Niraj H. Tolia

9.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
115 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Niraj H. Tolia is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Niraj H. Tolia has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 35 papers in Immunology and 34 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Niraj H. Tolia's work include Malaria Research and Control (53 papers), Complement system in diseases (27 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (18 papers). Niraj H. Tolia is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (53 papers), Complement system in diseases (27 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (18 papers). Niraj H. Tolia collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Brazil. Niraj H. Tolia's co-authors include Leemor Joshua‐Tor, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Jidong Liu, Gregory J. Hannon, Ji‐Joon Song, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Nichole D. Salinas, Fabiola V. Rivas, B. Kim Lee Sim and Shivaram Venkataraman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Niraj H. Tolia

110 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Purified Argonaute2 and an siRNA form recombinant human RISC

2005 568 citations Niraj H. Tolia et al. profile →
Analysis of the C. elegans Argonaute Family Reveals that Distinct Argonautes Act Sequentially during RNAi

2006 492 citations Niraj H. Tolia et al. profile →
Consistent and durable data structures for non-volatile byte-addressable memory

2011 288 citations Shivaram Venkataraman, Niraj H. Tolia et al. File and Storage Technologies profile →
Protein-based antigen presentation platforms for nanoparticle vaccines

2021 165 citations Niraj H. Tolia et al. profile →
The tetracycline resistome is shaped by selection for specific resistance mechanisms by each antibiotic generation

2025 20 citations Skye R. S. Fishbein, Niraj H. Tolia et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niraj H. Tolia United States	41	2.7k	1.4k	1.3k	1.0k	874	115	6.4k
Robert N. Pike Australia	56	3.4k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	263 0.2×	1.4k 1.4×	180 0.2×	213	10.2k
Yuanming Hu United States	28	1.6k 0.6×	75 0.1×	930 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	112 0.1×	83	4.4k
Étienne Gagnon Canada	23	1.4k 0.5×	229 0.2×	315 0.2×	1.7k 1.6×	229 0.3×	42	4.4k
Jong Kim South Korea	36	3.6k 1.4×	105 0.1×	271 0.2×	846 0.8×	80 0.1×	132	6.1k
Satoshi Sekiguchi Japan	32	548 0.2×	178 0.1×	1.1k 0.8×	382 0.4×	445 0.5×	255	3.7k
Per Brinch Hansen Denmark	39	2.0k 0.8×	82 0.1×	1.3k 1.0×	615 0.6×	1.3k 1.5×	276	6.6k
Haixu Tang United States	46	5.7k 2.1×	258 0.2×	170 0.1×	156 0.2×	66 0.1×	186	8.2k
Paul A. Tucker Germany	33	1.6k 0.6×	60 0.0×	381 0.3×	156 0.2×	494 0.6×	136	5.5k
Simon Kasif United States	39	5.9k 2.2×	185 0.1×	174 0.1×	226 0.2×	35 0.0×	124	8.2k

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Fishbein, Skye R. S., et al.. (2025). The tetracycline resistome is shaped by selection for specific resistance mechanisms by each antibiotic generation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1452–1452. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Salinas, Nichole D., Rui Ma, Carole A. Long, et al.. (2024). A Self-Assembling Pfs230D1-Ferritin Nanoparticle Vaccine Has Potent and Durable Malaria Transmission-Reducing Activity. Vaccines. 12(5). 546–546. 5 indexed citations

Dickey, Thayne H., et al.. (2024). Structure‐based design of a Plasmodium vivax Duffy‐binding protein immunogen focuses the antibody response to functional epitopes. Protein Science. 33(8). e5095–e5095. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Hirdesh, Wai Kwan Tang, Tayte Campbell, et al.. (2024). Sequence-structure-function characterization of the emerging tetracycline destructase family of antibiotic resistance enzymes. Communications Biology. 7(1). 336–336. 5 indexed citations

Dickey, Thayne H. & Niraj H. Tolia. (2023). Designing an effective malaria vaccine targeting Plasmodium vivax Duffy-binding protein. Trends in Parasitology. 39(10). 850–858. 8 indexed citations

Baró, Bàrbara, et al.. (2023). Plasmodium falciparum exploits CD44 as a coreceptor for erythrocyte invasion. Blood. 142(23). 2016–2028. 5 indexed citations

Kumar, Hirdesh, John R. Jimah, Santosh A. Misal, et al.. (2022). Implications of conformational flexibility, lipid binding, and regulatory domains in cell-traversal protein CelTOS for apicomplexan migration. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(9). 102241–102241. 6 indexed citations

Urusova, Darya V., et al.. (2022). Inhibition of a malaria host–pathogen interaction by a computationally designed inhibitor. Protein Science. 32(1). e4507–e4507. 8 indexed citations

Renn, Jonathan P., Justin Doritchamou, Robert Morrison, et al.. (2021). Allelic variants of full-length VAR2CSA, the placental malaria vaccine candidate, differ in antigenicity and receptor binding affinity. Communications Biology. 4(1). 15 indexed citations

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Moreau, Catherine, Hirdesh Kumar, Niraj H. Tolia, et al.. (2020). A function of profilin in force generation during malaria parasite motility independent of actin binding. Journal of Cell Science. 134(5). 10 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jian, Joshua Muia, Garima Gupta, et al.. (2019). Exploring the “minimal” structure of a functional ADAMTS13 by mutagenesis and small-angle X-ray scattering. Blood. 133(17). 1909–1918. 22 indexed citations

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Nasamu, Armiyaw S., Svetlana Glushakova, Ilaria Russo, et al.. (2017). Plasmepsins IX and X are essential and druggable mediators of malaria parasite egress and invasion. Science. 358(6362). 518–522. 119 indexed citations

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Koch, Marion, Katherine E. Wright, Oliver Otto, et al.. (2017). Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte-binding antigen 175 triggers a biophysical change in the red blood cell that facilitates invasion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(16). 4225–4230. 57 indexed citations

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Muia, Joshua, Jian Zhu, Garima Gupta, et al.. (2014). Allosteric activation of ADAMTS13 by von Willebrand factor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(52). 18584–18589. 100 indexed citations

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Gupta, Vishakha, Karsten Schwan, Niraj H. Tolia, Vanish Talwar, & Parthasarathy Ranganathan. (2011). Pegasus: coordinated scheduling for virtualized accelerator-based systems. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 3–3. 63 indexed citations

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Venkataraman, Shivaram, Niraj H. Tolia, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, & Roy H. Campbell. (2011). Consistent and durable data structures for non-volatile byte-addressable memory. File and Storage Technologies. 5–5. 288 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tolia, Niraj H., Zhikui Wang, Manish Marwah, et al.. (2008). Delivering energy proportionality with non energy-proportional systems: optimizing the ensemble. 2–2. 118 indexed citations

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Tolia, Niraj H., Jan Harkes, Michael A. Kozuch, & Mahadev Satyanarayanan. (2004). Integrating portable and distributed storage. File and Storage Technologies. 227–238. 31 indexed citations

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Flinn, Jason, et al.. (2003). Data Staging on Untrusted Surrogates. File and Storage Technologies. 15–28. 41 indexed citations

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Tolia, Niraj H., Michael A. Kozuch, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, et al.. (2003). Opportunistic Use of Content Addressable Storage for Distributed File Systems. UCL Discovery (University College London). 127–140. 82 indexed citations

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