Kevin Li

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 598 citations indexed

About

Kevin Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Li has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 598 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Kevin Li's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (6 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (6 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers). Kevin Li is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (6 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (6 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers). Kevin Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Türkiye. Kevin Li's co-authors include James E. Haber, R. Anand, Felix Zhou, Daan Noordermeer, Pierre Caron, Philippe Mangeot, Thomas Clouaire, Gaëlle Legube, Vincent Rocher and Raphaël Mourad and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Li

18 papers receiving 593 citations

Hit Papers

Loop extrusion as a mechanism for formation of DNA damage... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200
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. Loop extrusion as a mechanism for formation of DNA damage repair foci
    2021 207 citations Coline Arnould, Vincent Rocher et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Kevin Li
Xiaodan Song China
Emese Szabó Switzerland
Ashwin Unnikrishnan Australia
Spyridon Champeris Tsaniras Greece
Sonali Bhattacharjee United States
Lin Jia China
Yonghao Liang China
Bingqian Guo China
Congcong Huang China
T. V. Vinogradova Russia
Xiaodan Song China
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Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Li

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

All Works

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Xing, Eric P., Kevin Li, Robert C. Monsen, et al.. (2024). Interaction of N-methylmesoporphyrin IX with a hybrid left-/right-handed G-quadruplex motif from the promoter of the SLC2A1 gene. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(2).
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Lin, Ching‐Yi, et al.. (2024). Long-Term 5-HT1A Receptor Agonist NLX-112 Treatment Improves Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(1). 239–239.
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Nguyen, Thomas T., Ulhas Bhatt, Kevin Li, et al.. (2023). Novel series of tunable µOR modulators with enhanced brain penetration for the treatment of opioid use disorder, pain and neuropsychiatric indications. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 92. 129405–129405. 1 indexed citations
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Surovtsev, Ivan V., Jessica F. Williams, Hao Yan, et al.. (2023). Loops and the activity of loop extrusion factors constrain chromatin dynamics. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 34(8). ar78–ar78. 5 indexed citations
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Choi, Jihyun, et al.. (2022). Repair of mismatched templates during Rad51-dependent Break-Induced Replication. PLoS Genetics. 18(9). e1010056–e1010056. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Kevin, Liliya A. Yatsunyk, & Stephen Neidle. (2022). Machine learning shows torsion angle preferences in left-handed and right-handed quadruplex DNAs. Biophysical Journal. 121(24). 4874–4881. 1 indexed citations
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Arnould, Coline, Vincent Rocher, Anne-Laure Finoux, et al.. (2021). Loop extrusion as a mechanism for formation of DNA damage repair foci. Nature. 590(7847). 660–665. 207 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Kevin, et al.. (2020). Yeast ATM and ATR kinases use different mechanisms to spread histone H2A phosphorylation around a DNA double-strand break. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(35). 21354–21363. 28 indexed citations
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Li, Kevin, Liliya A. Yatsunyk, & Stephen Neidle. (2020). Water spines and networks in G-quadruplex structures. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(1). 519–528. 35 indexed citations
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Waterman, David P., Felix Zhou, Kevin Li, et al.. (2019). Live cell monitoring of double strand breaks in S. cerevisiae. PLoS Genetics. 15(3). e1008001–e1008001. 23 indexed citations
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Li, Kevin, et al.. (2019). High Spatial Resolution Crack Monitoring in Concrete Structures Using a Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor. Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science. 6(1). 1 indexed citations
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Anand, R., et al.. (2017). Rad51-mediated double-strand break repair and mismatch correction of divergent substrates. Nature. 544(7650). 377–380. 103 indexed citations
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Fu, Li, Kevin Li, Daisuke Mori, et al.. (2017). Enzymatic Generation of Highly Anticoagulant Bovine Intestinal Heparin. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 60(20). 8673–8679. 22 indexed citations
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Li, Kevin, et al.. (2016). Chromosome-refolding model of mating-type switching in yeast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(45). E6929–E6938. 9 indexed citations
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Lin, Ching‐Yi, et al.. (2015). Differential intensity-dependent effects of magnetic stimulation on the longest neurites and shorter dendrites in neuroscreen-1 cells. Journal of Neural Engineering. 12(2). 26013–26013. 4 indexed citations
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Viray, Hollis, Kevin Li, Kisha A. Mitchell, et al.. (2013). Automated Objective Determination of Percentage of Malignant Nuclei for Mutation Testing. Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology. 22(5). 363–371. 16 indexed citations
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Li, Kevin, et al.. (2013). Electrospun fibers of poly(ethylene terephthalate) blended with poly(lactic acid). Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 116(3). 1351–1359. 22 indexed citations
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Viray, Hollis, Kevin Li, Patricia Vasalos, et al.. (2013). A Prospective, Multi-Institutional Diagnostic Trial to Determine Pathologist Accuracy in Estimation of Percentage of Malignant Cells. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 137(11). 1545–1549. 81 indexed citations

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