Nikhil S. Malvankar

10.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
55 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Nikhil S. Malvankar is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikhil S. Malvankar has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Environmental Engineering, 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Nikhil S. Malvankar's work include Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (43 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers) and Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (13 papers). Nikhil S. Malvankar is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (43 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers) and Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (13 papers). Nikhil S. Malvankar collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Nikhil S. Malvankar's co-authors include Derek R. Lovley, Kelly P. Nevin, Mark Tuominen, Ashley E. Franks, Amelia‐Elena Rotaru, Pravin Malla Shrestha, Fanghua Liu, Ching Leang, Zarath M. Summers and Sibel Ebru Yalcin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Nikhil S. Malvankar

54 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

Direct Exchange of Electrons Within Aggregates of an Evol... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2012 2011 2014 2011 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. Direct Exchange of Electrons Within Aggregates of an Evolved Syntrophic Coculture of Anaerobic Bacteria
    2010 805 citations Zarath M. Summers, Ching Leang et al. Science profile →
  2. Promoting direct interspecies electron transfer with activated carbon
    2012 727 citations Fanghua Liu, Amelia‐Elena Rotaru et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  3. Tunable metallic-like conductivity in microbial nanowire networks
    2011 720 citations Nikhil S. Malvankar, Madeline Vargas et al. profile →
  4. Promoting Interspecies Electron Transfer with Biochar
    2014 604 citations Amelia‐Elena Rotaru, Pravin Malla Shrestha et al. Scientific Reports profile →
  5. Geobacter
    2011 583 citations Derek R. Lovley, Nikhil S. Malvankar et al. profile →
  6. Potential for Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer in Methanogenic Wastewater Digester Aggregates
    2011 471 citations Nikhil S. Malvankar, Ashley E. Franks et al. mBio profile →
  7. Structure of Microbial Nanowires Reveals Stacked Hemes that Transport Electrons over Micrometers
    2019 400 citations Yangqi Gu, J. Patrick O’Brien 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
Nikhil S. Malvankar United States 39 6.4k 2.9k 1.9k 1.6k 1.2k 55 8.5k
Trevor L. Woodard United States 42 6.1k 1.0× 2.8k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 69 8.2k
Ching Leang United States 29 3.8k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 655 0.3× 1.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 37 5.1k
Gemma Reguera United States 27 5.0k 0.8× 2.7k 0.9× 273 0.1× 1.3k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 61 6.6k
Falk Harnisch Germany 51 6.6k 1.0× 5.1k 1.7× 394 0.2× 2.0k 1.3× 647 0.5× 196 9.5k
Daniel R. Bond United States 44 10.3k 1.6× 6.6k 2.2× 315 0.2× 2.1k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 84 12.1k
Yong Yuan China 57 4.5k 0.7× 4.1k 1.4× 307 0.2× 1.3k 0.8× 350 0.3× 201 8.7k
Zarath M. Summers United States 14 2.7k 0.4× 917 0.3× 834 0.4× 625 0.4× 462 0.4× 21 3.3k
Souichiro Kato Japan 37 2.1k 0.3× 677 0.2× 1.1k 0.6× 976 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 93 4.8k
Jeffrey A. Gralnick United States 41 5.7k 0.9× 3.3k 1.1× 112 0.1× 1.4k 0.9× 1.8k 1.5× 94 7.9k
Weiwei Cai China 33 1.2k 0.2× 4.6k 1.6× 530 0.3× 2.3k 1.5× 546 0.5× 74 10.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shen, Cong, Wonhyeuk Jung, Joseph A. Erwin, et al.. (2025). A widespread and ancient bacterial machinery assembles cytochrome OmcS nanowires essential for extracellular electron transfer. Cell chemical biology. 32(2). 239–254.e7. 2 indexed citations
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Garvey, W. Timothy, Peter Dahl, Shuaiqi Guo, et al.. (2024). Outer membrane vesicles and the outer membrane protein OmpU govern Vibrio cholerae biofilm matrix assembly. mBio. 15(2). e0330423–e0330423. 20 indexed citations
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Schoelmerich, Marie C., Jacob West-Roberts, Ling-Dong Shi, et al.. (2024). Borg extrachromosomal elements of methane-oxidizing archaea have conserved and expressed genetic repertoires. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5414–5414. 6 indexed citations
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Srikanth, Vishok, et al.. (2024). Widespread extracellular electron transfer pathways for charging microbial cytochrome OmcS nanowires via periplasmic cytochromes PpcABCDE. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2434–2434. 35 indexed citations
