Sagun Maharjan

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Sagun Maharjan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sagun Maharjan has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Ecology and 1 paper in Virology. Recurrent topics in Sagun Maharjan's work include Gut microbiota and health (4 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (1 paper). Sagun Maharjan is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (4 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (1 paper). Sagun Maharjan collaborates with scholars based in United States and Italy. Sagun Maharjan's co-authors include Eric A. Franzosa, Curtis Huttenhower, George Weingart, Moreno Zolfo, Nicola Segata, Mireia Valles‐Colomer, Léonard Dubois, Francesco Asnicar, Aitor Blanco‐Míguez and Lauren J. McIver and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Methods, The ISME Journal and eLife.

In The Last Decade

Sagun Maharjan

4 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3

2021 1.2k citations Francesco Beghini, Lauren J. McIver et al. eLife profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sagun Maharjan United States	3	880	204	188	147	144	4	1.2k
Léonard Dubois Italy	3	884 1.0×	212 1.0×	195 1.0×	152 1.0×	147 1.0×	3	1.2k
Kelsey N. Thompson United States	8	1.0k 1.2×	280 1.4×	202 1.1×	149 1.0×	167 1.2×	14	1.6k
Suvo Chatterjee United States	10	928 1.1×	280 1.4×	188 1.0×	122 0.8×	170 1.2×	16	1.5k
Lindsey De Commer Belgium	4	689 0.8×	172 0.8×	169 0.9×	135 0.9×	73 0.5×	5	956
Robin Shields‐Cutler United States	11	822 0.9×	293 1.4×	147 0.8×	113 0.8×	106 0.7×	21	1.1k
Patrick Demkowicz United States	6	801 0.9×	103 0.5×	131 0.7×	171 1.2×	130 0.9×	12	1.4k
Simone S. Li Australia	13	1.1k 1.2×	194 1.0×	368 2.0×	179 1.2×	122 0.8×	20	1.4k
Casey DuLong United States	7	1.3k 1.4×	233 1.1×	248 1.3×	233 1.6×	123 0.9×	8	1.6k
Ravi Ranjan United States	13	714 0.8×	137 0.7×	129 0.7×	98 0.7×	137 1.0×	25	1.1k
Jacob T. Nearing Canada	11	734 0.8×	173 0.8×	99 0.5×	84 0.6×	85 0.6×	18	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sagun Maharjan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sagun Maharjan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sagun Maharjan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sagun Maharjan. The network helps show where Sagun Maharjan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sagun Maharjan

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

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Nickols, William A., et al.. (2026). MaAsLin 3: refining and extending generalized multivariable linear models for meta-omic association discovery. Nature Methods. 23(3). 554–564. 1 indexed citations

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Branck, Tobyn, William A. Nickols, Aaron M. Walsh, et al.. (2024). Comprehensive profile of the companion animal gut microbiome integrating reference-based and reference-free methods. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 2 indexed citations

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Beghini, Francesco, Lauren J. McIver, Aitor Blanco‐Míguez, et al.. (2021). Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3. eLife. 10. 1173 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ma, Siyuan, Boyu Ren, Himel Mallick, et al.. (2021). A statistical model for describing and simulating microbial community profiles. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(9). e1008913–e1008913. 40 indexed citations

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