Karuna Ganesh

8.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
37 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Karuna Ganesh is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Karuna Ganesh has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Oncology, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Karuna Ganesh's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (9 papers), Cancer Research and Treatments (5 papers) and Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (4 papers). Karuna Ganesh is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (9 papers), Cancer Research and Treatments (5 papers) and Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (4 papers). Karuna Ganesh collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium. Karuna Ganesh's co-authors include Joan Massagué, Andrea Cercek, Neil H. Segal, Robin B. Mendelsohn, Zsofia K. Stadler, Jinru Shia, Luis A. Díaz, Qingwen Jiang, Stefanie Gerstberger and Cristina Rada and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Karuna Ganesh

33 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Immunotherapy in colorectal cancer: rationale, challenges and potential

2019 1.3k citations Karuna Ganesh, Zsofia K. Stadler et al. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology profile →
Targeting metastatic cancer

2021 698 citations Karuna Ganesh, Joan Massagué Nature Medicine profile →
Metastasis

2023 450 citations Stefanie Gerstberger, Qingwen Jiang et al. Cell profile →
Metastasis-Initiating Cells and Ecosystems

2021 217 citations Joan Massagué, Karuna Ganesh Cancer Discovery profile →
STING inhibits the reactivation of dormant metastasis in lung adenocarcinoma

2023 138 citations Jing Hu, Francisco J. Sánchez‐Rivera 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
Karuna Ganesh United States	14	1.7k	1.4k	828	818	584	37	3.4k
János L. Tanyi United States	36	1.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	887 1.1×	720 0.9×	378 0.6×	113	3.9k
Zunfu Ke China	37	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	667 0.8×	966 1.2×	600 1.0×	111	3.7k
Judy R. van Beijnum Netherlands	29	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	695 0.8×	721 0.9×	497 0.9×	53	3.6k
Hans Neubauer Germany	36	2.3k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	681 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	386 0.7×	116	4.4k
Rebecca S. Cook United States	37	2.1k 1.2×	2.7k 1.9×	1.0k 1.2×	954 1.2×	601 1.0×	73	4.9k
Stefania Scala Italy	42	2.8k 1.6×	2.0k 1.4×	1.5k 1.8×	930 1.1×	560 1.0×	130	5.1k
Romain Boidot France	31	1.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	475 0.8×	112	4.0k
Min Xiao China	31	1.9k 1.1×	2.7k 1.9×	971 1.2×	773 0.9×	324 0.6×	199	4.6k
Adriana Eramo Italy	32	1.9k 1.1×	2.5k 1.8×	634 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	460 0.8×	49	4.1k
Rishi Surana United States	15	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	858 1.0×	622 0.8×	409 0.7×	24	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karuna Ganesh

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lee, Jaeyop, David A. Scheinberg, & Karuna Ganesh. (2025). Abstract B007: Targeting the evolving immunopeptidome of metastatic colorectal cancer. Cancer Immunology Research. 13(2_Supplement). B007–B007. 1 indexed citations

Thompson, Erik W., Andrew Redfern, Simone Brabletz, et al.. (2025). EMT and cancer: what clinicians should know. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. 22(10). 711–733. 5 indexed citations

Tiedemann, Rochelle L., Yang Xiao, Kay See Tan, et al.. (2025). The SWI/SNF-related protein SMARCA3 is a histone H3K23 ubiquitin ligase that regulates H3K9me3 in cancer. Molecular Cell. 85(15). 2885–2899.e8.

Ahmed, Mahmoud & Karuna Ganesh. (2023). Mouse Models of Metastasis and Dormancy. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 14(8). a041386–a041386. 6 indexed citations

Sridhar, Ashwin, et al.. (2023). Biochemical and Radiological Factors for Prognostication of Traumatic Brain Injury: An Institutional Experience. Cureus. 15(6). e40999–e40999. 5 indexed citations

Kudelka, Matthew R., Ghassan K. Abou‐Alfa, Eileen M. O’Reilly, et al.. (2023). Metastatic well differentiated serotonin-producing pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor with carcinoid heart disease: a case report. Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology. 14(4). 1878–1886. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Mijin, et al.. (2023). Micro-engineering and nano-engineering approaches to investigate tumour ecosystems. Nature reviews. Cancer. 23(9). 581–599. 27 indexed citations

Hu, Jing, Francisco J. Sánchez‐Rivera, Zhenghan Wang, et al.. (2023). STING inhibits the reactivation of dormant metastasis in lung adenocarcinoma. Nature. 616(7958). 806–813. 138 indexed citations breakdown →

Gerstberger, Stefanie, Qingwen Jiang, & Karuna Ganesh. (2023). Metastasis. Cell. 186(8). 1564–1579. 450 indexed citations breakdown →

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Niec, Rachel, Tinyi Chu, Marina Schernthanner, et al.. (2022). Lymphatics act as a signaling hub to regulate intestinal stem cell activity. Cell stem cell. 29(7). 1067–1082.e18. 80 indexed citations

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Ganesh, Karuna & Joan Massagué. (2021). Targeting metastatic cancer. Nature Medicine. 27(1). 34–44. 698 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ganesh, Karuna. (2021). Optimizing immunotherapy for colorectal cancer. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 19(2). 93–94. 70 indexed citations

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Ganesh, Karuna. (2021). The joys and challenges of being a physician–scientist. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 18(6). 365–365. 2 indexed citations

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Pernicka, Jennifer S. Golia, Viktoriya Paroder, Iva Petkovska, et al.. (2021). Initial evaluation of dual-energy computed tomography as an imaging biomarker for hepatic metastases from neuroendocrine tumor of the gastrointestinal tract. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. 11(5). 2085–2092. 2 indexed citations

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Han, Teng, Sukanya Goswami, Yang Hu, et al.. (2020). Lineage Reversion Drives WNT Independence in Intestinal Cancer. Cancer Discovery. 10(10). 1590–1609. 46 indexed citations

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Ganesh, Karuna, Zsofia K. Stadler, Andrea Cercek, et al.. (2019). Immunotherapy in colorectal cancer: rationale, challenges and potential. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 16(6). 361–375. 1257 indexed citations breakdown →

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Basnet, Harihar, Lin Tian, Karuna Ganesh, et al.. (2019). Flura-seq identifies organ-specific metabolic adaptations during early metastatic colonization. eLife. 8. 55 indexed citations

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Maldegem, Febe van, Sarah Maslen, C. Mark Johnson, et al.. (2015). CTNNBL1 facilitates the association of CWC15 with CDC5L and is required to maintain the abundance of the Prp19 spliceosomal complex. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(14). 7058–7069. 13 indexed citations

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Ganesh, Karuna, Febe van Maldegem, Stéphanie B. Telerman, et al.. (2013). Structural and mutational analysis reveals that CTNNBL1 binds NLSs in a manner distinct from that of its closest armadillo‐relative, karyopherin α. FEBS Letters. 588(1). 21–27. 4 indexed citations

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Conticello, Silvestro G., Karuna Ganesh, Kanmin Xue, et al.. (2008). Interaction between Antibody-Diversification Enzyme AID and Spliceosome-Associated Factor CTNNBL1. Molecular Cell. 31(4). 474–484. 110 indexed citations

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