Sungkwon Kang

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 941 citations indexed

About

Sungkwon Kang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Immunology and Allergy. According to data from OpenAlex, Sungkwon Kang has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 941 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Immunology and 5 papers in Immunology and Allergy. Recurrent topics in Sungkwon Kang's work include Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (5 papers), Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (4 papers) and Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (4 papers). Sungkwon Kang is often cited by papers focused on Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (5 papers), Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (4 papers) and Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (4 papers). Sungkwon Kang collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and United Kingdom. Sungkwon Kang's co-authors include José L. Pruneda-Paz, Colleen J. Doherty, Steve A. Kay, Joshua M. Gendron, Andrew M. Gross, Moonsoo M. Jin, Michelle Momany, Katia Bonaldi, Ghislaı̀n Breton and Dawn H. Nagel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sungkwon Kang

26 papers receiving 933 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.

Arabidopsis circadian clock protein, TOC1, is a DNA-binding transcription factor

2012 415 citations Joshua M. Gendron, José L. Pruneda-Paz et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sungkwon Kang United States	14	587	557	87	66	51	26	941
G. Turner United States	11	610 1.0×	1.1k 2.0×	62 0.7×	46 0.7×	237 4.6×	15	1.4k
Ogün Adebalı United States	16	158 0.3×	972 1.7×	46 0.5×	24 0.4×	31 0.6×	44	1.2k
Paula Alepúz Spain	22	333 0.6×	1.8k 3.3×	75 0.9×	80 1.2×	232 4.5×	47	2.0k
Haniaa Bouzinba-Ségard France	13	198 0.3×	587 1.1×	35 0.4×	67 1.0×	72 1.4×	21	830
Ulrika Petersson Sweden	11	142 0.2×	473 0.8×	32 0.4×	40 0.6×	51 1.0×	15	748
Louis Y. Tee Singapore	5	116 0.2×	827 1.5×	37 0.4×	47 0.7×	30 0.6×	7	965
Barbara Billington United States	4	511 0.9×	1.9k 3.3×	42 0.5×	159 2.4×	62 1.2×	6	2.2k
Lei Yao China	12	450 0.8×	724 1.3×	10 0.1×	37 0.6×	19 0.4×	26	1.1k
Anne M. Smardon United States	12	251 0.4×	992 1.8×	25 0.3×	50 0.8×	118 2.3×	14	1.2k
David S. Adams United States	14	164 0.3×	279 0.5×	18 0.2×	31 0.5×	23 0.5×	30	617

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sungkwon Kang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cho, Christy J., Sungkwon Kang, Conrado Pedebos, et al.. (2025). Diacylation of Peptides Enables the Construction of Functional Vesicles for Drug‐Carrying Liposomes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(20). e202421932–e202421932. 1 indexed citations

Hong, Lilan, et al.. (2023). Enhancer activation via TCP and HD-ZIP and repression by Dof transcription factors mediate giant cell-specific expression. The Plant Cell. 35(6). 2349–2368. 4 indexed citations

Kang, Sungkwon, et al.. (2021). Evidence for the agricultural origin of resistance to multiple antimicrobials in Aspergillus fumigatus , a fungal pathogen of humans. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(2). 53 indexed citations

Kang, Sungkwon, et al.. (2021). Sporulation environment drives phenotypic variation in the pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(8). 14 indexed citations

Rayens, Emily, et al.. (2021). Vaccine-Induced Protection in Two Murine Models of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 670578–670578. 12 indexed citations

Ambati, Suresh, Sungkwon Kang, Jianfeng Lin, et al.. (2019). Dectin-1-Targeted Antifungal Liposomes Exhibit Enhanced Efficacy. mSphere. 4(1). 43 indexed citations

Li, Zheng, Katia Bonaldi, Sungkwon Kang, & José L. Pruneda-Paz. (2019). High‐Throughput Yeast One‐Hybrid Screens Using a Cell Surface gLUC Reporter. PubMed. 4(1). e20086–e20086. 5 indexed citations

Bonaldi, Katia, Zheng Li, Sungkwon Kang, Ghislaı̀n Breton, & José L. Pruneda-Paz. (2017). Novel cell surface luciferase reporter for high-throughput yeast one-hybrid screens. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(18). e157–e157. 13 indexed citations

Oda, Ken, Elaine Bignell, Sungkwon Kang, & Michelle Momany. (2016). Transcript levels of theAspergillus fumigatusCdc42 module, polarisome, and septin genes show little change from dormancy to polarity establishment. Medical Mycology. 55(4). myw085–myw085. 7 indexed citations

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Pruneda-Paz, José L., Ghislaı̀n Breton, Dawn H. Nagel, et al.. (2014). A Genome-Scale Resource for the Functional Characterization of Arabidopsis Transcription Factors. Cell Reports. 8(2). 622–632. 156 indexed citations

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Gendron, Joshua M., José L. Pruneda-Paz, Colleen J. Doherty, et al.. (2012). Arabidopsis circadian clock protein, TOC1, is a DNA-binding transcription factor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(8). 3167–3172. 415 indexed citations breakdown →

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Park, Spencer, Sungkwon Kang, Xiaoyue Chen, et al.. (2012). Tumor suppression via paclitaxel-loaded drug carriers that target inflammation marker upregulated in tumor vasculature and macrophages. Biomaterials. 34(2). 598–605. 42 indexed citations

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Kang, Sungkwon, Chae Un Kim, Xiaoling Gu, et al.. (2012). Complex Structure of Engineered Modular Domains Defining Molecular Interaction between ICAM-1 and Integrin LFA-1. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e44124–e44124. 3 indexed citations

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Kang, Sungkwon, Tae Hyun Park, Xiaoyue Chen, et al.. (2011). Tunable physiologic interactions of adhesion molecules for inflamed cell-selective drug delivery. Biomaterials. 32(13). 3487–3498. 29 indexed citations

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Stokol, Tracy, et al.. (2011). Evaluation of tissue factor expression in canine tumor cells. American Journal of Veterinary Research. 72(8). 1097–1106. 15 indexed citations

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Hu, Xuebo, Sungkwon Kang, Craig T. Lefort, Minsoo Kim, & Moonsoo M. Jin. (2010). Combinatorial libraries against libraries for selecting neoepitope activation-specific antibodies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(14). 6252–6257. 22 indexed citations

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Park, Spencer, Sungkwon Kang, Yogindra Vedvyas, et al.. (2010). Self-assembled nanoplatform for targeted delivery of chemotherapy agents via affinity-regulated molecular interactions. Biomaterials. 31(30). 7766–7775. 29 indexed citations

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Lee, Won Hee, Sungkwon Kang, Pavlos P. Vlachos, & Yong Woo Lee. (2009). A novel in vitro ischemia/reperfusion injury model. Archives of Pharmacal Research. 32(3). 421–429. 10 indexed citations

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Hu, Xuebo, Sungkwon Kang, Xiaoyue Chen, Charles B. Shoemaker, & Moonsoo M. Jin. (2009). Yeast Surface Two-hybrid for Quantitative in Vivo Detection of Protein-Protein Interactions via the Secretory Pathway. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(24). 16369–16376. 26 indexed citations

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Kang, Sungkwon, Won Hee Lee, Anjali Hirani, Pavlos P. Vlachos, & Yong Woo Lee. (2007). A multilayer design of parallel‐plate flow chamber for studies of endothelial cell response to fluid shear stress. The FASEB Journal. 21(5). 1 indexed citations

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