Kian Fan Chung

84.0k total citations · 18 hit papers
926 papers, 50.0k citations indexed

About

Kian Fan Chung is a scholar working on Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kian Fan Chung has authored 926 papers receiving a total of 50.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 554 papers in Physiology, 510 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 142 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Kian Fan Chung's work include Asthma and respiratory diseases (530 papers), Respiratory and Cough-Related Research (242 papers) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (179 papers). Kian Fan Chung is often cited by papers focused on Asthma and respiratory diseases (530 papers), Respiratory and Cough-Related Research (242 papers) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (179 papers). Kian Fan Chung collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Taiwan. Kian Fan Chung's co-authors include Peter J. Barnes, Ian M. Adcock, Gaetano Caramori, Clive Page, Sam Lim, Ian Pavord, Pankaj Bhavsar, Kazuhiro Ito, Anon Jatakanon and Sergei A. Kharitonov and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Kian Fan Chung

899 papers receiving 48.4k citations

Hit Papers

Effects of an interleukin-5 blocking monoclonal antibody ... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2000 2016 2007 1999 1998 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. Effects of an interleukin-5 blocking monoclonal antibody on eosinophils, airway hyper-responsìveness, and the late asthmatic response
    2000 1.4k citations Brian O’Connor, Kian Fan Chung et al. profile →
  2. Impact of air pollution on the burden of chronic respiratory diseases in China: time for urgent action
    2016 708 citations Kian Fan Chung et al. profile →
  3. Respiratory Effects of Exposure to Diesel Traffic in Persons with Asthma
    2007 685 citations Kian Fan Chung, Junfeng Zhang et al. profile →
  4. Neutrophilic Inflammation in Severe Persistent Asthma
    1999 659 citations Anon Jatakanon, Carina Gabriela Uasuf et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →
  5. Correlation between exhaled nitric oxide, sputum eosinophils, and methacholine responsiveness in patients with mild asthma.
    1998 561 citations Anon Jatakanon, Sergei A. Kharitonov et al. profile →
  6. Inflammatory Mediators of Asthma: An Update
    1998 561 citations Peter J. Barnes, Kian Fan Chung et al. profile →
  7. ERS guidelines on the assessment of cough
    2007 543 citations Kian Fan Chung et al. European Respiratory Journal profile →
  8. Cytokines in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
    2001 508 citations Kian Fan Chung European Respiratory Journal profile →
  9. Cytokines in asthma
    1999 502 citations Kian Fan Chung, Peter J. Barnes profile →
  10. Prevalence, pathogenesis, and causes of chronic cough
    2008 468 citations Kian Fan Chung et al. profile →
  11. Multifaceted mechanisms in COPD: inflammation, immunity, and tissue repair and destruction
    2008 441 citations Kian Fan Chung, Ian M. Adcock European Respiratory Journal profile →
  12. Respiratory and cardiovascular responses to walking down a traffic-polluted road compared with walking in a traffic-free area in participants aged 60 years and older with chronic lung or heart disease and age-matched healthy controls: a randomised, crossover study
    2017 309 citations Junfeng Zhang, Kian Fan Chung et al. profile →
  13. Functional effects of the microbiota in chronic respiratory disease
    2019 283 citations Ian M. Adcock, Sanjay H. Chotirmall et al. profile →
  14. Confronting COVID-19-associated cough and the post-COVID syndrome: role of viral neurotropism, neuroinflammation, and neuroimmune responses
    2021 222 citations Woo‐Jung Song, Kian Fan Chung et al. profile →
  15. Molecular mechanisms of oxidative stress in asthma
    2021 194 citations Ian M. Adcock, Kian Fan Chung et al. profile →
  16. The impact of air pollution on respiratory diseases in an era of climate change: A review of the current evidence
    2023 155 citations Huan Minh Tran, Feng‐Jen Tsai et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  17. Cough hypersensitivity and chronic cough
    2022 147 citations Kian Fan Chung, Woo‐Jung Song et al. profile →
  18. Mechanisms of airway epithelial injury and abnormal repair in asthma and COPD
    2023 85 citations Kian Fan Chung et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kian Fan Chung United Kingdom 115 27.5k 23.1k 9.3k 8.4k 4.6k 926 50.0k
Stephen T. Holgate United Kingdom 114 35.6k 1.3× 22.1k 1.0× 14.9k 1.6× 5.7k 0.7× 12.6k 2.7× 739 60.1k
Scott T. Weiss United States 111 22.8k 0.8× 16.2k 0.7× 4.2k 0.5× 6.1k 0.7× 4.1k 0.9× 767 43.3k
Dirkje S. Postma Netherlands 89 16.6k 0.6× 18.8k 0.8× 3.5k 0.4× 4.0k 0.5× 2.5k 0.5× 592 31.2k
Ian M. Adcock United Kingdom 100 13.1k 0.5× 12.6k 0.5× 8.6k 0.9× 11.6k 1.4× 1.3k 0.3× 645 36.4k
Stephen I. Rennard United States 93 12.3k 0.4× 20.5k 0.9× 2.7k 0.3× 6.9k 0.8× 2.5k 0.5× 594 35.7k
Peter D. Sly Australia 93 11.4k 0.4× 15.5k 0.7× 5.0k 0.5× 2.9k 0.3× 3.1k 0.7× 839 36.2k
Jeffrey M. Drazen United States 89 17.4k 0.6× 12.6k 0.5× 4.6k 0.5× 4.2k 0.5× 3.4k 0.7× 427 30.1k
Neil Pearce New Zealand 88 11.0k 0.4× 8.4k 0.4× 1.4k 0.2× 2.5k 0.3× 3.8k 0.8× 676 33.4k
Serpil C. Erzurum United States 81 10.2k 0.4× 10.2k 0.4× 3.7k 0.4× 5.8k 0.7× 1.3k 0.3× 311 25.3k
Cezmi A. Akdiş Switzerland 109 17.1k 0.6× 3.5k 0.2× 12.1k 1.3× 5.1k 0.6× 17.1k 3.7× 500 42.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kian Fan Chung

