Debasis Nayak

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Debasis Nayak is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Debasis Nayak has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Infectious Diseases, 16 papers in Immunology and 14 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Debasis Nayak's work include Virology and Viral Diseases (10 papers), interferon and immune responses (8 papers) and Virus-based gene therapy research (8 papers). Debasis Nayak is often cited by papers focused on Virology and Viral Diseases (10 papers), interferon and immune responses (8 papers) and Virus-based gene therapy research (8 papers). Debasis Nayak collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Singapore. Debasis Nayak's co-authors include Dorian B. McGavern, Theodore L. Roth, Tatjana Atanasijević, Lawrence L. Latour, Alan P. Koretsky, Asit K. Pattnaik, Bernd H. Zinselmeyer, Ritudhwaj Tiwari, Subash C. Das and Tridib K. Sarma and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Debasis Nayak

64 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Microglia Development and Function

2014 849 citations Debasis Nayak, Dorian B. McGavern et al. profile →
Transcranial amelioration of inflammation and cell death after brain injury

2013 467 citations Debasis Nayak, Dorian B. McGavern et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Debasis Nayak India	26	948	907	835	386	307	70	3.3k
Manoj K. Mishra United States	40	1.0k 1.1×	1.6k 1.8×	779 0.9×	323 0.8×	265 0.9×	84	4.5k
Anuja Ghorpade United States	41	1.6k 1.7×	1.3k 1.4×	877 1.1×	388 1.0×	241 0.8×	85	4.8k
Sujatha Kannan United States	46	860 0.9×	2.7k 3.0×	517 0.6×	503 1.3×	345 1.1×	123	6.0k
Santhi Gorantla United States	39	1.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.8×	774 0.9×	538 1.4×	506 1.6×	96	4.9k
Klaus G. Petry France	35	687 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	492 0.6×	444 1.2×	535 1.7×	87	4.0k
Jayasri Das Sarma India	29	433 0.5×	785 0.9×	631 0.8×	186 0.5×	217 0.7×	106	2.7k
Larisa Y. Poluektova United States	39	725 0.8×	860 0.9×	860 1.0×	727 1.9×	92 0.3×	124	3.8k
Paweł Ciborowski United States	32	627 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	680 0.8×	441 1.1×	431 1.4×	95	3.3k
Carmen Infante‐Duarte Germany	32	606 0.6×	775 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	205 0.5×	229 0.7×	77	3.2k
You Zhou United States	34	253 0.3×	1.4k 1.6×	529 0.6×	488 1.3×	157 0.5×	87	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Debasis Nayak

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All Works

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Tiwari, Ritudhwaj, et al.. (2025). Essential Role of Clathrin and Lipid Rafts in pH-dependent Entry of Chandipura Virus: Independence From Caveolin Pathway. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 233(3). 554–559.

Sahu, Nisebita, et al.. (2025). Bovine ephemeral fever: From underestimated illness to emerging threat - A review of pathogenesis, economic impact, and future control strategies. Research in Veterinary Science. 196. 105904–105904.

Kumari, Monika, Uma Shankar, Sharad Gupta, et al.. (2024). Characterization of G‐quadruplexes in the Helicobacter pylori genome and assessment of therapeutic potential of G4 ligands. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. 72(1). 29–42.

Behera, Ajit, Debasis Nayak, & Biswajit Swain. (2024). Surface Engineering of Biomaterials. 7 indexed citations

Nayak, Debasis, et al.. (2023). Microstructure, Mechanical, and Tribological Relationship in Cu-12Al-Ni Alloy with Respect to the Variation of Ni Content. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. 33(16). 8554–8566. 1 indexed citations

Jonniya, Nisha Amarnath, et al.. (2021). Immunoinformatics Approach to Design Multi-Epitope- Subunit Vaccine against Bovine Ephemeral Fever Disease. Vaccines. 9(8). 925–925. 23 indexed citations

Kumar, Ramesh, Jatin Shrinet, Sunil Dubey, et al.. (2021). Chikungunya virus non-structural protein nsP3 interacts with Aedes aegypti DEAD-box helicase RM62F. VirusDisease. 32(4). 657–665. 9 indexed citations

Moseman, E. Ashley, et al.. (2020). T cell engagement of cross-presenting microglia protects the brain from a nasal virus infection. Science Immunology. 5(48). 104 indexed citations

Shankar, Uma, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide analysis reveals a regulatory role for G-quadruplexes during Adenovirus multiplication. Virus Research. 283. 197960–197960. 18 indexed citations

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Mishra, Subodh Kumar, Nirali Pandya, Uma Shankar, et al.. (2020). Identification and characterization of two conserved G-quadruplex forming motifs in the Nipah virus genome and their interaction with G-quadruplex specific ligands. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 1477–1477. 41 indexed citations

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Nayak, Debasis, et al.. (2020). Comparative analysis, distribution, and characterization of microsatellites in Orf virus genome. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 13852–13852. 9 indexed citations

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Kundu, Bidyut Kumar, et al.. (2019). An amide probe as a selective Al³⁺ and Fe³⁺ sensor inside the HeLa and a549 cell lines: Pictet–Spengler reaction for the rapid detection of tryptophan amino acid. New Journal of Chemistry. 43(12). 4867–4877. 22 indexed citations

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Tiwari, Ritudhwaj, Juan Carlos de la Torre, Dorian B. McGavern, & Debasis Nayak. (2019). Beyond Tethering the Viral Particles: Immunomodulatory Functions of Tetherin ( BST-2 ). DNA and Cell Biology. 38(11). 1170–1177. 23 indexed citations

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Nayak, Debasis, et al.. (2019). Molecular characterization, comparative and evolutionary analysis of the recent Orf outbreaks among goats in the Eastern part of India (Odisha). 12. 100088–100088. 3 indexed citations

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Kundu, Bidyut Kumar, et al.. (2018). Substituent dependent sensing behavior of Schiff base chemosensors in detecting Zn2+and Al3+ ions: Drug sample analysis and living cell imaging. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 282. 347–358. 98 indexed citations

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Urata, Shuzo, Elizabeth Kenyon, Debasis Nayak, et al.. (2018). BST-2 controls T cell proliferation and exhaustion by shaping the early distribution of a persistent viral infection. PLoS Pathogens. 14(7). e1007172–e1007172. 14 indexed citations

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Thakur, Neha, Bhagwati Sharma, Suman Bishnoi, et al.. (2018). Multifunctional Inosine Monophosphate Coordinated Metal–Organic Hydrogel: Multistimuli Responsiveness, Self-Healing Properties, and Separation of Water from Organic Solvents. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 6(7). 8659–8671. 50 indexed citations

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Swanson, Phillip A., Geoffrey T. Hart, Matthew V. Russo, et al.. (2016). CD8+ T Cells Induce Fatal Brainstem Pathology during Cerebral Malaria via Luminal Antigen-Specific Engagement of Brain Vasculature. PLoS Pathogens. 12(12). e1006022–e1006022. 93 indexed citations

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Nayak, Debasis, Bernd H. Zinselmeyer, Kara N. Corps, & Dorian B. McGavern. (2012). In vivo dynamics of innate immune sentinels in the CNS. PubMed. 1(2). 95–106. 90 indexed citations

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Kang, Silvia S., Jasmin Herz, Jiyun V. Kim, et al.. (2011). Migration of cytotoxic lymphocytes in cell cycle permits local MHC I–dependent control of division at sites of viral infection. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 208(4). 747–759. 43 indexed citations

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