Rama Ranganathan

13.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
91 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Rama Ranganathan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rama Ranganathan has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Oncology and 15 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Rama Ranganathan's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (24 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (11 papers). Rama Ranganathan is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (24 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (11 papers). Rama Ranganathan collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and France. Rama Ranganathan's co-authors include Steve W. Lockless, Michael Socolich, Mark A. Wall, William P. Russ, Olivier Rivoire, Charles S. Zuker, Gürol M. Süel, Richard N. McLaughlin, Stanislas Leibler and Kun Ping Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Rama Ranganathan

88 papers receiving 8.9k citations

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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.

Evolutionarily Conserved Pathways of Energetic Connectivity in Protein Families

1999 1.1k citations Steve W. Lockless, Rama Ranganathan Science profile →
Evolutionarily conserved networks of residues mediate allosteric communication in proteins

2002 684 citations Steve W. Lockless, Mark A. Wall et al. Nature Structural Biology profile →
Structural and Functional Analysis of the Mitotic Rotamase Pin1 Suggests Substrate Recognition Is Phosphorylation Dependent

1997 604 citations Rama Ranganathan et al. Cell profile →
Protein Sectors: Evolutionary Units of Three-Dimensional Structure

2009 542 citations Olivier Rivoire, Rama Ranganathan et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rama Ranganathan United States	41	7.2k	1.6k	1.3k	1.0k	760	91	9.0k
Olivier Lichtarge United States	46	7.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	812 0.8×	731 1.0×	165	8.6k
Narayanan Eswar United States	25	8.4k 1.2×	704 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	668 0.9×	52	11.2k
M. Madan Babu United Kingdom	57	11.9k 1.6×	2.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	639 0.8×	133	14.0k
Mark S. Johnson Finland	51	6.9k 1.0×	805 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	520 0.7×	211	10.2k
Joost Schymkowitz Belgium	58	10.6k 1.5×	752 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	1.7k 1.7×	799 1.1×	188	14.3k
M. S. Madhusudhan India	28	6.6k 0.9×	595 0.4×	838 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	558 0.7×	67	9.2k
Annalisa Pastore United Kingdom	65	10.0k 1.4×	3.1k 1.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	419 0.6×	333	14.4k
Yifei Qi United States	28	6.0k 0.8×	770 0.5×	542 0.4×	680 0.7×	413 0.5×	70	8.1k
Roberto Sánchez United States	32	5.6k 0.8×	504 0.3×	695 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	541 0.7×	66	7.2k
András Fiser United States	43	8.0k 1.1×	608 0.4×	687 0.5×	1.9k 1.8×	1.4k 1.8×	144	11.3k

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Kim, Justin S., et al.. (2024). Functional protein dynamics in a crystal. Biophysical Journal. 123(3). 461a–461a. 2 indexed citations

Henning, Robert, et al.. (2024). BioCARS: Synchrotron facility for probing structural dynamics of biological macromolecules. Structural Dynamics. 11(1). 14301–14301. 10 indexed citations

Ranganathan, Rama, et al.. (2024). Human Papillomavirus–Attributable Head and Neck Cancers in India—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JCO Global Oncology. 10(10). e2300464–e2300464. 6 indexed citations

Aggarwal, Aastha, Rama Ranganathan, Preet K. Dhillon, et al.. (2023). Linking population-based cohorts with cancer registries in LMIC: a case study and lessons learnt in India. BMJ Open. 13(3). e068644–e068644. 1 indexed citations

Russ, William P., et al.. (2023). Undersampling and the inference of coevolution in proteins. Cell Systems. 14(3). 210–219.e7. 3 indexed citations

Russ, William P., Matteo Figliuzzi, Christian Stocker, et al.. (2020). An evolution-based model for designing chorismate mutase enzymes. Science. 369(6502). 440–445. 166 indexed citations

Bandaru, Pradeep, Neel H. Shah, Moitrayee Bhattacharyya, et al.. (2017). Deconstruction of the Ras switching cycle through saturation mutagenesis. eLife. 6. 70 indexed citations

Ranganathan, Rama, et al.. (2017). Surgical Resection for Hepatoblastoma—Updated Survival Outcomes. Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer. 49(4). 493–496. 10 indexed citations

Poelwijk, Frank J., Vinod Krishna, & Rama Ranganathan. (2016). The Context-Dependence of Mutations: A Linkage of Formalisms. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(6). e1004771–e1004771. 71 indexed citations

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Raman, Arjun S., K. Ian White, & Rama Ranganathan. (2016). Origins of Allostery and Evolvability in Proteins: A Case Study. Cell. 166(2). 468–480. 101 indexed citations

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Seshadri, Ramakrishnan Ayloor, et al.. (2016). Long-Term Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in Periampullary Carcinoma. Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer. 48(1). 13–19. 7 indexed citations

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McLaughlin, Richard N., Frank J. Poelwijk, Arjun S. Raman, Walraj S. Gosal, & Rama Ranganathan. (2012). The spatial architecture of protein function and adaptation. Nature. 491(7422). 138–142. 336 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Kimberly A., Richard N. McLaughlin, & Rama Ranganathan. (2011). Hot Spots for Allosteric Regulation on Protein Surfaces. Cell. 147(7). 1564–1575. 275 indexed citations

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Mani, Samson, et al.. (2009). CYP17 (T34C), CYP19 (Trp39Arg), and FGFR2 (C906T) polymorphisms and the risk of breast cancer in south Indian women.. PubMed. 10(1). 111–4. 14 indexed citations

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Lee, Jeeyeon, Madhusudan Natarajan, Vishal Nashine, et al.. (2008). Surface Sites for Engineering Allosteric Control in Proteins. Science. 322(5900). 438–442. 275 indexed citations

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Ranganathan, Rama, et al.. (2006). Knowledge-based potentials in protein design. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 16(4). 508–513. 69 indexed citations

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Socolich, Michael, Steve W. Lockless, William P. Russ, et al.. (2005). Evolutionary information for specifying a protein fold. Nature. 437(7058). 512–518. 323 indexed citations

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Ranganathan, Rama, Mark A. Wall, & Michael Socolich. (2000). The structural basis for red fluorescence in the tetrameric GFP homolog DsRed.. Nature Structural Biology. 7(12). 1133–1138. 272 indexed citations

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Ranganathan, Rama & Elliott M. Ross. (1997). PDZ domain proteins: Scaffolds for signaling complexes. Current Biology. 7(12). R770–R773. 130 indexed citations

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Ranganathan, Rama, John H. Lewis, & Roderick MacKinnon. (1996). Spatial Localization of the K+ Channel Selectivity Filter by Mutant Cycle–Based Structure Analysis. Neuron. 16(1). 131–139. 252 indexed citations

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