Kit‐Yi Leung

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Kit‐Yi Leung is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Rheumatology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Kit‐Yi Leung has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Rheumatology and 15 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Kit‐Yi Leung's work include Folate and B Vitamins Research (19 papers), Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (8 papers) and Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (5 papers). Kit‐Yi Leung is often cited by papers focused on Folate and B Vitamins Research (19 papers), Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (8 papers) and Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (5 papers). Kit‐Yi Leung collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Kit‐Yi Leung's co-authors include Nicholas D. E. Greene, Malcolm Ward, Filipe Cabreiro, Andrew J. Copp, Helen L. Byers, David Weinkove, Eugene F. Schuster, Helena M. Cochemé, Tahereh Noori and Catherine Au and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kit‐Yi Leung

57 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Metformin Retards Aging in C. elegans by Altering Microbial Folate and Methionine Metabolism

2013 753 citations Kit‐Yi Leung, Nicholas D. E. Greene et al. profile →
ISUOG Practice Guidelines: use of Doppler ultrasonography in obstetrics

2013 317 citations A. Bhide, Ganesh Acharya et al. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kit‐Yi Leung United Kingdom	33	2.0k	954	599	515	442	60	4.0k
Pierre Fafournoux France	41	3.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	227 0.4×	139 0.3×	52 0.1×	98	5.6k
Anne Lombès France	53	7.1k 3.6×	982 1.0×	208 0.3×	307 0.6×	61 0.1×	145	9.5k
Paul A. Townsend United Kingdom	42	2.8k 1.4×	685 0.7×	98 0.2×	151 0.3×	99 0.2×	156	5.3k
Irwin J. Kurland United States	36	3.1k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	134 0.2×	120 0.2×	56 0.1×	91	5.3k
Céline Jousse France	31	3.1k 1.6×	751 0.8×	187 0.3×	123 0.2×	51 0.1×	63	5.5k
Pengfei Li China	39	2.5k 1.3×	319 0.3×	125 0.2×	146 0.3×	365 0.8×	214	4.8k
Timothy G. Hammond United States	38	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	181 0.3×	194 0.4×	22 0.0×	126	4.7k
Luciano Pirola France	34	3.6k 1.8×	1.4k 1.5×	209 0.3×	103 0.2×	76 0.2×	77	6.4k
Harald Esterbauer Austria	41	2.7k 1.4×	1.6k 1.7×	249 0.4×	256 0.5×	39 0.1×	94	5.5k
Kenneth Siddle United Kingdom	50	5.9k 3.0×	1.4k 1.4×	337 0.6×	155 0.3×	140 0.3×	165	8.6k

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Medeiros, Tania, Jana Ovciarikova, John Crow, et al.. (2025). Mitochondria protect against an intracellular pathogen by restricting access to folate. Science. 389(6761). eadr6326–eadr6326. 2 indexed citations

Leung, Kit‐Yi, Eleanor Weston, Sandra C. de Castro, et al.. (2024). Association of embryonic inositol status with susceptibility to neural tube defects, metabolite profile, and maternal inositol intake. The FASEB Journal. 38(11). e23738–e23738. 1 indexed citations

Leung, Kit‐Yi, et al.. (2024). AAV-mediated expression of mouse or human GLDC normalises metabolic biomarkers in a GLDC-deficient mouse model of Non-Ketotic Hyperglycinemia. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. 142(3). 108496–108496.

Lang, Marie, Kit‐Yi Leung, Nicholas D. E. Greene, et al.. (2023). The actions of methotrexate on endothelial cells are dependent on the shear stress-induced regulation of one carbon metabolism. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 1209490–1209490. 3 indexed citations

Weston, Eleanor, Faith Pangilinan, Simon Eaton, et al.. (2022). Investigating Genetic Determinants of Plasma Inositol Status in Adult Humans. Journal of Nutrition. 152(11). 2333–2342. 3 indexed citations

Leung, Kit‐Yi, Sandra C. de Castro, Gabriel L. Galea, Andrew J. Copp, & Nicholas D. E. Greene. (2021). Glycine Cleavage System H Protein Is Essential for Embryonic Viability, Implying Additional Function Beyond the Glycine Cleavage System. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 625120–625120. 11 indexed citations

