Bernett Lee

14.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
97 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Bernett Lee is a scholar working on Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernett Lee has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Immunology, 19 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 18 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Bernett Lee's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (15 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (13 papers) and Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome (11 papers). Bernett Lee is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (15 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (13 papers) and Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome (11 papers). Bernett Lee collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United States and United Kingdom. Bernett Lee's co-authors include Michael Poidinger, Lisa F. P. Ng, Weili Xu, Anis Larbi, Lucian Visan, João Pedro de Magalhães, Alfred Zippelius, Nicolas Burdin, Seri Mustafah and Christophe Carré and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bernett Lee

92 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Cistrome: an integrative platform for transcriptional regulation studies

2011 512 citations Bernett Lee et al. profile →
RNA-Seq Signatures Normalized by mRNA Abundance Allow Absolute Deconvolution of Human Immune Cell Types

2019 502 citations Bernett Lee et al. profile →
Reducing microglial lipid load enhances β amyloid phagocytosis in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model

2025 16 citations Bernett Lee, Yulan Wang et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernett Lee Singapore	30	1.4k	1.3k	783	672	564	97	3.8k
Siew Cheng Wong Singapore	38	2.8k 2.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	488 0.7×	413 0.7×	70	5.3k
Seema S. Ahuja United States	40	2.2k 1.6×	918 0.7×	979 1.3×	575 0.9×	399 0.7×	71	4.4k
Santosha A. Vardhana United States	33	1.7k 1.2×	987 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	564 0.8×	174 0.3×	86	3.8k
Andreas Krueger Germany	41	2.4k 1.7×	2.4k 1.9×	961 1.2×	309 0.5×	584 1.0×	106	5.6k
Laura J. Simpson United States	24	1.1k 0.8×	2.3k 1.9×	591 0.8×	790 1.2×	196 0.3×	40	4.3k
Franck Letourneur France	35	851 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	512 0.7×	458 0.7×	464 0.8×	96	3.9k
Koji Yasutomo Japan	37	2.9k 2.0×	1.9k 1.5×	634 0.8×	308 0.5×	378 0.7×	123	5.1k
Laura T. Donlin United States	19	1.9k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	673 0.9×	545 0.8×	141 0.3×	44	3.8k
Francesca Zolezzi Singapore	29	2.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.0×	449 0.6×	670 1.0×	179 0.3×	66	4.0k
David H. McDermott United States	36	2.4k 1.7×	1.1k 0.9×	1.8k 2.2×	722 1.1×	450 0.8×	79	5.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernett Lee

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lee, Bernett, et al.. (2025). Reducing microglial lipid load enhances β amyloid phagocytosis in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Science Advances. 11(6). eadq6038–eadq6038. 16 indexed citations breakdown →

Sharma, Gunjan, Atul Arora, William Rojas‐Carabali, et al.. (2025). A decade-long review: insights into diagnosis and disease evolution of uveitis from a single-center study. Eye. 39(10). 1961–1966.

Rojas‐Carabali, William, Amanda Yuan Ling Lim, Carlos Cifuentes‐González, et al.. (2025). Choroidal vascularity index as a marker of health and disease: systematic review and meta-analyses. Survey of Ophthalmology. 71(1). 35–52.

Rojas‐Carabali, William, et al.. (2024). Web-based vs. conventional: a comprehensive analysis of visual acuity assessment using the PocDoc tool in a tertiary eye care centre. Eye. 38(18). 3554–3561. 2 indexed citations

Tan, Yingrou, J Li, Keith Weng Kit Leong, et al.. (2024). Visualising cancer in 3D: 3‐Dimensional Tissue Imaging for management of cutaneous basal cell carcinoma. Experimental Dermatology. 33(6). e15097–e15097. 1 indexed citations

Rojas‐Carabali, William, Sally L. Baxter, Carlos Cifuentes‐González, et al.. (2024). Natural Language Processing in medicine and ophthalmology: A review for the 21st-century clinician. Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology. 13(4). 100084–100084. 8 indexed citations

Ong, Sean Wei Xiang, Yun Shan Goh, Anthony Torres‐Ruesta, et al.. (2023). Prolonged inflammation in patients hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) resolves 2 years after infection. Journal of Medical Virology. 95(5). e28774–e28774. 7 indexed citations

Tham, Khek‐Chian, Rachel Lefferdink, Seong Soo Lim, et al.. (2022). Distinct skin microbiome community structures in congenital ichthyosis. British Journal of Dermatology. 187(4). 557–570. 18 indexed citations

Pisu, Davide, Lu Huang, Vipin Narang, et al.. (2021). Single cell analysis of M. tuberculosis phenotype and macrophage lineages in the infected lung. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(9). 109 indexed citations

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Ong, Sean Wei Xiang, Siew‐Wai Fong, Barnaby Edward Young, et al.. (2021). Persistent Symptoms and Association With Inflammatory Cytokine Signatures in Recovered Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 8(6). ofab156–ofab156. 80 indexed citations

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Khameneh, Hanif Javanmard, Keith Weng Kit Leong, Andrea Mencarelli, et al.. (2019). The Inflammasome Adaptor ASC Intrinsically Limits CD4+ T-Cell Proliferation to Help Maintain Intestinal Homeostasis. Frontiers in Immunology. 10. 1566–1566. 19 indexed citations

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Yeong, Joe, An S. Tan, Clara Chong Hui Ong, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of phospho-histone H3 in Asian triple-negative breast cancer using multiplex immunofluorescence. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 178(2). 295–305. 9 indexed citations

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Chng, Melissa Hui Yen, Angéline Rouers, Étienne Becht, et al.. (2019). Large-Scale HLA Tetramer Tracking of T Cells during Dengue Infection Reveals Broad Acute Activation and Differentiation into Two Memory Cell Fates. Immunity. 51(6). 1119–1135.e5. 29 indexed citations

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Lum, Fok‐Moon, David Lee, Jeslin J. L. Tan, et al.. (2018). Zika Virus Infection Preferentially Counterbalances Human Peripheral Monocyte and/or NK Cell Activity. mSphere. 3(2). 30 indexed citations

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Wei, Xin, Praveen Kumar Balne, Bernett Lee, et al.. (2018). Cytokine profiling in patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration due to choroidal neovascularization and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 59(9). 349–349. 2 indexed citations

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Yeong, Joe, Jeffrey Chun Tatt Lim, Bernett Lee, et al.. (2018). High Densities of Tumor-Associated Plasma Cells Predict Improved Prognosis in Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Frontiers in Immunology. 9. 1209–1209. 100 indexed citations

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Yeong, Joe, Aye Aye Thike, Jeffrey Chun Tatt Lim, et al.. (2017). Caveolin-1 expression as a prognostic marker in triple negative breast cancers of Asian women. Journal of Clinical Pathology. 71(2). 161–167. 22 indexed citations

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Simarmata, Diane, David Ng, Yiu‐Wing Kam, et al.. (2016). Early clearance of Chikungunya virus in children is associated with a strong innate immune response. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 26097–26097. 26 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Rupesh, Tun Kuan Yeo, Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran, et al.. (2016). Aqueous humor immune factors and cytomegalovirus (CMV) levels in CMV retinitis through treatment – The CRIGSS study. Cytokine. 84. 56–62. 8 indexed citations

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Penny, Hweixian Leong, Je Lin Sieow, Giulia Adriani, et al.. (2016). Warburg metabolism in tumor-conditioned macrophages promotes metastasis in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. OncoImmunology. 5(8). e1191731–e1191731. 198 indexed citations

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