Rama Bansil

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
96 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Rama Bansil is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rama Bansil has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Materials Chemistry, 27 papers in Organic Chemistry and 21 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Rama Bansil's work include Material Dynamics and Properties (28 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (18 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (14 papers). Rama Bansil is often cited by papers focused on Material Dynamics and Properties (28 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (18 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (14 papers). Rama Bansil collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and Germany. Rama Bansil's co-authors include Bradley S. Turner, Nezam H. Afdhal, J. Thomas LaMont, Jonathan P. Celli, K. Ramakrishnan Bhaskar, Jyotsana Lal, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Gareth H. McKinley, Shyamsunder Erramilli and Randy H. Ewoldt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rama Bansil

95 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Mucin structure, aggregation, physiological functions and... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2017 250 500 750
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.

  1. Mucin structure, aggregation, physiological functions and biomedical applications
    2006 831 citations Rama Bansil, Bradley S. Turner profile →
  2. The biology of mucus: Composition, synthesis and organization
    2017 490 citations Rama Bansil, Bradley S. Turner Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rama Bansil United States 31 1.2k 846 789 716 624 96 4.8k
Bradley S. Turner United States 24 1.2k 1.0× 476 0.6× 748 0.9× 180 0.3× 376 0.6× 40 3.7k
K Okuda Japan 49 1.8k 1.5× 790 0.9× 89 0.1× 850 1.2× 779 1.2× 310 8.0k
Katharina Ribbeck United States 44 4.6k 3.7× 506 0.6× 627 0.8× 249 0.3× 520 0.8× 87 7.0k
Michel Lafleur Canada 41 2.7k 2.2× 922 1.1× 713 0.9× 281 0.4× 1.1k 1.7× 114 5.1k
Thomas Andrew Waigh United Kingdom 41 1.5k 1.2× 845 1.0× 151 0.2× 717 1.0× 926 1.5× 121 5.1k
Gary Bryant Australia 39 1.5k 1.2× 718 0.8× 175 0.2× 1.8k 2.5× 1.2k 2.0× 175 5.8k
David F. Katz United States 53 810 0.7× 211 0.2× 634 0.8× 91 0.1× 775 1.2× 213 9.2k
Minoru Sakurai Japan 44 2.9k 2.3× 799 0.9× 223 0.3× 642 0.9× 723 1.2× 392 8.1k
James N. Wilking United States 23 707 0.6× 442 0.5× 257 0.3× 691 1.0× 727 1.2× 39 2.9k
Klaus Brandenburg Germany 61 4.7k 3.8× 1.2k 1.4× 118 0.1× 568 0.8× 421 0.7× 254 10.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Rama Bansil

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rama Bansil

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rama Bansil

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rama Bansil. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rama Bansil 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 Rama Bansil. Rama Bansil 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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Turner, Bradley S., et al.. (2023). Unraveling the Intertwined Effect of pH on Helicobacter pylori Motility and the Microrheology of the Mucin-Based Medium It Swims in. Microorganisms. 11(11). 2745–2745. 4 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama, et al.. (2023). Motility of Different Gastric Helicobacter spp.. Microorganisms. 11(3). 634–634. 5 indexed citations
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Jabbarzadeh, Mehdi, Henry Fu, Zeli Shen, et al.. (2018). Bipolar lophotrichous Helicobacter suis combine extended and wrapped flagella bundles to exhibit multiple modes of motility. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 14415–14415. 30 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama & Bradley S. Turner. (2017). The biology of mucus: Composition, synthesis and organization. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 124. 3–15. 490 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jabbarzadeh, Mehdi, et al.. (2016). Helical and rod-shaped bacteria swim in helical trajectories with little additional propulsion from helical shape. Science Advances. 2(11). e1601661–e1601661. 69 indexed citations
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Barz, Bogdan, Bradley S. Turner, Rama Bansil, & Brigita Urbanc. (2012). Folding of pig gastric mucin non-glycosylated domains: a discrete molecular dynamics study. Journal of Biological Physics. 38(4). 681–703. 18 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama, et al.. (2002). Small angle neutron scattering (SANS) study of gastric mucin solutions. APS. 3 indexed citations
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Waigh, Thomas Andrew, Aristeidis Papagiannopoulos, A.M. Voice, et al.. (2002). Entanglement Coupling in Porcine Stomach Mucin. Langmuir. 18(19). 7188–7195. 69 indexed citations
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Fleischer, G., et al.. (2000). Dynamics of solutions of triblock copolymers in a selective solvent: Effect of varying copolymer concentration. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 38(10). 1312–1322. 22 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Karl, et al.. (1999). Small-angle x-ray scattering study of kinetics of spinodal decomposition inN-isopropylacrylamide gels. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 60(4). 4473–4481. 14 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama, et al.. (1999). pH-Dependent Conformational Change of Gastric Mucin Leads to Sol-Gel Transition. Biophysical Journal. 76(3). 1250–1258. 180 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama, et al.. (1997). Kinetics of spinodal decomposition in homopolymer : Solutions and gels. 5(5). 146–154. 9 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama, et al.. (1997). Diffusion behavior of lipid vesicles in entangled polymer solutions. Biophysical Journal. 73(4). 1932–1939. 12 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama, et al.. (1995). Mucin Biophysics. Annual Review of Physiology. 57(1). 635–657. 288 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama, et al.. (1994). Mucin: Aggregation and colloidal interactions of relevance to some biomedical problems. Il Nuovo Cimento D. 16(9). 1411–1418. 2 indexed citations
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Bhaskar, K. Ramakrishnan, Peter Garik, Bradley S. Turner, et al.. (1992). Viscous fingering of HCI through gastric mucin. Nature. 360(6403). 458–461. 164 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama, et al.. (1989). Patterns of cocaine abuse in an inner city emergency psychiatric service setting.. PubMed. 8(2). 165–70. 1 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama, et al.. (1989). Weapon Carrying Among Patients in a Psychiatric Emergency Room. Psychiatric Services. 40(8). 845–847. 15 indexed citations
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Bansil, Rama, B. L. Carvalho, & Hartmut Herrmann. (1985). Clusters and fractals in three-dimensional kinetic gelation in the presence of a mobile solvent. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 18(3). L159–L163. 4 indexed citations
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Gupta, Manoj Kumar & Rama Bansil. (1981). Laser Raman spectroscopy of polyacrylamide. Journal of Polymer Science Polymer Physics Edition. 19(2). 353–360. 85 indexed citations

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