M. Shahid Alam

10.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

M. Shahid Alam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Shahid Alam has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Plant Science and 21 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in M. Shahid Alam's work include Hemoglobin structure and function (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (14 papers). M. Shahid Alam is often cited by papers focused on Hemoglobin structure and function (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (14 papers). M. Shahid Alam collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Malaysia. M. Shahid Alam's co-authors include Ray Ming, Andrew H. Paterson, John Bowers, Haibao Tang, Xiyin Wang, Shaobin Hou, Jennifer A. Saito, Stuart P. Donachie, Tracey Freitas and Peter F. Dunfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

M. Shahid Alam

106 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

Synteny and Collinearity in Plant Genomes 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 250 500 750 1000
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. Synteny and Collinearity in Plant Genomes
    2008 1.1k citations Haibao Tang, John Bowers et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
M. Shahid Alam United States 36 3.2k 2.3k 755 754 696 112 5.4k
Asaf Salamov United States 33 5.3k 1.7× 2.4k 1.0× 946 1.3× 654 0.9× 1.9k 2.8× 66 8.8k
Gustavo Caetano‐Anollés United States 44 3.9k 1.2× 2.9k 1.2× 283 0.4× 963 1.3× 1.3k 1.9× 178 7.2k
Ray Dixon United Kingdom 52 4.3k 1.3× 2.7k 1.2× 260 0.3× 2.2k 2.9× 1.4k 2.0× 139 8.6k
Jörn Piel Switzerland 62 6.3k 2.0× 1.8k 0.8× 334 0.4× 280 0.4× 1.1k 1.6× 205 11.6k
Gary P. Roberts United States 36 2.3k 0.7× 1.0k 0.4× 815 1.1× 449 0.6× 676 1.0× 85 4.4k
Hauke Hennecke Switzerland 60 4.5k 1.4× 4.8k 2.1× 737 1.0× 1.3k 1.8× 1.4k 2.0× 198 9.6k
Philip S. Poole United Kingdom 52 1.9k 0.6× 8.1k 3.5× 397 0.5× 389 0.5× 1.5k 2.1× 149 10.2k
Tatyana I. Smirnova United States 26 2.4k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 661 0.9× 217 0.3× 695 1.0× 65 4.6k
Martin Dworkin United States 45 3.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.5× 339 0.4× 1.3k 1.7× 1.8k 2.5× 126 6.5k
Francisco J. Florencio Spain 44 4.5k 1.4× 1.6k 0.7× 260 0.3× 177 0.2× 1.1k 1.6× 124 6.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by M. Shahid Alam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. Shahid Alam

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wan, Xuehua, Jennifer A. Saito, Shaobin Hou, et al.. (2021). The Aphelenchus avenae genome highlights evolutionary adaptation to desiccation. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1232–1232. 3 indexed citations
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Wan, Xuehua, Jennifer A. Saito, James S. Newhouse, Shaobin Hou, & M. Shahid Alam. (2017). The importance of conserved amino acids in heme-based globin-coupled diguanylate cyclases. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0182782–e0182782. 4 indexed citations
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Alam, M. Shahid. (2016). Commodities in Economics: Loving or Hating Complexity. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 5(1). 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Busse, Hans‐Jürgen, et al.. (2015). Terasakiispira papahanaumokuakeensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium from Pearl and Hermes Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 65(Pt_10). 3609–3617. 4 indexed citations
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Porter, Brad W., Maya Devi Paidi, Ray Ming, et al.. (2009). Genome-wide analysis of Carica papaya reveals a small NBS resistance gene family. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 281(6). 609–626. 125 indexed citations
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Pesce, Alessandra, Liesbet Thijs, Marco Nardini, et al.. (2008). HisE11 and HisF8 Provide Bis-histidyl Heme Hexa-coordination in the Globin Domain of Geobacter sulfurreducens Globin-coupled Sensor. Journal of Molecular Biology. 386(1). 246–260. 46 indexed citations
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Tang, Haibao, Xiyin Wang, John Bowers, et al.. (2008). Unraveling ancient hexaploidy through multiply-aligned angiosperm gene maps. Genome Research. 18(12). 1944–1954. 434 indexed citations
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Wang, Jianping, Cuixia Chen, Qingyi Yu, et al.. (2008). Genome-Wide Comparative Analyses of Microsatellites in Papaya. Tropical Plant Biology. 1(3-4). 278–292. 22 indexed citations
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Alam, M. Shahid. (2007). Bernard Lewis: Scholarship or Sophistry?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Qingyi, Shaobin Hou, Roman Hobza, et al.. (2007). Chromosomal location and gene paucity of the male specific region on papaya Y chromosome. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 278(2). 177–185. 62 indexed citations
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Alam, M. Shahid. (2006). Economic Growth with Energy. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 17 indexed citations
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Shibata, Satoshi, M. Shahid Alam, & Shin‐Ichi Aizawa. (2005). Flagellar Filaments of the Deep-sea Bacteria Idiomarina loihiensis Belong to a Family Different from those of Salmonella typhimurium. Journal of Molecular Biology. 352(3). 510–516. 9 indexed citations
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Freitas, Tracey, Shaobin Hou, Elhadji M. Dioum, et al.. (2004). Ancestral hemoglobins in Archaea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(17). 6675–6680. 84 indexed citations
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Boudko, Dmitri Y., et al.. (2003). A time-lapse capillary assay to study aerotaxis in the archaeon Halobacterium salinarum. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 53(1). 123–126. 5 indexed citations
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Saw, Jimmy H., Shaobin Hou, Randy W. Larsen, et al.. (2002). Aerotactic responses in bacteria to photoreleased oxygen. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 217(2). 237–242. 40 indexed citations
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Larsen, Randy W., Jinsheng Yang, Shaobin Hou, et al.. (1999). Spectroscopic Characterization of Two Soluble Transducers from the Archaeon Halobacterium salinarum. Journal of Protein Chemistry. 18(3). 269–275. 4 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jingya, Elena N. Spudich, M. Shahid Alam, & John L. Spudich. (1997). Effects of Substitutions D73E, D73N, D103N and V106M on Signaling and pH Titration of Sensory Rhodopsin II. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 66(6). 788–791. 19 indexed citations
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Khan, Shahrukh Rafi, Cihan Bilginsoy, & M. Shahid Alam. (1997). Dynamic Efficiencies of Industrialization and Economic Growth: An Aggregative Approach. Economia Internazionale / International Economics. 50(1). 85–98. 1 indexed citations
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Alam, M. Shahid. (1983). Intrafirm Productivity: Comment [The Prisoners' Dilemma in the Visible Hand: An Analysis of Intrafirm Productivity]. American Economic Review. 73(4). 817–821. 2 indexed citations
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Alam, M. Shahid. (1983). THE NATURE OF MASS POVERTY: A Review Article. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2(1). 85–92. 1 indexed citations

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