Brian W. Ji

864 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 603 citations indexed

About

Brian W. Ji is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian W. Ji has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 603 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Cancer Research and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Brian W. Ji's work include Gut microbiota and health (4 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (3 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (2 papers). Brian W. Ji is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (4 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (3 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (2 papers). Brian W. Ji collaborates with scholars based in United States. Brian W. Ji's co-authors include Purushottam D. Dixit, Dennis Vitkup, Aaron M. Hosios, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Margaret E. Torrence, Shawn M. Davidson, Elizaveta Freinkman, Alexander Muir, Matthew R. Bauer and Allison N. Lau and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Methods and Nature Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Brian W. Ji

6 papers receiving 596 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.

Tissue of origin dictates branched-chain amino acid metabolism in mutantKras-driven cancers

2016 438 citations Jared R. Mayers, Margaret E. Torrence et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian W. Ji United States	5	465	293	95	65	46	6	603
Warren Wu United States	10	568 1.2×	182 0.6×	89 0.9×	18 0.3×	65 1.4×	15	705
Sandra Pierredon France	13	576 1.2×	238 0.8×	86 0.9×	37 0.6×	22 0.5×	16	732
M. Rohan Fernando United States	15	666 1.4×	443 1.5×	157 1.7×	54 0.8×	103 2.2×	18	966
Raghavendra A. Shamanna United States	15	616 1.3×	142 0.5×	172 1.8×	43 0.7×	24 0.5×	16	719
Søren Heissel United States	11	413 0.9×	137 0.5×	63 0.7×	20 0.3×	39 0.8×	26	579
Francesca R. Dejure Germany	6	287 0.6×	193 0.7×	57 0.6×	19 0.3×	102 2.2×	9	428
Nicki Gray United Kingdom	11	533 1.1×	123 0.4×	46 0.5×	86 1.3×	23 0.5×	12	704
Marc Hirschfeld Germany	19	656 1.4×	435 1.5×	112 1.2×	17 0.3×	41 0.9×	45	905
Anke Wienecke-Baldacchino Luxembourg	14	418 0.9×	224 0.8×	113 1.2×	30 0.5×	37 0.8×	18	632
Yelena Chernyavskaya United States	9	403 0.9×	119 0.4×	42 0.4×	29 0.4×	33 0.7×	12	510

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian W. Ji

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian W. Ji. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian W. Ji 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 W. Ji. Brian W. Ji is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Ji, Brian W., et al.. (2023). EMBED: Essential MicroBiomE Dynamics, a dimensionality reduction approach for longitudinal microbiome studies. npj Systems Biology and Applications. 9(1). 26–26. 8 indexed citations

2.

Li, Zhaoqi, Brian W. Ji, Purushottam D. Dixit, et al.. (2022). Cancer cells depend on environmental lipids for proliferation when electron acceptors are limited. Nature Metabolism. 4(6). 711–723. 46 indexed citations

3.

Ji, Brian W., et al.. (2021). EMBED: A Low Dimensional Reconstruction of Gut Microbiome Dynamics Based on Ecological Normal Modes. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Ji, Brian W., et al.. (2020). Macroecological dynamics of gut microbiota. Nature Microbiology. 5(5). 768–775. 54 indexed citations

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Ji, Brian W., Ravi U. Sheth, Purushottam D. Dixit, et al.. (2019). Quantifying spatiotemporal variability and noise in absolute microbiota abundances using replicate sampling. Nature Methods. 16(8). 731–736. 56 indexed citations

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Mayers, Jared R., Margaret E. Torrence, Laura V. Danai, et al.. (2016). Tissue of origin dictates branched-chain amino acid metabolism in mutantKras-driven cancers. Science. 353(6304). 1161–1165. 438 indexed citations breakdown →

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