Pankaj Kumar

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Pankaj Kumar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pankaj Kumar has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Cancer Research and 12 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Pankaj Kumar's work include RNA modifications and cancer (17 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (9 papers). Pankaj Kumar is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (17 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (9 papers). Pankaj Kumar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Qatar and India. Pankaj Kumar's co-authors include Anindya Dutta, Suresh B. Mudunuri, Jordan Anaya, Canan Kuscu, Yoshiyuki Shibata, Zhangli Su, Teressa Paulsen, Laura W. Dillon, Manjari Kiran and Karsten Suhre and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Pankaj Kumar

60 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Meta-analysis of tRNA derived RNA fragments reveals that they are evolutionarily conserved and associate with AGO proteins to recognize specific RNA targets

2014 482 citations Pankaj Kumar, Anindya Dutta et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pankaj Kumar United States	24	2.9k	1.7k	240	227	223	61	3.6k
Guang‐Rong Yan China	26	2.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	215 0.9×	534 2.4×	97 0.4×	45	3.6k
Michelle S. Scott Canada	36	3.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	188 0.8×	241 1.1×	207 0.9×	77	3.9k
Diana Lee United States	20	2.7k 0.9×	673 0.4×	206 0.9×	1.2k 5.5×	278 1.2×	39	3.8k
Ana Gomes United Kingdom	31	2.7k 0.9×	486 0.3×	211 0.9×	654 2.9×	157 0.7×	56	4.0k
Nobuyoshi Akimitsu Japan	31	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	268 1.1×	216 1.0×	80 0.4×	84	3.5k
Subrata Sinha India	25	1.3k 0.5×	525 0.3×	137 0.6×	337 1.5×	109 0.5×	159	2.4k
Jianping Zhang China	28	3.0k 1.0×	437 0.3×	459 1.9×	398 1.8×	199 0.9×	63	3.7k
Kellen Olszewski United States	25	2.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	82 0.3×	413 1.8×	51 0.2×	35	4.5k
D. Joshua Liao United States	27	1.6k 0.6×	663 0.4×	376 1.6×	640 2.8×	70 0.3×	111	2.6k
Mary Wu United Kingdom	18	1.7k 0.6×	465 0.3×	154 0.6×	202 0.9×	86 0.4×	26	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pankaj Kumar

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

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Dietl, Madison R., et al.. (2025). TLR5 Signaling Causes Dendritic Cell Dysfunction and Orchestrates Failure of Immune Checkpoint Therapy against Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Immunology Research. 13(5). 696–711. 1 indexed citations

Pierce, Rebecca, et al.. (2024). Persistent dysbiosis of duodenal microbiota in patients with controlled pediatric Crohn’s disease after resolution of inflammation. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 12668–12668. 4 indexed citations

Kim, Dae Joong, Piotr Przanowski, Sanchita Bhatnagar, et al.. (2023). Priming a vascular-selective cytokine response permits CD8+ T-cell entry into tumors. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2122–2122. 12 indexed citations

Kim, Dae Joong, Patcharin Pramoonjago, Jay W. Fox, et al.. (2023). Periostin+ Stromal Cells Guide Lymphovascular Invasion by Cancer Cells. Cancer Research. 83(13). 2105–2122. 12 indexed citations

Seegren, Philip V., Xiaoyu Zhao, Marta E. Stremska, et al.. (2023). Reduced mitochondrial calcium uptake in macrophages is a major driver of inflammaging. Nature Aging. 3(7). 796–812. 42 indexed citations

Wilson, Briana, et al.. (2022). tRForest: a novel random forest-based algorithm for tRNA-derived fragment target prediction. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 4(2). lqac037–lqac037. 5 indexed citations

Meneveau, Max O., Pankaj Kumar, Kevin Lynch, Sapna P. Patel, & Craig L. Slingluff. (2022). The vaccine-site microenvironment: impacts of antigen, adjuvant, and same-site vaccination on antigen presentation and immune signaling. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 10(3). e003533–e003533. 14 indexed citations

Meneveau, Max O., et al.. (2022). A Step Toward Personalized Surgical Decision Making. Annals of Surgery. 278(3). e589–e597. 1 indexed citations

Jan, Ning‐Jiun, et al.. (2021). Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Increases Colonic IL-25 and Dampens Tissue Inflammation in Patients with Recurrent Clostridioides difficile. mSphere. 6(5). e0066921–e0066921. 18 indexed citations

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Madani, Aisha Y., Yasser Majeed, Houari Abdesselem, et al.. (2021). Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 (STAT3) Suppresses STAT1/Interferon Signaling Pathway and Inflammation in Senescent Preadipocytes. Antioxidants. 10(2). 334–334. 26 indexed citations

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Uddin, Md. Jashim, Jhansi L. Leslie, Stacey L. Burgess, et al.. (2021). The IL-33-ILC2 pathway protects from amebic colitis. Mucosal Immunology. 15(1). 165–175. 17 indexed citations

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Meneveau, Max O., Marit M. Melssen, Kevin Lynch, et al.. (2020). Incomplete Freund’s adjuvant reduces arginase and enhances Th1 dominance, TLR signaling and CD40 ligand expression in the vaccine site microenvironment. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 8(1). e000544–e000544. 23 indexed citations

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Chatrath, Ajay, Manjari Kiran, Pankaj Kumar, Aakrosh Ratan, & Anindya Dutta. (2019). The Germline Variants rs61757955 and rs34988193 Are Predictive of Survival in Lower Grade Glioma Patients. Molecular Cancer Research. 17(5). 1075–1086. 5 indexed citations

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Paulsen, Teressa, Pankaj Kumar, M. Murat Köseoğlu, & Anindya Dutta. (2018). Discoveries of Extrachromosomal Circles of DNA in Normal and Tumor Cells. Trends in Genetics. 34(4). 270–278. 173 indexed citations

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Kuscu, Canan, Pankaj Kumar, Manjari Kiran, et al.. (2018). tRNA fragments (tRFs) guide Ago to regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally in a Dicer-independent manner. RNA. 24(8). 1093–1105. 292 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pankaj, Laura W. Dillon, Yoshiyuki Shibata, et al.. (2017). Normal and Cancerous Tissues Release Extrachromosomal Circular DNA (eccDNA) into the Circulation. Molecular Cancer Research. 15(9). 1197–1205. 178 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pankaj, Anna Halama, Shahina Hayat, et al.. (2015). MetaRNA-Seq: An Interactive Tool to Browse and Annotate Metadata from RNA-Seq Studies. BioMed Research International. 2015. 1–6. 4 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pankaj, Mashael Al‐Shafai, Nader Chalhoub, et al.. (2014). Evaluation of SNP calling using single and multiple-sample calling algorithms by validation against array base genotyping and Mendelian inheritance. BMC Research Notes. 7(1). 747–747. 10 indexed citations

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Shibata, Yoshiyuki, Pankaj Kumar, Ryan M. Layer, et al.. (2012). Extrachromosomal MicroDNAs and Chromosomal Microdeletions in Normal Tissues. Science. 336(6077). 82–86. 221 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pankaj & Hampapathalu Adimurthy Nagarajaram. (2012). A Study on Mutational Dynamics of Simple Sequence Repeats in Relation to Mismatch Repair System in Prokaryotic Genomes. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 74(3-4). 127–139. 6 indexed citations

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