Apurva Narechania

48.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Apurva Narechania is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Apurva Narechania has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Infectious Diseases and 17 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Apurva Narechania's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (12 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (8 papers). Apurva Narechania is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (12 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (8 papers). Apurva Narechania collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Apurva Narechania's co-authors include Michael J. Campbell, Huaiyu Mi, Paul D. Thomas, Anushya Muruganujan, Anish Kejariwal, Doreen Ware, Rob DeSalle, Joshua C. Stein, Paul J. Planet and Stefan Kurtz and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Apurva Narechania

57 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

PANTHER: A Library of Protein Families and Subfamilies Indexed by Function

2003 2.3k citations Paul D. Thomas, Michael J. Campbell et al. Genome Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Apurva Narechania United States	27	2.5k	794	725	719	558	58	4.5k
Harm van Bakel United States	34	2.9k 1.1×	611 0.8×	687 0.9×	686 1.0×	705 1.3×	114	4.5k
Nicola Buso United Kingdom	5	3.1k 1.2×	594 0.7×	558 0.8×	944 1.3×	394 0.7×	5	5.2k
Adrian R. Tivey United Kingdom	7	3.2k 1.3×	628 0.8×	605 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	455 0.8×	7	5.5k
Fábio Madeira United Kingdom	9	3.2k 1.3×	600 0.8×	552 0.8×	916 1.3×	394 0.7×	14	5.4k
Lydie Bougueleret Switzerland	34	3.1k 1.2×	737 0.9×	660 0.9×	642 0.9×	945 1.7×	55	5.3k
Konstantin Okonechnikov Germany	10	2.1k 0.8×	823 1.0×	436 0.6×	829 1.2×	352 0.6×	30	4.2k
Nandana Madhusoodanan United Kingdom	5	3.0k 1.2×	583 0.7×	546 0.8×	898 1.2×	382 0.7×	5	5.0k
David Torrents Spain	24	3.8k 1.5×	899 1.1×	330 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	263 0.5×	51	5.9k
Yuan Chen China	37	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.8×	386 0.5×	879 1.2×	613 1.1×	188	4.9k
Yongwook Choi United States	21	2.8k 1.1×	1.6k 2.0×	269 0.4×	560 0.8×	325 0.6×	40	5.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Apurva Narechania

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20 of 20 papers shown

Narechania, Apurva, Dean Bobo, Rob DeSalle, et al.. (2025). What Do We Gain When Tolerating Loss? The Information Bottleneck Wrings Out Recombination. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(3). 1 indexed citations

Narechania, Apurva, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, & M. Thomas P. Gilbert. (2025). What We Talk About When We Talk About Microbial Species. Molecular Ecology. 34(24). e70171–e70171.

Galindo, Luis Javier, Aaron A. Heiss, Guifré Torruella, et al.. (2023). One high quality genome and two transcriptome datasets for new species of Mantamonas, a deep-branching eukaryote clade. Scientific Data. 10(1). 603–603. 9 indexed citations

DeSalle, Rob, Apurva Narechania, & Michael Tessler. (2023). Multiple outgroups can cause random rooting in phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 184. 107806–107806. 12 indexed citations

Walter, Katharine S., Caroline Colijn, Ted Cohen, et al.. (2020). Genomic variant-identification methods may alter Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission inferences. Microbial Genomics. 6(8). 20 indexed citations

Hekkala, Evon, Matthew L. Aardema, Apurva Narechania, et al.. (2020). The secrets of Sobek – A crocodile mummy mitogenome from ancient Egypt. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 33. 102483–102483. 8 indexed citations

Lozano, Carmen, Ahmed M. Moustafa, Kira L. Tomlinson, et al.. (2019). CFTR-PTEN–dependent mitochondrial metabolic dysfunction promotes Pseudomonas aeruginosa airway infection. Science Translational Medicine. 11(499). 71 indexed citations

Botelho, Ana Maria Nunes, Ahmed M. Moustafa, Cristiana Ossaille Beltrame, et al.. (2019). Local Diversification of Methicillin- Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST239 in South America After Its Rapid Worldwide Dissemination. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 82–82. 24 indexed citations

Zapotoczna, Marta, Gustavo Pelicioli Riboldi, Ahmed M. Moustafa, et al.. (2018). Mobile-Genetic-Element-Encoded Hypertolerance to Copper Protects Staphylococcus aureus from Killing by Host Phagocytes. mBio. 9(5). 33 indexed citations

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Shah, Neha, Sara C. Auld, James C.M. Brust, et al.. (2017). Transmission of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa. New England Journal of Medicine. 376(3). 243–253. 203 indexed citations

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Narechania, Apurva, Richard H. Baker, Rob DeSalle, et al.. (2016). Clusterflock: a flocking algorithm for isolating congruent phylogenomic datasets. GigaScience. 5(1). 44–44. 9 indexed citations

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Planet, Paul J., Apurva Narechania, Liang Chen, et al.. (2016). Architecture of a Species: Phylogenomics of Staphylococcus aureus. Trends in Microbiology. 25(2). 153–166. 49 indexed citations

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Parker, Dane, Paul J. Planet, Grace Soong, Apurva Narechania, & Alice Prince. (2014). Induction of Type I Interferon Signaling Determines the Relative Pathogenicity of Staphylococcus aureus Strains. PLoS Pathogens. 10(2). e1003951–e1003951. 91 indexed citations

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Planet, Paul J., Apurva Narechania, Saul Hymes, et al.. (2013). Bordetella holmesii: initial genomic analysis of an emerging opportunist. Pathogens and Disease. 67(2). 132–135. 8 indexed citations

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Simon, Sabrina, Apurva Narechania, Rob DeSalle, & Heike Hadrys. (2012). Insect Phylogenomics: Exploring the Source of Incongruence Using New Transcriptomic Data. Genome Biology and Evolution. 4(12). 1295–1309. 47 indexed citations

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Narechania, Apurva, et al.. (2011). Random Addition Concatenation Analysis: A Novel Approach to the Exploration of Phylogenomic Signal Reveals Strong Agreement between Core and Shell Genomic Partitions in the Cyanobacteria. Genome Biology and Evolution. 4(1). 30–43. 31 indexed citations

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Yassin, Amir, E. Kurt Lienau, Apurva Narechania, & Rob DeSalle. (2010). Catching the phylogenic history through the ontogenic hourglass: a phylogenomic analysis ofDrosophilabody segmentation genes. Evolution & Development. 12(3). 288–295. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lifang, Jer-Ming Chia, Sunita Kumari, et al.. (2009). A Genome-Wide Characterization of MicroRNA Genes in Maize. PLoS Genetics. 5(11). e1000716–e1000716. 291 indexed citations

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Gore, Michael A., Mark H. Wright, Elhan S. Ersoz, et al.. (2009). Large‐Scale Discovery of Gene‐Enriched SNPs. The Plant Genome. 2(2). 46 indexed citations

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Mi, Huaiyu, Michael J. Campbell, Apurva Narechania, et al.. (2003). Assessment of Genome-Wide Protein Function Classification for Drosophila melanogaster. Genome Research. 13(9). 2118–2128. 35 indexed citations

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