Lydia Ng

39.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Lydia Ng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Lydia Ng has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Biophysics and 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Lydia Ng's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (17 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (15 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (10 papers). Lydia Ng is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (17 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (15 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (10 papers). Lydia Ng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and United Kingdom. Lydia Ng's co-authors include Michael Hawrylycz, Susan M. Sunkin, Allan R. Jones, Hongkui Zeng, Ed S. Lein, Seung Wook Oh, Linda Madisen, Hong Gu, Theresa A. Zwingman and Hatim A. Zariwala and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lydia Ng

46 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A robust and high-throughput Cre reporting and characterization system for the whole mouse brain

2009 4.8k citations Linda Madisen, Susan M. Sunkin et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Allen Brain Atlas: an integrated spatio-temporal portal for exploring the central nervous system

2012 497 citations Susan M. Sunkin, Lydia Ng et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lydia Ng United States	22	3.6k	2.6k	1.8k	750	749	49	7.9k
Michael Hawrylycz United States	32	4.1k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	848 1.1×	773 1.0×	64	8.6k
Susan M. Sunkin United States	28	5.3k 1.5×	2.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	781 1.0×	44	10.0k
Linda Madisen United States	27	4.1k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	905 1.2×	588 0.8×	40	8.7k
Seung Wook Oh United States	15	3.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	577 0.8×	574 0.8×	32	6.8k
Hatim A. Zariwala United States	11	2.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	551 0.7×	544 0.7×	13	6.0k
Allan R. Jones United States	30	4.5k 1.2×	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	897 1.2×	759 1.0×	54	8.8k
Shiaoching Gong United States	30	4.2k 1.1×	3.3k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 2.1×	733 1.0×	60	8.7k
Ed S. Lein United States	30	4.6k 1.3×	3.4k 1.3×	2.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	65	10.3k
Kazunari Miyamichi Japan	25	2.8k 0.8×	3.3k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	730 1.0×	323 0.4×	50	7.9k
Theresa A. Zwingman United States	13	3.2k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	873 0.5×	805 1.1×	593 0.8×	15	6.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lydia Ng

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Kunst, Michael, Shenqin Yao, Nicholas A. Lusk, et al.. (2025). Data-driven fine-grained region discovery in the mouse brain with transformers. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8536–8536.

Trouvé, Alain, Laurent Younès, Michael Kunst, et al.. (2024). Cross-modality mapping using image varifolds to align tissue-scale atlases to molecular-scale measures with application to 2D brain sections. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3530–3530. 3 indexed citations

Hawrylycz, Michael, Eitan S Kaplan, Kyle J. Travaglini, et al.. (2024). SEA-AD is a multimodal cellular atlas and resource for Alzheimer’s disease. Nature Aging. 4(10). 1331–1334. 5 indexed citations

Mehta, Ketan, et al.. (2023). Online conversion of reconstructed neural morphologies into standardized SWC format. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7429–7429. 7 indexed citations

Anderson, K., Julie A. Harris, Lydia Ng, et al.. (2021). Highlights from the Era of Open Source Web-Based Tools. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(5). 927–936. 12 indexed citations

Tappan, Susan, Brian S. Eastwood, Nathan O’Connor, et al.. (2019). Automatic navigation system for the mouse brain. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 527(13). 2200–2211. 20 indexed citations

Billeh, Yazan N., Alexander V. Rodriguez, Michele Bellesi, et al.. (2016). Effects of Chronic Sleep Restriction during Early Adolescence on the Adult Pattern of Connectivity of Mouse Secondary Motor Cortex. eNeuro. 3(2). ENEURO.0053–16.2016. 18 indexed citations

Feng, David, Chris Lau, Lydia Ng, et al.. (2015). Exploration and visualization of connectivity in the adult mouse brain. Methods. 73. 90–97. 11 indexed citations

Kuan, Leonard, Yang Li, Chris Lau, et al.. (2014). Neuroinformatics of the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas. Methods. 73. 4–17. 131 indexed citations

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Harris, Julie A., Karla E. Hirokawa, Staci A. Sorensen, et al.. (2014). Anatomical characterization of Cre driver mice for neural circuit mapping and manipulation. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 8. 76–76. 305 indexed citations

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Kim, Yongsoo, Kannan Umadevi Venkataraju, Kith Pradhan, et al.. (2014). Mapping Social Behavior-Induced Brain Activation at Cellular Resolution in the Mouse. Cell Reports. 10(2). 292–305. 215 indexed citations

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Hawrylycz, Mike, Lydia Ng, Damon T. Page, et al.. (2011). Multi-scale correlation structure of gene expression in the brain. Neural Networks. 24(9). 933–942. 27 indexed citations

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Bernard, Amy, Carol L. Thompson, Lydia Ng, et al.. (2011). Cell‐type‐specific consequences of reelin deficiency in the mouse neocortex, hippocampus, and amygdala. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 519(11). 1 indexed citations

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Ng, Lydia, Amy Bernard, Chris Lau, et al.. (2009). An anatomic gene expression atlas of the adult mouse brain. Nature Neuroscience. 12(3). 356–362. 211 indexed citations

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Hawrylycz, Mike, Amy Bernard, Chris Lau, et al.. (2009). Areal and laminar differentiation in the mouse neocortex using large scale gene expression data. Methods. 50(2). 113–121. 30 indexed citations

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Quina, Lely A., Shirong Wang, Lydia Ng, & Eric E. Turner. (2009). Brn3a and Nurr1 Mediate a Gene Regulatory Pathway for Habenula Development. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(45). 14309–14322. 93 indexed citations

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Ng, Lydia, Chris Lau, Susan M. Sunkin, et al.. (2009). Surface-based mapping of gene expression and probabilistic expression maps in the mouse cortex. Methods. 50(2). 55–62. 14 indexed citations

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Thompson, Carol L., Dev S. Pathak, Andreas Jeromin, et al.. (2008). Genomic Anatomy of the Hippocampus. Neuron. 60(6). 1010–1021. 304 indexed citations

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Kinahan, Paul E., Adam Alessio, Scott D. Wollenweber, et al.. (2007). Motion-free PET: Compensating for patient respiration in whole-body PET/CT imaging. 48(3). 1137–53.

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Pathak, Dev S., et al.. (2003). Quantitative image analysis: software systems in drug development trials. Drug Discovery Today. 8(10). 451–458. 15 indexed citations

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