Aaron T. L. Lun

20.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
44 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Aaron T. L. Lun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron T. L. Lun has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Immunology and 6 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Aaron T. L. Lun's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (16 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (14 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (7 papers). Aaron T. L. Lun is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (16 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (14 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (7 papers). Aaron T. L. Lun collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Aaron T. L. Lun's co-authors include John C. Marioni, Gordon K. Smyth, Michael D. Morgan, Laleh Haghverdi, Davis J. McCarthy, Kieran R. Campbell, Quin F. Wills, Karsten Bach, Yunshun Chen and Tallulah Andrews and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Aaron T. L. Lun

44 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

Batch effects in single-cell RNA-sequencing data are corr... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2018 2016 2016 2019 2019 400 800 1.2k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Batch effects in single-cell RNA-sequencing data are corrected by matching mutual nearest neighbors
    2018 1.2k citations Aaron T. L. Lun, John C. Marioni et al. profile →
  2. Scater: pre-processing, quality control, normalization and visualization of single-cell RNA-seq data in R
    2016 951 citations Davis J. McCarthy, Kieran R. Campbell et al. Bioinformatics profile →
  3. Pooling across cells to normalize single-cell RNA sequencing data with many zero counts
    2016 617 citations Aaron T. L. Lun, John C. Marioni et al. profile →
  4. EmptyDrops: distinguishing cells from empty droplets in droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing data
    2019 501 citations Aaron T. L. Lun, John C. Marioni et al. profile →
  5. Orchestrating single-cell analysis with Bioconductor
    2019 423 citations Aaron T. L. Lun, Davide Risso et al. Nature Methods profile →
  6. edgeR v4: powerful differential analysis of sequencing data with expanded functionality and improved support for small counts and larger datasets
    2025 96 citations Yunshun Chen, Aaron T. L. Lun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aaron T. L. Lun Australia 31 4.7k 1.4k 1.1k 521 514 44 6.3k
Hannah A. Pliner United States 13 5.1k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 622 1.2× 671 1.3× 14 6.3k
Davide Risso United States 25 4.3k 0.9× 928 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 398 0.8× 581 1.1× 47 6.0k
Lena Christiansen United States 10 4.1k 0.9× 894 0.6× 930 0.9× 487 0.9× 440 0.9× 13 5.0k
Andrew J. Hill United States 11 4.7k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 1.7k 1.6× 408 0.8× 827 1.6× 13 6.3k
Jeffrey A. Farrell United States 11 3.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 743 0.7× 361 0.7× 540 1.1× 18 4.9k
Junyue Cao United States 19 4.1k 0.9× 956 0.7× 811 0.8× 544 1.0× 425 0.8× 40 5.3k
Omid R. Faridani Sweden 15 5.2k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 1.6k 1.5× 367 0.7× 721 1.4× 21 6.7k
Shuqiang Li United States 21 4.4k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 411 0.8× 852 1.7× 44 6.1k
Xiaojie Qiu United States 16 5.8k 1.2× 2.0k 1.5× 1.3k 1.3× 592 1.1× 1.0k 2.0× 23 8.2k
Caleb A. Lareau United States 34 5.3k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 418 0.8× 650 1.3× 71 6.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vega‐Ramos, Javier, Daniel Fernandez‐Ruiz, Aaron T. L. Lun, et al.. (2024). Systemic inflammatory response syndrome triggered by blood-borne pathogens induces prolonged dendritic cell paralysis and immunosuppression. Cell Reports. 43(2). 113754–113754. 6 indexed citations
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Bhat, Kamakoti P., Jinchu Vijay, Jyoti Asundi, et al.. (2024). CRISPR activation screens identify the SWI/SNF ATPases as suppressors of ferroptosis. Cell Reports. 43(6). 114345–114345. 9 indexed citations
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Lun, Aaron T. L. & Jayaram Kancherla. (2023). Powering single-cell analyses in the browser withWebAssembly. The Journal of Open Source Software. 8(89). 5603–5603. 4 indexed citations
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Lun, Aaron T. L., et al.. (2022). A comprehensive Bioconductor ecosystem for the design of CRISPR guide RNAs across nucleases and technologies. Nature Communications. 13(1). 31 indexed citations