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Dahl, Peter & Nikhil S. Malvankar. (2024). The Jekyll-and-Hyde electron transfer chemistry of hydrogen bonds. Nature Chemistry. 16(11). 1746–1747. 1 indexed citations
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Phan, Duy Tung, Peter H. Dahl, Sunil Koundal, et al.. (2023). 195 Aberrant Brain Biomechanics Initiates Ventricular Dilation in a Genetic Subtype of Congenital Hydrocephalus. Neurosurgery. 69(Supplement_1). 32–32. 1 indexed citations
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Gu, Yangqi, Matthew J. Guberman‐Pfeffer, Vishok Srikanth, et al.. (2023). Structure of Geobacter cytochrome OmcZ identifies mechanism of nanowire assembly and conductivity. Nature Microbiology. 8(2). 284–298. 73 indexed citations
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Xing, Hao, Yaqing Huang, Britta Kunkemoeller, et al.. (2022). Dysregulation of TSP2-Rac1-WAVE2 axis in diabetic cells leads to cytoskeletal disorganization, increased cell stiffness, and dysfunction. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 22474–22474. 5 indexed citations
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Yalcin, Sibel Ebru, Pol Arranz‐Gibert, Peter Dahl, et al.. (2022). Protein nanowires with tunable functionality and programmable self-assembly using sequence-controlled synthesis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 829–829. 54 indexed citations
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Neu, Jens, Matthew J. Guberman‐Pfeffer, Vishok Srikanth, et al.. (2022). Microbial biofilms as living photoconductors due to ultrafast electron transfer in cytochrome OmcS nanowires. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5150–5150. 38 indexed citations
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Dahl, Peter, Sophia M. Yi, Yangqi Gu, et al.. (2022). A 300-fold conductivity increase in microbial cytochrome nanowires due to temperature-induced restructuring of hydrogen bonding networks. Science Advances. 8(19). eabm7193–eabm7193. 49 indexed citations
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Kelly, H. Ray, Peter Dahl, Sophia M. Yi, et al.. (2020). Intrinsic electronic conductivity of individual atomically resolved amyloid crystals reveals micrometer-long hole hopping via tyrosines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(2). 52 indexed citations
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Yalcin, Sibel Ebru, J. Patrick O’Brien, Yangqi Gu, et al.. (2020). Electric field stimulates production of highly conductive microbial OmcZ nanowires. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(10). 1136–1142. 143 indexed citations
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Yalcin, Sibel Ebru & Nikhil S. Malvankar. (2020). The blind men and the filament: Understanding structures and functions of microbial nanowires. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 59. 193–201. 71 indexed citations
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Liu, Fanghua, Amelia‐Elena Rotaru, Pravin Malla Shrestha, et al.. (2014). Magnetite compensates for the lack of a pilin‐associated c ‐type cytochrome in extracellular electron exchange. Environmental Microbiology. 17(3). 648–655. 339 indexed citations
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Malvankar, Nikhil S. & Derek R. Lovley. (2014). Microbial nanowires for bioenergy applications. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 27. 88–95. 237 indexed citations
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Vargas, Madeline, Nikhil S. Malvankar, Pier‐Luc Tremblay, et al.. (2013). Aromatic Amino Acids Required for Pili Conductivity and Long-Range Extracellular Electron Transport in Geobacter sulfurreducens. mBio. 4(2). 171 indexed citations
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Shrestha, Pravin Malla, Amelia‐Elena Rotaru, Muktak Aklujkar, et al.. (2013). Syntrophic growth with direct interspecies electron transfer as the primary mechanism for energy exchange. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 5(6). 904–910. 112 indexed citations
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Malvankar, Nikhil S., Mark Tuominen, & Derek R. Lovley. (2012). Lack of cytochrome involvement in long-range electron transport through conductive biofilms and nanowires of Geobacter sulfurreducens. Energy & Environmental Science. 5(9). 8651–8651. 169 indexed citations
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Summers, Zarath M., et al.. (2010). Direct Exchange of Electrons Within Aggregates of an Evolved Syntrophic Coculture of Anaerobic Bacteria. Science. 330(6009). 1413–1415. 805 indexed citations breakdown →

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