Alex Lang

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 724 citations indexed

About

Alex Lang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Lang has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 724 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 2 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Alex Lang's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (4 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (2 papers). Alex Lang is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (4 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (2 papers). Alex Lang collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Alex Lang's co-authors include Pankaj Mehta, Daniel Segrè, Christopher J. Marx, William R. Harcombe, Gracia Bonilla, Ilija Dukovski, William J. Riehl, Alex Betts, Amrita Kar and Nicholas Leiby and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, PLoS ONE and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

Alex Lang

13 papers receiving 711 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Metabolic Resource Allocation in Individual Microbes Determines Ecosystem Interactions and Spatial Dynamics

2014 372 citations William R. Harcombe, William J. Riehl et al. Cell Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Lang United States	10	499	112	103	90	89	14	724
Philip Bittihn Germany	15	497 1.0×	77 0.7×	150 1.5×	15 0.2×	40 0.4×	29	1.1k
Roy D. Welch United States	19	548 1.1×	361 3.2×	225 2.2×	13 0.1×	156 1.8×	50	1.1k
Guillaume Beslon France	15	502 1.0×	324 2.9×	27 0.3×	102 1.1×	57 0.6×	46	801
Yu Tanouchi United States	13	595 1.2×	268 2.4×	166 1.6×	65 0.7×	77 0.9×	16	941
Andrew E. Blanchard United States	14	307 0.6×	124 1.1×	67 0.7×	41 0.5×	51 0.6×	20	483
Heungwon Park United States	14	306 0.6×	102 0.9×	89 0.9×	47 0.5×	15 0.2×	23	610
Liaofu Luo China	16	710 1.4×	73 0.7×	43 0.4×	23 0.3×	71 0.8×	97	914
Akiko Kashiwagi Japan	19	759 1.5×	529 4.7×	102 1.0×	24 0.3×	161 1.8×	52	1.2k
Scott A. Longwell United States	9	269 0.5×	30 0.3×	97 0.9×	22 0.2×	35 0.4×	12	543
Francesca Di Patti Italy	12	235 0.5×	73 0.7×	63 0.6×	15 0.2×	30 0.3×	33	702

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Lang

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14 of 14 papers shown

Lang, Alex, Matthew Benger, Ajay Bhalla, et al.. (2022). Process and Systems: Improving stroke pathways using an adhesive ambulatory ECG patch: reducing time for patients to ECGs and subsequent results. Future Healthcare Journal. 9(1). 64–66. 3 indexed citations

Schwarz, Richard A., Timothy Quang, Justin T. Jacob, et al.. (2019). Development of an integrated multimodal optical imaging system with real-time image analysis for the evaluation of oral premalignant lesions. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 24(2). 1–1. 19 indexed citations

Lang, Alex, et al.. (2018). Quiet Eye: Practical Applications in Sport and Physical Education. Journal of Physical Education Recreation & Dance. 89(9). 20–25.

Lang, Alex, Liye Zhang, Letty W. Kwok, et al.. (2017). Thyroid Progenitors Are Robustly Derived from Embryonic Stem Cells through Transient, Developmental Stage-Specific Overexpression of Nkx2-1. Stem Cell Reports. 8(2). 216–225. 36 indexed citations

Lang, Alex, et al.. (2017). Cellular reprogramming dynamics follow a simple 1D reaction coordinate. Physical Biology. 15(1). 16001–16001. 11 indexed citations

Mehta, Pankaj, Alex Lang, & David J. Schwab. (2016). Landauer in the Age of Synthetic Biology: Energy Consumption and Information Processing in Biochemical Networks. Journal of Statistical Physics. 162(5). 1153–1166. 30 indexed citations

Lang, Alex, Charles K. Fisher, Thierry Mora, & Pankaj Mehta. (2014). Thermodynamics of Statistical Inference by Cells. Physical Review Letters. 113(14). 148103–148103. 64 indexed citations

Lang, Alex, Hu Li, James J. Collins, & Pankaj Mehta. (2014). Epigenetic Landscapes Explain Partially Reprogrammed Cells and Identify Key Reprogramming Genes. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(8). e1003734–e1003734. 79 indexed citations

Harcombe, William R., William J. Riehl, Ilija Dukovski, et al.. (2014). Metabolic Resource Allocation in Individual Microbes Determines Ecosystem Interactions and Spatial Dynamics. Cell Reports. 7(4). 1104–1115. 372 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lang, Alex, Hu Li, James J. Collins, & Pankaj Mehta. (2013). Epigenetic landscapes explain partially reprogrammed cells and identify key reprogramming gene. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Noorbakhsh, Javad, Alex Lang, & Pankaj Mehta. (2013). Intrinsic Noise of microRNA-Regulated Genes and the ceRNA Hypothesis. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e72676–e72676. 27 indexed citations

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De, Amrit, Alex Lang, Dong Zhou, & Robert Joynt. (2011). Suppression of decoherence and disentanglement by the exchange interaction. Physical Review A. 83(4). 29 indexed citations

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Zhou, Dong, Alex Lang, & Robert Joynt. (2010). Disentanglement and decoherence from classical non-Markovian noise: random telegraph noise. Quantum Information Processing. 9(6). 727–747. 52 indexed citations

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Lang, Alex. (1993). A New Treatment of Boltzmann-like Collision Integrals in Nuclear Kinetic Equations. Journal of Computational Physics. 106(2). 391–396. 1 indexed citations

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