Wenan Chen

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Wenan Chen is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenan Chen has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Genetics, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wenan Chen's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (13 papers), Medical Imaging and Analysis (9 papers) and Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (6 papers). Wenan Chen is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (13 papers), Medical Imaging and Analysis (9 papers) and Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (6 papers). Wenan Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Sweden. Wenan Chen's co-authors include Daniel J. Schaid, Nicholas B. Larson, Xiang Chen, Kayvan Najarian, John Easton, Kevin R. Ward, Changde Cheng, Hongjian Jin, Richard B. Kennedy and Gregory A. Poland and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Wenan Chen

52 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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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.

From genome-wide associations to candidate causal variants by statistical fine-mapping

2018 523 citations Daniel J. Schaid, Wenan Chen 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
Wenan Chen United States	17	882	733	263	205	110	55	1.8k
Xiao Chang China	25	1.1k 1.2×	431 0.6×	243 0.9×	220 1.1×	170 1.5×	125	2.6k
Eurie L. Hong United States	14	1.8k 2.1×	873 1.2×	224 0.9×	360 1.8×	123 1.1×	22	2.8k
Chun Zeng China	22	526 0.6×	346 0.5×	410 1.6×	99 0.5×	155 1.4×	68	1.6k
Ahmad Abou Tayoun United Arab Emirates	23	892 1.0×	838 1.1×	88 0.3×	230 1.1×	89 0.8×	81	2.0k
Ronald D. Cohn Canada	29	1.7k 2.0×	1.7k 2.4×	164 0.6×	307 1.5×	145 1.3×	76	4.0k
Ying‐Wooi Wan United States	23	982 1.1×	358 0.5×	204 0.8×	252 1.2×	75 0.7×	51	1.8k
Eric E. Bardes United States	5	1.5k 1.7×	379 0.5×	275 1.0×	388 1.9×	146 1.3×	6	2.4k
Francesco Vallania United States	21	1.0k 1.1×	428 0.6×	427 1.6×	226 1.1×	244 2.2×	32	1.9k
Alberto Magi Italy	25	1.1k 1.2×	683 0.9×	112 0.4×	466 2.3×	106 1.0×	86	2.0k
Zhen Li China	26	1.4k 1.6×	413 0.6×	149 0.6×	360 1.8×	129 1.2×	148	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Wenan Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenan Chen

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Fang, et al.. (2023). Polydatin alleviates sepsis‑induced acute lung injury via downregulation of Spi‑B. Biomedical Reports. 19(6). 102–102. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Changde, Wenan Chen, Hongjian Jin, & Xiang Chen. (2023). A Review of Single-Cell RNA-Seq Annotation, Integration, and Cell–Cell Communication. Cells. 12(15). 1970–1970. 76 indexed citations

Sharma, Richa, Ninad Oak, Wenan Chen, et al.. (2023). Germline landscape of RPA1, RPA2 and RPA3 variants in pediatric malignancies: identification of RPA1 as a novel cancer predisposition candidate gene. Frontiers in Oncology. 13. 1229507–1229507. 2 indexed citations

Chang, Ti‐Cheng, Wenan Chen, Stanley Pounds, et al.. (2023). Genomic determinants of outcome in acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A Children’s Oncology Group study.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 41(16_suppl). 10015–10015. 1 indexed citations

Gonzalez-Pena, Veronica, Sivaraman Natarajan, Yuntao Xia, et al.. (2021). Accurate genomic variant detection in single cells with primary template-directed amplification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(24). 87 indexed citations

Jeffers, John, Emília M. Pinto, Jerold E. Rehg, et al.. (2021). The Common Germline TP53-R337H Mutation Is Hypomorphic and Confers Incomplete Penetrance and Late Tumor Onset in a Mouse Model. Cancer Research. 81(9). 2442–2456. 9 indexed citations

Cheng, Changde, John Easton, Celeste Rosencrance, et al.. (2019). Latent cellular analysis robustly reveals subtle diversity in large-scale single-cell RNA-seq data. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(22). e143–e143. 24 indexed citations

Yang, Kai, Daniel Bastardo Blanco, Xiang Chen, et al.. (2018). Metabolic signaling directs the reciprocal lineage decisions of αβ and γδ T cells. Science Immunology. 3(25). 62 indexed citations

Blanco, Daniel Bastardo, Xiang Chen, Pradyot Dash, et al.. (2018). Metabolic signaling directs the reciprocal lineage decisions of αβ and γδ T cells. PMC. 14 indexed citations

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Schaid, Daniel J., Wenan Chen, & Nicholas B. Larson. (2018). From genome-wide associations to candidate causal variants by statistical fine-mapping. Nature Reviews Genetics. 19(8). 491–504. 523 indexed citations breakdown →

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Karmaus, Peer W. F., Xiang Chen, Seon Ah Lim, et al.. (2018). Metabolic heterogeneity underlies reciprocal fates of TH17 cell stemness and plasticity. Nature. 565(7737). 101–105. 146 indexed citations

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Chen, Wenan, Yan Li, John Easton, et al.. (2018). UMI-count modeling and differential expression analysis for single-cell RNA sequencing. Genome biology. 19(1). 70–70. 66 indexed citations

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Nassan, Malik, Qingqin S. Li, Paul E. Croarkin, et al.. (2016). A genome wide association study suggests the association of muskelin with early onset bipolar disorder: Implications for a GABAergic epileptogenic neurogenesis model. Journal of Affective Disorders. 208. 120–129. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Wenan, Huaizhen Qin, Kellie J. Archer, et al.. (2015). A Generalized Sequential Bonferroni Procedure for GWAS in Admixed Populations Incorporating Admixture Mapping Information into Association Tests. Human Heredity. 79(2). 80–92. 4 indexed citations

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Zuo, Lingjun, Ke-Sheng Wang, Xiangyang Zhang, et al.. (2013). Rare SERINC2 variants are specific for alcohol dependence in individuals of European descent. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. 23(8). 395–402. 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Wenan, Xiangning Chen, Kellie J. Archer, et al.. (2013). A Rapid Association Test Procedure Robust under Different Genetic Models Accounting for Population Stratification. Human Heredity. 75(1). 23–33. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Shudong, Wenan Chen, Xiangning Chen, et al.. (2012). Double genomic control is not effective to correct for population stratification in meta-analysis for genome-wide association studies. Frontiers in Genetics. 3. 300–300. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Wenan, et al.. (2011). Agent based modeling of blood coagulation system: Implementation using a GPU based high speed framework. PubMed. 2011. 145–148. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Wenan, et al.. (2009). Hierarchical object recognition in Pelvic CT images. PubMed. 3691 2005. 3533–3536. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Wenan, Rebecca Smith, Soo-Yeon Ji, Kevin R. Ward, & Kayvan Najarian. (2009). Automated ventricular systems segmentation in brain CT images by combining low-level segmentation and high-level template matching. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 9(S1). S4–S4. 58 indexed citations

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