Kevin Cho

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Kevin Cho is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Cho has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Physiology and 8 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Kevin Cho's work include Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (16 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (6 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (5 papers). Kevin Cho is often cited by papers focused on Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (16 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (6 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (5 papers). Kevin Cho collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and South Korea. Kevin Cho's co-authors include Gary J. Patti, Gary Siuzdak, Winnie Uritboonthai, Ralf Tautenhahn, Amy Tarangelo, Jennifer Yinuo Cao, Daniel K. Nomura, Giovanni C. Forcina, James A. Olzmann and Leslie Magtanong and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Cho

53 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Exogenous Monounsaturated Fatty Acids Promote a Ferroptosis-Resistant Cell State

2019 780 citations Leslie Magtanong, Pin‐Joe Ko et al. Cell chemical biology profile →
Cardiometabolic characteristics of people with metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity

2024 50 citations Max C. Petersen, Gordon I. Smith et al. Cell Metabolism profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Cho United States	24	1.7k	706	622	282	236	58	2.6k
Weiwei Liu China	30	2.0k 1.2×	868 1.2×	408 0.7×	76 0.3×	160 0.7×	182	3.4k
T. HARAYAMA Japan	24	2.3k 1.3×	331 0.5×	234 0.4×	204 0.7×	401 1.7×	60	3.4k
Fang Peng China	34	2.0k 1.2×	688 1.0×	356 0.6×	203 0.7×	199 0.8×	183	3.6k
Donghai Lin China	33	2.4k 1.4×	459 0.7×	172 0.3×	117 0.4×	421 1.8×	164	3.5k
Yoshihiro Izumi Japan	31	2.1k 1.2×	427 0.6×	195 0.3×	576 2.0×	383 1.6×	154	3.7k
Antonio Pineda‐Lucena Spain	34	2.3k 1.3×	429 0.6×	144 0.2×	200 0.7×	184 0.8×	127	3.3k
Piotr Wiland Poland	36	3.1k 1.9×	1.1k 1.6×	274 0.4×	351 1.2×	132 0.6×	142	4.2k
Shiyong Wu United States	30	2.2k 1.3×	989 1.4×	234 0.4×	106 0.4×	232 1.0×	106	3.6k
Katsuhiko Ono Japan	30	1.4k 0.8×	229 0.3×	244 0.4×	153 0.5×	287 1.2×	103	3.4k
Yanhua Chen China	34	1.8k 1.1×	452 0.6×	172 0.3×	472 1.7×	136 0.6×	104	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Cho

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Cho

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Cho

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

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Ferguson, Daniel, Mandy M. Chan, Terri Pietka, et al.. (2025). A Critical Role for the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier in Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 19(8). 101517–101517. 1 indexed citations

Fang, Liang, Xiangfeng Niu, Tiandao Li, et al.. (2025). NFIA regulates articular chondrocyte fatty acid metabolism and joint homeostasis. Science Translational Medicine. 17(809). eadm9488–eadm9488.

Qiu, Lin, Hao Jiang, Kevin Cho, et al.. (2024). Metabolite Study and Structural Authentication for the First-in-Human Use Sphingosine-1-phosphate Receptor 1 Radiotracer. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 15(9). 1882–1892.

Simon, Tatiana, Kevin Cho, Gary J. Patti, et al.. (2024). Circadian regulation of MGMT expression and promoter methylation underlies daily rhythms in TMZ sensitivity in glioblastoma. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 166(3). 419–430. 17 indexed citations

Zhang, Yiming, Cassandra B. Higgins, Shannon C. Kelly, et al.. (2024). Hepatocyte Period 1 dictates oxidative substrate selection independent of the core circadian clock. Cell Reports. 43(10). 114865–114865. 4 indexed citations

Cho, Kevin, et al.. (2024). Inducing vulnerability to InhA inhibition restores isoniazid susceptibility in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mBio. 15(3). e0296823–e0296823. 2 indexed citations

Gomes, João, Kevin Cho, Daniel L. Morris, et al.. (2024). Iron Accumulation and Metabolic Alterations in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(5). e000848–e000848.

Petersen, Max C., Gordon I. Smith, Hector H. Palacios, et al.. (2024). Cardiometabolic characteristics of people with metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity. Cell Metabolism. 36(4). 745–761.e5. 50 indexed citations breakdown →

Cho, Kevin, et al.. (2024). Discovery and Identification of Three Homocysteine Metabolites by Chemical Derivatization and Mass Spectrometry Fragmentation. Analytical Chemistry. 96(29). 11639–11643. 2 indexed citations

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Zou, Wei, Yongjia Li, Kevin Cho, et al.. (2023). BAP1 promotes osteoclast function by metabolic reprogramming. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5923–5923. 19 indexed citations

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Schwaiger-Haber, Michaela, Ethan Stancliffe, Dhanalakshmi S. Anbukumar, et al.. (2023). Using mass spectrometry imaging to map fluxes quantitatively in the tumor ecosystem. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2876–2876. 47 indexed citations

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Muhammad, Naoshad, Jennifer Stanley, Kevin Cho, et al.. (2022). Monounsaturated and Diunsaturated Fatty Acids Sensitize Cervical Cancer to Radiation Therapy. Cancer Research. 82(24). 4515–4527. 14 indexed citations

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Cho, Kevin, Elena Lomonosova, Mary M. Mullen, et al.. (2022). GAS6-AXL Inhibition by AVB-500 Overcomes Resistance to Paclitaxel in Endometrial Cancer by Decreasing Tumor Cell Glycolysis. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 21(8). 1348–1359. 10 indexed citations

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Martino, Michael R., Manuel Gutiérrez‐Aguilar, Jason Singer, et al.. (2022). Silencing alanine transaminase 2 in diabetic liver attenuates hyperglycemia by reducing gluconeogenesis from amino acids. Cell Reports. 39(4). 110733–110733. 27 indexed citations

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Kim, Sang Guen, Eunjung Roh, Sib Sankar Giri, et al.. (2021). The Bacteriophage pEp_SNUABM_08 Is a Novel Singleton Siphovirus with High Host Specificity for Erwinia pyrifoliae. Viruses. 13(7). 1231–1231. 8 indexed citations

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Lee, Won Sang, Kyungwon Lee, Seung Hyun Lee, Kevin Cho, & Samuel K. Cho. (2019). A GaN/Diamond HEMTs with 23 W/mm for Next Generation High Power RF Application. 1395–1398. 11 indexed citations

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Magtanong, Leslie, Pin‐Joe Ko, Milton To, et al.. (2019). Exogenous Monounsaturated Fatty Acids Promote a Ferroptosis-Resistant Cell State. Cell chemical biology. 26(3). 420–432.e9. 780 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cho, Kevin, Meghan A. Wallace, Fong‐Fu Hsu, et al.. (2018). Mechanism of High-Level Daptomycin Resistance in Corynebacterium striatum. mSphere. 3(4). 34 indexed citations

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Cho, Kevin, et al.. (2017). Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase A1298C Polymorphism and Major Depressive Disorder. Cureus. 9(10). e1734–e1734. 6 indexed citations

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Johnson, Caroline H., Christine M. Dejea, David Edler, et al.. (2015). Metabolism Links Bacterial Biofilms and Colon Carcinogenesis. Cell Metabolism. 21(6). 891–897. 280 indexed citations

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