Wei Sun
Impact in
- Cancer Research top 2%
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Biological Psychiatry top 5%
Papers in
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- Gene expression and cancer classification 28
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 9
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics 8
- Genetics 36
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 16
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 15
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock 13
- Co-authors
- Scott J. Bultman (3 shared papers)Dallas R. Donohoe (3 shared papers)Maureen K. Bunger (1 shared paper)Nikhil Garge (1 shared paper)Thomas M. O’Connell (1 shared paper)Xinxin Zhang (1 shared paper)Leonard B. Collins (4 shared papers)Rebecca L. Bigler (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Biometrics (10 papers)Journal of the American Statistical Association (7 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (5 papers)The Annals of Applied Statistics (4 papers)BMC Bioinformatics (4 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesChinaSouth Africa
In The Last Decade
Wei Sun
116 papers receiving 4.7k citations
Wei Sun's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 167
- Cancer Research 810
- Biological Psychiatry 103
- Molecular Biology 2.9k
- Genetics 855
- Physiology 675
Countries citing papers authored by Wei Sun
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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Sun
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wei Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Wei Sun. The network helps show where Wei Sun may publish in the future.
Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Wei Sun, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 124 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Microbiome and Butyrate Regulate Energy Metabolism and Autophagy in the Mammalian Colon Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 1475 |
| 2 | The Warburg Effect Dictates the Mechanism of Butyrate-Mediated Histone Acetylation and Cell Proliferation Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 707 |
| 3 | Allele-specific copy number analysis of tumors Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 648 |
| 4 | 2012 | 152 | |
| 5 | 2011 | 122 | |
| 6 | 2016 | 112 | |
| 7 | 2011 | 96 | |
| 8 | 2011 | 87 | |
| 9 | 2009 | 84 | |
| 10 | 2019 | 75 | |
| 11 | 2016 | 73 | |
| 12 | 2012 | 57 | |
| 13 | 2010 | 55 | |
| 14 | 2014 | 54 | |
| 15 | 2016 | 49 | |
| 16 | 2018 | 49 | |
| 17 | 2011 | 40 | |
| 18 | 2016 | 38 | |
| 19 | 2012 | 34 | |
| 20 | 2022 | 30 |
About Wei Sun
Wei Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Oncology and Statistics and Probability, having authored 124 papers that have together received 4.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gene expression and cancer classification (28 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (16 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (15 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (13 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (12 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (10 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (810 citations), Biological Psychiatry (103 citations), Molecular Biology (2.9k citations), Genetics (855 citations) and Physiology (675 citations). Wei Sun has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include Scott J. Bultman, Dallas R. Donohoe, Maureen K. Bunger, Nikhil Garge, Thomas M. O’Connell, Xinxin Zhang, Leonard B. Collins, Rebecca L. Bigler, Aminah Wali and Charles M. Perou. Their work appears in journals such as Biometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Nucleic Acids Research, The Annals of Applied Statistics and BMC Bioinformatics.
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