Hong Kai Lee

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 791 citations indexed

About

Hong Kai Lee is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Hong Kai Lee has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 791 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Epidemiology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Hong Kai Lee's work include Influenza Virus Research Studies (16 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (15 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (4 papers). Hong Kai Lee is often cited by papers focused on Influenza Virus Research Studies (16 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (15 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (4 papers). Hong Kai Lee collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United Kingdom and Canada. Hong Kai Lee's co-authors include Julian W. Tang, Chun Kiat Lee, Evelyn Siew-Chuan Koay, Lily Chiu, Tze Ping Loh, Evelyn S. C. Koay, Michelle Balm, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah, Lynette Oon and Hang Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Hong Kai Lee

32 papers receiving 779 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.

Unsupervised spatially embedded deep representation of spatial transcriptomics

2024 119 citations Hang Xu, Huazhu Fu et al. Genome Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hong Kai Lee Singapore	14	405	259	242	178	74	32	791
Chun Kiat Lee Singapore	14	206 0.5×	346 1.3×	205 0.8×	240 1.3×	37 0.5×	39	723
Lilian W. Waiboci Kenya	16	391 1.0×	307 1.2×	61 0.3×	99 0.6×	60 0.8×	22	795
Hào Pān China	15	201 0.5×	391 1.5×	112 0.5×	51 0.3×	48 0.6×	42	691
Venkata R. Duvvuri Canada	17	624 1.5×	513 2.0×	104 0.4×	138 0.8×	44 0.6×	36	1.0k
Apple C. M. Yeung Hong Kong	20	776 1.9×	274 1.1×	212 0.9×	27 0.2×	59 0.8×	38	1.1k
Velislava Petrova United Kingdom	10	641 1.6×	508 2.0×	231 1.0×	52 0.3×	116 1.6×	12	1.2k
Connor Bamford United Kingdom	11	230 0.6×	330 1.3×	86 0.4×	54 0.3×	38 0.5×	26	699
Qinlong Jing China	19	79 0.2×	650 2.5×	95 0.4×	619 3.5×	198 2.7×	47	1.1k
Haogao Gu Hong Kong	13	148 0.4×	854 3.3×	190 0.8×	52 0.3×	140 1.9×	33	1.1k
Hyeok-Il Kwon South Korea	19	736 1.8×	597 2.3×	182 0.8×	67 0.4×	66 0.9×	51	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Hong Kai Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hong Kai Lee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hong Kai Lee

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

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Chen, Yidan, Jian Zhang, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2025). Optimizing drug sensitivity assays in patient-derived tumor organoids: a comparison of IC50 estimation methods and experimental parameters. Biology Methods and Protocols. 10(1). bpaf012–bpaf012. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Hang, Huazhu Fu, Yahui Long, et al.. (2024). Unsupervised spatially embedded deep representation of spatial transcriptomics. Genome Medicine. 16(1). 12–12. 119 indexed citations breakdown →

Chong, Ka Chun, Tsz-cheung Lee, Seweryn Bialasiewicz, et al.. (2019). Association between meteorological variations and activities of influenza A and B across different climate zones: a multi-region modelling analysis across the globe. Journal of Infection. 80(1). 84–98. 70 indexed citations

Jayakumar, Jayanthi, Ian H. Mendenhall, Mahesh Moorthy, et al.. (2019). Divergent evolutionary trajectories of influenza B viruses underlie their contemporaneous epidemic activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(1). 619–628. 91 indexed citations

Lee, Chun Kiat, Hong Kai Lee, Nicholas Wong, et al.. (2018). Cost-benefit analysis of introducing next-generation sequencing (metagenomic) pathogen testing in the setting of pyrexia of unknown origin. PLoS ONE. 13(4). e0194648–e0194648. 13 indexed citations

Lee, Chun Kiat, Christopher Ng, Gabriel Yan, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of the Luminex ARIES HSV 1&2 Assay and Comparison with the FTD Neuro 9 and In-house Real-Time PCR Assays for Detecting Herpes Simplex Viruses. Annals of Laboratory Medicine. 38(5). 440–445. 7 indexed citations

Lee, Chun Kiat, Lily Chiu, Gabriel Yan, et al.. (2018). Comparison of cobas HCV GT against Versant HCV Genotype 2.0 (LiPA) with confirmation by Sanger sequencing. Journal of Virological Methods. 255. 8–13. 4 indexed citations

Ng, Christopher, Chun Kiat Lee, Zhaojin Chen, et al.. (2017). CEBPA mutational analysis in acute myeloid leukaemia by a laboratory-developed next-generation sequencing assay. Journal of Clinical Pathology. 71(6). 522–531. 12 indexed citations

Gunalan, Vithiagaran, et al.. (2017). Molecular Evidence of Transmission of Influenza A/H1N1 2009 on a University Campus. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0168596–e0168596. 5 indexed citations

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Siow, Wen Ting, Evelyn Siew-Chuan Koay, Chun Kiat Lee, et al.. (2016). The Use of Polymerase Chain Reaction Amplification for the Detection of Viruses and Bacteria in Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Respiration. 92(5). 286–294. 22 indexed citations

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Lee, Hong Kai, Julian W. Tang, Tze Ping Loh, Lynette Oon, & Evelyn Siew-Chuan Koay. (2015). Predicting clinical severity based on substitutions near epitope A of influenza A/H3N2. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 34. 292–297. 9 indexed citations

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Bychkov, Dmitrii, Christian Benner, Samuli Ripatti, et al.. (2015). Genome-Wide Analysis of Evolutionary Markers of Human Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2) Viruses May Guide Selection of Vaccine Strain Candidates. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(12). 3472–3483. 22 indexed citations

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Lee, Hong Kai, et al.. (2013). Simplified Large-Scale Sanger Genome Sequencing for Influenza A/H3N2 Virus. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e64785–e64785. 26 indexed citations

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Lee, Hong Kai, et al.. (2013). Comparison of Mutation Patterns in Full-Genome A/H3N2 Influenza Sequences Obtained Directly from Clinical Samples and the Same Samples after a Single MDCK Passage. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e79252–e79252. 44 indexed citations

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Lee, Chun Kiat, et al.. (2012). Detection of a Novel Single Nucleotide Polymorphism of the Human Thiopurine S-Methyltransferase Gene in a Chinese Individual. Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics. 27(5). 559–561. 8 indexed citations

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Lee, Hong Kai, et al.. (2012). A Universal Influenza A and B Duplex Real‐time RT‐PCR Assay. Journal of Medical Virology. 84(10). 1646–1651. 26 indexed citations

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Lee, Chun Kiat, et al.. (2012). An in‐house HIV genotyping assay for the detection of drug resistance mutations in Southeast Asian patients infected with HIV‐1. Journal of Medical Virology. 84(3). 394–401. 6 indexed citations

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Balm, Michelle, Chun Kiat Lee, Hong Kai Lee, et al.. (2012). A diagnostic polymerase chain reaction assay for Zika virus. Journal of Medical Virology. 84(9). 1501–1505. 153 indexed citations

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Tang, Julian W., Hong Kai Lee, Cui Lin, et al.. (2011). Mixtures of Oseltamivir-sensitive and -resistant Pandemic Influenza A/H1N1/2009 Viruses in Immunocompromised Hospitalized Children. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 30(7). 625–627. 5 indexed citations

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Lee, Hong Kai, Chun Kiat Lee, Tze Ping Loh, et al.. (2010). Diagnostic Testing for Pandemic Influenza in Singapore. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 12(5). 636–643. 30 indexed citations

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