Kunal Desai

714 total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 481 citations indexed

About

Kunal Desai is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kunal Desai has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 481 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 11 papers in Oncology and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kunal Desai's work include Renal cell carcinoma treatment (6 papers), Brain Metastases and Treatment (5 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (5 papers). Kunal Desai is often cited by papers focused on Renal cell carcinoma treatment (6 papers), Brain Metastases and Treatment (5 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (5 papers). Kunal Desai collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. Kunal Desai's co-authors include Jeffrey M. McManus, Nima Sharifi, Lauren Mashburn‐Warren, Donald A. Morrison, Manmeet S. Ahluwalia, Michael J. Federle, Moshe Chaim Ornstein, Tian Zhang, Landon C. Brown and Yi Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Kunal Desai

17 papers receiving 473 citations

Hit Papers

Hormonal Therapy for Prostate Cancer 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200 250
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. Hormonal Therapy for Prostate Cancer
    2021 251 citations Kunal Desai, Jeffrey M. McManus et al. Endocrine Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kunal Desai United States 8 217 212 138 98 94 17 481
Wu B China 11 253 1.2× 77 0.4× 136 1.0× 62 0.6× 48 0.5× 35 480
Miguel Marino United States 4 155 0.7× 44 0.2× 192 1.4× 35 0.4× 102 1.1× 4 467
Weiwei Shi China 11 198 0.9× 81 0.4× 128 0.9× 27 0.3× 67 0.7× 21 450
Adriana Freitas Neves Brazil 12 248 1.1× 124 0.6× 27 0.2× 44 0.4× 150 1.6× 27 435
Smita Misra United States 14 368 1.7× 67 0.3× 129 0.9× 50 0.5× 94 1.0× 31 569
Qian An China 14 421 1.9× 41 0.2× 143 1.0× 38 0.4× 123 1.3× 37 645
Tatiana Sedláčková Slovakia 14 319 1.5× 68 0.3× 260 1.9× 42 0.4× 264 2.8× 39 623
S. Carrère France 8 291 1.3× 93 0.4× 68 0.5× 30 0.3× 91 1.0× 9 474
May S. Li Hong Kong 6 406 1.9× 73 0.3× 111 0.8× 45 0.5× 152 1.6× 6 625
Boaz Nachmias Israel 11 451 2.1× 47 0.2× 185 1.3× 32 0.3× 87 0.9× 57 697

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kunal Desai

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

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Desai, Kunal, Anthony V. Serritella, Walter M. Stadler, et al.. (2024). A Phase I Trial of Enzalutamide Plus Selective Glucocorticoid Receptor Modulator Relacorilant in Patients with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 30(11). 2384–2392. 3 indexed citations
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Chaudagar, Kiranj, Shenglin Mei, Taghreed Hirz, et al.. (2023). 1537 Androgen blockade primes NLRP3 inflammasome in macrophages to induce tumor cell phagocytosis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. A1760–A1762. 1 indexed citations
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Desai, Kunal, Anthony V. Serritella, Walter M. Stadler, et al.. (2023). Phase I trial of enzalutamide (Enz) plus the glucocorticoid receptor antagonist relacorilant (Rela) for patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 41(16_suppl). 5062–5062. 4 indexed citations
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Brown, Landon C., Kunal Desai, Wei Wei, et al.. (2021). Clinical outcomes in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma and brain metastasis treated with ipilimumab and nivolumab. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 9(9). e003281–e003281. 13 indexed citations
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Desai, Kunal, Landon C. Brown, Wei Wei, et al.. (2021). A Multi-institutional, Retrospective Analysis of Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma to Bone Treated with Combination Ipilimumab and Nivolumab. Targeted Oncology. 16(5). 633–642. 12 indexed citations
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Desai, Kunal, Jeffrey M. McManus, & Nima Sharifi. (2021). Hormonal Therapy for Prostate Cancer. Endocrine Reviews. 42(3). 354–373. 251 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Landon C., Kunal Desai, Tian Zhang, & Moshe Chaim Ornstein. (2020). The Immunotherapy Landscape in Renal Cell Carcinoma. BioDrugs. 34(6). 733–748. 27 indexed citations
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Desai, Kunal, Lisa Rybicki, Amanda Nizam, et al.. (2020). Retrospective analysis of immune-related adverse events (irAE) in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) patients treated with first-line ipilimumab and nivolumab (I+N).. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 38(15_suppl). e17094–e17094. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Landon C., Kunal Desai, Chester Kao, et al.. (2020). A multicenter retrospective study to evaluate real-world clinical outcomes in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) and brain metastasis treated with ipilimumab and nivolumab.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 38(6_suppl). 637–637. 3 indexed citations
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Desai, Kunal, Landon C. Brown, Wei Wei, et al.. (2020). Multicenter retrospective analysis of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) and bone metastases treated with ipilimumab and nivolumab.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 38(6_suppl). 648–648. 1 indexed citations
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Desai, Kunal, et al.. (2019). The Role of Checkpoint Inhibitors in Glioblastoma. Targeted Oncology. 14(4). 375–394. 30 indexed citations
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Desai, Kunal, et al.. (2019). Current Treatment Options for Breast Cancer Brain Metastases. Current Treatment Options in Oncology. 20(3). 19–19. 10 indexed citations
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Desai, Kunal, et al.. (2019). Combination of oncolytic viruses and immune checkpoint inhibitors in glioblastoma. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 7–7. 3 indexed citations
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Thapa, Bicky, Adam Lauko, Kunal Desai, Vyshak Alva Venur, & Manmeet S. Ahluwalia. (2018). Novel Systemic Treatments for Brain Metastases From Lung Cancer. Current Treatment Options in Neurology. 20(11). 48–48. 7 indexed citations
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Jasuja, Reema, Georgette L. Suidan, Kunal Desai, et al.. (2016). Rivipansel: A Small Pan-Selectin Antagonist Improves Cerebral Perfusion and Inhibits Leukocyte Adhesion and in Murine Sickle Cell Disease Model. Blood. 128(22). 270–270. 1 indexed citations
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Desai, Kunal, Lauren Mashburn‐Warren, Michael J. Federle, & Donald A. Morrison. (2012). Development of Competence for Genetic Transformation of Streptococcus mutans in a Chemically Defined Medium. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(15). 3774–3780. 65 indexed citations
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Sastry, Lakshmi, et al.. (2003). Certification assays for HIV-1-based vectors: frequent passage of gag sequences without evidence of replication-competent viruses. Molecular Therapy. 8(5). 830–839. 49 indexed citations

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