Smita Rai

808 total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 506 citations indexed

About

Smita Rai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Smita Rai has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 506 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Materials Chemistry, 10 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Smita Rai's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (6 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (6 papers) and Nematode management and characterization studies (4 papers). Smita Rai is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (6 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (6 papers) and Nematode management and characterization studies (4 papers). Smita Rai collaborates with scholars based in India, Malaysia and United States. Smita Rai's co-authors include Mangalampalli Ravikanth, Neelam Pathak, Anmol Gupta, Ambreen Bano, Manoj Kumar, Richa Mishra, Swati Sharma, Masayuki Fujita, Mirza Hasanuzzaman and Tahmeena Khan and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Chemical Physics Letters and The Journal of Organic Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Smita Rai

27 papers receiving 496 citations

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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.

Mechanistic Insights of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria Mediated Drought and Salt Stress Tolerance in Plants for Sustainable Agriculture

2022 139 citations Anmol Gupta, Richa Mishra et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Smita Rai India	11	318	131	106	31	28	28	506
Yuzhang Yang China	13	339 1.1×	149 1.1×	204 1.9×	19 0.6×	6 0.2×	35	632
Deepa Bhagat India	10	108 0.3×	141 1.1×	71 0.7×	86 2.8×	10 0.4×	20	364
Sangita Talukdar India	11	334 1.1×	78 0.6×	177 1.7×	24 0.8×	24 0.9×	19	596
E. A. Lysenko Russia	12	217 0.7×	48 0.4×	185 1.7×	25 0.8×	11 0.4×	32	503
N. I. Vasyukova Russia	13	326 1.0×	28 0.2×	89 0.8×	15 0.5×	11 0.4×	49	534
Muhammad Tanveer Altaf Türkiye	12	267 0.8×	167 1.3×	58 0.5×	18 0.6×	21 0.8×	63	545
Xinbo Li China	11	218 0.7×	64 0.5×	241 2.3×	23 0.7×	5 0.2×	29	427
Sandipan Banerjee India	12	72 0.2×	36 0.3×	84 0.8×	80 2.6×	6 0.2×	21	402
Nancy Gupta India	9	193 0.6×	69 0.5×	74 0.7×	12 0.4×	13 0.5×	31	382

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Rai, Smita, et al.. (2025). Spectroscopic and Quantum Chemical Studies of some Novel Mixed-ligand complexes of Vanadium and Comparative Evaluation of their Antimicrobial and Antioxidant activities. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 174. 113967–113967. 1 indexed citations

Rai, Smita, Pratibha Bansal, Nidhi Mishra, et al.. (2025). Green synthesis of ZnO and α-Fe ₂ O ₃ nanoparticles using Chinese fan palm leaf extract for their biological and photocatalytic activity evaluation. RSC Sustainability. 3(12). 5609–5631. 2 indexed citations

Bansal, Pratibha, Smita Rai, R.S. Gupta, et al.. (2025). Ultrasonically Synthesized CuO–thiosemicarbazone nanoconjugates: A study on Interfacial Interactions and Synergistic Biological and Photocatalytic Effects. Surfaces and Interfaces. 72. 107271–107271. 5 indexed citations

Bansal, Pratibha, Smita Rai, R.S. Gupta, et al.. (2025). Synthesis, and Characterization of ZnO–Thiosemicarbazone Nanoconjugates for Enhanced Biological and Photocatalytic activity through Surface Synergy. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 181. 115265–115265. 3 indexed citations

Siddiqui, Vasi Uddin, Swati Sharma, Smita Rai, et al.. (2024). A novel green synthesis of CuFe2O4 Nanoparticles from Cissus rotundifolia for photocatalytic and antimicrobial activity evaluation. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 984. 174020–174020. 18 indexed citations

Rai, Smita, et al.. (2024). Synthesis, Characterization and Antibacterial Activity Evaluation of CuO NPs and B‐CuO NPs Obtained from Livistona Chinensis Leaf Extract. Chemistry & Biodiversity. 22(2). e202401596–e202401596. 8 indexed citations

Rai, Smita & Dhurba Rai. (2024). Electric Field Influence on CO Clathrate Hydrates. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 128(44). 9596–9605. 2 indexed citations

Jabeen, S., Vasi Uddin Siddiqui, Nidhi Mishra, et al.. (2024). Quantum Mechanical Calculation of Graphene Oxide Nanosheet Prepared via Modified Hummer Method: Role in Dye Degradation and Antibacterial Activity. Russian Journal of General Chemistry. 94(3). 666–674. 3 indexed citations

Bano, Ambreen, Anmol Gupta, Smita Rai, et al.. (2023). Bioactive Compounds, Antioxidant, and Antibacterial Activity Against MDR and Food-Borne Pathogenic Bacteria of Psidium guajava. L Fruit During Ripening. Molecular Biotechnology. 67(8). 3070–3088. 5 indexed citations

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Gupta, Anmol, Ambreen Bano, Smita Rai, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic insights of plant-microbe interaction towards drought and salinity stress in plants for enhancing the agriculture productivity. Plant Stress. 4. 100073–100073. 55 indexed citations

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Gupta, Anmol, et al.. (2022). Selection of Carrier Materials to Formulate Bioinoculant Package for Promoting Seed Germination. Letters in Applied NanoBioScience. 12(3). 65–65. 7 indexed citations

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Gupta, Anmol, Smita Rai, Ambreen Bano, et al.. (2022). ACC Deaminase Produced by PGPR Mitigates the Adverse Effect of Osmotic and Salinity Stresses in Pisum sativum through Modulating the Antioxidants Activities. Plants. 11(24). 3419–3419. 39 indexed citations

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Gupta, Anmol, Ambreen Bano, Smita Rai, et al.. (2021). Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): A Sustainable Agriculture to Rescue the Vegetation from the Effect of Biotic Stress: a Review. Letters in Applied NanoBioScience. 10(3). 2459–2465. 22 indexed citations

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Bano, Ambreen, et al.. (2021). Elucidation of Bioactive Potential of Two Commonly Grown North Indian Psidium guajava viz., Lalit and Shweta against Pathogenic Foodborne and MDR Bacteria. Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry. 11(6). 14090–14102. 6 indexed citations

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Gupta, Anmol, et al.. (2021). Comparative Evaluation of Different Salt-Tolerant Plant Growth-Promoting Bacterial Isolates in Mitigating the Induced Adverse Effect of Salinity in Pisum sativum. Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry. 11(5). 13141–13154. 39 indexed citations

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Gupta, Anmol, Ambreen Bano, Smita Rai, et al.. (2021). ACC deaminase producing plant growth promoting rhizobacteria enhance salinity stress tolerance in Pisum sativum. 3 Biotech. 11(12). 514–514. 50 indexed citations

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Rai, Smita, Nayan Sharma, & Dhurba Rai. (2019). Structured water chains in external electric fields. Molecular Physics. 118(8). e1662957–e1662957. 2 indexed citations

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Rai, Smita, et al.. (2019). Comparative computational study of LD-HfO₂and TiO₂as layered dilectrics in RRAM. 12. 470–473. 1 indexed citations

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Rai, Smita & Mangalampalli Ravikanth. (2008). Singlet–singlet energy transfer in homo- and hetero-porphyrin dyads containing meso-tolylporphyrin and meso-furylporphyrin sub-units. Chemical Physics Letters. 453(4-6). 250–255. 14 indexed citations

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Rai, Smita, et al.. (2008). Synthesis of unsymmetrical porphyrin triad containing three different porphyrin subunits assembled by covalent and non-covalent interactions. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. 12(9). 1030–1040. 6 indexed citations

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