Kundan Sengupta

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Kundan Sengupta is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kundan Sengupta has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Oncology and 4 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Kundan Sengupta's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (16 papers) and Nuclear Structure and Function (12 papers). Kundan Sengupta is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (16 papers) and Nuclear Structure and Function (12 papers). Kundan Sengupta collaborates with scholars based in India and United States. Kundan Sengupta's co-authors include Thomas Ried, Tom Misteli, André Nussenzweig, Maria Jasin, Jonas F. Dorn, Evi Soutoglou, Gaudenz Danuser, Hyun‐Seok Kim, Ettore Appella and Cuiying Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS ONE and Nature Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Kundan Sengupta

34 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Impaired DNA Damage Response, Genome Instability, and Tum... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Impaired DNA Damage Response, Genome Instability, and Tumorigenesis in SIRT1 Mutant Mice
    2008 634 citations Rui-Hong Wang, Kundan Sengupta et al. Cancer Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kundan Sengupta India 17 1.2k 442 300 265 196 34 1.7k
Jörg Vervoorts Germany 19 1.3k 1.1× 272 0.6× 614 2.0× 254 1.0× 159 0.8× 26 1.9k
Stephen S. Myatt United Kingdom 15 2.2k 1.9× 342 0.8× 574 1.9× 197 0.7× 96 0.5× 18 2.7k
Kelly M. McGarvey United States 13 2.1k 1.8× 178 0.4× 256 0.9× 133 0.5× 100 0.5× 15 2.5k
Shafiq U. Ahmed United Kingdom 14 1.0k 0.9× 118 0.3× 473 1.6× 179 0.7× 111 0.6× 25 1.6k
Kwang Woon Kim United States 23 1.2k 1.0× 84 0.2× 596 2.0× 608 2.3× 59 0.3× 32 1.8k
Xuejun Yuan Germany 19 1.8k 1.5× 51 0.1× 203 0.7× 146 0.6× 117 0.6× 33 2.1k
Mahmut Yilmaz Switzerland 7 681 0.6× 60 0.1× 435 1.4× 233 0.9× 66 0.3× 7 1.3k
Erica Salvati Italy 25 1.4k 1.2× 91 0.2× 181 0.6× 75 0.3× 316 1.6× 42 1.6k
Silvia Fernández de Mattos Spain 18 1.1k 1.0× 59 0.1× 355 1.2× 88 0.3× 78 0.4× 31 1.6k
Taro Hitosugi United States 21 1.6k 1.4× 77 0.2× 269 0.9× 138 0.5× 148 0.8× 34 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Kundan Sengupta

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kundan Sengupta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kundan Sengupta

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nair, Arshad Arjunan, et al.. (2025). Nuclear envelope and chromatin choreography direct cellular differentiation. Nucleus. 16(1). 2449520–2449520. 2 indexed citations
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Datta, Debalina, Ambuja Navalkar, Arunima Sakunthala, et al.. (2024). Nucleo-cytoplasmic environment modulates spatiotemporal p53 phase separation. Science Advances. 10(50). eads0427–eads0427. 7 indexed citations
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Sengupta, Kundan, et al.. (2022). Nuclear envelope, chromatin organizers, histones, and DNA: The many achilles heels exploited across cancers. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 1068347–1068347. 6 indexed citations
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Sakunthala, Arunima, Debalina Datta, Ambuja Navalkar, et al.. (2022). Direct Demonstration of Seed Size-Dependent α-Synuclein Amyloid Amplification. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(28). 6427–6438. 12 indexed citations
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Sengupta, Kundan, et al.. (2021). A Novel cis Regulatory Element Regulates Human XIST in a CTCF-Dependent Manner. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 41(8). e0038220–e0038220. 5 indexed citations
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Sengupta, Kundan, et al.. (2021). Studying the Role of Chromosomal Instability (CIN) in GI Cancers Using Patient-derived Organoids. Journal of Molecular Biology. 434(3). 167256–167256. 4 indexed citations
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Sengupta, Kundan, et al.. (2019). Lamin A/C and Emerin depletion impacts chromatin organization and dynamics in the interphase nucleus. BMC Molecular and Cell Biology. 20(1). 11–11. 45 indexed citations
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Sengupta, Kundan, et al.. (2018). Nucleolin modulates compartmentalization and dynamics of histone 2B-ECFP in the nucleolus. Nucleus. 9(1). 350–367. 11 indexed citations
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Thompson, Joyce J., et al.. (2016). Chromosomal aneuploidies induced upon Lamin B2 depletion are mislocalized in the interphase nucleus. Chromosoma. 126(2). 223–244. 26 indexed citations
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Khodade, Vinayak S., et al.. (2016). A Small Molecule for Controlled Generation of Peroxynitrite. Organic Letters. 18(6). 1274–1277. 15 indexed citations
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Sharma, Kavita, Kundan Sengupta, & Harinath Chakrapani. (2013). Nitroreductase-activated nitric oxide (NO) prodrugs. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 23(21). 5964–5967. 45 indexed citations
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Paranjape, Anurag N., Tamoghna Mandal, Geetashree Mukherjee, et al.. (2011). Introduction of SV40ER and hTERT into mammospheres generates breast cancer cells with stem cell properties. Oncogene. 31(15). 1896–1909. 29 indexed citations
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Li, YY, Hyun‐Seok Kim, Kundan Sengupta, et al.. (2010). Genetic instability and mammary tumor formation in mice carrying mammary-specific disruption of Chk1 and p53. Oncogene. 29(28). 4007–4017. 39 indexed citations
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Sengupta, Kundan, Jordi Camps, Priya M. Mathews, et al.. (2008). Position of human chromosomes is conserved in mouse nuclei indicating a species-independent mechanism for maintaining genome organization. Chromosoma. 117(5). 499–509. 15 indexed citations
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Wang, Rui-Hong, Kundan Sengupta, Cuiling Li, et al.. (2008). Impaired DNA Damage Response, Genome Instability, and Tumorigenesis in SIRT1 Mutant Mice. Cancer Cell. 14(4). 312–323. 634 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sengupta, Kundan, Madhvi B. Upender, Quang Tri Nguyen, et al.. (2007). Artificially Introduced Aneuploid Chromosomes Assume a Conserved Position in Colon Cancer Cells. PLoS ONE. 2(2). e199–e199. 19 indexed citations
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Soutoglou, Evi, Jonas F. Dorn, Kundan Sengupta, et al.. (2007). Positional stability of single double-strand breaks in mammalian cells. Nature Cell Biology. 9(6). 675–682. 409 indexed citations
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Sengupta, Kundan, Richa Rikhy, Jacinta S. D’Souza, et al.. (2007). Expression pattern of Drosophila translin and behavioral analyses of the mutant. European Journal of Cell Biology. 86(3). 173–186. 16 indexed citations
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Mazumdar, Manjari, Ji-Hyeon Lee, Kundan Sengupta, et al.. (2006). Tumor Formation via Loss of a Molecular Motor Protein. Current Biology. 16(15). 1559–1564. 46 indexed citations
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Rao, Basuthkar J. & Kundan Sengupta. (2003). Human Y-chromosome: a hall of mirrors. Journal of Biosciences. 28(5). 533–534. 1 indexed citations

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