Akhilesh Kumar

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Akhilesh Kumar is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Akhilesh Kumar has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Akhilesh Kumar's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (11 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (9 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers). Akhilesh Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (11 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (9 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers). Akhilesh Kumar collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and China. Akhilesh Kumar's co-authors include Jay Prakash Verma, Saurabh Singh, Sudhakar Srivastava, Anand Gaurav, B. R. Maurya, Richa Raghuwanshi, Abhay Kumar Singh, Rajesh P. Rastogi, Arpan Mukherjee and S. Tiwari and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Hazardous Materials, Oncogene and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Akhilesh Kumar

36 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Does plant—Microbe interaction confer stress tolerance in plants: A review?

2017 425 citations Akhilesh Kumar, Jay Prakash Verma Microbiological Research profile →
Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria: Biological Tools for the Mitigation of Salinity Stress in Plants

2020 385 citations Akhilesh Kumar, Saurabh Singh et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →

Peers

Akhilesh Kumar

GPC

ECOLO

Shuyu Liu United States

Hailong Shen China

Jie Duan China

Mónica Calvo‐Polanco Spain

Shu Wang China

Xiangyang Yuan China

Mike Dixon Canada

Yifan Li China

Γεώργιος Λιακόπουλος Greece

Shuyu Liu United States

Akhilesh Kumar

1.7k ×1.6

252 ×0.8

142 ×1.0

GPC

132 ×0.9

131 ×1.1

ECOLO

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Countries citing papers authored by Akhilesh Kumar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Akhilesh Kumar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akhilesh Kumar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Akhilesh Kumar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Akhilesh Kumar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Akhilesh Kumar. Akhilesh Kumar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2025). BiLSTM-Based Human Emotion Classification Using EEG Signal. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience. 1445525169–1445525169.

Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2025). Water Resource Management in Mehsana: Strategies, Challenges, and Sustainable Approaches. International Journal of Scientific Research in Science Engineering and Technology. 12(2). 270–277. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Akhilesh, Kashmir Singh, Vikram Kumar, et al.. (2024). Metagenomic analysis of soil from landfill site reveals a diverse microbial community involved in plastic degradation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 480. 135804–135804. 13 indexed citations

Nagalakshmi, R., Surbhi Bhatia, Akhilesh Kumar, et al.. (2024). Enhancing drug discovery and patient care through advanced analytics with the power of NLP and machine learning in pharmaceutical data interpretation. SLAS TECHNOLOGY. 31. 100238–100238. 3 indexed citations

Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2024). Human emotion recognition using Machine learning techniques based on the physiological signal. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 100. 107039–107039. 13 indexed citations

Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2023). Quantitative intermolecular interactions analysis for amide-amide hydrogen-bonded synthons: Insilico studies for Cox-2 selective inhibitors. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1288. 135675–135675. 4 indexed citations

Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2023). An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Conformational Stability of Triazinone Fleximers: Quantitative Analysis for Intermolecular Interactions. ChemistrySelect. 8(5). 2 indexed citations

Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2023). Variation of aerosol parameters (AI, AOD) and SO2 over Indo-Gangetic basin during COVID-19 outbreaks. Indian Journal of Physics. 98(1). 31–40.

Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2022). CRISPR-Cas system: from diagnostic tool to potential antiviral treatment. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 106(18). 5863–5877. 22 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2022). Wintertime variation of $\mathbf{PM}_{\mathbf{10}},\ \mathbf{PM}_{\mathbf{2}.\mathbf{5}}$, Black Carbon, and Aerosol Optical Depth over Varanasi. 1–3.

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Saha, Upal, et al.. (2021). Analysis of air pollution in the atmosphere due to firecrackers in the Diwali period over an urban Indian region. Advances in Space Research. 68(8). 3327–3341. 19 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2021). Performance of water vapour retrieval from MODIS and ECMWF and their validation with ground based GPS measurements over Varanasi. Journal of Earth System Science. 130(1). 6 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akhilesh, Saurabh Singh, Arpan Mukherjee, Rajesh P. Rastogi, & Jay Prakash Verma. (2020). Salt-tolerant plant growth-promoting Bacillus pumilus strain JPVS11 to enhance plant growth attributes of rice and improve soil health under salinity stress. Microbiological Research. 242. 126616–126616. 172 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2020). Frequency distribution of aerosol optical depth over Varanasi during 2011. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akhilesh, Saurabh Singh, Anand Gaurav, Sudhakar Srivastava, & Jay Prakash Verma. (2020). Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria: Biological Tools for the Mitigation of Salinity Stress in Plants. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 1216–1216. 385 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moorthy, Balaji T., et al.. (2020). Evaluation of the Efficiency of Genome Editing Tools by a Frameshift Fluorescence Protein Reporter. BIO-PROTOCOL. 10(10). e3622–e3622. 3 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2019). Insertion/deletion-activated frame-shift fluorescence protein is a sensitive reporter for genomic DNA editing. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 609–609. 6 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akhilesh, et al.. (2019). Variability in air pollutants and AOD over Varanasi region for years 2005-2010. 1–1. 4 indexed citations

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Sarmah, Deepaneeta, Harpreet Kaur, Jackson Saraf, et al.. (2018). Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Stroke: Implications of Stem Cell Therapy. Translational Stroke Research. 10(2). 121–136. 44 indexed citations

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Kumar, Akhilesh & Jay Prakash Verma. (2017). Does plant—Microbe interaction confer stress tolerance in plants: A review?. Microbiological Research. 207. 41–52. 425 indexed citations breakdown →

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