Sandip Kumar

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 806 citations indexed

About

Sandip Kumar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandip Kumar has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 806 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Sandip Kumar's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (5 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). Sandip Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (5 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). Sandip Kumar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Sandip Kumar's co-authors include Jamie K. Hobbs, Nic Mullin, Raveen K. J. Tank, Simon J. Foster, Robert D. Turner, Per A. Bullough, Laia Pasquina-Lemonche, Jason S. Wilson, Buddhapriya Chakrabarti and David Dunlap and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Sandip Kumar

18 papers receiving 793 citations

Hit Papers

The architecture of the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
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.

  1. The architecture of the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall
    2020 343 citations Laia Pasquina-Lemonche, Robert D. Turner et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sandip Kumar United States 10 473 108 100 98 90 18 806
Emma J. Hayhurst United Kingdom 9 373 0.8× 156 1.4× 51 0.5× 134 1.4× 22 0.2× 13 672
Tingting Li China 19 301 0.6× 44 0.4× 213 2.1× 82 0.8× 38 0.4× 91 1.1k
Bjorn Vergauwen Belgium 20 517 1.1× 86 0.8× 48 0.5× 101 1.0× 102 1.1× 41 1.1k
Minghua Wang China 15 319 0.7× 66 0.6× 48 0.5× 59 0.6× 50 0.6× 44 1.2k
Ernesto R. Soto United States 13 521 1.1× 76 0.7× 169 1.7× 48 0.5× 52 0.6× 31 1.3k
Kazuhiro Fukui Japan 18 693 1.5× 154 1.4× 49 0.5× 103 1.1× 74 0.8× 46 1.3k
Mary K. Phillips‐Jones United Kingdom 19 549 1.2× 157 1.5× 53 0.5× 110 1.1× 34 0.4× 54 816
Katia R. Perez Brazil 22 609 1.3× 70 0.6× 107 1.1× 33 0.3× 82 0.9× 44 1.3k
Tzu‐Wen Huang Taiwan 20 405 0.9× 107 1.0× 150 1.5× 59 0.6× 40 0.4× 54 1.1k
Kyung Hyun Lee South Korea 18 514 1.1× 52 0.5× 190 1.9× 39 0.4× 34 0.4× 48 929

Countries citing papers authored by Sandip Kumar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sandip Kumar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sandip Kumar. 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 Sandip Kumar. The network helps show where Sandip Kumar may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sandip Kumar

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Kumar, Sandip, Jingyu Wang, Renata Kaminska, et al.. (2025). Immobile lipopolysaccharides and outer membrane proteins differentially segregate in growing Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(10). e2414725122–e2414725122. 4 indexed citations
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Yan, Yan, Wenxuan Xu, Sandip Kumar, et al.. (2021). Negative DNA supercoiling makes protein-mediated looping deterministic and ergodic within the bacterial doubling time. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(20). 11550–11559. 8 indexed citations
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Vasilev, Cvetelin, David J. K. Swainsbury, Michaël L. Cartron, et al.. (2021). FRET measurement of cytochrome bc1 and reaction centre complex proximity in live Rhodobacter sphaeroides cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1863(2). 148508–148508. 7 indexed citations
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Tank, Raveen K. J., Victoria A. Lund, Sandip Kumar, et al.. (2021). Correlative Super-Resolution Optical and Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals Relationships Between Bacterial Cell Wall Architecture and Synthesis in Bacillus subtilis. ACS Nano. 15(10). 16011–16018. 11 indexed citations
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Pasquina-Lemonche, Laia, Robert D. Turner, Sandip Kumar, et al.. (2020). The architecture of the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall. Nature. 582(7811). 294–297. 343 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kumar, Sandip, et al.. (2019). Detection of Malignant Tissue using Metal Dielectric Interface Based Plasmonic Biosensor. International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering. 8(6S4). 1352–1356. 2 indexed citations
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Nwokeoji, Alison O., Sandip Kumar, Peter M. Kilby, et al.. (2019). Analysis of long dsRNA produced in vitro and in vivo using atomic force microscopy in conjunction with ion-pair reverse-phase HPLC. The Analyst. 144(16). 4985–4994. 10 indexed citations
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Boinett, Christine J., Amy K. Cain, Nicholas G. Housden, et al.. (2018). O-Antigen-Dependent Colicin Insensitivity of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 201(4). 41 indexed citations
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Drewes, Julia L., James R. White, Christine M. Dejea, et al.. (2017). High-resolution bacterial 16S rRNA gene profile meta-analysis and biofilm status reveal common colorectal cancer consortia. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 3(1). 34–34. 223 indexed citations
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Kumar, Sandip, Michaël L. Cartron, Nic Mullin, et al.. (2016). Direct Imaging of Protein Organization in an Intact Bacterial Organelle Using High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy. ACS Nano. 11(1). 126–133. 36 indexed citations
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Kumar, Sandip, et al.. (2014). Enhanced Tethered-Particle Motion Analysis Reveals Viscous Effects. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 399–409. 27 indexed citations
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Priest, David G., Sandip Kumar, Yan Yan, et al.. (2014). Quantitation of interactions between two DNA loops demonstrates loop domain insulation in E. coli cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(42). E4449–57. 21 indexed citations
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Kumar, Sandip & Amit Kaushik. (2013). NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: A CHALLENGE. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations
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Priest, David G., Lun Cui, Sandip Kumar, et al.. (2013). Quantitation of the DNA tethering effect in long-range DNA looping in vivo and in vitro using the Lac and λ repressors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(1). 349–354. 38 indexed citations
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Tsai, Yu‐Cheng, et al.. (2011). Heterology tolerance and recognition of mismatched base pairs by human Rad51 protein. DNA repair. 10(4). 363–372. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaochun, Sandip Kumar, Junghuei Chen, & Andrew V. Teplyakov. (2009). Covalent attachment of shape-restricted DNA molecules on amine-functionalized Si(111) surface. Surface Science. 603(16). 2445–2457. 17 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaochun, et al.. (2009). Tuning the geometry of shape-restricted DNA molecules on the functionalized Si(1 1 1). Applied Surface Science. 256(3). 815–818. 8 indexed citations

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