Amar Kumar

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Amar Kumar is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Amar Kumar has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Plant Science, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Amar Kumar's work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (24 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (16 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (14 papers). Amar Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (24 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (16 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (14 papers). Amar Kumar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and United States. Amar Kumar's co-authors include Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Andrew J. Flavell, Stephen R. Pearce, J. S. Heslop‐Harrison, Shailendra Goel, Manu Agarwal, Arun Jagannath, Hirohiko Hirochika, Robbie Waugh and Karen McLean and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Amar Kumar

51 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Plant Retrotransposons 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 250 500 750
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.

  1. Plant Retrotransposons
    1999 860 citations Amar Kumar et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Amar Kumar United Kingdom 30 4.0k 1.6k 441 164 121 51 4.2k
David J. Bertioli Brazil 40 4.0k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 333 0.8× 146 0.9× 102 0.8× 122 4.5k
Alexander Kozik United States 23 2.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 585 1.3× 229 1.4× 195 1.6× 36 3.6k
Julapark Chunwongse Thailand 15 2.8k 0.7× 939 0.6× 814 1.8× 162 1.0× 238 2.0× 34 3.2k
David Kudrna United States 30 2.9k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 950 2.2× 127 0.8× 224 1.9× 59 3.5k
Boulos Chalhoub France 34 4.8k 1.2× 2.8k 1.8× 793 1.8× 246 1.5× 277 2.3× 60 5.4k
Catherine Feuillet France 38 4.4k 1.1× 1.4k 0.9× 1.1k 2.4× 162 1.0× 190 1.6× 76 4.7k
Keming Song United States 14 3.2k 0.8× 2.7k 1.7× 715 1.6× 439 2.7× 142 1.2× 16 4.1k
Gerard R. Lazo United States 31 2.6k 0.7× 1.6k 1.0× 602 1.4× 222 1.4× 200 1.7× 52 3.5k
Laurent Gentzbittel France 33 2.9k 0.7× 775 0.5× 447 1.0× 121 0.7× 137 1.1× 87 3.1k
Joseph D. Clarke United States 17 3.6k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 492 1.1× 112 0.7× 188 1.6× 23 4.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amar Kumar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amar Kumar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amar Kumar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amar 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 Amar Kumar. Amar Kumar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kumar, Amar, Vinita Singh, & Md. Qaisar Raza. (2025). Hybrid fluid enhanced pool boiling in the absence of buoyancy assisted bubble departure. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 167. 109349–109349. 1 indexed citations
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Variath, Murali T., Shivendra Kumar, Manjeet Aggarwal, et al.. (2025). Exploring natural variation in seed oil traits across the global germplasm of the oilseed crop, Carthamus tinctorius L. (Safflower) using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy and gas chromatography. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 144. 107700–107700. 1 indexed citations
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Katiyar‐Agarwal, Surekha, Manu Agarwal, Arun Jagannath, et al.. (2022). Long‐read‐based draft genome sequence of Indian black gram IPU‐94‐1 ‘Uttara’: Insights into disease resistance and seed storage protein genes. The Plant Genome. 15(3). e20234–e20234. 8 indexed citations
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Bhardwaj, Ankur R., Gopal Joshi, Vidhi Malik, et al.. (2015). Global insights into high temperature and drought stress regulated genes by RNA-Seq in economically important oilseed crop Brassica juncea. BMC Plant Biology. 15(1). 9–9. 112 indexed citations
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Joshi, Gopal, Ankur R. Bhardwaj, Surekha Katiyar‐Agarwal, et al.. (2014). Identification and characterization of miRNAome in root, stem, leaf and tuber developmental stages of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) by high-throughput sequencing. BMC Plant Biology. 14(1). 6–6. 89 indexed citations
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Bhardwaj, Ankur R., Gopal Joshi, Shailendra Goel, et al.. (2014). A Genome-Wide Perspective of miRNAome in Response to High Temperature, Salinity and Drought Stresses in Brassica juncea (Czern) L. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e92456–e92456. 61 indexed citations
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Jones, John T., Amar Kumar, Lydia M. Castelli, et al.. (2009). Identification and functional characterization of effectors in expressed sequence tags from various life cycle stages of the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida. Molecular Plant Pathology. 10(6). 815–828. 82 indexed citations
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Witte, Claus‐Peter, Quang Hien Le, Thomas E. Bureau, & Amar Kumar. (2001). Terminal-repeat retrotransposons in miniature (TRIM) are involved in restructuring plant genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(24). 13778–13783. 175 indexed citations
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Kumar, Amar & Hirohiko Hirochika. (2001). Applications of retrotransposons as genetic tools in plant biology. Trends in Plant Science. 6(3). 127–134. 133 indexed citations
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Pearce, Stephen R., Ruslan Kalendar, Alan H. Schulman, et al.. (1999). Phylogeny and transpositional activity of Ty1-copia group retrotransposons in cereal genomes. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 261(6). 883–891. 86 indexed citations
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Pearce, Stephen R., et al.. (1999). Rapid isolation of plant Ty1‐copia group retrotransposon LTR sequences for molecular marker studies. The Plant Journal. 19(6). 711–717. 80 indexed citations
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Waugh, Robbie, Karen McLean, Andrew J. Flavell, et al.. (1997). Genetic distribution of Bare–1-like retrotransposable elements in the barley genome revealed by sequence-specific amplification polymorphisms (S-SAP). Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 253(6). 687–694. 380 indexed citations
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Pearce, Stephen R., Uta Pich, Gill Harrison, et al.. (1996). TheTy1-copia group retrotransposons ofAllium cepa are distributed throughout the chromosomes but are enriched in the terminal heterochromatin. Chromosome Research. 4(5). 357–364. 98 indexed citations
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Pearce, Stephen R., et al.. (1996). TheTy1-copia group retrotransposons inVicia species: copy number, sequence heterogeneity and chromosomal localisation. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 250(3). 305–315. 168 indexed citations
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Kumar, Amar. (1996). The adventures of the Ty1-copia group of retrotransposons in plants. Trends in Genetics. 12(2). 41–43. 68 indexed citations
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Kumar, Amar, et al.. (1995). Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of five wild Solanum species using in vitro microtubers. Plant Cell Reports. 14(5). 324–8. 12 indexed citations
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Flavell, Andrew J., et al.. (1992). Ty1–copiagroup retrotransposons are ubiquitous and heterogeneous in higher plants. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(14). 3639–3644. 279 indexed citations

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