Kong Chen

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
159 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Kong Chen is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kong Chen has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Immunology, 57 papers in Molecular Biology and 28 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Kong Chen's work include Immune Response and Inflammation (17 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (13 papers). Kong Chen is often cited by papers focused on Immune Response and Inflammation (17 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (13 papers). Kong Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Kong Chen's co-authors include Jay K. Kolls, John F. Alcorn, Philip D. Stahl, Derek Pociask, Xiong Su, Mingquan Zheng, William S. Trimble, Sergio Grinstein, Waleed Elsegeiny and Jeremy P. McAleer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Kong Chen

152 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Treg cell-derived osteopontin promotes microglia-mediated white matter repair after ischemic stroke

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kong Chen United States	38	1.8k	1.7k	858	625	521	159	4.7k
Ruey‐Bing Yang Taiwan	36	3.3k 1.8×	3.2k 1.9×	1.0k 1.2×	675 1.1×	526 1.0×	93	8.5k
Min Zheng China	34	1.9k 1.1×	2.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.8×	442 0.8×	107	5.5k
Poonam Sharma United States	35	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	750 0.9×	328 0.5×	268 0.5×	122	4.9k
Anshu Agrawal United States	33	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	560 0.7×	434 0.7×	193 0.4×	95	4.6k
David Álvarez United States	32	2.9k 1.6×	1.5k 0.9×	724 0.8×	359 0.6×	733 1.4×	68	5.8k
Irina A. Udalova United Kingdom	43	3.9k 2.1×	1.9k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	476 0.8×	381 0.7×	93	6.8k
Hideki Hara Japan	31	2.2k 1.2×	3.2k 1.9×	753 0.9×	360 0.6×	487 0.9×	118	5.5k
James Harris Australia	42	2.8k 1.5×	2.3k 1.4×	2.1k 2.4×	883 1.4×	235 0.5×	92	6.3k
Fabio Re United States	36	4.2k 2.3×	2.7k 1.6×	897 1.0×	606 1.0×	321 0.6×	51	7.2k
Timothy L. Denning United States	42	3.4k 1.8×	2.0k 1.2×	630 0.7×	606 1.0×	272 0.5×	87	6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Kong Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kong Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kong Chen

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Moghbeli, Kaveh, Marta Bueno, Andrew Craig, et al.. (2025). NKG2D blockade impairs tissue-resident memory T cell accumulation and reduces chronic lung allograft dysfunction. JCI Insight. 10(4). 1 indexed citations

Sun, Bai, Zelin Cao, Yu Cui, et al.. (2025). An organic artificial synaptic memristor for neuromorphic computing. Applied Materials Today. 43. 102628–102628. 6 indexed citations

Hu, Peng, Cheng‐mei Tian, Kong Chen, et al.. (2024). Dissecting Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Immune Compartmentalization, Microbiota Crosstalk, and Emerging Therapies. Journal of Inflammation Research. Volume 17. 9987–10014. 4 indexed citations

Qi, Le, et al.. (2024). Correlation of disulfidptosis and periodontitis: New insights and clinical significance. Archives of Oral Biology. 166. 106046–106046. 1 indexed citations

Parks, Olivia B., Yu Zhang, Jie Lan, et al.. (2024). IFN-λ drives distinct lung immune landscape changes and antiviral responses in human metapneumovirus infection. mBio. 15(5). e0055024–e0055024. 10 indexed citations

Chen, Kong, et al.. (2024). Exploring generative AI literacy in higher education: student adoption, interaction, evaluation and ethical perceptions. Information and Learning Sciences. 126(1/2). 132–148. 32 indexed citations

Fan, Li, et al.. (2024). Lung Epithelial Regnase-1 Dampens Local Immune Response but Does Not Worsen Susceptibility to Klebsiella pneumoniae. ImmunoHorizons. 8(1). 89–96.

Chen, Kong, et al.. (2024). Restore Intestinal Barrier Integrity: An Approach for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Therapy. Journal of Inflammation Research. Volume 17. 5389–5413. 20 indexed citations

Peñaloza, Hernán F., Zeyu Xiong, Xiaojing An, et al.. (2023). BATF2 enhances proinflammatory cytokine responses in macrophages and improves early host defense against pulmonary Klebsiella pneumoniae infection. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 325(5). L604–L616. 5 indexed citations

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Wu, Shaoxian, Hao Huang, Runzi Sun, et al.. (2023). Synergism Between IL21 and Anti-PD-1 Combination Therapy is Underpinned by the Coordinated Reprogramming of the Immune Cellular Network in the Tumor Microenvironment. Cancer Research Communications. 3(8). 1460–1472. 8 indexed citations

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Trevejo-Nuñez, Giraldina, Li Fan, Felix E.Y. Aggor, et al.. (2022). Regnase-1 Deficiency Restrains Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection by Regulation of a Type I Interferon Response. mBio. 13(1). e0379221–e0379221. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Xinjun, Zhongli Xu, Haoran Hu, et al.. (2022). SECANT: a biology-guided semi-supervised method for clustering, classification, and annotation of single-cell multi-omics. PNAS Nexus. 1(4). pgac165–pgac165. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Xiuying, Tiao Li, Xiaoyun Li, et al.. (2022). Protein arginine N-methyltransferase 4 (PRMT4) contributes to lymphopenia in experimental sepsis. Thorax. 78(4). 383–393. 12 indexed citations

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Iwanaga, Naoki, Kong Chen, Haoran Yang, et al.. (2021). Vaccine-driven lung TRM cells provide immunity against Klebsiella via fibroblast IL-17R signaling. Science Immunology. 6(63). eabf1198–eabf1198. 42 indexed citations

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Wang, Xinjun, Zhe Sun, Yanfu Zhang, et al.. (2020). BREM-SC: a bayesian random effects mixture model for joint clustering single cell multi-omics data. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(11). 5814–5824. 58 indexed citations

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Lian, Qiuyu, Hongyi Xin, Jianzhu Ma, et al.. (2020). Artificial-cell-type aware cell-type classification in CITE-seq. Bioinformatics. 36(Supplement_1). i542–i550. 6 indexed citations

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Eddens, Taylor, Brian T. Campfield, Michelle L. Manni, et al.. (2016). A Novel CD4+ T Cell–Dependent Murine Model of Pneumocystis -driven Asthma-like Pathology. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 194(7). 807–820. 33 indexed citations

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Wu, Jianfeng, Yanyan Tang, Min Zhang, et al.. (2014). Urotensin II increases foam cell formation by repressing ABCA1 expression through the ERK/NF-κB pathway in THP-1 macrophages. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 452(4). 998–1003. 21 indexed citations

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Obermajer, Nataša, Jeffrey L. Wong, Robert P. Edwards, et al.. (2013). Induction and stability of human Th17 cells require endogenous NOS2 and cGMP-dependent NO signaling. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 210(7). 1433–1445. 93 indexed citations

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Rapaka, Rekha R., David Ricks, John F. Alcorn, et al.. (2010). Conserved natural IgM antibodies mediate innate and adaptive immunity against the opportunistic fungus Pneumocystis murina. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 207(13). 2907–2919. 103 indexed citations

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