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Shankar Subramaniam

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
87
Citations
40231
World Ranking
2773
National Ranking
1431

Shankar Subramaniam publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shankar Subramaniam sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 316 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Shankar Subramaniam D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shankar Subramaniam sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 87 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Shankar Subramaniam is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, along with Medicine.

Within these broad areas, their work concentrates on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, and Spectroscopy.

Their research topics encompass diverse areas, including:

  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses

Among their recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Update on LIPID MAPS classification, nomenclature, and shorthand notation for MS-derived lipid structures, 2020, Journal of Lipid Research
  • Adjuvanting a subunit COVID-19 vaccine to induce protective immunity, 2021, Nature
  • The single-cell epigenomic and transcriptional landscape of immunity to influenza vaccination, 2021, Cell
  • LIPID MAPS: update to databases and tools for the lipidomics community, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • T cell-inducing vaccine durably prevents mucosal SHIV infection even with lower neutralizing antibody titers, 2020, Nature Medicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shankar Subramaniam include:

  • Kavitha Mukund
  • Shakti Gupta
  • Eoin Fahy
  • Mano R. Maurya
  • Andrew B. Caldwell

The scientist's work has been published in several recurring venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature Methods
  • IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology
  • Journal of Lipid Research

Shankar Subramaniam has received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2013. Earlier, in 2000, they were named a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

Best Publications

  • The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong

    S. Carbon;E. Douglass;N. Dunn;B. Good

  • A comprehensive classification system for lipids

    Eoin Fahy;Shankar Subramaniam;H. Alex Brown;Christopher K. Glass

  • Update of the LIPID MAPS comprehensive classification system for lipids

    Eoin Fahy;Shankar Subramaniam;Robert C. Murphy;Masahiro Nishijima

  • LMSD: LIPID MAPS structure database.

    Manish Sud;Eoin Fahy;Dawn Cotter;Alex Brown

  • Lipidomics reveals a remarkable diversity of lipids in human plasma

    Oswald Quehenberger;Aaron M. Armando;Alex H. Brown;Stephen B. Milne

  • LIPID MAPS online tools for lipid research.

    Eoin Fahy;Manish Sud;Dawn Cotter;Shankar Subramaniam

  • Update on LIPID MAPS classification, nomenclature, and shorthand notation for MS-derived lipid structures

    Gerhard Liebisch;Eoin Fahy;Junken Aoki;Edward A. Dennis

  • Molecular Determinants of Crosstalk between Nuclear Receptors and Toll-like Receptors

    Sumito Ogawa;Jean Lozach;Chris Benner;Gabriel Pascual

  • Metabolomics Workbench: An international repository for metabolomics data and metadata, metabolite standards, protocols, tutorials and training, and analysis tools

    Manish Sud;Eoin Fahy;Dawn Cotter;Kenan Azam

  • Reconstruction of cellular signalling networks and analysis of their properties.

    Jason A. Papin;Jason A. Papin;Tony Hunter;Bernhard O. Palsson;Shankar Subramaniam

  • Regulated Accumulation of Desmosterol Integrates Macrophage Lipid Metabolism and Inflammatory Responses

    Nathanael J. Spann;Lana X. Garmire;Jeffrey G. McDonald;David S. Myers

  • Lipid classification, structures and tools

    Eoin Fahy;Dawn Cotter;Manish Sud;Shankar Subramaniam

  • Decoding Cilia Function: Defining Specialized Genes Required for Compartmentalized Cilia Biogenesis

    Tomer Avidor-Reiss;Andreia M Maer;Edmund Koundakjian;Andrey Polyanovsky

  • Macrophage PPARγ is required for normal skeletal muscle and hepatic insulin sensitivity and full antidiabetic effects of thiazolidinediones

    Andrea L Hevener;Jerrold M Olefsky;Donna Reichart;MT Audrey Nguyen

  • Incorporation of surface tension into molecular dynamics simulation of an interface: a fluid phase lipid bilayer membrane.

    S.W. Chiu;M. Clark;V. Balaji;S. Subramaniam

  • Analytical shape computation of macromolecules: I. molecular area and volume through alpha shape

    Jie Liang;Herbert Edelsbrunner;Ping Fu;Pamidighantam V. Sudhakar

  • Skeletal muscle: A review of molecular structure and function, in health and disease.

    Kavitha Mukund;Shankar Subramaniam

  • p62, Upregulated during Preneoplasia, Induces Hepatocellular Carcinogenesis by Maintaining Survival of Stressed HCC-Initiating Cells

    Atsushi Umemura;Feng He;Koji Taniguchi;Hayato Nakagawa

  • MicroRNA-21 targets peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor-α in an autoregulatory loop to modulate flow-induced endothelial inflammation

    Jing Zhou;Kuei Chun Wang;Wei Wu;Shankar Subramaniam

  • Pairwise alignment of protein interaction networks.

    Mehmet Koyutürk;Yohan Kim;Umut Topkara;Shankar Subramaniam

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. Dennis
Edward A. Dennis University of California, San Diego
Christopher K. Glass
Christopher K. Glass University of California, San Diego
Ananth Grama
Ananth Grama Purdue University West Lafayette
Robert C. Murphy
Robert C. Murphy University of Colorado Denver
John Y.-J. Shyy
John Y.-J. Shyy University of California, San Diego
Shu Chien
Shu Chien University of California, San Diego
Christian R. H. Raetz
Christian R. H. Raetz Duke University
David W. Russell
David W. Russell University of Washington
Alfred H. Merrill
Alfred H. Merrill Georgia Institute of Technology
Joseph H. Nadeau
Joseph H. Nadeau Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute

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