Sneha Somasekar

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 975 citations indexed

About

Sneha Somasekar is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sneha Somasekar has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 975 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Infectious Diseases, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Sneha Somasekar's work include Viral Infections and Vectors (5 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (4 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (2 papers). Sneha Somasekar is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Vectors (5 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (4 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (2 papers). Sneha Somasekar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Democratic Republic of the Congo and United Kingdom. Sneha Somasekar's co-authors include Charles Y. Chiu, Samia N. Naccache, Guixia Yu, Scot Federman, Doug Stryke, Alexander L. Greninger, Jérôme Bouquet, Prime Mulembakani, Jean‐Jacques Muyembé‐Tamfum and Bradley S. Schneider and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Clinical Infectious Diseases and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sneha Somasekar

10 papers receiving 955 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Rapid metagenomic identification of viral pathogens in clinical samples by real-time nanopore sequencing analysis

2015 353 citations Alexander L. Greninger, Samia N. Naccache et al. Genome Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sneha Somasekar United States	8	408	310	294	221	213	10	975
Els Wessels Netherlands	20	397 1.0×	350 1.1×	312 1.1×	367 1.7×	117 0.5×	46	1.1k
Erik Samayoa United States	10	372 0.9×	505 1.6×	279 0.9×	62 0.3×	73 0.3×	13	1.0k
Robert Schlaberg United States	18	315 0.8×	661 2.1×	353 1.2×	38 0.2×	128 0.6×	45	1.3k
Steven B. Kleiboeker United States	23	935 2.3×	555 1.8×	204 0.7×	111 0.5×	150 0.7×	58	1.7k
Samuel Cordey Switzerland	22	900 2.2×	638 2.1×	203 0.7×	511 2.3×	65 0.3×	67	1.5k
Francesco Cerutti Italy	18	450 1.1×	263 0.8×	183 0.6×	64 0.3×	164 0.8×	49	991
Ryan K Dare United States	13	582 1.4×	754 2.4×	72 0.2×	126 0.6×	107 0.5×	33	1.2k
Frank Mattes United Kingdom	17	500 1.2×	694 2.2×	99 0.3×	83 0.4×	254 1.2×	23	1.3k
Erin H. Graf United States	16	511 1.3×	345 1.1×	139 0.5×	62 0.3×	57 0.3×	56	1.0k
Andrea Zbinden Switzerland	22	279 0.7×	506 1.6×	179 0.6×	25 0.1×	181 0.8×	40	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sneha Somasekar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sneha Somasekar

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10 of 10 papers shown

Li, Tony, Placide Mbala‐Kingebeni, Samia N. Naccache, et al.. (2019). Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing of the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 57(9). 23 indexed citations

Chiu, Charles Y., Claudia Sánchez-San Martín, Jérôme Bouquet, et al.. (2017). Experimental Zika Virus Inoculation in a New World Monkey Model Reproduces Key Features of the Human Infection. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 17126–17126. 49 indexed citations

Somasekar, Sneha, Deanna Lee, Jody A. Rule, et al.. (2017). Viral Surveillance in Serum Samples From Patients With Acute Liver Failure By Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 65(9). 1477–1485. 65 indexed citations

Chiu, Charles Y., Lark L. Coffey, Jamie A. Murkey, et al.. (2017). Diagnosis of Fatal Human Case of St. Louis Encephalitis Virus Infection by Metagenomic Sequencing, California, 2016. Emerging infectious diseases. 23(10). 1964–1968. 60 indexed citations

Naccache, Samia N., Julien Thézé, Sílvia Inês Sardi, et al.. (2016). Distinct Zika Virus Lineage in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Emerging infectious diseases. 22(10). 1788–1792. 36 indexed citations

Sardi, Sílvia Inês, Sneha Somasekar, Samia N. Naccache, et al.. (2016). Coinfections of Zika and Chikungunya Viruses in Bahia, Brazil, Identified by Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 54(9). 2348–2353. 97 indexed citations

Saglam, Ozlen, Erik Samayoa, Sneha Somasekar, et al.. (2015). No Viral Association Found in a Set of Differentiated Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia Cases by Human Papillomavirus and Pan-Viral Microarray Testing. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0125292–e0125292. 5 indexed citations

Greninger, Alexander L., Samia N. Naccache, Scot Federman, et al.. (2015). Rapid metagenomic identification of viral pathogens in clinical samples by real-time nanopore sequencing analysis. Genome Medicine. 7(1). 99–99. 353 indexed citations breakdown →

Greninger, Alexander L., Samia N. Naccache, Kevin Messacar, et al.. (2015). A novel outbreak enterovirus D68 strain associated with acute flaccid myelitis cases in the USA (2012–14): a retrospective cohort study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 15(6). 671–682. 280 indexed citations

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Somasekar, Sneha, et al.. (1993). Characterization of five Indian isolates of the nuclear polyhedrosis virus ofHelicoverpa armigera. Phytoparasitica. 21(4). 333–337. 7 indexed citations

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