Mrityunjoy Kar

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Mrityunjoy Kar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mrityunjoy Kar has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Biomaterials and 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mrityunjoy Kar's work include RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (4 papers). Mrityunjoy Kar is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (4 papers). Mrityunjoy Kar collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and India. Mrityunjoy Kar's co-authors include Shyni Varghese, Rohit V. Pappu, Moritz Kreysing, Sayam Sen Gupta, Han Liang Lim, Yongsung Hwang, Furqan Dar, Juan M. Iglesias‐Artola, Björn Drobot and Hannes Mutschler and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mrityunjoy Kar

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Phase Transitions of Associative Biomacromolecules

2023 201 citations Rohit V. Pappu, Samuel R. Cohen et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
Phase-separating RNA-binding proteins form heterogeneous distributions of clusters in subsaturated solutions

2022 170 citations Mrityunjoy Kar, Timothy J. Welsh et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mrityunjoy Kar Germany	19	860	354	335	182	160	30	1.6k
Bastiaan C. Buddingh’ Netherlands	9	702 0.8×	327 0.9×	315 0.9×	238 1.3×	28 0.2×	12	1.2k
Alexander F. Mason Netherlands	21	718 0.8×	480 1.4×	314 0.9×	316 1.7×	33 0.2×	35	1.4k
Aldo Jesorka Sweden	21	1.0k 1.2×	325 0.9×	864 2.6×	276 1.5×	43 0.3×	107	2.0k
Luca Gabrielli Italy	20	535 0.6×	445 1.3×	284 0.8×	355 2.0×	47 0.3×	54	1.4k
Yuval Elani United Kingdom	26	1.5k 1.7×	409 1.2×	1.4k 4.2×	342 1.9×	61 0.4×	59	2.8k
Nicolas Martin France	20	750 0.9×	271 0.8×	345 1.0×	387 2.1×	23 0.1×	36	1.5k
Sada‐atsu Mukai Japan	23	961 1.1×	372 1.1×	584 1.7×	332 1.8×	156 1.0×	48	2.0k
Marie‐Alice Guedeau‐Boudeville France	13	491 0.6×	191 0.5×	223 0.7×	205 1.1×	31 0.2×	18	942
Neha P. Kamat United States	21	900 1.0×	245 0.7×	350 1.0×	199 1.1×	18 0.1×	53	1.4k
Susanne Boye Germany	23	493 0.6×	348 1.0×	323 1.0×	219 1.2×	35 0.2×	73	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mrityunjoy Kar

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Ausserwӧger, Hannes, Ella de Csilléry, Daoyuan Qian, et al.. (2025). Quantifying collective interactions in biomolecular phase separation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7724–7724. 3 indexed citations

Golani, Gonen, Manas Seal, Mrityunjoy Kar, et al.. (2025). Mesoscale properties of protein clusters determine the size and nature of liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). Communications Physics. 8(1). 5 indexed citations

Kar, Mrityunjoy, Suren Felekyan, Hannes Ausserwӧger, et al.. (2024). Solutes unmask differences in clustering versus phase separation of FET proteins. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4408–4408. 13 indexed citations

Pappu, Rohit V., Samuel R. Cohen, Furqan Dar, Mina Farag, & Mrityunjoy Kar. (2023). Phase Transitions of Associative Biomacromolecules. Chemical Reviews. 123(14). 8945–8987. 201 indexed citations breakdown →

Iglesias‐Artola, Juan M., Björn Drobot, Mrityunjoy Kar, et al.. (2022). Charge-density reduction promotes ribozyme activity in RNA–peptide coacervates via RNA fluidization and magnesium partitioning. Nature Chemistry. 14(4). 407–416. 81 indexed citations

Kar, Mrityunjoy, Timothy J. Welsh, Ralf Kühnemuth, et al.. (2022). Phase-separating RNA-binding proteins form heterogeneous distributions of clusters in subsaturated solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(28). e2202222119–e2202222119. 170 indexed citations breakdown →

Kar, Mrityunjoy, Ammon E. Posey, Furqan Dar, Anthony A. Hyman, & Rohit V. Pappu. (2021). Glycine-Rich Peptides from FUS Have an Intrinsic Ability to Self-Assemble into Fibers and Networked Fibrils. Biochemistry. 60(43). 3213–3222. 27 indexed citations

Kar, Mrityunjoy, et al.. (2021). Design and Testing of Efficient Mucus‐Penetrating Nanogels—Pitfalls of Preclinical Testing and Lessons Learned. Small. 17(23). e2007963–e2007963. 18 indexed citations

Kar, Mrityunjoy, et al.. (2019). Critical parameters for the controlled synthesis of nanogels suitable for temperature-triggered protein delivery. Materials Science and Engineering C. 100. 141–151. 31 indexed citations

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Drobot, Björn, Juan M. Iglesias‐Artola, Kristian Le Vay, et al.. (2018). Compartmentalised RNA catalysis in membrane-free coacervate protocells. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3643–3643. 268 indexed citations

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Mittasch, Matthäus, Peter Groß, Anatol W. Fritsch, et al.. (2018). Non-invasive perturbations of intracellular flow reveal physical principles of cell organization. Nature Cell Biology. 20(3). 344–351. 106 indexed citations

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Miceli, Enrico, Stefanie Wedepohl, Ernesto Rafael Osorio‐Blanco, et al.. (2018). Semi-interpenetrated, dendritic, dual-responsive nanogels with cytochrome c corona induce controlled apoptosis in HeLa cells. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics. 130. 115–122. 12 indexed citations

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Aung, Aereas, et al.. (2015). Embedded 3D Photopatterning of Hydrogels with Diverse and Complex Architectures for Tissue Engineering and Disease Models. Tissue Engineering Part C Methods. 21(11). 1188–1196. 22 indexed citations

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Kar, Mrityunjoy, Yu‐Ru V. Shih, Daniel Ortiz Velez, Pedro Cabrales, & Shyni Varghese. (2015). Poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels with cell cleavable groups for autonomous cell delivery. Biomaterials. 77. 186–197. 57 indexed citations

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Lim, Han Liang, Yongsung Hwang, Mrityunjoy Kar, & Shyni Varghese. (2014). Smart hydrogels as functional biomimetic systems. Biomaterials Science. 2(5). 603–618. 179 indexed citations

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Kar, Mrityunjoy, et al.. (2013). Poly‐L‐Arginine Grafted Silica Mesoporous Nanoparticles for Enhanced Cellular Uptake and their Application in DNA Delivery and Controlled Drug Release. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. 30(2). 166–179. 50 indexed citations

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Das, Soumen, Mrityunjoy Kar, & Sayam Sen Gupta. (2013). Synthesis of end-functionalized phosphate and phosphonate-polypeptides by ring-opening polymerization of their corresponding N-carboxyanhydride. Polymer Chemistry. 4(15). 4087–4087. 16 indexed citations

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Kar, Mrityunjoy, et al.. (2011). Synthesis and characterization of poly-l-lysine grafted SBA-15 using NCA polymerization and click chemistry. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 21(18). 6690–6690. 27 indexed citations

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Kar, Mrityunjoy, et al.. (2010). Effect of Methylglyoxal Modification of Human α-Crystallin on the Structure, Stability and Chaperone Function. The Protein Journal. 29(8). 551–566. 21 indexed citations

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Ray, Manju, et al.. (2001). Implication of Bioelectronic Principle in Cancer Therapy : Treatment of Cancer Patients by Methylglyoxal—Based Formulation. IACS Institutional Repository (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science). 4 indexed citations

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