Kumar Sharma

30.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
216 papers, 19.1k citations indexed

About

Kumar Sharma is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nephrology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kumar Sharma has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 19.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Molecular Biology, 71 papers in Nephrology and 48 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Kumar Sharma's work include Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (58 papers), TGF-β signaling in diseases (25 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (24 papers). Kumar Sharma is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (58 papers), TGF-β signaling in diseases (25 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (24 papers). Kumar Sharma collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Germany. Kumar Sharma's co-authors include Fuad N. Ziyadeh, Stephen Dunn, Anne‐Émilie Declèves, Peter A. McCue, Katalin Suszták, Yanqing Zhu, Tracy McGowan, Erwin P. Böttinger, Mark B. Ericksen and Jia Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Kumar Sharma

211 papers receiving 18.7k 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.

Defective fatty acid oxidation in renal tubular epithelial cells has a key role in kidney fibrosis development

2014 1.1k citations Kumar Sharma et al. profile →
Diabetic kidney disease

2015 793 citations Kumar Sharma et al. profile →
Long-term prevention of renal insufficiency, excess matrix gene expression, and glomerular mesangial matrix expansion by treatment with monoclonal antitransforming growth factor-β antibody indb/dbdiabetic mice

2000 790 citations Kumar Sharma et al. profile →
Mouse Models of Diabetic Nephropathy

2009 680 citations Kumar Sharma et al. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →
Neutralization of TGF-β by Anti-TGF-β Antibody Attenuates Kidney Hypertrophy and the Enhanced Extracellular Matrix Gene Expression in STZ-Induced Diabetic Mice

1996 582 citations Kumar Sharma et al. Diabetes profile →
Stimulation of collagen gene expression and protein synthesis in murine mesangial cells by high glucose is mediated by autocrine activation of transforming growth factor-beta.

1994 516 citations Kumar Sharma et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →
Adiponectin regulates albuminuria and podocyte function in mice

2008 498 citations Kumar Sharma, Satish RamachandraRao et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →
The antifibrotic effects of relaxin in human renal fibroblasts are mediated in part by inhibition of the Smad2 pathway

