Insuk Lee

12.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
148 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Insuk Lee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Insuk Lee has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Genetics and 12 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Insuk Lee's work include Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (60 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (31 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers). Insuk Lee is often cited by papers focused on Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (60 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (31 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers). Insuk Lee collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and United Kingdom. Insuk Lee's co-authors include Edward M. Marcotte, Sohyun Hwang, Jung Eun Shim, Eiru Kim, Sunmo Yang, Chan Yeong Kim, Shailesh V. Date, Alex Adai, Hyojin Kim and Matthew E. Hurles and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Insuk Lee

132 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

TRRUST v2: an expanded reference database of human and mouse transcriptional regulatory interactions

2017 1.2k citations Hyojin Kim, Insuk Lee et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
A Probabilistic Functional Network of Yeast Genes

2004 503 citations Insuk Lee et al. profile →
Prioritizing candidate disease genes by network-based boosting of genome-wide association data

2011 498 citations Insuk Lee et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Insuk Lee South Korea	40	5.4k	1.2k	785	698	591	148	7.6k
Wing‐Kin Sung Singapore	45	6.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	823 1.2×	692 1.2×	211	8.6k
Daniele Merico Canada	31	3.8k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	372 0.5×	719 1.2×	78	6.6k
Ben Lehner Spain	53	7.1k 1.3×	2.3k 1.8×	1.2k 1.5×	655 0.9×	281 0.5×	119	9.1k
Helen Parkinson United Kingdom	32	6.1k 1.1×	2.8k 2.2×	942 1.2×	419 0.6×	446 0.8×	113	9.1k
Frank C. P. Holstege Netherlands	54	8.9k 1.6×	1.1k 0.9×	835 1.1×	722 1.0×	801 1.4×	156	11.1k
Sridhar Hannenhalli United States	43	4.7k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	512 0.7×	834 1.2×	586 1.0×	148	6.4k
Jennifer Listgarten United States	26	4.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	283 0.4×	587 0.8×	543 0.9×	51	6.1k
Suzanna Lewis United States	36	8.4k 1.5×	1.8k 1.4×	648 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	467 0.8×	63	10.9k
Nathan E. Lewis United States	51	9.4k 1.7×	1.5k 1.2×	532 0.7×	305 0.4×	608 1.0×	181	11.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Insuk Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Insuk Lee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Insuk Lee

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

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Hong, Min Hee, Gamin Kim, Yoon Woo Koh, et al.. (2025). Comparative single‐cell analysis of esophageal cancer subtypes reveals tumor microenvironment distinctions explaining varied immunotherapy responses. Cancer Communications. 45(9). 1194–1199. 2 indexed citations

Sim, Nam Suk, Gamin Kim, Dahee Kim, et al.. (2025). 4-1BB+ Tregs and inhibitory progenitor exhausted T cells confer resistance to anti-PD-L1 and anti-CTLA-4 combination therapy. Cell Reports Medicine. 6(10). 102408–102408.

Song, Kyungwoo, et al.. (2025). Single-cell foundation models: bringing artificial intelligence into cell biology. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 57(10). 2169–2181. 1 indexed citations

Gupta, Vinod K., Benjamin Hur, Kevin Y. Cunningham, et al.. (2024). Gut Microbiome Wellness Index 2 enhances health status prediction from gut microbiome taxonomic profiles. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7447–7447. 14 indexed citations

Nguyen, Hai P., Yien–Ming Kuo, Sarah Fong, et al.. (2024). Integrative single-cell characterization of a frugivorous and an insectivorous bat kidney and pancreas. Nature Communications. 15(1). 12–12. 13 indexed citations

Lee, Insuk, et al.. (2023). The effects and challenges of alcohol use disorder peer support service in South Korea: A focus group study. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 33(1). 159–165. 1 indexed citations

Cho, Jae-Won, et al.. (2022). scHumanNet: a single-cell network analysis platform for the study of cell-type specificity of disease genes. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(2). e8–e8. 10 indexed citations

Kwon, Kee Woong, Kyung Soo Kim, Insuk Lee, et al.. (2022). Viral coinfection promotes tuberculosis immunopathogenesis by type I IFN signaling-dependent impediment of Th1 cell pulmonary influx. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3155–3155. 19 indexed citations

Lee, Insuk, et al.. (2020). A Study on the Internet Game and Smartphone Usage of the Senior Elementary School Students. Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society. 21(10). 421–432. 2 indexed citations

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Son, Jimin, Jihyun Moon, Hoyoung Lee, et al.. (2020). Tumor-Infiltrating Regulatory T-cell Accumulation in the Tumor Microenvironment Is Mediated by IL33/ST2 Signaling. Cancer Immunology Research. 8(11). 1393–1406. 38 indexed citations

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Cho, A‐Ra, Junha Shin, Sohyun Hwang, et al.. (2014). WormNet v3: a network-assisted hypothesis-generating server for Caenorhabditis elegans. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(W1). W76–W82. 45 indexed citations

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Shin, Junha, Tak Lee, Hanhae Kim, & Insuk Lee. (2013). Complementarity between distance- and probability-based methods of gene neighbourhood identification for pathway reconstruction. Molecular BioSystems. 10(1). 24–29. 20 indexed citations

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Lee, Insuk, et al.. (2013). The Production Process of Whole Garments and the Development Case of Knitwear - Focused on the SWG-X machine -. Fashion business. 17(1). 81–97. 4 indexed citations

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Kim, Eiru, Jae‐Yoon Shin, & Insuk Lee. (2010). Assessment of effectiveness of the network-guided genetic screen. Molecular BioSystems. 6(10). 1803–1806. 3 indexed citations

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Lee, Dongseop, et al.. (2009). A New Approach to Management Studies：Application of Positive Psychology. 17(2). 307–339.

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Lee, Insuk, et al.. (2009). Board Attributes and Firm Performance：Revisiting Board’s Roles. 17(2). 195–228. 1 indexed citations

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Lee, Insuk, et al.. (2007). A Study on the Effect of Job Burnout- Based on the Professions Working in Financial Companies. Korean Journal of Business Administration. 20(6). 2879–2900. 4 indexed citations

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Cho, Kil Ho, et al.. (1999). Asymptotic Relative Efficiencies of the Nonparametric Relative Risk Estimators for the Two Sample Proportional Hazard Model. Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society. 10(1). 103–110.

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Lee, Insuk, et al.. (1996). Comparison of Interval Estimations for P(XJournal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society. 7(1). 93–104. 1 indexed citations

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Lee, Insuk, et al.. (1996). Multi-Level Skip-Lot Sampling Plan-Average Fraction Inspected Properties. Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods. 3(2). 151–159. 1 indexed citations

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