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Righelli, Dario, Lukas M. Weber, Helena L. Crowell, et al.. (2022). SpatialExperiment: infrastructure for spatially-resolved transcriptomics data in R using Bioconductor. Bioinformatics. 38(11). 3128–3131. 46 indexed citations
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Yin, Kelvin, Daniel A. Patten, Adelyne Chan, et al.. (2022). Senescence-induced endothelial phenotypes underpin immune-mediated senescence surveillance. Genes & Development. 36(9-10). 533–549. 44 indexed citations
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Stojic, Lovorka, Aaron T. L. Lun, Patrice Mascalchi, et al.. (2020). A high-content RNAi screen reveals multiple roles for long noncoding RNAs in cell division. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1851–1851. 46 indexed citations
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Chopin, Michaël, Aaron T. L. Lun, Yifan Zhan, et al.. (2019). Transcription Factor PU.1 Promotes Conventional Dendritic Cell Identity and Function via Induction of Transcriptional Regulator DC-SCRIPT. Immunity. 50(1). 77–90.e5. 68 indexed citations
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Meßmer, Tobias, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Aurora Savino, et al.. (2019). Transcriptional Heterogeneity in Naive and Primed Human Pluripotent Stem Cells at Single-Cell Resolution. Cell Reports. 26(4). 815–824.e4. 103 indexed citations
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Ziv, Omer, Aaron T. L. Lun, Luca F. R. Gebert, et al.. (2018). COMRADES determines in vivo RNA structures and interactions. Nature Methods. 15(10). 785–788. 129 indexed citations
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Johanson, Timothy M., Hannah D. Coughlan, Aaron T. L. Lun, et al.. (2018). Genome-wide analysis reveals no evidence of trans chromosomal regulation of mammalian immune development. PLoS Genetics. 14(6). e1007431–e1007431. 21 indexed citations
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Johanson, Timothy M., Aaron T. L. Lun, Hannah D. Coughlan, et al.. (2018). Transcription-factor-mediated supervision of global genome architecture maintains B cell identity. Nature Immunology. 19(11). 1257–1264. 73 indexed citations
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Lun, Aaron T. L., Fernando J. Calero‐Nieto, Liora Haim-Vilmovsky, Berthold Göttgens, & John C. Marioni. (2017). Assessing the reliability of spike-in normalization for analyses of single-cell RNA sequencing data. Genome Research. 27(11). 1795–1806. 43 indexed citations
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McCarthy, Davis J., Kieran R. Campbell, Aaron T. L. Lun, & Quin F. Wills. (2016). Scater: pre-processing, quality control, normalization and visualization of single-cell RNA-seq data in R. Bioinformatics. 33(8). 1179–1186. 951 indexed citations breakdown →
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Taberlay, Phillippa C., Joanna Achinger-Kawecka, Aaron T. L. Lun, et al.. (2016). Three-dimensional disorganization of the cancer genome occurs coincident with long-range genetic and epigenetic alterations. Genome Research. 26(6). 719–731. 208 indexed citations
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Lun, Aaron T. L., Yunshun Chen, & Gordon K. Smyth. (2016). It’s DE-licious: A Recipe for Differential Expression Analyses of RNA-seq Experiments Using Quasi-Likelihood Methods in edgeR. Methods in molecular biology. 1418. 391–416. 271 indexed citations
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Newman, Dane M., Shinya Sakaguchi, Aaron T. L. Lun, et al.. (2016). Acetylation of the Cd8 Locus by KAT6A Determines Memory T Cell Diversity. Cell Reports. 16(12). 3311–3321. 21 indexed citations
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Chopin, Michaël, Simon Preston, Aaron T. L. Lun, et al.. (2016). RUNX2 Mediates Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Egress from the Bone Marrow and Controls Viral Immunity. Cell Reports. 15(4). 866–878. 51 indexed citations
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Fu, Nai Yang, Anne C. Rios, Bhupinder Pal, et al.. (2015). EGF-mediated induction of Mcl-1 at the switch to lactation is essential for alveolar cell survival. Nature Cell Biology. 17(4). 365–375. 55 indexed citations
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Lun, Aaron T. L., Kavya Swaminathan, Jason W.H. Wong, & Kevin M. Downard. (2013). Mass Trees: A New Phylogenetic Approach and Algorithm to Chart Evolutionary History with Mass Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry. 85(11). 5475–5482. 21 indexed citations

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