Wah Chin Boon

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Wah Chin Boon is a scholar working on Genetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wah Chin Boon has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Genetics, 21 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Wah Chin Boon's work include Estrogen and related hormone effects (24 papers), Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments (11 papers) and Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones (8 papers). Wah Chin Boon is often cited by papers focused on Estrogen and related hormone effects (24 papers), Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments (11 papers) and Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones (8 papers). Wah Chin Boon collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Italy. Wah Chin Boon's co-authors include Evan R. Simpson, Margaret E. E. Jones, Kirsten Robertson, Kara L. Britt, Jenny D.Y. Chow, Colin D. Clyne, Gary Rubin, Caroline J. Speed, Carolyn R. Fisher and Robert I. McLachlan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Wah Chin Boon

58 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Aromatase—A Brief Overview

2002 586 citations Evan R. Simpson, Wah Chin Boon et al. profile →
Impairment of spermatogenesis in mice lacking a functional aromatase (cyp 19) gene

1999 503 citations Margaret E. E. Jones, Wah Chin Boon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wah Chin Boon Australia	26	1.3k	799	786	714	341	58	3.2k
Pulak R. Manna United States	42	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	1.6k 2.1×	1.2k 1.6×	339 1.0×	84	4.9k
Andrew Wolfe United States	36	818 0.6×	2.2k 2.7×	940 1.2×	598 0.8×	273 0.8×	87	3.5k
Masatoshi Nomura Japan	25	665 0.5×	308 0.4×	1.5k 1.9×	316 0.4×	228 0.7×	41	2.9k
Christopher R. Cederroth Sweden	35	662 0.5×	357 0.4×	878 1.1×	356 0.5×	425 1.2×	79	4.3k
Elisabeth Falkenstein Germany	26	1.1k 0.8×	360 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	988 1.4×	253 0.7×	33	3.1k
María‐Ángeles Arévalo Spain	36	933 0.7×	182 0.2×	1.1k 1.4×	684 1.0×	512 1.5×	96	3.7k
Miguel A. Sánchez-Garrido Spain	30	365 0.3×	1.8k 2.2×	1.0k 1.3×	494 0.7×	552 1.6×	53	3.3k
Ricardo S. Calandra Argentina	31	502 0.4×	1.2k 1.5×	664 0.8×	948 1.3×	217 0.6×	130	2.9k
Michel L. Aubert Switzerland	41	460 0.3×	1.1k 1.4×	796 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	609 1.8×	110	4.4k
Andrea R. Genazzani Italy	37	965 0.7×	813 1.0×	519 0.7×	1.6k 2.3×	477 1.4×	133	4.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gogos, Andrea, et al.. (2025). The associations between prenatal plastic phthalate exposure and lipid acylcarnitine levels in humans and mice. Reproductive Toxicology. 132. 108835–108835. 1 indexed citations

Boon, Wah Chin, et al.. (2021). Fatty acids and beyond: Age and Alzheimer's disease related changes in lipids reveal the neuro-nutraceutical potential of lipids in cognition. Neurochemistry International. 149. 105143–105143. 26 indexed citations

Semple, Bridgette D., et al.. (2016). Sex-dependent changes in neuronal morphology and psychosocial behaviors after pediatric brain injury. Behavioural Brain Research. 319. 48–62. 43 indexed citations

Steinberg, Gregory R., Sebastian B. Jørgensen, Jane Honeyman, et al.. (2015). Effects of Estrogens on Adipokines and Glucose Homeostasis in Female Aromatase Knockout Mice. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0136143–e0136143. 23 indexed citations

Stanić, Davor, Sydney Dubois, H. Chua, et al.. (2014). Characterization of Aromatase Expression in the Adult Male and Female Mouse Brain. I. Coexistence with Oestrogen Receptors α and β, and Androgen Receptors. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e90451–e90451. 104 indexed citations

Bell, James R., Gabriel B. Bernasochi, Upasna Varma, et al.. (2014). Aromatase transgenic upregulation modulates basal cardiac performance and the response to ischemic stress in male mice. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 306(9). H1265–H1274. 25 indexed citations

