Samir K. Maji

11.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
144 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Samir K. Maji is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Samir K. Maji has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Molecular Biology, 62 papers in Physiology and 45 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Samir K. Maji's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (60 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (39 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (38 papers). Samir K. Maji is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (60 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (39 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (38 papers). Samir K. Maji collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and United Kingdom. Samir K. Maji's co-authors include Roland Riek, Pradeep K. Singh, Shruti Sahay, Surabhi Mehra, Dhiman Ghosh, Anoop Arunagiri, Reeba S. Jacob, Narendra Nath Jha, Ashutosh Kumar and Sebastian Jessberger and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Samir K. Maji

140 papers receiving 8.0k 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.

In vivo demonstration that α-synuclein oligomers are toxic

2011 1.2k citations Samir K. Maji, Sebastian Jessberger et al. profile →
Functional Amyloids As Natural Storage of Peptide Hormones in Pituitary Secretory Granules

2009 872 citations Samir K. Maji, Marilyn H. Perrin et al. Science profile →
α-Synuclein misfolding and aggregation: Implications in Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis

2019 340 citations Surabhi Mehra, Samir K. Maji et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samir K. Maji India	42	3.7k	3.2k	2.5k	1.7k	931	144	8.1k
Alexander K. Buell United Kingdom	40	3.2k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	482 0.5×	103	6.0k
K. Peter R. Nilsson Sweden	48	4.1k 1.1×	3.5k 1.1×	855 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	726 0.8×	189	8.6k
Seung R. Paik South Korea	40	1.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	472 0.3×	925 1.0×	113	5.2k
Makoto Yoshimoto Japan	51	3.6k 1.0×	2.6k 0.8×	5.3k 2.1×	578 0.3×	2.9k 3.1×	236	11.2k
Theresa M. McIntire United States	24	2.9k 0.8×	3.5k 1.1×	528 0.2×	765 0.5×	649 0.7×	34	6.0k
Jean‐Christophe Rochet United States	37	4.0k 1.1×	4.0k 1.2×	5.4k 2.1×	556 0.3×	2.5k 2.7×	108	10.3k
Paul E. Fraser Canada	62	8.6k 2.3×	7.4k 2.3×	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	153	13.7k
Dan Li China	42	2.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	609 0.4×	373 0.4×	217	5.5k
Roberto Cappai Australia	69	6.9k 1.9×	9.1k 2.8×	2.2k 0.8×	451 0.3×	1.9k 2.0×	235	15.9k
Emma Sparr Sweden	39	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	455 0.3×	258 0.3×	126	5.2k

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Shaw, Ranjit, et al.. (2025). Peptide‐Based Functional Amyloid Hydrogel Enhances Wound Healing in Normal and Diabetic Rat Models. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 14(9). e2403560–e2403560. 8 indexed citations

Datta, Debalina, Ambuja Navalkar, Arunima Sakunthala, et al.. (2024). Nucleo-cytoplasmic environment modulates spatiotemporal p53 phase separation. Science Advances. 10(50). eads0427–eads0427. 7 indexed citations

Mahato, Jaladhar, Rajat Mukherjee, Surabhi Mehra, et al.. (2023). Sensitized Emission Imaging Allows Nanoscale Surface Polarity Mapping of α-Synuclein Amyloid Fibrils. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 15(1). 108–118. 1 indexed citations

Sengupta, Shinjinee, Namrata Singh, Debalina Datta, et al.. (2023). p53 amyloid pathology is correlated with higher cancer grade irrespective of the mutant or wild-type form. Journal of Cell Science. 136(17). 11 indexed citations

Ray, Soumik, Nitu Singh, Komal Patel, G. Krishnamoorthy, & Samir K. Maji. (2022). FRAP and FRET Investigation of α-Synuclein Fibrillization via Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation In Vitro and in HeLa Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 2551. 395–423. 11 indexed citations

Sakunthala, Arunima, et al.. (2022). An efficient chemodosimeter for the detection of Hg(ii) via diselenide oxidation. Dalton Transactions. 51(6). 2269–2277. 8 indexed citations

Navalkar, Ambuja, Arunima Sakunthala, Satyaprakash Pandey, et al.. (2022). Oncogenic gain of function due to p53 amyloids occurs through aberrant alteration of cell cycle and proliferation. Journal of Cell Science. 135(15). 13 indexed citations

Sawner, Ajay Singh, Soumik Ray, Semanti Mukherjee, et al.. (2021). Modulating α-Synuclein Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation. Biochemistry. 60(48). 3676–3696. 108 indexed citations

Navalkar, Ambuja, Satyaprakash Pandey, Namrata Singh, et al.. (2021). Direct evidence of cellular transformation by prion-like p53 amyloid infection. Journal of Cell Science. 134(11). 19 indexed citations

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Mehra, Surabhi, et al.. (2021). Structural and Functional Insights into α-Synuclein Fibril Polymorphism. Biomolecules. 11(10). 1419–1419. 58 indexed citations

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Pravin, Narayanaperumal, Rakesh Kumar, Shalini Tripathi, et al.. (2020). Benzimidazole‐based fluorophores for the detection of amyloid fibrils with higher sensitivity than Thioflavin‐T. Journal of Neurochemistry. 156(6). 1003–1019. 13 indexed citations

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Navalkar, Ambuja, et al.. (2020). Cyclic Organoselenide BODIPY-Based Probe: Targeting Superoxide in MCF-7 Cancer Cells. ACS Omega. 5(23). 14186–14193. 20 indexed citations

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Seuring, Carolin, Joeri Verasdonck, Julia Gath, et al.. (2020). The three-dimensional structure of human β-endorphin amyloid fibrils. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 27(12). 1178–1184. 55 indexed citations

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Ranganathan, Srivastav, Samir K. Maji, & Ranjith Padinhateeri. (2016). A Minimalistic Kinetic Model for Amyloid Self-Assembly. Biophysical Journal. 110(3). 220a–220a.

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Maji, Samir K., Marilyn H. Perrin, M.R. Sawaya, et al.. (2009). Functional Amyloids As Natural Storage of Peptide Hormones in Pituitary Secretory Granules. Science. 325(5938). 328–332. 872 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maji, Samir K., Susanta Lahiri, & S. Basu. (2005). Synthesis of a novel ion exchanger, ceric vanadate and its application to the separation of 90 Sr- 90 Y pair. INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY- SECTION A. 44(9). 1838–1840. 2 indexed citations

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Banerjee, Arijit, Arijit Banerjee, Samir K. Maji, et al.. (2003). An amyloid-like fibril forming antiparallel supramolecular β-sheet from a synthetic tripeptide: a crystallographic signature. Tetrahedron Letters. 44(35). 6741–6744. 23 indexed citations

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Banerjee, Arijit, et al.. (2003). Supramolecular peptide helix from a novel double turn forming peptide containing a β-amino acid. Tetrahedron Letters. 44(4). 699–702. 16 indexed citations

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Maji, Samir K., et al.. (2002). Fibril-forming model synthetic peptides containing 3-aminophenylacetic acid. Tetrahedron. 58(43). 8695–8702. 21 indexed citations

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Maji, Samir K., Arijit Banerjee, Arijit Banerjee, et al.. (2002). Self-assembly of a tetrapeptide in which a unique supramolecular helical structure is formed via intermolecular hydrogen bonding in the solid state. Tetrahedron Letters. 43(38). 6759–6762. 19 indexed citations

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