Joy E. Horng

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 851 citations indexed

About

Joy E. Horng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Joy E. Horng has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 851 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Neurology and 2 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Joy E. Horng's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (4 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers). Joy E. Horng is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (4 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers). Joy E. Horng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Sweden. Joy E. Horng's co-authors include J. Keith Joung, Jonathan Y. Hsu, Y. Esther Tak, Benjamin P. Kleinstiver, Luca Pinello, Kendell Clement, Marcela V. Maus, Martin J. Aryee, Russell T. Walton and Jose Malagon-Lopez and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Biotechnology and Development.

In The Last Decade

Joy E. Horng

12 papers receiving 840 citations

Hit Papers

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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 CRISPR–Cas12a variants with increased activities and improved targeting ranges for gene, epigenetic and base editing

2019 453 citations Benjamin P. Kleinstiver, Alexander A. Sousa et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
CRISPR prime editing with ribonucleoprotein complexes in zebrafish and primary human cells

2021 150 citations Karl Petri, Weiting Zhang et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joy E. Horng United States	7	789	147	95	81	61	12	851
Madelynn N. Whittaker United States	6	852 1.1×	204 1.4×	135 1.4×	79 1.0×	57 0.9×	7	892
Nicola A. Kearns United States	7	798 1.0×	135 0.9×	58 0.6×	69 0.9×	82 1.3×	10	858
Tanglong Yuan China	9	1.1k 1.3×	299 2.0×	114 1.2×	104 1.3×	49 0.8×	13	1.1k
Gemma L. Curie United States	2	751 1.0×	168 1.1×	73 0.8×	65 0.8×	95 1.6×	3	787
Joshua B. Black United States	8	887 1.1×	182 1.2×	57 0.6×	42 0.5×	60 1.0×	9	964
Chunlong Xu China	14	725 0.9×	160 1.1×	62 0.7×	54 0.7×	30 0.5×	25	787
Xinde Hu China	12	877 1.1×	270 1.8×	70 0.7×	72 0.9×	37 0.6×	14	967
Paula Dobrinić United Kingdom	6	800 1.0×	181 1.2×	94 1.0×	38 0.5×	43 0.7×	9	875
Joonsun Lee South Korea	7	496 0.6×	90 0.6×	55 0.6×	60 0.7×	44 0.7×	8	526
Ramu Gopalappa South Korea	7	951 1.2×	335 2.3×	41 0.4×	89 1.1×	55 0.9×	9	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joy E. Horng

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12 of 12 papers shown

Yagi, Masaki, Gracia Bonilla, Nikolaos Tsopoulidis, et al.. (2025). Bivalent chromatin instructs lineage specification during hematopoiesis. Cell. 188(16). 4314–4331.e29. 3 indexed citations

Shook, Lydia L., Rebecca Batorsky, Rose M. De Guzman, et al.. (2024). Maternal SARS-CoV-2 impacts fetal placental macrophage programs and placenta-derived microglial models of neurodevelopment. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 21(1). 163–163. 6 indexed citations

Horng, Joy E., et al.. (2024). Manipulating cell fate through reprogramming: approaches and applications. Development. 151(19). 4 indexed citations

Sheridan, Steven D., Joy E. Horng, Hana Yeh, et al.. (2023). Loss of Function in the Neurodevelopmental Disease and Schizophrenia-Associated Gene CYFIP1 in Human Microglia-like Cells Supports a Functional Role in Synaptic Engulfment. Biological Psychiatry. 95(7). 676–686. 5 indexed citations

Sheridan, Steven D., Joy E. Horng, & Roy H. Perlis. (2022). Patient-Derived In Vitro Models of Microglial Function and Synaptic Engulfment in Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 92(6). 470–479. 21 indexed citations

Tak, Y. Esther, Gaylor Boulay, Sowmya Iyer, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide functional perturbation of human microsatellite repeats using engineered zinc finger transcription factors. Cell Genomics. 2(4). 100119–100119. 7 indexed citations

Sheridan, Steven D., Jessica M. Thanos, Rose M. De Guzman, et al.. (2021). Umbilical cord blood-derived microglia-like cells to model COVID-19 exposure. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 179–179. 17 indexed citations

Tak, Y. Esther, Joy E. Horng, Nicholas T. Perry, et al.. (2021). Augmenting and directing long-range CRISPR-mediated activation in human cells. Nature Methods. 18(9). 1075–1081. 19 indexed citations

Petri, Karl, Weiting Zhang, Junyan Ma, et al.. (2021). CRISPR prime editing with ribonucleoprotein complexes in zebrafish and primary human cells. Nature Biotechnology. 40(2). 189–193. 150 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., Alexander A. Sousa, Russell T. Walton, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Engineered CRISPR–Cas12a variants with increased activities and improved targeting ranges for gene, epigenetic and base editing. Nature Biotechnology. 38(7). 901–901. 6 indexed citations

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Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., Alexander A. Sousa, Russell T. Walton, et al.. (2019). Engineered CRISPR–Cas12a variants with increased activities and improved targeting ranges for gene, epigenetic and base editing. Nature Biotechnology. 37(3). 276–282. 453 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tak, Y. Esther, Benjamin P. Kleinstiver, James K. Nuñez, et al.. (2017). Inducible and multiplex gene regulation using CRISPR–Cpf1-based transcription factors. Nature Methods. 14(12). 1163–1166. 160 indexed citations

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