Rajiv Kumar

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Rajiv Kumar is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rajiv Kumar has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 37 papers in Epidemiology and 26 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Rajiv Kumar's work include Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (56 papers), Trypanosoma species research and implications (33 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (14 papers). Rajiv Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (56 papers), Trypanosoma species research and implications (33 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (14 papers). Rajiv Kumar collaborates with scholars based in India, Australia and United States. Rajiv Kumar's co-authors include Susanne Nylén, Christian Engwerda, Shyam Sundar, David L. Sacks, Susanna S. Ng, Shalini Gautam, Kamlesh Gidwani, K. T. Parthiban, Madhukar Rai and Om Prakash Singh and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Immunology, PLoS ONE and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Rajiv Kumar

93 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

A Study on Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Society

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rajiv Kumar India	30	1.8k	951	561	396	348	100	2.8k
Muntaser E. Ibrahim Sudan	33	960 0.5×	623 0.7×	324 0.6×	214 0.5×	1.2k 3.4×	99	4.2k
Rosalind E. Howes United Kingdom	28	3.1k 1.8×	326 0.3×	489 0.9×	580 1.5×	402 1.2×	50	5.3k
Filip Meheus Belgium	29	1.1k 0.6×	786 0.8×	199 0.4×	301 0.8×	390 1.1×	59	3.6k
Ali Sher United States	23	1.2k 0.7×	843 0.9×	1.6k 2.8×	999 2.5×	328 0.9×	67	4.0k
Andrew W. Taylor‐Robinson Australia	25	1.3k 0.7×	169 0.2×	750 1.3×	276 0.7×	429 1.2×	182	2.5k
Ning Jiang China	26	334 0.2×	473 0.5×	347 0.6×	355 0.9×	783 2.3×	119	2.4k
Jackie Cook United Kingdom	27	1.8k 1.0×	137 0.1×	332 0.6×	425 1.1×	336 1.0×	98	2.5k
Nancy Gore Saravia Colombia	41	5.0k 2.8×	3.1k 3.3×	561 1.0×	981 2.5×	465 1.3×	129	5.9k
Michèle Barry United States	33	671 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	1.4k 2.5×	180 0.5×	1.6k 4.7×	90	4.3k
Ching Li Taiwan	29	590 0.3×	250 0.3×	772 1.4×	189 0.5×	608 1.7×	93	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rajiv Kumar

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chauhan, Shashi Bhushan, Shashi Bhushan Kumar, Madhukar Rai, et al.. (2025). The circulating plasma microRNA signature in human visceral leishmaniasis. mSphere. 10(2). e0064624–e0064624.

Gautam, Vibhav, et al.. (2024). MHC tetramer technology: Exploring T cell biology in health and disease. Advances in protein chemistry and structural biology. 140. 327–345. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Rajiv, et al.. (2024). Use Of Social Media For Marketing Of Library And Information Services In Academic Libraries. 2 indexed citations

Kumar, Shashi Bhushan, Shashi Bhushan Chauhan, Siddharth Singh, et al.. (2024). Altered IL-7 signaling in CD4+ T cells from patients with visceral leishmaniasis. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 18(2). e0011960–e0011960. 1 indexed citations

Tiwari, Harshita, Swati Singh, Sonal Sharma, et al.. (2024). Deciphering the landscape of triple negative breast cancer from microenvironment dynamics and molecular insights to biomarker analysis and therapeutic modalities. Medicinal Research Reviews. 45(3). 817–841. 6 indexed citations

Edwards, Chelsea L., Jessica A. Engel, Fabian de Labastida Rivera, et al.. (2023). A molecular signature for IL-10–producing Th1 cells in protozoan parasitic diseases. JCI Insight. 8(24). 8 indexed citations

Malaviya, Paritosh, Anouk van Hooij, Shyam Sundar, et al.. (2023). Field-friendly anti-PGL-I serosurvey in children to monitor Mycobacterium leprae transmission in Bihar, India. Frontiers in Medicine. 10. 1260375–1260375. 6 indexed citations

Kumar, Shashi Bhushan, et al.. (2023). Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in the Indian sub-continent: challenges and strategies for elimination. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 1236952–1236952. 18 indexed citations

Gupta, Priyamvada, Ashish Verma, Nilesh Rai, et al.. (2021). Mass Spectrometry-Based Technology and Workflows for Studying the Chemistry of Fungal Endophyte Derived Bioactive Compounds. ACS Chemical Biology. 16(11). 2068–2086. 20 indexed citations

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Kumar, Rajiv. (2021). Wound Pathophysiology: Insights of Ca2+ Signaling and Cellular Senescence Mechanisms in Healing, and Regeneration. Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion. 12(4). 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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Singh, Bhawana, Shashi Bhushan Chauhan, Rajiv Kumar, et al.. (2019). A molecular signature for CD8⁺ T cells from visceral leishmaniasis patients. Parasite Immunology. 41(11). e12669–e12669. 12 indexed citations

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Bunn, Patrick T., Marcela Montes de, Fabian de Labastida Rivera, et al.. (2018). Distinct Roles for CD4+ Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells and IL-10–Mediated Immunoregulatory Mechanisms during Experimental Visceral Leishmaniasis Caused by Leishmania donovani. The Journal of Immunology. 201(11). 3362–3372. 34 indexed citations

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Singh, Neetu, Rajiv Kumar, Christian Engwerda, et al.. (2016). Tumor necrosis factor alpha neutralization has no direct effect on parasite burden, but causes impaired IFN-γ production by spleen cells from human visceral leishmaniasis patients. Cytokine. 85. 184–190. 8 indexed citations

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Kumar, Rajiv, et al.. (2014). Molecular characterization of Pseudomonas sp. isolated from milk samples by using RAPD-PCR. European Journal of Experimental Biology. 4(4). 4 indexed citations

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Gautam, Shalini, Rajiv Kumar, Neetu Singh, et al.. (2013). CD8 T Cell Exhaustion in Human Visceral Leishmaniasis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 209(2). 290–299. 105 indexed citations

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Thomas, Anne, et al.. (2011). Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing Circumcision Self-Report and Physical Examination Findings in Lesotho. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e27561–e27561. 34 indexed citations

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Chakravarty, Jaya, et al.. (2011). Evaluation of rk39 immunochromatographic test with urine for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 105(9). 537–539. 12 indexed citations

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Gidwani, Kamlesh, Rajiv Kumar, Diwakar Singh Dinesh, et al.. (2010). Measurement of Recent Exposure to Phlebotomus argentipes, the Vector of Indian Visceral Leishmaniasis, by Using Human Antibody Responses to Sand Fly Saliva. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 82(5). 801–807. 58 indexed citations

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Sundar, Santhanam, et al.. (2001). Resistance to treatment in Kala-azar: speciation of isolates from northeast India.. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 65(3). 193–196. 44 indexed citations

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King, Richard, Rajiv Kumar, Helen Martin, & D J Hanahan. (1986). Platelet activating factor (PAF) stimulates the secretion of surfactant by rat type II cells with the same increment and time course as tetradecanol phorbol acetate (TPA). Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States).

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