Lei Sun

194 total papers · 8.1k total citations
156 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Lei Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Sun has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Molecular Biology, 45 papers in Immunology and 44 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Lei Sun's work include Influenza Virus Research Studies (25 papers), interferon and immune responses (25 papers) and Signaling Pathways in Disease (18 papers). Lei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Influenza Virus Research Studies (25 papers), interferon and immune responses (25 papers) and Signaling Pathways in Disease (18 papers). Lei Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Lei Sun's co-authors include Thomas R. Jones, Hidde L. Ploegh, Emmanuel J. H. J. Wiertz, Wenjun Liu, Matthew Bogyo, Hans J. Geuze, Xiaoxia Zhang, Wei Song, Xiuzhu Dong and Yuhai Bi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Lei Sun

152 papers receiving 6.2k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Human Cytomegalovirus US11 Gene Product Dislocates MHC Class I Heavy Chains from the Endoplasmic Reticulum to the Cytosol

1996 904 citations Emmanuel J. H. J. Wiertz, Thomas R. Jones et al. Cell profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Lei Sun	2.4k	2.2k	1.9k	1.1k	631	156	6.4k
David Porter	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	826 0.4×	935 0.8×	1.6k 2.5×	158	6.9k
Parastoo Azadi	979 0.4×	4.4k 2.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.7×	253	8.5k
Maria João Silva	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	4.9k 2.6×	627 0.6×	492 0.8×	153	9.3k
Na Zhang	655 0.3×	3.8k 1.7×	1.2k 0.6×	832 0.7×	309 0.5×	244	6.9k
Reto Crameri	829 0.4×	2.4k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	960 0.8×	1.6k 2.6×	203	11.0k
Qing Zhang	2.0k 0.8×	3.0k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	576 0.5×	1.3k 2.1×	178	8.2k
Peter R. Jungblut	1.3k 0.5×	5.6k 2.5×	2.5k 1.3×	803 0.7×	1.4k 2.2×	164	10.6k
Juan Antonio López	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	563 0.3×	600 0.5×	1.0k 1.6×	182	5.9k
W. Siegert	1.3k 0.6×	2.3k 1.0×	924 0.5×	486 0.4×	821 1.3×	237	8.0k
Pascale Jeannin	1.1k 0.5×	2.6k 1.2×	6.1k 3.1×	385 0.3×	472 0.7×	159	10.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lei Sun. 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 Lei Sun. The network helps show where Lei Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Sun

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

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