Junhui Sun

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Junhui Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Junhui Sun has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Physiology and 21 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Junhui Sun's work include Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects (29 papers), Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion (21 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (14 papers). Junhui Sun is often cited by papers focused on Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects (29 papers), Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion (21 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (14 papers). Junhui Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Junhui Sun's co-authors include Elizabeth Murphy, Charles Steenbergen, Jerry P. Eu, Jonathan S. Stamler, Gerhard Meissner, Marjan Guček, Angel Aponte, Le Xu, Mark J. Kohr and Tiffany Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Junhui Sun

66 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

The physiological role of mitochondrial calcium revealed by mice lacking the mitochondrial calcium uniporter

2013 515 citations Tiffany Nguyen, Chengyu Liu et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Junhui Sun	3.4k	2.0k	1.2k	925	510	66	5.5k
Amanda Lochner	1.8k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.7×	208 0.4×	187	5.3k
Vilmantė Borutaitė	2.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	306 0.3×	659 0.7×	302 0.6×	83	5.1k
Balvin H.L. Chua	2.5k 0.7×	754 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	713 0.8×	183 0.4×	68	4.6k
Sabzali Javadov	3.3k 1.0×	854 0.4×	970 0.8×	1.4k 1.6×	135 0.3×	100	5.3k
Angelo Parini	3.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	477 0.5×	319 0.6×	190	6.6k
Tamás Csont	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	176 0.3×	119	4.0k
Fangyi Zhang	1.4k 0.4×	1.9k 0.9×	409 0.3×	487 0.5×	472 0.9×	66	5.3k
Jonathan H. Jaggar	3.8k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	326 0.4×	435 0.9×	115	5.6k
Jerry P. Eu	2.1k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	901 0.7×	209 0.2×	376 0.7×	40	4.1k
Alexander Mülsch	2.5k 0.7×	5.0k 2.4×	2.2k 1.8×	690 0.7×	1.6k 3.1×	89	7.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Junhui Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Junhui Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Junhui Sun

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

All Works

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Li, Tianyu, Huanfa Chen, Qunshan Zhao, et al.. (2025). Evaluating geographic accessibility to COVID-19 vaccination across 54 countries/regions. BMJ Global Health. 10(2). e017761–e017761. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Junhui, et al.. (2024). MICU3 Regulates Mitochondrial Calcium and Cardiac Hypertrophy. Circulation Research. 135(1). 26–40. 6 indexed citations

Elezaby, Aly, Amanda Lin, Vijith Vijayan, et al.. (2024). Cardiac troponin I directly binds and inhibits mitochondrial ATP synthase with a noncanonical role in the post-ischemic heart. Nature Cardiovascular Research. 3(8). 987–1002. 4 indexed citations

Harris, Michael, Junhui Sun, Karen J. Keeran, et al.. (2021). Ogfod1 deletion increases cardiac beta-alanine levels and protects mice against ischaemia– reperfusion injury. Cardiovascular Research. 118(13). 2847–2858. 5 indexed citations

Sun, Junhui, Fan Zhang, Chengyu Liu, et al.. (2021). Monitoring mitochondrial calcium and metabolism in the beating MCU-KO heart. Cell Reports. 37(3). 109846–109846. 26 indexed citations

Liu, Julia, T. Bradley Willingham, Randi J. Parks, et al.. (2020). EMRE is essential for mitochondrial calcium uniporter activity in a mouse model. JCI Insight. 5(4). 48 indexed citations

Papanicolaou, Kyriakos N., Deepthi Ashok, Ting Liu, et al.. (2020). Global knockout of ROMK potassium channel worsens cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury but cardiomyocyte-specific knockout does not: Implications for the identity of mitoKATP. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 139. 176–189. 28 indexed citations

Bauer, Tyler M., et al.. (2019). Perfused murine heart optical transmission spectroscopy using optical catheter and integrating sphere: Effects of ischemia/reperfusion. Analytical Biochemistry. 586. 113443–113443. 11 indexed citations

Sun, Junhui, Sarah Kuzmiak‐Glancy, Joni L. Taylor, et al.. (2018). Paradoxical arteriole constriction compromises cytosolic and mitochondrial oxygen delivery in the isolated saline-perfused heart. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 315(6). H1791–H1804. 12 indexed citations

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Kato, Jiro, Youn Wook Chung, Junhui Sun, et al.. (2018). Role of a TRIM72 ADP-ribosylation cycle in myocardial injury and membrane repair. JCI Insight. 3(22). 19 indexed citations

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Menazza, Sara, Junhui Sun, Swathi Appachi, et al.. (2017). Non-nuclear estrogen receptor alpha activation in endothelium reduces cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury in mice. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 107. 41–51. 53 indexed citations

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Glancy, Brian, Lisa M. Hartnell, Christian A. Combs, et al.. (2017). Power Grid Protection of the Muscle Mitochondrial Reticulum. Cell Reports. 19(3). 487–496. 140 indexed citations

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Sun, Junhui, Tiffany Nguyen, Angel Aponte, et al.. (2015). Ischaemic preconditioning preferentially increases protein S-nitrosylation in subsarcolemmal mitochondria. Cardiovascular Research. 106(2). 227–236. 73 indexed citations

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Murphy, Elizabeth, Mark J. Kohr, Sara Menazza, et al.. (2014). Signaling by S-nitrosylation in the heart. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 73. 18–25. 61 indexed citations

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Murphy, Elizabeth, Cláudia Jacques Lagranha, Anne M. Deschamps, et al.. (2011). Mechanism of Cardioprotection: What Can We Learn from Females?. Pediatric Cardiology. 32(3). 354–359. 29 indexed citations

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Kohr, Mark J., Junhui Sun, Angel Aponte, et al.. (2010). Simultaneous Measurement of Protein Oxidation and S -Nitrosylation During Preconditioning and Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury With Resin-Assisted Capture. Circulation Research. 108(4). 418–426. 139 indexed citations

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Deschamps, Anne M., Elizabeth Murphy, & Junhui Sun. (2010). Estrogen Receptor Activation and Cardioprotection in Ischemia Reperfusion Injury. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. 20(3). 73–78. 118 indexed citations

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Lin, Jeffrey, Charles Steenbergen, Elizabeth Murphy, & Junhui Sun. (2009). Estrogen Receptor-β Activation Results in S-Nitrosylation of Proteins Involved in Cardioprotection. Circulation. 120(3). 245–254. 117 indexed citations

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Matalon, Sadis, Karin M. Hardiman, Lucky Jain, et al.. (2003). Regulation of ion channel structure and function by reactive oxygen-nitrogen species. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 285(6). L1184–L1189. 73 indexed citations

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Sun, Junhui, Le Xu, Jerry P. Eu, Jonathan S. Stamler, & Gerhard Meissner. (2001). Classes of Thiols That Influence the Activity of the Skeletal Muscle Calcium Release Channel. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(19). 15625–15630. 137 indexed citations

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