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2024

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Microbiology

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76
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Arnab Pain publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arnab Pain sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 307 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Arnab Pain D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arnab Pain sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index: 30 scientists 41 D-Index: 86 scientists 42 D-Index: 90 scientists 43 D-Index: 117 scientists 44 D-Index: 122 scientists 45 D-Index: 123 scientists 46 D-Index: 108 scientists 47 D-Index: 110 scientists 48 D-Index: 106 scientists 49 D-Index: 109 scientists 50 D-Index: 129 scientists 51 D-Index: 111 scientists 52 D-Index: 116 scientists 53 D-Index: 127 scientists 54 D-Index: 134 scientists 55 D-Index: 134 scientists 56 D-Index: 111 scientists 57 D-Index: 136 scientists 58 D-Index: 162 scientists 59 D-Index: 151 scientists 60 D-Index: 139 scientists 61 D-Index: 122 scientists 62 D-Index: 126 scientists 63 D-Index: 144 scientists 64 D-Index: 109 scientists 65 D-Index: 103 scientists 66 D-Index: 124 scientists 67 D-Index: 112 scientists 68 D-Index: 103 scientists 69 D-Index: 131 scientists 70 D-Index: 93 scientists 71 D-Index: 93 scientists 72 D-Index: 96 scientists 73 D-Index: 92 scientists 74 D-Index: 80 scientists 75 D-Index: 66 scientists 76 D-Index: 87 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 73 scientists 79 D-Index: 59 scientists 80 D-Index: 57 scientists 81 D-Index: 55 scientists 82 D-Index: 47 scientists 83 D-Index: 77 scientists 84 D-Index: 50 scientists 85 D-Index: 45 scientists 86 D-Index: 42 scientists 87 D-Index: 41 scientists 88 D-Index: 32 scientists 89 D-Index: 38 scientists 90 D-Index: 35 scientists 91 D-Index: 34 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 26 scientists 94 D-Index: 33 scientists 95 D-Index: 22 scientists 96 D-Index: 37 scientists 97 D-Index: 22 scientists 98 D-Index: 21 scientists 99 D-Index: 22 scientists 100 D-Index: 30 scientists 101 D-Index: 16 scientists 102 D-Index: 20 scientists 103 D-Index: 17 scientists 104 D-Index: 19 scientists 105 D-Index: 16 scientists 106 D-Index: 19 scientists 107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108 D-Index: 14 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 9 scientists 111 D-Index: 7 scientists 112 D-Index: 11 scientists 113 D-Index: 6 scientists 114 D-Index: 15 scientists 115 D-Index: 10 scientists 116 D-Index: 12 scientists 117 D-Index: 7 scientists 118 D-Index: 10 scientists 119 D-Index: 10 scientists 120 D-Index: 11 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 7 scientists 123 D-Index: 12 scientists 124 D-Index: 5 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126 D-Index: 6 scientists 127+ D-Index: 95 scientists
40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Saudi Arabia Leader Award

Overview

Arnab Pain is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focused on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of infectious diseases, molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, and plant science.

The main topics addressed in their work include malaria research and control, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, biosensors and analytical detection, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Arnab Pain has published their work in numerous scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
  • Nature Methods

The scientist has coauthored many papers in collaboration with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include Sara Mfarrej, Sharif Hala, Tobias Mourier, Qingtian Guan, and Amit Kumar Subudhi.

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Arnab Pain include:

  • Rapid single-molecule detection of COVID-19 and MERS antigens via nanobody-functionalized organic electrochemical transistors, 2021, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • A Comprehensive Subcellular Atlas of the Toxoplasma Proteome via hyperLOPIT Provides Spatial Context for Protein Functions, 2020, Cell Host & Microbe
  • iSCAN: An RT-LAMP-coupled CRISPR-Cas12 module for rapid, sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Virus Research
  • Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology, 2020, Nature Methods
  • Host-directed editing of the SARS-CoV-2 genome, 2020, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

