Nihar U. Sheth

19.7k citations

29 papers · 2.5k · 3 hit papers · h-index 17

Impact in

Microbiology top 0.5%
- Reproductive tract infections research
Molecular Biology top 5%
- Gut microbiota and health
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- RNA modifications and cancer

Papers in

Molecular Biology 13
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 4
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery 3
- Gut microbiota and health 3
Microbiology 7
- Reproductive tract infections research 7

Co-authors: Gregory A. Buck (19 shared papers)Myrna G. Serrano (17 shared papers)Jennifer M. Fettweis (10 shared papers)Kimberly K. Jefferson (8 shared papers)J. Paul Brooks (7 shared papers)Ravi Sachidanandam (3 shared papers)David Edwards (4 shared papers)Philippe H. Girerd (4 shared papers)
Journals: PLoS ONE (6 papers)Microbiology (2 papers)Frontiers in Immunology (2 papers)Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (2 papers)Nature Methods (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States

In The Last Decade

Nihar U. Sheth

27 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Nihar U. Sheth's Hit Papers

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The truth about metagenomics: quantifying and counteracting bias in 16S rRNA studies 2015 · 379 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 BMC Microbiology
2014 Microbiology
2005 Nature Genetics

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1	Second-generation shRNA libraries covering the mouse and human genomes Nature Genetics ·José M. Silva, Mamie Z. Li, Ken C. N. Chang, Wei Ge, Michael C. Golding, Richard J. Rickles, Despina Siolas, Guang Hu, Patrick J. Paddison, Michael R. Schlabach, Nihar U. Sheth, Jeff Bradshaw, Julia Burchard, Amit Kulkarni, Guy Cavet, Ravi Sachidanandam, W. Richard McCombie, Michele A. Cleary, Stephen J. Elledge, Gregory J. Hannon Hit paper breakdown →	2005	511
2	Differences in vaginal microbiome in African American women versus women of European ancestry Microbiology ·Jennifer M. Fettweis, J. Paul Brooks, Myrna G. Serrano, Nihar U. Sheth, Philippe H. Girerd, David Edwards, Jerome F. Strauss, Kimberly K. Jefferson, Gregory A. Buck Hit paper breakdown →	2014	418
3	The truth about metagenomics: quantifying and counteracting bias in 16S rRNA studies BMC Microbiology ·J. Paul Brooks, David Edwards, Michael Harwich, Maria C. Rivera, Jennifer M. Fettweis, Myrna G. Serrano, Robert Reris, Nihar U. Sheth, Bernice Huang, Philippe H. Girerd, Jerome F. Strauss, Kimberly K. Jefferson, Gregory A. Buck Hit paper breakdown →	2015	379
4	Comprehensive splice-site analysis using comparative genomics Nucleic Acids Research ·Nihar U. Sheth, Xavier Roca, Michelle L. Hastings, Ted Roeder, Adrian R. Krainer, Ravi Sachidanandam	2006	298
5	Species-level classification of the vaginal microbiome BMC Genomics ·Jennifer M. Fettweis, Myrna G. Serrano, Nihar U. Sheth, Carly M Mayer, Abigail Glascock, J. Paul Brooks, Kimberly K. Jefferson, Gregory A. Buck	2012	152
6	Cloning of short hairpin RNAs for gene knockdown in mammalian cells Nature Methods ·Patrick J. Paddison, Michele A. Cleary, José María Silva, Kenneth Chang, Nihar U. Sheth, Ravi Sachidanandam, Gregory J. Hannon	2004	148
7	Effects of combined oral contraceptives, depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system on the vaginal microbiome Contraception ·J. Paul Brooks, David Edwards, Diana Blithe, Jennifer M. Fettweis, Myrna G. Serrano, Nihar U. Sheth, Jerome F. Strauss, Gregory A. Buck, Kimberly K. Jefferson	2016	97
8	Production of complex nucleic acid libraries using highly parallel in situ oligonucleotide synthesis Nature Methods ·Michele A. Cleary, K. Kilian, Yanqun Wang, Jeff Bradshaw, Guy Cavet, Wei Ge, Amit Kulkarni, Patrick J. Paddison, Kenneth Chang, Nihar U. Sheth, Eric LeProust, Ernest M. Coffey, Julja Burchard, W. Richard McCombie, Peter S. Linsley, Gregory J. Hannon	2004	89
9	MeFiT: merging and filtering tool for illumina paired-end reads for 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing BMC Bioinformatics ·Hardik I. Parikh, Vishal N. Kopardé, Steven Bradley, Gregory A. Buck, Nihar U. Sheth	2016	74
10	Comparison of Lactobacillus crispatus isolates from Lactobacillus-dominated vaginal microbiomes with isolates from microbiomes containing bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria Microbiology ·Abdallah A. Abdelmaksoud, Vishal N. Kopardé, Nihar U. Sheth, Myrna G. Serrano, Abigail Glascock, Jennifer M. Fettweis, Jerome F. Strauss, Gregory A. Buck, Kimberly K. Jefferson	2016	56
11	Skin-to-Skin Care and the Development of the Preterm Infant Oral Microbiome American Journal of Perinatology ·Jie Xu, Hardik I. Parikh, Ping Xu, Jennifer M. Fettweis, Yang Kim, Moi Louie, Gregory A. Buck, Leroy R. Thacker, Nihar U. Sheth, Karen D. Hendricks‐Muñoz	2015	55
