Jean Fan

24.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
73 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Jean Fan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jean Fan has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 27 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Jean Fan's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (24 papers), Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (22 papers) and Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies (9 papers). Jean Fan is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (24 papers), Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (22 papers) and Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies (9 papers). Jean Fan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Jean Fan's co-authors include Fan Zhang, Kamil Slowikowski, Nghia Millard, Ilya Korsunsky, Yuriy Baglaenko, Po‐Ru Loh, Kevin Wei, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Michael B. Brenner and Xiaowei Zhuang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jean Fan

62 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

Fast, sensitive and accurate integration of single-cell data with Harmony

2019 4.1k citations Ilya Korsunsky, Nghia Millard et al. Nature Methods profile →
Integrative single-cell analysis of transcriptional and epigenetic states in the human adult brain

2017 569 citations Blue B. Lake, Song Chen et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Spatial transcriptome profiling by MERFISH reveals subcellular RNA compartmentalization and cell cycle-dependent gene expression

2019 436 citations Jean Fan, Xiaowei Zhuang et al. profile →
Afatinib versus gefitinib in patients with EGFR mutation-positive advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: overall survival data from the phase IIb LUX-Lung 7 trial

2017 398 citations Luis Paz‐Ares, Kenneth J. O’Byrne et al. Annals of Oncology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jean Fan United States	19	4.7k	1.7k	1.3k	1.2k	947	73	7.0k
Sara Aibar Belgium	14	4.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	592 0.6×	17	6.1k
Gert Hulselmans Belgium	22	4.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	458 0.5×	30	6.3k
Shuqiang Li United States	21	4.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	852 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	431 0.5×	44	6.1k
Timm Schroeder Switzerland	54	5.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	945 0.8×	409 0.4×	166	9.9k
Suoqin Jin China	17	3.0k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	1.0k 0.8×	769 0.6×	696 0.7×	34	5.4k
Kevin Wei United States	14	3.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	857 0.7×	486 0.5×	23	5.6k
Andrew J. Hill United States	11	4.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	827 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	487 0.5×	13	6.3k
Kamil Slowikowski United States	12	3.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	763 0.6×	771 0.6×	445 0.5×	17	5.0k
Manu Setty United States	21	3.2k 0.7×	2.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	417 0.4×	31	6.0k
Hannah A. Pliner United States	13	5.1k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	671 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	362 0.4×	14	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Jean Fan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jean Fan

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Macaluso, Nicolas C., Yukang Li, Bartholomew Starich, et al.. (2025). Single-cell morphology encodes functional subtypes of senescence in aging human dermal fibroblasts. Science Advances. 11(17). eads1875–eads1875. 3 indexed citations

Qi, Ziyuan, et al.. (2025). Integrated Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Analysis Reveals Mechanisms Underlying Melanotic Spot Formation in Red Tilapia (Oreochromis spp.). International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(9). 4370–4370.

Brusko, Maigan A., Lyla Atta, Mark A. Atkinson, et al.. (2025). Characterizing cell-type spatial relationships across length scales in spatially resolved omics data. Nature Communications. 16(1). 350–350. 1 indexed citations

Fan, Jean. (2025). Revisiting the somatic mutation theory of cancer pathogenesis. Nature Reviews Genetics. 27(2). 116–116.

Atta, Lyla, et al.. (2024). SEraster: a rasterization preprocessing framework for scalable spatial omics data analysis. Bioinformatics. 40(7). 3 indexed citations

Subudhi, Sumit K., Chih‐Yi Liao, Shun Zhang, et al.. (2024). The efficacy and safety of tinengotinib in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(4_suppl). 133–133.

Trouvé, Alain, Laurent Younès, Michael Kunst, et al.. (2024). Cross-modality mapping using image varifolds to align tissue-scale atlases to molecular-scale measures with application to 2D brain sections. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3530–3530. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Panpan, Jifang Gong, Zuoxing Niu, et al.. (2024). Tinengotinib (TT-00420) in combination with atezolizumab in Chinese patients (pts) with biliary tract carcinoma (BTC): Preliminary efficacy and safety results from a phase Ib/II study.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(3_suppl). 473–473. 1 indexed citations

Fan, Jean. (2023). Why it’s worth making computational methods easy to use. Nature. 1 indexed citations

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Miller, Brendan, Feiyang Huang, Lyla Atta, Arpan Sahoo, & Jean Fan. (2022). Reference-free cell type deconvolution of multi-cellular pixel-resolution spatially resolved transcriptomics data. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2339–2339. 104 indexed citations

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Atta, Lyla, Arpan Sahoo, & Jean Fan. (2021). VeloViz: RNA velocity-informed embeddings for visualizing cellular trajectories. Bioinformatics. 38(2). 391–396. 10 indexed citations

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Miller, Brendan, Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, Catherine Dulac, Xiaowei Zhuang, & Jean Fan. (2021). Characterizing spatial gene expression heterogeneity in spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomic data with nonuniform cellular densities. Genome Research. 31(10). 1843–1855. 81 indexed citations

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Fan, Jean, Kamil Slowikowski, & Fan Zhang. (2020). Single-cell transcriptomics in cancer: computational challenges and opportunities. Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 52(9). 1452–1465. 122 indexed citations

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Korsunsky, Ilya, Nghia Millard, Jean Fan, et al.. (2019). Fast, sensitive and accurate integration of single-cell data with Harmony. Nature Methods. 16(12). 1289–1296. 4105 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fan, Jean. (2019). Differential Pathway Analysis. Methods in molecular biology. 1935. 97–114. 2 indexed citations

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Lake, Blue B., Song Chen, Brandon C. Sos, et al.. (2017). Integrative single-cell analysis of transcriptional and epigenetic states in the human adult brain. Nature Biotechnology. 36(1). 70–80. 569 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schüler, Martin, Luis Paz‐Ares, Lecia V. Sequist, et al.. (2017). First-line afatinib for advanced EGFRm+ NSCLC: Analysis of long-term responders (LTRs) in the LUX-Lung (LL) 3, 6 and 7 trials. Annals of Oncology. 28. ii33–ii33. 2 indexed citations

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Park, K., E.H. Tan, L. Zhang, et al.. (2016). 440O Afatinib (A) vs gefitinib (G) in patients (pts) with EGFR mutation-positive (EGFRm +) NSCLC: overall survival (OS) sdata from LUX-Lung 7 (LL7). Annals of Oncology. 27. ix140–ix141.

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Paz‐Ares, Luis, E.H. Tan, L. Zhang, et al.. (2016). Afatinib (A) vs gefitinib (G) in patients (pts) with EGFR mutation-positive (EGFRm+) non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC): overall survival (OS) data from the phase IIb trial LUX-Lung 7 (LL7). Annals of Oncology. 27. vi580–vi580. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaochang, Ming Hui Chen, Xuebing Wu, et al.. (2016). Cell-Type-Specific Alternative Splicing Governs Cell Fate in the Developing Cerebral Cortex. Cell. 166(5). 1147–1162.e15. 231 indexed citations

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