William Lee

46.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
106 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

William Lee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Lee has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Surgery and 21 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in William Lee's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (12 papers), Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries (7 papers) and Shoulder Injury and Treatment (7 papers). William Lee is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (12 papers), Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries (7 papers) and Shoulder Injury and Treatment (7 papers). William Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. William Lee's co-authors include Corey Nislow, Ronald W. Davis, Chris Sander, J. Graham Ruby, Chad Nusbaum, David P. Bartel, Sergio Gutiérrez, Michael J. Axtell, Hui Ming Ge and Desiree Tillo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

William Lee

103 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Large-Scale Sequencing Reveals 21U-RNAs and Additional MicroRNAs and Endogenous siRNAs in C. elegans

2006 774 citations William Lee et al. profile →
The Chemical Genomic Portrait of Yeast: Uncovering a Phenotype for All Genes

2008 744 citations William Lee, Ronald W. Davis et al. profile →
A high-resolution atlas of nucleosome occupancy in yeast

2007 644 citations William Lee, Desiree Tillo et al. Nature Genetics profile →
An Integrated Metabolic Atlas of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

2016 531 citations A. Ari Hakimi, Ed Reznik et al. Cancer Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Lee United States	30	4.0k	1.3k	1.3k	1.0k	623	106	6.6k
Lisa N. Kinch United States	45	5.1k 1.3×	773 0.6×	516 0.4×	1.4k 1.4×	635 1.0×	139	8.8k
Hong Li China	39	3.9k 1.0×	689 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.7×	587 0.9×	351	8.0k
Mark P. Molloy Australia	42	4.4k 1.1×	799 0.6×	430 0.3×	432 0.4×	563 0.9×	223	8.0k
Yi Liu China	45	5.2k 1.3×	472 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	622 0.6×	569 0.9×	247	8.4k
Tao Tao China	36	3.4k 0.8×	411 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	394 0.4×	414 0.7×	189	5.6k
Kimberly Burns Switzerland	24	6.7k 1.7×	863 0.6×	937 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	496 0.8×	36	10.1k
Xiangdong Li China	38	1.9k 0.5×	477 0.4×	958 0.7×	537 0.5×	352 0.6×	196	4.9k
Riitta Lahesmaa Finland	51	5.1k 1.3×	907 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	719 0.7×	370 0.6×	210	10.1k
Naoki Yamanaka Japan	47	2.2k 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	682 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	707 1.1×	258	7.9k
Fuchu He China	58	8.0k 2.0×	779 0.6×	1.8k 1.4×	1.5k 1.5×	635 1.0×	381	12.7k

Countries citing papers authored by William Lee

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Lee

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Lee, William, et al.. (2025). Electrospun polycaprolactone fibers encapsulating omega-3 and montelukast sodium to prevent capsular contracture in breast implant surgery. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 679. 125744–125744. 1 indexed citations

Lee, William, et al.. (2024). A Comprehensive Study of the Effects by Sequence Truncation within Inverted Terminal Repeats (ITRs) on the Productivity, Genome Packaging, and Potency of AAV Vectors. Microorganisms. 12(2). 310–310. 2 indexed citations

Cerviño, Alejandro, et al.. (2024). Tolerance to decentration of biaspheric intraocular lenses with refractive phase-ring extended depth of focus and diffractive trifocal designs. Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 262(8). 2541–2550. 1 indexed citations

Barrett, Kelly M. Schiabor, Elizabeth T. Cirulli, Alexandre Bolze, et al.. (2023). Cardiomyopathy prevalence exceeds 30% in individuals with TTN variants and early atrial fibrillation. Genetics in Medicine. 25(4). 100012–100012. 20 indexed citations

Lee, William, Changying Jiang, Fangfang Yan, et al.. (2023). The Selective CDK9 Inhibitor VIP152 Overcame Therapeutic Resistance in Mantle Cell Lymphoma. Blood. 142(Supplement 1). 2821–2821. 3 indexed citations

Garg, Paras, Bharati Jadhav, William Lee, et al.. (2022). A phenome-wide association study identifies effects of copy-number variation of VNTRs and multicopy genes on multiple human traits. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 109(6). 1065–1076. 12 indexed citations

Lee, Andrew, Kaitlyn N. Christmas, Péter Simon, et al.. (2021). Influence of preoperative factors on timing for bilateral shoulder arthroplasty. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 30(7). S116–S122. 2 indexed citations

Rooj, Arun K., Estelle Cormet‐Boyaka, Yawar J. Qadri, et al.. (2021). Association of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator with epithelial sodium channel subunits carrying Liddle’s syndrome mutations. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 321(2). L308–L320. 3 indexed citations

Karvellas, Constantine, Albert Salehi, Jaime L. Speiser, et al.. (2020). O9 Redefining poor prognostic criteria for acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure using regeneration and cell-death linked miRNA signatures. Abstracts. A5.1–A5. 1 indexed citations

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Reznik, Ed, Martin L. Miller, Yasin Şenbabaoğlu, et al.. (2016). Mitochondrial DNA copy number variation across human cancers. eLife. 5. 376 indexed citations

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Hakimi, A. Ari, Ed Reznik, Chung‐Han Lee, et al.. (2016). An Integrated Metabolic Atlas of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Cell. 29(1). 104–116. 531 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heilmann, Silja, Kajan Ratnakumar, Erin M. Langdon, et al.. (2015). A Quantitative System for Studying Metastasis Using Transparent Zebrafish. Cancer Research. 75(20). 4272–4282. 84 indexed citations

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Lee, William, et al.. (2010). Clinical Outcomes and Implications of Failed Infrainguinal Endovascular Stents. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 52(2). 524–524. 1 indexed citations

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Lee, William, Paul A. Gould, Dennis L. Kuchar, & Rajesh Subbiah. (2010). Profound bradycardia and hypotension in a normal heart. Heart Rhythm. 7(10). 1509–1511. 2 indexed citations

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Rowe, Vincent L., William Lee, Fred A. Weaver, & David A. Etzioni. (2009). Patterns of treatment for peripheral arterial disease in the United States: 1996-2005. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 49(4). 910–917. 175 indexed citations

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Canteros, Cristina Elena, et al.. (2007). Concordancia entre características fenotípicas y PCR-REA en la identificación de especies de Malassezia. Revista Iberoamericana de Micología. 24(4). 278–282. 2 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez, Sergio, Jonathan C. Levy, William Lee, Tony S. Keller, & Murray E. Maitland. (2007). Center of Rotation Affects Abduction Range of Motion of Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 458. 78–82. 74 indexed citations

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Lee, William, Desiree Tillo, Nicolas Bray, et al.. (2007). A high-resolution atlas of nucleosome occupancy in yeast. Nature Genetics. 39(10). 1235–1244. 644 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laing, Timothy, et al.. (2006). Capillary electrophoresis laser-induced fluorescence for screening combinatorial peptide libraries in assays of botulinum neurotoxin A. Journal of Chromatography B. 843(2). 240–246. 15 indexed citations

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Lee, William. (1991). A Course in Immobilized Enzyme and Cell Technology.. Chemical Engineering Education. 25(2). 82–86. 1 indexed citations

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