Akash Kumar

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Akash Kumar is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Akash Kumar has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 22 papers in Oncology and 21 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Akash Kumar's work include Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (15 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (8 papers) and BRCA gene mutations in cancer (5 papers). Akash Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (15 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (8 papers) and BRCA gene mutations in cancer (5 papers). Akash Kumar collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Netherlands. Akash Kumar's co-authors include Jay Shendure, Lira Mamanova, Emily H. Turner, Iwanka Kozarewa, Eleanor Howard, Alison J. Coffey, Clare L. Scott, Daniel J. Turner, Charles B. Pratt and Irvin D. Fleming and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Akash Kumar

86 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Target-enrichment strategies for next-generation sequencing

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Akash Kumar United States	26	1.2k	784	681	516	490	95	3.0k
Takashi Kameda Japan	33	2.2k 1.8×	468 0.6×	618 0.9×	252 0.5×	421 0.9×	103	4.3k
Doris Brown United States	29	2.6k 2.1×	265 0.3×	668 1.0×	495 1.0×	535 1.1×	75	4.0k
Donna D. Strong United States	35	1.8k 1.5×	581 0.7×	595 0.9×	453 0.9×	219 0.4×	78	3.5k
Wanjun Chen China	30	1.3k 1.1×	256 0.3×	213 0.3×	420 0.8×	623 1.3×	86	4.1k
Charles A. Whittaker United States	37	3.3k 2.8×	481 0.6×	662 1.0×	1.1k 2.1×	444 0.9×	72	6.0k
Daron Smith United Kingdom	23	1.5k 1.2×	592 0.8×	546 0.8×	353 0.7×	241 0.5×	81	2.9k
Gordon K. Klintworth United States	48	2.1k 1.8×	368 0.5×	881 1.3×	375 0.7×	336 0.7×	193	7.4k
Hongwei Wang China	37	2.1k 1.7×	553 0.7×	205 0.3×	1.0k 2.0×	576 1.2×	167	4.4k
Richard D. Kennedy United Kingdom	36	3.0k 2.5×	483 0.6×	751 1.1×	1.1k 2.1×	936 1.9×	117	6.0k
Melody Baddoo United States	28	1.4k 1.2×	744 0.9×	195 0.3×	649 1.3×	731 1.5×	72	3.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kumar, Akash, Vikas Kumar, Mohammad Khalid Parvez, et al.. (2025). Corticosteroid Prednisolone and flavonoid Chrysin as drug candidates against SARS-CoV-2 replication: Computational and experimental findings. Microbial Pathogenesis. 207. 107923–107923.

Kumar, Rajeev, Aanchal Kakkar, Vishwajeet Singh, et al.. (2025). Risk Stratification for Extranodal Extension in Head and Neck Cancers—Implication for Treatment Intensification. Head & Neck. 47(8). 2270–2279. 1 indexed citations

Singh, Jay, Sarita Kumari, Jayanth Kumar, et al.. (2025). Integrative Genetic and Transcriptomic Subtyping Improves Prognosis Prediction in B-Lineage Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Laboratory Investigation. 105(9). 104201–104201.

Pathak, Neha, Abhenil Mittal, Eitan Amir, et al.. (2025). Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis on Treating Hormone Receptor-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer After CDK4/6 Inhibitors. Current Oncology. 32(1). 53–53.

Kumar, Akash, et al.. (2025). Long-term endocrine outcomes and quality of life in paediatric and young chronic myeloid leukaemia patients on tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy: a prospective study from India. Frontiers in Oncology. 15. 1598104–1598104.

Kumar, Akash, et al.. (2024). AGC family kinase of Entamoeba histolytica: Decoding the members biochemically. PLoS Pathogens. 20(11). e1012729–e1012729. 1 indexed citations

Levy, Brynn, et al.. (2023). Integration of a Cross-Ancestry Polygenic Model With Clinical Risk Factors Improves Breast Cancer Risk Stratification. JCO Precision Oncology. 7(7). e2200447–e2200447. 5 indexed citations

Batra, Atul, Akash Kumar, Raja Pramanik, et al.. (2023). Randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled study of topical diclofenac in prevention of hand-foot syndrome in patients receiving capecitabine.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 41(16_suppl). 12005–12005. 2 indexed citations

Kumar, Akash, et al.. (2023). Focusing the intervention of paper-based microfluidic devices for the forensic investigative purposes. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. 27(10). 4 indexed citations

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Sagar, R., Akash Kumar, Surendra Pratap Singh, et al.. (2023). Development of Allium cepa potential intron polymorphism markers for molecular breeding of Alliums. South African Journal of Botany. 164. 209–220. 6 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akash, et al.. (2020). Obstructive Sleep Apnea Comorbid with Late-Onset Kleine–Levin Syndrome: A Rare Condition. Sleep and Vigilance. 4(2). 247–249. 1 indexed citations

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Shah, Shailja C., Joana Torres, Daniel Castañeda, et al.. (2019). Association Between Indefinite Dysplasia and Advanced Neoplasia in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Undergoing Surveillance. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 18(7). 1518–1527.e3. 24 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akash, Diane B. Zastrow, Elijah Kravets, et al.. (2019). Extracutaneous manifestations in phacomatosis cesioflammea and cesiomarmorata: Case series and literature review. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 179(6). 966–977. 16 indexed citations

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Shah, Shailja C., Joren R. ten Hove, Joana Torres, et al.. (2018). No Association Between Pseudopolyps and Colorectal Neoplasia in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Gastroenterology. 156(5). 1333–1344.e3. 54 indexed citations

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Pritchard, Colin C., Colm Morrissey, Akash Kumar, et al.. (2014). Complex MSH2 and MSH6 mutations in hypermutated microsatellite unstable advanced prostate cancer. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4988–4988. 199 indexed citations

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Adey, Andrew C., Jacob O. Kitzman, Joshua N. Burton, et al.. (2014). In vitro, long-range sequence information for de novo genome assembly via transposase contiguity. Genome Research. 24(12). 2041–2049. 112 indexed citations

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FitzGerald, Liesel M., Akash Kumar, Evan A. Boyle, et al.. (2013). Germline Missense Variants in the BTNL2 Gene Are Associated with Prostate Cancer Susceptibility. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 22(9). 1520–1528. 29 indexed citations

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Dunkman, Andrew A., Mark R. Buckley, Michael J. Mienaltowski, et al.. (2013). The Tendon Injury Response is Influenced by Decorin and Biglycan. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 42(3). 619–630. 64 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akash, et al.. (2012). An Efficient Web Content Mining Using Divide and Conquer Approach. 8(2). 95–105. 1 indexed citations

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Rao, Bhaskar N., F. Ann Hayes, Elizabeth I. Thompson, et al.. (1995). Chest wall resection for ewing's sarcoma of the rib: an unnecessary procedure. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 60(5). 1454–1455. 22 indexed citations

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