Leung, Kit‐Yi, et al.. (2020). Deficient or Excess Folic Acid Supply During Pregnancy Alter Cortical Neurodevelopment in Mouse Offspring. Cerebral Cortex. 31(1). 635–649. 46 indexed citations

Pai, Yun Jin, Kit‐Yi Leung, Dawn Savery, et al.. (2019). Impaired folate 1-carbon metabolism causes formate-preventable hydrocephalus in glycine decarboxylase–deficient mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 130(3). 1446–1452. 17 indexed citations

Leung, Kit‐Yi, Yun Jin Pai, Qiuying Chen, et al.. (2017). Partitioning of One-Carbon Units in Folate and Methionine Metabolism Is Essential for Neural Tube Closure. Cell Reports. 21(7). 1795–1808. 73 indexed citations

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Greene, Nicholas D. E., Kit‐Yi Leung, & Andrew J. Copp. (2016). Inositol, neural tube closure and the prevention of neural tube defects. Birth Defects Research. 109(2). 68–80. 60 indexed citations

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Sudiwala, Sonia, Sandra C. de Castro, Kit‐Yi Leung, et al.. (2016). Formate supplementation enhances folate-dependent nucleotide biosynthesis and prevents spina bifida in a mouse model of folic acid-resistant neural tube defects. Biochimie. 126. 63–70. 22 indexed citations

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Bhide, A., Ganesh Acharya, C. M. Bilardo, et al.. (2013). ISUOG Practice Guidelines: use of Doppler ultrasonography in obstetrics. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 41(2). 233–239. 317 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lange, Sigrun, Kit‐Yi Leung, Bertrand Vernay, et al.. (2011). Protein deiminases: New players in the developmentally regulated loss of neural regenerative ability. Developmental Biology. 355(2). 205–214. 85 indexed citations

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Lovell, Matthew J., Mohammed Yasin, Kate Lee, et al.. (2010). Bone marrow mononuclear cells reduce myocardial reperfusion injury by activating the PI3K/Akt survival pathway. Atherosclerosis. 213(1). 67–76. 22 indexed citations

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Munkonge, Felix M., Vaksha Amin, Stephen C. Hyde, et al.. (2009). Identification and Functional Characterization of Cytoplasmic Determinants of Plasmid DNA Nuclear Import. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(39). 26978–26987. 32 indexed citations

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Gillott, David J., et al.. (2007). Specific isoforms of leucine-rich α2-glycoprotein detected in the proliferative endometrium of women undergoing assisted reproduction are associated with spontaneous pregnancy. Fertility and Sterility. 90(3). 761–768. 8 indexed citations

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Leung, Kit‐Yi, Pierre Lescuyer, James Campbell, et al.. (2005). A novel strategy using MASCOT Distiller for analysis of cleavable isotope‐coded affinity tag data to quantify protein changes in plasma. PROTEOMICS. 5(12). 3040–3044. 9 indexed citations

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Derkinderen, Pascal, Timothy M.E. Scales, Diane P. Hanger, et al.. (2005). Tyrosine 394 Is Phosphorylated in Alzheimer's Paired Helical Filament Tau and in Fetal Tau with c-Abl as the Candidate Tyrosine Kinase. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(28). 6584–6593. 153 indexed citations

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Schmid, G. M., Véronique Converset, Nadia Walter, et al.. (2004). Effect of high‐fat diet on the expression of proteins in muscle, adipose tissues, and liver of C57BL/6 mice. PROTEOMICS. 4(8). 2270–2282. 92 indexed citations

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Wallis, Russell, Kit‐Yi Leung, Ansgar J. Pommer, et al.. (1995). Protein-Protein Interactions in Colicin E9 DNase-Immunity Protein Complexes. 2. Cognate and Noncognate Interactions That Span the Millilmolar to Femptomolar Affinity Range. Biochemistry. 34(42). 13751–13759. 79 indexed citations

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