Nikhil Kumar

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Nikhil Kumar is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikhil Kumar has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Epidemiology, 9 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nikhil Kumar's work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (9 papers), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (8 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (7 papers). Nikhil Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (9 papers), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (8 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (7 papers). Nikhil Kumar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Nikhil Kumar's co-authors include Hervé Tettelin, Julie C. Dunning Hotopp, Nadeeza Ishmael, Jeremy M. Foster, Luke J. Tallon, David Spiro, Jeffrey Tomkins, John H. Werren, Jonathan D. Giebel and Peter Fischer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Nikhil Kumar

30 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Widespread Lateral Gene Transfer from Intracellular Bacteria to Multicellular Eukaryotes

2007 570 citations Julie C. Dunning Hotopp, Michael E. Clark et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nikhil Kumar United States	18	745	403	335	320	294	31	1.7k
Peter M. Takvorian United States	26	900 1.2×	378 0.9×	556 1.7×	454 1.4×	212 0.7×	65	3.1k
Paulo Eduardo Martins Ribolla Brazil	29	511 0.7×	560 1.4×	303 0.9×	308 1.0×	1.4k 4.8×	110	2.7k
Hisanori Bando Japan	27	973 1.3×	426 1.1×	518 1.5×	398 1.2×	88 0.3×	92	1.9k
Arun K. Dhar United States	28	699 0.9×	401 1.0×	87 0.3×	221 0.7×	222 0.8×	100	2.5k
Renato Augusto DaMatta Brazil	23	484 0.6×	222 0.6×	467 1.4×	183 0.6×	271 0.9×	94	1.8k
Craig Street United States	15	712 1.0×	159 0.4×	334 1.0×	144 0.5×	197 0.7×	17	2.0k
Aoi Masuda Brazil	26	561 0.8×	571 1.4×	204 0.6×	259 0.8×	376 1.3×	56	1.9k
Haiyan Gong China	22	458 0.6×	292 0.7×	241 0.7×	136 0.4×	195 0.7×	104	1.6k
Paulo Filemon Paolucci Pimenta Brazil	27	503 0.7×	777 1.9×	214 0.6×	213 0.7×	1.3k 4.4×	104	2.4k
Charles A. Yowell United States	26	400 0.5×	150 0.4×	190 0.6×	217 0.7×	777 2.6×	41	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nikhil Kumar

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kumar, Nikhil, et al.. (2024). An immunoinformatic approach for developing a multi-epitope subunit vaccine against Monkeypox virus. In Silico Pharmacology. 12(1). 42–42. 5 indexed citations

Kumar, Nikhil, et al.. (2023). Point Target Detection for MAWS Application. 1. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

Chung, Matthew, Silvia Libro, Robin E. Bromley, et al.. (2019). Drug Repurposing of Bromodomain Inhibitors as Potential Novel Therapeutic Leads for Lymphatic Filariasis Guided by Multispecies Transcriptomics. mSystems. 4(6). 9 indexed citations

Chung, Matthew, Hong Liu, Silvia Libro, et al.. (2018). Targeted enrichment outperforms other enrichment techniques and enables more multi-species RNA-Seq analyses. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 13377–13377. 17 indexed citations

Kerpedjiev, Peter, Nezar Abdennur, Fritz Lekschas, et al.. (2018). HiGlass: web-based visual exploration and analysis of genome interaction maps. Genome biology. 19(1). 125–125. 292 indexed citations

Lizcano, Anel, Anukul T. Shenoy, Nikhil Kumar, et al.. (2017). Transcriptional organization of pneumococcal psrP-secY2A2 and impact of GtfA and GtfB deletion on PsrP-associated virulence properties. Microbes and Infection. 19(6). 323–333. 12 indexed citations

Shenoy, Anukul T., Terry Brissac, Ryan P. Gilley, et al.. (2017). Streptococcus pneumoniae in the heart subvert the host response through biofilm-mediated resident macrophage killing. PLoS Pathogens. 13(8). e1006582–e1006582. 54 indexed citations

Kumar, Nikhil, Mingqun Lin, Xuechu Zhao, et al.. (2016). Efficient Enrichment of Bacterial mRNA from Host-Bacteria Total RNA Samples. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 34850–34850. 29 indexed citations

Chancey, Scott, Xianhe Bai, Nikhil Kumar, et al.. (2015). Transcriptional Attenuation Controls Macrolide Inducible Efflux and Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae and in Other Gram-Positive Bacteria Containing mef/mel(msr(D)) Elements. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0116254–e0116254. 36 indexed citations

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Klasson, Lisa, Nikhil Kumar, Robin E. Bromley, et al.. (2014). Extensive duplication of the Wolbachia DNA in chromosome four of Drosophila ananassae. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 1097–1097. 35 indexed citations

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Ioannidis, Panagiotis, Yong Lu, Nikhil Kumar, et al.. (2014). Rapid transcriptome sequencing of an invasive pest, the brown marmorated stink bug Halyomorpha halys. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 738–738. 35 indexed citations

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Breton, Yoann Le, Pragnesh Mistry, Kayla M. Valdes, et al.. (2013). Genome-Wide Identification of Genes Required for Fitness of Group A Streptococcus in Human Blood. Infection and Immunity. 81(3). 862–875. 81 indexed citations

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Romero‐Steiner, Sandra, Julie C. Dunning Hotopp, Nikhil Kumar, et al.. (2013). Phenotypic, genomic, and transcriptional characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae interacting with human pharyngeal cells. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 383–383. 10 indexed citations

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Ioannidis, Panagiotis, Kelly L. Johnston, David R. Riley, et al.. (2013). Extensively duplicated and transcriptionally active recent lateral gene transfer from a bacterial Wolbachia endosymbiont to its host filarial nematode Brugia malayi. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 639–639. 29 indexed citations

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Peret, Teresa C. T., Nikhil Kumar, Sandra Romero‐Steiner, et al.. (2013). Transcriptional adaptation of pneumococci and human pharyngeal cells in the presence of a virus infection. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 378–378. 16 indexed citations

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Kumar, Nikhil, et al.. (2012). Efficient subtraction of insect rRNA prior to transcriptome analysis of Wolbachia-Drosophila lateral gene transfer. BMC Research Notes. 5(1). 230–230. 31 indexed citations

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Sánchez, Carlos J., Nikhil Kumar, Anel Lizcano, et al.. (2011). Streptococcus pneumoniae in Biofilms Are Unable to Cause Invasive Disease Due to Altered Virulence Determinant Production. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e28738–e28738. 91 indexed citations

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Hotopp, Julie C. Dunning, Michael E. Clark, Deodoro C. S. G. Oliveira, et al.. (2007). Widespread Lateral Gene Transfer from Intracellular Bacteria to Multicellular Eukaryotes. Science. 317(5845). 1753–1756. 570 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hotopp, Julie C. Dunning, Renata Grifantini, Nikhil Kumar, et al.. (2006). Comparative genomics of Neisseria meningitidis: core genome, islands of horizontal transfer and pathogen-specific genes. Microbiology. 152(12). 3733–3749. 83 indexed citations

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Ayele, Mulu, Brian J. Haas, Nikhil Kumar, et al.. (2005). Whole genome shotgun sequencing ofBrassica oleraceaand its application to gene discovery and annotation inArabidopsis. Genome Research. 15(4). 487–495. 51 indexed citations

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