Vijay Kumar

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
85 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Vijay Kumar is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vijay Kumar has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Immunology, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Vijay Kumar's work include Immune Response and Inflammation (26 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (13 papers). Vijay Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Immune Response and Inflammation (26 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (13 papers). Vijay Kumar collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and India. Vijay Kumar's co-authors include Ambika Sharma, Sanjay Chhibber, John H. Stewart, Udai P. Singh, Sonia Kiran, Bikash Medhi, Shashi Upadhyay, Santosh Kumar, Robert L. Price and James E. Barrett and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Molecular and Cellular Biology and JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

In The Last Decade

Vijay Kumar

82 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Toll-like receptors in immunity and inflammatory diseases: Past, present, and future

2018 493 citations Vijay Kumar International Immunopharmacology profile →
Pulmonary Innate Immune Response Determines the Outcome of Inflammation During Pneumonia and Sepsis-Associated Acute Lung Injury

2020 452 citations Vijay Kumar Frontiers in Immunology profile →

Peers

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Monowar Aziz United States

Melanie J. Scott United States

C. Henrique Serezani United States

Vicky Lampropoulou Germany

Anshu Agrawal United States

Tatjana Eigenbrod Germany

Sudhanshu Agrawal United States

Vanessa Pinho Brazil

Jenny P.-Y. Ting United States

Ren-Feng Guo United States

Monowar Aziz United States

Vijay Kumar

2.2k ×1.3

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1.5k ×1.3

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826 ×1.3

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500 ×1.4

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227 ×0.8

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Countries citing papers authored by Vijay Kumar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vijay Kumar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vijay Kumar

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kumar, Vijay. (2025). GLP-1/GLP-1R axis: from metabolism (obesity and T2DM) to immunity. Open Biology. 15(7). 240303–240303. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay. (2025). Ignoring Gender-Based Immunometabolic Reprograming, a Risky Business in Immune-Based Precision Medicine. Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark. 30(1). 27118–27118. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay & John H. Stewart. (2025). The complement system in human pregnancy and preeclampsia. Frontiers in Immunology. 16. 1617140–1617140. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay & John H. Stewart. (2024). cGLRs Join Their Cousins of Pattern Recognition Receptor Family to Regulate Immune Homeostasis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(3). 1828–1828. 8 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay, et al.. (2023). Targeting cGAS/STING signaling-mediated myeloid immune cell dysfunction in TIME. Journal of Biomedical Science. 30(1). 48–48. 16 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay, et al.. (2023). Cancer cell-specific cGAS/STING Signaling pathway in the era of advancing cancer cell biology. European Journal of Cell Biology. 102(3). 151338–151338. 14 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay & John H. Stewart. (2023). Immunometabolic reprogramming, another cancer hallmark. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 1125874–1125874. 18 indexed citations

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Saini, Varinder, et al.. (2022). Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms of interferon-γ with pulmonary tuberculosis in population of Himachal Pradesh, India. Gene. 823. 146392–146392. 6 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay & James E. Barrett. (2022). Toll-Like Receptors (TLRs) in Health and Disease: An Overview. Handbook of experimental pharmacology. 276. 1–21. 28 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay. (2021). Toll-Like Receptors in Adaptive Immunity. Handbook of experimental pharmacology. 276. 95–131. 26 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay. (2020). Understanding the complexities of SARS-CoV2 infection and its immunology: A road to immune-based therapeutics. International Immunopharmacology. 88. 106980–106980. 26 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay. (2020). Pulmonary Innate Immune Response Determines the Outcome of Inflammation During Pneumonia and Sepsis-Associated Acute Lung Injury. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 1722–1722. 452 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kumar, Vijay. (2019). Toll-like receptors in the pathogenesis of neuroinflammation. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 332. 16–30. 255 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay. (2018). Inflammasomes: Pandora’s box for sepsis. Journal of Inflammation Research. Volume 11. 477–502. 60 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay. (2018). T cells and their immunometabolism: A novel way to understanding sepsis immunopathogenesis and future therapeutics. European Journal of Cell Biology. 97(6). 379–392. 81 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay, et al.. (2017). Risk factors and patterns of Opportunistic infections in HIV patients on active care in GHTM – CoE ART Centre. 4(2). 5–8. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay. (2013). Innate lymphoid cells: New paradigm in immunology of inflammation. Immunology Letters. 157(1-2). 23–37. 41 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay, Kusum Harjai, & Sanjay Chhibber. (2010). 2-Chloroadenosine (2-CADO) treatment modulates the pro-inflammatory immune response to prevent acute lung inflammation in BALB/c mice suffering from Klebsiella pneumoniae B5055-induced pneumonia. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 35(6). 599–602. 7 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay & Ambika Sharma. (2010). Mast cells: Emerging sentinel innate immune cells with diverse role in immunity. Molecular Immunology. 48(1-3). 14–25. 71 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vijay & Sanjay Chhibber. (2008). Anti-inflammatory effect of thalidomide alone or in combination with augmentin in Klebsiella pneumoniae B5055 induced acute lung infection in BALB/c mice. European Journal of Pharmacology. 592(1-3). 146–150. 11 indexed citations

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