2005 136 citations Kumar Sharma et al. profile →

Peers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kumar Sharma

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	High glucose couples DJ-1 with PTEN to activate PDGFRβ for renal proximal tubular cell injury 2025 ·PLoS ONE ·Falguni Das, Nandini Ghosh‐Choudhury, Balakuntalam S. Kasinath, Kumar Sharma, Goutam Ghosh Choudhury	1
2	Protein N-Glycans in Healthy and Sclerotic Glomeruli in Diabetic Kidney Disease 2024 ·Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·Dušan Veličković, John P. Shapiro, Samir V. Parikh, Brad H. Rovin, Robert D. Toto, (unknown), Emilio D. Poggio, John F. O’Toole, John R. Sedor, Theodore Alexandrov, Sanjay Jain, Markus Bitzer, Jeffrey B. Hodgin, Marija Veličković, Kumar Sharma, Christopher Anderton, (unknown)	7
3	Understanding Heterogeneity in Individual Responses to Digital Lifestyle Intervention Through Self-Monitoring Adherence Trajectories in Adults With Overweight or Obesity: Secondary Analysis of a 6-Month Randomized Controlled Trial 2024 ·Journal of Medical Internet Research ·Shiyu Li, Yan Du, Hongyu Miao, Kumar Sharma, Chengdong Li, Zenong Yin, Bradley B. Brimhall, Jing Wang	2
4	12-OR: Urine Lactate Is a Disease Biomarker for Diabetic Kidney Disease 2023 ·Diabetes ·(unknown), Manjula Darshi, Vikas S. Sridhar, Viktor R. Drel, Jana Tůmová, (unknown), Jiexun Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Loki Natarajan, Su Chi Lim, Sushrut S. Waikar, (unknown), Jiang He, Volker Vallon, Stein Hallan, (unknown), Kumar Sharma, (unknown)	2
5	Exploration and analysis of R-loop mapping data with RLBase 2022 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·(unknown), Daniel Montemayor, Janet Li, (unknown), (unknown), Stella R. Hartono, Kumar Sharma, Bess Frost, Frédéric Chédin, Alexander J.R. Bishop	11
6	Quality-controlled R-loop meta-analysis reveals the characteristics of R-loop consensus regions 2022 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·(unknown), Daniel Montemayor, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Stella R. Hartono, Kumar Sharma, Bess Frost, Frédéric Chédin, Alexander J.R. Bishop	12
7	High-Throughput Metabolomics and Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression: Evidence from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency (CRIC) Study 2022 ·American Journal of Nephrology ·(unknown), Tobias Fuhrer, Hongping Ye, Brian Kwan, Daniel Montemayor, Jana Tůmová, Manjula Darshi, Farsad Afshinnia, Julia J. Scialla, Amanda H. Anderson, Anna Porter, Jonathan J. Taliercio, Hernan Rincon-Choles, Panduranga S. Rao, Dawei Xie, Harold I. Feldman, Uwe Sauer, Kumar Sharma, Loki Natarajan	23
8	A Review of Extracorporeal Blood Purification Techniques for the Treatment of Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients 2022 ·ASAIO Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), Ian J. Stewart, Patrick M. Honoré, Kumar Sharma, Kevin K. Chung	15
9	Chloride channel accessory 1 integrates chloride channel activity and mTORC1 in aging‐related kidney injury 2021 ·Aging Cell ·Hak Joo Lee, (unknown), Denis Féliers, Yuyang Sun, Yanli Ding, Muniswamy Madesh, Adam B. Salmon, Yuji Ikeno, Corinna N. Ross, Christopher L. O’Connor, Wenjun Ju, Markus Bitzer, Yidong Chen, Goutam Ghosh Choudhury, Brij B. Singh, Kumar Sharma, Balakuntalam S. Kasinath	11
10	Evolutionary conservation of human ketodeoxynonulosonic acid production is independent of sialoglycan biosynthesis 2020 ·Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Kunio Kawanishi, (unknown), Sandra Diaz, (unknown), Aniruddha Sasmal, Shoib Sarwar Siddiqui, Biswa Choudhury, Kumar Sharma, Xi Chen, Ian C. Schoenhofen, Chihiro Sato, Ken Kitajima, Hudson H. Freeze, Anja Münster-Kühnel, Ajit Varki	18
11	Storage Conditions of Human Kidney Tissue Sections Affect Spatial Lipidomics Analysis Reproducibility 2020 ·Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry ·Jessica Lukowski, Annapurna Pamreddy, Dušan Veličković, Guanshi Zhang, Ljiljana Paša‐Tolić, Theodore Alexandrov, Kumar Sharma, Christopher Anderton, (unknown)	20
12	Branched-Chain Amino Acids Depletion during Hemodialysis Is Associated with Fatigue 2020 ·American Journal of Nephrology ·Subrata Debnath, Carlos Lorenzo, Shweta Bansal, Juan Carlos Morales, (unknown), Balakuntalam S. Kasinath, Kumar Sharma, Jason C. O’Connor	8
13	Obesity and Diabetic Kidney Disease: Role of Oxidant Stress and Redox Balance 2016 ·Antioxidants and Redox Signaling ·Kumar Sharma	68
14	Aging increases the susceptibility of hepatic inflammation, liver fibrosis and aging in response to high-fat diet in mice 2016 ·AGE ·In Hee Kim, Jun Xu, Xiao Liu, Yukinori Koyama, Hsiao‐Yen Ma, Karin Diggle, Young‐Hyun You, Jan M. Schilling, Dilip V. Jeste, Kumar Sharma, David A. Brenner, Tatiana Kisseleva	64
15	Comparative Ultrasonic and Conductometric Studies of Aqueous Sodium Chloride and Potassium Chloride Solutions 2014 ·Chemical Science Transactions ·(unknown), Kumar Sharma, Meena Sharma, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2
16	Diversity and distribution of Mollusca in relation to the physico-chemical profile of Gho-Manhasan stream, Jammu (J K) 2013 ·International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation ·Kumar Sharma, (unknown), (unknown)	22
17	Knockout of Na-glucose transporter SGLT2 attenuates hyperglycemia and glomerular hyperfiltration but not kidney growth or injury in diabetes mellitus 2012 ·American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology ·Volker Vallon, Michael Rose, Maria Gerasimova, Joseph Satriano, Kenneth A. Platt, Hermann Koepsell, Robyn Cunard, Kumar Sharma, Scott C. Thomson, Timo Rieg	330
18	Mannan-Binding Lectin in Diabetic Kidney Disease: The Impact of Mouse Genetics in a Type 1 Diabetes Model 2012 ·Experimental Diabetes Research ·Jakob Appel Østergaard, Mette Bjerre, Satish RamachandraRao, Kumar Sharma, Jens Randel Nyengaard, Troels Krarup Hansen, Steffen Thiel, Allan Flyvbjerg	19
19	Antifibrotic Treatment and Other New Strategies for Improving Renal Outcomes 2011 ·Contributions to nephrology ·Anna V. Mathew, Robyn Cunard, Kumar Sharma	16
20	Renal Handling of Adipokines 2006 ·Contributions to nephrology ·Hitomi Kataoka, Kumar Sharma	11

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