Chow, Jenny D.Y., Margaret E. E. Jones, Katja Prelle, Evan R. Simpson, & Wah Chin Boon. (2011). A selective estrogen receptor α agonist ameliorates hepatic steatosis in the male aromatase knockout mouse. Journal of Endocrinology. 210(3). 323–334. 60 indexed citations

Boon, Wah Chin & Malcolm Horne. (2011). Aromatase and its inhibition in behaviour, obsessive compulsive disorder and parkinsonism. Steroids. 76(8). 816–819. 5 indexed citations

Boon, Wah Chin, Karolina Petkovic‐Duran, Yonggang Zhu, et al.. (2011). Increasing cDNA Yields from Single-cell Quantities of mRNA in Standard Laboratory Reverse Transcriptase Reactions using Acoustic Microstreaming. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e3144–e3144. 8 indexed citations

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Chow, Jenny D.Y., John T. Price, Margaret Bills, Evan R. Simpson, & Wah Chin Boon. (2011). A doxycycline-inducible, tissue-specific aromatase-expressing transgenic mouse. Transgenic Research. 21(2). 415–428. 4 indexed citations

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Hewitson, Tim D., et al.. (2011). Relaxin and Castration in Male Mice Protect from, but Testosterone Exacerbates, Age-Related Cardiac and Renal Fibrosis, Whereas Estrogens Are an Independent Determinant of Organ Size. Endocrinology. 153(1). 188–199. 25 indexed citations

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Chavez, Carolina, Andrea Gogos, Rachel Hill, et al.. (2010). Differential effect of amphetamine on c-fos expression in female aromatase knockout (ArKO) mice compared to wildtype controls. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 36(5). 761–768. 5 indexed citations

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Boon, Wah Chin, Jenny D.Y. Chow, & Evan R. Simpson. (2010). The Multiple Roles of Estrogens and the Enzyme Aromatase. Progress in brain research. 181. 209–232. 132 indexed citations

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Hill, Rachel, H. Chua, Margaret E. E. Jones, Evan R. Simpson, & Wah Chin Boon. (2009). Estrogen deficiency results in apoptosis in the frontal cortex of adult female aromatase knockout mice. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 41(1). 1–7. 38 indexed citations

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Clarkson, Jenny, Wah Chin Boon, Evan R. Simpson, & Allan E. Herbison. (2009). Postnatal Development of an Estradiol-Kisspeptin Positive Feedback Mechanism Implicated in Puberty Onset. Endocrinology. 150(7). 3214–3220. 195 indexed citations

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Chow, Jenny D.Y., Evan R. Simpson, & Wah Chin Boon. (2009). Alternative 5′-untranslated first exons of the mouse Cyp19A1 (aromatase) gene. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 115(3-5). 115–125. 30 indexed citations

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Jones, Margaret E. E., Wah Chin Boon, Joseph Proietto, & Evan R. Simpson. (2006). Of mice and men: the evolving phenotype of aromatase deficiency. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 17(2). 55–64. 149 indexed citations

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Misso, Marie, Christina Jang, Jennifer R. Adams, et al.. (2005). Adipose aromatase gene expression is greater in older women and is unaffected by postmenopausal estrogen therapy. Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society. 12(2). 210–215. 66 indexed citations

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Hill, Rachel, Sueli Pompolo, Margaret E. E. Jones, Evan R. Simpson, & Wah Chin Boon. (2004). Estrogen deficiency leads to apoptosis in dopaminergic neurons in the medial preoptic area and arcuate nucleus of male mice. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 27(4). 466–476. 52 indexed citations

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Boon, Wah Chin, John G. McDougall, & John P. Coghlan. (1998). HYPOTHESIS: ALDOSTERONE IS SYNTHESIZED BY AN ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY DURING SEVERE SODIUM DEPLETION. ‘A NEW WINE IN AN OLD BOTTLE’. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 25(5). 369–378. 6 indexed citations

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