Harris H. Wang

15.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
84 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Harris H. Wang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Harris H. Wang has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Genetics and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Harris H. Wang's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (30 papers), Gut microbiota and health (21 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). Harris H. Wang is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (30 papers), Gut microbiota and health (21 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). Harris H. Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Canada. Harris H. Wang's co-authors include George M. Church, Farren J. Isaacs, Peter A. Carr, Ravi U. Sheth, George Xu, Michael T. Mee, Craig R. Forest, Zachary Z. Sun, Yiming Huang and Sway P. Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Harris H. Wang

83 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

Programming cells by multiplex genome engineering and acc... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2013 2022 2022 2014 250 500 750 1000
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. Programming cells by multiplex genome engineering and accelerated evolution
    2009 1.2k citations Harris H. Wang, Farren J. Isaacs et al. Nature profile →
  2. Genomically Recoded Organisms Expand Biological Functions
    2013 645 citations J. G. Lajoie, Alexis J. Rovner et al. Science profile →
  3. Alarming antibody evasion properties of rising SARS-CoV-2 BQ and XBB subvariants
    2022 495 citations Qian Wang, Sho Iketani et al. Cell profile →
  4. Antibody evasion properties of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages
    2022 478 citations Sho Iketani, Lihong Liu et al. Nature profile →
  5. Syntrophic exchange in synthetic microbial communities
    2014 455 citations Michael T. Mee, George M. Church et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. CRISPR RNA-guided integrases for high-efficiency, multiplexed bacterial genome engineering
    2020 237 citations Phuc Leo H. Vo, Carlotta Ronda et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  7. Microbiota imbalance induced by dietary sugar disrupts immune-mediated protection from metabolic syndrome
    2022 208 citations Madeline Edwards, Yiming Huang et al. Cell profile →
  8. High-throughput microbial culturomics using automation and machine learning
    2023 138 citations Yiming Huang, Ravi U. Sheth et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  9. Antigenicity and receptor affinity of SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 spike
    2023 100 citations Qian Wang, Yicheng Guo et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Harris H. Wang
Morten Otto Alexander Sommer Denmark
Joshua Adkins United States
Takeshi Honda Japan
Ruifu Yang China
Michael A. Kohanski United States
Robert A. Holt Canada
Jörg Bernhardt Germany
Dieter Jahn Germany
Tanel Tenson Estonia
Urs A. Ochsner United States
Morten Otto Alexander Sommer Denmark
Harris H. Wang
Citations per year, relative to Harris H. Wang Harris H. Wang (= 1×) peers Morten Otto Alexander Sommer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Harris H. Wang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harris H. Wang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Harris H. Wang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Harris H. Wang 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 Harris H. Wang. Harris H. Wang 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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Gelsinger, Diego R., Carlotta Ronda, Madeline Edwards, et al.. (2025). Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases. Science. 390(6774). eadx7604–eadx7604. 2 indexed citations
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Araújo, Leandro P., Madeline Edwards, Yiming Huang, et al.. (2024). Context-dependent role of group 3 innate lymphoid cells in mucosal protection. Science Immunology. 9(98). eade7530–eade7530. 8 indexed citations
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Huang, Yiming, Ravi U. Sheth, Shijie Zhao, et al.. (2023). High-throughput microbial culturomics using automation and machine learning. Nature Biotechnology. 41(10). 1424–1433. 138 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Qian, Yicheng Guo, Liyuan Liu, et al.. (2023). Antigenicity and receptor affinity of SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 spike. Nature. 624(7992). 639–644. 100 indexed citations breakdown →
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Iketani, Sho, Lihong Liu, Yicheng Guo, et al.. (2022). Antibody evasion properties of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages. Nature. 604(7906). 553–556. 478 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Qian, Sho Iketani, Zhiteng Li, et al.. (2022). Alarming antibody evasion properties of rising SARS-CoV-2 BQ and XBB subvariants. Cell. 186(2). 279–286.e8. 495 indexed citations breakdown →
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Meng, Qing H., Qiuqiang Gao, Shebli Mehrazarin, et al.. (2021). Fusobacterium nucleatum secretes amyloid‐like FadA to enhance pathogenicity. EMBO Reports. 22(7). e52891–e52891. 110 indexed citations
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Doubleday, Peter F., Aarti Krishnan, Nathan I Johns, et al.. (2021). Extensive regulation of enzyme activity by phosphorylation in Escherichia coli. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5650–5650. 29 indexed citations
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Yim, Sung Sun, Nathan I Johns, Vincent Noireaux, & Harris H. Wang. (2020). Protecting Linear DNA Templates in Cell-Free Expression Systems from Diverse Bacteria. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(10). 2851–2855. 33 indexed citations
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Huang, Yiming, Ravi U. Sheth, Andrew Kaufman, & Harris H. Wang. (2019). Scalable and cost-effective ribonuclease-based rRNA depletion for transcriptomics. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(4). e20–e20. 31 indexed citations
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Ronda, Carlotta, Sway P. Chen, Vitor Cabral, Stephanie J. Yaung, & Harris H. Wang. (2019). Metagenomic engineering of the mammalian gut microbiome in situ. Nature Methods. 16(2). 167–170. 177 indexed citations
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Yim, Sung Sun, Nathan I Johns, Jimin Park, et al.. (2019). Multiplex transcriptional characterizations across diverse bacterial species using cell‐free systems. Molecular Systems Biology. 15(8). e8875–e8875. 58 indexed citations
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Chen, Sway P. & Harris H. Wang. (2019). An Engineered Cas-Transposon System for Programmable and Site-Directed DNA Transpositions. The CRISPR Journal. 2(6). 376–394. 31 indexed citations
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Johns, Nathan I, Antonio L. C. Gomes, Sung Sun Yim, et al.. (2018). Metagenomic mining of regulatory elements enables programmable species-selective gene expression. Nature Methods. 15(5). 323–329. 69 indexed citations
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Brunk, Elizabeth, Roger L. Chang, Jing Xia, et al.. (2018). Characterizing posttranslational modifications in prokaryotic metabolism using a multiscale workflow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(43). 11096–11101. 36 indexed citations
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Sheth, Ravi U., Sung Sun Yim, Felix L. Wu, & Harris H. Wang. (2017). Multiplex recording of cellular events over time on CRISPR biological tape. Science. 358(6369). 1457–1461. 131 indexed citations
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Butler, Craig, Anamaria Savu, Jeffrey A. Bakal, et al.. (2015). Correlation of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging findings and endomyocardial biopsy results in patients undergoing screening for heart transplant rejection. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 34(5). 643–650. 68 indexed citations
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Lajoie, J. G., Alexis J. Rovner, Daniel B. Goodman, et al.. (2013). Genomically Recoded Organisms Expand Biological Functions. Science. 342(6156). 357–360. 645 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mee, Michael T. & Harris H. Wang. (2012). Engineering ecosystems and synthetic ecologies. Molecular BioSystems. 8(10). 2470–2483. 94 indexed citations
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Wang, Harris H. & George M. Church. (2011). Multiplexed Genome Engineering and Genotyping Methods. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 498. 409–426. 105 indexed citations

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