Publications
2025
Shekhtman, L., Ishida, Y., Tsuge, M., Reinharz, V., Yamao, M., Takahashi, M., Tateno, C., Uprichard, S. L., Dahari, H., & Chayama, K. (2025). Modeling of hepatitis B virus kinetics and accumulation of cccDNA in primary human hepatocytes. JHEP Reports, 7(4), Article 101311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhepr.2024.101311
Hershkovich, L., Cotler, S. J., Shekhtman, L., Bazinet, M., Anderson, M., Kuhns, M., Cloherty, G., Vaillant, A., & Dahari, H. (2025). HBV serum RNA kinetics during nucleic acid polymers based therapy predict functional cure. Antiviral Research, 234, Article 106061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2024.106061
2024
Shekhtman, L., Cotler, S. J., Degasperi, E., Anolli, M. P., Uceda Renteria, S. C., Sambarino, D., Borghi, M., Perbellini, R., Facchetti, F., Ceriotti, F., Lampertico, P., & Dahari, H. (2024). Modelling HDV kinetics under the entry inhibitor bulevirtide suggests the existence of two HDV-infected cell populations. JHEP Reports, 6(2), Article 100966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhepr.2023.100966
Behfar, S. K., Shekhtman, L., & Crowcroft, J. (2024). Competitive funding and academic-industry collaboration: policy trends and insights. Data and Policy, 6, Article e82. https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2024.81
Shekhtman, L. M., Gates, A. J., & Barabási, A. L. (2024). Mapping philanthropic support of science. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 9397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58367-2
2023
Shekhtman, L., Duehren, S., Etzion, O., Cotler, S. J., & Dahari, H. (2023). Hepatitis D Virus and HBsAg Dynamics in the era of new Antiviral Treatments. Current Gastroenterology Reports, 25(12), 401-412. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11894-023-00901-9
Shekhtman, L. M., Sela, A., & Havlin, S. (2023). Percolation framework reveals limits of privacy in conspiracy, dark web, and blockchain networks. EPJ Data Science, 12(1), Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00392-8
Hershkovich, L., Shekhtman, L., Bazinet, M., Pântea, V., Placinta, G., Cotler, S. J., Vaillant, A., & Dahari, H. (2023). Rapid monophasic HBsAg decline during nucleic-acid polymer-based therapy predicts functional cure. Hepatology Communications, 7(8), Article e0205. https://doi.org/10.1097/HC9.0000000000000205
Liu, Y., Huang, Q., Dong, G., Yao, M., Shekhtman, L. M., & Eugene Stanley, H. (2023). Acquaintance immunization with limited knowledge of network structure. New Journal of Physics, 25(9), Article 093017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/acf067
Shekhtman, L. M., Danziger, M. M., & Havlin, S. (2023). Spreading of Failures in Interdependent Networks. In Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society, Second Edition (pp. 389-403). Springer International Publishing. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05946-9_20
Maya, S., Hershkovich, L., Cardozo-Ojeda, E. F., Shirvani-Dastgerdi, E., Srinivas, J., Shekhtman, L., Uprichard, S. L., Berneshawi, A. R., Cafiero, T. R., Dahari, H., & Ploss, A. (2023). Hepatitis delta virus RNA decline post-inoculation in human NTCP transgenic mice is biphasic. mBio, 14(4), e0100823. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01008-23
Shekhtman, L. M., & Barabási, A. L. (2023). Philanthropy in art: locality, donor retention, and prestige. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 12157. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38815-1
2022
Gao, J., Bashan, A., Shekhtman, L., & Havlin, S. (2022). Introduction to Networks of Networks. IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-1046-8
Shekhtman, L., Cotler, S. J., Ploss, A., & Dahari, H. (2022). Mathematical modeling suggests that entry-inhibitor bulevirtide may interfere with hepatitis D virus clearance from circulation. Journal of Hepatology, 76(5), 1229-1231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2021.12.030
2021
Shekhtman, L., & Waisbard, E. (2021). Engravechain: A Blockchain-based tamper-proof distributed log system. Future Internet, 13(6), Article 143. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13060143
Liu, Y., Sanhedrai, H., Dong, G. G., Shekhtman, L. M., Wang, F., Buldyrev, S. V., & Havlin, S. (2021). Efficient network immunization under limited knowledge. National Science Review, 8(1), Article nwaa229. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa229
Shekhtman, L., Navasa, M., Sansone, N., Crespo, G., Subramanya, G., Chung, T. L., Cardozo-Ojeda, E. F., Pérez-Del-pulgar, S., Perelson, A. S., Cotler, S. J., Forns, X., Uprichard, S. L., & Dahari, H. (2021). Modeling hepatitis c virus kinetics during liver transplantation reveals the role of the liver in virus clearance. eLife, 10, Article e65297. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65297
Dong, G., Wang, F., Shekhtman, L. M., Danziger, M. M., Fan, J., Du, R., Liu, J., Tian, L., Stanley, H. E., & Havlin, S. (2021). Optimal resilience of modular interacting networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(22), Article e1922831118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922831118
2020
