Khalid K. Alam

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 969 citations indexed

About

Khalid K. Alam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Khalid K. Alam has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 969 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 2 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Khalid K. Alam's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (11 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers). Khalid K. Alam is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (11 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers). Khalid K. Alam collaborates with scholars based in United States, Philippines and Chile. Khalid K. Alam's co-authors include Donald H. Burke, Julius B. Lucks, Jonathan L. Chang, Jaeyoung K. Jung, Michael C. Jewett, Matthew S. Verosloff, David Porciani, Adam D. Silverman, Daiana A. Capdevila and Pablo Pastén and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Biotechnology and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Khalid K. Alam

14 papers receiving 962 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.

Cell-free biosensors for rapid detection of water contaminants

2020 261 citations Jaeyoung K. Jung, Khalid K. Alam et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Khalid K. Alam United States	11	854	258	73	59	45	14	969
Travis Bayer United States	11	792 0.9×	313 1.2×	102 1.4×	50 0.8×	90 2.0×	17	996
Yuanyuan Fan China	16	385 0.5×	243 0.9×	74 1.0×	54 0.9×	31 0.7×	32	759
Matthew S. Verosloff United States	6	511 0.6×	171 0.7×	42 0.6×	35 0.6×	59 1.3×	8	613
Adam D. Silverman United States	11	832 1.0×	221 0.9×	91 1.2×	24 0.4×	99 2.2×	11	944
Arti Pothukuchy United States	13	426 0.5×	232 0.9×	46 0.6×	69 1.2×	21 0.5×	17	564
Chongxin Xu China	15	461 0.5×	161 0.6×	81 1.1×	72 1.2×	16 0.4×	54	643
Franziska Pfeiffer Germany	8	501 0.6×	138 0.5×	54 0.7×	33 0.6×	43 1.0×	12	599
Peter A. Emanuel United States	13	560 0.7×	81 0.3×	85 1.2×	37 0.6×	100 2.2×	24	729
Jaeyoung K. Jung United States	6	375 0.4×	156 0.6×	32 0.4×	37 0.6×	26 0.6×	8	462
Siham Beggah Switzerland	13	372 0.4×	194 0.8×	65 0.9×	48 0.8×	36 0.8×	19	754

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Khalid K. Alam

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Jung, Jaeyoung K., Joseph J. Muldoon, Maria D. Cabezas, et al.. (2024). Developing, Characterizing, and Modeling CRISPR-Based Point-of-Use Pathogen Diagnostics. ACS Synthetic Biology. 14(1). 129–147. 5 indexed citations

Alam, Khalid K., et al.. (2022). FASTAptameR 2.0: A web tool for combinatorial sequence selections. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 29. 862–870. 19 indexed citations

Jung, Jaeyoung K., Khalid K. Alam, & Julius B. Lucks. (2022). ROSALIND: Rapid Detection of Chemical Contaminants with In Vitro Transcription Factor-Based Biosensors. Methods in molecular biology. 2433. 325–342. 2 indexed citations

Jung, Jaeyoung K., et al.. (2022). Programming cell-free biosensors with DNA strand displacement circuits. Nature Chemical Biology. 18(4). 385–393. 105 indexed citations

Silverman, Adam D., et al.. (2020). Design and Optimization of a Cell-Free Atrazine Biosensor. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(3). 671–677. 87 indexed citations

Jung, Jaeyoung K., Khalid K. Alam, Matthew S. Verosloff, et al.. (2020). Cell-free biosensors for rapid detection of water contaminants. Nature Biotechnology. 38(12). 1451–1459. 261 indexed citations breakdown →

Thavarajah, Walter, Matthew S. Verosloff, Jaeyoung K. Jung, et al.. (2020). A primer on emerging field-deployable synthetic biology tools for global water quality monitoring. npj Clean Water. 3(1). 68 indexed citations

Alam, Khalid K., et al.. (2020). 2′-fluoro-modified pyrimidines enhance affinity of RNA oligonucleotides to HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. RNA. 26(11). 1667–1679. 17 indexed citations

Silverman, Adam D., Khalid K. Alam, Erik Iverson, et al.. (2019). Design of a Transcriptional Biosensor for the Portable, On-Demand Detection of Cyanuric Acid. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(1). 84–94. 53 indexed citations

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Alam, Khalid K., et al.. (2018). Poly-Target Selection Identifies Broad-Spectrum RNA Aptamers. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 13. 605–619. 16 indexed citations

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Porciani, David, et al.. (2018). Modular cell-internalizing aptamer nanostructure enables targeted delivery of large functional RNAs in cancer cell lines. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2283–2283. 49 indexed citations

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Alam, Khalid K., et al.. (2017). A Fluorescent Split Aptamer for Visualizing RNA–RNA Assembly In Vivo. ACS Synthetic Biology. 6(9). 1710–1721. 94 indexed citations

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Salamango, Daniel J., Khalid K. Alam, Donald H. Burke, & Marc C. Johnson. (2016). In Vivo Analysis of Infectivity, Fusogenicity, and Incorporation of a Mutagenic Viral Glycoprotein Library Reveals Determinants for Virus Incorporation. Journal of Virology. 90(14). 6502–6514. 5 indexed citations

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Alam, Khalid K., Jonathan L. Chang, & Donald H. Burke. (2015). FASTAptamer: A Bioinformatic Toolkit for High-throughput Sequence Analysis of Combinatorial Selections. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 4. e230–e230. 188 indexed citations

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