Imran Babar

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Imran Babar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Imran Babar has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Imran Babar's work include MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers), Circular RNAs in diseases (3 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (3 papers). Imran Babar is often cited by papers focused on MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers), Circular RNAs in diseases (3 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (3 papers). Imran Babar collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Canada. Imran Babar's co-authors include Frank J. Slack, Erica L. Jackson, Sharon Lawrence, Roderick T. Bronson, Carla F. Bender Kim, Tyler Jacks, Amber Woolfenden, Denise Crowley, Joanne B. Weidhaas and W. Mark Saltzman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Imran Babar

12 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Identification of Bronchioalveolar Stem Cells in Normal Lung and Lung Cancer

2005 1.6k citations Carla F. Bender Kim, Erica L. Jackson et al. Cell profile →
MicroRNA silencing for cancer therapy targeted to the tumour microenvironment

2014 683 citations Christopher J. Cheng, Raman Bahal et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Imran Babar United States	10	2.2k	1.4k	851	799	495	12	3.5k
Petra E. de Ruiter Netherlands	30	1.3k 0.6×	507 0.4×	434 0.5×	519 0.6×	734 1.5×	58	3.0k
Claudia D. Andl United States	26	1.5k 0.7×	612 0.5×	772 0.9×	261 0.3×	427 0.9×	56	2.8k
Wouter R. Karthaus United States	14	2.1k 1.0×	592 0.4×	1.3k 1.5×	901 1.1×	278 0.6×	25	3.5k
Nicole Meyer-Morse United States	11	1.9k 0.9×	970 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	401 0.5×	136 0.3×	11	3.5k
J. Schneider Spain	25	1.4k 0.6×	552 0.4×	711 0.8×	204 0.3×	550 1.1×	109	3.0k
Virginia Urquidi United States	29	1.5k 0.7×	560 0.4×	779 0.9×	297 0.4×	651 1.3×	56	2.8k
Paula J. McKeown‐Longo United States	33	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	428 0.5×	273 0.3×	130 0.3×	82	3.6k
Ronald T. Aimes United States	15	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	991 1.2×	167 0.2×	209 0.4×	23	3.1k
Yoshio Endo Japan	28	988 0.5×	421 0.3×	1.2k 1.4×	457 0.6×	346 0.7×	80	2.6k
Ying Xiang China	26	1.8k 0.8×	976 0.7×	790 0.9×	255 0.3×	154 0.3×	71	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Imran Babar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Imran Babar

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Imran, Muhammad, et al.. (2016). Effect of increasing dietary metabolizable protein on nitrogen efficiency in Holstein dairy cows. Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences. 30(5). 660–665. 9 indexed citations

2.

Renvoisé, Benoît, et al.. (2016). Could low-dose naltrexone be an effective treatment for Hailey-Hailey Disease?. 1(1). 3 indexed citations

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Rajasimha, Harsha, Preveen Ramamoorthy, Madhuri Hegde, et al.. (2014). Organization for rare diseases India (ORDI) – addressing the challenges and opportunities for the Indian rare diseases' community. Genetics Research. 96. e009–e009. 29 indexed citations

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Cheng, Christopher J., Raman Bahal, Imran Babar, et al.. (2014). MicroRNA silencing for cancer therapy targeted to the tumour microenvironment. Nature. 518(7537). 107–110. 683 indexed citations breakdown →

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Babar, Imran, Christopher J. Cheng, Carmen J. Booth, et al.. (2012). Nanoparticle-based therapy in an in vivo microRNA-155 (miR-155)-dependent mouse model of lymphoma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(26). E1695–704. 399 indexed citations

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Blum, Jeremy S., Caroline E. Weller, Carmen J. Booth, et al.. (2011). Prevention of K-Ras- and Pten-mediated intravaginal tumors by treatment with camptothecin-loaded PLGA nanoparticles. Drug Delivery and Translational Research. 1(5). 383–394. 20 indexed citations

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Babar, Imran, et al.. (2011). Inhibition of hypoxia-induced miR-155 radiosensitizes hypoxic lung cancer cells. Cancer Biology & Therapy. 12(10). 908–914. 104 indexed citations

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Shea, Patrick R., Kimmo Virtaneva, John J. Kupko, et al.. (2010). Interactome analysis of longitudinal pharyngeal infection of cynomolgus macaques by group A Streptococcus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(10). 4693–4698. 21 indexed citations

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Babar, Imran, Frank J. Slack, & Joanne B. Weidhaas. (2008). miRNA Modulation of the Cellular Stress Response. Future Oncology. 4(2). 289–298. 80 indexed citations

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Weidhaas, Joanne B., Imran Babar, Phong Trang, et al.. (2007). MicroRNAs as Potential Agents to Alter Resistance to Cytotoxic Anticancer Therapy. Cancer Research. 67(23). 11111–11116. 324 indexed citations

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Virtaneva, Kimmo, Stephen F. Porcella, Morag Graham, et al.. (2005). Longitudinal analysis of the group A Streptococcus transcriptome in experimental pharyngitis in cynomolgus macaques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(25). 9014–9019. 183 indexed citations

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Kim, Carla F. Bender, Erica L. Jackson, Amber Woolfenden, et al.. (2005). Identification of Bronchioalveolar Stem Cells in Normal Lung and Lung Cancer. Cell. 121(6). 823–835. 1650 indexed citations breakdown →

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