Rajendra Prasad

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
141 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Rajendra Prasad is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rajendra Prasad has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Oncology and 22 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Rajendra Prasad's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (85 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (36 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (21 papers). Rajendra Prasad is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (85 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (36 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (21 papers). Rajendra Prasad collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Japan. Rajendra Prasad's co-authors include Samuel H. Wilson, William A. Beard, Julie K. Horton, Esther W. Hou, Rakesh Kumar Singhal, Robert W. Sobol, Padmini S. Kedar, Alan E. Tomkinson, M.R. Sawaya and Joseph Kraut and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rajendra Prasad

139 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

Requirement of mammalian DNA polymerase-β in base-excision repair

1996 711 citations Robert W. Sobol, Julie K. Horton et al. Nature profile →
Crystal Structures of Human DNA Polymerase β Complexed with Gapped and Nicked DNA: Evidence for an Induced Fit Mechanism^,

1997 534 citations Rajendra Prasad, Samuel H. Wilson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rajendra Prasad United States	52	8.3k	2.1k	1.8k	987	590	141	9.6k
Geir Slupphaug Norway	44	7.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	447 0.8×	120	9.6k
Reiner U. Jänicke Germany	37	6.5k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	460 0.5×	496 0.8×	68	9.9k
Yi Liu China	45	5.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	704 0.7×	479 0.8×	247	8.4k
Tse‐Hua Tan United States	57	7.3k 0.9×	3.1k 1.4×	2.1k 1.2×	683 0.7×	725 1.2×	150	11.3k
Manzoor Ahmad United States	25	8.4k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	491 0.5×	495 0.8×	57	11.0k
Wenlin Huang China	46	3.9k 0.5×	975 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	542 0.5×	285 0.5×	168	6.9k
Gourisankar Ghosh United States	55	7.2k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	4.4k 2.4×	574 0.6×	261 0.4×	138	11.3k
Quinn L. Deveraux United States	37	11.2k 1.3×	2.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	689 0.7×	555 0.9×	49	13.4k
Tapas K. Hazra United States	53	6.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	632 0.6×	284 0.5×	109	7.9k
Henning R. Stennicke Denmark	29	6.6k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	938 0.5×	375 0.4×	477 0.8×	56	8.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Rajendra Prasad

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rajendra Prasad

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

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Banks, Kimberly C., et al.. (2025). Can Vaginal Seeding at Birth Improve Health Outcomes of Cesarean Section-Delivered Infants? A Scoping Review. Microorganisms. 13(6). 1236–1236.

Saha, Liton Kumar, Mitsuo Wakasugi, Salma Akter, et al.. (2020). Topoisomerase I-driven repair of UV-induced damage in NER-deficient cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(25). 14412–14420. 22 indexed citations

Beard, William A., Julie K. Horton, Rajendra Prasad, & Samuel H. Wilson. (2019). Eukaryotic Base Excision Repair: New Approaches Shine Light on Mechanism. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 88(1). 137–162. 147 indexed citations

Rodriguez, Yesenia, Michael J. Howard, M.J. Cuneo, Rajendra Prasad, & Samuel H. Wilson. (2017). Unencumbered Pol β lyase activity in nucleosome core particles. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(15). 8901–8915. 20 indexed citations

Horton, Julie K., Donna F. Stefanick, Rajendra Prasad, et al.. (2014). Base Excision Repair Defects Invoke Hypersensitivity to PARP Inhibition. Molecular Cancer Research. 12(8). 1128–1139. 65 indexed citations

Jain, Kanika, Geetha Suryakumar, Rajendra Prasad, & Lilly Ganju. (2013). Upregulation of Cytoprotective Defense Mechanisms and Hypoxia-Responsive Proteins Imparts Tolerance to Acute Hypobaric Hypoxia. High Altitude Medicine & Biology. 14(1). 65–77. 34 indexed citations

Ali, Shakir, et al.. (2012). Effect of acute hypobaric hypoxia on skeletal muscle protein turnover. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

Suryakumar, Geetha, et al.. (2012). Chronic hypobaric hypoxia mediated skeletal muscle atrophy: role of ubiquitin–proteasome pathway and calpains. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 364(1-2). 101–113. 81 indexed citations

Asagoshi, Kenjiro, Yuan Liu, Aya Masaoka, et al.. (2009). DNA polymerase β-dependent long patch base excision repair in living cells. DNA repair. 9(2). 109–119. 41 indexed citations

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Harrigan, Jeanine A., Patricia L. Opresko, Cayetano von Kobbe, et al.. (2003). The Werner Syndrome Protein Stimulates DNA Polymerase β Strand Displacement Synthesis via Its Helicase Activity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(25). 22686–22695. 101 indexed citations

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Belova, Galina I., Rajendra Prasad, I. V. Nazimov, Samuel H. Wilson, & Alexeï Slesarev. (2002). The Domain Organization and Properties of Individual Domains of DNA Topoisomerase V, a Type 1B Topoisomerase with DNA Repair Activities. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(7). 4959–4965. 26 indexed citations

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Lavrik, Olga I., Rajendra Prasad, Robert W. Sobol, et al.. (2001). Photoaffinity Labeling of Mouse Fibroblast Enzymes by a Base Excision Repair Intermediate. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(27). 25541–25548. 163 indexed citations

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Beard, William A., Katarzyna Bębenek, Thomas A. Darden, et al.. (1998). Vertical-scanning Mutagenesis of a Critical Tryptophan in the Minor Groove Binding Track of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(46). 30435–30442. 35 indexed citations

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Prasad, Rajendra, et al.. (1998). Functional Analysis of the Amino-terminal 8-kDa Domain of DNA Polymerase β as Revealed by Site-directed Mutagenesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(18). 11121–11126. 128 indexed citations

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Srivastava, Deepak, Brian J. Vande Berg, Rajendra Prasad, et al.. (1998). Mammalian Abasic Site Base Excision Repair. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(33). 21203–21209. 333 indexed citations

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Lavrik, Olga I., Rajendra Prasad, William A. Beard, et al.. (1996). dNTP Binding to HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase and Mammalian DNA Polymerase β as Revealed by Affinity Labeling with a Photoreactive dNTP Analog. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(36). 21891–21897. 31 indexed citations

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Sobol, Robert W., Julie K. Horton, Ralf Kühn, et al.. (1996). Requirement of mammalian DNA polymerase-β in base-excision repair. Nature. 379(6561). 183–186. 711 indexed citations breakdown →

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Prasad, Rajendra, Ashok K. Chopra, Parvathi Chary, et al.. (1995). Effect of clonedSalmonella typhimuriumenterotoxin on rabbit intestinal motility. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 134(2-3). 239–244. 12 indexed citations

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Prasad, Rajendra, Ashok K. Chopra, Parvathi Chary, & Johnny W. Peterson. (1992). Expression and characterization of the cloned Salmonella typhimurium enterotoxin. Microbial Pathogenesis. 13(2). 109–121. 26 indexed citations

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Pachauri, S. P., et al.. (1972). Effect of reticulo-endothelial blockade and stimulation on hepatic mitochondrial and microsomal lipids and atherosclerosis in cholesterol-fed cockerels. Atherosclerosis. 16(2). 241–246. 2 indexed citations

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