Way Sung

7.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Way Sung is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Way Sung has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Genetics and 12 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Way Sung's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (18 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers). Way Sung is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (18 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers). Way Sung collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Way Sung's co-authors include Michael Lynch, W. Kelley Thomas, Matthew S. Ackerman, W. Kelley Thomas, Hongan Long, Thomas G. Doak, Robin M. Giblin-davis, Dorota L. Porazinska, Samuel F. Miller and Patricia L. Foster and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Way Sung

37 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

A genome-wide view of the spectrum of spontaneous mutations in yeast

2008 530 citations Michael Lynch, Way Sung et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Genetic drift, selection and the evolution of the mutation rate

2016 528 citations Michael Lynch, Matthew S. Ackerman et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Way Sung United States	26	2.5k	1.5k	1.4k	851	271	37	3.9k
Ari Löytynoja Finland	20	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	633 0.4×	762 0.9×	100 0.4×	44	3.2k
Jean‐Marc Aury France	35	2.7k 1.1×	778 0.5×	595 0.4×	1.8k 2.2×	132 0.5×	99	4.1k
Dee R. Denver United States	29	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	611 0.4×	669 0.8×	84 0.3×	70	2.9k
Ivan Jakovlić China	23	2.0k 0.8×	732 0.5×	1000 0.7×	873 1.0×	159 0.6×	73	3.9k
Thomas G. Doak United States	29	2.7k 1.1×	799 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	928 1.1×	67 0.2×	66	3.6k
Christoph Grunau France	31	1.5k 0.6×	532 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	224 0.3×	136 0.5×	84	3.1k
Peter G. Foster United Kingdom	39	3.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	235 0.9×	75	5.5k
Dennis V. Lavrov United States	31	2.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	430 0.5×	434 1.6×	60	4.4k
Jamie J. Cannone United States	25	2.9k 1.2×	558 0.4×	720 0.5×	399 0.5×	190 0.7×	38	3.7k
Nicolas Derôme Canada	35	1.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	230 0.3×	103 0.4×	96	4.2k

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Wu, Kun, Zhou‐Hua Cheng, Emily Williams, et al.. (2021). Unexpected Discovery of Hypermutator Phenotype Sounds the Alarm for Quality Control Strains. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(8). 2 indexed citations

Dillon, Marcus M., Way Sung, Michael Lynch, & Vaughn S. Cooper. (2018). Periodic Variation of Mutation Rates in Bacterial Genomes Associated with Replication Timing. mBio. 9(4). 25 indexed citations

Long, Hongan, Way Sung, Sibel Küçükyıldırım, et al.. (2017). Evolutionary determinants of genome-wide nucleotide composition. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(2). 237–240. 106 indexed citations

Dillon, Marcus M., Way Sung, Robert Sebra, Michael Lynch, & Vaughn S. Cooper. (2016). Genome-Wide Biases in the Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio fischeri. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(1). 93–109. 62 indexed citations

Long, Hongan, David J. Winter, Way Sung, et al.. (2016). Low Base-Substitution Mutation Rate in the Germline Genome of the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophil. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(12). evw223–evw223. 34 indexed citations

Lynch, Michael, Matthew S. Ackerman, Jean-François Goût, et al.. (2016). Genetic drift, selection and the evolution of the mutation rate. Nature Reviews Genetics. 17(11). 704–714. 528 indexed citations breakdown →

Dillon, Marcus M., Way Sung, Michael Lynch, & Vaughn S. Cooper. (2015). The Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in the GC-Rich Multichromosome Genome of Burkholderia cenocepacia. Genetics. 200(3). 935–946. 61 indexed citations

Tucker, Abraham E., Craig E. Jackson, Way Sung, et al.. (2015). High mutational rates of large-scale duplication and deletion in Daphnia pulex. Genome Research. 26(1). 60–69. 74 indexed citations

Long, Hongan, Sibel Küçükyıldırım, Way Sung, et al.. (2015). Background Mutational Features of the Radiation-Resistant BacteriumDeinococcus radiodurans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(9). 2383–2392. 52 indexed citations

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Sung, Way, Matthew S. Ackerman, Jean-François Goût, et al.. (2015). Asymmetric Context-Dependent Mutation Patterns Revealed through Mutation–Accumulation Experiments. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(7). 1672–1683. 103 indexed citations

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Bik, Holly M., David Fournier, Way Sung, R. Daniel Bergeron, & W. Kelley Thomas. (2013). Intra-Genomic Variation in the Ribosomal Repeats of Nematodes. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e78230–e78230. 85 indexed citations

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Bik, Holly M., Way Sung, Paul De Ley, et al.. (2011). Metagenetic community analysis of microbial eukaryotes illuminates biogeographic patterns in deep‐sea and shallow water sediments. Molecular Ecology. 21(5). 1048–1059. 143 indexed citations

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Sung, Way, et al.. (2011). Shifting patterns of natural variation in the nuclear genome of caenorhabditis elegans. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 168–168. 4 indexed citations

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Creer, Simon, Vera G. Fonseca, Dorota L. Porazinska, et al.. (2010). Ultrasequencing of the meiofaunal biosphere: practice, pitfalls and promises. Molecular Ecology. 19(s1). 4–20. 267 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Vera G., Gary R. Carvalho, Way Sung, et al.. (2010). Second-generation environmental sequencing unmasks marine metazoan biodiversity. Nature Communications. 1(1). 98–98. 280 indexed citations

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Sung, Way, Abraham E. Tucker, R. Daniel Bergeron, Michael Lynch, & W. Kelley Thomas. (2010). Simple sequence repeat variation in the Daphnia pulex genome. BMC Genomics. 11(1). 691–691. 13 indexed citations

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Denver, Dee R., Peter Dolan, Larry Wilhelm, et al.. (2009). A genome-wide view of Caenorhabditis elegans base-substitution mutation processes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(38). 16310–16314. 200 indexed citations

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Li, Wenli, Abraham E. Tucker, Way Sung, W. Kelley Thomas, & Michael Lynch. (2009). Extensive, Recent Intron Gains in Daphnia Populations. Science. 326(5957). 1260–1262. 93 indexed citations

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Porazinska, Dorota L., Robin M. Giblin-davis, Lina L. Faller, et al.. (2009). Evaluating high‐throughput sequencing as a method for metagenomic analysis of nematode diversity. Molecular Ecology Resources. 9(6). 1439–1450. 260 indexed citations

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Lynch, Michael, Way Sung, Krystalynne Morris, et al.. (2008). A genome-wide view of the spectrum of spontaneous mutations in yeast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(27). 9272–9277. 530 indexed citations breakdown →

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