Wooseong Kim

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Wooseong Kim is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wooseong Kim has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Infectious Diseases and 15 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Wooseong Kim's work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (23 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (19 papers) and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (14 papers). Wooseong Kim is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (23 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (19 papers) and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (14 papers). Wooseong Kim collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Singapore. Wooseong Kim's co-authors include Eleftherios Mylonakis, Yunjin Jung, Beth Burgwyn Fuchs, Frederick M. Ausubel, Annie L. Conery, Rajmohan Rajamuthiah, Seongkeun Jeong, Jin‐Wook Yoo, Yung-Hun Yang and Shashi Kant Bhatia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Wooseong Kim

96 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

A new class of synthetic retinoid antibiotics effective against bacterial persisters

2018 319 citations Wooseong Kim, Annie L. Conery et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wooseong Kim South Korea	28	1.2k	366	313	288	282	98	2.6k
Fazlurrahman Khan South Korea	33	1.3k 1.2×	475 1.3×	189 0.6×	321 1.1×	383 1.4×	167	3.5k
Avinash Sonawane India	29	1.3k 1.1×	362 1.0×	614 2.0×	290 1.0×	193 0.7×	81	3.3k
Chang‐Jer Wu Taiwan	31	1.1k 1.0×	158 0.4×	280 0.9×	380 1.3×	149 0.5×	99	2.9k
Zheng Pang China	14	1.1k 1.0×	215 0.6×	220 0.7×	240 0.8×	140 0.5×	39	2.3k
Kui Zhu China	35	2.0k 1.7×	598 1.6×	314 1.0×	640 2.2×	373 1.3×	131	4.5k
Syed Mohd Danish Rizvi Saudi Arabia	27	898 0.8×	363 1.0×	143 0.5×	110 0.4×	324 1.1×	114	3.0k
Anna De Filippis Italy	26	651 0.6×	223 0.6×	144 0.5×	273 0.9×	118 0.4×	107	2.3k
Mark Feldman Israel	26	918 0.8×	118 0.3×	228 0.7×	275 1.0×	355 1.3×	68	2.2k
Junling Shi China	40	2.0k 1.7×	353 1.0×	137 0.4×	212 0.7×	177 0.6×	163	5.2k
Qinqin Pu United States	22	1.2k 1.1×	264 0.7×	122 0.4×	319 1.1×	266 0.9×	43	2.3k

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Kim, Jae‐Seok, YuJin Shin, JuOae Chang, et al.. (2025). Heavy metals promote the formation of multidrug-tolerant Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli persisters. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 293. 118014–118014.

Zou, Guijin, Wooseong Kim, & Huajian Gao. (2024). Mechanics of membrane targeting antimicrobials - Pore nucleation in bacterial membranes. Mechanics of Materials. 193. 104991–104991. 1 indexed citations

Choi, Tae‐Rim, Hyun Joong Kim, Nara Shin, et al.. (2023). Maximization of 3-hydroxyhexanoate fraction in poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) using lauric acid with engineered Cupriavidus necator H16. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 256(Pt 2). 128376–128376. 11 indexed citations

Zou, Guijin, Jae‐Seok Kim, Eleftherios Mylonakis, et al.. (2023). A Methylazanediyl Bisacetamide Derivative Sensitizes Staphylococcus aureus Persisters to a Combination of Gentamicin And Daptomycin. Advanced Science. 11(9). e2306112–e2306112. 11 indexed citations

André, Camille, Eleftherios Mylonakis, William M. Wuest, et al.. (2023). Antimicrobial activity of a new class of synthetic retinoid antibiotics and comparator agents against ocular staphylococci. PubMed. 2. 1101450–1101450. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Jae‐Seok, et al.. (2023). Development of fluorescence-linked immunosorbent assay for rapid detection of Staphylococcus aureus. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 108(1). 2–2. 10 indexed citations