12	An Emerging Mycoplasma Associated with Trichomoniasis, Vaginal Infection and Disease PLoS ONE ·Jennifer M. Fettweis, Myrna G. Serrano, Bernice Huang, J. Paul Brooks, Abigail Glascock, Nihar U. Sheth, Jerome F. Strauss, Kimberly K. Jefferson, Gregory A. Buck	2014	52
13	Optimizing Read Mapping to Reference Genomes to Determine Composition and Species Prevalence in Microbial Communities PLoS ONE ·John Martin, Sean M. Sykes, Sarah Young, Karthik Kota, Ravi Sanka, Nihar U. Sheth, Joshua Orvis, Erica Sodergren, Zhengyuan Wang, George M. Weinstock, Makedonka Mitreva	2012	41
14	In silico Derivation of HLA-Specific Alloreactivity Potential from Whole Exome Sequencing of Stem-Cell Transplant Donors and Recipients: Understanding the Quantitative Immunobiology of Allogeneic Transplantation Frontiers in Immunology ·Max Jameson‐Lee, Vishal N. Kopardé, Phil Griffith, Allison F. Scalora, Juliana K. Sampson, Haniya Khalid, Nihar U. Sheth, Michael Batalo, Myrna G. Serrano, Catherine Roberts, Michael Heß, Gregory A. Buck, Michael C. Neale, Masoud H. Manjili, Amir A. Toor	2014	22
15	Whole exome sequencing to estimate alloreactivity potential between donors and recipients in stem cell transplantation British Journal of Haematology ·Juliana K. Sampson, Nihar U. Sheth, Vishal N. Kopardé, Allison F. Scalora, Myrna G. Serrano, Vladimir Lee, Catherine Roberts, Max Jameson‐Lee, Andrea Ferreira‐Gonzalez, Masoud H. Manjili, Gregory A. Buck, Michael C. Neale, Amir A. Toor	2014	21
16	Association between statin use, the vaginal microbiome, and Gardnerella vaginalis vaginolysin-mediated cytotoxicity PLoS ONE ·Abdallah A. Abdelmaksoud, Philippe H. Girerd, Erin M. Garcia, J. Paul Brooks, Lauren M. Leftwich, Nihar U. Sheth, Steven Bradley, Myrna G. Serrano, Jennifer M. Fettweis, Bernice Huang, Jerome F. Strauss, Gregory A. Buck, Kimberly K. Jefferson	2017	18
17	Rare mutations and potentially damaging missense variants in genes encoding fibrillar collagens and proteins involved in their production are candidates for risk for preterm premature rupture of membranes PLoS ONE ·(unknown), María E. Teves, Laurel N. Pearson, Hardik I. Parikh, Piya Chaemsaithong, Nihar U. Sheth, Timothy P. York, Roberto Romero, Jerome F. Strauss	2017	18
18	Dynamical system modeling to simulate donor T cell response to whole exome sequencing-derived recipient peptides: Understanding randomness in alloreactivity incidence following stem cell transplantation PLoS ONE ·Vishal N. Kopardé, Badar Abdul Razzaq, Tara Suntum, Roy Sabo, Allison F. Scalora, Myrna G. Serrano, Max Jameson‐Lee, C. E. Hall, David J. Kobulnicky, Nihar U. Sheth, Juliana Feltz, Daniel Contaifer, Dayanjan S. Wijesinghe, Jason Reed, Catherine Roberts, Rehan Qayyum, Gregory A. Buck, Michael C. Neale, Amir A. Toor	2017	14
19	Dynamical System Modeling to Simulate Donor T Cell Response to Whole Exome Sequencing-Derived Recipient Peptides Demonstrates Different Alloreactivity Potential in HLA-Matched and -Mismatched Donor–Recipient Pairs Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation ·Badar Abdul Razzaq, Allison F. Scalora, Vishal N. Kopardé, Jeremy A. Meier, (unknown), Salman Salman, Max Jameson‐Lee, Myrna G. Serrano, Nihar U. Sheth, Mark Voelkner, David J. Kobulnicky, Catherine Roberts, Andrea Ferreira‐Gonzalez, Masoud H. Manjili, Gregory A. Buck, Michael C. Neale, Amir A. Toor	2015	14
20	Ethanol-Induced Behavioral Sensitization Alters the Synaptic Transcriptome and Exon Utilization in DBA/2J Mice Frontiers in Genetics ·Megan A. O’Brien, Rory M. Weston, Nihar U. Sheth, Steven Bradley, John W. Bigbee, Ashutosh Kumar Pandey, Robert W. Williams, Jennifer T. Wolstenholme, Michael F. Miles	2018	14

About Nihar U. Sheth

Nihar U. Sheth is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Epidemiology and Transplantation, having authored 29 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Reproductive tract infections research (7 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (4 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (3 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (3 papers), Gut microbiota and health (3 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Microbiology (597 citations), Molecular Biology (1.5k citations), Cancer Research (199 citations), Epidemiology (408 citations) and Immunology (248 citations). Nihar U. Sheth has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Gregory A. Buck, Myrna G. Serrano, Jennifer M. Fettweis, Kimberly K. Jefferson, J. Paul Brooks, Ravi Sachidanandam, David Edwards, Philippe H. Girerd, Jerome F. Strauss and Michele A. Cleary. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Microbiology, Frontiers in Immunology, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Nature Methods.

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