Sridhar Govindarajan

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Sridhar Govindarajan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sridhar Govindarajan has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Materials Chemistry and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Sridhar Govindarajan's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (12 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (8 papers). Sridhar Govindarajan is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (12 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (8 papers). Sridhar Govindarajan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Sridhar Govindarajan's co-authors include Jeremy Minshull, Claes Gustafsson, Richard A. Goldstein, Jon E. Ness, Alan Villalobos, Eric A. Gaucher, Omjoy K. Ganesh, Mark Welch, Steven A. Benner and Austin Gurney and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sridhar Govindarajan

44 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Codon bias and heterologous protein expression 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 250 500 750
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. Codon bias and heterologous protein expression
    2004 951 citations Claes Gustafsson, Sridhar Govindarajan et al. Trends in biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sridhar Govindarajan United States 28 3.2k 663 445 434 385 45 3.9k
Rainer Merkl Germany 33 2.7k 0.8× 475 0.7× 487 1.1× 263 0.6× 203 0.5× 105 3.8k
Véronique Receveur‐Brechot France 27 2.5k 0.8× 271 0.4× 976 2.2× 361 0.8× 274 0.7× 52 3.5k
Enrique Querol Spain 32 2.5k 0.8× 230 0.3× 503 1.1× 298 0.7× 521 1.4× 155 3.7k
Frank Bernhard Germany 47 4.1k 1.3× 891 1.3× 264 0.6× 310 0.7× 327 0.8× 138 5.4k
Christine Ebel France 41 3.6k 1.1× 392 0.6× 795 1.8× 213 0.5× 230 0.6× 154 5.2k
Timm Maier Switzerland 41 4.0k 1.2× 645 1.0× 538 1.2× 205 0.5× 348 0.9× 99 5.7k
Jean‐Michel Betton France 30 2.0k 0.6× 835 1.3× 489 1.1× 1.0k 2.4× 109 0.3× 63 3.2k
Jim Warwicker United Kingdom 37 4.1k 1.3× 297 0.4× 797 1.8× 296 0.7× 199 0.5× 125 5.2k
Michael C. Wiener United States 33 3.5k 1.1× 823 1.2× 399 0.9× 306 0.7× 59 0.2× 67 4.3k
R.L. Brady United Kingdom 39 3.3k 1.0× 244 0.4× 591 1.3× 168 0.4× 199 0.5× 87 4.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sridhar Govindarajan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sridhar Govindarajan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Aslam, Nabeel, Shofarul Wustoni, Camelia Florica, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical behavior and biocompatibility of TiO2@C core–shell NWs deposited by PECVD for cellular interface application. RSC Advances. 15(42). 34960–34975.
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Govindarajan, Sridhar, et al.. (2024). Human GST P1-1 Redesigned for Enhanced Catalytic Activity with the Anticancer Prodrug Telcyta and Improved Thermostability. Cancers. 16(4). 762–762. 3 indexed citations
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Govindarajan, Sridhar, et al.. (2024). A comparative study of electrochemical stability and biocompatibility of TiN nanowires and thin films for neural-electrode application. Electrochimica Acta. 497. 144527–144527. 1 indexed citations
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Govindarajan, Sridhar, et al.. (2017). Exploring sequence-function space of a poplar glutathione transferase using designed information-rich gene variants. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 30(8). 543–549. 12 indexed citations
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Gustafsson, Claes, Jeremy Minshull, Sridhar Govindarajan, et al.. (2012). Engineering genes for predictable protein expression. Protein Expression and Purification. 83(1). 37–46. 119 indexed citations
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Govindarajan, Sridhar, Michael J. Meehan, Abhirup Das, et al.. (2011). Analysis of the Ketosynthase-Chain Length Factor Heterodimer from the Fredericamycin Polyketide Synthase. Chemistry & Biology. 18(8). 1021–1031. 12 indexed citations
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Welch, Mark, Sridhar Govindarajan, Jon E. Ness, et al.. (2009). Design Parameters to Control Synthetic Gene Expression in Escherichia coli. PLoS ONE. 4(9). e7002–e7002. 271 indexed citations
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Heinzelman, Pete, Christopher D. Snow, Matthew A. Smith, et al.. (2009). SCHEMA Recombination of a Fungal Cellulase Uncovers a Single Mutation That Contributes Markedly to Stability. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(39). 26229–26233. 84 indexed citations
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Govindarajan, Sridhar, et al.. (2008). Protein engineering of improved prolyl endopeptidases for celiac sprue therapy. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 21(12). 699–707. 64 indexed citations
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Liao, Jun, Manfred K. Warmuth, Sridhar Govindarajan, et al.. (2007). Engineering proteinase K using machine learning and synthetic genes. BMC Biotechnology. 7(1). 16–16. 83 indexed citations
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Villalobos, Alan, Jon E. Ness, Claes Gustafsson, Jeremy Minshull, & Sridhar Govindarajan. (2006). Gene Designer: a synthetic biology tool for constructing artificial DNA segments. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 285–285. 285 indexed citations
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Minshull, Jeremy, Jon E. Ness, Claes Gustafsson, & Sridhar Govindarajan. (2005). Predicting enzyme function from protein sequence. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 9(2). 202–209. 27 indexed citations
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Gustafsson, Claes, Sridhar Govindarajan, & Jeremy Minshull. (2004). Codon bias and heterologous protein expression. Trends in biotechnology. 22(7). 346–353. 951 indexed citations breakdown →
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Govindarajan, Sridhar, et al.. (2003). Systematic Variation of Amino Acid Substitutions for Stringent Assessment of Pairwise Covariation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 328(5). 1061–1069. 36 indexed citations
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Liberles, David A., et al.. (2001). The Adaptive Evolution Database (TAED).. Genome Biology. 2(4). preprint0003.1–preprint0003.1. 73 indexed citations
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Liberles, David A., et al.. (2001). The Adaptive Evolution Database (TAED). Genome biology. 2(8). 59 indexed citations
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Govindarajan, Sridhar, et al.. (1999). Estimating the total number of protein folds. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 35(4). 408–414. 11 indexed citations
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Govindarajan, Sridhar & Richard A. Goldstein. (1997). Evolution of model proteins on a foldability landscape. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 29(4). 461–466. 75 indexed citations
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Govindarajan, Sridhar & Richard A. Goldstein. (1997). The foldability landscape of model proteins. Biopolymers. 42(4). 427–438. 55 indexed citations
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Govindarajan, Sridhar & Richard A. Goldstein. (1995). Optimal local propensities for model proteins. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 22(4). 413–418. 56 indexed citations

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