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tran, Huan Minh, Feng‐Jen Tsai, Yuan‐Hung Wang, et al.. (2025). Joint effects of temperature and humidity with PM2.5 on COPD. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 424–424. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Yinghua, Zheng Su, Xueyan Han, et al.. (2025). Estimating the association between cigarette and e-cigarette use patterns and SARS-CoV-2 negative conversion time: retrospective online survey in China. BMC Infectious Diseases. 25(1). 161–161. 1 indexed citations
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Tran, Huan Minh, Feng‐Jen Tsai, Kang-Yun Lee, et al.. (2024). Extreme temperature increases the risk of COPD morbimortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 178087–178087. 5 indexed citations
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Azim, Adnan, Fransiskus Xaverius Ivan, Mahmoud I. Abdel‐Aziz, et al.. (2024). A severe asthma phenotype of excessive airway Haemophilus influenzae relative abundance associated with sputum neutrophilia. Clinical and Translational Medicine. 14(9). e70007–e70007. 7 indexed citations
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Tran, Huan Minh, Feng‐Jen Tsai, Yueh‐Lun Lee, et al.. (2023). The impact of air pollution on respiratory diseases in an era of climate change: A review of the current evidence. The Science of The Total Environment. 898. 166340–166340. 155 indexed citations breakdown →
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Song, Woo‐Jung, et al.. (2019). Future Risks in Patients With Severe Asthma. Allergy Asthma and Immunology Research. 11(6). 763–763. 45 indexed citations
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Mukherjee, Dwaipayan, Srijata Sarkar, Andrew J. Thorley, et al.. (2014). ModelingIn VitroCellular Responses to Silver Nanoparticles. Journal of Toxicology. 2014. 1–13. 14 indexed citations
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Mercado, Nicolas, Amir Hakim, Yoshiki Kobayashi, et al.. (2012). Restoration of Corticosteroid Sensitivity by p38 Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Inhibition in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells from Severe Asthma. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e41582–e41582. 88 indexed citations
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Caramori, Gaetano, Paolo Casolari, Anna Padovani, et al.. (2011). IL-33 has a nuclear distribution and is not increased in peripheral lung of COPD patients. European Respiratory Journal. 38(Suppl 55). p723–p723. 2 indexed citations
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Sorkness, Ronald L., Eugene R. Bleecker, William W. Busse, et al.. (2007). Lung function in adults with stable but severe asthma: air trapping and incomplete reversal of obstruction with bronchodilation. Journal of Applied Physiology. 104(2). 394–403. 245 indexed citations
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Comhair, Suzy, Kristin Ricci, Mercedes E. Arroliga, et al.. (2005). Correlation of Systemic Superoxide Dismutase Deficiency to Airflow Obstruction in Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 172(3). 306–313. 130 indexed citations
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Ito, Kazuhiro, Sam Lim, Gaetano Caramori, et al.. (2002). A molecular mechanism of action of theophylline: Induction of histone deacetylase activity to decrease inflammatory gene expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(13). 8921–8926. 386 indexed citations
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Lim, Sam, Katsuyuki Tomita, Anon Jatakanon, et al.. (2001). Low-dose Theophylline Reduces Eosinophilic Inflammation but Not Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Mild Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 164(2). 273–276. 86 indexed citations
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Lim, Sam, David A. Groneberg, Axel Fischer, et al.. (2000). Expression of Heme Oxygenase Isoenzymes 1 and 2 in Normal and Asthmatic Airways. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 162(5). 1912–1918. 89 indexed citations
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Huang, Tung‐Jung, El‐Bdaoui Haddad, M Salmon, et al.. (1999). Contribution of Bradykinin B1 and B2 Receptors in Allergen-induced Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 160(5). 1717–1723. 42 indexed citations
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Lim, Sam, et al.. (1999). Effect of Inhaled Budesonide on Lung Function and Airway Inflammation: Assessment by Various Inflammatory Markers in Mild Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 159(1). 22–30. 182 indexed citations
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Jatakanon, Anon, Carina Gabriela Uasuf, Wasim Maziak, et al.. (1999). Neutrophilic Inflammation in Severe Persistent Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 160(5). 1532–1539. 659 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hisada, Takeshi, M Salmon, Yasuyuki Nasuhara, & Kian Fan Chung. (1999). Cysteinyl-leukotrienes Partly Mediate Eotaxin-induced Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness and Eosinophilia in IL-5 Transgenic Mice. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 160(2). 571–575. 21 indexed citations
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Hart, Lorraine, et al.. (1998). Activation and Localization of Transcription Factor, Nuclear Factor- κ B, in Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 158(5). 1585–1592. 349 indexed citations
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Horváth, Ildikó, Louise Donnelly, András Kiss, et al.. (1998). Combined Use of Exhaled Hydrogen Peroxide and Nitric Oxide in Monitoring Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 158(4). 1042–1046. 205 indexed citations

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