Publications
All Publications
2026
Mihály, N., Littlepage, B., Várhelyi, K. S., & Shekhtman, L. (התקבל/בעיתונות). The Impact of Pre-Pandemic Financial Structure on Knowledge-Production Resilience During COVID-19: A Cluster Analysis of U.S. Nonprofit Higher Education Institutions. Journal of the Knowledge Economy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-026-03454-0
Mhlanga, A., Shekhtman, L., Cotler, S. J., Wasserman, O., Degasperi, E., Anolli, M. P., Uceda Renteria, S. C., Sambarino, D., Borghi, M., Perbellini, R., Facchetti, F., Callegaro, A., Dahari, H., & Lampertico, P. (2026). Mathematical modeling of HDV RNA, HBsAg, and ALT kinetics in patients with compensated cirrhosis: Insights from 96 Weeks of bulevirtide monotherapy. Antiviral Research, 253, המאמר 106489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2026.106489
Mhlanga, A., Shekhtman, L., Zakh, R., Duehren, S., Goyal, A., Churkin, A., Reinharz, V., Barash, D., Glenn, J., Etzion, O., Cotler, S. J., Yurdaydin, C., & Dahari, H. (2026). Mathematical Modeling of HDV RNA, HBV DNA, and HBsAg Dynamics During Lonafarnib-Based Therapy: Insights from the LOWR HDV-1 Study. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 88(9), המאמר 150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-026-01717-0
Battistella, S., Pocurull, A., Leonel, T., Rodríguez-Tajes, S., Fundora, Y., Shekhtman, L., Hershkovich, L., Cotler, S. J., Dahari, H., Fortney, T., Anderson, M., Cloherty, G., Hurtado, J. C., Saez-Palma, M., Lens, S., Pérez-del-Pulgar, S., & Forns, X. (2026). Early hepatitis B and delta virus kinetics in patients undergoing liver transplantation. Scientific Reports, 16(1), המאמר 26566. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-52234-y
Tatara, E., Shekhtman, L., Collier, N., Cotler, S. J., Mackesy-Amiti, M. E., Boodram, B., Dahari, H., Major, M., & Ozik, J. (2026). Modeling Highlights the Challenge of Achieving and Maintaining Hepatitis C Virus Micro-Elimination Among People Who Inject Drugs. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 13(6), המאמר ofag297. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofag297
2025
אלאלוף, ה., שכטמן, ל., & רוזנפלד, א. (2025). שיתוף פעולה אקדמי-צבאי בראי פרסומיים מדעיים: ישראל כמקרה בוחן. מידעת. https://is.biu.ac.il/sites/is/files/shared/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A3-%D7%A4%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%94-%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%99-%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%90%D7%99-%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%99-%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%9B%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%95%D7%97%D7%9F.pdf
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, המאמר 106061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2024.106061
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), המאמר 101311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhepr.2024.101311
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), המאמר 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, המאמר 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), המאמר 9397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58367-2
2023
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), המאמר 093017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/acf067
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., Danziger, M. M., & Havlin, S. (2023). Spreading of Failures in Interdependent Networks. ב- Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society, Second Edition (עמודים 389-403). Springer International Publishing. פרסום מקוון מראש. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05946-9_20
Shekhtman, L. M., & Barabási, A. L. (2023). Philanthropy in art: locality, donor retention, and prestige. Scientific Reports, 13(1), המאמר 12157. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38815-1
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), המאמר 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), המאמר e0205. https://doi.org/10.1097/HC9.0000000000000205
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
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), המאמר 143. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13060143
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), המאמר e1922831118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922831118
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), המאמר 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, המאמר e65297. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65297
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., & 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), המאמר 106. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12010106
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
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), המאמר 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), המאמר 7837. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64122-0
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
2019
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), המאמר e0212252. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212252
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, המאמר 101266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101266
Sanhedrai, H., Maayan, Y., & Shekhtman, L. M. (2019). Lifetime of a greedy forager with long-range smell. EPL, 128(6), המאמר 60003. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/128/60003
Shekhtman, L., & Waisbard, E. (2019). EngraveChain: Tamper-proof distributed log system. ב- BlockSys 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Blockchain-Enabled Networked Sensor Systems (עמודים 8-14). (BlockSys 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Blockchain-Enabled Networked Sensor Systems). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3362744.3363346
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), המאמר 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-019-0171-y
Shekhtman, L. M., & Havlin, S. (2019). Spatio-temporal infrastructure networks. ב- J. Kertesz, R. N. Mantegna, & S. Micciche (עורכים), Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" on Computational Social Science and Complex Systems (עמודים 171-190). (Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi"; כרך 203). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3254/190011
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), המאמר e0210173. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210173
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), המאמר 042210. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.99.042210
2018
Shekhtman, L. M., & Havlin, S. (2018). Percolation of hierarchical networks and networks of networks. Physical Review E, 98(5), המאמר 052305. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.98.052305
Shekhtman, L. M., & Waisbard, E. (2018). Securing log files through blockchain technology. ב- SYSTOR 2018 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (עמודים 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
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
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), המאמר eaao4496. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aao4496
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
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), המאמר 093003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aadceb
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), המאמר 053001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aabe5f
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
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
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.,).
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), המאמר e0181821. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181821
Shekhtman, L. M., Danziger, M. M., & Havlin, S. (2017). Spreading of failures in interdependent networks. ב- Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society (עמודים 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. ב- Understanding Complex Systems (עמודים 79-99). (Understanding Complex Systems). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23947-7_5
Danziger, M. M., Shekhtman, L. M., Berezin, Y., & Havlin, S. (2016). The effect of spatiality on multiplex networks. EPL, 115(3), המאמר 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), המאמר 58003. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/114/58003
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
2015
Shekhtman, L. M., Shai, S., & Havlin, S. (2015). Resilience of networks formed of interdependent modular networks. New Journal of Physics, 17(12), המאמר 123007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/12/123007
2014
Shekhtman, L. M., Berezin, Y., Danziger, M. M., & Havlin, S. (2014). Robustness of a network formed of spatially embedded networks. Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 90(1), המאמר 012809. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012809
Danziger, M. M., Bashan, A., Berezin, Y., Shekhtman, L. M., & Havlin, S. (2014). An introduction to interdependent networks. ב- V. M. Mladenov, & P. C. Ivanov (עורכים), Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems - 22nd International Conference, NDES 2014, Proceedings (עמודים 189-202). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; כרך 438). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08672-9_24
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
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), המאמר 82. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/747/1/82