K. Pal

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

K. Pal is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Molecular Biology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Pal has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cancer Research, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in K. Pal's work include Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (13 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (8 papers) and Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (5 papers). K. Pal is often cited by papers focused on Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (13 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (8 papers) and Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (5 papers). K. Pal collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and Germany. K. Pal's co-authors include Peter Sims, P.L. Grover, Alan Hewer, Alan Swaisland, Philip L. Grover, Joan Booth, Brian Tierney, Colin S. Cooper, David F. Richards and Kenneth Earle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, FEBS Letters and Kidney International.

In The Last Decade

K. Pal

23 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Metabolic activation of benzo(a)pyrene proceeds by a diol... 1974 2026 1991 2008 1974 250 500 750
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.

  1. Metabolic activation of benzo(a)pyrene proceeds by a diol-epoxide
    1974 951 citations Peter Sims, P.L. Grover et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
K. Pal United Kingdom 13 671 658 321 300 260 23 1.4k
Charlotte Witmer United States 19 521 0.8× 515 0.8× 402 1.3× 329 1.1× 124 0.5× 41 1.5k
Gerald M. Holder Australia 16 353 0.5× 466 0.7× 422 1.3× 177 0.6× 195 0.8× 67 1.3k
Mary F. Argus United States 21 466 0.7× 668 1.0× 255 0.8× 286 1.0× 118 0.5× 86 1.6k
Joseph C. Arcos United States 19 339 0.5× 607 0.9× 256 0.8× 229 0.8× 125 0.5× 60 1.4k
Charles C. Irving United States 23 578 0.9× 925 1.4× 198 0.6× 120 0.4× 233 0.9× 68 1.6k
Masakazu Isobe Japan 22 286 0.4× 597 0.9× 224 0.7× 187 0.6× 146 0.6× 64 1.3k
Mildred K. Buening United States 17 329 0.5× 576 0.9× 490 1.5× 115 0.4× 162 0.6× 26 1.3k
D. V. Parke United Kingdom 23 284 0.4× 435 0.7× 489 1.5× 191 0.6× 135 0.5× 50 1.5k
W.G. Stillwell United States 22 444 0.7× 436 0.7× 146 0.5× 248 0.8× 182 0.7× 43 1.3k
E. C. Miller United States 18 438 0.7× 701 1.1× 575 1.8× 150 0.5× 139 0.5× 38 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by K. Pal

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Fields of papers citing papers by K. Pal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. Pal

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pal, K., et al.. (2000). Salivary Testosterone at High Altitude in Man. Hormone and Metabolic Research. 32(4). 157–158. 2 indexed citations
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Morocutti, Anna, Kenneth Earle, Giampiero Piras, et al.. (1996). Premature senescence of skin fibroblasts from insulin-dependent diabetic patients with kidney disease. Kidney International. 50(1). 250–256. 40 indexed citations
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Daubeney, Piers E.F., K. Pal, & R Stanhope. (1993). Hypomelanosis of Ito and precocious puberty. European Journal of Pediatrics. 152(9). 715–716. 16 indexed citations
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Pal, K. & Philip L. Grover. (1983). A simple method for the removal of contaminating fibroblasts from cultures of rat mammary epithelial cells. Cell Biology International Reports. 7(10). 779–783. 16 indexed citations
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MacNicoll, Alan D., et al.. (1981). The metabolic activation of benz[a]anthracene in three biological systems. Cancer Letters. 11(3). 243–249. 15 indexed citations
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Hewer, Alan, et al.. (1981). The metabolic activation of dibenz[a,c]anthracene. Carcinogenesis. 2(12). 1345–1352. 4 indexed citations
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Pal, K., Philip L. Grover, & Peter Sims. (1980). The induction of sister-chromatid exchanges in Chinese hamster ovary cells by some epoxides and phenolic derivatives of benzo[a]pyrene. Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology. 78(2). 193–199. 11 indexed citations
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Cooper, Colin S., Alan D. MacNicoll, Pier Giovanni Gervasi, et al.. (1980). The involvement of a non-‘bay-region’ diol-epoxide in the metabolic activation of benz[a]anthracene in hamster embryo cells. Cancer Letters. 9(1). 53–59. 14 indexed citations
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Cooper, Christopher S., P. B. Farmer, Alan Hewer, et al.. (1980). The metabolic activation of benz[a]anthracene in hamster embryo cells: Evidence that diol-epoxides react with guanosine, deoxyguanosine and adenosine in nucleic acids. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 32(1-2). 209–231. 7 indexed citations
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Pal, K., P.L. Grover, & Peter Sims. (1980). The metabolism of benzo(a)pyrene by Chinese hamster ovary cells in culture. Xenobiotica. 10(1). 25–31. 6 indexed citations
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Pal, K., Philip L. Grover, & Peter Sims. (1979). The induction of sister chromatid exchanges by dihydrodiols derived from 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene and 3-methylcholanthrene. Cancer Letters. 7(1). 45–49. 5 indexed citations
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Pal, K., Brian Tierney, Philip L. Grover, & Peter Sims. (1978). Induction of sister-chromatid exchanges in Chinese hamster ovary cells treated in vitro with non-k-region dihydrodiols of 7-methylbenz[a]anthracene and benzo[a]pyrene. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 50(3). 367–375. 27 indexed citations
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Pal, K., Philip L. Grover, & Peter Sims. (1975). The Metabolism of Carcinogenic Polycyclic Hydrocarbons by Tissues of the Respiratory Tract. Biochemical Society Transactions. 3(1). 174–175. 14 indexed citations
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Sims, Peter, P.L. Grover, Alan Swaisland, K. Pal, & Alan Hewer. (1974). Metabolic activation of benzo(a)pyrene proceeds by a diol-epoxide. Nature. 252(5481). 326–328. 951 indexed citations breakdown →
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Booth, Joan, et al.. (1974). The metabolism of polycyclic hydrocarbons by cultured human lymphocytes. FEBS Letters. 43(3). 341–344. 18 indexed citations

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