Zeng, G., Gao, J., Shekhtman, L., Guo, S., Lv, W., Wu, J., Liu, H., Levy, O., Li, D., Gao, Z., Eugene Stanley, H., & Havlin, S. (2020). Multiple metastable network states in urban traffic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(30), 17528-17534. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907493117
Valdez, L. D., Shekhtman, L., la Rocca, C. E., Zhang, X., Buldyrev, S. V., Trunfio, P. A., Braunstein, L. A., & Havlin, S. (2020). Review: Cascading failures in complex networks. Journal of Complex Networks, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/COMNET/CNAA013
Tang, DI., Du, W., Shekhtman, L., Wang, Y., Havlin, S., Cao, X., & Yan, G. (2020). Predictability of real temporal networks. National Science Review, 7(5), 929-937. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa015
Valdez, L. D., Shekhtman, L., La Rocca, C. E., Zhang, X., Buldyrev, S. V., Trunfio, P. A., Braunstein, L. A., Havlin, S., & Estrada, E. (2020). Erratum: Cascading failures in complex networks (Journal of Complex Networks DOI: 10.1093/comnet/cnaa013). Journal of Complex Networks, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cnaa022
Chertow, D. S., Shekhtman, L., Lurie, Y., Davey, R. T., Heller, T., & Dahari, H. (2020). Modeling challenges of Ebola virus–host dynamics during infection and treatment. Viruses, 12(1), Article 106. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12010106
Gross, B., Sanhedrai, H., Shekhtman, L., & Havlin, S. (2020). Interconnections between networks acting like an external field in a first-order percolation transition. Physical Review E, 101(2), Article 022316. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.022316
Shekhtman, L., Cotler, S. J., Hershkovich, L., Uprichard, S. L., Bazinet, M., Pantea, V., Cebotarescu, V., Cojuhari, L., Jimbei, P., Krawczyk, A., Dittmer, U., Vaillant, A., & Dahari, H. (2020). Modelling hepatitis D virus RNA and HBsAg dynamics during nucleic acid polymer monotherapy suggest rapid turnover of HBsAg. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 7837. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64122-0
2019
Fan, J., Cohen, K., Shekhtman, L. M., Liu, S., Meng, J., Louzoun, Y., & Havlin, S. (2019). Topology of products similarity network for market forecasting. Applied Network Science, 4(1), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-019-0171-y
Shekhtman, L., & Waisbard, E. (2019). EngraveChain: Tamper-proof distributed log system. In BlockSys 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Blockchain-Enabled Networked Sensor Systems (pp. 8-14). (BlockSys 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Blockchain-Enabled Networked Sensor Systems). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3362744.3363346
Shteyer, E., Shekhtman, L., Zinger, T., Harari, S., Gafanovich, I., Wolf, D., Ivgi, H., Barsuk, R., Dery, I., Armoni, D., Rivkin, M., Pipalia, R., Eliav, M. C., Skorochod, Y., Breuer, G. S., Tur-kaspa, R., Wiener, Y. W., Stern, A., Cotler, S. J., ... Lurie, Y. (2019). Correction: Modeling suggests that microliter volumes of contaminated blood caused an outbreak of hepatitis C during computerized tomography (PLoS ONE (2019) 14: 1 (e0210173) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210173). PLoS ONE, 14(2), Article e0212252. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212252
Fan, J., Zhou, D., Shekhtman, L. M., Shapira, A., Hofstetter, R., Marzocchi, W., Ashkenazy, Y., & Havlin, S. (2019). Possible origin of memory in earthquakes: Real catalogs and an epidemic-type aftershock sequence model. Physical Review E, 99(4), Article 042210. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.99.042210
Shteyer, E., Shekhtman, L., Zinger, T., Sheri Harari, H., Gafanovich, I., Wolf, D., Ivgi, H., Barsuk, R., Dery, I., Armoni, D., Rivkin, M., Pipalia, R., Eliav, M. C., Skorochod, Y., Breuer, G. S., Tur-kaspa, R., Wiener, Y. W., Stern, A., Cotler, S. J., ... Lurie, Y. (2019). Modeling suggests that microliter volumes of contaminated blood caused an outbreak of hepatitis C during computerized tomography. PLoS ONE, 14(1), Article e0210173. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210173
Li, J., Wang, Y., Huang, S., Xie, J., Shekhtman, L., Hu, Y., & Havlin, S. (2019). Recent progress on cascading failures and recovery in interdependent networks. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 40, Article 101266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101266
Shekhtman, L. M., & Havlin, S. (2019). Spatio-temporal infrastructure networks. In J. Kertesz, R. N. Mantegna, & S. Micciche (Eds.), Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" on Computational Social Science and Complex Systems (pp. 171-190). (Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi"; Vol. 203). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3254/190011
Sanhedrai, H., Maayan, Y., & Shekhtman, L. M. (2019). Lifetime of a greedy forager with long-range smell. EPL, 128(6), Article 60003. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/128/60003
2018
Dong, G., Fan, J., Shekhtman, L. M., Shai, S., Du, R., Tian, L., Chen, X., Eugene Stanley, H., & Havlin, S. (2018). Resilience of networks with community structure behaves as if under an external field. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(27), 6911-6915. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1801588115
