Vikram Alva

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Vikram Alva is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Vikram Alva has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Vikram Alva's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (12 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers). Vikram Alva is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (12 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers). Vikram Alva collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Vikram Alva's co-authors include Andrei N. Lupas, Johannes Söding, Andrew Stephens, Jonas M. Kübler, Lukas Zimmermann, Klaus O. Kopec, Martin Steinegger, Milot Mirdita, Andriko von Kügelgen and Tanmay A. M. Bharat and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Vikram Alva

52 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

A Completely Reimplemented MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit with a New HHpred Server at its Core

2017 1.6k citations Johannes Söding, Andrei N. Lupas et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Protein Sequence Analysis Using the MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit

2020 466 citations Johannes Söding, Andrei N. Lupas et al. profile →

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Vikram Alva

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Konstantin Schütze Germany

Yoshitaka Moriwaki Japan

A. Biegert Germany

Fábio Madeira United Kingdom

Nandana Madhusoodanan United Kingdom

Nicola Buso United Kingdom

Erich M. Schwarz United States

Detlef D. Leipe United States

Adrian R. Tivey United Kingdom

Damiano Piovesan Italy

Konstantin Schütze Germany

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3.5k ×1.2

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485 ×0.5

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590 ×1.2

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536 ×1.1

PS

494 ×1.2

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Citations per year, relative to Vikram Alva Vikram Alva (= 1×) peers Konstantin Schütze

Countries citing papers authored by Vikram Alva

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vikram Alva

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vikram Alva

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vikram Alva. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vikram Alva 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 Vikram Alva. Vikram Alva 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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Sleutel, Mike, et al.. (2026). From fibril to framework: P. abyssi AbpX illuminates a calcium-responsive family of microbial biomatrix proteins that form thermostable hydrogels. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

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Zhang, Yunsen, Andrei N. Lupas, Marcus D. Hartmann, et al.. (2025). DNA Wrapping by a tetrameric bacterial histone. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11108–11108. 1 indexed citations

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Sleutel, Mike, Ravi R. Sonani, Fengbin Wang, et al.. (2025). Donor strand complementation and calcium ion coordination drive the chaperone-free polymerization of archaeal cannulae. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9082–9082. 1 indexed citations

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Alva, Vikram, Jeanette Hahn, Kai M. Thormann, et al.. (2025). ComFB, a widespread family of c-di-NMP receptor proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(38). e2513041122–e2513041122. 1 indexed citations

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Selim, Khaled A. & Vikram Alva. (2024). PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 79. 102453–102453. 4 indexed citations

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Mallon, John, et al.. (2024). Halofilins as emerging bactofilin families of archaeal cell shape plasticity orchestrators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(40). e2401583121–e2401583121. 7 indexed citations

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Luthringer, R., Sébastien Colin, Cláudia Martinho, et al.. (2024). Repeated co-option of HMG-box genes for sex determination in brown algae and animals. Science. 383(6689). eadk5466–eadk5466. 15 indexed citations

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Hartmann, Marcus D., et al.. (2024). Histones and histone variant families in prokaryotes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7950–7950. 10 indexed citations

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Deiss, Silvia, Jocelyne Vreede, Marcus D. Hartmann, et al.. (2024). Bacterial histone HBb from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus compacts DNA by bending. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(14). 8193–8204. 12 indexed citations

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Kamiński, Kamil, et al.. (2023). pLM-BLAST: distant homology detection based on direct comparison of sequence representations from protein language models. Bioinformatics. 39(10). 31 indexed citations

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Kügelgen, Andriko von, Keitaro Yamashita, Danielle L. Sexton, et al.. (2023). Interdigitated immunoglobulin arrays form the hyperstable surface layer of the extremophilic bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(16). e2215808120–e2215808120. 19 indexed citations

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Kügelgen, Andriko von, et al.. (2022). A multidomain connector links the outer membrane and cell wall in phylogenetically deep-branching bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(33). e2203156119–e2203156119. 21 indexed citations

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Pereira, Joana & Vikram Alva. (2021). How do I get the most out of my protein sequence using bioinformatics tools?. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 77(9). 1116–1126. 7 indexed citations

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Kügelgen, Andriko von, Vikram Alva, & Tanmay A. M. Bharat. (2021). Complete atomic structure of a native archaeal cell surface. Cell Reports. 37(8). 110052–110052. 32 indexed citations

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Kessel, Amit, et al.. (2020). On the evolution of protein–adenine binding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(9). 4701–4709. 25 indexed citations

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Martin, Jörg, et al.. (2019). Structural diversity of oligomeric β-propellers with different numbers of identical blades. eLife. 8. 18 indexed citations

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Lauer, Janelle, Giambattista Guaitoli, Francesco Raimondi, et al.. (2019). Auto-regulation of Rab5 GEF activity in Rabex5 by allosteric structural changes, catalytic core dynamics and ubiquitin binding. eLife. 8. 25 indexed citations

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Scharfenberg, Franka, M.P. Coles, Marcus D. Hartmann, et al.. (2015). Structure and Evolution of N-domains in AAA Metalloproteases. Journal of Molecular Biology. 427(4). 910–923. 20 indexed citations

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Alva, Vikram, et al.. (2012). From cyanobacteria to plants: conservation of PII functions during plastid evolution. Planta. 237(2). 451–462. 54 indexed citations

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Alva, Vikram, Michael Remmert, A. Biegert, Andrei N. Lupas, & Johannes Söding. (2009). A galaxy of folds. Protein Science. 19(1). 124–130. 66 indexed citations

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