Choi, Tae‐Rim, Soyeon Ahn, Hye Soo Lee, et al.. (2022). Arctic Psychrotolerant Pseudomonas sp. B14-6 Exhibits Temperature-Dependent Susceptibility to Aminoglycosides. Antibiotics. 11(8). 1019–1019. 2 indexed citations

Lim, Gyumin, Eun-Jung Kim, Chang‐Soo Lee, et al.. (2022). Generation of a recombinant antibody for sensitive detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. BMC Biotechnology. 22(1). 21–21. 7 indexed citations

Huang, Xiaowen, Wen Pan, Wooseong Kim, et al.. (2020). Caenorhabditis elegansmounts a p38MAPKpathway‐mediated defence toCutibacterium acnesinfection. Cellular Microbiology. 22(10). e13234–e13234. 19 indexed citations

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Song, Hun‐Suk, Hyun‐Joong Kim, Shashi Kant Bhatia, et al.. (2020). Simultaneous monitoring of the bioconversion from lysine to glutaric acid by ethyl chloroformate derivatization and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Analytical Biochemistry. 597. 113688–113688. 4 indexed citations

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Jeong, Seongkeun, Hanju Lee, Soo‐Jin Kim, et al.. (2019). 5-Aminosalicylic Acid Azo-Coupled with a GPR109A Agonist Is a Colon-Targeted Anticolitic Codrug with a Reduced Risk of Skin Toxicity. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 17(1). 167–179. 17 indexed citations

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Kim, Wooseong, Soo‐Jin Kim, Sanghyun Ju, et al.. (2019). Colon-Targeted Delivery Facilitates the Therapeutic Switching of Sofalcone, a Gastroprotective Agent, to an Anticolitic Drug via Nrf2 Activation. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 16(9). 4007–4016. 13 indexed citations

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Kim, Wooseong, Hanju Lee, Soo‐Jin Kim, et al.. (2019). Sofalcone, a gastroprotective drug, covalently binds to KEAP1 to activate Nrf2 resulting in anti-colitic activity. European Journal of Pharmacology. 865. 172722–172722. 25 indexed citations

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Oshi, Murtada A., Muhammad Naeem, Jihyun Kim, et al.. (2018). Colon-targeted dexamethasone microcrystals with pH-sensitive chitosan/alginate/Eudragit S multilayers for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Carbohydrate Polymers. 198. 434–442. 72 indexed citations

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Kim, Wooseong, et al.. (2018). A colon-specific prodrug of metoclopramide ameliorates colitis in an experimental rat model. Drug Design Development and Therapy. Volume 13. 231–242. 7 indexed citations

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Zheng, Zhaojun, Nagendran Tharmalingam, Qingzhong Liu, et al.. (2017). Synergistic Efficacy of Aedes aegypti Antimicrobial Peptide Cecropin A2 and Tetracycline against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 61(7). 62 indexed citations

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Kim, Wooseong, Annie L. Conery, Rajmohan Rajamuthiah, et al.. (2015). Identification of an Antimicrobial Agent Effective against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Persisters Using a Fluorescence-Based Screening Strategy. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0127640–e0127640. 58 indexed citations

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Lee, Yonghyun, et al.. (2015). Celecoxib coupled to dextran via a glutamic acid linker yields a polymeric prodrug suitable for colonic delivery. Drug Design Development and Therapy. 9. 4105–4105. 11 indexed citations

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Jung, Yunjin, Sun Young Lee, Yonghyun Lee, et al.. (2015). Evaluation of glycine-bearing celecoxib derivatives as a colon-specific mutual prodrug acting on nuclear factor-κB, an anti-inflammatory target. Drug Design Development and Therapy. 9. 4227–4227. 5 indexed citations

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Yoo, Jin‐Wook, Muhammad Naeem, Jiafu Cao, et al.. (2015). Enhanced therapeutic efficacy of budesonide in experimental colitis with enzyme/pH dual-sensitive polymeric nanoparticles. International Journal of Nanomedicine. 10. 4565–4565. 33 indexed citations

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