Ken Chen

99.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
306 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Ken Chen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Chen has authored 306 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Molecular Biology, 64 papers in Cancer Research and 36 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Ken Chen's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (56 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (30 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers). Ken Chen is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (56 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (30 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers). Ken Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Ken Chen's co-authors include Li Ding, David E. Larson, Richard K. Wilson, Elaine R. Mardis, Michael D. McLellan, Nicholas E. Navin, Daniel C. Koboldt, Nicole Schreiber‐Agus, Ronald A. DePinho and Carlos Cordon‐Cardo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ken Chen

288 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

The Ink4a Tumor Suppresso... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 2009 2009 2014 2021 400 800 1.2k
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. The Ink4a Tumor Suppressor Gene Product, p19Arf, Interacts with MDM2 and Neutralizes MDM2's Inhibition of p53
    1998 1.2k citations Ken Chen et al. profile →
  2. BreakDancer: an algorithm for high-resolution mapping of genomic structural variation
    2009 997 citations Ken Chen, Michael C. Wendl et al. profile →
  3. VarScan: variant detection in massively parallel sequencing of individual and pooled samples
    2009 917 citations Ken Chen, Li Ding et al. profile →
  4. Clonal evolution in breast cancer revealed by single nucleus genome sequencing
    2014 711 citations Ken Chen, Funda Meric‐Bernstam et al. profile →
  5. Delineating copy number and clonal substructure in human tumors from single-cell transcriptomes
    2021 413 citations Fang Wang, Ken Chen et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ken Chen 6.0k 2.9k 2.5k 1.9k 872 306 11.1k
Zhongming Zhao 9.1k 1.5× 3.1k 1.1× 1.3k 0.5× 3.1k 1.6× 1.0k 1.2× 535 15.1k
Jane Fridlyand 6.7k 1.1× 2.0k 0.7× 3.5k 1.4× 1.4k 0.7× 717 0.8× 68 10.6k
Markus Ringnér 7.5k 1.2× 3.1k 1.1× 3.0k 1.2× 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 96 12.2k
Eivind Hovig 6.0k 1.0× 2.3k 0.8× 2.2k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 685 0.8× 218 8.9k
Lodewyk F.A. Wessels 10.2k 1.7× 4.3k 1.5× 4.6k 1.8× 2.1k 1.1× 1.3k 1.5× 252 15.8k
Manfred Schwab 8.1k 1.4× 2.9k 1.0× 2.5k 1.0× 2.2k 1.2× 544 0.6× 150 12.4k
Satoru Miyano 10.5k 1.7× 2.7k 0.9× 1.3k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 523 15.5k
Jean Yang 8.2k 1.4× 1.6k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 1.6k 1.8× 257 13.8k
Quaid Morris 13.3k 2.2× 3.6k 1.3× 1.2k 0.5× 1.8k 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 158 17.3k
Javed Khan 6.2k 1.0× 2.0k 0.7× 2.2k 0.9× 905 0.5× 946 1.1× 350 10.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ken Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ken Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Chen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xu, Min, Hao Liu, Lan Li, et al.. (2024). Absorbed Bioactive Compounds Replicate Guanxin II-Induced Endothelium-Associated in/ex vivo Vasodilation. Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine. 30(5). 387–397. 3 indexed citations
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Goldberg, Jonathan, Jennifer L. Guerriero, Anne V. Philips, et al.. (2024). Estrogen Receptor Mutations as Novel Targets for Immunotherapy in Metastatic Estrogen Receptor–positive Breast Cancer. Cancer Research Communications. 4(2). 496–504. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jiwen, et al.. (2024). Local connection reinforcement learning method for efficient robotic peg-in-hole assembly. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 133. 108520–108520. 4 indexed citations
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Fan, Huihui, Feng Wang, Andy G.X. Zeng, et al.. (2023). Single-cell chromatin accessibility profiling of acute myeloid leukemia reveals heterogeneous lineage composition upon therapy-resistance. Communications Biology. 6(1). 765–765. 11 indexed citations
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Johnson, Amber M., Patrick Kwok‐Shing Ng, Michael Kahle, et al.. (2023). Actionability classification of variants of unknown significance correlates with functional effect. npj Precision Oncology. 7(1). 67–67. 6 indexed citations
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Hill, Holly A., Preetesh Jain, Chi Young Ok, et al.. (2023). Integrative Prognostic Machine Learning Models in Mantle Cell Lymphoma. Cancer Research Communications. 3(8). 1435–1446. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Bing, et al.. (2023). Robotic assembly control reconfiguration based on transfer reinforcement learning for objects with different geometric features. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 129. 107576–107576. 1 indexed citations
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Monberg, Maria E., Heather Geiger, Jaewon J. Lee, et al.. (2022). Occult polyclonality of preclinical pancreatic cancer models drives in vitro evolution. Nature Communications. 13(1). 17 indexed citations
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Ban, Yixuan, et al.. (2022). RAM360: Robust Adaptive Multi-Layer 360$^\circ$ Video Streaming With Lyapunov Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 25. 4225–4239. 13 indexed citations
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Thompson, Philip A., Xianli Jiang, Pinaki P. Banerjee, et al.. (2022). A phase two study of high dose blinatumomab in Richter’s syndrome. Leukemia. 36(9). 2228–2232. 20 indexed citations
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Akçakanat, Argun, Xiaofeng Zheng, Tae‐Beom Kim, et al.. (2021). Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Proteomic Profiling of Metastatic Breast Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 27(11). 3243–3252. 17 indexed citations
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Huang, Kuan‐lin, Adam Scott, Daniel Cui Zhou, et al.. (2021). Spatially interacting phosphorylation sites and mutations in cancer. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2313–2313. 13 indexed citations
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Zheng, Siyuan, Kristin Alfaro-Munoz, Wei Wei, et al.. (2019). Prospective Clinical Sequencing of Adult Glioma. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 18(5). 991–1000. 15 indexed citations
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Evans, Kurt W., Erkan Yuca, Argun Akçakanat, et al.. (2017). A Population of Heterogeneous Breast Cancer Patient-Derived Xenografts Demonstrate Broad Activity of PARP Inhibitor in BRCA1/2 Wild-Type Tumors. Clinical Cancer Research. 23(21). 6468–6477. 48 indexed citations
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Morris, Van K., Xiayu Rao, Curtis R. Pickering, et al.. (2017). Comprehensive Genomic Profiling of Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Anal Canal. Molecular Cancer Research. 15(11). 1542–1550. 50 indexed citations
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Dogruluk, Turgut, Yiu Huen Tsang, Fengju Chen, et al.. (2015). Identification of Variant-Specific Functions of PIK3CA by Rapid Phenotyping of Rare Mutations. Cancer Research. 75(24). 5341–5354. 118 indexed citations
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Chen, Ken & Laurent Decreusefond. (1996). An approximate analysis of waiting time in multi-class M/G /1/./ EDF queues. 190–199. 1 indexed citations

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