Nikhil Panicker

13.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Nikhil Panicker is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikhil Panicker has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Neurology, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Nikhil Panicker's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (10 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (9 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (5 papers). Nikhil Panicker is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (10 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (9 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (5 papers). Nikhil Panicker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Nikhil Panicker's co-authors include Valina L. Dawson, Ted M. Dawson, Anumantha G. Kanthasamy, Huajun Jin, Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder, Tae‐In Kam, Arthi Kanthasamy, Vellareddy Anantharam, Souvarish Sarkar and Gabsang Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nikhil Panicker

21 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Transneuronal Propagation of Pathologic α-Synuclein from the Gut to the Brain Models Parkinson’s Disease

2019 961 citations Sangjune Kim, Seung‐Hwan Kwon et al. Neuron profile →
Neuronal NLRP3 is a parkin substrate that drives neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease

2022 139 citations Nikhil Panicker, Tae‐In Kam et al. Neuron profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nikhil Panicker United States	16	1.0k	1.0k	656	500	500	22	2.4k
Jinghong Wang United States	15	1.3k 1.2×	990 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	397 0.8×	552 1.1×	32	3.1k
Tae‐In Kam United States	24	1.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	788 1.2×	657 1.3×	1.1k 2.1×	38	3.4k
Tae Young Yune South Korea	36	404 0.4×	936 0.9×	835 1.3×	876 1.8×	603 1.2×	67	3.5k
Fen Wang China	29	376 0.4×	756 0.7×	406 0.6×	395 0.8×	449 0.9×	94	2.2k
Haijian Wu China	28	703 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	577 0.9×	203 0.4×	301 0.6×	78	2.6k
Philip Wing‐Lok Ho Hong Kong	32	1.3k 1.3×	883 0.9×	381 0.6×	481 1.0×	790 1.6×	78	3.1k
Mohammad Ejaz Ahmed United States	25	453 0.4×	648 0.6×	631 1.0×	192 0.4×	460 0.9×	42	2.0k
Inmaculada Tasset Spain	25	540 0.5×	932 0.9×	277 0.4×	439 0.9×	607 1.2×	50	2.6k
Sudhanshu P. Raikwar United States	25	433 0.4×	753 0.7×	506 0.8×	195 0.4×	373 0.7×	62	2.1k
Georgia Xiromerisiou Greece	28	1.3k 1.2×	602 0.6×	485 0.7×	564 1.1×	495 1.0×	100	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nikhil Panicker

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20 of 20 papers shown

Panicker, Nikhil, et al.. (2025). Sterile innate immune mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 302(2). 111039–111039.

Singh, Jagjit, et al.. (2023). Inflammasome assembly in neurodegenerative diseases. Trends in Neurosciences. 46(10). 814–831. 46 indexed citations

Panicker, Nikhil, Tae‐In Kam, Hu Wang, et al.. (2022). Neuronal NLRP3 is a parkin substrate that drives neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Neuron. 110(15). 2422–2437.e9. 139 indexed citations breakdown →

Pirooznia, Sheila K., Hu Wang, Nikhil Panicker, et al.. (2022). Deubiquitinase CYLD acts as a negative regulator of dopamine neuron survival in Parkinson’s disease. Science Advances. 8(13). eabh1824–eabh1824. 21 indexed citations

Hinkle, Jared T., Jaimin Patel, Nikhil Panicker, et al.. (2022). STING mediates neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in nigrostriatal α-synucleinopathy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(15). e2118819119–e2118819119. 138 indexed citations

Patel, Jaimin, Nikhil Panicker, Valina L. Dawson, & Ted M. Dawson. (2022). Cell Biology of Parkin: Clues to the Development of New Therapeutics for Parkinson’s Disease. CNS Drugs. 36(12). 1249–1267. 6 indexed citations

Panicker, Nikhil, Preston Ge, Valina L. Dawson, & Ted M. Dawson. (2021). The cell biology of Parkinson’s disease. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(4). 106 indexed citations

Saminathan, Hariharan, Adhithiya Charli, Jie Luo, et al.. (2020). Fyn kinase mediates pro-inflammatory response in a mouse model of endotoxemia: Relevance to translational research. European Journal of Pharmacology. 881. 173259–173259. 17 indexed citations

Panicker, Nikhil, Alberto Passalacqua, & Rodney O. Fox. (2020). Computational study of buoyancy driven turbulence in statistically homogeneous bubbly flows. Chemical Engineering Science. 216. 115546–115546. 14 indexed citations

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Harischandra, Dilshan S., Dharmin Rokad, Matthew L. Neal, et al.. (2019). Manganese promotes the aggregation and prion-like cell-to-cell exosomal transmission of α-synuclein. Science Signaling. 12(572). 133 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangjune, Seung‐Hwan Kwon, Tae‐In Kam, et al.. (2019). Transneuronal Propagation of Pathologic α-Synuclein from the Gut to the Brain Models Parkinson’s Disease. Neuron. 103(4). 627–641.e7. 961 indexed citations breakdown →

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Panicker, Nikhil, Alberto Passalacqua, & Rodney O. Fox. (2018). On the hyperbolicity of the two-fluid model for gas–liquid bubbly flows. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 57. 432–447. 28 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Souvarish, Emir Malovic, Shivani Ghaisas, et al.. (2017). Mitochondrial impairment in microglia amplifies NLRP3 inflammasome proinflammatory signaling in cell culture and animal models of Parkinson’s disease. npj Parkinson s Disease. 3(1). 30–30. 223 indexed citations

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Panicker, Nikhil, Valina L. Dawson, & Ted M. Dawson. (2017). Activation mechanisms of the E3 ubiquitin ligase parkin. Biochemical Journal. 474(18). 3075–3086. 36 indexed citations

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Gordon, Richard D., Matthew L. Neal, Jie Luo, et al.. (2016). Prokineticin-2 upregulation during neuronal injury mediates a compensatory protective response against dopaminergic neuronal degeneration. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12932–12932. 72 indexed citations

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Gordon, Richard D., Neeraj Singh, Vivek Lawana, et al.. (2016). Protein kinase Cδ upregulation in microglia drives neuroinflammatory responses and dopaminergic neurodegeneration in experimental models of Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Disease. 93. 96–114. 81 indexed citations

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Panicker, Nikhil, Hariharan Saminathan, Huajun Jin, et al.. (2015). Fyn Kinase Regulates Microglial Neuroinflammatory Responses in Cell Culture and Animal Models of Parkinson's Disease. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(27). 10058–10077. 131 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Souvarish, Nikhil Panicker, Matthew Neal, et al.. (2015). Pesticide‐induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction Augments NLRP3 Inflammasome Signaling Pathway in Primary Microglia. The FASEB Journal. 29(S1). 1 indexed citations

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Jin, Huajun, Arthi Kanthasamy, Dilshan S. Harischandra, et al.. (2014). Histone Hyperacetylation Up-regulates Protein Kinase Cδ in Dopaminergic Neurons to Induce Cell Death. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(50). 34743–34767. 60 indexed citations

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Panicker, Nikhil, et al.. (2014). Fyn kinase regulates microglial neuroinflammatory responses in cell culture and animal models of Parkinson’s disease (1055.7). The FASEB Journal. 28(S1). 3 indexed citations

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