Ung‐il Chung

21.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
317 papers, 17.5k citations indexed

About

Ung‐il Chung is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Rheumatology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ung‐il Chung has authored 317 papers receiving a total of 17.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Molecular Biology, 73 papers in Rheumatology and 68 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ung‐il Chung's work include Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (66 papers), Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (60 papers) and Bone Metabolism and Diseases (46 papers). Ung‐il Chung is often cited by papers focused on Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (66 papers), Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (60 papers) and Bone Metabolism and Diseases (46 papers). Ung‐il Chung collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Sweden. Ung‐il Chung's co-authors include Takamasa Sakai, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Shinsuke Ohba, Kozo Nakamura, Yuki Akagi, Mitsuhiro Shibayama, Takuro Matsunaga, Satoru Kamekura, Henry M. Kronenberg and Taku Saito and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ung‐il Chung

306 papers receiving 17.3k 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.

Design and Fabrication of a High-Strength Hydrogel with Ideally Homogeneous Network Structure from Tetrahedron-like Macromonomers

2008 1.1k citations Takamasa Sakai, Ung‐il Chung et al. profile →
PPAR γ insufficiency enhances osteogenesis through osteoblast formation from bone marrow progenitors

2004 677 citations Toru Akune, Shinsuke Ohba et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →
PPAR γ insufficiency enhances osteogenesis through osteoblast formation from bone marrow progenitors

2004 631 citations Toru Akune, Shinsuke Ohba et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →
“Nonswellable” Hydrogel Without Mechanical Hysteresis

2014 597 citations Ung‐il Chung, Takamasa Sakai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ung‐il Chung Japan	68	6.6k	3.7k	3.6k	3.2k	2.3k	317	17.5k
Marcel Karperien Netherlands	64	5.9k 0.9×	3.4k 0.9×	3.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	2.5k 1.0×	309	15.4k
Yasuhiko Tabata Japan	93	9.3k 1.4×	2.7k 0.7×	11.0k 3.1×	2.0k 0.6×	11.1k 4.7×	916	35.9k
Gang Li China	80	12.5k 1.9×	1.9k 0.5×	4.2k 1.2×	566 0.2×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k	30.5k
Jianxun Ding China	84	5.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.4×	10.5k 2.9×	1.9k 0.6×	10.3k 4.4×	359	22.6k
Mary C. Farach‐Carson United States	60	4.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	2.7k 0.8×	421 0.1×	1.6k 0.7×	237	12.1k
Robert F. Padera United States	65	3.9k 0.6×	1.0k 0.3×	3.4k 0.9×	507 0.2×	2.5k 1.1×	186	16.1k
Wenguang Liu China	80	3.9k 0.6×	665 0.2×	7.8k 2.2×	3.9k 1.2×	6.1k 2.6×	377	21.5k
Richard O. C. Oreffo United Kingdom	77	5.4k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	12.8k 3.6×	621 0.2×	4.9k 2.1×	393	22.9k
Yoshihiro Ito Japan	60	6.2k 0.9×	570 0.2×	4.2k 1.2×	706 0.2×	2.7k 1.1×	500	14.3k
Judith A. Hoyland United Kingdom	61	2.7k 0.4×	2.5k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	564 0.2×	1.0k 0.4×	201	13.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ung‐il Chung

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ung‐il Chung

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Shinohara, Shuji, et al.. (2025). Simple modification of the upper confidence bound algorithm by generalized weighted averages. PLoS ONE. 20(5). e0322757–e0322757.

