Eng‐King Tan

13.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
293 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Eng‐King Tan is a scholar working on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eng‐King Tan has authored 293 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 238 papers in Neurology, 86 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 70 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Eng‐King Tan's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (184 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (73 papers) and Nuclear Receptors and Signaling (38 papers). Eng‐King Tan is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (184 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (73 papers) and Nuclear Receptors and Signaling (38 papers). Eng‐King Tan collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United States and China. Eng‐King Tan's co-authors include Joseph Jankovic, Ling Ling Chan, Yinxia Chao, Stephanie Fook‐Chong, Yi Zhao, Lisa Skipper, S.Y. Lum, Pavanni Ratnagopal, M.C. Wong and K.M. Prakash and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Eng‐King Tan

284 papers receiving 8.1k 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.

Parkinson disease and the immune system — associations, mechanisms and therapeutics

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eng‐King Tan Singapore	50	5.6k	2.0k	1.8k	1.2k	1.1k	293	8.3k
David Devos France	54	4.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	607 0.5×	234	9.4k
James H. Bower United States	54	6.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.2×	923 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	724 0.6×	151	9.5k
Heinz Reichmann Germany	50	4.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	717 0.6×	660 0.6×	303	9.3k
Vladimir Kostić Serbia	53	6.4k 1.1×	3.4k 1.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	503 0.4×	369	10.4k
Ubaldo Bonuccelli Italy	56	6.6k 1.2×	2.5k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	679 0.6×	365	11.1k
Mario Zappia Italy	47	4.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	776 0.6×	525 0.5×	288	8.0k
Huifang Shang China	40	4.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	533 0.5×	423	7.2k
Lorraine V. Kalia Canada	33	4.4k 0.8×	3.3k 1.6×	3.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.0×	623 0.5×	87	8.9k
Ali Samii United States	46	4.6k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.7×	444 0.4×	107	8.1k
Leonard H. van den Berg Netherlands	62	8.9k 1.6×	2.7k 1.3×	3.3k 1.8×	1.5k 1.2×	423 0.4×	260	12.9k

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Tan, Eng‐King, et al.. (2025). Three-dimensional midbrain organoids: a next-generation tool for Parkinson’s disease modelling and drug discovery. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 16(1). 502–502. 1 indexed citations

Xiao, Bin & Eng‐King Tan. (2025). Prasinezumab slows motor progression in Parkinsons disease: beyond the clinical data. npj Parkinson s Disease. 11(1). 31–31. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Chieh‐Chang, Ai Huey Tan, Shen‐Yang Lim, et al.. (2025). Investigating Plasma Metabolomics and Gut Microbiota Changes Associated With Parkinson Disease. Neurology. 104(10). e213592–e213592. 1 indexed citations

Yi, Ling, Eng‐King Tan, & Zhidong Zhou. (2025). The α-Synuclein Seeding Amplification Assay for Parkinson’s Disease. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(1). 389–389. 3 indexed citations

Deng, Xiao, Seyed Ehsan Saffari, Bin Xiao, et al.. (2024). Disease Progression of Data-Driven Subtypes of Parkinson’s Disease: 5-Year Longitudinal Study from the Early Parkinson’s Disease Longitudinal Singapore (PALS) Cohort. Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 14(5). 1051–1059. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Wanlin, et al.. (2023). Non-pharmacological and drug treatment of autonomic dysfunction in multiple system atrophy: current status and future directions. Journal of Neurology. 270(11). 5251–5273. 2 indexed citations

Deng, Xiao, Yilin Ning, Seyed Ehsan Saffari, et al.. (2023). Identifying clinical features and blood biomarkers associated with mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease using machine learning. European Journal of Neurology. 30(6). 1658–1666. 11 indexed citations

Welton, Thomas, Septian Hartono, Nicole Shuang Yu Chia, et al.. (2023). Microstructure of Brain Nuclei in Early Parkinson’s Disease: Longitudinal Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging. Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 13(2). 233–242. 4 indexed citations

Jiang, Mei, Se‐Eun Jang, Dongrui Ma, et al.. (2022). The APP intracellular domain promotes LRRK2 expression to enable feed-forward neurodegenerative mechanisms in Parkinson’s disease. Science Signaling. 15(748). eabk3411–eabk3411. 8 indexed citations

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Bain, Peter G., Giovanni Defazio, Joseph Jankovic, et al.. (2022). The Conundrum of Dystonia in Essential Tremor Patients: How does One Classify these Cases?. Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements. 12(1). 15–15. 6 indexed citations

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Jo, Junghyun, Weonjin Yu, Alfred Xuyang Sun, et al.. (2021). Lewy Body–like Inclusions in Human Midbrain Organoids Carrying Glucocerebrosidase and α‐Synuclein Mutations. Annals of Neurology. 90(3). 490–505. 58 indexed citations

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Liu, Ye, et al.. (2021). Fist-Edge-Palm (FEP) test has a high sensitivity in differentiating dementia from normal cognition in Parkinson's disease. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 429. 118060–118060. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhiyong, Zheyu Xu, Yi Jayne Tan, et al.. (2020). Phenotypic bases of NOTCH2NLC GGC expansion positive neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease in a Southeast Asian cohort. Clinical Genetics. 98(3). 274–281. 29 indexed citations

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Chew, Elaine Guo Yan, Herty Liany, Louis C.S. Tan, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of novel Parkinson's disease candidate genes in the Chinese population. Neurobiology of Aging. 74. 235.e1–235.e4. 7 indexed citations

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Ahmad‐Annuar, Azlina, Huihua Li, Yi Zhao, et al.. (2016). PARK16 is associated with PD in the Malaysian population. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 171(6). 839–847. 13 indexed citations

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Prakash, Kumar M., et al.. (2015). A longitudinal study of non-motor symptom burden in Parkinson's disease after a transition to expert care. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 21(8). 843–847. 9 indexed citations

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Ting, Simon Kang Seng, Shahul Hameed, Eng‐King Tan, Christopher Gabriel, & Kinjal Doshi. (2014). Digit Span: A Comparison of Chinese Versus Alphabetic Language Speakers in Dysexecutive Dementia Patients (P3.219). Neurology. 82(10_supplement). 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Chiung‐Mei, et al.. (2013). Genetic Variations of GAK in Two Chinese Parkinson’s Disease Populations: A Case-Control Study. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e67506–e67506. 17 indexed citations

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Tan, Eng‐King, Stephanie Fook‐Chong, Hui Shen, et al.. (2006). Exploring an interaction of adenosine A2A receptor variability with coffee and tea intake in Parkinson's disease. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 141B(6). 634–636. 17 indexed citations

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Tan, Eng‐King. (2003). Autosomal Dominant Spinocerebellar Ataxias: An Asian Perspective. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques. 30(4). 361–367. 11 indexed citations

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