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2025

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75
Citations
29030
World Ranking
1762
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Avi Sadeh is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including education, sociology and political science, electrical and electronic engineering, pharmacy, and clinical psychology.

The research of Avi Sadeh focuses on topics related to child development and digital technology, as well as the impact of technology on adolescents. Their contributions also cover green IT and sustainability, infant health and development, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and child nutrition and feeding issues.

Among their recent publications are studies examining developmental and behavioral aspects in children and infants. These include:

  • Sleep, screen time and behaviour problems in preschool children: an actigraphy study, 2020, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Behavioral interventions for infant sleep problems: the role of parental cry tolerance and sleep-related cognitions, 2020, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Avi Sadeh has frequently co-authored work with the following collaborators:

  • Michal Kahn
  • Liat Tikotzky
  • Ortal Schnabel
  • Michael Gradisar
  • Geila S. Rozen

Their publications have appeared notably in venues such as the European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Activity-based sleep-wake identification: an empirical test of methodological issues.

    Sadeh A;Sharkey Km;Carskadon Ma

  • The role and validity of actigraphy in sleep medicine: An update

    Avi Sadeh

  • The role of actigraphy in the evaluation of sleep disorders.

    Avi Sadeh;Peter J. Hauri;Daniel F. Kripke;Peretz Lavie

  • Behavioral treatment of bedtime problems and night wakings in infants and young children.

    Jodi A. Mindell;Brett Kuhn;Daniel S. Lewin;Lisa J. Meltzer

  • A Brief Screening Questionnaire for Infant Sleep Problems: Validation and Findings for an Internet Sample

    Avi Sadeh

  • Sleep, neurobehavioral functioning, and behavior problems in school-age children

    Avi Sadeh;Reut Gruber;Amiram Raviv

  • The Effects of Sleep Restriction and Extension on School-Age Children: What a Difference an Hour Makes

    Avi Sadeh;Reut Gruber;and Amiram Raviv

  • The role of actigraphy in sleep medicine

    Avi Sadeh;Christine Acebo

  • Estimating sleep patterns with activity monitoring in children and adolescents: how many nights are necessary for reliable measures?

    Christine Acebo;Avi Sadeh;Ronald Seifer;Orna Tzischinsky

  • Sleep, emotional and behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents.

    Alice M. Gregory;Avi Sadeh

  • Sleep patterns and sleep disruptions in school-age children

    Avi Sadeh;Amiram Raviv;Reut Gruber

  • Parenting and infant sleep.

    Avi Sadeh;Liat Tikotzky;Anat Scher

  • Sleep and sleep ecology in the first 3 years: a web-based study.

    Avi Sadeh;Jodi A. Mindell;Kathryn Luedtke;Benjamin Wiegand

  • Sleep and emotions: bidirectional links and underlying mechanisms.

    Michal Kahn;Gal Sheppes;Avi Sadeh

  • The SBSM Guide to Actigraphy Monitoring: Clinical and Research Applications

    Sonia Ancoli-Israel;Jennifer L. Martin;Terri Blackwell;Luis Buenaver

  • Cross-cultural differences in infant and toddler sleep

    Jodi A. Mindell;Avi Sadeh;Benjamin Wiegand;Ti Hwei How

  • Sleep/wake patterns derived from activity monitoring and maternal report for healthy 1- to 5-year-old children.

    Christine Acebo;Avi Sadeh;Ronald Seifer;Orna Tzischinsky

  • Actigraphic home-monitoring sleep-disturbed and control infants and young children: a new method for pediatric assessment of sleep-wake patterns.

    Avi Sadeh;Peretz Lavie;Anat Scher;Emanuel Tirosh

  • Parental behaviors and sleep outcomes in infants and toddlers: a cross-cultural comparison.

    Jodi A. Mindell;Avi Sadeh;Jun Kohyama;Ti Hwei How

  • Infant sleep problems: Origins, assessment, interventions

    Avi Sadeh;Thomas F. Anders

  • Instability of sleep patterns in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Reut Gruber;Avi Sadeh;Amiram Raviv

Frequent Co-Authors

Yair Bar-Haim
Yair Bar-Haim Tel Aviv University
Amiram Raviv
Amiram Raviv Tel Aviv University
Christine Acebo
Christine Acebo Brown University
Alice M. Gregory
Alice M. Gregory Goldsmiths University of London
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Ronald Seifer
Ronald Seifer Brown University
Doron Gothelf
Doron Gothelf Tel Aviv University
Mona El-Sheikh
Mona El-Sheikh Auburn University
Alan Apter
Alan Apter Reichman University
Edwin H. Cook
Edwin H. Cook University of Illinois at Chicago

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