Shiquan Sun

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Shiquan Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shiquan Sun has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Cancer Research and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Shiquan Sun's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (12 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (9 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (9 papers). Shiquan Sun is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (12 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (9 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (9 papers). Shiquan Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Shiquan Sun's co-authors include Xiang Zhou, Jiaqiang Zhu, Ying Ma, Qinke Peng, Qinke Peng, Yue Fan, Mengjie Chen, Adnan Shakoor, Sheng Yang and Can Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Shiquan Sun

41 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

  1. Statistical analysis of spatial expression patterns for spatially resolved transcriptomic studies
    2020 253 citations Shiquan Sun, Jiaqiang Zhu et al. Nature Methods profile →
  2. Unveiling inflammatory and prehypertrophic cell populations as key contributors to knee cartilage degeneration in osteoarthritis using multi-omics data integration
    2024 58 citations Yue Fan, Lei Li et al. profile →

Peers

Shiquan Sun
Venkata Satagopam Luxembourg
Rebecka Jörnsten Sweden
Shuguang Huang United States
Matthew J. Callow United States
Johann M. Kraus Germany
Dongjun Chung United States
Mika Gustafsson Sweden
Anjun Ma United States
Wenjie Shu China
Qianqian Shi China
Venkata Satagopam Luxembourg
Shiquan Sun
Citations per year, relative to Shiquan Sun Shiquan Sun (= 1×) peers Venkata Satagopam

Countries citing papers authored by Shiquan Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shiquan Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Shiquan Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Shiquan Sun. The network helps show where Shiquan Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shiquan Sun

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

All Works

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Mao, Honghui, Jin Ning, Haifeng Zhang, et al.. (2025). Synaptic Dysfunction in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Underlies Pain‐Anxiety Comorbidity in a Mandibular Asymmetry Mouse Model. Advanced Science. 12(46). e09509–e09509.
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Wang, Kai, Hairong Yan, Juan Chen, et al.. (2024). Ambient Air Pollution and Hospitalizations for Schizophrenia in China. JAMA Network Open. 7(10). e2436915–e2436915. 7 indexed citations
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Liu, Guoliang, et al.. (2023). Recent advances in differential expression analysis for single-cell RNA-seq and spatially resolved transcriptomic studies. Briefings in Functional Genomics. 23(2). 95–109. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Ping, Bolun Cheng, Li Liu, et al.. (2023). WISP1 Is Involved in the Pathogenesis of Kashin-Beck Disease via the Autophagy Pathway. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(22). 16037–16037. 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Yuanyuan, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide analysis of circular RNAs and validation of hsa_circ_0086354 as a promising biomarker for early diagnosis of cerebral palsy. BMC Medical Genomics. 15(1). 13–13. 3 indexed citations
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Fan, Yue, Dalong Gao, Jiaqiang Zhu, et al.. (2021). Genome-Wide Differentially Methylated Region Analysis to Reveal Epigenetic Differences of Articular Cartilage in Kashin–Beck Disease and Osteoarthritis. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 636291–636291. 12 indexed citations
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Li, Fengjun, et al.. (2021). Traffic safety evaluation based on unascertained measure model. 28–28. 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Ying, Shiquan Sun, Xuequn Shang, et al.. (2020). Integrative differential expression and gene set enrichment analysis using summary statistics for scRNA-seq studies. Nature Communications. 11(1). 50 indexed citations
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Sun, Shiquan, Jiaqiang Zhu, & Xiang Zhou. (2020). Statistical analysis of spatial expression patterns for spatially resolved transcriptomic studies. Nature Methods. 17(2). 193–200. 253 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yuan, Zhongshang, Huanhuan Zhu, Ping Zeng, et al.. (2020). Testing and controlling for horizontal pleiotropy with probabilistic Mendelian randomization in transcriptome-wide association studies. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3861–3861. 84 indexed citations
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Sun, Shiquan, Jiaqiang Zhu, Ying Ma, & Xiang Zhou. (2019). Accuracy, robustness and scalability of dimensionality reduction methods for single-cell RNA-seq analysis. Genome biology. 20(1). 269–269. 126 indexed citations
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Sun, Shiquan, Yabo Chen, Yang Liu, & Xuequn Shang. (2019). A fast and efficient count-based matrix factorization method for detecting cell types from single-cell RNAseq data. BMC Systems Biology. 13(S2). 28–28. 11 indexed citations
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Fan, Yue, Tauras P. Vilgalys, Shiquan Sun, et al.. (2019). IMAGE: high-powered detection of genetic effects on DNA methylation using integrated methylation QTL mapping and allele-specific analysis. Genome biology. 20(1). 220–220. 12 indexed citations
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Sun, Shiquan, Jiaqiang Zhu, Sahar V. Mozaffari, et al.. (2018). Heritability estimation and differential analysis of count data with generalized linear mixed models in genomic sequencing studies. Bioinformatics. 35(3). 487–496. 50 indexed citations
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Sun, Shiquan, et al.. (2018). Higher-order partial least squares for predicting gene expression levels from chromatin states. BMC Bioinformatics. 19(S5). 113–113. 10 indexed citations
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Sun, Shiquan, et al.. (2016). A high-order representation and classification method for transcription factor binding sites recognition in Escherichia coli. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 75. 16–23. 3 indexed citations
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Sun, Shiquan, Qinke Peng, & Adnan Shakoor. (2014). A Kernel-Based Multivariate Feature Selection Method for Microarray Data Classification. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e102541–e102541. 48 indexed citations

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