Junhong Choi

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Junhong Choi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Junhong Choi has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Junhong Choi's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (23 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers). Junhong Choi is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (23 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers). Junhong Choi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Israel. Junhong Choi's co-authors include Joseph D. Puglisi, Arjun Prabhakar, Alexey Petrov, Jinfan Wang, Wei Chen, Jay Shendure, Beth Martin, Choli Lee, Florence M. Chardon and Riza M. Daza and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Junhong Choi

30 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Precise genomic deletions using paired prime editing 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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. Precise genomic deletions using paired prime editing
    2021 179 citations Junhong Choi, Wei Chen et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Junhong Choi United States 17 1.1k 185 113 73 66 31 1.2k
Seán E. O’Leary United States 18 1.0k 0.9× 148 0.8× 59 0.5× 114 1.6× 61 0.9× 27 1.2k
Christophe Maris Switzerland 13 1.5k 1.3× 119 0.6× 129 1.1× 82 1.1× 125 1.9× 15 1.6k
Roberto Galletto United States 21 1.2k 1.0× 352 1.9× 49 0.4× 40 0.5× 107 1.6× 48 1.3k
Charlotte R. Knudsen Denmark 18 813 0.7× 206 1.1× 57 0.5× 45 0.6× 48 0.7× 46 958
Katarzyna J. Purzycka Poland 15 1.0k 0.9× 75 0.4× 98 0.9× 65 0.9× 131 2.0× 27 1.2k
Sarah F. Mitchell United States 14 1.8k 1.5× 94 0.5× 121 1.1× 58 0.8× 57 0.9× 20 1.9k
Eric J. Tomko United States 15 963 0.8× 234 1.3× 83 0.7× 18 0.2× 95 1.4× 22 1.0k
Ryuya Fukunaga United States 24 1.6k 1.4× 212 1.1× 179 1.6× 102 1.4× 220 3.3× 46 1.9k
Masayuki Takahashi Japan 18 892 0.8× 189 1.0× 107 0.9× 33 0.5× 33 0.5× 47 1.1k
Seung‐Joo Lee United States 14 1.0k 0.9× 286 1.5× 21 0.2× 32 0.4× 76 1.2× 26 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Junhong Choi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Junhong Choi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Junhong Choi

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McDiarmid, Troy A., Wei Chen, Florence M. Chardon, et al.. (2025). A parts list of promoters and gRNA scaffolds for mammalian genome engineering and molecular recording. Nature Biotechnology.
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Choi, Junhong, Wei Chen, Hanna Liao, Xiaoyi Li, & Jay Shendure. (2025). A molecular proximity sensor based on an engineered, dual-component guide RNA. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei & Junhong Choi. (2025). Molecular circuits for genomic recording of cellular events. Trends in Genetics. 41(8). 647–659. 4 indexed citations
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Choi, Junhong, Wei Chen, Hanna Liao, Xiaoyi Li, & Jay Shendure. (2024). A molecular proximity sensor based on an engineered, dual-component guide RNA. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaoyi, Wei Chen, Beth Martin, et al.. (2024). Chromatin context-dependent regulation and epigenetic manipulation of prime editing. Cell. 187(10). 2411–2427.e25. 35 indexed citations
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Liao, Hanna, Junhong Choi, & Jay Shendure. (2024). Molecular recording using DNA Typewriter. Nature Protocols. 19(10). 2833–2862. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, Junhong Choi, Xiaoyi Li, et al.. (2024). Symbolic recording of signalling and cis-regulatory element activity to DNA. Nature. 632(8027). 1073–1081. 20 indexed citations
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Askary, Amjad, Wei Chen, Junhong Choi, et al.. (2024). The lives of cells, recorded. Nature Reviews Genetics. 26(3). 203–222. 5 indexed citations
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Choi, Junhong, Wei Chen, Anna Minkina, et al.. (2022). A time-resolved, multi-symbol molecular recorder via sequential genome editing. Nature. 608(7921). 98–107. 86 indexed citations
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Choi, Junhong, Wei Chen, Chase C. Suiter, et al.. (2021). Precise genomic deletions using paired prime editing. Nature Biotechnology. 40(2). 218–226. 179 indexed citations breakdown →
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Choi, Junhong, James Marks, Jingji Zhang, et al.. (2019). Dynamics of the context-specific translation arrest by chloramphenicol and linezolid. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(3). 310–317. 34 indexed citations
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Johnson, Alex G., Christopher P. Lapointe, Jinfan Wang, et al.. (2019). RACK1 on and off the ribosome. RNA. 25(7). 881–895. 39 indexed citations
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Chandrasekaran, Viswanathan, Szymon Juszkiewicz, Junhong Choi, et al.. (2019). Mechanism of ribosome stalling during translation of a poly(A) tail. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(12). 1132–1140. 113 indexed citations
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Wang, Jinfan, Alex G. Johnson, Christopher P. Lapointe, et al.. (2019). eIF5B gates the transition from translation initiation to elongation. Nature. 573(7775). 605–608. 52 indexed citations
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Larsen, Kevin P., Junhong Choi, Arjun Prabhakar, Elisabetta Viani Puglisi, & Joseph D. Puglisi. (2019). Relating Structure and Dynamics in RNA Biology. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 11(7). a032474–a032474. 18 indexed citations
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Larsen, Kevin P., et al.. (2018). Dynamic Interplay of RNA and Protein in the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Reverse Transcription Initiation Complex. Journal of Molecular Biology. 430(24). 5137–5150. 10 indexed citations
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Prabhakar, Arjun, et al.. (2017). Post-termination Ribosome Intermediate Acts as the Gateway to Ribosome Recycling. Cell Reports. 20(1). 161–172. 32 indexed citations
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Johnson, Alex G., Alexey Petrov, Gabriele Fuchs, et al.. (2017). Fluorescently-tagged human eIF3 for single-molecule spectroscopy. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(2). e8–e8. 10 indexed citations
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Choi, Junhong, Hasan DeMi̇rci̇, Jin Chen, et al.. (2016). N6-methyladenosine in mRNA disrupts tRNA selection and translation-elongation dynamics. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 23(2). 110–115. 202 indexed citations
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Chen, Jin, Junhong Choi, Seán E. O’Leary, et al.. (2016). The molecular choreography of protein synthesis: translational control, regulation, and pathways. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 49. e11–e11. 11 indexed citations

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