Pankaj Vats

13.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Pankaj Vats is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pankaj Vats has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 13 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Pankaj Vats's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (12 papers), Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (5 papers) and Renal cell carcinoma treatment (4 papers). Pankaj Vats is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (12 papers), Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (5 papers) and Renal cell carcinoma treatment (4 papers). Pankaj Vats collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Japan. Pankaj Vats's co-authors include Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Xuhong Cao, Dan R. Robinson, Weiping Zou, Marcin Cieślik, Fengyun Su, Robert J. Lonigro, Ajjai Alva, Rohit Mehra and Saravana M. Dhanasekaran and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Pankaj Vats

43 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Host expression of PD-L1 determines efficacy of PD-L1 pathway blockade–mediated tumor regression

2018 449 citations Heng Lin, Shuang Wei et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →
Inactivation of CDK12 Delineates a Distinct Immunogenic Class of Advanced Prostate Cancer

2018 384 citations Yi-Mi Wu, Marcin Cieślik et al. Cell profile →
Single-cell analyses of renal cell cancers reveal insights into tumor microenvironment, cell of origin, and therapy response

2021 199 citations Sathiya Pandi Narayanan, Rahul Mannan 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 Vats United States	18	1.1k	821	785	554	468	47	2.2k
Ethan S. Sokol United States	25	1.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	568 0.7×	717 1.3×	328 0.7×	103	2.7k
Véronique Winnepenninckx Netherlands	23	985 0.9×	935 1.1×	217 0.3×	270 0.5×	385 0.8×	67	2.0k
Zeynep Eroglu United States	26	2.8k 2.5×	1.2k 1.5×	557 0.7×	287 0.5×	1.1k 2.3×	124	3.7k
Vladimir Makarov United States	12	1.5k 1.3×	591 0.7×	398 0.5×	501 0.9×	1.0k 2.1×	19	2.2k
Kent C. Shih United States	19	1.7k 1.5×	611 0.7×	509 0.6×	258 0.5×	420 0.9×	54	2.6k
Mattheos Bobos Greece	23	1.1k 1.0×	620 0.8×	487 0.6×	287 0.5×	72 0.2×	103	1.9k
Sheryl R. Tripp United States	29	1.0k 0.9×	864 1.1×	640 0.8×	305 0.6×	213 0.5×	65	2.6k
Christopher R. Heery United States	32	2.5k 2.2×	876 1.1×	854 1.1×	209 0.4×	1.7k 3.7×	112	3.8k
David Gyorki Australia	22	2.1k 1.9×	1.2k 1.4×	459 0.6×	532 1.0×	577 1.2×	109	3.0k
Weng‐Onn Lui Sweden	33	543 0.5×	2.2k 2.7×	403 0.5×	1.8k 3.2×	189 0.4×	86	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pankaj Vats

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Singh, Sankalp, et al.. (2024). Financial toxicity in the background of free health care: A cross-sectional survey in a tertiary care hospital in India.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(16_suppl). e13685–e13685.

Singh, Sankalp, et al.. (2023). A case of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans of the scalp treated with surface mould brachytherapy. Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy. 15(3). 224–228. 1 indexed citations

Kumar‐Sinha, Chandan, Pankaj Vats, Nguyen H. Tran, et al.. (2023). Genomics driven precision oncology in advanced biliary tract cancer improves survival. Neoplasia. 42. 100910–100910. 6 indexed citations

Carpi, Giovanna, et al.. (2022). A GPU-accelerated compute framework for pathogen genomic variant identification to aid genomic epidemiology of infectious disease: a malaria case study. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 23(5). 4 indexed citations

Vats, Pankaj, et al.. (2021). Advances in radiotherapy in 2020: Hypofractionation - less is more in times of COVID-19. Indian Journal of Cancer. 58(1). 41–41. 3 indexed citations

Borah, Khushboo, Pankaj Vats, Huihai Wu, et al.. (2020). GSMN-ML- a genome scale metabolic network reconstruction of the obligate human pathogen Mycobacterium leprae. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(7). e0007871–e0007871. 7 indexed citations

Ney, Gina M., Chandan Kumar‐Sinha, Yi‐Mi Wu, et al.. (2020). Mutations predictive of hyperactive Ras signaling correlate with inferior survival across high-risk pediatric acute leukemia. Translational Pediatrics. 9(1). 43–50. 7 indexed citations

Skala, Stephanie L., Xiaoming Wang, Yuping Zhang, et al.. (2020). Next-generation RNA Sequencing–based Biomarker Characterization of Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma and Related Oncocytic Neoplasms. European Urology. 78(1). 63–74. 48 indexed citations

Parolia, Abhijit, Marcin Cieślik, Lanbo Xiao, et al.. (2019). Distinct structural classes of activating FOXA1 alterations in advanced prostate cancer. Nature. 571(7765). 413–418. 160 indexed citations

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Connelly, James A., Rajen Mody, Yi‐Mi Wu, et al.. (2018). Identification of novelMECOMgene fusion and personalized therapeutic targets through integrative clinical sequencing in secondary acute myeloid leukemia in a patient with severe congenital neutropenia: a case report and literature review. Molecular Case Studies. 4(2). a002204–a002204. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Yi-Mi, Marcin Cieślik, Robert J. Lonigro, et al.. (2018). Inactivation of CDK12 Delineates a Distinct Immunogenic Class of Advanced Prostate Cancer. Cell. 173(7). 1770–1782.e14. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pratt, Drew, Siva Kumar Natarajan, Adam Banda, et al.. (2018). Circumscribed/non-diffuse histology confers a better prognosis in H3K27M-mutant gliomas. Acta Neuropathologica. 135(2). 299–301. 47 indexed citations

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Lin, Heng, Shuang Wei, Elaine M. Hurt, et al.. (2018). Host expression of PD-L1 determines efficacy of PD-L1 pathway blockade–mediated tumor regression. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 128(2). 805–815. 449 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vats, Pankaj, et al.. (2017). Disease characteristics and treatment attributes of patients admitted to the oncology ward of a tertiary care government hospital. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics. 13(1). 44–50. 1 indexed citations

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Hertz, Daniel L., Dan R. Robinson, Robert J. Lonigro, et al.. (2016). Identification of clinically actionable pharmacogenetic variants during tumor genetic profiling in pediatric cancer patients.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 34(15_suppl). 1583–1583. 2 indexed citations

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Harms, Paul W., Pankaj Vats, Monique Verhaegen, et al.. (2015). The Distinctive Mutational Spectra of Polyomavirus-Negative Merkel Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Research. 75(18). 3720–3727. 234 indexed citations

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Kothari, Vishal, Sunita Shankar, Shanker Kalyana‐Sundaram, et al.. (2013). Outlier Kinase Expression by RNA Sequencing as Targets for Precision Therapy. Cancer Discovery. 3(3). 280–293. 29 indexed citations

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Mehra, Rohit, Saravana M. Dhanasekaran, Nallasivam Palanisamy, et al.. (2013). Comprehensive Analysis of ETS Family Members in Melanoma by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Reveals Recurrent ETV1 Amplification. Translational Oncology. 6(4). 405–412. 9 indexed citations

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Vats, Pankaj, et al.. (2011). Comparative Genomics of Cell Envelope Components in Mycobacteria. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e19280–e19280. 17 indexed citations

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Pandey, Pramod Kumar, et al.. (2008). Acquired isolated unilateral fourth nerve palsy after ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery. Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. 12(6). 618–620. 6 indexed citations

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