Parag Vaishampayan

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Parag Vaishampayan is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Parag Vaishampayan has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Ecology, 30 papers in Molecular Biology and 25 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Parag Vaishampayan's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (35 papers), Spaceflight effects on biology (23 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers). Parag Vaishampayan is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (35 papers), Spaceflight effects on biology (23 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers). Parag Vaishampayan collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Germany. Parag Vaishampayan's co-authors include Kasthuri Venkateswaran, Shariff Osman, Gary L. Andersen, Myron T. La Duc, Alexander J. Probst, Jennifer V. Kuehl, M. Pilar Francino, Yogesh S. Shouche, R. Henrik Nilsson and Jenna Morgan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Parag Vaishampayan

70 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

  1. Schrödinger’s microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems
    2017 335 citations Joanne Emerson, Rachel I. Adams et al. Microbiome profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Parag Vaishampayan United States 29 1.2k 867 597 435 384 71 3.0k
Myron T. La Duc United States 26 851 0.7× 994 1.1× 553 0.9× 509 1.2× 130 0.3× 45 2.5k
Ralf Moeller Germany 32 995 0.8× 648 0.7× 599 1.0× 829 1.9× 207 0.5× 127 2.9k
Rob Van Houdt Belgium 35 2.1k 1.8× 766 0.9× 424 0.7× 191 0.4× 373 1.0× 112 4.8k
Pieter Monsieurs Belgium 28 1.0k 0.9× 538 0.6× 286 0.5× 105 0.2× 240 0.6× 77 2.8k
Robert McLean United States 37 2.2k 1.8× 786 0.9× 170 0.3× 91 0.2× 329 0.9× 121 4.8k
Elisabeth Grohmann Germany 39 1.4k 1.2× 940 1.1× 191 0.3× 74 0.2× 288 0.8× 94 4.4k
Vı́ctor Parro Spain 31 929 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 237 0.4× 742 1.7× 158 0.4× 133 3.0k
Philippe Oger France 40 2.7k 2.3× 964 1.1× 104 0.2× 189 0.4× 1.5k 3.9× 167 5.2k
Giuseppe D’Auria Spain 30 2.3k 1.9× 1.5k 1.7× 281 0.5× 54 0.1× 446 1.2× 73 4.2k
Henning Seedorf Singapore 24 3.9k 3.2× 891 1.0× 587 1.0× 83 0.2× 218 0.6× 44 6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Parag Vaishampayan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Parag Vaishampayan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Parag Vaishampayan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Parker, Ceth W., Nitin K. Singh, Scott Tighe, et al.. (2020). End-to-End Protocol for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 from Built Environments. mSystems. 5(5). 13 indexed citations
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Chiang, Abby J., Ganesh Babu Malli Mohan, Nitin K. Singh, et al.. (2019). Alteration of Proteomes in First-Generation Cultures of Bacillus pumilus Spores Exposed to Outer Space. mSystems. 4(4). 11 indexed citations
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Vaishampayan, Parag, et al.. (2018). Taxonomic description and draft genome of Pseudomonas sediminis sp. nov., isolated from the rhizospheric sediment of Phragmites karka. The Journal of Microbiology. 56(7). 458–466. 7 indexed citations
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Benardini, James N., et al.. (2018). Real-time Quantification of Size-resolved Bioaerosols and Inert Particles In Spacecraft Assembly Cleanrooms.. 42. 1 indexed citations
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Lee, Kun Ho, et al.. (2017). On the Rocks: Microbiological Quality and Microbial Diversity of Packaged Ice in Southern California. Journal of Food Protection. 80(6). 1041–1049. 10 indexed citations
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Emerson, Joanne, Rachel I. Adams, Brandon Brooks, et al.. (2017). Schrödinger’s microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems. Microbiome. 5(1). 86–86. 335 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chan, Alfred A., Mina Bashir, Magali Noval Rivas, et al.. (2016). Characterization of the microbiome of nipple aspirate fluid of breast cancer survivors. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 28061–28061. 171 indexed citations
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Bashir, Mina, Thomas Weinmaier, Doina Ciobanu, et al.. (2016). Functional Metagenomics of Spacecraft Assembly Cleanrooms: Presence of Virulence Factors Associated with Human Pathogens. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1321–1321. 23 indexed citations
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Mayer, Teresa, Adriana Blachowicz, Alexander J. Probst, et al.. (2016). Microbial succession in an inflated lunar/Mars analog habitat during a 30-day human occupation. Microbiome. 4(1). 22–22. 29 indexed citations
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Vaishampayan, Parag, et al.. (2015). Sterilization of hydrogen peroxide resistant bacterial spores with stabilized chlorine dioxide. AMB Express. 5(1). 24–24. 14 indexed citations
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Checinska, Aleksandra, Alexander J. Probst, Parag Vaishampayan, et al.. (2015). Microbiomes of the dust particles collected from the International Space Station and Spacecraft Assembly Facilities. Microbiome. 3(1). 50–50. 152 indexed citations
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Weinmaier, Thomas, Alexander J. Probst, Myron T. La Duc, et al.. (2015). A viability-linked metagenomic analysis of cleanroom environments: eukarya, prokaryotes, and viruses. Microbiome. 3(1). 62–62. 50 indexed citations
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Hendrickson, Ryan C., et al.. (2014). InSight Planetary Protection Status. 40. 1 indexed citations
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Venkateswaran, Kasthuri, et al.. (2014). International Space Station environmental microbiome — microbial inventories of ISS filter debris. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 98(14). 6453–6466. 94 indexed citations
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Zhu, Dianhui, Parag Vaishampayan, Kasthuri Venkateswaran, & George E. Fox. (2010). STITCH: Algorithm to Splice, Trim, Identify, Track, and Capture the Uniqueness of 16S rRNAs Sequence Pairs Using Public or In-house Database. Microbial Ecology. 61(3). 669–675. 2 indexed citations
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Rastogi, Gurdeep, Shariff Osman, Ravi Kukkadapu, et al.. (2010). Microbial and Mineralogical Characterizations of Soils Collected from the Deep Biosphere of the Former Homestake Gold Mine, South Dakota. Microbial Ecology. 60(3). 539–550. 66 indexed citations
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Vaishampayan, Parag, Mika Miyashita, Akihiro Ohnishi, et al.. (2009). Description of Rummeliibacillus stabekisii gen. nov., sp. nov. and reclassification of Bacillus pycnus Nakamura et al. 2002 as Rummeliibacillus pycnus comb. nov.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 59(5). 1094–1099. 51 indexed citations
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Vaishampayan, Parag, Dhiraj Dhotre, Pritesh Lalwani, et al.. (2007). Molecular evidence and phylogenetic affiliations of Wolbachia in cockroaches☆. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44(3). 1346–1351. 31 indexed citations

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