Kwanghun Chung

10.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
55 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Kwanghun Chung is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kwanghun Chung has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Biophysics and 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kwanghun Chung's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (15 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (12 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (11 papers). Kwanghun Chung is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (15 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (12 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (11 papers). Kwanghun Chung collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Japan. Kwanghun Chung's co-authors include Karl Deisseroth, Hang Lu, Viviana Gradinaru, Sung‐Yon Kim, Matthew M. Crane, Taeyun Ku, Logan Grosenick, Aaron S. Andalman, Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram and Hannah L. Bernstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kwanghun Chung

51 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems

2013 1.4k citations Kwanghun Chung, Sung‐Yon Kim et al. Nature profile →
CLARITY for mapping the nervous system

2013 524 citations Kwanghun Chung, Karl Deisseroth Nature Methods profile →
Multi-sensory Gamma Stimulation Ameliorates Alzheimer’s-Associated Pathology and Improves Cognition

2019 473 citations Fatema Abdurrob, Jennie Z. Young et al. Cell profile →
Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience

2020 362 citations Hiroki R. Ueda, Ali Ertürk et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
A metastasis map of human cancer cell lines

2020 272 citations Xin Jin, Ahmed Ali 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
Kwanghun Chung United States	29	2.1k	2.0k	1.6k	1.2k	733	55	5.9k
Hans‐Ulrich Dodt Germany	35	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	923 0.6×	2.2k 1.8×	1.1k 1.5×	86	5.2k
Sung‐Yon Kim South Korea	22	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	852 0.5×	2.3k 1.8×	1.6k 2.2×	35	5.8k
Shaoqun Zeng China	38	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	762 1.0×	238	5.0k
Nozomi Nishimura United States	34	845 0.4×	764 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	816 0.7×	542 0.7×	95	4.7k
Kelly A. Zalocusky United States	15	825 0.4×	1.7k 0.8×	511 0.3×	2.1k 1.7×	1.7k 2.3×	21	5.5k
Ali Ertürk Germany	25	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	750 0.5×	971 0.8×	135 0.2×	50	3.8k
Filippo Del Bene France	30	1.4k 0.7×	3.0k 1.5×	839 0.5×	1.5k 1.2×	593 0.8×	65	5.8k
Jean‐Baptiste Sibarita France	50	2.0k 1.0×	4.0k 2.0×	996 0.6×	1.9k 1.5×	317 0.4×	105	7.8k
Nicolas Renier France	23	777 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	362 0.2×	1.2k 1.0×	552 0.8×	35	3.8k
Hiroshi Hama Japan	29	1.7k 0.8×	3.5k 1.7×	685 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	251 0.3×	91	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kwanghun Chung

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Kwanghun Chung's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Kwanghun Chung with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Kwanghun Chung more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Kwanghun Chung

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kwanghun Chung. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kwanghun Chung. The network helps show where Kwanghun Chung may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kwanghun Chung

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Kwon, Jeong-Tae, Mengyang Feng, Xiaoying Zhang, et al.. (2025). Inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines bidirectionally modulate amygdala circuits regulating anxiety. Cell. 188(8). 2190–2202.e15. 14 indexed citations

Cai, Ying, Keji Li, Chloé Delépine, et al.. (2025). The noncoding circular RNA circHomer1 regulates synaptic development and experience-dependent plasticity in the mouse visual cortex. iScience. 28(9). 113421–113421.

Ang, Mervin Chun‐Yi, Minkyung Park, Jianqiao Cui, et al.. (2023). Near-Infrared Fluorescent Carbon Nanotube Sensors for the Plant Hormone Family Gibberellins. Nano Letters. 23(3). 916–924. 45 indexed citations

Roy, Dheeraj S., Young-Gyun Park, Ying Zhang, et al.. (2022). Brain-wide mapping reveals that engrams for a single memory are distributed across multiple brain regions. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1799–1799. 119 indexed citations

Park, Joha, Joha Park, Dae Hee Yun, et al.. (2021). Epitope-preserving magnified analysis of proteome (eMAP). Science Advances. 7(46). eabf6589–eabf6589. 25 indexed citations

Ueda, Hiroki R., Ali Ertürk, Kwanghun Chung, et al.. (2020). Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 21(2). 61–79. 362 indexed citations breakdown →

Ueda, Hiroki R., Ali Ertürk, Kwanghun Chung, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 21(5). 298–298. 57 indexed citations

Jin, Xin, Ahmed Ali, Gino B. Ferraro, et al.. (2020). A metastasis map of human cancer cell lines. Nature. 588(7837). 331–336. 272 indexed citations breakdown →

Canter, Rebecca G., Wen‐Chin Huang, Heejin Choi, et al.. (2019). 3D mapping reveals network-specific amyloid progression and subcortical susceptibility in mice. Communications Biology. 2(1). 360–360. 54 indexed citations

10.

Mano, Tomoyuki, Alexandre Albanese, Hans‐Ulrich Dodt, et al.. (2018). Whole-Brain Analysis of Cells and Circuits by Tissue Clearing and Light-Sheet Microscopy. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(44). 9330–9337. 36 indexed citations

11.

Lutzu, Stefano, Karina Alviña, Yuxiang Zhang, et al.. (2018). Npas4 Is a Critical Regulator of Learning-Induced Plasticity at Mossy Fiber-CA3 Synapses during Contextual Memory Formation. Neuron. 97(5). 1137–1152.e5. 62 indexed citations

12.

Renner, Magdalena, Madeline A. Lancaster, Shan Bian, et al.. (2017). Self‐organized developmental patterning and differentiation in cerebral organoids. The EMBO Journal. 36(10). 1316–1329. 262 indexed citations

13.

Chan, Juliana C.N., Chak K. Chan, Chak-Yu So, et al.. (2017). 1087 QIGONG EXERCISE IMPROVED QUALITY OF SLEEP AND REDUCED INTERLEUKIN-1 BETA AND INTERLEUKIN-6 AMONG PERSONS WITH DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND SLEEP DISTURBANCES: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL. SLEEP. 40(suppl_1). A405–A405. 5 indexed citations

14.

Stevens, Kelly R., Margaret A. Scull, Vyas Ramanan, et al.. (2017). In situ expansion of engineered human liver tissue in a mouse model of chronic liver disease. Science Translational Medicine. 9(399). 131 indexed citations

15.

Lippok, Norman, Martin Villiger, Alexandre Albanese, et al.. (2017). Depolarization signatures map gold nanorods within biological tissue. Nature Photonics. 11(9). 583–588. 24 indexed citations

16.

Ku, Taeyun, Justin Swaney, Jeong Yoon Park, et al.. (2016). Multiplexed and scalable super-resolution imaging of three-dimensional protein localization in size-adjustable tissues. Nature Biotechnology. 34(9). 973–981. 305 indexed citations

17.

Kim, Sung‐Yon, Jaehun Cho, Evan Murray, et al.. (2015). Stochastic electrotransport selectively enhances the transport of highly electromobile molecules. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(46). E6274–83. 166 indexed citations

18.

Kim, Sung‐Yon, Kwanghun Chung, & Karl Deisseroth. (2013). Light microscopy mapping of connections in the intact brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17(12). 596–599. 61 indexed citations

19.

Chung, Kwanghun, et al.. (2009). Multiplex pressure measurement in microsystems using volume displacement of particle suspensions. Lab on a Chip. 9(23). 3345–3345. 29 indexed citations

20.

Chung, Kwanghun, Matthew M. Crane, & Hang Lu. (2008). Automated on-chip rapid microscopy, phenotyping and sorting of C. elegans. Nature Methods. 5(7). 637–643. 284 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact