Nihar Ranjan Jana

12.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Nihar Ranjan Jana is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nihar Ranjan Jana has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 28 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Nihar Ranjan Jana's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (39 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (22 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (22 papers). Nihar Ranjan Jana is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (39 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (22 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (22 papers). Nihar Ranjan Jana collaborates with scholars based in India, Japan and United States. Nihar Ranjan Jana's co-authors include Nobuyuki Nukina, Nikhil R. Jana, Priyanka Dikshit, Anand Goswami, Amit Mishra, Koushik Debnath, Hiroshi Doi, Swetha K. Godavarthi, Jai Prakash Sharma and Masaru Kurosawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Nihar Ranjan Jana

106 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

Trehalose alleviates polyglutamine-mediated pathology in ... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 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. Trehalose alleviates polyglutamine-mediated pathology in a mouse model of Huntington disease
    2004 631 citations Nihar Ranjan Jana, Masaru Kurosawa 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
Nihar Ranjan Jana India 38 3.3k 1.6k 950 846 796 109 5.5k
Francisco Wandosell Spain 48 2.9k 0.9× 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 1.3× 1.2k 1.4× 567 0.7× 143 5.8k
Swapan K. Ray United States 57 4.9k 1.5× 1.8k 1.1× 823 0.9× 1.5k 1.7× 676 0.8× 213 10.1k
Paola Pizzo Italy 52 5.7k 1.7× 1.7k 1.1× 1.8k 1.9× 1.6k 1.8× 526 0.7× 115 8.7k
Valentı́n Ceña Spain 40 3.1k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 490 0.5× 385 0.5× 305 0.4× 127 5.5k
Kaoru Saijo Japan 33 3.2k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 1.2k 1.3× 279 0.3× 451 0.6× 76 9.1k
Susan L. Ackerman United States 43 5.0k 1.5× 2.2k 1.4× 643 0.7× 1.4k 1.6× 585 0.7× 79 7.2k
Gennaro Schettini Italy 50 3.4k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 1.8k 1.8× 406 0.5× 313 0.4× 198 8.2k
Richard G.H. Cotton Australia 42 3.9k 1.2× 1.0k 0.7× 846 0.9× 468 0.6× 1.2k 1.5× 260 7.3k
Eric B. Dammer United States 44 3.6k 1.1× 626 0.4× 2.2k 2.4× 567 0.7× 525 0.7× 138 6.5k
Ho Yin Edwin Chan Hong Kong 33 3.2k 1.0× 1.9k 1.2× 680 0.7× 835 1.0× 278 0.3× 125 5.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sarkar, Ankan Kumar, et al.. (2024). Designed Nanodrugs for Ultrasonic Removal of Toxic Polyglutamine Aggregates from Neuron Cells. Nano Letters. 24(43). 13473–13480.
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Sarkar, Ankan Kumar, et al.. (2024). Autophagy-Induced Nanoparticle-Based Clearing of Toxic Huntingtin Protein Aggregates from Neuron Cells. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 7(3). 3468–3478. 7 indexed citations
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Mandal, Subhash C., et al.. (2023). Azadiradione up-regulates the expression of parvalbumin and BDNF via Ube3a. Gene. 897. 148081–148081. 4 indexed citations
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Jana, Nihar Ranjan, et al.. (2023). Influence of active, nano, and functionalized zinc oxide particles on the mechanical, cytotoxicity, and thermal stability of carbon black filled SBR/NR blends. Polymer Engineering and Science. 63(8). 2354–2370. 6 indexed citations
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Khan, Juhee, et al.. (2022). Design and Development of Benzothiazole-Based Fluorescent Probes for Selective Detection of Aβ Aggregates in Alzheimer’s Disease. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 13(16). 2503–2516. 33 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Ankan Kumar, et al.. (2022). Direct Cellular Delivery of Exogenous Genetic Material and Protein via Colloidal Nano-Assemblies with Biopolymer. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(2). 3199–3206. 22 indexed citations
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Debnath, Koushik, Ankan Kumar Sarkar, Nihar Ranjan Jana, & Nikhil R. Jana. (2021). Inhibiting Protein Aggregation by Small Molecule-Based Colloidal Nanoparticles. Accounts of Materials Research. 3(1). 54–66. 30 indexed citations
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Singh, Brijesh Kumar, Vinod Kumar Nelson, Roshan Kumar, et al.. (2018). Azadiradione Restores Protein Quality Control and Ameliorates the Disease Pathogenesis in a Mouse Model of Huntington’s Disease. Molecular Neurobiology. 55(8). 6337–6346. 25 indexed citations
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Kumar, Roshan, et al.. (2017). Ube3a deficiency inhibits amyloid plaque formation in APPswe/PS1δE9 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Human Molecular Genetics. 26(20). 4042–4054. 30 indexed citations
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Singh, Brijesh Kumar, et al.. (2017). Rescue of altered HDAC activity recovers behavioural abnormalities in a mouse model of Angelman syndrome. Neurobiology of Disease. 105. 99–108. 17 indexed citations
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Pradhan, Nibedita, et al.. (2017). Sugar-Terminated Nanoparticle Chaperones Are 102–105 Times Better Than Molecular Sugars in Inhibiting Protein Aggregation and Reducing Amyloidogenic Cytotoxicity. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(12). 10554–10566. 41 indexed citations
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Sharma, Jai Prakash, Sudheendra N.R. Rao, Soumya Iyengar, et al.. (2013). Neuronatin-mediated Aberrant Calcium Signaling and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Underlie Neuropathology in Lafora Disease. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(13). 9482–9490. 38 indexed citations
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Mishra, Amit, Priyanka Dikshit, Sudarshana Purkayastha, et al.. (2008). E6-AP Promotes Misfolded Polyglutamine Proteins for Proteasomal Degradation and Suppresses Polyglutamine Protein Aggregation and Toxicity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(12). 7648–7656. 81 indexed citations
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Jana, Nihar Ranjan & Nobuyuki Nukina. (2005). BAG-1 associates with the polyglutamine-expanded huntingtin aggregates. Neuroscience Letters. 378(3). 171–175. 27 indexed citations
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Jana, Nihar Ranjan & Nobuyuki Nukina. (2004). Misfolding promotes the ubiquitination of polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-3, the defective gene product in SCA3/MJD. Neurotoxicity Research. 6(7-8). 523–533. 13 indexed citations
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Zemskov, Evgeny A., Nihar Ranjan Jana, Masaru Kurosawa, et al.. (2003). Pro‐apoptotic protein kinase Cδ is associated with intranuclear inclusions in a transgenic model of Huntington's disease. Journal of Neurochemistry. 87(2). 395–406. 20 indexed citations
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Jana, Nihar Ranjan, et al.. (1999). Cross-Talk between 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and Testosterone Signal Transduction Pathways in LNCaP Prostate Cancer Cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 256(3). 462–468. 94 indexed citations
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Jana, Nihar Ranjan & Samir Bhattacharya. (1993). Binding of thyroid hormone to freshwater perch Leydig cell nuclei-rich preparation and its functional relevance. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 10(3). 489–496. 9 indexed citations

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