Tiffany Horng

12.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
36 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Tiffany Horng is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Tiffany Horng has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Immunology, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Tiffany Horng's work include Immune cells in cancer (11 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (7 papers) and Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation (7 papers). Tiffany Horng is often cited by papers focused on Immune cells in cancer (11 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (7 papers) and Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation (7 papers). Tiffany Horng collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Tiffany Horng's co-authors include Ruslan Medzhitov, Gregory M. Barton, Vanessa Byles, Anthony J. Covarrubias, Jiujiu Yu, Jiawei Yan, Diana C. Hargreaves, Shizuo Akira, Jonathan C. Kagan and Amy Chow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Tiffany Horng

36 papers receiving 9.3k 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.

  1. TRAM couples endocytosis of Toll-like receptor 4 to the induction of interferon-β
    2008 1.0k citations Tiffany Horng, Ruslan Medzhitov et al. Nature Immunology profile →
  2. Transcriptional control of the inflammatory response
    2009 826 citations Ruslan Medzhitov, Tiffany Horng Nature reviews. Immunology profile →
  3. TIRAP: an adapter molecule in the Toll signaling pathway
    2001 793 citations Tiffany Horng, Gregory M. Barton et al. Nature Immunology profile →
  4. Critical role for calcium mobilization in activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome
    2012 731 citations Tomohiko Murakami, Jiujiu Yu et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. The adaptor molecule TIRAP provides signalling specificity for Toll-like receptors
    2002 663 citations Tiffany Horng, Gregory M. Barton et al. Nature profile →
  6. Structural basis for signal transduction by the Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domains
    2000 658 citations Tiffany Horng, Ruslan Medzhitov et al. Nature profile →
  7. Control of Inducible Gene Expression by Signal-Dependent Transcriptional Elongation
    2009 516 citations Tiffany Horng, Ruslan Medzhitov et al. Cell profile →
  8. Inflammasome activation leads to Caspase-1–dependent mitochondrial damage and block of mitophagy
    2014 391 citations Jiujiu Yu, Hajime Nagasu et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Lipid Metabolism in Regulation of Macrophage Functions
    2020 357 citations Tiffany Horng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tiffany Horng United States 26 6.0k 4.1k 1.4k 1.3k 751 36 9.4k
Ashley Mansell Australia 49 4.2k 0.7× 2.5k 0.6× 1.5k 1.1× 901 0.7× 709 0.9× 95 7.6k
Marta Muzio Italy 41 6.9k 1.2× 5.7k 1.4× 1.5k 1.1× 2.0k 1.5× 1.6k 2.1× 88 12.2k
Ruey‐Bing Yang Taiwan 36 3.3k 0.6× 3.2k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 823 0.6× 647 0.9× 93 8.5k
A. Phillip West United States 28 4.7k 0.8× 4.8k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 1.0k 0.8× 597 0.8× 54 9.1k
Eva M. Pålsson‐McDermott Ireland 27 3.7k 0.6× 2.8k 0.7× 948 0.7× 1.7k 1.3× 556 0.7× 35 7.2k
Georg Häcker Germany 46 4.0k 0.7× 4.7k 1.2× 1.6k 1.1× 1.0k 0.8× 1.1k 1.5× 171 8.7k
Tsung‐Hsien Chuang Taiwan 44 3.5k 0.6× 3.2k 0.8× 949 0.7× 1.0k 0.8× 944 1.3× 103 7.1k
Alexander Poltorak United States 31 7.8k 1.3× 3.3k 0.8× 1.9k 1.4× 1.2k 0.9× 728 1.0× 66 11.0k
Kasper Hoebe United States 42 8.3k 1.4× 2.3k 0.6× 1.9k 1.4× 882 0.7× 1.1k 1.4× 91 11.0k
Irina Smirnova United States 21 6.0k 1.0× 2.0k 0.5× 1.5k 1.1× 925 0.7× 498 0.7× 38 8.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tiffany Horng

