Hua Ling

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Hua Ling is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Hua Ling has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Hua Ling's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (20 papers), Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (11 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (7 papers). Hua Ling is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (20 papers), Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (11 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (7 papers). Hua Ling collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and United States. Hua Ling's co-authors include Matthew Wook Chang, Jee Loon Foo, Susanna Su Jan Leong, Nazanin Saeidi, Yung Seng Lee, Tat‐Ming Lo, Binbin Chen, Aram Kang, Adison Wong and Hung Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Hua Ling

68 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Engineered commensals for targeted nose-to-brain drug delivery

2025 37 citations Haosheng Shen, Nikhil Aggarwal et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hua Ling Singapore	28	1.5k	394	341	303	164	70	2.2k
Tianyuan Zhang China	34	1.8k 1.2×	434 1.1×	197 0.6×	629 2.1×	181 1.1×	139	3.3k
Curt R. Fischer United States	23	2.1k 1.4×	497 1.3×	367 1.1×	404 1.3×	139 0.8×	41	2.9k
Ohsuk Kwon South Korea	28	1.8k 1.2×	234 0.6×	798 2.3×	162 0.5×	179 1.1×	71	2.4k
José Solbiati United States	17	1.1k 0.7×	384 1.0×	149 0.4×	310 1.0×	254 1.5×	24	1.8k
Birgitte Regenberg Denmark	30	2.6k 1.7×	474 1.2×	293 0.9×	556 1.8×	67 0.4×	65	3.3k
Tingyi Wen China	27	1.7k 1.1×	269 0.7×	437 1.3×	325 1.1×	315 1.9×	71	2.3k
Vicente Bernal Spain	23	1.4k 0.9×	242 0.6×	281 0.8×	88 0.3×	151 0.9×	47	2.0k
Suhyung Cho South Korea	29	2.1k 1.3×	406 1.0×	370 1.1×	170 0.6×	256 1.6×	77	2.6k
Tsunehiro Aki Japan	30	1.5k 1.0×	252 0.6×	348 1.0×	162 0.5×	112 0.7×	112	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Hua Ling

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hua Ling

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hua Ling

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

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Hossain, Gazi Sakir, Sandrine Alfenore, Stéphane Guillouet, et al.. (2025). Identification and monitoring of cell heterogeneity from plasmid recombination during limonene production. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 109(1). 4–4. 2 indexed citations

Shen, Haosheng, Changyu Zhang, Yuanmei Liang, et al.. (2024). Prodrug-conjugated tumor-seeking commensals for targeted cancer therapy. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4343–4343. 32 indexed citations

Chen, Weiwei, Chaolin Huang, Yongshan Zhang, et al.. (2022). A New Method for Rapid Subcellular Localization and Gene Function Analysis in Cotton Based on Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus. Plants. 11(13). 1765–1765. 5 indexed citations

Ling, Hua, et al.. (2022). Design and fabrication of field-deployable microbial biosensing devices. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 76. 102731–102731. 7 indexed citations

Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah, et al.. (2020). Development of a polymer-based antimicrobial coating for efficacious urinary catheter protection. National University of Singapore. 2. 1–10. 23 indexed citations

Chen, Binbin, Jee Loon Foo, Hua Ling, & Matthew Wook Chang. (2020). Mechanism-Driven Metabolic Engineering for Bio-Based Production of Free R-Lipoic Acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mitochondria. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 8. 965–965. 15 indexed citations

Tian, Baoming, Qi Zhang, Yinghui Shi, et al.. (2020). Ectopic overexpression of a cotton plastidial Na+ transporter GhBASS5 impairs salt tolerance in Arabidopsis via increasing Na+ loading and accumulation. Planta. 252(3). 41–41. 9 indexed citations

Xia, Peng‐Fei, Hua Ling, Jee Loon Foo, & Matthew Wook Chang. (2019). Synthetic genetic circuits for programmable biological functionalities. Biotechnology Advances. 37(6). 107393–107393. 88 indexed citations

Yu, Aiqun, et al.. (2019). Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica towards food waste bioremediation: Production of fatty acid ethyl esters from vegetable cooking oil. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 129(1). 31–40. 30 indexed citations

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Holzinger, Emily, Silke Szymczak, James D. Malley, et al.. (2016). Comparison of parametric and machine methods for variable selection in simulated Genetic Analysis Workshop 19 data. BMC Proceedings. 10(S7). 147–152. 2 indexed citations

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Jurgens, Julie A., Hua Ling, Kurt N. Hetrick, et al.. (2015). Assessment of incidental findings in 232 whole-exome sequences from the Baylor–Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics. Genetics in Medicine. 17(10). 782–788. 35 indexed citations

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Ling, Hua, et al.. (2013). Management capabilities and application of complex automated systems; pp. 30–46. 19(1). 30–46. 1 indexed citations

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Lo, Tat‐Ming, Wei Suong Teo, Hua Ling, et al.. (2013). Microbial engineering strategies to improve cell viability for biochemical production. Biotechnology Advances. 31(6). 903–914. 57 indexed citations

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Ling, Hua, et al.. (2013). A Predicted Immunity Protein Confers Resistance to Pyocin S5 in a Sensitive Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. ChemBioChem. 14(18). 2444–2446. 10 indexed citations

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Ling, Hua, Binbin Chen, Aram Kang, Jong‐Min Lee, & Matthew Wook Chang. (2013). Transcriptome response to alkane biofuels in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: identification of efflux pumps involved in alkane tolerance. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 6(1). 95–95. 67 indexed citations

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Kang, Aram, et al.. (2012). Systems-level characterization and engineering of oxidative stress tolerance in Escherichia coli under anaerobic conditions. Molecular BioSystems. 9(2). 285–295. 15 indexed citations

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Saeidi, Nazanin, Adison Wong, Tat‐Ming Lo, et al.. (2011). Engineering microbes to sense and eradicate Pseudomonas aeruginosa , a human pathogen. Molecular Systems Biology. 7(1). 521–521. 270 indexed citations

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Ling, Hua, et al.. (2010). The absence of the luxS gene increases swimming motility and flagella synthesis in Escherichia coli K12. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 401(4). 521–526. 34 indexed citations

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Choi, Yoon Ha, Choon-ho Park, Wanil Kim, et al.. (2010). Vaccinia-Related Kinase 1 Is Required for the Maintenance of Undifferentiated Spermatogonia in Mouse Male Germ Cells. PLoS ONE. 5(12). e15254–e15254. 25 indexed citations

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Qiao, Yan, Chang Ming Li, Zhisong Lu, et al.. (2009). A time-course transcriptome analysis of Escherichia coli with direct electrochemistry behavior in microbial fuel cells. Chemical Communications. 6183–6183. 22 indexed citations

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