Arvind Pillai

655 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 181 citations indexed

About

Arvind Pillai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Arvind Pillai has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 181 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Materials Chemistry and 2 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Arvind Pillai's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (3 papers) and Hemoglobin structure and function (2 papers). Arvind Pillai is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (3 papers) and Hemoglobin structure and function (2 papers). Arvind Pillai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Arvind Pillai's co-authors include Georg Hochberg, Joseph W. Thornton, Arthur Laganowsky, Shane A. Chandler, Jay F. Storz, Yang Liu, Justin L. P. Benesch, Anthony V. Signore, Connor Weidle and Florian Praetorius and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Arvind Pillai

6 papers receiving 180 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.

De novo design of allosterically switchable protein assemblies

2024 33 citations Arvind Pillai, Connor Weidle et al. Nature profile →

Peers

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Shane A. Chandler United Kingdom

F. Emil Thomasen Denmark

Martin J. Kurian United States

Christian Heid Germany

Edward Courchaine United States

Ameeq Ul Mushtaq Sweden

Daniel L. Winter Australia

Saurav Mallik India

Moriya Slavin Israel

Andrey Bogorodskiy Russia

Shane A. Chandler United Kingdom

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148 ×1.1

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16 ×1.1

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Citations per year, relative to Arvind Pillai Arvind Pillai (= 1×) peers Shane A. Chandler

Countries citing papers authored by Arvind Pillai

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Arvind Pillai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arvind Pillai

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Pillai, Arvind, et al.. (2025). Symmetry facilitated the evolution of heterospecificity and high-order stoichiometry in vertebrate hemoglobin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(4). e2414756122–e2414756122. 3 indexed citations

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Girbig, Mathias, Stefan Bohn, Thomas Heimerl, et al.. (2024). Frequent transitions in self-assembly across the evolution of a central metabolic enzyme. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10515–10515.

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Pillai, Arvind, Connor Weidle, Philip J. Y. Leung, et al.. (2024). De novo design of allosterically switchable protein assemblies. Nature. 632(8026). 911–920. 33 indexed citations breakdown →

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Crabtree, Michael, J. F. Holland, Arvind Pillai, et al.. (2023). Ion binding with charge inversion combined with screening modulates DEAD box helicase phase transitions. Cell Reports. 42(11). 113375–113375. 21 indexed citations

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Pillai, Arvind, Georg Hochberg, & Joseph W. Thornton. (2022). Simple mechanisms for the evolution of protein complexity. Protein Science. 31(11). e4449–e4449. 25 indexed citations

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Pillai, Arvind, Shane A. Chandler, Yang Liu, et al.. (2020). Origin of complexity in haemoglobin evolution. Nature. 581(7809). 480–485. 98 indexed citations

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Pillai, Arvind, Shane A. Chandler, Yang Liu, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Origin of complexity in haemoglobin evolution. Nature. 583(7816). E26–E26. 1 indexed citations

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