Jason Cheng

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Jason Cheng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason Cheng has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Jason Cheng's work include Virus-based gene therapy research (5 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (2 papers). Jason Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Virus-based gene therapy research (5 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (2 papers). Jason Cheng collaborates with scholars based in United States and Switzerland. Jason Cheng's co-authors include Amy J. Wagers, Kexian Zhu, Mohammadsharif Tabebordbar, George M. Church, Wei Leong Chew, Le Cong, Luk H. Vandenberghe, Ru Xiao, Feng Zhang and Jeffrey J. Widrick and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Jason Cheng

9 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

In vivo gene editing in dystrophic mouse muscle and muscl... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2016 250 500 750
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. In vivo gene editing in dystrophic mouse muscle and muscle stem cells
    2015 788 citations Mohammadsharif Tabebordbar, Kexian Zhu et al. Science profile →
  2. A multifunctional AAV–CRISPR–Cas9 and its host response
    2016 479 citations Wei Leong Chew, Mohammadsharif Tabebordbar et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers

Jason Cheng
Michael A. Collingwood United States
Wei-Hsi Yeh United States
Taeyoung Koo South Korea
Rolf Turk United States
Manuel A.F.V. Gonçalves Netherlands
Siyuan Tan United States
Kayeong Lim South Korea
Josephine M. Janssen Netherlands
Danny F. Xia United States
Jean-Baptiste Renaud France
Michael A. Collingwood United States
Jason Cheng
Citations per year, relative to Jason Cheng Jason Cheng (= 1×) peers Michael A. Collingwood

Countries citing papers authored by Jason Cheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jason Cheng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jason Cheng

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

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Wang, Chengkun, et al.. (2022). dCas9-based gene editing for cleavage-free genomic knock-in of long sequences. Nature Cell Biology. 24(2). 268–278. 52 indexed citations
2.
Wang, Chengkun, Qiong Xia, Stephen Su, et al.. (2022). CRISPR-Cas12a System With Synergistic Phage Recombination Proteins for Multiplex Precision Editing in Human Cells. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 719705–719705. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Chengkun, Jason Cheng, Nicholas W. Hughes, et al.. (2020). Microbial single-strand annealing proteins enable CRISPR gene-editing tools with improved knock-in efficiencies and reduced off-target effects. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(6). e36–e36. 25 indexed citations
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Goldstein, Jill M., Mohammadsharif Tabebordbar, Kexian Zhu, et al.. (2019). In Situ Modification of Tissue Stem and Progenitor Cell Genomes. Cell Reports. 27(4). 1254–1264.e7. 35 indexed citations
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Chew, Wei Leong, Mohammadsharif Tabebordbar, Jason Cheng, et al.. (2016). A multifunctional AAV–CRISPR–Cas9 and its host response. Nature Methods. 13(10). 868–874. 479 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tabebordbar, Mohammadsharif, Kexian Zhu, Jason Cheng, et al.. (2015). In vivo gene editing in dystrophic mouse muscle and muscle stem cells. Science. 351(6271). 407–411. 788 indexed citations breakdown →
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Oliver, Stefan L., Marvin Sommer, Mike Reichelt, et al.. (2011). Mutagenesis of Varicella-Zoster Virus Glycoprotein I (gI) Identifies a Cysteine Residue Critical for gE/gI Heterodimer Formation, gI Structure, and Virulence in Skin Cells. Journal of Virology. 85(9). 4095–4110. 18 indexed citations
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Zerboni, Leigh, Marvin Sommer, Hideki Ito, et al.. (2004). Analysis of varicella zoster virus attenuation by evaluation of chimeric parent Oka/vaccine Oka recombinant viruses in skin xenografts in the SCIDhu mouse model. Virology. 332(1). 337–346. 46 indexed citations
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Hahn, Francis J., et al.. (1999). Direct identification of ventrointermediate nucleus of the thalamus on magnetic resonance and computed tomography images. Surgical Neurology. 51(6). 674–678. 13 indexed citations

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