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Svensson, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Validity and reliability of the Oura Ring Generation 3 (Gen3) with Oura sleep staging algorithm 2.0 (OSSA 2.0) when compared to multi-night ambulatory polysomnography: A validation study of 96 participants and 421,045 epochs. Sleep Medicine. 115. 251–263. 30 indexed citations

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Naito, Mitsuru, et al.. (2024). Predicting the effects of degradation on viscoelastic relaxation time using model transient networks. Polymer Journal. 56(7). 685–691. 1 indexed citations

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Svensson, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Associations of Subjective Sleep Quality with Wearable Device-Derived Resting Heart Rate During REM Sleep and Non-REM Sleep in a Cohort of Japanese Office Workers. Nature and Science of Sleep. Volume 16. 867–877. 1 indexed citations

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Chung, Ung‐il, et al.. (2023). Probing the Molecular Mechanism of Viscoelastic Relaxation in Transient Networks. Gels. 9(12). 945–945. 4 indexed citations

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Kim, Junhyuk, et al.. (2023). Miscibility and ternary diagram of aqueous polyvinyl alcohols with different degrees of saponification. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 8791–8791. 1 indexed citations

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Uneyama, Takashi, Xiang Li, Hironori Hojo, et al.. (2023). Percolation-induced gel–gel phase separation in a dilute polymer network. Nature Materials. 22(12). 1564–1570. 32 indexed citations

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Svensson, Thomas, et al.. (2023). A Disentangled VAE-BiLSTM Model for Heart Rate Anomaly Detection. Bioengineering. 10(6). 683–683. 11 indexed citations

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Katashima, Takuya, R. Kudo, Mitsuru Naito, et al.. (2022). Experimental Comparison of Bond Lifetime and Viscoelastic Relaxation in Transient Networks with Well-Controlled Structures. ACS Macro Letters. 11(6). 753–759. 13 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Sho, et al.. (2022). Checking the validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the Mini-Cog using a smartphone application. BMC Research Notes. 15(1). 222–222. 1 indexed citations

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Svensson, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Sleep Satisfaction May Modify the Association between Metabolic Syndrome and BMI, Respectively, and Occupational Stress in Japanese Office Workers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(9). 5095–5095. 3 indexed citations

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Svensson, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Associations of work-related stress and total sleep time with cholesterol levels in an occupational cohort of Japanese office workers. Journal of Occupational Health. 63(1). e12275–e12275. 4 indexed citations

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Shinohara, Shuji, et al.. (2021). Power Laws Derived from a Bayesian Decision-Making Model in Non-Stationary Environments. Symmetry. 13(4). 718–718. 1 indexed citations

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Shinohara, Shuji, et al.. (2020). A new method of Bayesian causal inference in non-stationary environments. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0233559–e0233559. 3 indexed citations

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Svensson, Thomas, Akiko Kishi Svensson, Hirokazu Urushiyama, et al.. (2020). Using mHealth to Provide Mobile App Users With Visualization of Health Checkup Data and Educational Videos on Lifestyle-Related Diseases: Methodological Framework for Content Development. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 8(10). e20982–e20982. 8 indexed citations

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Wu, Shourong, Vivi Kasim, Mitsunobu R. Kano, et al.. (2013). Transcription Factor YY1 Contributes to Tumor Growth by Stabilizing Hypoxia Factor HIF-1α in a p53-Independent Manner. Cancer Research. 73(6). 1787–1799. 67 indexed citations

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Fukai, Atsushi, Satoru Kamekura, Daichi Chikazu, et al.. (2011). Lack of a chondroprotective effect of cyclooxygenase 2 inhibition in a surgically induced model of osteoarthritis in mice. Arthritis & Rheumatism. 64(1). 198–203. 34 indexed citations

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Long, Fanxin, Ung‐il Chung, Shinsuke Ohba, et al.. (2004). Ihh signaling is directly required for the osteoblast lineage in the endochondral skeleton. Development. 131(6). 1309–1318. 341 indexed citations

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Akune, Toru, Shinsuke Ohba, Satoru Kamekura, et al.. (2004). PPAR γ insufficiency enhances osteogenesis through osteoblast formation from bone marrow progenitors. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 113(6). 846–855. 631 indexed citations breakdown →

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Akune, Toru, Shinsuke Ohba, Satoru Kamekura, et al.. (2004). PPAR γ insufficiency enhances osteogenesis through osteoblast formation from bone marrow progenitors. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 113(6). 846–855. 677 indexed citations breakdown →

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