Sunjae Lee

10.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Sunjae Lee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunjae Lee has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Physiology and 7 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Sunjae Lee's work include Gut microbiota and health (13 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (8 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (7 papers). Sunjae Lee is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (13 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (8 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (7 papers). Sunjae Lee collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Sweden and United Kingdom. Sunjae Lee's co-authors include Saeed Shoaie, Doheon Lee, Jens Nielsen, Adil Mardinoğlu, Gholamreza Bidkhori, Mathias Uhlén, Gordon Proctor, Cheng Zhang, S. Dusko Ehrlich and Petia Kovatcheva‐Datchary and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Immunity.

In The Last Decade

Sunjae Lee

66 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Compositional and functional differences of the mucosal microbiota along the intestine of healthy individuals

2020 327 citations Sunjae Lee, Gholamreza Bidkhori et al. profile →
The Intestine Harbors Functionally Distinct Homeostatic Tissue-Resident and Inflammatory Th17 Cells

2019 237 citations Sara Omenetti, Claudio Bussi et al. Immunity profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sunjae Lee South Korea	22	988	312	232	195	146	70	1.9k
Wenfei Wang China	22	713 0.7×	141 0.5×	219 0.9×	219 1.1×	116 0.8×	109	1.6k
Wenqian Zhang China	26	971 1.0×	194 0.6×	285 1.2×	138 0.7×	95 0.7×	114	2.3k
Irene M. Ong United States	26	1.4k 1.4×	225 0.7×	231 1.0×	129 0.7×	219 1.5×	88	2.3k
Henry Loeffler‐Wirth Germany	21	1.2k 1.2×	213 0.7×	263 1.1×	175 0.9×	147 1.0×	80	2.0k
Wei‐Yong Lin Taiwan	28	647 0.7×	202 0.6×	207 0.9×	166 0.9×	185 1.3×	122	2.2k
Xiaoyi Chen China	25	898 0.9×	148 0.5×	228 1.0×	308 1.6×	123 0.8×	181	2.3k
Frode S. Berven Norway	32	1.9k 1.9×	241 0.8×	326 1.4×	245 1.3×	155 1.1×	103	3.3k
Li Guan China	26	806 0.8×	181 0.6×	203 0.9×	275 1.4×	133 0.9×	129	2.7k
Jie Fu China	26	1.1k 1.1×	178 0.6×	142 0.6×	299 1.5×	81 0.6×	133	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Sunjae Lee

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sunjae Lee

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lee, Sunjae, et al.. (2025). Enrichment of gut-derived metabolites in a Parkinson’s disease subtype with REM sleep behavior disorder. npj Parkinson s Disease. 11(1). 189–189.

Lee, Sunjae, et al.. (2024). Normalization of RNA-Seq data using adaptive trimmed mean with multi-reference. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(3). 4 indexed citations

Kim, Seong-Jin, Kang‐Min Lee, Si Hyung Park, et al.. (2024). A sexually transmitted sugar orchestrates reproductive responses to nutritional stress. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8477–8477. 2 indexed citations

Kirtipal, Nikhil, et al.. (2024). Systems Biology of Human Microbiome for the Prediction of Personal Glycaemic Response. Diabetes & Metabolism Journal. 48(5). 821–836. 3 indexed citations

Kang, Jiseung, et al.. (2023). Integrated analysis of the microbiota-gut-brain axis in response to sleep deprivation and diet-induced obesity. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1117259–1117259. 8 indexed citations

Lee, Sunjae, et al.. (2022). Host-mycobiome metabolic interactions in health and disease. Gut Microbes. 14(1). 2121576–2121576. 26 indexed citations

Bidkhori, Gholamreza, Sunjae Lee, Abdellah Tebani, et al.. (2022). Genome-scale metabolic modelling of the human gut microbiome reveals changes in the glyoxylate and dicarboxylate metabolism in metabolic disorders. iScience. 25(7). 104513–104513. 38 indexed citations

Lee, Sunjae, Aize Pellón, Jens Nielsen, et al.. (2022). Integrative functional analysis uncovers metabolic differences between Candida species. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1013–1013. 9 indexed citations

Witherden, Elizabeth A., Sunjae Lee, Saeed Shoaie, et al.. (2020). Abundance and diversity of resistomes differ between healthy human oral cavities and gut. Nature Communications. 11(1). 693–693. 62 indexed citations

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Omenetti, Sara, Claudio Bussi, Amina Metidji, et al.. (2019). The Intestine Harbors Functionally Distinct Homeostatic Tissue-Resident and Inflammatory Th17 Cells. Immunity. 51(1). 77–89.e6. 237 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Zhengtao, Cheng Zhang, Sunjae Lee, et al.. (2019). Pyruvate kinase L/R is a regulator of lipid metabolism and mitochondrial function. Metabolic Engineering. 52. 263–272. 43 indexed citations

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Benfeitas, Rui, Gholamreza Bidkhori, Bani Mukhopadhyay, et al.. (2018). Characterization of heterogeneous redox responses in hepatocellular carcinoma patients using network analysis. EBioMedicine. 40. 471–487. 37 indexed citations

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Bosley, Jim, Sunjae Lee, Morten Grøtli, et al.. (2017). Improving the economics of NASH/NAFLD treatment through the use of systems biology. Drug Discovery Today. 22(10). 1532–1538. 14 indexed citations

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Hwang, Woochang, Yongdeuk Hwang, Sunjae Lee, & Doheon Lee. (2013). Rule-based multi-scale simulation for drug effect pathway analysis. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 13(S1). S4–S4. 16 indexed citations

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Kim, Hyunjun, Mira Kim, Sunjae Lee, & Young Sang Choi. (2012). An analysis of eating activities for automatic food type recognition. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference. 1–5. 19 indexed citations

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Seo, Eun‐Kyoung & Sunjae Lee. (2008). A Study of Effects on Long-Term Relationship Orientation of Women's Experiential Fashion Marketing -Focused on Middle.Old Aged Women-. The Korean Society of Costume. 58(3). 34–48. 5 indexed citations

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Lee, Dong Hun, Jihoon Kim, Eun Sun Kim, et al.. (2007). A Case of Choledochocele Associated with Papillary Adenocarcinoma. Clinical Endoscopy. 35(5). 364–368. 1 indexed citations

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Lee, Sunjae, et al.. (2005). The Effect of Relationship Commitment on the Customer's Future Behavioral Intention Related to the Criteria of Evaluating Cyber Stores in Internet Shopping Malls. Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association. 43(11). 153–164. 3 indexed citations

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Lee, Sunjae, et al.. (2005). A Study on Conformity and Individuality of Consumers purchasing BURBERRY Fashion Prestigious Product. The Korean Society of Costume. 55(6). 136–149. 1 indexed citations

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Lee, Sunjae, et al.. (2003). Clothing Products Evaluation according to Self-Image and Clothing Attitudes. Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles. 27(12). 1424–1433. 1 indexed citations

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