Varma Saikam

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Varma Saikam is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Varma Saikam has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Organic Chemistry, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Varma Saikam's work include Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (9 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (6 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (5 papers). Varma Saikam is often cited by papers focused on Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (9 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (6 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (5 papers). Varma Saikam collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and China. Varma Saikam's co-authors include Santosh Kumar Singh, Rajesh Singh, Shriti Singh, Parvinder Pal Singh, Mahipal Yadav, Ram A. Vishwakarma, Riya Raghupathy, Sanghapal D. Sawant, Satyajit Mayor and Anirban Polley and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Varma Saikam

17 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Challenges in liver cancer and possible treatment approaches 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 250 500 750 1000
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. Challenges in liver cancer and possible treatment approaches
    2019 1.0k citations Santosh Kumar Singh, Shriti Singh et al. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Varma Saikam United States 12 1.0k 317 304 202 191 18 1.7k
Lingyun Dai China 24 1.3k 1.2× 408 1.3× 98 0.3× 210 1.0× 215 1.1× 72 2.0k
Aijun Shen China 23 1.0k 1.0× 255 0.8× 181 0.6× 129 0.6× 353 1.8× 39 1.6k
Rong‐Guang Shao China 32 1.8k 1.8× 374 1.2× 219 0.7× 139 0.7× 585 3.1× 120 2.8k
Xinying Yang China 26 1.0k 1.0× 208 0.7× 293 1.0× 94 0.5× 349 1.8× 90 1.8k
Yong‐Su Zhen China 26 1.5k 1.5× 255 0.8× 356 1.2× 173 0.9× 658 3.4× 154 2.3k
Alexandre E. Escargueil France 24 1.4k 1.4× 315 1.0× 230 0.8× 162 0.8× 895 4.7× 56 2.4k
Xianzhang Bu China 31 2.0k 1.9× 560 1.8× 608 2.0× 178 0.9× 601 3.1× 103 3.3k
Luoting Yu China 29 1.6k 1.5× 201 0.6× 1.1k 3.8× 157 0.8× 476 2.5× 141 2.9k
Anindya Goswami India 25 1.2k 1.2× 220 0.7× 272 0.9× 83 0.4× 365 1.9× 83 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Varma Saikam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Varma Saikam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Varma Saikam

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Varma Saikam. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Varma Saikam 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 Varma Saikam. Varma Saikam 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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Saikam, Varma, et al.. (2024). Combining Bioorthogonal Chemistry with Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles for the Ultrasensitive Detection of the HIV-1 p24 Antigen. ACS Omega. 9(12). 14604–14612. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Dandan, et al.. (2022). Inflammatory bowel disease biomarkers. Medicinal Research Reviews. 42(5). 1856–1887. 87 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuaishuai, Congcong Chen, Madhusudhan Reddy Gadi, et al.. (2021). Chemoenzymatic modular assembly of O-GalNAc glycans for functional glycomics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3573–3573. 40 indexed citations
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Gadi, Madhusudhan Reddy, Ding Liu, Jiabin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Protecting-group-free S-glycosylation towards thioglycosides and thioglycopeptides in water. Green Chemistry. 23(8). 2907–2912. 23 indexed citations
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Gadi, Madhusudhan Reddy, Ding Liu, Jiabin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Correction: Protecting-group-free S-glycosylation towards thioglycosides and thioglycopeptides in water. Green Chemistry. 23(7). 2792–2792.
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Liu, Ding, Varma Saikam, Madhusudhan Reddy Gadi, et al.. (2020). Machine‐Driven Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Glycopeptide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(45). 19825–19829. 31 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jiabin, Ding Liu, Varma Saikam, et al.. (2020). Machine‐Driven Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Glycopeptide. Angewandte Chemie. 132(45). 19997–20001. 9 indexed citations
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Singh, Santosh Kumar, et al.. (2019). Challenges in liver cancer and possible treatment approaches. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 1873(1). 188314–188314. 1030 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Bing, Nanxi Wang, Paul D. Schnier, et al.. (2019). Genetically Introducing Biochemically Reactive Amino Acids Dehydroalanine and Dehydrobutyrine in Proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(19). 7698–7703. 69 indexed citations
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Zhang, ZhongXiang, Zhonghua Li, Tatiana A. Chernova, et al.. (2019). Synthesis and Characterization of Versatile O-Glycan Precursors for Cellular O-Glycomics. ACS Synthetic Biology. 8(11). 2507–2513. 8 indexed citations
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Shafi, Syed, Tabasum Sidiq, Anamika Khajuria, et al.. (2016). Synthesis and immunopotentiating activity of novel isoxazoline functionalized coumarins. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 123. 90–104. 12 indexed citations
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Raghupathy, Riya, Anupama Ambika Anilkumar, Anirban Polley, et al.. (2015). Transbilayer Lipid Interactions Mediate Nanoclustering of Lipid-Anchored Proteins. Cell. 161(3). 581–594. 275 indexed citations
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Saikam, Varma, et al.. (2015). Dimethyltin Dichloride Catalyzed Regioselective Alkylation of cis-1,2-Diols at Room Temperature. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 80(24). 11916–11925. 23 indexed citations
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Yadav, Mahipal, Varma Saikam, Mukesh Kumar, et al.. (2015). Regioselective Oxidative C–H Phosphonation of Imidazo[1,2‐a]pyridines and Related Heteroarenes Mediated by Manganese(III) Acetate. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2015(29). 6526–6533. 58 indexed citations
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Saikam, Varma, et al.. (2015). Efficient and practical approach to esters from acids/ 2-oxoacids/ 2-oxoaldehydes &/ 2-oxoesters. Tetrahedron. 71(50). 9388–9395. 12 indexed citations
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Yadav, Mahipal, Riya Raghupathy, Varma Saikam, et al.. (2013). Synthesis of non-hydrolysable mimics of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 12(7). 1163–1163. 8 indexed citations
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Saikam, Varma, Riya Raghupathy, Mahipal Yadav, et al.. (2011). Synthesis of new fluorescently labeled glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors. Tetrahedron Letters. 52(33). 4277–4279. 12 indexed citations

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