Kunhua Song

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Kunhua Song is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kunhua Song has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Surgery and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Kunhua Song's work include Congenital heart defects research (11 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (10 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (8 papers). Kunhua Song is often cited by papers focused on Congenital heart defects research (11 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (10 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (8 papers). Kunhua Song collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Ukraine. Kunhua Song's co-authors include Eric N. Olson, Rhonda Bassel‐Duby, Joseph A. Hill, Xiang Luo, Xiaoxia Qi, Young-Jae Nam, Wei Tan, Guo N. Huang, Eric G. Neilson and Christopher L. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kunhua Song

28 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Heart repair by reprogramming non-myocytes with cardiac transcription factors

2012 860 citations Kunhua Song, Young-Jae Nam et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kunhua Song United States	16	1.8k	826	380	199	156	28	2.3k
Sean C. Goetsch United States	18	1.3k 0.7×	666 0.8×	434 1.1×	75 0.4×	100 0.6×	22	1.8k
David Kain Israel	18	1.1k 0.6×	529 0.6×	568 1.5×	67 0.3×	168 1.1×	24	1.8k
Rachel Sarig Israel	18	1.9k 1.0×	522 0.6×	407 1.1×	70 0.4×	248 1.6×	23	2.4k
Kevin Bersell United States	8	1.3k 0.7×	531 0.6×	659 1.7×	115 0.6×	219 1.4×	12	1.7k
John P. Leach United States	19	1.7k 0.9×	695 0.8×	502 1.3×	48 0.2×	186 1.2×	22	2.5k
Pingzhu Zhou United States	21	2.1k 1.1×	538 0.7×	522 1.4×	60 0.3×	191 1.2×	31	2.6k
Christian Freund Netherlands	20	1.4k 0.7×	564 0.7×	344 0.9×	266 1.3×	39 0.3×	42	1.8k
Annette Meeson United Kingdom	22	1.5k 0.8×	560 0.7×	156 0.4×	71 0.4×	66 0.4×	49	2.2k
Koji Iwanaga Japan	11	840 0.5×	617 0.7×	712 1.9×	95 0.5×	95 0.6×	23	1.7k
Sharon L. Paige United States	16	1.2k 0.6×	405 0.5×	157 0.4×	99 0.5×	109 0.7×	20	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kunhua Song

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kunhua Song

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kunhua Song. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kunhua Song 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 Kunhua Song. Kunhua Song 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

Arrieta, Adrian, Douglas J. Chapski, Todd Kimball, et al.. (2024). Circadian control of histone turnover during cardiac development and growth. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(7). 107434–107434. 2 indexed citations

Song, Kunhua, et al.. (2024). Advances in the Generation of Constructed Cardiac Tissue Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Disease Modeling and Therapeutic Discovery. Cells. 13(3). 250–250. 5 indexed citations

Chi, Congwu, et al.. (2024). Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells for Disease Modeling: Learning from Heart Development. Pharmaceuticals. 17(3). 337–337. 2 indexed citations

Chi, Congwu, et al.. (2023). The molecular mechanism of sialic acid transport mediated by Sialin. Science Advances. 9(3). eade8346–eade8346. 11 indexed citations

Tatavosian, Roubina, Micah G. Donovan, Matthew D. Galbraith, et al.. (2023). Cell differentiation modifies the p53 transcriptional program through a combination of gene silencing and constitutive transactivation. Cell Death and Differentiation. 30(4). 952–965. 14 indexed citations

Chi, Congwu & Kunhua Song. (2023). Cellular reprogramming of fibroblasts in heart regeneration. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 180. 84–93. 9 indexed citations

Riching, Andrew S. & Kunhua Song. (2021). Cardiac Regeneration: New Insights Into the Frontier of Ischemic Heart Failure Therapy. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 8. 637538–637538. 19 indexed citations

Knight, Walter E., et al.. (2021). A simple protocol to produce mature human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. STAR Protocols. 2(4). 100912–100912. 9 indexed citations

Favero, Giorgia Del, Alois Bonifacio, Teisha J. Rowland, et al.. (2020). Danon Disease-Associated LAMP-2 Deficiency Drives Metabolic Signature Indicative of Mitochondrial Aging and Fibrosis in Cardiac Tissue and hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(8). 2457–2457. 15 indexed citations

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Riching, Andrew S., Etienne Danis, Yuanbiao Zhao, et al.. (2020). Suppression of canonical TGF-β signaling enables GATA4 to interact with H3K27me3 demethylase JMJD3 to promote cardiomyogenesis. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 153. 44–59. 24 indexed citations

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Stratton, Matthew S., Rushita A. Bagchi, Marina Barreto Felisbino, et al.. (2019). Dynamic Chromatin Targeting of BRD4 Stimulates Cardiac Fibroblast Activation. Circulation Research. 125(7). 662–677. 123 indexed citations

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Han, Ke-Jun, et al.. (2018). Deubiquitylase USP9X maintains centriolar satellite integrity by stabilizing pericentriolar material 1 protein. Journal of Cell Science. 132(2). 25 indexed citations

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Riching, Andrew S., Yuanbiao Zhao, Yingqiong Cao, et al.. (2018). Suppression of Pro-fibrotic Signaling Potentiates Factor-mediated Reprogramming of Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts into Induced Cardiomyocytes. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 4 indexed citations

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Bagchi, Rushita A., Bradley S. Ferguson, Matthew S. Stratton, et al.. (2018). HDAC11 suppresses the thermogenic program of adipose tissue via BRD2. JCI Insight. 3(15). 82 indexed citations

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Zhou, Huanyu, María Gabriela Morales, Hisayuki Hashimoto, et al.. (2017). ZNF281 enhances cardiac reprogramming by modulating cardiac and inflammatory gene expression. Genes & Development. 31(17). 1770–1783. 76 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yuanbiao, Pilar Londono, Yingqiong Cao, et al.. (2015). High-efficiency reprogramming of fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes requires suppression of pro-fibrotic signalling. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8243–8243. 182 indexed citations

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Nam, Young‐Jae, Kunhua Song, Xiang Luo, et al.. (2013). Reprogramming of human fibroblasts toward a cardiac fate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(14). 5588–5593. 386 indexed citations

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Nam, Young-Jae, Kunhua Song, & Eric N. Olson. (2013). Heart repair by cardiac reprogramming. Nature Medicine. 19(4). 413–415. 44 indexed citations

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Song, Kunhua, Young-Jae Nam, Xiang Luo, et al.. (2012). Heart repair by reprogramming non-myocytes with cardiac transcription factors. Nature. 485(7400). 599–604. 860 indexed citations breakdown →

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Song, Kunhua, Johannes Backs, John McAnally, et al.. (2006). The Transcriptional Coactivator CAMTA2 Stimulates Cardiac Growth by Opposing Class II Histone Deacetylases. Cell. 125(3). 453–466. 129 indexed citations

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