His post-doctoral research on working memory with Michael Petrides, (PNAS, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain and others) was instrumental in refuting the then prevailing view of lateral frontal-lobe organisation advanced by Patricia Goldman-Rakic and others, and is still widely cited in that context.
The use of CoLocalizer Pro software is cited by various top impact factor journals, including Cell, Nature Methods, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Cell Biology, PNAS, etc.
Verma is the current editor-in-chief of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
In 1977, a PNAS paper by Carl Woese and George Fox demonstrated that the archaea (initially called archaebacteria) are not significantly closer in relationship to the bacteria than they are to eukaryotes.