Baljit S. Khakh

26.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
130 papers, 16.1k citations indexed

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Baljit S. Khakh is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Baljit S. Khakh has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 16.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 51 papers in Molecular Biology and 47 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Baljit S. Khakh's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (58 papers), Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling (47 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (41 papers). Baljit S. Khakh is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (58 papers), Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling (47 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (41 papers). Baljit S. Khakh collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Baljit S. Khakh's co-authors include Michael V. Sofroniew, R. Alan North, Eiji Shigetomi, Giovanni Coppola, David N. Bowser, Xinzhu Yu, Henry A. Lester, Yan Ao, Terrance M. Egan and Jun Nagai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Baljit S. Khakh

129 papers receiving 16.0k citations

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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.

Astrocyte scar formation aids central nervous system axon regeneration

2016 1.3k citations Riki Kawaguchi, Giovanni Coppola et al. Nature profile →
Diversity of astrocyte functions and phenotypes in neural circuits

2015 851 citations Baljit S. Khakh et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
P2X receptors as cell-surface ATP sensors in health and disease

2006 724 citations Baljit S. Khakh et al. Nature profile →
Neural Circuit-Specialized Astrocytes: Transcriptomic, Proteomic, Morphological, and Functional Evidence

2017 542 citations Blanca Díaz‐Castro, Eiji Shigetomi et al. Neuron profile →
Astrocyte Kir4.1 ion channel deficits contribute to neuronal dysfunction in Huntington's disease model mice

2014 463 citations Xiaoping Tong, Baljit S. Khakh et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
CaImAn an open source tool for scalable calcium imaging data analysis

2019 461 citations Andrea Giovannucci, Johannes Friedrich et al. eLife profile →
Molecular basis of astrocyte diversity and morphology across the CNS in health and disease

2022 296 citations Fumito Endo, Atsushi Kasai et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Baljit S. Khakh United States	64	7.4k	5.4k	5.4k	4.3k	2.3k	130	16.1k
Takahiro Takano United States	43	6.6k 0.9×	4.0k 0.7×	4.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	82	15.4k
Philip G. Haydon United States	71	15.6k 2.1×	7.0k 1.3×	7.8k 1.5×	1.8k 0.4×	2.1k 0.9×	167	23.4k
Brian A. MacVicar Canada	70	7.7k 1.0×	4.3k 0.8×	6.3k 1.2×	904 0.2×	1.3k 0.6×	157	15.5k
Michael W. Salter Canada	74	12.3k 1.7×	4.7k 0.9×	9.4k 1.8×	2.1k 0.5×	863 0.4×	180	25.1k
Shinichi Kohsaka Japan	69	6.0k 0.8×	9.8k 1.8×	5.8k 1.1×	2.8k 0.7×	753 0.3×	251	20.1k
Vladimir Parpura United States	60	9.3k 1.3×	5.3k 1.0×	5.9k 1.1×	738 0.2×	723 0.3×	210	16.6k
Mike Dragunow New Zealand	72	9.2k 1.2×	3.1k 0.6×	7.4k 1.4×	754 0.2×	887 0.4×	231	18.2k
Giorgio Bernardi Italy	97	19.1k 2.6×	5.9k 1.1×	10.6k 2.0×	1.6k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	615	35.2k
Michela Matteoli Italy	66	5.6k 0.8×	2.6k 0.5×	7.0k 1.3×	1.3k 0.3×	520 0.2×	185	14.5k
Wen‐Biao Gan United States	44	6.4k 0.9×	5.2k 1.0×	3.1k 0.6×	838 0.2×	578 0.2×	90	13.9k

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Linker, Kay E., et al.. (2025). Aging in mice alters regionally enriched striatal astrocytes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8496–8496.

