Seungjae Lee

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 880 citations indexed

About

Seungjae Lee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Seungjae Lee has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 880 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cancer Research and 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Seungjae Lee's work include RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers). Seungjae Lee is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers). Seungjae Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and France. Seungjae Lee's co-authors include Eric C. Lai, Gayan Senavirathne, Renfu Shang, Armita Bahrami, Do‐Hwan Lim, Gang Wu, Jee Yun Han, Jinghui Zhang, John Easton and Raymond L. Barnhill and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Seungjae Lee

25 papers receiving 877 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.

microRNAs in action: biogenesis, function and regulation

2023 443 citations Renfu Shang, Seungjae Lee et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Seungjae Lee United States	14	605	366	83	69	69	25	880
Emily J. Wood United States	7	967 1.6×	334 0.9×	40 0.5×	39 0.6×	70 1.0×	8	1.3k
Alexandra Koch Germany	19	666 1.1×	184 0.5×	151 1.8×	44 0.6×	121 1.8×	32	974
Valéria Valente Brazil	17	651 1.1×	314 0.9×	90 1.1×	56 0.8×	43 0.6×	35	977
Irmgard U. Haussmann United Kingdom	16	1.3k 2.2×	511 1.4×	68 0.8×	137 2.0×	49 0.7×	29	1.5k
Svetlana Petruk United States	18	1.3k 2.2×	197 0.5×	61 0.7×	117 1.7×	66 1.0×	27	1.6k
Morten Johansen Norway	8	770 1.3×	559 1.5×	47 0.6×	16 0.2×	107 1.6×	10	1.1k
Jennifer A. Kennell United States	11	623 1.0×	217 0.6×	56 0.7×	66 1.0×	107 1.6×	13	890
Fabiana M. Duarte United States	12	1.1k 1.8×	213 0.6×	99 1.2×	21 0.3×	110 1.6×	18	1.3k
Galt P Barber United States	4	805 1.3×	230 0.6×	71 0.9×	25 0.4×	67 1.0×	4	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Seungjae Lee

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jee, David, et al.. (2025). Human DICER1 hotspot mutation induces both loss and gain of miRNA function. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(12). 2553–2563. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Seungjae, et al.. (2023). Regulation of alternative splicing and polyadenylation in neurons. Life Science Alliance. 6(12). e202302000–e202302000. 5 indexed citations

Lee, Seungjae, David Jee, Acong Yang, et al.. (2023). Promiscuous splicing-derived hairpins are dominant substrates of tailing-mediated defense of miRNA biogenesis in mammals. Cell Reports. 42(2). 112111–112111. 5 indexed citations

Shang, Renfu, Seungjae Lee, Gayan Senavirathne, & Eric C. Lai. (2023). microRNAs in action: biogenesis, function and regulation. Nature Reviews Genetics. 24(12). 816–833. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

Lee, Seungjae, Yen‐Chung Chen, Austin E. Gillen, et al.. (2022). Diverse cell-specific patterns of alternative polyadenylation in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5372–5372. 13 indexed citations

Lee, Seungjae, Wei Lü, Raeann Goering, et al.. (2021). ELAV/Hu RNA binding proteins determine multiple programs of neural alternative splicing. PLoS Genetics. 17(4). e1009439–e1009439. 34 indexed citations

Lee, Seungjae, et al.. (2021). YTHDF2 Suppresses Notch Signaling through Post-transcriptional Regulation on Notch1. International Journal of Biological Sciences. 17(14). 3776–3785. 13 indexed citations

Jung, Hae‐Yun, Tae Ho Kim, Jong Eun Lee, et al.. (2020). PDX models of human lung squamous cell carcinoma: consideration of factors in preclinical and co-clinical applications. Journal of Translational Medicine. 18(1). 307–307. 11 indexed citations

Lee, Seungjae, Jae-Sang Hong, Do‐Hwan Lim, & Young Sik Lee. (2020). Roles for Drosophila cap1 2′-O-ribose methyltransferase in the small RNA silencing pathway associated with Argonaute 2. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 123. 103415–103415. 4 indexed citations

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Lü, Wei, Seungjae Lee, Sonali Majumdar, et al.. (2020). Overlapping Activities of ELAV/Hu Family RNA Binding Proteins Specify the Extended Neuronal 3′ UTR Landscape in Drosophila. Molecular Cell. 80(1). 140–155.e6. 38 indexed citations

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Yu, Namhee, Hong Kwan Kim, Yoon‐La Choi, et al.. (2019). Identification of tumor suppressor miRNAs by integrative miRNA and mRNA sequencing of matched tumor–normal samples in lung adenocarcinoma. Molecular Oncology. 13(6). 1356–1368. 42 indexed citations

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Jang, Yeongjun, Jong-Ho Kim, Jihae Seo, et al.. (2018). An integrated clinical and genomic information system for cancer precision medicine. BMC Medical Genomics. 11(S2). 34–34. 10 indexed citations

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Kim, Bo‐Mi, Seunghyun Kang, Do‐Hwan Ahn, et al.. (2018). The genome of common long-arm octopus Octopus minor. GigaScience. 7(11). 49 indexed citations

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Lim, Do‐Hwan, et al.. (2018). MicroRNA miR‐252 targets mbt to control the developmental growth of Drosophila. Insect Molecular Biology. 28(3). 444–454. 18 indexed citations

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Lee, Seungjae, Sumit Borah, & Armita Bahrami. (2017). Detection of Aberrant TERT Promoter Methylation by Combined Bisulfite Restriction Enzyme Analysis for Cancer Diagnosis. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 19(3). 378–386. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Gang, Raymond L. Barnhill, Seungjae Lee, et al.. (2016). The landscape of fusion transcripts in spitzoid melanoma and biologically indeterminate spitzoid tumors by RNA sequencing. Modern Pathology. 29(4). 359–369. 56 indexed citations

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Bahrami, Armita, et al.. (2014). SMARCB1 deletion by a complex three-way chromosomal translocation in an extrarenal malignant rhabdoid tumor. Cancer Genetics. 207(9). 437–440. 2 indexed citations

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Choi, Young-Chul, et al.. (2008). Characterization of the Drosophila melanogaster retinin gene encoding a cornea‐specific protein. Insect Molecular Biology. 17(5). 537–543. 15 indexed citations

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Jang, Cheol Seong, Shizhong Bu, Jongyun Kim, et al.. (2002). Isolation and characterization of lipid transfer protein (LTP) genes from a wheat-rye translocation line. Plant Cell Reports. 20(10). 961–966. 28 indexed citations

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Koo, Hyun‐Na, Hyun‐Ja Jeong, Cheorl‐Ho Kim, et al.. (2001). Inhibition of Heat Shock-Induced Apoptosis by Peppermint Oil in Astrocytes. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience. 17(3). 391–396. 3 indexed citations

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