    Malcolm J. Gardner;Neil Hall;Eula Fung;Owen White

  • A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

    Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

  • Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

    William C. Nierman;William C. Nierman;Arnab Pain;Michael J. Anderson;Jennifer R. Wortman;Jennifer R. Wortman

  • The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

    L. Eichinger;J. A. Pachebat;J. A. Pachebat;G. Glöckner;M.-A. Rajandream

  • Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A. fumigatus and A. oryzae

    James E. Galagan;Sarah E. Calvo;Christina Cuomo;Li Jun Ma

  • A Comprehensive Survey of the Plasmodium Life Cycle by Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Proteomic Analyses

    Neil Hall;Marianna Karras;J. Dale Raine;Jane M. Carlton;Jane M. Carlton;Jane M. Carlton

  • Analysis of the Plasmodium falciparum proteome by high-accuracy mass spectrometry

    Edwin Lasonder;Edwin Lasonder;Yasushi Ishihama;Jens S. Andersen;Adriaan M. W. Vermunt

  • A robust SNP barcode for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains.

    Francesc Coll;Ruth McNerney;José Afonso Guerra-Assunção;Judith R. Glynn

  • Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes modulate the maturation of dendritic cells.

    Britta C. Urban;David J. P. Ferguson;Arnab Pain;Nick Willcox

  • Two Nonrecombining Sympatric Forms of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium ovale Occur Globally

    Colin J. Sutherland;Naowarat Tanomsing;Debbie Nolder;Mary Oguike

  • New insights into the blood-stage transcriptome of Plasmodium falciparum using RNA-Seq

    Thomas D. Otto;Daniel Wilinski;Sammy Assefa;Thomas M. Keane

  • The genome of the simian and human malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi

    A. Pain;U. Böhme;A. E. Berry;K. Mungall

  • Rapid determination of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance from whole-genome sequences

    Francesc Coll;Ruth McNerney;Mark D Preston;José Afonso Guerra-Assunção

  • Genome-wide analysis of multi- and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Francesc Coll;Jody Phelan;Grant A Hill-Cawthorne;Grant A Hill-Cawthorne;Mridul B Nair

  • Genome sequence of Theileria parva, a bovine pathogen that transforms lymphocytes.

    Malcolm J. Gardner;Richard Bishop;Trushar Shah;Etienne P. de Villiers

  • Platelet-mediated clumping of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes is a common adhesive phenotype and is associated with severe malaria.

    Arnab Pain;David J. P. Ferguson;Oscar Kai;Britta C. Urban

  • Genome of the host-cell transforming parasite Theileria annulata compared with T. parva.

    Arnab Pain;Hubert Renauld;Matthew Berriman;Lee Murphy

  • Rapid single-molecule detection of COVID-19 and MERS antigens via nanobody-functionalized organic electrochemical transistors.

    Keying Guo;Shofarul Wustoni;Anil Koklu;Escarlet Díaz-Galicia

  • Genomic-scale prioritization of drug targets: the TDR Targets database

    Fernán Agüero;Bissan Al-Lazikani;Martin Aslett;Matthew Berriman

  • The systematic functional analysis of Plasmodium protein kinases identifies essential regulators of mosquito transmission

    Rita Tewari;Ursula Straschil;Ursula Straschil;Alex Bateman;Ulrike Böhme

  • Emergence of Indigenous Artemisinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Africa

    Feng Lu;Richard Culleton;Meihua Zhang;Abhinay Ramaprasad

Frequent Co-Authors

Taane G. Clark
Taane G. Clark London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ruth McNerney
Ruth McNerney University of Cape Town
Matthew Berriman
Matthew Berriman University of Glasgow
Thomas D. Otto
Thomas D. Otto University of Glasgow
Susana Campino
Susana Campino London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
Martin L. Hibberd
Martin L. Hibberd London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Wilbert Bitter
Wilbert Bitter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gordon Langsley
Gordon Langsley Université Paris Cité
Chris I. Newbold
Chris I. Newbold Wellcome Sanger Institute

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