Betty Chung

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Betty Chung is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Betty Chung has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Plant Science and 4 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Betty Chung's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Betty Chung is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Betty Chung collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Betty Chung's co-authors include Andrew E. Firth, John F. Atkins, W. Allen Miller, Ian Brierley, Nerea Irigoyen, Joshua D. Jones, Allan Olspert, John P. Carr, Marina N. Fleeton and David C. Baulcombe and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Betty Chung

23 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

An overlapping essential gene in the Potyviridae

2008 711 citations Betty Chung, W. Allen Miller et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Betty Chung United Kingdom	14	1.4k	647	533	313	293	26	2.0k
Rui Lu United States	17	2.3k 1.7×	1.2k 1.9×	479 0.9×	512 1.6×	147 0.5×	25	3.1k
Daniel Barajas United States	22	1.3k 1.0×	629 1.0×	448 0.8×	282 0.9×	114 0.4×	31	1.7k
Isabelle Jupin France	25	1.4k 1.0×	625 1.0×	342 0.6×	230 0.7×	103 0.4×	45	1.6k
Judit Pogany United States	30	2.2k 1.6×	921 1.4×	1.0k 2.0×	503 1.6×	291 1.0×	49	2.7k
Xianbing Wang China	30	2.7k 2.0×	948 1.5×	686 1.3×	608 1.9×	91 0.3×	79	3.1k
Renato O. Resende Brazil	31	2.7k 2.0×	447 0.7×	1.0k 1.9×	945 3.0×	189 0.6×	121	3.0k
Dániel Silhavy Hungary	21	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 2.1×	603 1.1×	354 1.1×	73 0.2×	40	2.7k
Guohui Zhou China	28	1.5k 1.1×	698 1.1×	226 0.4×	918 2.9×	250 0.9×	93	2.4k
Véronique Brault France	26	2.2k 1.6×	546 0.8×	469 0.9×	1.2k 3.9×	88 0.3×	62	2.4k
Michael Janda United States	18	1.8k 1.3×	705 1.1×	604 1.1×	195 0.6×	290 1.0×	31	2.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Peyret, Hadrien, et al.. (2025). RNA elements and their biotechnological applications in plants. New Phytologist. 247(6). 2517–2537.

Wood, George, Jessica Powell, Panagiotis Tourlomousis, et al.. (2025). The Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 injectisome reprograms host cell translation to evade the inflammatory response. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9742–9742.

Powell, Jessica, et al.. (2023). The distinct translational landscapes of gram-negative Salmonella and gram-positive Listeria. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8167–8167. 2 indexed citations

Thomas, S.E., Martin Balcerowicz, & Betty Chung. (2022). RNA structure mediated thermoregulation: What can we learn from plants?. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 938570–938570. 15 indexed citations

Chung, Betty, et al.. (2021). Chaperone‐mediated coupling of subunit availability to activation of flagellar Type III secretion. Molecular Microbiology. 116(2). 538–549. 6 indexed citations

Dumetz, Franck, Eugene Yui‐Ching Chow, Mubarak Ishaq Umar, et al.. (2021). G-quadruplex RNA motifs influence gene expression in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(21). 12486–12501. 13 indexed citations

Albarnaz, Jonas D., Hongwei Ren, Alice A. Torres, et al.. (2021). Molecular mimicry of NF-κB by vaccinia virus protein enables selective inhibition of antiviral responses. Nature Microbiology. 7(1). 154–168. 42 indexed citations

Balcerowicz, Martin, Marco Di Antonio, & Betty Chung. (2021). Monitoring Real-time Temperature Dynamics of a Short RNA Hairpin Using Förster Resonance Energy Transfer and Circular Dichroism. BIO-PROTOCOL. 11(6). e3950–e3950.

Chung, Betty, Martin Balcerowicz, Marco Di Antonio, et al.. (2020). An RNA thermoswitch regulates daytime growth in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants. 6(5). 522–532. 194 indexed citations

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Pearce, Sarah F., Miriam Cipullo, Betty Chung, Ian Brierley, & Joanna Rorbach. (2020). Mitoribosome Profiling from Human Cell Culture: A High Resolution View of Mitochondrial Translation. Methods in molecular biology. 2192. 183–196. 10 indexed citations

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Chung, Betty, Adrián Vallí, Michael J. Deery, et al.. (2019). Distinct roles of Argonaute in the green alga Chlamydomonas reveal evolutionary conserved mode of miRNA-mediated gene expression. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11091–11091. 13 indexed citations

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Chung, Betty, Michael J. Deery, Arnoud Groen, Julie A. Howard, & David C. Baulcombe. (2017). Endogenous miRNA in the green alga Chlamydomonas regulates gene expression through CDS-targeting. Nature Plants. 3(10). 787–794. 33 indexed citations

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Vallí, Adrián, Bruno Santos, Andrew Bassett, et al.. (2016). Most microRNAs in the single-cell alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii are produced by Dicer-like 3-mediated cleavage of introns and untranslated regions of coding RNAs. Genome Research. 26(4). 519–529. 38 indexed citations

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Irigoyen, Nerea, Andrew E. Firth, Joshua D. Jones, et al.. (2016). High-Resolution Analysis of Coronavirus Gene Expression by RNA Sequencing and Ribosome Profiling. PLoS Pathogens. 12(2). e1005473–e1005473. 143 indexed citations

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Smirnova, Ekaterina, Andrew E. Firth, W. Allen Miller, et al.. (2015). Discovery of a Small Non-AUG-Initiated ORF in Poleroviruses and Luteoviruses That Is Required for Long-Distance Movement. PLoS Pathogens. 11(5). e1004868–e1004868. 139 indexed citations

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Chung, Betty, et al.. (2013). Powerful Sequence Similarity Search Methods and In-Depth Manual Analyses Can Identify Remote Homologs in Many Apparently “Orphan” Viral Proteins. Journal of Virology. 88(1). 10–20. 82 indexed citations

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Cook, Shelley, Betty Chung, David Bass, et al.. (2013). Novel Virus Discovery and Genome Reconstruction from Field RNA Samples Reveals Highly Divergent Viruses in Dipteran Hosts. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e80720–e80720. 115 indexed citations

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Chung, Betty, Andrew E. Firth, & John F. Atkins. (2010). Frameshifting in Alphaviruses: A Diversity of 3′ Stimulatory Structures. Journal of Molecular Biology. 397(2). 448–456. 48 indexed citations

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Chung, Betty, W. Allen Miller, John F. Atkins, & Andrew E. Firth. (2008). An overlapping essential gene in the Potyviridae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(15). 5897–5902. 711 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chung, Betty. (2008). CONTROL DE LOS CONTAMINANTES QUÍMICOS EN EL PERÚ. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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