Amita Sehgal

21.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
188 papers, 15.8k citations indexed

About

Amita Sehgal is a scholar working on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Amita Sehgal has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 15.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, 102 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 56 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Amita Sehgal's work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (148 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (86 papers) and Light effects on plants (41 papers). Amita Sehgal is often cited by papers focused on Circadian rhythm and melatonin (148 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (86 papers) and Light effects on plants (41 papers). Amita Sehgal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Amita Sehgal's co-authors include Xiangzhong Zheng, Michael W. Young, Julie A. Williams, Amanda Crocker, Joan C. Hendricks, William J. Joiner, Kyunghee Koh, Moses V. Chao, Jeffrey L. Price and Zhaohai Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Amita Sehgal

181 papers receiving 15.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Expression and structure of the human NGF receptor

1986 832 citations Amita Sehgal, Moses V. Chao et al. Cell profile →
Rest in Drosophila Is a Sleep-like State

2000 722 citations Julie A. Williams, Amita Sehgal et al. Neuron profile →
Loss of Circadian Behavioral Rhythms and per RNA Oscillations in the Drosophila Mutant timeless

1994 514 citations Amita Sehgal et al. Science profile →
A neuron–glia lipid metabolic cycle couples daily sleep to mitochondrial homeostasis

2024 57 citations Paula Haynes, Zhifeng Yue et al. profile →
Senescent glia link mitochondrial dysfunction and lipid accumulation

2024 56 citations Shirley Zhang, Amita Sehgal et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amita Sehgal United States	71	9.3k	7.7k	3.5k	3.1k	2.8k	188	15.8k
Urs Albrecht Switzerland	61	12.5k 1.3×	3.8k 0.5×	2.9k 0.8×	5.1k 1.6×	2.9k 1.1×	168	19.3k
Michael H. Hastings United Kingdom	74	17.7k 1.9×	6.8k 0.9×	4.1k 1.2×	2.9k 0.9×	4.1k 1.5×	231	22.2k
Steven M. Reppert United States	82	22.8k 2.4×	9.6k 1.3×	6.1k 1.8×	4.2k 1.3×	4.4k 1.6×	163	30.1k
Elizabeth S. Maywood United Kingdom	60	13.6k 1.5×	4.9k 0.6×	3.5k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	113	16.2k
David C. Klein United States	79	13.4k 1.4×	8.5k 1.1×	2.0k 0.6×	8.6k 2.7×	3.1k 1.1×	362	23.5k
Michael Menaker United States	68	17.6k 1.9×	7.6k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	4.0k 1.5×	201	20.9k
Charles J. Weitz United States	35	7.4k 0.8×	2.7k 0.3×	2.9k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	45	10.1k
Martha Hotz Vitaterna United States	37	7.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.3×	1.9k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	85	10.7k
Satchidananda Panda United States	71	17.8k 1.9×	4.1k 0.5×	4.4k 1.3×	6.6k 2.1×	1.9k 0.7×	170	27.6k
Paul E. Hardin United States	51	7.4k 0.8×	4.6k 0.6×	4.3k 1.3×	1.6k 0.5×	425 0.2×	103	9.7k

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Gui, Jiang, et al.. (2025). A carnitine transporter at the blood–brain barrier modulates sleep via glial lipid metabolism in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(4). e2421178122–e2421178122. 1 indexed citations

Noya, Sara B., et al.. (2025). Regulation of Metabolic Rhythms by Glial Clocks. Journal of Biological Rhythms. 41(1). 122–138.

Artiushin, Gregory, et al.. (2023). Modulation of sleep by trafficking of lipids through the Drosophila blood-brain barrier. eLife. 12. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Yueliang, Annika F. Barber, Sara B. Noya, et al.. (2023). The microbiome stabilizes circadian rhythms in the gut. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(5). e2217532120–e2217532120. 45 indexed citations

Haynes, Paula, et al.. (2023). Ecdysone acts through cortex glia to regulate sleep in Drosophila. eLife. 12. 20 indexed citations

Naik, Amruta, Utham K. Valekunja, Soon Yew Tang, et al.. (2023). Circadian regulation of lung repair and regeneration. JCI Insight. 8(16). 7 indexed citations

Field, Jeffrey & Amita Sehgal. (2022). The Kinetics and (Dys)kinetics of Cancer Chronotherapy. Cancer Research. 82(13). 2357–2360. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Shirley, et al.. (2021). A circadian clock regulates efflux by the blood-brain barrier in mice and human cells. Nature Communications. 12(1). 617–617. 89 indexed citations

Bedont, Joseph L., et al.. (2021). Short and long sleeping mutants reveal links between sleep and macroautophagy. eLife. 10. 29 indexed citations

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Barber, Annika F., et al.. (2021). Drosophila clock cells use multiple mechanisms to transmit time-of-day signals in the brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(10). 38 indexed citations

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Naik, Amruta, Soon Yew Tang, Thomas G. Brooks, et al.. (2021). Loss of circadian protection against influenza infection in adult mice exposed to hyperoxia as neonates. eLife. 10. 16 indexed citations

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Davla, Sejal, et al.. (2020). AANAT1 functions in astrocytes to regulate sleep homeostasis. eLife. 9. 25 indexed citations

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Toda, H., et al.. (2019). A sleep-inducing gene, nemuri , links sleep and immune function in Drosophila. Science. 363(6426). 509–515. 125 indexed citations

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Grant, Gregory R., et al.. (2018). Spliceosome factors target timeless (tim) mRNA to control clock protein accumulation and circadian behavior in Drosophila. eLife. 7. 24 indexed citations

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Dubowy, Christine & Amita Sehgal. (2017). Circadian Rhythms and Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 205(4). 1373–1397. 255 indexed citations

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Koh, Kyunghee, Xiangzhong Zheng, & Amita Sehgal. (2006). JETLAG Resets the Drosophila Circadian Clock by Promoting Light-Induced Degradation of TIMELESS. Science. 312(5781). 1809–1812. 229 indexed citations

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Dockendorff, Thomas C., Henry S. Su, Sean McBride, et al.. (2002). Drosophila Lacking dfmr1 Activity Show Defects in Circadian Output and Fail to Maintain Courtship Interest. Neuron. 34(6). 973–984. 238 indexed citations

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McNamara, Peter, Sang‐Beom Seo, R. Daniel Rudic, et al.. (2001). Regulation of CLOCK and MOP4 by Nuclear Hormone Receptors in the Vasculature. Cell. 105(7). 877–889. 369 indexed citations

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Ousley, Andrea, Thomas K. Darlington, Dechun Chen, et al.. (2001). Regulation of the cycling of timeless (tim) RNA. Journal of Neurobiology. 47(3). 161–175. 32 indexed citations

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Sehgal, Amita, Nila Patil, & Moses V. Chao. (1988). A Constitutive Promoter Directs Expression of the Nerve Growth Factor Receptor Gene. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 8(8). 3160–3167. 74 indexed citations

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