Medha Gautam

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Medha Gautam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Medha Gautam has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Medha Gautam's work include Ion channel regulation and function (8 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (5 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (5 papers). Medha Gautam is often cited by papers focused on Ion channel regulation and function (8 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (5 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (5 papers). Medha Gautam collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Bulgaria. Medha Gautam's co-authors include John P. Merlie, Peter G. Noakes, Joshua R. Sanes, Jacqueline L. Mudd, Lisa M. Moscoso, Joshua R. Sanes, Fabio Rupp, Richard H. Scheller, Gerald C. Chu and Mia C. Nichol and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Medha Gautam

19 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Defective Neuromuscular S... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 250 500 750
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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. Defective Neuromuscular Synaptogenesis in Agrin-Deficient Mutant Mice
    1996 768 citations Medha Gautam, Peter G. Noakes et al. 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
Medha Gautam United States 14 1.8k 990 720 371 255 19 2.5k
Fumiaki Saito Japan 22 2.3k 1.3× 864 0.9× 644 0.9× 270 0.7× 116 0.5× 54 3.0k
Nathalie Lamarche‐Vane Canada 29 1.9k 1.1× 713 0.7× 1.2k 1.7× 260 0.7× 42 0.2× 57 2.8k
Alfredo Brusco Italy 32 2.2k 1.2× 859 0.9× 188 0.3× 135 0.4× 355 1.4× 141 3.3k
Fabio Rupp United States 24 1.8k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 691 1.0× 172 0.5× 147 0.6× 29 3.0k
David R. Gies United States 14 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 1.3× 334 0.5× 67 0.2× 204 0.8× 16 2.4k
Teresia Osborn United States 15 1.3k 0.7× 671 0.7× 372 0.5× 59 0.2× 311 1.2× 18 1.9k
Werner Hoch Germany 26 2.0k 1.1× 1.4k 1.4× 632 0.9× 81 0.2× 1.1k 4.4× 36 3.3k
N.V. Tomilin Russia 21 2.0k 1.1× 919 0.9× 726 1.0× 53 0.1× 112 0.4× 62 3.2k
Betty P. Liu United States 14 1.3k 0.7× 1.5k 1.6× 941 1.3× 247 0.7× 65 0.3× 14 2.9k
S. Carbonetto Canada 25 1.6k 0.9× 1.0k 1.0× 790 1.1× 886 2.4× 81 0.3× 37 2.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Medha Gautam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Medha Gautam

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Gautam, Medha, et al.. (2015). Corticotropin releasing factor receptor expression in painful human dental pulp. Archives of Oral Biology. 60(7). 1048–1053. 2 indexed citations
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Gautam, Medha, et al.. (2014). Physiology Education in North American Dental Schools: The Basic Science Survey Series. Journal of Dental Education. 78(6). 886–894. 8 indexed citations
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Gautam, Medha, et al.. (2013). Pharmacology Education in North American Dental Schools: The Basic Science Survey Series. Journal of Dental Education. 77(8). 1013–1021. 13 indexed citations
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Rowland, Kevin, et al.. (2011). Tooth injury increases expression of the cold sensitive TRP channel TRPA1 in trigeminal neurons. Archives of Oral Biology. 56(12). 1604–1609. 41 indexed citations
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Gautam, Medha, et al.. (2005). Multiple alternatively spliced transcripts of the receptor tyrosine kinase MuSK are expressed in muscle. Gene. 360(2). 83–91. 4 indexed citations
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Gautam, Medha, et al.. (2005). Deletion of N-terminal rapsyn domains disrupts clustering and has dominant negative effects on clustering of full-length rapsyn. Neuroscience. 131(3). 661–670. 17 indexed citations
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Mathias, Askale, et al.. (1999). Metabolic Stabilization of Muscle Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor by Rapsyn. Journal of Neuroscience. 19(6). 1998–2007. 38 indexed citations
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Gautam, Medha, Thomas M. DeChiara, David J. Glass, George D. Yancopoulos, & Joshua R. Sanes. (1999). Distinct phenotypes of mutant mice lacking agrin, MuSK, or rapsyn. Developmental Brain Research. 114(2). 171–178. 74 indexed citations
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Fuhrer, Christian, Medha Gautam, Janice E. Sugiyama, & Zach W. Hall. (1999). Roles of Rapsyn and Agrin in Interaction of Postsynaptic Proteins with Acetylcholine Receptors. Journal of Neuroscience. 19(15). 6405–6416. 85 indexed citations
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Sanes, Joshua R., Elizabeth D. Apel, Medha Gautam, et al.. (1998). Agrin Receptors at the Skeletal Neuromuscular Junction. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 841(1). 1–13. 26 indexed citations
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Gautam, Medha, Peter G. Noakes, Lisa M. Moscoso, et al.. (1996). Defective Neuromuscular Synaptogenesis in Agrin-Deficient Mutant Mice. Cell. 85(4). 525–535. 768 indexed citations breakdown →
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Durkin, Marian E., Medha Gautam, Frosty Loechel, et al.. (1996). Structural Organization of the Human and Mouse Laminin β2 Chain Genes, and Alternative Splicing at the 5′ End of the Human Transcript. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(23). 13407–13416. 24 indexed citations
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Moscoso, Lisa M., Gerald C. Chu, Medha Gautam, et al.. (1995). Synapse-Associated Expression of an Acetylcholine Receptor-Inducing Protein, ARIA/Heregulin, and Its Putative Receptors, ErbB2 and ErbB3, in Developing Mammalian Muscle. Developmental Biology. 172(1). 158–169. 160 indexed citations
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Gautam, Medha, Peter G. Noakes, Jacqueline L. Mudd, et al.. (1995). Failure of postsynaptic specialization to develop at neuromuscular junctions of rapsyn-deficient mice. Nature. 377(6546). 232–236. 450 indexed citations
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Noakes, Peter G., Medha Gautam, Jacqueline L. Mudd, Joshua R. Sanes, & John P. Merlie. (1995). Aberrant differentiation of neuromuscular junctions in mice lacking s-laminin/laminin β2. Nature. 374(6519). 258–262. 377 indexed citations
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Noakes, Peter G., Jeffrey H. Miner, Medha Gautam, et al.. (1995). The renal glomerulus of mice lacking s–laminin/laminin β2: nephrosis despite molecular compensation by laminin β1. Nature Genetics. 10(4). 400–406. 314 indexed citations
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Gautam, Medha, Jacqueline L. Mudd, Neal G. Copeland, et al.. (1994). Characterization and Mapping of the Rapsn Gene Encoding the 43-kDa Acetylcholine Receptor-Associated Protein. Genomics. 24(2). 366–369. 6 indexed citations
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Gautam, Medha & Mark A. Tanouye. (1990). Alteration of potassium channel gating: Molecular analysis of the drosophila Sh5 mutation. Neuron. 5(1). 67–73. 26 indexed citations
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Ramaswami, Mani, Medha Gautam, Alexander Kamb, et al.. (1990). Human potassium channel genes: Molecular cloning and functional expression. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 1(3). 214–223. 67 indexed citations

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