Medard Ng

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Medard Ng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Medard Ng has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Plant Science and 1 paper in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Medard Ng's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (5 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (4 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (3 papers). Medard Ng is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (5 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (4 papers) and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (3 papers). Medard Ng collaborates with scholars based in Germany and United States. Medard Ng's co-authors include Martin F. Yanofsky, Stephen M. Cohen, William J. Brook, Henry Sun, Thomas Lecuit, Manuel Calleja, Fernando J. Díaz‐Benjumea, Jean‐Paul Vincent and Jun Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Plant Cell and Nature Reviews Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Medard Ng

7 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Two distinct mechanisms for long-range patterning by Decapentaplegic in the Drosophila wing

1996 547 citations Thomas Lecuit, William J. Brook et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Medard Ng Germany	7	1.3k	597	319	192	164	7	1.4k
Jack Girton United States	24	1.2k 1.0×	400 0.7×	276 0.9×	121 0.6×	212 1.3×	63	1.4k
John B. Bell Canada	18	1.1k 0.9×	338 0.6×	280 0.9×	208 1.1×	288 1.8×	54	1.4k
Joseph Jack United States	13	921 0.7×	260 0.4×	157 0.5×	195 1.0×	237 1.4×	14	1.1k
Satomi Takeo United States	15	804 0.6×	248 0.4×	417 1.3×	143 0.7×	149 0.9×	20	1.0k
Jean‐René Huynh France	19	1.1k 0.9×	319 0.5×	540 1.7×	109 0.6×	181 1.1×	37	1.4k
David L. Cribbs France	18	1.2k 0.9×	192 0.3×	145 0.5×	231 1.2×	346 2.1×	34	1.3k
Nadine McGinnis United States	15	1.4k 1.1×	254 0.4×	227 0.7×	221 1.2×	440 2.7×	16	1.6k
Aida Flor A. de la Cruz United States	11	880 0.7×	161 0.3×	347 1.1×	151 0.8×	153 0.9×	12	1.1k
Katherine Harding United States	12	1.2k 1.0×	304 0.5×	86 0.3×	121 0.6×	389 2.4×	16	1.3k
William J. Brook Canada	13	1.3k 1.1×	161 0.3×	412 1.3×	284 1.5×	249 1.5×	23	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Medard Ng

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

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Ng, Medard & Martin F. Yanofsky. (2001). Function and evolution of the plant MADS-box gene family. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2(3). 186–195. 327 indexed citations

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Ng, Medard & Martin F. Yanofsky. (2001). Activation of the Arabidopsis B Class Homeotic Genes by APETALA1. The Plant Cell. 13(4). 739–739. 57 indexed citations

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Ng, Medard & Martin F. Yanofsky. (2001). Activation of the Arabidopsis B Class Homeotic Genes byAPETALA1. The Plant Cell. 13(4). 739–753. 108 indexed citations

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Ng, Medard & Martin F. Yanofsky. (2000). Three ways to learn the ABCs. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 3(1). 47–52. 52 indexed citations

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Lecuit, Thomas, William J. Brook, Medard Ng, et al.. (1996). Two distinct mechanisms for long-range patterning by Decapentaplegic in the Drosophila wing. Nature. 381(6581). 387–393. 547 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ng, Medard, Fernando J. Díaz‐Benjumea, Jean‐Paul Vincent, Jun Wu, & Stephen M. Cohen. (1996). Specification of the wing by localized expression of wingless protein. Nature. 381(6580). 316–318. 178 indexed citations

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Ng, Medard, Fernando J. Díaz‐Benjumea, & Stephen M. Cohen. (1995). nubbin encodes a POU-domain protein required for proximal-distal patterning in the Drosophila wing. Development. 121(2). 589–599. 134 indexed citations

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