Vikas Pejaver

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Vikas Pejaver is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vikas Pejaver has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Vikas Pejaver's work include Genomics and Rare Diseases (8 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (4 papers). Vikas Pejaver is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Rare Diseases (8 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (4 papers). Vikas Pejaver collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Korea. Vikas Pejaver's co-authors include Predrag Radivojac, Stephen J. Mooney, Sean D. Mooney, Vladimir N. Uversky, A. Keith Dunker, Wei‐Lun Hsu, Fuxiao Xin, D.N. Cooper, Matthew Mort and Kymberleigh A. Pagel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Vikas Pejaver

27 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Inferring the molecular and phenotypic impact of amino acid variants with MutPred2

2020 426 citations Vikas Pejaver, Jorge Urresti et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vikas Pejaver United States	14	667	280	101	84	73	28	1.3k
Anurag Verma United States	20	497 0.7×	431 1.5×	107 1.1×	114 1.4×	94 1.3×	65	1.3k
Yuji Zhang United States	25	1.1k 1.7×	246 0.9×	135 1.3×	195 2.3×	96 1.3×	119	2.1k
Kathleen A. Hill Canada	25	1.0k 1.5×	252 0.9×	45 0.4×	143 1.7×	115 1.6×	81	1.7k
Ziqing Liu United States	21	1.5k 2.2×	129 0.5×	166 1.6×	131 1.6×	94 1.3×	54	2.0k
Enrique Hernández–Lemus Mexico	23	1.1k 1.7×	271 1.0×	114 1.1×	219 2.6×	28 0.4×	150	2.2k
Jingxuan Shan Qatar	14	431 0.6×	195 0.7×	66 0.7×	148 1.8×	22 0.3×	33	961
Florian Prinz Germany	10	593 0.9×	122 0.4×	93 0.9×	154 1.8×	59 0.8×	16	1.6k
Saqib Mahmood Pakistan	19	496 0.7×	195 0.7×	144 1.4×	139 1.7×	46 0.6×	82	1.4k
Attila A. Seyhan United States	25	1.5k 2.2×	168 0.6×	150 1.5×	205 2.4×	50 0.7×	54	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vikas Pejaver

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Yu, Tian, et al.. (2025). Extracting and calibrating evidence of variant pathogenicity from population biobank data. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(8). 1805–1817. 1 indexed citations

Stenton, Sarah L., Vikas Pejaver, Timothy Bergquist, et al.. (2024). Assessment of the evidence yield for the calibrated PP3/BP4 computational recommendations. Genetics in Medicine. 26(11). 101213–101213. 5 indexed citations

Suri, Pradeep, Vikas Pejaver, Janna Friedly, et al.. (2023). Predicting decompression surgery by applying multimodal deep learning to patients’ structured and unstructured health data. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 23(1). 2–2. 13 indexed citations

Rutledge, Stephanie, Emily R. Soper, Vikas Pejaver, et al.. (2023). Association of HSD17B13 and PNPLA3 With Liver Enzymes and Fibrosis in Hispanic/Latino Individuals of Diverse Genetic Ancestries. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 21(10). 2578–2587.e11. 13 indexed citations

Fu, Sunyang, Liwei Wang, Sungrim Moon, et al.. (2022). Recommended practices and ethical considerations for natural language processing‐assisted observational research: A scoping review. Clinical and Translational Science. 16(3). 398–411. 16 indexed citations

Pejaver, Vikas, et al.. (2021). A Comparison of Natural Language Processing Methods for the Classification of Lumbar Spine Imaging Findings Related to Lower Back Pain. Academic Radiology. 29. S188–S200. 7 indexed citations

Gombar, Saurabh, Timothy Bergquist, Vikas Pejaver, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity in individuals with prior seasonal coronavirus infection. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 100(2). 115338–115338. 18 indexed citations

Pejaver, Vikas, Jorge Urresti, Jose Lugo-Martinez, et al.. (2020). Inferring the molecular and phenotypic impact of amino acid variants with MutPred2. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5918–5918. 426 indexed citations breakdown →

Fernandes, Jason D., Sarvenaz Sarabipour, Christopher T. Smith, et al.. (2020). A survey-based analysis of the academic job market. eLife. 9. 44 indexed citations

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Bergquist, Timothy, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of the secondary use of electronic health records to detect seasonal, holiday-related, and rare events related to traumatic injury and poisoning. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 46–46. 3 indexed citations

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Joshi, Rohan P., Vikas Pejaver, Heungsup Sung, et al.. (2020). A predictive tool for identification of SARS-CoV-2 PCR-negative emergency department patients using routine test results. Journal of Clinical Virology. 129. 104502–104502. 38 indexed citations

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Ismail, Wazim Mohammed, Kymberleigh A. Pagel, Vikas Pejaver, et al.. (2018). The sequencing and interpretation of the genome obtained from a Serbian individual. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Junling, Vikas Pejaver, Geoffrey P. Dann, et al.. (2018). Target site specificity and in vivo complexity of the mammalian arginylome. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16177–16177. 21 indexed citations

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Lugo-Martinez, Jose, Vikas Pejaver, Kymberleigh A. Pagel, et al.. (2016). The Loss and Gain of Functional Amino Acid Residues Is a Common Mechanism Causing Human Inherited Disease. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(8). e1005091–e1005091. 15 indexed citations

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Pejaver, Vikas, et al.. (2015). Position of Proline Mediates the Reactivity of S-Palmitoylation. ACS Chemical Biology. 10(11). 2529–2536. 4 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Haruo, Amy L. Dapper, Craig E. Jackson, et al.. (2015). Draft Genome Sequence of Caedibacter varicaedens, a Kappa Killer Endosymbiont Bacterium of the Ciliate Paramecium biaurelia. Genome Announcements. 3(6). 7 indexed citations

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Pejaver, Vikas, Wei-Lun Hsu, A. Keith Dunker, Vladimir N. Uversky, & Predrag Radivojac. (2014). The structural and functional signatures of proteins that undergo multiple events of post-translational modification. PMC. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Zhiyu, Jonathan M. Dilger, Vikas Pejaver, et al.. (2014). Intrinsic size parameters for palmitoylated and carboxyamidomethylated peptides. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 368. 6–14. 16 indexed citations

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Pejaver, Vikas, Wei‐Lun Hsu, Fuxiao Xin, et al.. (2014). The structural and functional signatures of proteins that undergo multiple events of post‐translational modification. Protein Science. 23(8). 1077–1093. 280 indexed citations

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Pejaver, Vikas & Sun Kim. (2011). Gene Cluster Profile Vectors: a method to infer functionally related gene sets by grouping proximity-based gene clusters. BMC Genomics. 12(Suppl 2). S2–S2. 1 indexed citations

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