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Liu, Pei Wu, Yongyue Wei, et al.. (2025). TWEAK-Fn14 signaling protects mice from pulmonary fibrosis by inhibiting fibroblast activation and recruiting pro-regenerative macrophages. Cell Reports. 44(2). 115220–115220. 2 indexed citations
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Yan, Jiawei, Guo-Wei Tu, Wenjiao Jiang, et al.. (2025). NRF1 coordinates mitochondrial adaptations to dampen intracellular ROS and inflammatory responses during ischemia reperfusion. Cell Death Discovery. 11(1). 236–236. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Na & Tiffany Horng. (2023). A metabolic conspiracy drives anti-tumorigenic macrophages. PubMed. 2(2). load009–load009. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Yiran, Yang Gao, Yuetong Wang, et al.. (2023). Allosterically inhibited PFKL via prostaglandin E2 withholds glucose metabolism and ovarian cancer invasiveness. Cell Reports. 42(10). 113246–113246. 11 indexed citations
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Sun, Yulong, Wenjiao Jiang, & Tiffany Horng. (2022). Circadian metabolism regulates the macrophage inflammatory response. PubMed. 1(3). 224–233. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Yafang, Na Li, Xin Zhang, & Tiffany Horng. (2021). Mitochondrial metabolism regulates macrophage biology. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(1). 100904–100904. 180 indexed citations
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Jung, Jonathan, Hu Zeng, & Tiffany Horng. (2018). Metabolism as a guiding force for immunity. Nature Cell Biology. 21(1). 85–93. 235 indexed citations
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Langston, P. Kent, Munehiko Shibata, & Tiffany Horng. (2017). Metabolism Supports Macrophage Activation. Frontiers in Immunology. 8. 61–61. 134 indexed citations
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Moretti, Julien, Dominique Bozec, Jennifer Martinez, et al.. (2017). STING Senses Microbial Viability to Orchestrate Stress-Mediated Autophagy of the Endoplasmic Reticulum. Cell. 171(4). 809–823.e13. 257 indexed citations
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Covarrubias, Anthony J., Halil‐Ibrahim Aksoylar, Jiujiu Yu, et al.. (2016). Akt-mTORC1 signaling regulates Acly to integrate metabolic input to control of macrophage activation. eLife. 5. 349 indexed citations
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Yu, Jiujiu, Hajime Nagasu, Tomohiko Murakami, et al.. (2014). Inflammasome activation leads to Caspase-1–dependent mitochondrial damage and block of mitophagy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(43). 15514–15519. 391 indexed citations breakdown →
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Horng, Tiffany. (2014). Calcium signaling and mitochondrial destabilization in the triggering of the NLRP3 inflammasome. Trends in Immunology. 35(6). 253–261. 230 indexed citations
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Byles, Vanessa, Anthony J. Covarrubias, Issam Ben‐Sahra, et al.. (2013). The TSC-mTOR pathway regulates macrophage polarization. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2834–2834. 472 indexed citations
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Medzhitov, Ruslan & Tiffany Horng. (2009). Transcriptional control of the inflammatory response. Nature reviews. Immunology. 9(10). 692–703. 826 indexed citations breakdown →
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Horng, Tiffany, Shalini Oberdoerffer, & Anjana Rao. (2008). Gene regulation and signal transduction in the immune system. Genome Biology. 9(7). 315–315. 1 indexed citations
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Horng, Tiffany, Gregory M. Barton, Richard A. Flavell, & Ruslan Medzhitov. (2002). The adaptor molecule TIRAP provides signalling specificity for Toll-like receptors. Nature. 420(6913). 329–333. 663 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lauvau, Grégoire, Sujata Vijh, Philip Kong, et al.. (2001). Priming of Memory But Not Effector CD8 T Cells by a Killed Bacterial Vaccine. Science. 294(5547). 1735–1739. 246 indexed citations
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Horng, Tiffany, Gregory M. Barton, & Ruslan Medzhitov. (2001). TIRAP: an adapter molecule in the Toll signaling pathway. Nature Immunology. 2(9). 835–841. 793 indexed citations breakdown →
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Malarkannan, Subramaniam, Tiffany Horng, Peter Eden, et al.. (2000). Differences that Matter. Immunity. 13(3). 333–344. 91 indexed citations
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Malarkannan, Subramaniam, et al.. (1999). Presentation of Out-of-Frame Peptide/MHC Class I Complexes by a Novel Translation Initiation Mechanism. Immunity. 10(6). 681–690. 92 indexed citations

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