Wai Hoong Chang

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 584 citations indexed

About

Wai Hoong Chang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wai Hoong Chang has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 584 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Cancer Research and 5 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Wai Hoong Chang's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (5 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers) and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (4 papers). Wai Hoong Chang is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (5 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers) and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (4 papers). Wai Hoong Chang collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Wai Hoong Chang's co-authors include Alvina G. Lai, Stefanie H. Mueller, Spiros Denaxas, Václav Papež, Katherine Green, Sheng‐Chia Chung, Graham R. Foster, Michail Katsoulis, Darren Hargrave and David Skuse and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Wai Hoong Chang

24 papers receiving 577 citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Comparing clinical trial population representativeness to real-world populations: an external validity analysis encompassing 43 895 trials and 5 685 738 individuals across 989 unique drugs and 286 conditions in England
    2022 133 citations Václav Papež, Wai Hoong Chang et al. The Lancet Healthy Longevity profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wai Hoong Chang United Kingdom 13 200 152 130 93 54 24 584
Michael Ntim China 15 177 0.9× 74 0.5× 87 0.7× 86 0.9× 43 0.8× 31 654
Regina Demlová Czechia 16 247 1.2× 163 1.1× 202 1.6× 111 1.2× 57 1.1× 68 791
Rebecca Crawford United States 11 263 1.3× 48 0.3× 73 0.6× 78 0.8× 33 0.6× 29 602
Lisa M. Peterson United States 10 102 0.5× 72 0.5× 147 1.1× 139 1.5× 53 1.0× 11 571
Laura Smith United States 18 296 1.5× 95 0.6× 152 1.2× 108 1.2× 138 2.6× 46 956
Anna Zychlinsky Scharff Germany 7 158 0.8× 118 0.8× 128 1.0× 51 0.5× 127 2.4× 16 694
Christine Veyrat‐Follet France 15 133 0.7× 65 0.4× 174 1.3× 69 0.7× 32 0.6× 31 673
Yizi Wang China 14 97 0.5× 84 0.6× 63 0.5× 53 0.6× 20 0.4× 39 542
Shin Hye Yoo South Korea 17 286 1.4× 77 0.5× 272 2.1× 112 1.2× 57 1.1× 70 994
Vanessa Potter United Kingdom 15 122 0.6× 82 0.5× 291 2.2× 174 1.9× 50 0.9× 29 666

Countries citing papers authored by Wai Hoong Chang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wai Hoong Chang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wai Hoong Chang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wai Hoong Chang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wai Hoong Chang 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 Wai Hoong Chang. Wai Hoong Chang 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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Chang, Wai Hoong, Michail Katsoulis, Spiros Denaxas, et al.. (2024). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health-care use among patients with cancer in England, UK: a comprehensive phase-by-phase time-series analysis across attendance types for 38 cancers. The Lancet Digital Health. 6(10). e691–e704. 5 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong & Alvina G. Lai. (2024). Pan-cancer analyses of the associations between 109 pre-existing conditions and cancer treatment patterns across 19 adult cancers. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 464–464. 3 indexed citations
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Clements, Melanie, Wenhao Tang, Elitza Deltcheva, et al.. (2023). Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life. Current Biology. 33(6). 1082–1098.e8. 7 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong, Richard D Neal, Martin Förster, & Alvina G. Lai. (2023). Cumulative burden of 144 conditions, critical care hospitalisation and premature mortality across 26 adult cancers. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1484–1484. 5 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong, Stefanie H. Mueller, Sheng‐Chia Chung, Graham R. Foster, & Alvina G. Lai. (2022). Increased burden of cardiovascular disease in people with liver disease: unequal geographical variations, risk factors and excess years of life lost. Journal of Translational Medicine. 20(1). 2–2. 22 indexed citations
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Lai, Alvina G., Wai Hoong Chang, & David Skuse. (2022). Autism and mental illness in children and young people require standardised approaches for assessment and treatment. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 16. 100360–100360. 3 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong & Alvina G. Lai. (2022). Cumulative burden of psychiatric disorders and self-harm across 26 adult cancers. Nature Medicine. 28(4). 860–870. 34 indexed citations
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Chung, Sheng‐Chia, Stefanie H. Mueller, Katherine Green, et al.. (2022). Multimorbidity patterns and risk of hospitalisation in children: A population cohort study of 3.6 million children in England, with illustrative examples from childhood cancer survivors. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 20. 100433–100433. 11 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong, Graham R. Foster, Déirdre Kelly, & Alvina G. Lai. (2022). Depression, anxiety, substance misuse and self-harm in children and young people with rare chronic liver disease. BJPsych Open. 8(5). e146–e146. 2 indexed citations
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Papež, Václav, et al.. (2022). Comparing clinical trial population representativeness to real-world populations: an external validity analysis encompassing 43 895 trials and 5 685 738 individuals across 989 unique drugs and 286 conditions in England. The Lancet Healthy Longevity. 3(10). e674–e689. 133 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chang, Wai Hoong & Alvina G. Lai. (2020). The hypoxic tumour microenvironment: A safe haven for immunosuppressive cells and a therapeutic barrier to overcome. Cancer Letters. 487. 34–44. 47 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong & Alvina G. Lai. (2019). The pan‐cancer mutational landscape of the PPAR pathway reveals universal patterns of dysregulated metabolism and interactions with tumor immunity and hypoxia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1448(1). 65–82. 45 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong & Alvina G. Lai. (2019). Timing gone awry: distinct tumour suppressive and oncogenic roles of the circadian clock and crosstalk with hypoxia signalling in diverse malignancies. Journal of Translational Medicine. 17(1). 132–132. 32 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong & Alvina G. Lai. (2019). Aberrations in Notch-Hedgehog signalling reveal cancer stem cells harbouring conserved oncogenic properties associated with hypoxia and immunoevasion. British Journal of Cancer. 121(8). 666–678. 44 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong, et al.. (2019). A novel signature derived from immunoregulatory and hypoxia genes predicts prognosis in liver and five other cancers. Journal of Translational Medicine. 17(1). 14–14. 38 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong & Alvina G. Lai. (2019). Pan-cancer genomic amplifications underlie a WNT hyperactivation phenotype associated with stem cell-like features leading to poor prognosis. Translational research. 208. 47–62. 7 indexed citations
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Chang, Wai Hoong & Alvina G. Lai. (2018). Genome-wide analyses of the bHLH superfamily in crustaceans: reappraisal of higher-order groupings and evidence for lineage-specific duplications. Royal Society Open Science. 5(3). 172433–172433. 5 indexed citations

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