Ning Leng

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Ning Leng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Ning Leng has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 5 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Ning Leng's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers), Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (4 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers). Ning Leng is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers), Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (4 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (3 papers). Ning Leng collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Greece. Ning Leng's co-authors include Christina Kendziorski, James A. Thomson, Ron Stewart, Bart M. G. Smits, Anna I. Rissman, Michael N. Gould, Jill D. Haag, John A. Dawson, Victor Ruotti and Li‐Fang Chu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Ning Leng

31 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

EBSeq: an empirical Bayes hierarchical model for inference in RNA-seq experiments

2013 938 citations Ning Leng, James A. Thomson et al. Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ning Leng United States	19	1.7k	430	253	183	182	33	2.4k
Hailiang Mei Netherlands	26	1.5k 0.9×	439 1.0×	258 1.0×	265 1.4×	226 1.2×	133	2.6k
Tetsutaro Hayashi Japan	25	2.2k 1.3×	515 1.2×	312 1.2×	184 1.0×	146 0.8×	65	2.7k
Lifang Hu China	28	1.0k 0.6×	378 0.9×	202 0.8×	93 0.5×	210 1.2×	67	2.1k
Céline Keime France	28	2.1k 1.3×	424 1.0×	282 1.1×	356 1.9×	249 1.4×	71	3.1k
Hamed S. Najafabadi Canada	23	2.1k 1.3×	396 0.9×	170 0.7×	179 1.0×	164 0.9×	64	2.8k
Javier Santoyo‐López Spain	19	1.7k 1.0×	312 0.7×	176 0.7×	221 1.2×	110 0.6×	30	2.3k
Shian Su Australia	12	1.3k 0.8×	300 0.7×	196 0.8×	300 1.6×	86 0.5×	16	1.9k
Sonia Tarazona Spain	16	2.1k 1.3×	590 1.4×	461 1.8×	239 1.3×	129 0.7×	31	3.2k
San Ming Wang United States	27	1.8k 1.1×	541 1.3×	318 1.3×	196 1.1×	262 1.4×	99	2.6k
Stephanie A. Miller United States	26	1.2k 0.7×	460 1.1×	182 0.7×	320 1.7×	651 3.6×	44	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ning Leng

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

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Yao, Cong, et al.. (2025). Rapid endothelialization of printed vascular grafts by perivascular niche-circulating endothelial progenitors crosstalk. Nature Communications. 17(1). 1311–1311.

Zhang, Shibo, et al.. (2024). Advancing tumor vaccines: Overcoming TME challenges, delivery strategies, and biomaterial-based vaccine for enhanced immunotherapy. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology. 205. 104576–104576. 3 indexed citations

Chu, Li‐Fang, Srikumar Sengupta, Ning Leng, et al.. (2020). Reproducibility across single-cell RNA-seq protocols for spatial ordering analysis. PLoS ONE. 15(9). e0239711–e0239711. 4 indexed citations

Barry, Christopher, Matthew T. Schmitz, Jennifer M. Bolin, et al.. (2019). Automated minute scale RNA-seq of pluripotent stem cell differentiation reveals early divergence of human and mouse gene expression kinetics. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(12). e1007543–e1007543. 7 indexed citations

Rini, Brian I., Mahrukh Huseni, Michael B. Atkins, et al.. (2018). Molecular correlates differentiate response to atezolizumab (atezo) + bevacizumab (bev) vs sunitinib (sun): Results from a phase III study (IMmotion151) in untreated metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). Annals of Oncology. 29. viii724–viii725. 61 indexed citations

Bacher, Rhonda, Ning Leng, Li‐Fang Chu, et al.. (2018). Trendy: segmented regression analysis of expression dynamics in high-throughput ordered profiling experiments. BMC Bioinformatics. 19(1). 380–380. 25 indexed citations

Zhang, Jue, Li‐Fang Chu, Zhonggang Hou, et al.. (2017). Functional characterization of human pluripotent stem cell-derived arterial endothelial cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(30). E6072–E6078. 105 indexed citations

Bacher, Rhonda, Li‐Fang Chu, Ning Leng, et al.. (2017). SCnorm: robust normalization of single-cell RNA-seq data. Nature Methods. 14(6). 584–586. 190 indexed citations

Leng, Ning, Jeea Choi, Li‐Fang Chu, et al.. (2016). OEFinder: a user interface to identify and visualize ordering effects in single-cell RNA-seq data. Bioinformatics. 32(9). 1408–1410. 14 indexed citations

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Jiang, Peng, Ning Leng, Michael Collins, et al.. (2016). Analysis of embryonic development in the unsequenced axolotl: Waves of transcriptomic upheaval and stability. Developmental Biology. 426(2). 143–154. 22 indexed citations

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Leng, Ning, Li‐Fang Chu, Christopher Barry, et al.. (2015). Oscope identifies oscillatory genes in unsynchronized single-cell RNA-seq experiments. Nature Methods. 12(10). 947–950. 116 indexed citations

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Tran, Khoa, Steven A. Jackson, Ning Leng, et al.. (2015). Collaborative rewiring of the pluripotency network by chromatin and signalling modulating pathways. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6188–6188. 26 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tan, Ashish Patro, Ning Leng, & Suman Banerjee. (2015). A Wireless Spectrum Analyzer in Your Pocket. 69–74. 33 indexed citations

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Bishop, Kathleen A., Mark B. Meyer, Nancy A. Benkusky, et al.. (2014). The Osteoblast to Osteocyte Transition: Epigenetic Changes and Response to the Vitamin D₃Hormone. Molecular Endocrinology. 28(7). 1150–1165. 89 indexed citations

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Hines, Elizabeth A, Ning Leng, Jamie M. Verheyden, et al.. (2014). Comparison of Temporal Transcriptomic Profiles from Immature Lungs of Two Rat Strains Reveals a Viral Response Signature Associated with Chronic Lung Dysfunction. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e112997–e112997. 7 indexed citations

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Yao, Chen, Ning Leng, K.A. Weigel, et al.. (2014). Prediction of genetic contributions to complex traits using whole genome sequencing data. BMC Proceedings. 8(S1). S68–S68. 3 indexed citations

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Croguennec, Thomas, Ning Leng, Pascaline Hamon, et al.. (2014). Caseinomacropeptide modifies the heat-induced denaturation–aggregation process of β-lactoglobulin. International Dairy Journal. 36(1). 55–64. 19 indexed citations

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Yang, Lingyu, et al.. (2013). Multivariable model reference adaptive control of aircraft with asymmetric damage. Beijing Hangkong Hangtian Daxue xuebao. 39(11). 1509. 1 indexed citations

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Stewart, Ron, Shulan Tian, Jeff Nie, et al.. (2013). Comparative RNA-seq Analysis in the Unsequenced Axolotl: The Oncogene Burst Highlights Early Gene Expression in the Blastema. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(3). e1002936–e1002936. 105 indexed citations

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Smits, Bart M. G., Jill D. Haag, Anna I. Rissman, et al.. (2013). The Gene Desert Mammary Carcinoma Susceptibility Locus Mcs1a Regulates Nr2f1 Modifying Mammary Epithelial Cell Differentiation and Proliferation. PLoS Genetics. 9(6). e1003549–e1003549. 18 indexed citations

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