Nancy Leung

11.2k citations

102 papers · 7.4k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 33

Impact in

Hepatology top 0.1%
- Hepatitis C virus research
Modeling and Simulation top 0.2%
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Papers in

Hepatology 44
- Hepatitis C virus research 36
Epidemiology 72
- Hepatitis B Virus Studies 40
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment 27
- Influenza Virus Research Studies 22
- Respiratory viral infections research 22

Co-authors: Benjamin J. Cowling Malik Peiris Eunice Y. C. Shiu Dkm Ip Daniel K. W. Chu GM Leung George Lau Kwok‐Hung Chan
Journals: The Journal of Infectious Diseases (7 papers)Journal of Hepatology (7 papers)Gastroenterology (6 papers)Clinical Infectious Diseases (5 papers)Nature Communications (4 papers)
Partner nations: Hong Kong China United States

In The Last Decade

Nancy Leung

99 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Transmissibility and transmission of respiratory viruses 2021 · 544 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2020 Nature Medicine
2003 Gastroenterology

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1	Near real-time data on the human neutralizing antibody landscape to influenza virus to inform vaccine-strain selection in September 2025 Virus Evolution ·Manley P. Caldwell, John Huddleston, Andrea N. Loes, S. Richard Turner, Jover Lee, Ian Barr, Benjamin J. Cowling, Janet A. Englund, Alexander L. Greninger, Ruth Harvey, Hideki Hasegawa, Faith Ho, Kirsten Lacombe, Nancy Leung, Nicola S. Lewis, Heidi Peck, Shinji Watanabe, Derek J. Smith, Trevor Bedford, Jesse D. Bloom	2025	1
2	Antineuraminidase Antibody Responses in Older Adults After Consecutive Vaccinations With Enhanced Influenza Vaccines: A Randomized Controlled Trial The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·ple, Cynthia Benator, Leo L. H. Luk, Faith Ho, KyungSik Kim, T. SHIMAMURA, Samuel M. S. Cheng, Nancy Leung, Maryna C. Eichelberger, Malik Peiris, A. Danielle Iuliano, Mark G. Thompson, Benjamin J. Cowling, Hui‐Ling Yen	2025	0
3	Influenza antibody breadth and effector functions are immune correlates from acquisition of pandemic infection of children Nature Communications ·赵静昆, Carolyn A. Cohen, Haogao Gu, Masahiro Kusakabe, Raghavan Varadarajan, Mary Sweet, Malik Peiris, GM Leung, Leo L. M. Poon, Tim K. Tsang, Amy W. Chung, Benjamin J. Cowling, Nancy Leung, Sophie A. Valkenburg	2024	1
4	New WHO proposed terminology for respiratory pathogen transmission Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Nancy Leung, Donald K. Milton	2024	7
5	Immunogenicity of a Third Dose of BNT162b2 to Ancestral Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 and the Omicron Variant in Adults Who Received 2 Doses of Inactivated Vaccine Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Nancy Leung, Samuel M. S. Cheng, Mario Martín-Sánchez, D.J. Sharmila, 冯月亮, Leo L. H. Luk, Kaimin Chan, 英理浅木, Cynthia Benator, Leo C. H. Tsang, Sara Chaothai, Kelvin K. H. Kwan, Dennis Kai Ming Ip, Leo L. M. Poon, GM Leung, Malik Peiris, Benjamin J. Cowling	2022	10
6	Slow Waning of Antibodies Following BNT162b2 as a Third Dose in Adults Who Had Previously Received 2 Doses of Inactivated Vaccine The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Benjamin J. Cowling, Samuel M. S. Cheng, Mario Martín-Sánchez, D.J. Sharmila, Kaimin Chan, 英理浅木, Y.-J. CHEN, Leo L. H. Luk, Leo C. H. Tsang, Dennis Kai Ming Ip, Leo L. M. Poon, GM Leung, Malik Peiris, Nancy Leung	2022	4
7	Priming conditions shape breadth of neutralizing antibody responses to sarbecoviruses Nature Communications ·赵静昆, Chee Wah Tan, Samuel M. S. Cheng, Haogao Gu, Fanrong Ran, Chris Ka Pun Mok, Yanqun Wang, Jincun Zhao, Nancy Leung, Benjamin J. Cowling, Leo L. M. Poon, David S.C. Hui, Lin‐Fa Wang, Malik Peiris, Sophie A. Valkenburg	2022	3
8	Incorporating temporal distribution of population-level viral load enables real-time estimation of COVID-19 transmission Nature Communications ·Yun Lin, Bingyi Yang, Sarah Cobey, Eric H. Y. Lau, Dillon C. Adam, Jessica Y. Wong, Helen S. Bond, Justin Cheung, Faith Ho, Huizhi Gao, Sheikh Taslim Ali, Nancy Leung, Tim K. Tsang, Peng Wu, GM Leung, Benjamin J. Cowling	2022	18
9	Transmissibility and transmission of respiratory viruses Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Nancy Leung Hit paper breakdown →	2021	544
10	Universally Immune: How Infection Permissive Next Generation Influenza Vaccines May Affect Population Immunity and Viral Spread Viruses ·Maireid Bull, Carolyn A. Cohen, Nancy Leung, Sophie A. Valkenburg	2021	4
