Alka Shankar

817 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 534 citations indexed

About

Alka Shankar is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alka Shankar has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 534 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Plant Science, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Alka Shankar's work include Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies (8 papers), Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation (8 papers) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (4 papers). Alka Shankar is often cited by papers focused on Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies (8 papers), Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation (8 papers) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (4 papers). Alka Shankar collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and South Korea. Alka Shankar's co-authors include Girdhar K. Pandey, Amita Pandey, Manisha Sharma, Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Penna Suprasanna, Poonam Kanwar, Ki‐Hong Jung, Anil Kumar Nalini Chandran, V. Ravindra Babu and G. Usharani and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alka Shankar

21 papers receiving 510 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Role of calcium nutrition in plant Physiology: Advances in research and insights into acidic soil conditions - A comprehensive review

2024 58 citations Tao Jing, Jingyang Li et al. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alka Shankar India	12	412	154	33	33	31	22	534
Donald James India	11	525 1.3×	240 1.6×	42 1.3×	28 0.8×	16 0.5×	15	625
Panrong Ren China	12	358 0.9×	170 1.1×	24 0.7×	21 0.6×	15 0.5×	22	445
Dhirendra Fartyal India	7	485 1.2×	231 1.5×	55 1.7×	25 0.8×	13 0.4×	14	572
Ali Anwar China	11	649 1.6×	230 1.5×	27 0.8×	26 0.8×	23 0.7×	44	727
Erjing Si China	11	437 1.1×	200 1.3×	34 1.0×	26 0.8×	13 0.4×	39	548
Aamir Raina India	17	561 1.4×	116 0.8×	41 1.2×	24 0.7×	16 0.5×	45	661
Narottam Dey India	12	409 1.0×	107 0.7×	49 1.5×	42 1.3×	11 0.4×	54	486
Lirong Yao China	10	306 0.7×	125 0.8×	30 0.9×	18 0.5×	12 0.4×	36	392
Debanjana Saha India	10	527 1.3×	156 1.0×	19 0.6×	21 0.6×	47 1.5×	17	619

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alka Shankar

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Jing, Tao, Jingyang Li, Alka Shankar, et al.. (2024). Role of calcium nutrition in plant Physiology: Advances in research and insights into acidic soil conditions - A comprehensive review. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 210. 108602–108602. 58 indexed citations breakdown →

Gosai, Haren B., et al.. (2022). Exploring bacterial communities through metagenomics during bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from contaminated sediments. The Science of The Total Environment. 842. 156794–156794. 25 indexed citations

Srivastava, Ashish Kumar, Alka Shankar, Anil Kumar Nalini Chandran, et al.. (2019). Emerging concepts of potassium homeostasis in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany. 71(2). 608–619. 97 indexed citations

Shankar, Alka, et al.. (2018). Study on Cereal-Legume Based Complementary Foods for Infants. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences. 7(8). 3310–3317. 3 indexed citations

Shankar, Alka. (2017). Effect of Flower Enhancing Plant Growth Regulators and Fruit Set Improving Chemicals on Vegetative Growth, Early Flower Initiation and Fruit Yield of Mango (Mangifera indica L.) cv. Banganpalli. International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience. 5(3). 667–677. 2 indexed citations

Shankar, Alka, et al.. (2017). Flowering and Production Improvement Studies of Mango cv. Banganpalli in Relation to Plant Growth Regulators and Chemicals. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences. 6(8). 481–493. 2 indexed citations

Shankar, Alka, Nisha Agrawal, Manisha Sharma, Amita Pandey, & Girdhar K. Pandey. (2015). Role of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in Plants. Current Genomics. 16(4). 224–236. 47 indexed citations

Yadav, Akhilesh, Alka Shankar, Saroj Kumar Jha, et al.. (2015). A rice tonoplastic calcium exchanger, OsCCX2 mediates Ca2+/cation transport in yeast. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17117–17117. 42 indexed citations

Wu, Hao, et al.. (2015). Genetic Transformation of Commercially Important Mature Citrus Scions. Crop Science. 55(6). 2786–2797. 14 indexed citations

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Shankar, Alka, et al.. (2014). Effect of growth retardants on growth and quality of ornamental foliage plant aglaonema. Progressive Horticulture. 46(1). 153–161. 2 indexed citations

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Reddy, G. Satyanarayana, et al.. (2014). Effect of foliar sprays of bioregulators on growth and flowering in gladiolus plants raised from cormels. Progressive Horticulture. 46(2). 288–294. 1 indexed citations

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Orbović, Vladimir, et al.. (2014). Citrus Transformation Using Mature Tissue Explants. Methods in molecular biology. 1224. 259–273. 13 indexed citations

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Shankar, Alka, Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Akhilesh Yadav, et al.. (2014). Whole genome transcriptome analysis of rice seedling reveals alterations in Ca2+ ion signaling and homeostasis in response to Ca2+ deficiency. Cell Calcium. 55(3). 155–165. 18 indexed citations

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Shankar, Alka, et al.. (2014). Effect of Potting Media on Growth and Quality in Aglaonema. Journal of Horticultural Sciences. 9(1). 90–93.

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Reddy, G. Satyanarayana, et al.. (2014). Effect of pre planting treatment of corms with chemicals and plant growth regulators on vegetative growth, flowering and post harvest life in gladiolus. Indian Journal of Agricultural Research. 48(4). 301–301. 3 indexed citations

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Reddy, G. Satyanarayana, et al.. (2013). EFFECT OF PRE-PLANTING SOAKING OF CORMS WITH CHEMICALS AND PLANTGROWTH REGULATORS ON DORMANCY BREAKING AND CORM AND CORMELPRODUCTION IN GLADIOLUS. International Journal of Plant Animal and Environmental Sciences. 2013(1). 11 indexed citations

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Shankar, Alka, Amarjeet Singh, Poonam Kanwar, et al.. (2013). Gene Expression Analysis of Rice Seedling under Potassium Deprivation Reveals Major Changes in Metabolism and Signaling Components. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e70321–e70321. 49 indexed citations

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Reddy, G. Satyanarayana, et al.. (2013). Effect of Foliar Sprays of Bioregulators on Growth and Flowering in Gladiolus. 47(3). 192–199. 3 indexed citations

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Singh, Amarjeet, Vinay Kumar Baranwal, Alka Shankar, et al.. (2012). Rice Phospholipase A Superfamily: Organization, Phylogenetic and Expression Analysis during Abiotic Stresses and Development. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e30947–e30947. 63 indexed citations

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Shankar, Alka, et al.. (2009). Effect of plant growth regulators on dormancy, corm and cormel production in gladiolus (Gladiolus x grandiflorus L.). Journal of Ornamental Horticulture. 12(3). 182–187. 4 indexed citations

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