Brian Lam

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Brian Lam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Lam has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Brian Lam's work include Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (16 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (11 papers) and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (10 papers). Brian Lam is often cited by papers focused on Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (16 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (11 papers) and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (10 papers). Brian Lam collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Brian Lam's co-authors include Giles S.H. Yeo, Shana O. Kelley, Edward H. Sargent, Fiona M. Gribble, Frank Reimann, Curtis P. Berlinguette, Alice E. Adriaenssens, Joseph Polex-Wolf, Zhichao Fang and John M. Luk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Brian Lam

95 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor-Expressing Cells in the Hypothalamus Regulate Food Intake

2019 237 citations John A. Tadross, Joseph Polex-Wolf et al. profile →
A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus

2025 29 citations John A. Tadross, Lukas Steuernagel et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Brian Lam	2.2k	632	614	546	528	98	4.7k
Dehua Yang	3.7k 1.7×	843 1.3×	613 1.0×	548 1.0×	196 0.4×	250	6.5k
Yu Liu	1.3k 0.6×	324 0.5×	338 0.6×	448 0.8×	150 0.3×	254	4.3k
John A. Cook	2.1k 1.0×	215 0.3×	366 0.6×	1.5k 2.8×	391 0.7×	122	6.5k
Anastasis Stephanou	2.5k 1.1×	677 1.1×	273 0.4×	782 1.4×	146 0.3×	140	6.2k
Timothy F. Walseth	3.7k 1.7×	286 0.5×	718 1.2×	861 1.6×	180 0.3×	137	9.7k
Takuya Kobayashi	3.4k 1.5×	187 0.3×	533 0.9×	796 1.5×	199 0.4×	83	6.3k
Asher Shainberg	2.6k 1.2×	302 0.5×	419 0.7×	613 1.1×	145 0.3×	181	5.1k
László G. Puskás	2.4k 1.1×	192 0.3×	418 0.7×	689 1.3×	150 0.3×	187	5.2k
Masaaki Shibata	1.9k 0.8×	142 0.2×	384 0.6×	981 1.8×	841 1.6×	243	5.8k
Stefano Manzini	2.3k 1.0×	255 0.4×	490 0.8×	1.4k 2.5×	300 0.6×	255	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Lam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Lam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Lam

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Lam. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Lam based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brian Lam. Brian Lam is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Lockhart, Sam, Yajie Zhao, Vladimı́r Saudek, et al.. (2025). Rare Variants in HTRA1, SGTB, and RBM12 Confer Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Independent of Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 18(6). e005233–e005233.

Lockhart, Sam, Brian Lam, Yajie Zhao, et al.. (2025). Effects of Rare Coding Variants in Severe Early-Onset Obesity Genes in the Population-Based UK Biobank Study. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 110(11). e3774–e3782. 2 indexed citations

Tadross, John A., Lukas Steuernagel, Georgina K.C. Dowsett, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus. Nature. 639(8055). 708–716. 29 indexed citations breakdown →

Simonds, Stephanie E., Jack T. Pryor, Brian Lam, et al.. (2025). The metabolic and cardiovascular effects of amphetamine are partially mediated by the central melanocortin system. Cell Reports Medicine. 6(2). 101936–101936.

Barco, Roman A., Nancy Merino, Brian Lam, et al.. (2024). Comparative proteomics of a versatile, marine, iron‐oxidizing chemolithoautotroph. Environmental Microbiology. 26(6). e16632–e16632. 2 indexed citations

Asami, Maki, Brian Lam, Martin Hoffmann, et al.. (2023). A program of successive gene expression in mouse one-cell embryos. Cell Reports. 42(2). 112023–112023. 14 indexed citations

Burress, Edward D., et al.. (2023). The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus. Evolution. 77(9). 1917–1929. 6 indexed citations

Moreno-González, Marta, Aoxue Huang, Phil A. Schauer, et al.. (2020). Sulfuric Acid Electrolyte Impacts Palladium Chemistry at Reductive Potentials. Chemistry of Materials. 32(21). 9098–9106. 8 indexed citations

Sandovici, Ionel, Gemma V. Brierley, Nicola M. Smith, et al.. (2020). Mesenchyme-derived IGF2 is a major paracrine regulator of pancreatic growth and function. PLoS Genetics. 16(10). e1009069–e1009069. 13 indexed citations

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MacLeod, Benjamin P., D. K. Fork, Brian Lam, & Curtis P. Berlinguette. (2019). Calorimetry under non-ideal conditions using system identification. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 138(5). 3139–3157. 2 indexed citations

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Johnson, Noah J. J., Brian Lam, Benjamin P. MacLeod, et al.. (2019). Facets and vertices regulate hydrogen uptake and release in palladium nanocrystals. Nature Materials. 18(5). 454–458. 120 indexed citations

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Johnson, Noah J. J., Brian Lam, Rebecca S. Sherbo, D. K. Fork, & Curtis P. Berlinguette. (2019). Ligands Affect Hydrogen Absorption and Desorption by Palladium Nanoparticles. Chemistry of Materials. 31(21). 8679–8684. 23 indexed citations

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Cao, Yang, Yunlong Li, Brian Lam, et al.. (2019). Dopant-free molecular hole transport material that mediates a 20% power conversion efficiency in a perovskite solar cell. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(12). 3502–3507. 100 indexed citations

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Dettelbach, Kevan E., Jingfu He, Noah J. J. Johnson, et al.. (2018). Kinetic phases of Ag–Cu alloy films are accessible through photodeposition. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(2). 711–715. 14 indexed citations

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Larder, Rachel, Pawan Gulati, Robin Antrobus, et al.. (2017). Obesity-associated gene TMEM18 has a role in the central control of appetite and body weight regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(35). 9421–9426. 49 indexed citations

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Lam, Brian, et al.. (2017). Comparative analysis of triarylamine and phenothiazine sensitizer donor units in dye-sensitized solar cells. Chemical Communications. 53(15). 2367–2370. 25 indexed citations

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Lam, Brian, et al.. (2017). On how electron density affects the redox stability of phenothiazine sensitizers on semiconducting surfaces. Chemical Communications. 53(17). 2547–2550. 9 indexed citations

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Ye, Lingying, Jane Goodall, Libin Zhang, et al.. (2015). TCR usage, gene expression and function of two distinct FOXP3⁺Treg subsets within CD4⁺CD25^hi T cells identified by expression of CD39 and CD45RO. Immunology and Cell Biology. 94(3). 293–305. 18 indexed citations

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Lam, Brian, Wendi Zhou, Shana O. Kelley, & Edward H. Sargent. (2015). Programmable definition of nanogap electronic devices using self-inhibited reagent depletion. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6940–6940. 20 indexed citations

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Pan, Suyue, Yifan Han, Paul R. Carlier, et al.. (2002). Schisandrin B Protects Against Tacrine- and Bis(7)-tacrine-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Enhances Cognitive Function in Mice. Planta Medica. 68(3). 217–220. 19 indexed citations

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