Vi Chu

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 893 citations indexed

About

Vi Chu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Vi Chu has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 893 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Vi Chu's work include RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers). Vi Chu is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers). Vi Chu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Vi Chu's co-authors include Alysson R. Muotri, John V. Moran, Wei Deng, Fred H. Gage, Maria C. Marchetto, Anna Marie Pyle, Philip S. Perlman, Mircea Podar, Eckhard Jankowsky and Marc Boudvillain and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cancer Research and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

In The Last Decade

Vi Chu

8 papers receiving 881 citations

Hit Papers

Somatic mosaicism in neuronal precursor cells mediated by... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 200 400 600
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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. Somatic mosaicism in neuronal precursor cells mediated by L1 retrotransposition
    2005 683 citations Alysson R. Muotri, Vi Chu et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vi Chu United States 6 787 421 208 50 40 8 893
Tatjana Singer United States 9 895 1.1× 835 2.0× 289 1.4× 58 1.2× 95 2.4× 11 1.3k
Grace E. Peng United States 7 1.2k 1.5× 480 1.1× 258 1.2× 168 3.4× 26 0.7× 7 1.4k
Mikhail Nefedov United States 11 517 0.7× 118 0.3× 264 1.3× 41 0.8× 23 0.6× 14 732
Wesley D. Gifford United States 9 1.7k 2.2× 390 0.9× 215 1.0× 219 4.4× 59 1.5× 9 1.9k
Ting Luo China 14 612 0.8× 91 0.2× 175 0.8× 61 1.2× 19 0.5× 46 723
Jodi Eipper-Mains United States 8 441 0.6× 97 0.2× 194 0.9× 136 2.7× 22 0.6× 10 646
Andrew Taibi United States 6 370 0.5× 104 0.2× 77 0.4× 70 1.4× 25 0.6× 9 516
N. Ruth Zearfoss United States 12 696 0.9× 54 0.1× 130 0.6× 69 1.4× 19 0.5× 12 828
Bénédicte Franco Belgium 8 613 0.8× 200 0.5× 85 0.4× 79 1.6× 25 0.6× 8 782
Archana N. Raja United States 9 624 0.8× 212 0.5× 583 2.8× 99 2.0× 18 0.5× 12 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Vi Chu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vi Chu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Vi Chu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Vi Chu. The network helps show where Vi Chu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vi Chu

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

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Dame, Michael K., Joseph R. Boyd, Angeline Wu, et al.. (2020). Low-Level Mouse DNA in Conditioned Medium Generates False Positive Cross-Species Contamination Results in Human Organoid Cultures. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 8. 587107–587107. 1 indexed citations
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Saito, Kan, et al.. (2015). Abstract 4881: Analysis of long-noncoding RNA interaction at chromatin by chromatin isolation by RNA purification (ChIRP). Cancer Research. 75(15_Supplement). 4881–4881. 1 indexed citations
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Muotri, Alysson R., Vi Chu, Maria C. Marchetto, et al.. (2005). Somatic mosaicism in neuronal precursor cells mediated by L1 retrotransposition. Nature. 435(7044). 903–910. 683 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pyle, Anna Marie, Vi Chu, Eckhard Jankowsky, & Marc Boudvillain. (2000). [10] Using DNAzylnes to cut, process, and map RNA molecules for structural studies or modification. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 317. 140–146. 47 indexed citations
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Podar, Mircea, Vi Chu, Anna Marie Pyle, & Philip S. Perlman. (1998). Group II intron splicing in vivo by first-step hydrolysis. Nature. 391(6670). 915–918. 76 indexed citations
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Chu, Vi, et al.. (1994). Regions of the Human Neurokinin A Receptor Involved in the Generation of Second Messengers and in Receptor Desensitization. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 199(2). 626–632. 6 indexed citations

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