Hongshing Lai

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Hongshing Lai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongshing Lai has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Plant Science and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Hongshing Lai's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (2 papers) and Oral microbiology and periodontitis research (1 paper). Hongshing Lai is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (2 papers) and Oral microbiology and periodontitis research (1 paper). Hongshing Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States and Costa Rica. Hongshing Lai's co-authors include Bruce A. Roe, Hua Zhu, Doris M. Kupfer, Fares Z. Najar, Shaoping Lin, Joseph J. Ferretti, Matthew B. Carson, Runying Tian, Dragana Ajdić and Yudong Qian and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Genetics and Journal of Experimental Botany.

In The Last Decade

Hongshing Lai

8 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Genome sequence of Streptococcus mutans UA159, a cariogenic dental pathogen

2002 840 citations Dragana Ajdić, W. Michael McShan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hongshing Lai United States	7	663	463	388	383	253	8	1.5k
Shaoping Lin United States	9	551 0.8×	466 1.0×	467 1.2×	186 0.5×	274 1.1×	11	1.3k
Masaaki Iwaki Japan	17	216 0.3×	109 0.2×	173 0.4×	98 0.3×	241 1.0×	57	1.1k
Xhavit Zogaj United States	12	1.1k 1.6×	68 0.1×	174 0.4×	145 0.4×	246 1.0×	15	1.8k
Lucy J. Holcombe United Kingdom	17	446 0.7×	238 0.5×	64 0.2×	247 0.6×	69 0.3×	37	940
Kyu Hong Cho United States	20	695 1.0×	44 0.1×	290 0.7×	104 0.3×	114 0.5×	33	1.2k
Nityananda Chowdhury United States	25	650 1.0×	180 0.4×	68 0.2×	85 0.2×	100 0.4×	45	1.9k
Melody N. Neely United States	29	593 0.9×	70 0.2×	632 1.6×	109 0.3×	225 0.9×	48	2.6k
Martyn L. Gilpin United Kingdom	13	237 0.4×	121 0.3×	82 0.2×	85 0.2×	52 0.2×	24	718
Ricardo Sérgio Almeida Brazil	20	414 0.6×	108 0.2×	56 0.1×	321 0.8×	470 1.9×	54	1.4k
Joe Don Heath United States	16	771 1.2×	24 0.1×	184 0.5×	266 0.7×	195 0.8×	20	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Hongshing Lai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hongshing Lai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hongshing Lai. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Hongshing Lai. The network helps show where Hongshing Lai may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongshing Lai

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Fabich, Andrew J., Mary P. Leatham, Graham B. Wiley, et al.. (2011). Genotype and Phenotypes of an Intestine-Adapted Escherichia coli K-12 Mutant Selected by Animal Passage for Superior Colonization. Infection and Immunity. 79(6). 2430–2439. 35 indexed citations

2.

Roossinck, Marilyn J., Prasenjit Saha, Graham B. Wiley, et al.. (2010). Ecogenomics: using massively parallel pyrosequencing to understand virus ecology. Molecular Ecology. 19(s1). 81–88. 183 indexed citations

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Durica, D S, Doris M. Kupfer, Fares Z. Najar, et al.. (2006). EST library sequencing of genes expressed during early limb regeneration in the fiddler crab and transcriptional responses to ecdysteroid exposure in limb bud explants. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46(6). 948–964. 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yan, M. A. Rouf Mian, Konstantin Chekhovskiy, et al.. (2005). Differential gene expression in Festuca under heat stress conditions. Journal of Experimental Botany. 56(413). 897–907. 90 indexed citations

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Kupfer, Doris M., Kent L. Buchanan, Hongshing Lai, et al.. (2004). Introns and Splicing Elements of Five Diverse Fungi. Eukaryotic Cell. 3(5). 1088–1100. 226 indexed citations

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Roe, B.A., Yun‐Fai Chris Lau, Shelly Oommen, et al.. (2003). Comparative Analysis of Human Chromosome 22q11.1-q12.3 with Syntenic Regions in the Chimpanzee, Baboon, Bovine, Mouse, Pufferfish, and Zebrafish Genomes. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 68(0). 265–274. 1 indexed citations

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Ajdić, Dragana, W. Michael McShan, Robert E. McLaughlin, et al.. (2002). Genome sequence of Streptococcus mutans UA159, a cariogenic dental pathogen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(22). 14434–14439. 840 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Hua, Minou Nowrousian, Doris M. Kupfer, et al.. (2001). Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags From Two Starvation, Time-of-Day-Specific Libraries of Neurospora crassa Reveals Novel Clock-Controlled Genes. Genetics. 157(3). 1057–1065. 67 indexed citations

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