David Wang

18.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
143 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

David Wang is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Wang has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Infectious Diseases, 30 papers in Epidemiology and 26 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in David Wang's work include Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (28 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (22 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (21 papers). David Wang is often cited by papers focused on Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (28 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (22 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (21 papers). David Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. David Wang's co-authors include Guoyan Zhao, Guang Wu, Joseph L. DeRisi, Don Ganem, Lindsay Droit, Siddharth R. Krishnamurthy, Lori R. Holtz, Homer A. Boushey, Pedro C. Avila and Efrem S. Lim and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

David Wang

139 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Disease-Specific Alterations in the Enteric Virome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

2015 906 citations Scott A. Handley, Lindsay Droit et al. profile →
Microarray-based detection and genotyping of viral pathogens

2002 573 citations David Wang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Identification of a Novel Polyomavirus from Patients with Acute Respiratory Tract Infections

2007 503 citations Guang Wu, David Wang et al. PLoS Pathogens profile →
Early life dynamics of the human gut virome and bacterial microbiome in infants

2015 460 citations Guoyan Zhao, Lindsay Droit et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Wang United States	43	3.0k	2.3k	1.6k	1.5k	1.2k	143	7.8k
Giuseppe Del Giudice Italy	59	2.6k 0.9×	2.8k 1.2×	329 0.2×	4.1k 2.8×	160 0.1×	279	13.7k
Ian M Mackay Australia	39	3.0k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	423 0.3×	3.7k 2.5×	458 0.4×	105	8.4k
Elodie Ghedin United States	50	2.8k 1.0×	3.0k 1.3×	1.0k 0.6×	3.8k 2.6×	771 0.7×	171	8.9k
Björn Andersson Sweden	44	1.5k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	303 0.2×	2.7k 1.8×	491 0.4×	182	8.4k
Steve Miller United States	32	2.3k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	507 0.3×	2.1k 1.5×	320 0.3×	83	6.9k
David Spiro United States	51	2.0k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	583 0.4×	2.3k 1.6×	496 0.4×	119	8.1k
David Goulding United Kingdom	51	1.9k 0.6×	4.2k 1.8×	738 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	285 0.2×	157	9.1k
Nicholas J. Loman United Kingdom	39	2.0k 0.7×	7.0k 3.0×	3.2k 1.9×	1.6k 1.1×	998 0.9×	93	12.2k
Jacques Corbeil Canada	51	1.6k 0.6×	3.4k 1.5×	819 0.5×	2.1k 1.4×	380 0.3×	162	8.3k
Makedonka Mitreva United States	48	1.7k 0.6×	4.0k 1.7×	2.5k 1.6×	554 0.4×	1.7k 1.4×	222	9.1k

Countries citing papers authored by David Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Wang

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Félix, Marie-Anne, et al.. (2025). Orsay virus variants isolated from wild Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes, France. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 14(10). e0055025–e0055025.

Ngono, Annie Elong, Kathie A. Mihindukulasuriya, Lindsay Droit, et al.. (2024). Dengue virus surveillance in Nepal yields the first on-site whole genome sequences of isolates from the 2022 outbreak. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 3 indexed citations

Wang, David, et al.. (2024). Immune system benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Experimental Physiology. 2 indexed citations

Droit, Lindsay, et al.. (2024). Tracking the prevalence and emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern using a regional genomic surveillance program. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(8). e0422523–e0422523. 2 indexed citations

Droit, Lindsay, Alejandro A. Vega, Kathie A. Mihindukulasuriya, et al.. (2023). Draft genomes of 12 Bifidobacterium isolates from human IBD fecal samples. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(1). e0013023–e0013023. 1 indexed citations

Jiang, Hongbing, Astha Joshi, Andrew B. Janowski, et al.. (2023). The Highly Conserved Stem-Loop II Motif Is Dispensable for SARS-CoV-2. Journal of Virology. 97(6). e0063523–e0063523. 8 indexed citations

Peng, Bo, et al.. (2022). Orsay Virus Infection of Caenorhabditis elegans Is Modulated by Zinc and Dependent on Lipids. Journal of Virology. 96(22). e0121122–e0121122. 8 indexed citations

Smith, Brittany, Andrew B. Janowski, Ian B. Harvey, et al.. (2021). Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Children and Adults in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. mSphere. 6(1). 22 indexed citations

Tahan, Stephen, Bijal A. Parikh, Lindsay Droit, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 E Gene Variant Alters Analytical Sensitivity Characteristics of Viral Detection Using a Commercial Reverse Transcription-PCR Assay. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 59(7). e0007521–e0007521. 36 indexed citations

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Fox, Julie M., Ling Huang, Stephen Tahan, et al.. (2020). A cross-reactive antibody protects against Ross River virus musculoskeletal disease despite rapid neutralization escape in mice. PLoS Pathogens. 16(8). e1008743–e1008743. 16 indexed citations

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Sowa, Jessica N., Hongbing Jiang, Eillen Tecle, et al.. (2019). The Caenorhabditis elegans RIG-I Homolog DRH-1 Mediates the Intracellular Pathogen Response upon Viral Infection. Journal of Virology. 94(2). 50 indexed citations

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Richaud, Aurélien, Lise Frézal, Stephen Tahan, et al.. (2019). Vertical transmission in Caenorhabditis nematodes of RNA molecules encoding a viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(49). 24738–24747. 20 indexed citations

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Frézal, Lise, et al.. (2019). Noda-Like RNA Viruses Infecting Caenorhabditis Nematodes: Sympatry, Diversity, and Reassortment. Journal of Virology. 93(21). 20 indexed citations

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Bricker, Traci L., Anshu P. Gounder, Andrew B. Janowski, et al.. (2019). Therapeutic efficacy of favipiravir against Bourbon virus in mice. PLoS Pathogens. 15(6). e1007790–e1007790. 30 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hongbing, Christian Leung, Stephen Tahan, & David Wang. (2019). Entry by multiple picornaviruses is dependent on a pathway that includes TNK2, WASL, and NCK1. eLife. 8. 20 indexed citations

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Pen, Jérémie Le, Hongbing Jiang, Tomás Di Domenico, et al.. (2018). Terminal uridylyltransferases target RNA viruses as part of the innate immune system. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 25(9). 778–786. 79 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hongbing, Carl Franz, & David Wang. (2014). Engineering Recombinant Orsay Virus Directly in the Metazoan Host Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Virology. 88(20). 11774–11781. 20 indexed citations

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Presti, Rachel M., Guoyan Zhao, Wandy L. Beatty, et al.. (2009). Quaranfil, Johnston Atoll, and Lake Chad Viruses Are Novel Members of the Family Orthomyxoviridae. Journal of Virology. 83(22). 11599–11606. 63 indexed citations

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Mihindukulasuriya, Kathie A., Guang Wu, Judy St. Leger, Robert W. Nordhausen, & David Wang. (2008). Identification of a Novel Coronavirus from a Beluga Whale by Using a Panviral Microarray. Journal of Virology. 82(10). 5084–5088. 184 indexed citations

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Tu, Ching‐Fu, Hao‐Chih Tai, David Wang, et al.. (2007). Effects of expression level of human DAF alone and with human HO-1 in transgenic pig kidney ex-vivo perfused with freshly collected human blood. Xenotransplantation. 14(5). 382–383. 2 indexed citations

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