He has published more than 2,000 papers.[6] Also, he has authored and edited 40 books and contributed more than 350 chapters to various books, most recently Vaccines and Autoimmunity published by Wiley Blackwell. Prof. Shoenfeld is on the editorial board of 43 medical journals.[7]
Awards and recognition
Shoenfeld received the EULAR Prize (Austria, 2005). He received the Nelson’s Prize for Humanity and Science from U.C. Davis (U.S., 2008). He was honored as Doctoris Honoris Causa by Debrecen University (Hungary, 2009). He has awarded a Life Contribution Prize in Internal Medicine (Israel, 2012), as well as the ACR Master Award (U.S., 2013). He is an honorary member of the Hungarian Association of Rheumatology, Slovenian National Academy of Sciences and the Royal College of Physicians (UK).[7]
Controversy
Two of Shoenfeld's scientific articles have been retracted.[8][9] A 2016 paper asserting a link between HPV vaccine and behavioral problems in mice, was retracted due to concerns about its methodology and data.[10]
Nili Cohen, President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, has pointed out that "no human being can publish 1,939 papers" unless Shoenfeld’s true contribution to this vast amount of publications is insignificant.[11] She calculated that 1.54 papers per week have been published on average.
In 2015 an article was published refuting the relationship between adjuvants and autoimmune conditions.[12][13]
He served on the scientific advisory board of the anti-vaccine group Children's Medical Safety Research Institute, has spoken at a number of anti-vaccination conferences, and has regularly appeared as an expert witness for people attempting to prove injury from vaccines in court.[14]
^Hawkes D.; et al. (May 2015). "Revisiting adverse reactions to vaccines: A critical appraisal of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA)". J. Autoimmun. 59: 77–84. doi:10.1016/j.jaut.2015.02.005. PMID25794485.
