Ruma Banerjee

26.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
297 papers, 21.3k citations indexed

About

Ruma Banerjee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Rheumatology and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruma Banerjee has authored 297 papers receiving a total of 21.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 205 papers in Molecular Biology, 181 papers in Rheumatology and 98 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Ruma Banerjee's work include Folate and B Vitamins Research (180 papers), Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders (138 papers) and Sulfur Compounds in Biology (91 papers). Ruma Banerjee is often cited by papers focused on Folate and B Vitamins Research (180 papers), Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders (138 papers) and Sulfur Compounds in Biology (91 papers). Ruma Banerjee collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Canada. Ruma Banerjee's co-authors include Ömer Kabil, Victor Vitvitsky, Dominique Padovani, Stephen W. Ragsdale, Sangita Singh, Shinichi Taoka, Carmen Gherasim, Pramod Kumar Yadav, Rowena G. Matthews and Miloš R. Filipović and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ruma Banerjee

294 papers receiving 21.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Chemical Biology of H₂S Signaling through Persulfidation

2017 799 citations Miloš R. Filipović, Beatriz Álvarez et al. profile →
Redox Biochemistry of Hydrogen Sulfide

2010 645 citations Ömer Kabil, Ruma Banerjee Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
Chemistry and biochemistry of B12

1999 609 citations Ruma Banerjee Wiley eBooks profile →
The Many Faces of Vitamin B₁₂: Catalysis by Cobalamin-Dependent Enzymes

2003 603 citations Ruma Banerjee et al. profile →
Relative Contributions of Cystathionine β-Synthase and γ-Cystathionase to H2S Biogenesis via Alternative Trans-sulfuration Reactions

2009 535 citations Ruma Banerjee et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
Biogenesis of reactive sulfur species for signaling by hydrogen sulfide oxidation pathways

2015 512 citations Ruma Banerjee et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →
Selective fluorescent probes for live-cell monitoring of sulphide

2011 476 citations Ömer Kabil, Ruma Banerjee et al. Nature Communications profile →
Enzymology of H ₂ S Biogenesis, Decay and Signaling

2013 409 citations Ömer Kabil, Ruma Banerjee Antioxidants and Redox Signaling profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruma Banerjee United States	81	11.1k	8.1k	7.5k	1.9k	1.7k	297	21.3k
Hideo Kimura Japan	70	6.7k 0.6×	13.8k 1.7×	1.4k 0.2×	500 0.3×	4.7k 2.8×	224	21.7k
Shelly C. Lu United States	73	10.6k 1.0×	3.1k 0.4×	3.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	251	20.4k
Matthias A. Hediger United States	90	14.8k 1.3×	4.8k 0.6×	731 0.1×	1.6k 0.8×	2.9k 1.7×	256	33.5k
Matthew Whiteman United Kingdom	65	5.4k 0.5×	8.0k 1.0×	761 0.1×	500 0.3×	4.1k 2.4×	219	17.1k
Henry Jay Forman United States	77	13.5k 1.2×	3.9k 0.5×	679 0.1×	781 0.4×	3.9k 2.3×	286	27.3k
Alton Meister United States	78	12.5k 1.1×	10.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.2×	2.3k 1.2×	2.5k 1.5×	282	25.3k
Yoshikatsu Kanai Japan	85	13.3k 1.2×	10.6k 1.3×	641 0.1×	3.8k 2.0×	1.7k 1.0×	324	27.9k
Mary E. Anderson United States	40	6.9k 0.6×	4.8k 0.6×	870 0.1×	383 0.2×	1.4k 0.8×	88	15.5k
A Meister United States	52	6.4k 0.6×	5.7k 0.7×	993 0.1×	732 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	111	13.2k
Victor Darley‐Usmar United States	101	15.2k 1.4×	4.5k 0.6×	574 0.1×	1.8k 0.9×	10.0k 6.0×	373	33.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruma Banerjee

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Kumar, Roshan, David B. Sykes, Victor I. Band, et al.. (2025). Gut sulfide metabolism modulates behavior and brain bioenergetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2503677122–e2503677122. 2 indexed citations

Shukla, Yogendra N., et al.. (2025). Hydrogen sulfide–dependent activation of human sulfide quinone oxidoreductase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(10). 110681–110681.

