Deborah Yebon Kang

998 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 738 citations indexed

About

Deborah Yebon Kang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Yebon Kang has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 738 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Deborah Yebon Kang's work include Vibrio bacteria research studies (3 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers) and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (2 papers). Deborah Yebon Kang is often cited by papers focused on Vibrio bacteria research studies (3 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers) and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (2 papers). Deborah Yebon Kang collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Singapore. Deborah Yebon Kang's co-authors include Kurt J. Isselbacher, Doke C.R. Wahrer, Daphne W. Bell, Daniel A. Haber, Kristen E. Shannon, Sigitas Verselis, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jillian M. Birch, Frederick P. Li and Jennifer M. Varley and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Yebon Kang

6 papers receiving 713 citations

Hit Papers

Heterozygous Germ Line hCHK2 Mutations in Li-Fraumeni Syn... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 200 400 600
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. Heterozygous Germ Line hCHK2 Mutations in Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
    1999 662 citations Daphne W. Bell, Jennifer M. Varley et al. Science profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Deborah Yebon Kang South Korea 5 551 354 244 145 130 7 738
Margrét Steinarsdóttir Iceland 13 345 0.6× 262 0.7× 216 0.9× 219 1.5× 69 0.5× 28 611
Arianna Fumagalli Netherlands 9 324 0.6× 408 1.2× 106 0.4× 154 1.1× 88 0.7× 13 681
Hannah Brinkmann Australia 2 530 1.0× 261 0.7× 145 0.6× 79 0.5× 88 0.7× 2 696
Morgane Macheret Switzerland 5 846 1.5× 261 0.7× 114 0.5× 147 1.0× 169 1.3× 6 936
Ángel Martínez‐Ramírez Spain 17 564 1.0× 122 0.3× 159 0.7× 153 1.1× 90 0.7× 26 843
Kikuë Tachibana Germany 15 1000 1.8× 178 0.5× 113 0.5× 108 0.7× 180 1.4× 23 1.2k
Emmanuelle Despras France 14 574 1.0× 201 0.6× 56 0.2× 223 1.5× 61 0.5× 19 697
Kirkland Lau United States 7 605 1.1× 229 0.6× 183 0.8× 246 1.7× 65 0.5× 8 921
Niraj Joshi Canada 6 621 1.1× 271 0.8× 123 0.5× 100 0.7× 58 0.4× 7 695
Allan Balmain United Kingdom 9 494 0.9× 304 0.9× 95 0.4× 166 1.1× 99 0.8× 10 696

Countries citing papers authored by Deborah Yebon Kang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deborah Yebon Kang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Yebon Kang

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

All Works

7 of 7 papers shown
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Taylor, Jessica A., et al.. (2025). Draft genomes of two Vibrio spp. isolated from the brown alga Sargassum ilicifolium in Singapore. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 14(6). e0032825–e0032825. 1 indexed citations
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Kang, Deborah Yebon, et al.. (2025). Non-O1/O139 environmental Vibrio cholerae from Northern Cameroon reveals potential intra-/inter-continental transmissions. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 19(4). e0012890–e0012890.
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Kang, Deborah Yebon, et al.. (2021). Functional dissection of the phosphotransferase system provides insight into the prevalence of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii in the host intestinal environment. Environmental Microbiology. 23(8). 4726–4740. 16 indexed citations
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Kang, Deborah Yebon, et al.. (2021). Vibrio cholerae FruR facilitates binding of RNA polymerase to the fru promoter in the presence of fructose 1-phosphate. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(3). 1397–1410. 17 indexed citations
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Bang, Sunhoe, et al.. (2018). ULK1 negatively regulates Wnt signaling by phosphorylating Dishevelled. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 508(1). 308–313. 13 indexed citations
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Bell, Daphne W., Doke C.R. Wahrer, Deborah Yebon Kang, et al.. (1999). Common nonsense mutations in RAD52.. PubMed. 59(16). 3883–8. 29 indexed citations
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Bell, Daphne W., Jennifer M. Varley, Deborah Yebon Kang, et al.. (1999). Heterozygous Germ Line hCHK2 Mutations in Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. Science. 286(5449). 2528–2531. 662 indexed citations breakdown →

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