Niran Maharjan

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 790 citations indexed

About

Niran Maharjan is a scholar working on Neurology, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Niran Maharjan has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 790 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Neurology, 3 papers in Surgery and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Niran Maharjan's work include Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (5 papers), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (2 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (2 papers). Niran Maharjan is often cited by papers focused on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (5 papers), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (2 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (2 papers). Niran Maharjan collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Nepal and Germany. Niran Maharjan's co-authors include Hilal A. Lashuel, Johannes Burtscher, Marie Croisier, Fabien Kuttler, Marion Leleu, Graham Knott, Anne‐Laure Mahul‐Mellier, Smita Saxena, Céline Ruegsegger and Joachim Weis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Niran Maharjan

11 papers receiving 787 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The process of Lewy body formation, rather than simply α-synuclein fibrillization, is one of the major drivers of neurodegeneration

2020 463 citations Anne‐Laure Mahul‐Mellier, Johannes Burtscher et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niran Maharjan Switzerland	8	494	296	213	200	126	11	790
Mireia Herrando‐Grabulosa Spain	17	240 0.5×	267 0.9×	101 0.5×	210 1.1×	65 0.5×	35	649
Catherine A. Blizzard Australia	19	562 1.1×	310 1.0×	170 0.8×	335 1.7×	82 0.7×	39	959
Jenna M. Gregory United Kingdom	15	474 1.0×	346 1.2×	153 0.7×	99 0.5×	49 0.4×	38	739
Bhuvaneish T. Selvaraj United Kingdom	15	317 0.6×	354 1.2×	113 0.5×	164 0.8×	53 0.4×	30	709
Christopher M. Treleaven United States	16	641 1.3×	489 1.7×	469 2.2×	298 1.5×	237 1.9×	19	1.2k
Tracy Cole United States	11	601 1.2×	368 1.2×	477 2.2×	262 1.3×	68 0.5×	16	1.2k
Sruti Rayaprolu United States	17	275 0.6×	228 0.8×	132 0.6×	113 0.6×	87 0.7×	31	612
Janin Lautenschläger United Kingdom	10	394 0.8×	240 0.8×	183 0.9×	183 0.9×	146 1.2×	15	623
Maria Demestre Germany	19	429 0.9×	442 1.5×	116 0.5×	236 1.2×	36 0.3×	28	992
Helle Bogetofte Denmark	11	275 0.6×	353 1.2×	206 1.0×	264 1.3×	119 0.9×	13	723

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niran Maharjan

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11 of 11 papers shown

Maharjan, Niran, et al.. (2024). Meleney’s gangrene managed with a single extensive debridement and resultant defect closure with abdominoplasty technique – a case report. Annals of Medicine and Surgery. 86(3). 1711–1715. 2 indexed citations

Burtscher, Johannes, Giuseppe Pepe, Niran Maharjan, et al.. (2023). Sphingolipids and impaired hypoxic stress responses in Huntington disease. Progress in Lipid Research. 90. 101224–101224. 15 indexed citations

Kumar, Senthil T., Sergey Nazarov, Sílvia Porta, et al.. (2023). Seeding the aggregation of TDP-43 requires post-fibrillization proteolytic cleavage. Nature Neuroscience. 26(6). 983–996. 36 indexed citations

Maharjan, Niran, et al.. (2023). Hand Injury among Patients Visiting Emergency Department in a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 61(257). 5–9. 1 indexed citations

Schmitz, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Emerging Perspectives on Dipeptide Repeat Proteins in C9ORF72 ALS/FTD. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 15. 637548–637548. 44 indexed citations

Mahul‐Mellier, Anne‐Laure, Johannes Burtscher, Niran Maharjan, et al.. (2020). The process of Lewy body formation, rather than simply α-synuclein fibrillization, is one of the major drivers of neurodegeneration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(9). 4971–4982. 463 indexed citations breakdown →

Maharjan, Niran, et al.. (2016). C9ORF72 Regulates Stress Granule Formation and Its Deficiency Impairs Stress Granule Assembly, Hypersensitizing Cells to Stress. Molecular Neurobiology. 54(4). 3062–3077. 76 indexed citations

Malinka, Thomas, Andreas Köhler, Michel Dosch, et al.. (2016). P2X1‐regulated IL‐22 secretion by innate lymphoid cells is required for efficient liver regeneration. Hepatology. 63(6). 2004–2017. 29 indexed citations

Maharjan, Niran, Céline Ruegsegger, Ruth Rehmann, et al.. (2015). Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome protein SIL1 regulates motor neuron subtype-selective ER stress in ALS. Nature Neuroscience. 18(2). 227–238. 80 indexed citations

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Ruegsegger, Céline, Niran Maharjan, Anand Goswami, et al.. (2015). Aberrant association of misfolded SOD1 with Na+/K+ATPase-α3 impairs its activity and contributes to motor neuron vulnerability in ALS. Acta Neuropathologica. 131(3). 427–451. 43 indexed citations

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Maharjan, Niran, et al.. (2015). Elective open bedside tracheostomy in the neurosurgical intensive care unit. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(1). 9–11. 1 indexed citations

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