Banerjee, Ruma, et al.. (2025). Flotilla: A scalable, modular and resilient federated learning framework for heterogeneous resources. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 203. 105103–105103. 2 indexed citations

Cuevasanta, Ernesto, et al.. (2024). Acidity of persulfides and its modulation by the protein environments in sulfide quinone oxidoreductase and thiosulfate sulfurtransferase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(5). 107149–107149. 6 indexed citations

Kumar, Roshan, Victor Vitvitsky, Rashi Singhal, et al.. (2024). Sulfide oxidation promotes hypoxic angiogenesis and neovascularization. Nature Chemical Biology. 20(10). 1294–1304. 18 indexed citations

Hanna, David A., Victor Vitvitsky, & Ruma Banerjee. (2023). A growth chamber for chronic exposure of mammalian cells to H2S. Analytical Biochemistry. 673. 115191–115191. 5 indexed citations

Ruetz, Markus, et al.. (2023). Architecture of the human G-protein-methylmalonyl-CoA mutase nanoassembly for B12 delivery and repair. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4332–4332. 6 indexed citations

Singhal, Rashi, Nupur K. Das, Samuel A. Kerk, et al.. (2021). HIF-2α activation potentiates oxidative cell death in colorectal cancers by increasing cellular iron. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(12). 147 indexed citations

Li, Zhu, et al.. (2020). Chlorocob(II)alamin Formation Which Enhances the Thiol Oxidase Activity of the B₁₂-Trafficking Protein CblC. Inorganic Chemistry. 59(21). 16065–16072. 5 indexed citations

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Ruetz, Markus, Gregory C. Campanello, Hongying Shen, et al.. (2019). Itaconyl-CoA forms a stable biradical in methylmalonyl-CoA mutase and derails its activity and repair. Science. 366(6465). 589–593. 77 indexed citations

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Vitvitsky, Victor, Jan Lj. Miljković, Bikash Adhikari, et al.. (2018). CytochromecReduction by H₂S Potentiates Sulfide Signaling. ACS Chemical Biology. 13(8). 2300–2307. 79 indexed citations

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Campanello, Gregory C., Markus Ruetz, David Watkins, et al.. (2018). Sacrificial Cobalt–Carbon Bond Homolysis in Coenzyme B₁₂ as a Cofactor Conservation Strategy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(41). 13205–13208. 21 indexed citations

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Vitvitsky, Victor & Ruma Banerjee. (2015). H2S Analysis in Biological Samples Using Gas Chromatography with Sulfur Chemiluminescence Detection. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 554. 111–123. 80 indexed citations

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Kabil, Ömer, et al.. (2011). Increased transsulfuration mediates longevity and dietary restriction in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(40). 16831–16836. 113 indexed citations

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Garg, Sanjay K., Zhonghua Yan, Victor Vitvitsky, & Ruma Banerjee. (2010). Differential Dependence on Cysteine from Transsulfuration versus Transport During T Cell Activation. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 15(1). 39–47. 64 indexed citations

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Kim, Jihoe, Luciana Hannibal, Carmen Gherasim, Donald W. Jacobsen, & Ruma Banerjee. (2009). A Human Vitamin B12 Trafficking Protein Uses Glutathione Transferase Activity for Processing Alkylcobalamins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(48). 33418–33424. 102 indexed citations

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Kim, Jihoe, Carmen Gherasim, & Ruma Banerjee. (2008). Decyanation of vitamin B ₁₂ by a trafficking chaperone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(38). 14551–14554. 170 indexed citations

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Garg, Sanjay K., Ruma Banerjee, & Jonathan Kipnis. (2008). Neuroprotective Immunity: T Cell-Derived Glutamate Endows Astrocytes with a Neuroprotective Phenotype. The Journal of Immunology. 180(6). 3866–3873. 88 indexed citations

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Stich, Troy A., Mamoru Yamanishi, Ruma Banerjee, & Thomas C. Brunold. (2005). Spectroscopic Evidence for the Formation of a Four-Coordinate Co ²⁺ Cobalamin Species upon Binding to the Human ATP:Cobalamin Adenosyltransferase. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(21). 7660–7661. 73 indexed citations

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Banerjee, Ruma. (1999). Chemistry and biochemistry of B12. Wiley eBooks. 89(11). 2440–9. 609 indexed citations breakdown →

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