Boyu Ren

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
52 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Boyu Ren is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Boyu Ren has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Boyu Ren's work include Mental Health Research Topics (8 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (8 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (6 papers). Boyu Ren is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Research Topics (8 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (8 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (6 papers). Boyu Ren collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Boyu Ren's co-authors include Curtis Huttenhower, Eric A. Franzosa, Emma Schwager, Timothy L. Tickle, Himel Mallick, Siyuan Ma, Suvo Chatterjee, Joseph N. Paulson, Héctor Corrada Bravo and Lauren J. McIver and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Boyu Ren

41 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Multivariable association discovery in popu... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2021 2016 2021 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Multivariable association discovery in population-scale meta-omics studies
    2021 1.3k citations Timothy L. Tickle, Boyu Ren et al. profile →
  2. Intestinal microbiome analyses identify melanoma patients at risk for checkpoint-blockade-induced colitis
    2016 773 citations Boyu Ren, Curtis Huttenhower et al. profile →
  3. Mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and metabolic alterations in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease: A meta-analysis of in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies
    2021 208 citations Boyu Ren, Döst Öngür 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
Boyu Ren United States 13 1.9k 682 522 466 290 52 3.2k
Nan Qin China 25 1.9k 1.0× 477 0.7× 301 0.6× 389 0.8× 351 1.2× 57 3.8k
Gabriel A. Al‐Ghalith United States 17 2.0k 1.1× 280 0.4× 613 1.2× 643 1.4× 318 1.1× 29 2.8k
Jianxin Shi United States 36 3.9k 2.1× 1.1k 1.7× 770 1.5× 411 0.9× 465 1.6× 122 6.0k
Ayshwarya Subramanian United States 12 1.8k 0.9× 258 0.4× 419 0.8× 230 0.5× 238 0.8× 16 2.8k
Yancong Zhang United States 12 2.2k 1.1× 194 0.3× 537 1.0× 447 1.0× 349 1.2× 22 3.2k
Clelia Peano Italy 33 3.0k 1.6× 263 0.4× 698 1.3× 604 1.3× 295 1.0× 83 4.4k
Galeb Abu-Ali United States 22 2.4k 1.3× 224 0.3× 623 1.2× 705 1.5× 284 1.0× 26 3.6k
Shai Fuchs Canada 9 3.6k 1.9× 413 0.6× 1.1k 2.1× 858 1.8× 463 1.6× 15 5.1k
Gianenrico Rizzatti Italy 16 1.4k 0.7× 236 0.3× 490 0.9× 327 0.7× 275 0.9× 47 2.5k
Marc Jan Bonder Netherlands 29 3.4k 1.8× 298 0.4× 952 1.8× 721 1.5× 584 2.0× 46 5.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Boyu Ren

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boyu Ren

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All Works

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Yoon, Wonjin, Boyu Ren, Spencer A. Thomas, et al.. (2025). Aspect-Oriented Summarization for Psychiatric Short-Term Readmission Prediction. PubMed. 2025. 28025–28042.
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Randall, Edin T., S R O'Donnell, Boyu Ren, et al.. (2025). Plasma proteomic markers of pain and emotional dysfunction in fibrous dysplasia/McCune-Albright syndrome. Bone. 201. 117626–117626.
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Payne, Laura A., Laura C. Seidman, Steven W. Granger, Alison Edelman, & Boyu Ren. (2024). A Prospective Study of the Relationship of COVID-19 Vaccination to Menstrual Cycle Characteristics in Adolescent Girls. Journal of Adolescent Health. 75(5). 819–826.
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Clancy, Kevin J., et al.. (2024). Specific symptom change associated with ecological momentary assessments of intrusive trauma memories. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 18–18. 2 indexed citations
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Dan, Rotem, Alexis E. Whitton, Michael T. Treadway, et al.. (2024). Brain-based graph-theoretical predictive modeling to map the trajectory of anhedonia, impulsivity, and hypomania from the human functional connectome. Neuropsychopharmacology. 49(7). 1162–1170. 2 indexed citations
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Thai, Michelle, Elizabeth A. Olson, Daniel G. Dillon, et al.. (2024). Neural and behavioral markers of inhibitory control predict symptom improvement during internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for depression. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 303–303. 1 indexed citations
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Clancy, Kevin J., et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal dynamics of hippocampal-cortical networks underlying the unique phenomenological properties of trauma-related intrusive memories. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(7). 2161–2169. 7 indexed citations
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Reich, D. Bradford, et al.. (2024). Reported Personality Traits and Histories of Childhood Maltreatment in Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar 2 Disorder: A Comparative Study. Journal of Personality Disorders. 38(3). 301–310. 1 indexed citations
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Chouinard, Virginie‐Anne, Xi Chen, Boyu Ren, et al.. (2024). Intranasal Insulin Increases Brain Glutathione and Enhances Antioxidant Capacity in Healthy Participants but Not in Those With Early Psychotic Disorders. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 10(3). 286–294. 1 indexed citations
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Ren, Boyu, Benjamin D. Goodlett, Edward Yang, et al.. (2024). Implications of the choroid plexus in Niemann-Pick disease Type C neuropathogenesis. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 124. 376–384. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Ning, et al.. (2023). SeaBil: Self-attention-weighted ultrashort-term deep learning prediction of ship maneuvering motion. Ocean Engineering. 287. 115890–115890. 23 indexed citations
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Choi‐Kain, Lois W., Igor Weinberg, & Boyu Ren. (2023). Correspondence to Setkowski and colleagues on Best psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder. Psychological Medicine. 53(15). 7469–7470.
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Ren, Boyu, Edin T. Randall, Laura A. Drubach, et al.. (2023). Phenotyping Pain in Patients With Fibrous Dysplasia/McCune-Albright Syndrome. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 109(3). 771–782. 7 indexed citations
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Goodlett, Benjamin D., Fan Zhang, Adam P. Vogel, et al.. (2023). Characterization of central manifestations in patients with Niemann-Pick disease type C. Genetics in Medicine. 26(3). 101053–101053. 7 indexed citations
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Rezaii, Neguine, et al.. (2023). Measuring Sentence Information via Surprisal: Theoretical and Clinical Implications in Nonfluent Aphasia. Annals of Neurology. 94(4). 647–657. 7 indexed citations
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Börnigen, Daniela, Boyu Ren, Robert K. L. Pickard, et al.. (2017). Alterations in oral bacterial communities are associated with risk factors for oral and oropharyngeal cancer. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 17686–17686. 106 indexed citations

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