Nilkanth Patel

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 777 citations indexed

About

Nilkanth Patel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nilkanth Patel has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 777 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 2 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Nilkanth Patel's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (8 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (5 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (4 papers). Nilkanth Patel is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (8 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (5 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (4 papers). Nilkanth Patel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Italy. Nilkanth Patel's co-authors include Vsevolod Katritch, Raymond C. Stevens, Gye Won Han, Vadim Cherezov, Bryan L. Roth, Kate L. White, Matthew T. Eddy, Kenneth A. Jacobson, Zhan‐Guo Gao and Hamiyet Ünal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Nilkanth Patel

9 papers receiving 766 citations

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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.

Synthon-based ligand discovery in virtual libraries of over 11 billion compounds

2021 254 citations Arman A. Sadybekov, Anastasiia Sadybekov et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nilkanth Patel United States	8	620	284	230	96	64	9	777
Jeremy Shonberg Australia	14	825 1.3×	568 2.0×	153 0.7×	104 1.1×	30 0.5×	16	956
Krzysztof Rataj Poland	10	677 1.1×	255 0.9×	312 1.4×	114 1.2×	116 1.8×	15	870
Mayako Michino United States	18	1.1k 1.8×	564 2.0×	317 1.4×	145 1.5×	52 0.8×	32	1.4k
Giuseppe Deganutti United Kingdom	17	907 1.5×	458 1.6×	173 0.8×	78 0.8×	31 0.5×	49	1.1k
Bingfa Sun United States	10	1.3k 2.1×	615 2.2×	120 0.5×	165 1.7×	30 0.5×	11	1.5k
Jeffrey J. Liu United States	10	1.0k 1.6×	558 2.0×	101 0.4×	136 1.4×	58 0.9×	12	1.1k
B.G. Tehan United Kingdom	9	1.0k 1.6×	591 2.1×	176 0.8×	141 1.5×	26 0.4×	11	1.1k
Davide Sabbadin Italy	16	881 1.4×	178 0.6×	337 1.5×	29 0.3×	150 2.3×	22	1.1k
Andrei Zhukov United Kingdom	12	664 1.1×	258 0.9×	138 0.6×	215 2.2×	36 0.6×	15	775
Mauricio Esguerra Sweden	9	487 0.8×	164 0.6×	102 0.4×	57 0.6×	41 0.6×	12	563

Countries citing papers authored by Nilkanth Patel

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nilkanth Patel

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Sadybekov, Arman A., Anastasiia Sadybekov, Yongfeng Liu, et al.. (2021). Synthon-based ligand discovery in virtual libraries of over 11 billion compounds. Nature. 601(7893). 452–459. 254 indexed citations breakdown →

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Patel, Nilkanth, Xi‐Ping Huang, Jessica M. Grandner, et al.. (2020). Structure-based discovery of potent and selective melatonin receptor agonists. eLife. 9. 25 indexed citations

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Yu, Jing, Véronique Blais, Nilkanth Patel, et al.. (2019). Elucidating the active δ-opioid receptor crystal structure with peptide and small-molecule agonists. Science Advances. 5(11). eaax9115–eaax9115. 86 indexed citations

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White, Kate L., Matthew T. Eddy, Zhan‐Guo Gao, et al.. (2018). Structural Connection between Activation Microswitch and Allosteric Sodium Site in GPCR Signaling. Structure. 26(2). 259–269.e5. 124 indexed citations

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Eddy, Matthew T., Zhan‐Guo Gao, Philip Z. Mannes, et al.. (2018). Extrinsic Tryptophans as NMR Probes of Allosteric Coupling in Membrane Proteins: Application to the A_2A Adenosine Receptor. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(26). 8228–8235. 38 indexed citations

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Ishchenko, Andrii, Daniel Wacker, Mili Kapoor, et al.. (2017). Structural insights into the extracellular recognition of the human serotonin 2B receptor by an antibody. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(31). 8223–8228. 46 indexed citations

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Lee, Ming-Yue, Nilkanth Patel, Vsevolod Katritch, Raymond C. Stevens, & Vadim Cherezov. (2016). Structural Studies of the Human Kappa Opioid Receptor Active State Conformations. Biophysical Journal. 110(3). 38a–39a. 1 indexed citations

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Miller, Rebecca L., Aaron A. Thompson, Claudio Trapella, et al.. (2015). The Importance of Ligand-Receptor Conformational Pairs in Stabilization: Spotlight on the N/OFQ G Protein-Coupled Receptor. Structure. 23(12). 2291–2299. 63 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haitao, Hamiyet Ünal, Russell Desnoyer, et al.. (2015). Structural Basis for Ligand Recognition and Functional Selectivity at Angiotensin Receptor. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(49). 29127–29139. 140 indexed citations

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