Le T. Phung

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
15 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Le T. Phung is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nutrition and Dietetics and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Le T. Phung has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 7 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 6 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Le T. Phung's work include Trace Elements in Health (7 papers), Chromium effects and bioremediation (7 papers) and Arsenic contamination and mitigation (6 papers). Le T. Phung is often cited by papers focused on Trace Elements in Health (7 papers), Chromium effects and bioremediation (7 papers) and Arsenic contamination and mitigation (6 papers). Le T. Phung collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Taiwan. Le T. Phung's co-authors include Simón Silver, Barry P. Rosen, Rita Mukhopadhyay, Amit Gupta, Diane E. Taylor, Giuseppina Nucifora, Jack A. Gilbert, W. Trimble, Ginro Endo and Masaru Narita and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Bacteriology and Molecular Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Le T. Phung

15 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

BACTERIAL HEAVY METAL RESISTANCE: New Surprises

1996 989 citations Simón Silver, Le T. Phung Annual Review of Microbiology profile →
Silver as biocides in burn and wound dressings and bacterial resistance to silver compounds

2006 582 citations Simón Silver, Le T. Phung et al. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology profile →
Microbial arsenic: from geocycles to genes and enzymes

2002 516 citations Rita Mukhopadhyay, Barry P. Rosen et al. FEMS Microbiology Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Le T. Phung United States	11	1.3k	1.1k	836	670	519	15	3.2k
Jiangyong Hu Singapore	41	1.5k 1.2×	619 0.6×	1.8k 2.2×	695 1.0×	335 0.6×	153	5.5k
Sylvia Franke Germany	22	781 0.6×	505 0.5×	353 0.4×	240 0.4×	480 0.9×	27	3.1k
Silvia Lampis Italy	30	473 0.4×	301 0.3×	768 0.9×	498 0.7×	675 1.3×	73	3.7k
Taku Matsushita Japan	33	830 0.6×	303 0.3×	613 0.7×	259 0.4×	203 0.4×	152	3.2k
Carlo Pretti Italy	34	1.5k 1.1×	345 0.3×	1.1k 1.4×	690 1.0×	350 0.7×	167	4.1k
Carlos A. Jerez Chile	35	383 0.3×	466 0.4×	245 0.3×	877 1.3×	716 1.4×	80	2.8k
Min Hu China	28	437 0.3×	935 0.9×	859 1.0×	109 0.2×	503 1.0×	78	3.0k
Ke Xu China	43	1.0k 0.8×	198 0.2×	2.2k 2.6×	426 0.6×	764 1.5×	169	5.0k
Kang Mao China	28	459 0.4×	253 0.2×	628 0.8×	411 0.6×	817 1.6×	80	2.7k
Michael Berney United States	34	672 0.5×	191 0.2×	430 0.5×	255 0.4×	2.0k 3.8×	55	4.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Le T. Phung

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15 of 15 papers shown

Matsui, Kazuaki, Masaru Narita, Mei-Fang Chien, et al.. (2016). Mercury resistance transposons in Bacilli strains from different geographical regions. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 363(5). fnw013–fnw013. 31 indexed citations

Phung, Le T., W. Trimble, Folker Meyer, Jack A. Gilbert, & Simón Silver. (2012). Draft Genome Sequence of Alcaligenes faecalis subsp.faecalisNCIB 8687 (CCUG 2071). Journal of Bacteriology. 194(18). 5153–5153. 17 indexed citations

Phung, Le T., Simón Silver, W. Trimble, & Jack A. Gilbert. (2012). Draft Genome of Halomonas Species Strain GFAJ-1 (ATCC BAA-2256). Journal of Bacteriology. 194(7). 1835–1836. 9 indexed citations

Trimble, W., Le T. Phung, Folker Meyer, Simón Silver, & Jack A. Gilbert. (2012). Draft Genome Sequence of Achromobacter piechaudii Strain HLE. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(22). 6355–6355. 8 indexed citations

Trimble, W., Le T. Phung, Folker Meyer, Jack A. Gilbert, & Simón Silver. (2012). Draft Genome Sequence of Agrobacterium albertimagni Strain AOL15. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(24). 6986–6987. 3 indexed citations

Silver, Simón & Le T. Phung. (2011). Novel expansion of living chemistry or just a serious mistake?. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 315(2). 79–80. 9 indexed citations

Silver, Simón, et al.. (2006). Silver as biocides in burn and wound dressings and bacterial resistance to silver compounds. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 33(7). 627–634. 582 indexed citations breakdown →

Silver, Simón & Le T. Phung. (2005). A bacterial view of the periodic table: genes and proteins for toxic inorganic ions. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 32(11-12). 587–605. 362 indexed citations

Silver, Simón & Le T. Phung. (2005). Genes and Enzymes Involved in Bacterial Oxidation and Reduction of Inorganic Arsenic. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(2). 599–608. 467 indexed citations

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Mukhopadhyay, Rita, Barry P. Rosen, Le T. Phung, & Simón Silver. (2002). Microbial arsenic: from geocycles to genes and enzymes. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 26(3). 311–325. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huang, Chieh‐Chen, et al.. (2002). Characterization of two regulatory genes of the mercury resistance determinants from TnMERI1 by luciferase-based examination. Gene. 301(1-2). 13–20. 15 indexed citations

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Gupta, Amit, Le T. Phung, Simón Silver, & Diane E. Taylor. (2001). Diversity of silver resistance genes in IncH incompatibility group plasmids. Microbiology. 147(12). 3393–3402. 132 indexed citations

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Gupta, Amit, et al.. (1999). Mercury Resistance in Bacillus cereus RC607: Transcriptional Organization and Two New Open Reading Frames. Journal of Bacteriology. 181(22). 7080–7086. 31 indexed citations

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Silver, Simón & Le T. Phung. (1996). BACTERIAL HEAVY METAL RESISTANCE: New Surprises. Annual Review of Microbiology. 50(1). 753–789. 989 indexed citations breakdown →

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Silver, Simón, Giuseppina Nucifora, & Le T. Phung. (1993). Human Menkes X‐chromosome disease and the staphylococcal cadmium‐resistance ATPase: a remarkable similarity in protein sequences. Molecular Microbiology. 10(1). 7–12. 60 indexed citations

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