.2k 1.2× 3.6k 0.4× 4.6k 0.5× 8.4k 1.0× 661 46.7k
Howard L. Weiner United States 128 5.8k 0.2× 35.3k 1.7× 15.5k 1.8× 2.1k 0.3× 14.2k 1.7× 826 73.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Athanassiou, Panagiotis, et al.. (2025). Targeted Cellular Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Cells. 14(3). 210–210. 1 indexed citations
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Pons, I., Gerard Espinosa, Ignasi Rodríguez‐Pintó, et al.. (2024). Cardiac involvement in the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS): Lessons from the “CAPS registry”. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism. 66. 152439–152439. 2 indexed citations
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Halpert, Gilad, Arad Dotan, Κassem Sharif, et al.. (2023). Allergic manifestations in women with silicone breast implants. Human Immunology. 85(1). 110747–110747. 1 indexed citations
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Tervaert, Jan Willem Cohen, et al.. (2023). Breast implant illness: Is it causally related to breast implants?. Autoimmunity Reviews. 23(1). 103448–103448. 14 indexed citations
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Yogev, David, Arad Dotan, Avishai M. Tsur, et al.. (2023). Autoimmune disorders caused by intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerine treatment: A systematic review. Autoimmunity Reviews. 22(6). 103329–103329. 3 indexed citations
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Tervaert, Jan Willem Cohen, Manuel Martínez‐Lavín, Luis J. Jara, et al.. (2023). Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA) in 2023. Autoimmunity Reviews. 22(5). 103287–103287. 60 indexed citations
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Borba, Vânia Vieira, Aaron B. Lerner, Torsten Matthias, & Yehuda Shoenfeld. (2020). Bovine Milk Proteins as a Trigger for Autoimmune Diseases: Myth or Reality?. 8(1). 10–21. 4 indexed citations
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Conrad, Karsten, Yehuda Shoenfeld, & Marvin J. Fritzler. (2020). Precision health: A pragmatic approach to understanding and addressing key factors in autoimmune diseases. Autoimmunity Reviews. 19(5). 102508–102508. 24 indexed citations
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Малкова, Анна, Анна Старшинова, Yulia Zinchenko, et al.. (2020). The opposite effect of human leukocyte antigen genotypes in sarcoidosis and tuberculosis: a narrative review of the literature. ERJ Open Research. 6(3). 155–2020. 17 indexed citations
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Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi, ‬‬‬‬Abdulla Watad, Κassem Sharif, et al.. (2017). Advances in our understanding of immunization and vaccines for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Expert Review of Clinical Immunology. 13(10). 939–949. 9 indexed citations
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Watad, ‬‬‬‬Abdulla, et al.. (2017). Nicotine and autoimmunity: The lotus’ flower in tobacco. Pharmacological Research. 128. 101–109. 49 indexed citations
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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
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Bizzaro, Giorgia & Yehuda Shoenfeld. (2014). Vitamin D and autoimmune thyroid diseases: facts and unresolved questions. Immunologic Research. 61(1-2). 46–52. 42 indexed citations
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Płudowski, Paweł, Michael F. Holick, Stefan Pilz, et al.. (2013). Vitamin D effects on musculoskeletal health, immunity, autoimmunity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, fertility, pregnancy, dementia and mortality—A review of recent evidence. Autoimmunity Reviews. 12(10). 976–989. 636 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shoenfeld, Yehuda & M. Eric Gershwin. (2009). Contemporary challenges in autoimmunity. 1 indexed citations
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Barzilai, Ori, Yaniv Sherer, Maya Ram, et al.. (2007). Epstein–Barr Virus and Cytomegalovirus in Autoimmune Diseases. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1108(1). 567–577. 153 indexed citations
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Amital, Howard, Boris Gilburd, & Yehuda Shoenfeld. (2007). Probiotic Supplementation with Lactobacillus casei (Actimel) Induces a Th1 Response in an Animal Model of Antiphospholipid Syndrome. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1110(1). 661–669. 9 indexed citations
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Shoenfeld, Yehuda, et al.. (2000). No correlation between anti-prothrombin antibodies and pregnancy loss in experimental model. Journal of Autoimmunity. 15(2). 61. 1 indexed citations
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Levy, Yair, Yaniv Sherer, Alaa Ahmed, et al.. (1998). Autoantibody Level Modification in Adult Patients with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura following Intravenous Immunoglobulin Treatment. PubMed. 16(5-6). 207–214. 22 indexed citations
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Shoenfeld, Yehuda, Yaniv Sherer, & Pnina Fishman. (1998). Interleukin-3 and pregnancy loss in antiphospholipid syndrome. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. 27(sup107). 19–22. 25 indexed citations

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