Kihyun Lee

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Kihyun Lee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Kihyun Lee has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Kihyun Lee's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (4 papers). Kihyun Lee is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (4 papers). Kihyun Lee collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United Kingdom and France. Kihyun Lee's co-authors include Jongsik Chun, Sang‐Cheol Park, Sungho Won, Hana Yi, Jae‐Hak Lee, Hyunsoo Na, Yong‐Joon Cho, Mincheol Kim, Jung Ok Shim and Gun-Ha Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Frontiers in Microbiology and INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Kihyun Lee

16 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Introducing EzTaxon-e: a prokaryotic 16S rRNA gene sequence database with phylotypes that represent uncultured species

2011 4.9k citations Yong‐Joon Cho, Kihyun Lee et al. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY profile →
EzBioCloud: a genome-driven database and platform for microbiome identification and discovery

2024 98 citations Mauricio Chalita, Hyun‐Seok Oh et al. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kihyun Lee South Korea	9	4.0k	2.4k	1.2k	659	612	21	5.2k
Yong‐Joon Cho South Korea	23	4.4k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	727 1.1×	672 1.1×	99	6.3k
Seok-Hwan Yoon South Korea	11	3.5k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	941 0.8×	394 0.6×	454 0.7×	17	4.4k
David R. Arahal Spain	30	4.0k 1.0×	2.8k 1.2×	880 0.7×	302 0.5×	556 0.9×	116	5.3k
Karin Lagesen Norway	16	4.0k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	333 0.5×	396 0.6×	37	6.0k
Soon-Wo Kwon South Korea	36	3.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	325 0.5×	501 0.8×	253	4.7k
Rüdiger Pukall Germany	35	3.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	792 0.6×	670 1.0×	503 0.8×	74	4.7k
Svetlana Gerdes United States	27	5.0k 1.3×	2.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	428 0.6×	537 0.9×	40	8.0k
Cathrin Spröer Germany	43	5.1k 1.3×	3.1k 1.3×	1.9k 1.5×	988 1.5×	751 1.2×	341	8.5k
Jung‐Sook Lee South Korea	33	2.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	940 0.8×	301 0.5×	457 0.7×	259	4.1k
Veronika Vonstein United States	16	4.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	406 0.6×	515 0.8×	22	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kihyun Lee

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lee, Kihyun, et al.. (2025). Countering the Eagle’s World: Analyzing China’s Counter-Hegemonic Endeavors in International Institutions. 23(1). 33–59.

Chalita, Mauricio, Hyun‐Seok Oh, Jae Hyoung Cho, et al.. (2024). EzBioCloud: a genome-driven database and platform for microbiome identification and discovery. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 74(6). 98 indexed citations breakdown →

Lee, Kihyun, et al.. (2024). Phylogenetic lineage dynamics of global parainfluenza virus type 3 post-COVID-19 pandemic. mSphere. 9(4). e0062423–e0062423.

Lee, Kihyun, et al.. (2024). Phyletic patterns of bacterial growth temperature in Pseudomonas and Paenibacillus reveal gradual and sporadic evolution towards cold adaptation. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae163–ycae163.

Lee, Do-Hoon, Kihyun Lee, Yong-Seok Kim, & Chang‐Jun Cha. (2024). Comprehensive genomic landscape of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus epidermidis. mSystems. 9(6). e0022624–e0022624. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Kihyun, Sébastien Raguideau, Kimmo Sirén, et al.. (2023). Population-level impacts of antibiotic usage on the human gut microbiome. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1191–1191. 61 indexed citations

Kim, Gun-Ha, Kihyun Lee, & Jung Ok Shim. (2023). Gut Bacterial Dysbiosis in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: a Case-Control Study and a Cross-Cohort Analysis Using Publicly Available Data Sets. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(1). e0212522–e0212522. 15 indexed citations

Lee, Chanyoung, Seong‐Cheol Kim, Young-Gi Kim, et al.. (2022). Investigation of the effect of pre-fill gas in VEST discharges by predictive transport simulations. Journal of the Korean Physical Society. 81(2). 126–132. 1 indexed citations

Chalita, Mauricio, Abu Sufian, Kihyun Lee, et al.. (2022). Genomic and evolutionary study from SARS-CoV-2 virus isolates from Bangladesh during the early stage of pandemic strongly correlate with European origin and not with China. Genomics. 114(6). 110497–110497.

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Kim, Hyunhee, et al.. (2022). Cytoplasmic molecular chaperones in Pseudomonas species. The Journal of Microbiology. 60(11). 1049–1060. 2 indexed citations

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Lee, Jaewoong, Kihyun Lee, Jiwon Jung, et al.. (2021). Epidemiologic Linkage of COVID-19 Outbreaks at Two University-affiliated Hospitals in the Seoul Metropolitan Area in March 2020. Journal of Korean Medical Science. 36(4). e38–e38. 6 indexed citations

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Lee, Kihyun, et al.. (2021). Commissioning and initial heating results of the neutral beam injection system in Versatile Experiment Spherical Torus. Fusion Engineering and Design. 171. 112735–112735. 4 indexed citations

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Lee, Kihyun. (2019). What Factors Determine China’s North Korea Policy?: Uncertainty, Instability and Status Quo Risk Management. Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. 31(4). 519–538.

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Baek, Inwoo, Kihyun Lee, Michael Goodfellow, & Jongsik Chun. (2019). Comparative Genomic and Phylogenomic Analyses Clarify Relationships Within and Between Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis: Proposal for the Recognition of Two Bacillus thuringiensis Genomovars. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 1978–1978. 31 indexed citations

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Park, Sang‐Cheol, et al.. (2019). Large-Scale Genomics Reveals the Genetic Characteristics of Seven Species and Importance of Phylogenetic Distance for Estimating Pan-Genome Size. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 834–834. 61 indexed citations

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Shi, Yuejiang, et al.. (2017). Design of combined system of helium charge exchange spectroscopy and hydrogen beam emission spectroscopy in VEST. Fusion Engineering and Design. 123. 975–978. 3 indexed citations

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Baek, Inwoo, Boram Seo, Imchang Lee, et al.. (2015). Burkholderia megalochromosomata sp. nov., isolated from grassland soil. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 65(Pt_3). 959–964. 8 indexed citations

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Lee, Kihyun, Sang‐Cheol Park, Hana Yi, & Jongsik Chun. (2013). Flavobacterium limnosediminis sp. nov., isolated from sediment of a freshwater lake. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 63(Pt_12). 4784–4789. 11 indexed citations

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Lee, Kihyun. (2012). China’s Dilemma and its Policies toward North Korea in the Kim Jong-un Era. 213–249. 1 indexed citations

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Cho, Yong‐Joon, Kihyun Lee, Mincheol Kim, et al.. (2011). Introducing EzTaxon-e: a prokaryotic 16S rRNA gene sequence database with phylotypes that represent uncultured species. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 62(Pt_3). 716–721. 4853 indexed citations breakdown →

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