Ming Tian

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Ming Tian is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Ming Tian has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Immunology, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Ming Tian's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (19 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (13 papers) and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (6 papers). Ming Tian is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (19 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (13 papers) and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (6 papers). Ming Tian collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Ming Tian's co-authors include Frederick W. Alt, Tom Maniatis, Katrin F. Chua, John Manis, Jayanta Chaudhuri, Eric Pinaud, Reiko Shinkura, Ali A. Zarrin, Nobuhiko Shinkura and Yuko Fujiwara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Ming Tian

34 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Transcription-targeted DNA deamination by the AID antibody diversification enzyme

2003 605 citations Jayanta Chaudhuri, Ming Tian et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ming Tian United States	18	1.7k	1.3k	258	211	207	35	2.8k
Ryo Goitsuka Japan	28	996 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	192 0.7×	351 1.7×	168 0.8×	97	2.6k
Roger Sciammas United States	26	1.2k 0.7×	2.3k 1.8×	332 1.3×	231 1.1×	101 0.5×	50	3.6k
Gary Hermanson United States	22	1.6k 0.9×	891 0.7×	266 1.0×	724 3.4×	217 1.0×	32	2.7k
Annaiah Cariappa United States	24	958 0.6×	2.4k 1.9×	205 0.8×	255 1.2×	227 1.1×	34	3.3k
Jonathan P. Butchar United States	28	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	148 0.6×	185 0.9×	207 1.0×	58	2.3k
Rachel M. Gerstein United States	32	1.5k 0.9×	2.3k 1.8×	263 1.0×	248 1.2×	296 1.4×	61	4.0k
Van Trung Chu Germany	22	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	164 0.6×	495 2.3×	96 0.5×	34	2.9k
Kunio Tsujimura Japan	31	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	403 1.6×	180 0.9×	91 0.4×	84	2.7k
Petra Paul Netherlands	14	841 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	401 1.6×	153 0.7×	198 1.0×	16	2.4k
François Vigneault United States	24	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	137 0.5×	143 0.7×	455 2.2×	37	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Ming Tian

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ming Tian

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

He, Xinmiao, Chao Chen, Yao Wang, et al.. (2025). Isolation and Characterization of Seneca Valley Virus From Pig Transboundary Spread to the Mink Infection. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 2025(1). 4428550–4428550. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Junjie, et al.. (2025). Regenerative properties of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell derived exosomes in rotator cuff tears. Journal of Translational Medicine. 23(1). 47–47. 3 indexed citations

Dai, Wei, Ping Yin, Qinlu Lin, et al.. (2024). Black goji anthocyanin-loaded emulsion film stabilized by rice protein hydrolysate complexes as pH-sensitive indicator for salmon freshness. Food Packaging and Shelf Life. 47. 101419–101419. 6 indexed citations

Luo, Sai, Changbin Jing, Adam Yongxin Ye, et al.. (2022). Humanized V(D)J-rearranging and TdT-expressing mouse vaccine models with physiological HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibody precursors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(1). e2217883120–e2217883120. 11 indexed citations

Liu, Zhe, et al.. (2021). Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells inhibit CD8+ T cell immune responses via PD-1/PD-L1 pathway in multiple myeloma. Clinical & Experimental Immunology. 205(1). 53–62. 18 indexed citations

Tian, Ming, Hwei-Ling Cheng, Kelly McGovern, et al.. (2021). An in vivo method for diversifying the functions of therapeutic antibodies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(10). 2 indexed citations

Chen, Xuejun, Tongqing Zhou, Stephen D. Schmidt, et al.. (2021). Vaccination induces maturation in a mouse model of diverse unmutated VRC01-class precursors to HIV-neutralizing antibodies with >50% breadth. Immunity. 54(2). 324–339.e8. 23 indexed citations

Tian, Ming, Kelly McGovern, Hwei-Ling Cheng, et al.. (2020). Conditional antibody expression to avoid central B cell deletion in humanized HIV-1 vaccine mouse models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(14). 7929–7940. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Nan, Weiwei Yang, Lan Li, & Ming Tian. (2020). MEF2D upregulation protects neurons from oxygen–glucose deprivation/re-oxygenation-induced injury by enhancing Nrf2 activation. Brain Research. 1741. 146878–146878. 8 indexed citations

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Luo, Hong & Ming Tian. (2010). Transcription factors PU.1 and IRF4 regulate activation induced cytidine deaminase in chicken B cells. Molecular Immunology. 47(7-8). 1383–1395. 13 indexed citations

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Kim, Yonghwan & Ming Tian. (2010). The recruitment of activation induced cytidine deaminase to the immunoglobulin locus by a regulatory element. Molecular Immunology. 47(9). 1860–1865. 6 indexed citations

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Kim, Yonghwan & Ming Tian. (2009). NF-κB family of transcription factor facilitates gene conversion in chicken B cells. Molecular Immunology. 46(16). 3283–3291. 15 indexed citations

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Zarrin, Ali A., Catherine Del Vecchio Fitz, Megan Gleason, et al.. (2006). Antibody Class Switching Mediated by Yeast Endonuclease-Generated DNA Breaks. Science. 315(5810). 377–381. 78 indexed citations

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Zarrin, Ali A., et al.. (2005). Influence of switch region length on immunoglobulin class switch recombination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(7). 2466–2470. 43 indexed citations

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Zarrin, Ali A., Frederick W. Alt, Jayanta Chaudhuri, et al.. (2004). An evolutionarily conserved target motif for immunoglobulin class-switch recombination. Nature Immunology. 5(12). 1275–1281. 127 indexed citations

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Shinkura, Reiko, et al.. (2003). The influence of transcriptional orientation on endogenous switch region function. Nature Immunology. 4(5). 435–441. 166 indexed citations

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Chaudhuri, Jayanta, et al.. (2003). Transcription-targeted DNA deamination by the AID antibody diversification enzyme. Nature. 422(6933). 726–730. 605 indexed citations breakdown →

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Manis, John, Ming Tian, & Frederick W. Alt. (2002). Mechanism and control of class-switch recombination. Trends in Immunology. 23(1). 31–39. 294 indexed citations

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Prout, George R., Chi‐Wei Lin, Ralph C. Benson, et al.. (1988). Photodynamic Therapy With Hematoporphyrin Derivative in the Treatment of Superficial Transitional-Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder. The Journal of Urology. 139(5). 1132–1133. 7 indexed citations

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Prout, George R., Lin Chen, Ralph C. Benson, et al.. (1987). Photodynamic Therapy with Hematoporphyrin Derivative in the Treatment of Superficial Transitional-Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder. New England Journal of Medicine. 317(20). 1251–1255. 152 indexed citations

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