Tianyi Sun

1000 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 281 citations indexed

About

Tianyi Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tianyi Sun has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 281 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Tianyi Sun's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (6 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (3 papers) and Seed Germination and Physiology (3 papers). Tianyi Sun is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (6 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (3 papers) and Seed Germination and Physiology (3 papers). Tianyi Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Tianyi Sun's co-authors include Dongyuan Song, Jingyi Jessica Li, Ruochen Jiang, Wei Vivian Li, Tianyang Liu, Yingpu Sun, Zhen‐Bo Wang, Jeong Su Oh, Ying‐Chun Ouyang and Xiaoqiu Tan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Neuroscience and Genome biology.

In The Last Decade

Tianyi Sun

14 papers receiving 279 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.

Statistics or biology: the zero-inflation controversy about scRNA-seq data

2022 133 citations Ruochen Jiang, Tianyi Sun et al. Genome biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tianyi Sun China	7	248	58	35	25	13	15	281
Tommaso Andreani Germany	7	256 1.0×	58 1.0×	39 1.1×	36 1.4×	15 1.2×	10	278
Shaliu Fu China	10	170 0.7×	48 0.8×	19 0.5×	29 1.2×	14 1.1×	15	228
Ángeles Arzalluz-Luque Spain	7	263 1.1×	74 1.3×	11 0.3×	19 0.8×	26 2.0×	8	313
Zhi‐Jie Cao China	5	414 1.7×	86 1.5×	74 2.1×	61 2.4×	15 1.2×	5	467
Thorina Boenke Netherlands	2	247 1.0×	26 0.4×	23 0.7×	26 1.0×	14 1.1×	2	267
Diane Trout United States	5	238 1.0×	39 0.7×	12 0.3×	11 0.4×	40 3.1×	6	274
Lauren G. Mascibroda United States	4	413 1.7×	38 0.7×	35 1.0×	25 1.0×	37 2.8×	5	441
Nika Iremadze United States	4	258 1.0×	33 0.6×	41 1.2×	21 0.8×	36 2.8×	4	285
Katja Lidschreiber Sweden	5	207 0.8×	22 0.4×	19 0.5×	16 0.6×	14 1.1×	5	224
Max Land United States	4	193 0.8×	46 0.8×	26 0.7×	28 1.1×	7 0.5×	8	212

Countries citing papers authored by Tianyi Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tianyi Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tianyi Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tianyi Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tianyi 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 Tianyi Sun. Tianyi 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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15 of 15 papers shown

Chen, Yan, et al.. (2025). How perceived goal attainment shapes student satisfaction: the chain mediating roles of competence acquisition, learning, and infrastructure. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1663142–1663142.

Wang, Qian, et al.. (2024). Height matters: An EEG study of the relative height disadvantage promoting third-party punishment. Neuroscience. 557. 37–50. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Weijian, Yueqing Xu, Tianyi Sun, et al.. (2024). scCDC: a computational method for gene-specific contamination detection and correction in single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seq data. Genome biology. 25(1). 136–136. 4 indexed citations

Xie, Xuefeng, Jianshuang Li, Xue Zhang, et al.. (2024). Endonuclease G is dispensable for sperm mitochondrial DNA elimination during spermatogenesis in mice. Biology Open. 13(10). 1 indexed citations

Sun, Tianyi, et al.. (2024). Unraveling the role of PlARF2 in regulating seed dormancy in Paeonia lactiflora. Planta. 259(6). 133–133. 2 indexed citations

Song, Wenhui, et al.. (2024). PlZAT10 binds to the ABA catabolism gene PlCYP707A2 promoter to mediate seed dormancy release in Paeonia lactiflora. Plant Cell Reports. 43(12). 276–276. 1 indexed citations

Ren, Huiying, Xiaolin Zhou, H. J. Yang, et al.. (2023). Single-cell RNA sequencing of murine hearts for studying the development of the cardiac conduction system. Scientific Data. 10(1). 577–577. 6 indexed citations

Sun, Tianyi, et al.. (2023). Elucidating Biological Functions of 9-cis-Epoxycarotenoid Dioxygenase Genes Involved in Seed Dormancy in Paeonia lactiflora. Plants. 12(4). 710–710. 9 indexed citations

Song, Dongyuan, et al.. (2023). scDesign3 generates realistic in silico data for multimodal single-cell and spatial omics. Nature Biotechnology. 42(2). 247–252. 52 indexed citations

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Jiang, Ruochen, Tianyi Sun, Dongyuan Song, & Jingyi Jessica Li. (2022). Statistics or biology: the zero-inflation controversy about scRNA-seq data. Genome biology. 23(1). 31–31. 133 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ren, Huiying, Tianyi Sun, Zhu Liu, et al.. (2022). High-Resolution 3D Heart Models of Cardiomyocyte Subpopulations in Cleared Murine Heart. Frontiers in Physiology. 13. 779514–779514. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Tianyi, Dongyuan Song, Wei Vivian Li, & Jingyi Jessica Li. (2022). Simulating Single-Cell Gene Expression Count Data with Preserved Gene Correlations by scDesign2. Journal of Computational Biology. 29(1). 23–26. 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Tianyi, Dongyuan Song, Wei Vivian Li, & Jingyi Jessica Li. (2021). scDesign2: a transparent simulator that generates high-fidelity single-cell gene expression count data with gene correlations captured. Genome biology. 22(1). 163–163. 50 indexed citations

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Wang, Haiyang, et al.. (2016). Inhibition of CDK7 bypasses spindle assembly checkpoint via premature cyclin B degradation during oocyte meiosis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1863(12). 2993–3000. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Lei, Zhao‐Jia Ge, Zhen‐Bo Wang, et al.. (2014). TGN38 is required for the metaphase I/anaphase I transition and asymmetric cell division during mouse oocyte meiotic maturation. Cell Cycle. 13(17). 2723–2732. 8 indexed citations

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