Soto, Joselyn S., Kay E. Linker, Yasaman Jami‐Alahmadi, et al.. (2024). Crym-positive striatal astrocytes gate perseverative behaviour. Nature. 627(8003). 358–366. 22 indexed citations

Jaeger, Dieter, et al.. (2024). Scaled Complexity of Mammalian Astrocytes: Insights From Mouse and Macaque. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 532(8). e25665–e25665. 3 indexed citations

Soto, Joselyn S., et al.. (2024). Astrocyte Gi-GPCR signaling corrects compulsive-like grooming and anxiety-related behaviors in Sapap3 knockout mice. Neuron. 112(20). 3412–3423.e6. 14 indexed citations

Soto, Joselyn S., Yasaman Jami‐Alahmadi, James A. Wohlschlegel, & Baljit S. Khakh. (2023). In vivo identification of astrocyte and neuron subproteomes by proximity-dependent biotinylation. Nature Protocols. 19(3). 896–927. 6 indexed citations

Khakh, Baljit S. & Steven A. Goldman. (2023). Astrocytic contributions to Huntington's disease pathophysiology. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1522(1). 42–59. 20 indexed citations

Bravo‐Ferrer, Isabel, Baljit S. Khakh, & Blanca Díaz‐Castro. (2022). Cell-specific RNA purification to study translatomes of mouse central nervous system. STAR Protocols. 3(2). 101397–101397. 6 indexed citations

Endo, Fumito, Atsushi Kasai, Joselyn S. Soto, et al.. (2022). Molecular basis of astrocyte diversity and morphology across the CNS in health and disease. Science. 378(6619). eadc9020–eadc9020. 296 indexed citations breakdown →

Murphy‐Royal, Ciaran, April D. Johnston, Andrew K. J. Boyce, et al.. (2020). Stress gates an astrocytic energy reservoir to impair synaptic plasticity. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2014–2014. 106 indexed citations

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Bassett, Danielle S., Kathleen E. Cullen, Simon B. Eickhoff, et al.. (2020). Reflections on the past two decades of neuroscience. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 21(10). 524–534. 31 indexed citations

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Virgilio, Francesco Di, Richard J. Evans, Simonetta Falzoni, et al.. (2020). P2X receptors (version 2020.4) in the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology Database. IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE. 2020(4). 1 indexed citations

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Octeau, J. Christopher, et al.. (2020). Assessing Neuron–Astrocyte Spatial Interactions Using the Neuron–Astrocyte Proximity Assay. Current Protocols in Neuroscience. 91(1). e91–e91. 8 indexed citations

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Giovannucci, Andrea, Johannes Friedrich, Pat Gunn, et al.. (2019). CaImAn an open source tool for scalable calcium imaging data analysis. eLife. 8. 461 indexed citations breakdown →

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Díaz‐Castro, Blanca, Mohitkumar R. Gangwani, Xinzhu Yu, Giovanni Coppola, & Baljit S. Khakh. (2019). Astrocyte molecular signatures in Huntington’s disease. Science Translational Medicine. 11(514). 162 indexed citations

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Shigetomi, Eiji, Sandip Patel, & Baljit S. Khakh. (2016). Probing the Complexities of Astrocyte Calcium Signaling. Trends in Cell Biology. 26(4). 300–312. 191 indexed citations

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Housley, Gary D., Srdjan M. Vlajkovic, Ravindra Telang, et al.. (2013). ATP-gated ion channels mediate adaptation to elevated sound levels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(18). 7494–7499. 88 indexed citations

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Toulmé, Estelle & Baljit S. Khakh. (2012). Imaging P2X4 Receptor Lateral Mobility in Microglia. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(18). 14734–14748. 39 indexed citations

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Samways, Damien S. K., Baljit S. Khakh, & Terrance M. Egan. (2012). Allosteric Modulation of Ca2+ flux in Ligand-gated Cation Channel (P2X4) by Actions on Lateral Portals. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(10). 7594–7602. 34 indexed citations

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Shigetomi, Eiji, Xiaoping Tong, Kelvin Y. Kwan, David P. Corey, & Baljit S. Khakh. (2011). TRPA1 channels regulate astrocyte resting calcium and inhibitory synapse efficacy through GAT-3. Nature Neuroscience. 15(1). 70–80. 369 indexed citations

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Khakh, Baljit S. & Graeme Henderson. (1998). Hyperpolarization‐activated cationic currents (I_h) in neurones of the trigeminal mesencephalic nucleus of the rat. The Journal of Physiology. 510(3). 695–704. 56 indexed citations

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