Puspa Thapa

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Puspa Thapa is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Puspa Thapa has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Immunology, 2 papers in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Puspa Thapa's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (12 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (7 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (4 papers). Puspa Thapa is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (12 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (7 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (4 papers). Puspa Thapa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hungary and Nepal. Puspa Thapa's co-authors include Donna L. Färber, Takashi Senda, Pranay Dogra, Peter A. Szabo, Michelle Miron, Mark E. Snyder, Peter A. Sims, Yim Ling Cheng, Hanna Mendes Levitin and Jinzhou Yuan and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Puspa Thapa

15 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Single-cell transcriptomics of human T cells reveals tissue and activation signatures in health and disease

2019 346 citations Peter A. Szabo, Hanna Mendes Levitin et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Puspa Thapa United States	11	711	287	252	87	66	15	1.1k
Katrina K. Hoyer United States	17	763 1.1×	289 1.0×	171 0.7×	123 1.4×	60 0.9×	36	1.2k
Simon Blanchard France	20	858 1.2×	304 1.1×	270 1.1×	153 1.8×	76 1.2×	34	1.4k
Nilesh Amatya United States	10	565 0.8×	290 1.0×	181 0.7×	94 1.1×	48 0.7×	11	1.0k
Pei Xiong Liew United States	8	672 0.9×	304 1.1×	153 0.6×	148 1.7×	60 0.9×	15	1.1k
Xiongwen Wu China	17	466 0.7×	236 0.8×	149 0.6×	149 1.7×	61 0.9×	52	930
Umut Can Küçüksezer Türkiye	16	780 1.1×	169 0.6×	160 0.6×	105 1.2×	87 1.3×	45	1.5k
Kirsty McPherson Germany	14	657 0.9×	208 0.7×	226 0.9×	97 1.1×	39 0.6×	18	1.2k
Solenne Vigne Switzerland	18	904 1.3×	338 1.2×	185 0.7×	132 1.5×	190 2.9×	30	1.4k
Matthew M. Meredith United States	11	1.6k 2.3×	329 1.1×	211 0.8×	103 1.2×	50 0.8×	12	2.0k
Stephen D. Schibeci Australia	24	569 0.8×	360 1.3×	215 0.9×	170 2.0×	40 0.6×	44	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Puspa Thapa

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15 of 15 papers shown

Ural, Basak B., Daniel P. Caron, Pranay Dogra, et al.. (2022). Inhaled particulate accumulation with age impairs immune function and architecture in human lung lymph nodes. Nature Medicine. 28(12). 2622–2632. 54 indexed citations

Thapa, Puspa, Rebecca Guyer, Alexander Yang, et al.. (2021). Infant T cells are developmentally adapted for robust lung immune responses through enhanced T cell receptor signaling. Science Immunology. 6(66). eabj0789–eabj0789. 10 indexed citations

Dogra, Pranay, Chiara Rancan, Wenji Ma, et al.. (2020). Tissue Determinants of Human NK Cell Development, Function, and Residence. Cell. 180(4). 749–763.e13. 271 indexed citations

Szabo, Peter A., Hanna Mendes Levitin, Michelle Miron, et al.. (2019). Single-cell transcriptomics of human T cells reveals tissue and activation signatures in health and disease. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4706–4706. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

Shapiro, Michael J., et al.. (2019). The Interaction between NKAP and HDAC3 Is Critical for T Cell Maturation. ImmunoHorizons. 3(8). 352–367. 4 indexed citations

Thapa, Puspa & Donna L. Färber. (2019). The Role of the Thymus in the Immune Response. Thoracic surgery clinics/Thorac. surg. clin.. 29(2). 123–131. 177 indexed citations

Senda, Takashi, Pranay Dogra, Tomer Granot, et al.. (2018). Microanatomical dissection of human intestinal T-cell immunity reveals site-specific changes in gut-associated lymphoid tissues over life. Mucosal Immunology. 12(2). 378–389. 65 indexed citations

Thapa, Puspa, et al.. (2018). Total Biomass Carbon Sequestration Ability Under the Changing Climatic Condition by Paulownia tomentosa Steud. International Journal of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology. 6(3). 220–226. 8 indexed citations

Thapa, Puspa, et al.. (2017). Histone deacetylase 3 is required for iNKT cell development. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 5784–5784. 26 indexed citations

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Thapa, Puspa, et al.. (2017). The differentiation of ROR-γt expressing iNKT17 cells is orchestrated by Runx1. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 7018–7018. 25 indexed citations

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Thapa, Puspa, et al.. (2016). NKAP Regulates Invariant NKT Cell Proliferation and Differentiation into ROR-γt–Expressing NKT17 Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 196(12). 4987–4998. 23 indexed citations

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Kim, Kyung Soon, Michael J. Shapiro, Adebowale O. Bamidele, et al.. (2014). Coactosin-Like 1 Antagonizes Cofilin to Promote Lamellipodial Protrusion at the Immune Synapse. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e85090–e85090. 37 indexed citations

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Thapa, Puspa, Joy Das, Michael J. Shapiro, et al.. (2013). The transcriptional repressor NKAP is required for the development of iNKT cells. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1582–1582. 47 indexed citations

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Medina, Kay L., et al.. (2013). Separation of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells from B-Cell-Biased Lymphoid Progenitor (BLP) and Pre-Pro B Cells Using PDCA-1. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e78408–e78408. 15 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Michael J., Lynn A. Spruce, Rhianna S. Sundsbak, Puspa Thapa, & Virginia Smith Shapiro. (2010). Phosphorylation at serine 318 is not required for inhibition of T cell activation by ALX. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 396(4). 994–998. 1 indexed citations

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