Chen Sun

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Chen Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chen Sun has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Epidemiology and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Chen Sun's work include Congenital heart defects research (17 papers), Congenital Heart Disease Studies (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). Chen Sun is often cited by papers focused on Congenital heart defects research (17 papers), Congenital Heart Disease Studies (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). Chen Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Chen Sun's co-authors include Jin‐Xing Wang, Xiao‐Fan Zhao, Kun Sun, Chaochun Wei, Hongwei Zhang, Jinyuan Lu, Wenteng Xu, Zhiqiang Hu, Xiaowen Zhang and Yuejuan Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Energy & Environmental Science and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Chen Sun

61 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

  1. Unlocking high-current-density nitrate reduction and formaldehyde oxidation synergy for scalable ammonia production and fixation
    2025 25 citations Linjie Zhang, Yanghua Li et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chen Sun China 20 499 323 176 169 146 62 1.1k
Yujuan He China 20 389 0.8× 259 0.8× 40 0.2× 141 0.8× 85 0.6× 66 1.1k
Xiaosong Liu China 18 503 1.0× 120 0.4× 64 0.4× 91 0.5× 82 0.6× 49 1.0k
Akihiro Tamura Japan 18 283 0.6× 190 0.6× 39 0.2× 196 1.2× 82 0.6× 67 959
Jaw‐Ji Tsai Taiwan 20 318 0.6× 265 0.8× 83 0.5× 61 0.4× 46 0.3× 68 1.3k
Yifang Chen China 23 324 0.6× 772 2.4× 81 0.5× 151 0.9× 46 0.3× 46 1.5k
Bin Lin China 24 682 1.4× 648 2.0× 69 0.4× 192 1.1× 51 0.3× 49 1.6k
Shujuan Guo China 19 579 1.2× 194 0.6× 56 0.3× 109 0.6× 32 0.2× 46 1.3k
Sharon A. McClellan United States 29 479 1.0× 884 2.7× 46 0.3× 51 0.3× 232 1.6× 72 1.9k
Lee Chaves United States 20 401 0.8× 409 1.3× 227 1.3× 120 0.7× 26 0.2× 59 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Chen Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chen Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Chen Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Chen Sun. The network helps show where Chen Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chen Sun

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Linjie, Yanghua Li, Chen Sun, et al.. (2025). Unlocking high-current-density nitrate reduction and formaldehyde oxidation synergy for scalable ammonia production and fixation. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(6). 2804–2816. 25 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Chen, Yanmin Liu, Wei Huang, et al.. (2024). Uric acid, high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and their ratio are related to microbial enterotypes and serum metabolites in females with a blood stasis constitution. Lipids in Health and Disease. 23(1). 90–90. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Chen, et al.. (2022). Preference for endoscopic screening of upper gastrointestinal cancer among Chinese rural residents: a discrete choice experiment. Frontiers in Oncology. 12. 917622–917622. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Zhuoyan, Baolei Li, Yanan Lu, et al.. (2021). GAA deficiency promotes angiogenesis through upregulation of Rac1 induced by autophagy disorder. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1868(5). 118969–118969. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Tao, Xinyan Chen, Tingting Song, et al.. (2020). Serum protein complex profiling reveals heterogeneity of Balanced constitutional population in traditional Chinese medicine through blue native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Annals of Palliative Medicine. 10(2). 1703–1716. 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Jinyuan, Huimin Lu, Wenmin Zhang, et al.. (2019). HUPAN: a pan-genome analysis pipeline for human genomes. Genome biology. 20(1). 47 indexed citations
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Hu, Zhiqiang, Wensheng Wang, Zhichao Wu, et al.. (2018). Novel sequences, structural variations and gene presence variations of Asian cultivated rice. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180079–180079. 11 indexed citations
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Jia, Ben, et al.. (2018). MetaBinG2: a fast and accurate metagenomic sequence classification system for samples with many unknown organisms. Biology Direct. 13(1). 15–15. 6 indexed citations
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Sun, Chen, et al.. (2018). Genetic Analyses Identified a SALL4 Gene Mutation Associated with Holt–Oram Syndrome. DNA and Cell Biology. 37(4). 398–404. 6 indexed citations
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Shi, Xin, Tao Huang, Chang Gu, et al.. (2018). Next-generation sequencing identifies novel genes with rare variants in total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. EBioMedicine. 38. 217–227. 57 indexed citations
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Shi, Xin, Zixiong Li, Jing Wang, et al.. (2018). Rare Copy Number Variants Identify Novel Genes in Sporadic Total Anomalous Pulmonary Vein Connection. Frontiers in Genetics. 9. 559–559. 18 indexed citations
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Huang, Wenze, Lillian L. Tsai, Yulong Li, et al.. (2017). Widespread of horizontal gene transfer in the human genome. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 274–274. 19 indexed citations
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Xu, Lijuan, et al.. (2017). In Silico Analyses Reveal the Relationship Between SIX1/EYA1 Mutations and Conotruncal Heart Defects. Pediatric Cardiology. 39(1). 176–182. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, Chen, Zhiqiang Hu, Tianqing Zheng, et al.. (2016). RPAN: rice pan-genome browser for ∼3000 rice genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(2). 597–605. 109 indexed citations
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Li, Tingting, Chunjie Liu, Yuejuan Xu, et al.. (2016). Identification of candidate genes for congenital heart defects on proximal chromosome 8p. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 36133–36133. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaoqing, Yuejuan Xu, Deyuan Liu, et al.. (2015). A modified multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification method for the detection of 22q11.2 copy number variations in patients with congenital heart disease. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 364–364. 41 indexed citations
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Hou, Congzhe, Jian Zhang, Yecheng Jin, et al.. (2014). Abnormal cerebellar development and Purkinje cell defects in Lgl1-Pax2 conditional knockout mice. Developmental Biology. 395(1). 167–181. 14 indexed citations
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Tan, Zhen, Yan Yuan, Chen Sun, Yi Chen, & Tong‐Xin Chen. (2013). Plasma endothelial microparticles, TNF-α and IL-6 in Kawasaki disease. Indian Pediatrics. 50(5). 501–503. 24 indexed citations

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