Junyue Cao

10.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
40 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Junyue Cao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Junyue Cao has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Immunology and 7 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Junyue Cao's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (18 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (4 papers). Junyue Cao is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (18 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (4 papers). Junyue Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Junyue Cao's co-authors include Jay Shendure, Cole Trapnell, Frank J. Steemers, Xiaojie Qiu, Lena Christiansen, Andrew J. Hill, Fan Zhang, Malte Spielmann, Xingfan Huang and Daniel M. Ibrahim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Junyue Cao

37 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

The single-cell transcriptional landscape of mammalian organogenesis

2019 2.2k citations Junyue Cao, Malte Spielmann et al. profile →
Comprehensive single-cell transcriptional profiling of a multicellular organism

2017 896 citations Junyue Cao, Jonathan S. Packer et al. Science profile →
Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in thousands of single cells

2018 585 citations Junyue Cao, Darren A. Cusanovich et al. Science profile →
A human cell atlas of fetal gene expression

2020 383 citations Junyue Cao, Diana R. O’Day et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Junyue Cao United States	19	4.1k	956	811	544	425	40	5.3k
Jonathan S. Packer United States	11	3.1k 0.8×	692 0.7×	713 0.9×	393 0.7×	331 0.8×	12	4.0k
Jeffrey A. Farrell United States	11	3.5k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	743 0.9×	361 0.7×	540 1.3×	18	4.9k
Beijing Wu United States	10	4.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	303 0.6×	478 1.1×	10	5.8k
Darren A. Cusanovich United States	18	4.1k 1.0×	528 0.6×	818 1.0×	422 0.8×	278 0.7×	28	4.7k
Aaron T. L. Lun Australia	31	4.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.3×	521 1.0×	514 1.2×	44	6.3k
Lena Christiansen United States	10	4.1k 1.0×	894 0.9×	930 1.1×	487 0.9×	440 1.0×	13	5.0k
Davide Risso United States	25	4.3k 1.0×	928 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	398 0.7×	581 1.4×	47	6.0k
Carmen Bravo González‐Blas Belgium	14	3.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	783 1.0×	224 0.4×	671 1.6×	16	4.7k
Caleb A. Lareau United States	34	5.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	418 0.8×	650 1.5×	71	6.5k
Shuqiang Li United States	21	4.4k 1.1×	1.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.7×	411 0.8×	852 2.0×	44	6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Junyue Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Junyue Cao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Junyue Cao

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Abdulraouf, Abdulraouf, et al.. (2026). Organism-wide cellular dynamics and epigenomic remodeling in mammalian aging. Science. 391(6788). eadw6273–eadw6273.

Chen, Qingfeng, et al.. (2024). Similarity-guided graph contrastive learning for lncRNA-disease association prediction. Journal of Molecular Biology. 437(6). 168609–168609. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Qingfeng, et al.. (2023). Hepatocellular carcinoma subtypes based on metabolic pathways reveals potential therapeutic targets. Frontiers in Oncology. 13. 1086604–1086604. 6 indexed citations

Zhou, Wei, et al.. (2023). Dissecting key regulators of transcriptome kinetics through scalable single-cell RNA profiling of pooled CRISPR screens. Nature Biotechnology. 42(8). 1218–1223. 26 indexed citations

Anderson, Sonya, Abdulraouf Abdulraouf, Andrew Liao, et al.. (2023). A global view of aging and Alzheimer’s pathogenesis-associated cell population dynamics and molecular signatures in human and mouse brains. Nature Genetics. 55(12). 2104–2116. 30 indexed citations

Anderson, Sonya, Zehao Zhang, Zihan Xu, et al.. (2023). Tracking cell-type-specific temporal dynamics in human and mouse brains. Cell. 186(20). 4345–4364.e24. 21 indexed citations

Zhong, Yu, Dana M. Niedowicz, Donna M. Wilcock, et al.. (2023). A high‐throughput single‐cell RNA expression profiling method identifies human pericyte markers. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 49(6). e12942–e12942. 10 indexed citations

Martin, Beth, Chengxiang Qiu, Eva K. Nichols, et al.. (2022). Optimized single-nucleus transcriptional profiling by combinatorial indexing. Nature Protocols. 18(1). 188–207. 61 indexed citations

Pattwell, Siobhan S., Sonali Arora, Michael Zager, et al.. (2022). Oncogenic role of a developmentally regulated NTRK2 splice variant. Science Advances. 8(40). eabo6789–eabo6789. 3 indexed citations

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Qiu, Chengxiang, Junyue Cao, Beth Martin, et al.. (2022). Systematic reconstruction of cellular trajectories across mouse embryogenesis. Nature Genetics. 54(3). 328–341. 85 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wei, Daniel R. Melamed, Cindy Meyer, et al.. (2021). Expanding the binding specificity for RNA recognition by a PUF domain. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5107–5107. 9 indexed citations

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Cao, Junyue. (2020). sci-RNA-seq3 processing pipeline. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Junyue, Wei Zhou, Frank J. Steemers, Cole Trapnell, & Jay Shendure. (2020). Sci-fate characterizes the dynamics of gene expression in single cells. Nature Biotechnology. 38(8). 980–988. 105 indexed citations

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Domcke, Silvia, Andrew J. Hill, Riza M. Daza, et al.. (2020). A human cell atlas of fetal chromatin accessibility. Science. 370(6518). 230 indexed citations

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Cao, Junyue, Diana R. O’Day, Hannah A. Pliner, et al.. (2020). A human cell atlas of fetal gene expression. Science. 370(6518). 383 indexed citations breakdown →

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Srivatsan, Sanjay, José L. McFaline‐Figueroa, Vijay Ramani, et al.. (2019). Massively multiplex chemical transcriptomics at single-cell resolution. Science. 367(6473). 45–51. 198 indexed citations

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Cao, Junyue, Darren A. Cusanovich, Vijay Ramani, et al.. (2018). Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in thousands of single cells. Science. 361(6409). 1380–1385. 585 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cao, Junyue, Jonathan S. Packer, Vijay Ramani, et al.. (2017). Comprehensive single-cell transcriptional profiling of a multicellular organism. Science. 357(6352). 661–667. 896 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dai, Siyuan, Zijian Tang, Junyue Cao, et al.. (2014). Suppression of the HSF 1‐mediated proteotoxic stress response by the metabolic stress sensor AMPK. The EMBO Journal. 34(3). 275–293. 78 indexed citations

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Mittal, Amandeep, R. Balasubramanian, Junyue Cao, et al.. (2014). TOPOISOMERASE 6B is involved in chromatin remodelling associated with control of carbon partitioning into secondary metabolites and cell walls, and epidermal morphogenesis in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany. 65(15). 4217–4239. 10 indexed citations

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