Shijun Sun

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 842 citations indexed

About

Shijun Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Clinical Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Shijun Sun has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 842 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Medicine, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Clinical Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Shijun Sun's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (15 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (8 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (5 papers). Shijun Sun is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (15 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (8 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (5 papers). Shijun Sun collaborates with scholars based in China and United Kingdom. Shijun Sun's co-authors include Hui Wang, Yuyao Yin, Ruobing Wang, Qi Wang, Longyang Jin, Xiaojuan Wang, Yawei Zhang, Lucy van Dorp, François Balloux and Ping Meng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and Clinical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Shijun Sun

24 papers receiving 838 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.

Role of mobile genetic elements in the global dissemination of the carbapenem resistance gene blaNDM

2022 139 citations Mislav Acman, Ruobing Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shijun Sun China	15	444	261	197	160	159	26	842
Wenen Liu China	16	606 1.4×	321 1.2×	107 0.5×	190 1.2×	126 0.8×	52	958
Xiaojü Lu China	15	348 0.8×	231 0.9×	217 1.1×	121 0.8×	94 0.6×	33	676
Zhen Shen China	16	378 0.9×	318 1.2×	100 0.5×	91 0.6×	77 0.5×	45	856
Dingxia Shen China	13	335 0.8×	187 0.7×	100 0.5×	146 0.9×	71 0.4×	25	681
A. Mena Spain	15	557 1.3×	501 1.9×	141 0.7×	169 1.1×	58 0.4×	23	1.0k
Stephen C. Watts Australia	8	523 1.2×	438 1.7×	89 0.5×	250 1.6×	120 0.8×	10	1.1k
Josefa Luxner Austria	16	415 0.9×	149 0.6×	107 0.5×	80 0.5×	71 0.4×	34	784
Carlos Flores Portugal	12	311 0.7×	169 0.6×	62 0.3×	149 0.9×	57 0.4×	20	661
Jacob E. Choby United States	11	400 0.9×	395 1.5×	184 0.9×	163 1.0×	79 0.5×	17	942
Muhammad Shafiq China	16	222 0.5×	169 0.6×	112 0.6×	111 0.7×	39 0.2×	83	751

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shijun Sun

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Li, Haijun, et al.. (2025). Molecular characterization of colistin resistance in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae from a tertiary hospital in China. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(10). e0104925–e0104925. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Peng, et al.. (2025). Quantification of an integrated approach to heavy metal source apportionment and probabilistic health risk assessment in the black soil region of central Jilin Province, China. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 299. 118358–118358. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Shijun, Jingjing Zhang, Yongji Li, et al.. (2024). Effects of Sodium Selenite on Accumulations of Selenium and GABA, Phenolic Profiles, and Antioxidant Activity of Foxtail Millet During Germination. Foods. 13(23). 3916–3916. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Shuyi, Shuai Ma, Shijun Sun, et al.. (2024). Global evolutionary dynamics of virulence genes in ST11-KL47 carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 64(2). 107245–107245. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Shuyi, Shijun Sun, Qi Wang, et al.. (2024). PathoTracker: an online analytical metagenomic platform for Klebsiella pneumoniae feature identification and outbreak alerting. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1038–1038.

Jin, Longyang, Qi Wang, Xingyu Wu, et al.. (2024). Decoding the origins, spread, and global risks of mcr-9 gene. EBioMedicine. 108. 105326–105326. 14 indexed citations

Wang, Qi, Ruobing Wang, Shuyi Wang, et al.. (2024). Expansion and transmission dynamics of high risk carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae subclones in China: An epidemiological, spatial, genomic analysis. Drug Resistance Updates. 74. 101083–101083. 41 indexed citations

Wang, Ruobing, Anru R. Zhang, Shijun Sun, et al.. (2024). Increase in antioxidant capacity associated with the successful subclone of hypervirulent carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11-KL64. Nature Communications. 15(1). 67–67. 28 indexed citations

Sun, Shijun, et al.. (2023). Emergency of the plasmid co-carrying blaKPC-2 and blaNDM-1 genes in carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 36. 26–32. 2 indexed citations

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Acman, Mislav, Ruobing Wang, Lucy van Dorp, et al.. (2022). Role of mobile genetic elements in the global dissemination of the carbapenem resistance gene blaNDM. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1131–1131. 139 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Hongbin, Yuyao Yin, Lucy van Dorp, et al.. (2021). Drivers of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lineage replacement in China. Genome Medicine. 13(1). 171–171. 42 indexed citations

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Chen, Hongbin, Yong Liang, Lifeng Li, et al.. (2021). Clinical Evaluation of an Improved Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing Test for the Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections. Clinical Chemistry. 67(8). 1133–1143. 82 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yawei, Xiaojuan Wang, Shifu Wang, et al.. (2021). Emergence of Colistin Resistance in Carbapenem-Resistant Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Under the Pressure of Tigecycline. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 756580–756580. 17 indexed citations

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Sun, Shijun, Qi Wang, Longyang Jin, et al.. (2021). Identification of multiple transfer units and novel subtypes of tmexCD-toprJ gene clusters in clinical carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter cloacae and Klebsiella oxytoca. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 77(3). 625–632. 13 indexed citations

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Guo, Yifan, Henan Li, Hongbin Chen, et al.. (2021). Metagenomic next-generation sequencing to identify pathogens and cancer in lung biopsy tissue. EBioMedicine. 73. 103639–103639. 50 indexed citations

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Wang, Qi, Longyang Jin, Ruobing Wang, et al.. (2020). In vitro Synergistic Activity of Antimicrobial Combinations Against blaKPC and blaNDM-Producing Enterobacterales With blaIMP or mcr Genes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 533209–533209. 17 indexed citations

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Yin, Yuyao, Hongbin Chen, Hua Gao, et al.. (2019). Daptomycin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is conferred by IS256 insertion in the promoter of mprF along with mutations in mprF and walK. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 54(6). 673–680. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Shuguang, Shijun Sun, Chentao Yang, et al.. (2018). The Changing Pattern of Population Structure of Staphylococcus aureus from Bacteremia in China from 2013 to 2016: ST239-030-MRSA Replaced by ST59-t437. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 332–332. 76 indexed citations

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Chen, Kang, et al.. (2016). Wnt3a suppresses Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced inflammation and promotes bacterial killing in macrophages. Molecular Medicine Reports. 13(3). 2439–2446. 23 indexed citations

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Sun, Shijun, Ping Meng, Jinsong Zhang, & Xin Wan. (2011). Variation in soil water uptake and its effect on plant water status in Juglans regia L. during dry and wet seasons. Tree Physiology. 31(12). 1378–1389. 65 indexed citations

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