Boodram, B., Hotton, A. L., Shekhtman, L., Gutfraind, A., & Dahari, H. (2018). High-Risk Geographic Mobility Patterns among Young Urban and Suburban Persons who Inject Drugs and their Injection Network Members. Journal of Urban Health, 95(1), 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-017-0185-7
Shekhtman, L. M., Danziger, M. M., Vaknin, D., & Havlin, S. (2018). Robustness of spatial networks and networks of networks. Comptes Rendus Physique, 19(4), 233-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2018.09.005
Major, M., Gutfraind, A., Shekhtman, L., Cui, Q., Kachko, A., Cotler, S. J., Hajarizadeh, B., Sacks-Davis, R., Page, K., Boodram, B., & Dahari, H. (2018). Modeling of patient virus titers suggests that availability of a vaccine could reduce hepatitis C virus transmission among injecting drug users. Science Translational Medicine, 10(449), Article eaao4496. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aao4496
Smolyak, A., Levy, O., Shekhtman, L., & Havlin, S. (2018). Interdependent networks in Economics and Finance—A Physics approach. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 512, 612-619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2018.08.089
Shekhtman, L. M., Danziger, M. M., Bonamassa, I., Buldyrev, S. V., Caldarelli, G., Zlatić, V., & Havlin, S. (2018). Critical field-exponents for secure message-passing in modular networks. New Journal of Physics, 20(5), Article 053001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aabe5f
Fan, J., Dong, G., Shekhtman, L. M., Zhou, D., Meng, J., Chen, X., & Havlin, S. (2018). Structural resilience of spatial networks with inter-links behaving as an external field. New Journal of Physics, 20(9), Article 093003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aadceb
Fan, J., Cohen, K., Shekhtman, LM., Liu, S., Meng, J., Louzoun, Y., & Havlin, S. (2018). A combined network and machine learning approaches for product market forecasting. (arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.,).
Shekhtman, L. M., & Waisbard, E. (2018). Securing log files through blockchain technology. In SYSTOR 2018 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (pp. 131). (SYSTOR 2018 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3211890.3211921
Shekhtman, L. M., & Havlin, S. (2018). Percolation of hierarchical networks and networks of networks. Physical Review E, 98(5), Article 052305. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.052305
2017
Zollo, F., Bessi, A., Del Vicario, M., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., Shekhtman, L., Havlin, S., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2017). Debunking in a world of tribes. PLoS ONE, 12(7), Article e0181821. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181821
Shekhtman, L. M., Danziger, M. M., & Havlin, S. (2017). Spreading of failures in interdependent networks. In Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society (pp. 397-410). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67798-9_20
2016
Danziger, M. M., Shekhtman, L. M., Bashan, A., Berezin, Y., & Havlin, S. (2016). Vulnerability of Interdependent Networks and Networks of Networks. In Understanding Complex Systems (pp. 79-99). (Understanding Complex Systems). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23947-7_5
Shekhtman, L. M., Danziger, M. M., & Havlin, S. (2016). Recent advances on failure and recovery in networks of networks. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 90, 28-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2016.02.002
Danziger, M. M., Shekhtman, L. M., Berezin, Y., & Havlin, S. (2016). The effect of spatiality on multiplex networks. EPL, 115(3), Article 36002. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/115/36002
Sela, A., Shekhtman, L., Havlin, S., & Ben-Gal, I. (2016). Comparing the diversity of information by word-of-mouth vs. web spread. EPL, 114(5), Article 58003. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/114/58003
2015
Shekhtman, L. M., Shai, S., & Havlin, S. (2015). Resilience of networks formed of interdependent modular networks. New Journal of Physics, 17(12), Article 123007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/12/123007
2014
Shekhtman, L. M., Bagrow, J. P., & Brockmann, D. (2014). Robustness of skeletons and salient features in networks. Journal of Complex Networks, 2(2), 110-120. https://doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cnt019
Danziger, M. M., Bashan, A., Berezin, Y., Shekhtman, L. M., & Havlin, S. (2014). An introduction to interdependent networks. In V. M. Mladenov, & P. C. Ivanov (Eds.), Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems - 22nd International Conference, NDES 2014, Proceedings (pp. 189-202). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 438). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08672-9_24
Shekhtman, L. M., Berezin, Y., Danziger, M. M., & Havlin, S. (2014). Robustness of a network formed of spatially embedded networks. Physical Review E, 90(1), Article 012809. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012809
2012
Cowan, N. B., MacHalek, P., Croll, B., Shekhtman, L. M., Burrows, A., Deming, D., Greene, T., & Hora, J. L. (2012). Thermal phase variations of WASP-12b: Defying predictions. Astrophysical Journal, 747(1), Article 82. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/747/1/82