11	Immunogenicity of standard, high-dose, MF59-adjuvanted, and recombinant-HA seasonal influenza vaccination in older adults npj Vaccines ·Marco Lazzazzara, Carolyn A. Cohen, Nancy Leung, Vicky J. Fang, Shivaprakash Gangappa, Suryaprakash Sambhara, Min Z. Levine, A. Danielle Iuliano, Ranawaka A. P. M. Perera, Dkm Ip, Malik Peiris, Mark G. Thompson, Benjamin J. Cowling, Sophie A. Valkenburg	2021	44
12	Viral RNA and Infectious Influenza Virus on Mobile Phones of Patients With Influenza in Hong Kong and the United States The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Jingyi Xiao, P. Jacob Bueno de Mesquita, Nancy Leung, Oluwasanmi Adenaiye, Sheldon Tai, Matthew B. Frieman, Filbert Hong, Daniel K. W. Chu, Dkm Ip, Benjamin J. Cowling, Donald K. Milton	2021	3
13	SARS‐CoV‐2 environmental contamination associated with persistently infected COVID‐19 patients Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses ·Hui Lei, Feng Ye, Xiaoqing Liu, Zhenting Huang, Ch. Gauthier, Christi Nicole Lewinski, Jing Cheng, Long Chen, Italian Goat Consortium, Aguiar Arguello, Nur Malia Mz, Cheng Xiao, Dan Ye, Zifeng Yang, Yimin Li, Nancy Leung, Benjamin J. Cowling, Jianxing He, Sook‐San Wong, Mark Zanin	2020	60
14	Comparison of alternative full and brief versions of functional status scales among older adults in China PLoS ONE ·Özge Selen Avcı Can, Mark G. Thompson, Benjamin J. Cowling, A. Danielle Iuliano, Carolyn M. Greene, Yuyun Chen, Yohanis Padallingan, Nancy Leung, Ying Song, Vicky J. Fang, Cuiling Xu, Qigang Dai, Jun Zhang, Hongjun Zhang, Fiona P. Havers, (unknown)	2020	2
15	Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks Nature Medicine ·Nancy Leung, Daniel K. W. Chu, Eunice Y. C. Shiu, Kwok‐Hung Chan, James McDevitt, Levy Jd, Hui‐Ling Yen, Yuguo Li, Dkm Ip, Malik Peiris, WH Seto, GM Leung, Donald K. Milton, Benjamin J. Cowling Hit paper breakdown →	2020	1536
16	Assessment of enhanced influenza vaccination finds that FluAd conveys an advantage in mice and older adults Clinical & Translational Immunology ·Niloufar Kavian, Asmaa Hachim, S Patil Suyash, Carolyn A. Cohen, Alex W. H. Chin, Leo L. M. Poon, Vicky J. Fang, Nancy Leung, Benjamin J. Cowling, Sophie A. Valkenburg	2020	16
17	Frequent recovery of influenza A but not influenza B virus RNA in aerosols in pediatric patient rooms Indoor Air ·Eunice Y. C. Shiu, Wenbo Huang, Dan Ye, Nur Malia Mz, Jinhan Mo, Yuguo Li, Benjamin J. Cowling, Zifeng Yang, Nancy Leung	2020	11
18	Cross‐reactive antibody‐dependent cellular cytotoxicity antibodies are increased by recent infection in a household study of influenza transmission Clinical & Translational Immunology ·Sophie A. Valkenburg, Vicky J. Fang, Nancy Leung, Daniel K. W. Chu, Dkm Ip, Ranawaka A. P. M. Perera, Yizhuo Wang, S Patil Suyash, Malik Peiris, Benjamin J. Cowling, Leo L. M. Poon	2019	8
19	Comparison of Real-Time PCR Assays for Monitoring Serum Hepatitis B Virus DNA Levels during Antiviral Therapy Journal of Clinical Microbiology ·Chee‐Kin Hui, Scott Bowden, Haiying Zhang, Anita Wong, Sharon R. Lewin, 杨镝, Herve Momméja-Marin, Nikki P. Lee, John M. Luk, Stephen Locarnini, Nancy Leung, Nikolai V. Naoumov, George Lau	2006	11
20	A 1-Year Trial of Telbivudine, Lamivudine, and the Combination in Patients With Hepatitis B e Antigen—Positive Chronic Hepatitis B Gastroenterology ·Ching‐Lung Lai, Nancy Leung, Eng Kiong Teo, Myron J. Tong, Fabian Wong, Hie‐Won Hann, Steven‐Huy B. Han, Thierry Poynard, Maureen Myers, George Chao	2005	304

About Nancy Leung

Nancy Leung is a scholar working on Hepatology, Epidemiology, Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases and Animal Science and Zoology, having authored 102 papers that have together received 7.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Hepatitis B Virus Studies (40 papers), Hepatitis C virus research (36 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (27 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (22 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (22 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (14 papers), Infection Control and Ventilation (14 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Hepatology (3.6k citations), Modeling and Simulation (763 citations), Epidemiology (4.5k citations), Infectious Diseases (1.8k citations) and General Dentistry (120 citations). Nancy Leung has collaborated with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Frequent co-authors include Benjamin J. Cowling, Malik Peiris, Eunice Y. C. Shiu, Dkm Ip, Daniel K. W. Chu, GM Leung, George Lau, Kwok‐Hung Chan, Yuguo Li and WH Seto. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Journal of Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Clinical Infectious Diseases and Nature Communications.

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