Kartik Chandran

15.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
117 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Kartik Chandran is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Kartik Chandran has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Infectious Diseases, 42 papers in Epidemiology and 22 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Kartik Chandran's work include Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (75 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (64 papers) and Hepatitis B Virus Studies (27 papers). Kartik Chandran is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (75 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (64 papers) and Hepatitis B Virus Studies (27 papers). Kartik Chandran collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Kartik Chandran's co-authors include Sean P. J. Whelan, James M. Cunningham, John M. Dye, Nancy J. Sullivan, Ute Felbor, Nirupama Mulherkar, Andrew S. Herbert, Matthijs Raaben, Thijn R. Brummelkamp and Marcelo Ehrlich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kartik Chandran

112 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Ebola virus entry requires the cholesterol transporter Niemann–Pick C1

2011 972 citations Anthony Wong, Andrew S. Herbert et al. Nature profile →
Endocytosis by Random Initiation and Stabilization of Clathrin-Coated Pits

2004 704 citations Kartik Chandran et al. Cell profile →
Endosomal Proteolysis of the Ebola Virus Glycoprotein Is Necessary for Infection

2005 664 citations Kartik Chandran, Nancy J. Sullivan et al. Science profile →
Small molecule inhibitors reveal Niemann–Pick C1 is essential for Ebola virus infection

2011 527 citations Marceline Côté, John Misasi et al. Nature profile →
IFITM3 directly engages and shuttles incoming virus particles to lysosomes

2018 162 citations Kartik Chandran et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kartik Chandran United States	38	4.2k	1.9k	1.7k	850	849	117	6.9k
Takeshi Noda Japan	48	3.5k 0.8×	4.1k 2.2×	2.6k 1.6×	385 0.5×	1.4k 1.6×	172	8.5k
M. Javad Aman United States	45	3.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	426 0.5×	1.7k 2.0×	121	6.3k
Paul Bates United States	42	3.4k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	510 0.6×	1.3k 1.5×	66	6.4k
Sean P. J. Whelan United States	53	6.0k 1.4×	3.4k 1.9×	3.3k 2.0×	1.1k 1.3×	2.4k 2.8×	125	11.9k
Wolfgang Garten Germany	59	4.3k 1.0×	4.8k 2.6×	2.9k 1.8×	653 0.8×	1.7k 2.0×	131	10.3k
Gaya K. Amarasinghe United States	38	2.6k 0.6×	995 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	230 0.3×	902 1.1×	108	4.7k
Winfríed Weissenhorn France	47	3.0k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	3.4k 2.1×	501 0.6×	1.3k 1.6×	114	8.2k
Erica Ollmann Saphire United States	46	5.0k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	2.5k 1.5×	454 0.5×	2.1k 2.4×	152	8.9k
Jack H. Nunberg United States	39	2.6k 0.6×	946 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	410 0.5×	792 0.9×	68	5.5k
Miles W. Carroll United Kingdom	42	2.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	412 0.5×	2.2k 2.6×	134	5.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kartik Chandran

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Poojari, Chetan, Julian Buchrieser, Annalisa Meola, et al.. (2025). Structural insights into tecovirimat antiviral activity and poxvirus resistance. Nature Microbiology. 10(3). 734–748. 13 indexed citations

Hjorth, Christy K., Ana I. Kuehne, Russell R. Bakken, et al.. (2025). Antibodies targeting Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus GP38 limit vascular leak and viral spread. Science Translational Medicine. 17(786). eadq5928–eadq5928. 1 indexed citations

Kuehne, Ana I., et al.. (2024). Engineering and structures of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus glycoprotein complexes. Cell. 188(2). 303–315.e13. 1 indexed citations

Pathak, Rajiv, Carolina Eliscovich, Ignacio Mena, et al.. (2024). Visualization of Early RNA Replication Kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 by Using Single Molecule RNA-FISH Combined with Immunofluorescence. Viruses. 16(2). 262–262. 4 indexed citations

Casalino, Lorenzo, Ling Zhou, Anupam Anand Ojha, et al.. (2024). Simulation-driven design of stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike S2 immunogens. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7370–7370. 12 indexed citations

Hsieh, Ching‐Lin, Sarah R. Leist, Emily Happy Miller, et al.. (2024). Prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 S2-only antigen provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 challenge. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1553–1553. 14 indexed citations

Laudermilch, Ethan, et al.. (2023). TNF-α Limits Serological Memory by Disrupting the Bone Marrow Niche. The Journal of Immunology. 210(5). 595–608. 3 indexed citations

Slough, Megan M., Rong Li, Andrew S. Herbert, et al.. (2023). Two point mutations in protocadherin-1 disrupt hantavirus recognition and afford protection against lethal infection. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4454–4454. 2 indexed citations

Galbo, Phillip M., Kartik Chandran, Yinghao Wu, et al.. (2023). Fine-tuning spatial-temporal dynamics and surface receptor expression support plasma cell-intrinsic longevity. eLife. 12. 7 indexed citations

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Hellert, Jan, Natália Freitas, Pablo Guardado‐Calvo, et al.. (2022). Structural basis of synergistic neutralization of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus by human antibodies. Science. 375(6576). 104–109. 26 indexed citations

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Wells, Heather, Michael Letko, Gorka Lasso, et al.. (2021). The evolutionary history of ACE2 usage within the coronavirus subgenus Sarbecovirus. Virus Evolution. 7(1). veab007–veab007. 49 indexed citations

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Mittler, Eva, et al.. (2021). Direct Intracellular Visualization of Ebola Virus-Receptor Interaction by In Situ Proximity Ligation. mBio. 12(1). 7 indexed citations

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Pierce, Carl A., Paula Preston‐Hurlburt, Yile Dai, et al.. (2020). Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized pediatric and adult patients. Science Translational Medicine. 12(564). 213 indexed citations

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Wec, Anna Z., Denise Haslwanter, Yasmina Abdiche, et al.. (2020). Longitudinal dynamics of the human B cell response to the yellow fever 17D vaccine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(12). 6675–6685. 48 indexed citations

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Bortz, Robert H., Anthony Wong, Hannah S. Recht, et al.. (2020). A Virion-Based Assay for Glycoprotein Thermostability Reveals Key Determinants of Filovirus Entry and Its Inhibition. Journal of Virology. 94(18). 8 indexed citations

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Moyer, Crystal L., Dafna M. Abelson, Daniel J. Deer, et al.. (2020). Structure and Characterization of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus GP38. Journal of Virology. 94(8). 32 indexed citations

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Aschner, Clare Burn, Benjamin Galen, Rohit K. Jangra, et al.. (2020). HVEM signaling promotes protective antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) vaccine responses to herpes simplex viruses. Science Immunology. 5(50). 14 indexed citations

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Wec, Anna Z., Elisabeth K. Nyakatura, Andrew S. Herbert, et al.. (2016). A “Trojan horse” bispecific-antibody strategy for broad protection against ebolaviruses. Science. 354(6310). 350–354. 80 indexed citations

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Côté, Marceline, John Misasi, Tao Ren, et al.. (2011). Small molecule inhibitors reveal Niemann–Pick C1 is essential for Ebola virus infection. Nature. 477(7364). 344–348. 527 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chandran, Kartik, Nancy J. Sullivan, Ute Felbor, Sean P. J. Whelan, & James M. Cunningham. (2005). Endosomal Proteolysis of the Ebola Virus Glycoprotein Is Necessary for Infection. Science. 308(5728). 1643–1645. 664 indexed citations breakdown →

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