Wai-Tsing Chan

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Wai-Tsing Chan is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wai-Tsing Chan has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Infectious Diseases, 3 papers in Epidemiology and 3 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Wai-Tsing Chan's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (3 papers), Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (2 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (2 papers). Wai-Tsing Chan is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (3 papers), Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (2 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (2 papers). Wai-Tsing Chan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and South Africa. Wai-Tsing Chan's co-authors include John D. McKinney, Ernesto J. Muñoz‐Elías, Dana L. Swenson, Kerstin Höner zu Bentrup, William R. Jacobs, David G. Russell, András Miczák, James C. Sacchettini, Juliano Timm and Joseph M. Luna and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Wai-Tsing Chan

8 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages and mice requires the glyoxylate shunt enzyme isocitrate lyase

2000 1.0k citations John D. McKinney, Kerstin Höner zu Bentrup et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wai-Tsing Chan United States	6	1.1k	903	658	297	241	8	1.7k
Yann Bordat France	21	943 0.8×	864 1.0×	548 0.8×	474 1.6×	218 0.9×	34	1.8k
Vasan K. Sambandamurthy India	21	1.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	386 1.3×	208 0.9×	35	2.4k
Richard W. Stokes Canada	27	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	738 1.1×	580 2.0×	167 0.7×	43	2.2k
Georgiana E. Purdy United States	20	853 0.8×	809 0.9×	545 0.8×	212 0.7×	158 0.7×	40	1.6k
Anna Brzostek Poland	26	933 0.8×	903 1.0×	807 1.2×	115 0.4×	290 1.2×	73	1.8k
S W Hunter United States	29	1.8k 1.6×	2.0k 2.2×	965 1.5×	446 1.5×	417 1.7×	46	3.3k
Tsungda Hsu United States	23	1.7k 1.5×	1.4k 1.6×	725 1.1×	829 2.8×	289 1.2×	28	2.8k
Jelle Thole Netherlands	32	1.6k 1.4×	1.3k 1.4×	854 1.3×	838 2.8×	255 1.1×	53	2.6k
Mary K. Hondalus United States	25	1.7k 1.5×	484 0.5×	449 0.7×	235 0.8×	248 1.0×	40	2.2k
Prasanta Chakraborty United States	25	778 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	825 1.3×	464 1.6×	144 0.6×	52	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Wai-Tsing Chan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wai-Tsing Chan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wai-Tsing Chan

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Uchil, Pradeep D., Brian D. Quinlan, Wai-Tsing Chan, Joseph M. Luna, & Walther Mothes. (2008). TRIM E3 Ligases Interfere with Early and Late Stages of the Retroviral Life Cycle. PLoS Pathogens. 4(2). e16–e16. 198 indexed citations

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Chan, Wai-Tsing, Nathan M. Sherer, Pradeep D. Uchil, et al.. (2008). Murine Leukemia Virus Spreading in Mice Impaired in the Biogenesis of Secretory Lysosomes and Ca2+-Regulated Exocytosis. PLoS ONE. 3(7). e2713–e2713. 5 indexed citations

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Muñoz‐Elías, Ernesto J., Juliano Timm, Tania Botha, et al.. (2004). Replication Dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Chronically Infected Mice. Infection and Immunity. 73(1). 546–551. 168 indexed citations

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Timm, Juliano, Frank A. Post, Linda‐Gail Bekker, et al.. (2003). Differential expression of iron-, carbon-, and oxygen-responsive mycobacterial genes in the lungs of chronically infected mice and tuberculosis patients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(24). 14321–14326. 213 indexed citations

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Carlyon, Jason A., Wai-Tsing Chan, Jorge E. Galán, Dirk Roos, & Erol Fikrig. (2002). Repression of rac2 mRNA Expression by Anaplasma phagocytophila Is Essential to the Inhibition of Superoxide Production and Bacterial Proliferation. The Journal of Immunology. 169(12). 7009–7018. 81 indexed citations

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McKinney, John D., Kerstin Höner zu Bentrup, Ernesto J. Muñoz‐Elías, et al.. (2000). Persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages and mice requires the glyoxylate shunt enzyme isocitrate lyase. Nature. 406(6797). 735–738. 1047 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chan, Wai-Tsing & C. C. Wu. (1972). Phenomenological use of the Callan-Symanzik equation. Physics Letters B. 40(6). 651–654. 1 indexed citations

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Chan, Wai-Tsing, et al.. (1972). Perturbation series for chiral Lagrangians. — I. Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. A, Nuclei, particles and fields. 8(1). 29–38. 1 indexed citations

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