Cindy Leo

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 833 citations indexed

About

Cindy Leo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cindy Leo has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 833 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Immunology and 1 paper in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Cindy Leo's work include Fibroblast Growth Factor Research (2 papers), Immune cells in cancer (2 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (2 papers). Cindy Leo is often cited by papers focused on Fibroblast Growth Factor Research (2 papers), Immune cells in cancer (2 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (2 papers). Cindy Leo collaborates with scholars based in United States. Cindy Leo's co-authors include Lewis T. Williams, Haishan Lin, Stephen K. Doberstein, Elizabeth Bosch, Thomas Linnemann, Ernestine Lee, Ge Wu, Aileen J. Zhou, Robert Halenbeck and Kevin Hestir and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Cindy Leo

6 papers receiving 813 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Discovery of a Cytokine and Its Receptor by Functional Screening of the Extracellular Proteome

2008 615 citations Haishan Lin, Ernestine Lee et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cindy Leo United States	4	514	270	183	132	51	6	833
Kevin Hestir United States	5	447 0.9×	287 1.1×	166 0.9×	124 0.9×	46 0.9×	8	788
Dirk Behrens Germany	7	463 0.9×	236 0.9×	138 0.8×	124 0.9×	45 0.9×	13	757
S. Kapp United States	5	560 1.1×	334 1.2×	211 1.2×	162 1.2×	37 0.7×	7	907
Gregory J. Carven United States	11	369 0.7×	565 2.1×	239 1.3×	85 0.6×	69 1.4×	12	1.0k
Anita Posevitz‐Fejfár Germany	11	597 1.2×	267 1.0×	282 1.5×	79 0.6×	23 0.5×	19	934
Gunther G. Pendl Germany	11	332 0.6×	300 1.1×	95 0.5×	183 1.4×	39 0.8×	19	759
Virendra K. Chaudhri United States	9	387 0.8×	415 1.5×	91 0.5×	24 0.2×	59 1.2×	11	815
N Karin Israel	13	617 1.2×	230 0.9×	144 0.8×	33 0.3×	30 0.6×	18	941
Scott L. Townley Australia	11	233 0.5×	296 1.1×	161 0.9×	25 0.2×	27 0.5×	11	643
Kristina Duvefelt Sweden	13	508 1.0×	216 0.8×	156 0.9×	56 0.4×	31 0.6×	17	912

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cindy Leo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cindy Leo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cindy Leo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cindy Leo 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 Cindy Leo. Cindy Leo 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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Liu, Heli, Cindy Leo, Xiaohong Chen, et al.. (2012). The mechanism of shared but distinct CSF-1R signaling by the non-homologous cytokines IL-34 and CSF-1. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1824(7). 938–945. 88 indexed citations

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Huang, Min, Cindy Leo, Suwen Wei, et al.. (2008). IL-34, in Synergy with RANK Ligand, Promotes Osteoclast Development through the CSF-1 Receptor. Blood. 112(11). 5392–5392. 2 indexed citations

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Lin, Haishan, Ernestine Lee, Kevin Hestir, et al.. (2008). Discovery of a Cytokine and Its Receptor by Functional Screening of the Extracellular Proteome. Science. 320(5877). 807–811. 615 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Haishan, Cindy Leo, May Ji, et al.. (2007). 87 Regulation of Myeloid Growth and Differentiation by a Novel Cytokine, Interleukin-34 (IL-34), via the CSF-1 Receptor. Cytokine. 39(1). 24–24. 3 indexed citations

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Hu, Yuanming, Cindy Leo, Simon Yu, et al.. (2004). Identification and Functional Characterization of a Novel Human Misshapen/Nck Interacting Kinase-related Kinase, hMINKβ. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(52). 54387–54397. 51 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiang, Cindy Leo, Eva Chan, et al.. (2001). Dominant effector genetics in mammalian cells. Nature Genetics. 27(1). 23–29. 74 indexed citations

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