Emily Puumala

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 675 citations indexed

About

Emily Puumala is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Emily Puumala has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 675 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Infectious Diseases, 7 papers in Epidemiology and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Emily Puumala's work include Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (9 papers), Fungal Infections and Studies (7 papers) and Fungal Plant Pathogen Control (1 paper). Emily Puumala is often cited by papers focused on Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (9 papers), Fungal Infections and Studies (7 papers) and Fungal Plant Pathogen Control (1 paper). Emily Puumala collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Brazil. Emily Puumala's co-authors include Leah E. Cowen, Nicole Robbins, Yunjin Lee, Aicheng Chen, Zhonggang Liu, Luke Whitesell, Sean D. Liston, Álvaro Lorente‐Macías, Tanvi Shekhar‐Guturja and Kali R. Iyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Nature Communications and Clinical Microbiology Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Emily Puumala

11 papers receiving 667 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.

Antifungal Drug Resistance: Molecular Mechanisms in Candida albicans and Beyond

2020 506 citations Yunjin Lee, Emily Puumala et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emily Puumala Canada	6	375	241	157	89	87	12	675
Érika Seki Kioshima Brazil	17	373 1.0×	297 1.2×	214 1.4×	72 0.8×	162 1.9×	62	920
Caroline Barcelos Costa-Orlandi Brazil	15	375 1.0×	414 1.7×	198 1.3×	75 0.8×	133 1.5×	24	933
Nicole M. Revie Canada	5	449 1.2×	324 1.3×	184 1.2×	83 0.9×	98 1.1×	8	728
Abdul Haseeb Shah India	13	278 0.7×	200 0.8×	253 1.6×	92 1.0×	76 0.9×	31	738
Somanon Bhattacharya United States	10	465 1.2×	346 1.4×	185 1.2×	88 1.0×	49 0.6×	15	738
Ensieh Lotfali Iran	14	255 0.7×	260 1.1×	100 0.6×	65 0.7×	157 1.8×	78	897
Kali R. Iyer Canada	8	584 1.6×	445 1.8×	205 1.3×	107 1.2×	114 1.3×	12	890
Ana Carolina Alves de Paula e Silva Brazil	15	454 1.2×	425 1.8×	188 1.2×	51 0.6×	75 0.9×	20	878
Ana P. Silva Portugal	15	452 1.2×	372 1.5×	127 0.8×	72 0.8×	66 0.8×	25	733
Hassan E. Eldesouky United States	14	365 1.0×	245 1.0×	145 0.9×	61 0.7×	171 2.0×	22	624

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12 of 12 papers shown

Puumala, Emily, Meganathan Nandakumar, P.J. Stogios, et al.. (2025). Structure-guided optimization of small molecules targeting Yck2 as a strategy to combat Candida albicans. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2156–2156. 3 indexed citations

Nandakumar, Meganathan, Emily Puumala, Zhongle Liu, et al.. (2025). Chemoproteomic Profiling of C. albicans for Characterization of Antifungal Kinase Inhibitors. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 68(7). 7615–7629.

Puumala, Emily, Nicole Robbins, & Leah E. Cowen. (2024). Protocol to evaluate translation inhibition in Candida species using fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry. STAR Protocols. 5(3). 103245–103245. 2 indexed citations

Puumala, Emily, Christopher C. Thornburg, Tanja Grkovic, et al.. (2024). Naamidine A reveals a promising zinc-binding strategy for topical antifungal therapy. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 68(11). e0119424–e0119424. 1 indexed citations

Burns, Andrew R., Emily Puumala, Jamie Snider, et al.. (2024). Cyprocide selectively kills nematodes via cytochrome P450 bioactivation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5529–5529. 6 indexed citations

Puumala, Emily, David Sychantha, AkshatKumar Nigam, et al.. (2024). Allosteric inhibition of tRNA synthetase Gln4 by N-pyrimidinyl-β-thiophenylacrylamides exerts highly selective antifungal activity. Cell chemical biology. 31(4). 760–775.e17. 2 indexed citations

Puumala, Emily, et al.. (2024). Advancements and challenges in antifungal therapeutic development. Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 37(1). e0014223–e0014223. 35 indexed citations

Kim, Sang Hu, Yong-Kang Zhang, Yasheen Zhou, et al.. (2022). Inhibiting C-4 Methyl Sterol Oxidase with Novel Diazaborines to Target Fungal Plant Pathogens. ACS Chemical Biology. 17(6). 1343–1350. 8 indexed citations

Puumala, Emily, Olga Zaslaver, Amy Chen, et al.. (2022). The Trisubstituted Isoxazole MMV688766 Exerts Broad-Spectrum Activity against Drug-Resistant Fungal Pathogens through Inhibition of Lipid Homeostasis. mBio. 13(6). e0273022–e0273022. 5 indexed citations

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Lee, Yunjin, Emily Puumala, Nicole Robbins, & Leah E. Cowen. (2020). Antifungal Drug Resistance: Molecular Mechanisms in Candida albicans and Beyond. Chemical Reviews. 121(6). 3390–3411. 506 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lorente‐Macías, Álvaro, P.J. Stogios, E. Evdokimova, et al.. (2020). Overcoming Fungal Echinocandin Resistance through Inhibition of the Non-essential Stress Kinase Yck2. Cell chemical biology. 27(3). 269–282.e5. 45 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhonggang, Emily Puumala, & Aicheng Chen. (2019). Sensitive electrochemical detection of Hg(II) via a FeOOH modified nanoporous gold microelectrode. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 287. 517–525. 62 indexed citations

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