James Ng

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 770 citations indexed

About

James Ng is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Oncology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, James Ng has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 770 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Infectious Diseases, 3 papers in Oncology and 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in James Ng's work include Viral Infections and Vectors (4 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (3 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (3 papers). James Ng is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Vectors (4 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (3 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (3 papers). James Ng collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. James Ng's co-authors include W. Ian Lipkin, Harold E. Guard, Roy B. Laughlin, Nischay Mishra, Simon H. Williams, Bohyun Lee, Xiaoyu Che, Nishit Bhuva, Meera Bhat and Peter Simmonds and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Journal of Immunology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

James Ng

17 papers receiving 745 citations

Hit Papers

Detection of Zoonotic Pathogens and Characterization of N... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 50 100 150 200 250
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. Detection of Zoonotic Pathogens and Characterization of Novel Viruses Carried by Commensal Rattus norvegicus in New York City
    2014 296 citations Cadhla Firth, Meera Bhat et al. mBio profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Ng United States 8 340 170 166 125 111 19 770
Paola Modesto Italy 18 282 0.8× 77 0.5× 56 0.3× 91 0.7× 99 0.9× 66 923
Cristina Esmeralda Di Francesco Italy 19 168 0.5× 120 0.7× 142 0.9× 58 0.5× 278 2.5× 61 998
Magdalena Larska Poland 20 461 1.4× 70 0.4× 107 0.6× 75 0.6× 105 0.9× 83 1.0k
Tibor Papp Hungary 18 277 0.8× 109 0.6× 124 0.7× 83 0.7× 170 1.5× 51 812
Anne Sofie Hammer Denmark 15 444 1.3× 86 0.5× 279 1.7× 88 0.7× 221 2.0× 49 941
Aleksija Neimanis Sweden 16 401 1.2× 43 0.3× 286 1.7× 84 0.7× 166 1.5× 46 883
Melissa Kennedy United States 21 645 1.9× 82 0.5× 468 2.8× 66 0.5× 373 3.4× 62 1.3k
Claudia Schulz Germany 19 539 1.6× 117 0.7× 91 0.5× 65 0.5× 200 1.8× 53 1.2k
Gema Lorenzo Spain 24 862 2.5× 190 1.1× 68 0.4× 133 1.1× 114 1.0× 44 1.3k
Debasis Panda United States 21 321 0.9× 300 1.8× 103 0.6× 133 1.1× 258 2.3× 31 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by James Ng

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Ng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by James Ng. 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 James Ng. The network helps show where James Ng may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Ng

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Narayan, Rohan, et al.. (2025). Gut infection and dysbiosis are hallmarks of severe SARS-CoV-2 variants. PubMed. 3(1). 74–74.
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Mishra, Nischay, Nobuko Hijiya, James Ng, et al.. (2023). High-throughput Sequencing to Identify Bacteremia in Children with Cancer. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 42(8). 695–697. 1 indexed citations
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Mishra, Nischay, James Ng, Mark A. Strom, et al.. (2022). Human Polyomavirus 9—An Emerging Cutaneous and Pulmonary Pathogen in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. JAMA Dermatology. 158(3). 293–293. 5 indexed citations
4.
Thakkar, Riddhi, James Ng, David Bearden, et al.. (2022). Compassionate-use pocapavir and immunoglobulin therapy for treatment of rituximab-associated enterovirus meningoencephalitis. Journal of NeuroVirology. 28(2). 329–334. 7 indexed citations
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Mishra, Mitali, Lokendra V. Chauhan, Riddhi Thakkar, et al.. (2022). A Short Series of Case Reports of COVID-19 in Immunocompromised Patients. Viruses. 14(5). 934–934. 4 indexed citations
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Mishra, Nischay, Cheng Guo, James Ng, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Immunoreactive peptide maps of SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses. Communications Biology. 4(1). 339–339. 3 indexed citations
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Mishra, Nischay, Cheng Guo, James Ng, et al.. (2021). Immunoreactive peptide maps of SARS-CoV-2. Communications Biology. 4(1). 225–225. 38 indexed citations
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Mishra, Mitali, Stephen Sameroff, Alexandra Petrosov, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 Sequence Analysis during COVID-19 Case Surge, Liberia, 2021. Emerging infectious diseases. 27(12). 3185–3188. 4 indexed citations
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Mishra, Nischay, Riddhi Thakkar, James Ng, & W. Ian Lipkin. (2020). Zika Virus Peptide ELISA (ZIKV-NS2B-Concat ELISA) for Detection of IgG Antibodies to Zika Virus Infection. Methods in molecular biology. 2142. 113–122. 10 indexed citations
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Mishra, Nischay, Terry Fei Fan Ng, Rachel L. Marine, et al.. (2019). Antibodies to Enteroviruses in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Acute Flaccid Myelitis. mBio. 10(4). 63 indexed citations
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Mishra, Nischay, James Ng, Jennifer L. Rakeman, et al.. (2019). One-step pentaplex real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for detection of zika, dengue, chikungunya, West nile viruses and a human housekeeping gene. Journal of Clinical Virology. 120. 44–50. 16 indexed citations
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Mishra, Nischay, Shamsudeen F. Fagbo, Abdulaziz N. Alagaili, et al.. (2019). A viral metagenomic survey identifies known and novel mammalian viruses in bats from Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE. 14(4). e0214227–e0214227. 28 indexed citations
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Bacharach, Eran, Nischay Mishra, Thomas Briese, et al.. (2016). Characterization of a Novel Orthomyxo-like Virus Causing Mass Die-Offs of Tilapia. mBio. 7(2). e00431–16. 195 indexed citations
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Firth, Cadhla, Meera Bhat, Matthew A. Firth, et al.. (2014). Detection of Zoonotic Pathogens and Characterization of Novel Viruses Carried by Commensal Rattus norvegicus in New York City. mBio. 5(5). e01933–14. 296 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guard, Harold E., James Ng, & Roy B. Laughlin. (1983). Characterization of Gasolines, Diesel Fuels and Their Water Soluble Fractions. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations
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Laughlin, Roy B., James Ng, & Harold E. Guard. (1981). Hormesis: A Response to Low Environmental Concentrations of Petroleum Hydrocarbons. Science. 211(4483). 705–707. 89 indexed citations
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Ng, James, et al.. (1977). Assessment and Significance of Sediment-Associated Oil and Grease in Aquatic Environments.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations
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Vedros, Neylan A., et al.. (1975). Fractionation and Characterization of Surface Antigens from Group a Neisseria Meningitidis. The Journal of Immunology. 114(5). 1497–1505. 1 indexed citations
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Vedros, Neylan A., et al.. (1968). A New Serological Group (E) ofNeisseria meningitidis. Journal of Bacteriology. 95(4). 1300–1304. 7 indexed citations

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