Saiful Islam

4.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
34 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Saiful Islam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Saiful Islam has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Immunology and 9 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Saiful Islam's work include HIV Research and Treatment (9 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (6 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (5 papers). Saiful Islam is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (9 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (6 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (5 papers). Saiful Islam collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Bangladesh. Saiful Islam's co-authors include Sten Linnarsson, Peter Lönnerberg, Paweł Zając, Una Kjällquist, Annalena Moliner, Amit Zeisel, Maria Kasper, Gioele La Manno, Simon Joost and Jian-Bing Fan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Saiful Islam

32 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Quantitative single-cell RNA-seq with unique molecular identifiers

2013 812 citations Saiful Islam, Amit Zeisel et al. Nature Methods profile →
Characterization of the single-cell transcriptional landscape by highly multiplex RNA-seq

2011 700 citations Saiful Islam, Una Kjällquist et al. Genome Research profile →
Human haematopoietic stem cell lineage commitment is a continuous process

2017 539 citations Saiful Islam, Lars M. Steinmetz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Saiful Islam United States	16	2.2k	658	647	267	226	34	2.8k
Kai Tan United States	36	2.8k 1.3×	686 1.0×	389 0.6×	352 1.3×	360 1.6×	98	3.9k
Tamir Chandra United Kingdom	25	3.4k 1.6×	1.2k 1.8×	606 0.9×	161 0.6×	433 1.9×	47	4.6k
Tamar Hashimshony Israel	15	2.2k 1.0×	451 0.7×	496 0.8×	60 0.2×	217 1.0×	25	3.0k
Ephraim Kenigsberg United States	11	2.9k 1.3×	670 1.0×	390 0.6×	55 0.2×	245 1.1×	15	3.5k
Raktima Raychowdhury United States	21	3.1k 1.4×	917 1.4×	563 0.9×	72 0.3×	528 2.3×	32	4.4k
Cátálin Bárbácioru United States	19	3.7k 1.7×	589 0.9×	1.1k 1.8×	86 0.3×	622 2.8×	34	4.9k
Yaniv Lubling Israel	16	3.8k 1.8×	767 1.2×	375 0.6×	102 0.4×	588 2.6×	19	4.6k
Charles Gawad United States	15	3.6k 1.7×	314 0.5×	2.6k 4.1×	204 0.8×	372 1.6×	28	4.5k
Luca Pinello United States	37	5.2k 2.4×	448 0.7×	791 1.2×	346 1.3×	453 2.0×	97	6.0k
Winston Koh United States	14	1.9k 0.9×	182 0.3×	880 1.4×	62 0.2×	301 1.3×	25	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Saiful Islam

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Saiful Islam

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

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Uddin, Md. Jasim, et al.. (2025). Complex dynamics of a discrete prey–predator model with complex network and stochastic modeling incorporating a ratio-dependent Ivlev functional response. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 35(3). 4 indexed citations

Islam, Saiful, Heewon Seo, Olga A. Nikolaitchik, et al.. (2024). Translation of HIV-1 unspliced RNA is regulated by 5′ untranslated region structure. Journal of Virology. 98(10). e0116024–e0116024. 3 indexed citations

Islam, Saiful, et al.. (2024). State-transition dynamics of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data: model comparison and test-to-retest analysis. BMC Neuroscience. 25(1). 14–14. 3 indexed citations

Nikolaitchik, Olga A., Saiful Islam, Yang Liu, et al.. (2023). HIV-1 usurps transcription start site heterogeneity of host RNA polymerase II to maximize replication fitness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(23). e2305103120–e2305103120. 11 indexed citations

Matsuo, Misaki, Takaharu Ueno, Kazuaki Monde, et al.. (2022). Identification and characterization of a novel enhancer in the HTLV-1 proviral genome. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2405–2405. 24 indexed citations

Johura, Fatema‐Tuz, Shah M. Rashed, Mohammad Tarequl Islam, et al.. (2022). Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains linked to global cholera show region-specific patterns by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 105. 105363–105363. 2 indexed citations

Islam, Saiful, et al.. (2021). Effect of UV rays on the Nerium oleander genome and assessment by the inter Simple sequence repeats (ISSR) markers. Iranian Journal of radiation research. 19(4). 1025–1033.

Matsuda, Kouki, Saiful Islam, Toru Takada, et al.. (2021). A widely distributed HIV-1 provirus elimination assay to evaluate latency-reversing agents in vitro. Cell Reports Methods. 1(8). 100122–100122. 9 indexed citations

Sadique, Abdus, Sucharit Basu Neogi, Marzia Sultana, et al.. (2021). Dynamics, Diversity, and Virulence of Aeromonas spp. in Homestead Pond Water in Coastal Bangladesh. Frontiers in Public Health. 9. 692166–692166. 21 indexed citations

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Nagaoka, Shumpei, Eiryo Kawakami, Jumpei Ito, et al.. (2020). Multiomics Investigation Revealing the Characteristics of HIV-1-Infected Cells In Vivo. Cell Reports. 32(2). 107887–107887. 14 indexed citations

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Miyazato, Paola, Misaki Matsuo, Benjy J.Y. Tan, et al.. (2019). HTLV-1 contains a high CG dinucleotide content and is susceptible to the host antiviral protein ZAP. Retrovirology. 16(1). 38–38. 26 indexed citations

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Nadal‐Ribelles, Mariona, Saiful Islam, Wei Wu, et al.. (2019). Sensitive high-throughput single-cell RNA-seq reveals within-clonal transcript correlations in yeast populations. Nature Microbiology. 4(4). 683–692. 62 indexed citations

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Satou, Yorifumi, Hiroo Katsuya, Naoko Misawa, et al.. (2017). Dynamics and mechanisms of clonal expansion of HIV-1-infected cells in a humanized mouse model. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 6913–6913. 21 indexed citations

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Rashid, Mahamud‐ur, Shirajum Monira, Zillur Rahman, et al.. (2016). Transmission of Infectious Vibrio cholerae through Drinking Water among the Household Contacts of Cholera Patients (CHoBI7 Trial). Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1635–1635. 23 indexed citations

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Stäubert, Claudia, Anna Lindahl, Oliver Broom, et al.. (2015). Rewired Metabolism in Drug-resistant Leukemia Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(13). 8348–8359. 64 indexed citations

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Dixit, Sameer, Fatema‐Tuz Johura, Sulochana Manandhar, et al.. (2014). Cholera outbreaks (2012) in three districts of Nepal reveal clonal transmission of multi-drug resistant Vibrio choleraeO1. BMC Infectious Diseases. 14(1). 392–392. 40 indexed citations

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Islam, Saiful, Amit Zeisel, Simon Joost, et al.. (2013). Quantitative single-cell RNA-seq with unique molecular identifiers. Nature Methods. 11(2). 163–166. 812 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zając, Paweł, Saiful Islam, Hannah Hochgerner, Peter Lönnerberg, & Sten Linnarsson. (2013). Base Preferences in Non-Templated Nucleotide Incorporation by MMLV-Derived Reverse Transcriptases. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e85270–e85270. 44 indexed citations

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Islam, Saiful, Una Kjällquist, Annalena Moliner, et al.. (2011). Characterization of the single-cell transcriptional landscape by highly multiplex RNA-seq. Genome Research. 21(7). 1160–1167. 700 indexed citations breakdown →

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Akanda, A. S., et al.. (2009). Satellites and Human Health: Potential for Tracking Cholera Outbreaks. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 2 indexed citations

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