Lei Young

15.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Lei Young is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Young has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 2 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Lei Young's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers), Microbial infections and disease research (2 papers) and Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (2 papers). Lei Young is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers), Microbial infections and disease research (2 papers) and Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (2 papers). Lei Young collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and France. Lei Young's co-authors include Hamilton O. Smith, Daniel G. Gibson, J. Craig Venter, Clyde A. Hutchison, Ray-Yuan Chuang, John I. Glass, Cynthia Andrews‐Pfannkoch, Vladimir N. Noskov, Holly Baden-Tillson and Jayshree Zaveri and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Methods and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Lei Young

11 papers receiving 8.3k 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.

Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules up to several hundred kilobases

2009 7.1k citations Daniel G. Gibson, Lei Young et al. Nature Methods profile →
Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome

2008 840 citations Daniel G. Gibson, Gwynedd A. Benders et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lei Young Australia	8	6.7k	2.0k	1.0k	828	741	13	8.4k
Ray-Yuan Chuang United States	16	6.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	951 0.9×	888 1.1×	709 1.0×	18	8.5k
Daniel G. Gibson United States	25	8.8k 1.3×	2.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	948 1.3×	36	10.8k
Igor B. Zhulin United States	46	5.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	1.5k 1.8×	706 1.0×	122	8.8k
Henry D. Hunt United States	30	7.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	698 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	293 0.4×	73	12.1k
Jeffrey K. Pullen United States	11	6.9k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	696 0.7×	1.0k 1.3×	298 0.4×	14	10.4k
Gary C. Hon United States	14	9.4k 1.4×	1.8k 0.9×	945 0.9×	2.0k 2.5×	405 0.5×	24	12.5k
Christopher M. Yates United States	20	5.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	841 0.8×	1.5k 1.8×	289 0.4×	29	8.8k
Zemer Gitai United States	46	5.4k 0.8×	2.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.5×	406 0.5×	632 0.9×	99	7.4k
Konstantin Arnold Switzerland	8	8.3k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	642 0.6×	1.7k 2.0×	593 0.8×	11	13.0k
Penny Coggill United Kingdom	16	5.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	974 0.9×	1.7k 2.0×	248 0.3×	23	7.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Young

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13 of 13 papers shown

Young, Lei. (2023). In vitro recombination method. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

Burgos, Raul, Gwendolyn E. Wood, Lei Young, John I. Glass, & Patricia A. Totten. (2012). RecA mediates MgpB and MgpC phase and antigenic variation in Mycoplasma genitalium, but plays a minor role in DNA repair. Molecular Microbiology. 85(4). 669–683. 25 indexed citations

Noskov, Vladimir N., Bogumil J. Karas, Lei Young, et al.. (2012). Assembly of Large, High G+C Bacterial DNA Fragments in Yeast. ACS Synthetic Biology. 1(7). 267–273. 54 indexed citations

Young, Lei & Qihan Dong. (2010). Targeted Amplification of Mutant Strands for Efficient Site-Directed Mutagenesis and Mutant Screening. Methods in molecular biology. 634. 147–155. 1 indexed citations

Gibson, Daniel G., Lei Young, Ray-Yuan Chuang, et al.. (2009). Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules up to several hundred kilobases. Nature Methods. 6(5). 343–345. 7133 indexed citations breakdown →

Salomon, Robert, Lei Young, D. M. Macleod, Xiaoling Yu, & Qihan Dong. (2009). Probasin Promoter—driven Expression of ID1 Is not Sufficient for Carcinogenesis in Rodent Prostate. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. 57(6). 599–604. 4 indexed citations

Gibson, Daniel G., Gwynedd A. Benders, Cynthia Andrews‐Pfannkoch, et al.. (2008). Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome. Science. 319(5867). 1215–1220. 840 indexed citations breakdown →

Young, Lei, Robert Salomon, Wendy W.Y. Au, et al.. (2005). Ornithine Decarboxylase (ODC) Expression Pattern in Human Prostate Tissues and ODC Transgenic Mice. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. 54(2). 223–229. 19 indexed citations

Singh, Jaskirat, Lei Young, David J. Handelsman, & Qihan Dong. (2005). Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel androgen repressible gene expressed in the prostate epithelium. Gene. 348. 55–63. 5 indexed citations

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Sunde, Margaret, Kristine McGrath, Lei Young, et al.. (2004). TC-1 Is a Novel Tumorigenic and Natively Disordered Protein Associated with Thyroid Cancer. Cancer Research. 64(8). 2766–2773. 57 indexed citations

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Singh, Jaskirat, Lei Young, David J. Handelsman, & Qihan Dong. (2002). Prostate Epithelial Expression of a Novel Androgen Target Gene. Journal of Andrology. 23(5). 652–660. 4 indexed citations

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Urbach, Ena, et al.. (2001). Unusual bacterioplankton community structure in ultra‐oligotrophic Crater Lake. Limnology and Oceanography. 46(3). 557–572. 182 indexed citations

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Chua, Elizabeth L., et al.. (2000). Cloning of TC-1 (C8orf4), a Novel Gene Found to Be Overexpressed in Thyroid Cancer. Genomics. 69(3). 342–347. 49 indexed citations

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