Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
6 papers, 942 citations indexed

About

Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 942 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Oncology and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (2 papers). Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (2 papers). Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Sweden. Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam's co-authors include César de la Fuente‐Núñez, Marcelo D. T. Torres, Timothy K. Lu, Lauren E. Alfonse, Winston X. Yan, David R. Cheng, David Scott, Anthony J. Garrity, Kira S. Makarova and Eugene V. Koonin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam

6 papers receiving 928 citations

Hit Papers

Functionally diverse type V CRISPR-Cas systems 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2019 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. Functionally diverse type V CRISPR-Cas systems
    2018 373 citations Winston X. Yan, Lauren E. Alfonse et al. Science profile →
  2. Peptide Design Principles for Antimicrobial Applications
    2019 337 citations Marcelo D. T. Torres, Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam United States 6 779 288 126 72 62 6 942
Hengliang Wang China 20 554 0.7× 105 0.4× 147 1.2× 237 3.3× 121 2.0× 88 1.1k
Jelle Slager Netherlands 13 471 0.6× 184 0.6× 225 1.8× 102 1.4× 410 6.6× 15 944
Melanie R. Silvis United States 13 1.0k 1.3× 51 0.2× 260 2.1× 174 2.4× 303 4.9× 15 1.4k
Alexander J. Meeske United States 15 957 1.2× 52 0.2× 580 4.6× 451 6.3× 85 1.4× 22 1.3k
Archana Rath India 8 317 0.4× 19 0.1× 71 0.6× 76 1.1× 42 0.7× 18 522
Erling Feng China 15 387 0.5× 43 0.1× 132 1.0× 159 2.2× 41 0.7× 43 627
Christopher J. Stubenrauch Australia 13 342 0.4× 39 0.1× 209 1.7× 123 1.7× 18 0.3× 23 566
Anders S. Andersen Denmark 6 565 0.7× 389 1.4× 58 0.5× 51 0.7× 33 0.5× 7 882
Elizabeth A. Stohl United States 17 532 0.7× 276 1.0× 359 2.8× 105 1.5× 83 1.3× 20 900
Javier Valle Spain 17 414 0.5× 247 0.9× 65 0.5× 38 0.5× 48 0.8× 54 744

Countries citing papers authored by Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam

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

All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Beckert, Bertrand, Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam, Lars V. Bock, et al.. (2021). Structural and mechanistic basis for translation inhibition by macrolide and ketolide antibiotics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4466–4466. 58 indexed citations
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Torres, Marcelo D. T., Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam, Timothy K. Lu, & César de la Fuente‐Núñez. (2019). Peptide Design Principles for Antimicrobial Applications. Journal of Molecular Biology. 431(18). 3547–3567. 337 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yan, Winston X., Lauren E. Alfonse, Jason Carte, et al.. (2018). Functionally diverse type V CRISPR-Cas systems. Science. 363(6422). 88–91. 373 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sothiselvam, Shanmugapriya, et al.. (2016). Binding of Macrolide Antibiotics Leads to Ribosomal Selection against Specific Substrates Based on Their Charge and Size. Cell Reports. 16(7). 1789–1799. 33 indexed citations
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Sothiselvam, Shanmugapriya, Bo Liu, Wei Han, et al.. (2014). Macrolide antibiotics allosterically predispose the ribosome for translation arrest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(27). 9804–9809. 86 indexed citations
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Gupta, Pulkit, Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam, Nora Vázquez‐Laslop, & Alexander S. Mankin. (2013). Deregulation of translation due to post-transcriptional modification of rRNA explains why erm genes are inducible. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1984–1984. 55 indexed citations

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