Yim Ling Cheng

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 452 citations indexed

About

Yim Ling Cheng is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Yim Ling Cheng has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 452 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cell Biology and 3 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Yim Ling Cheng's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers), Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (2 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (2 papers). Yim Ling Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers), Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (2 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (2 papers). Yim Ling Cheng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Yim Ling Cheng's co-authors include Hanna Mendes Levitin, Jinzhou Yuan, Peter A. Sims, Erin Bush, Michelle Miron, Mark E. Snyder, Donna L. Färber, Puspa Thapa, Pranay Dogra and Takashi Senda and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Yim Ling Cheng

8 papers receiving 450 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.

Single-cell transcriptomics of human T cells reveals tissue and activation signatures in health and disease

2019 346 citations Peter A. Szabo, Hanna Mendes Levitin et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yim Ling Cheng United States	6	239	218	122	36	31	8	452
Vibeke Sundvold‐Gjerstad Norway	13	247 1.0×	272 1.2×	117 1.0×	47 1.3×	27 0.9×	22	506
Akie Maehara Japan	11	278 1.2×	164 0.8×	70 0.6×	33 0.9×	9 0.3×	18	492
Patrick Fernandes Rodrigues United States	13	362 1.5×	448 2.1×	172 1.4×	34 0.9×	59 1.9×	19	792
Nourdine Bah United Kingdom	11	146 0.6×	281 1.3×	185 1.5×	88 2.4×	43 1.4×	12	503
Paulina M. Strzelecka Germany	9	170 0.7×	301 1.4×	41 0.3×	81 2.3×	17 0.5×	14	511
Maria‐Cristina Seminario United States	11	300 1.3×	218 1.0×	70 0.6×	16 0.4×	8 0.3×	13	491
Barak Reicher Israel	11	223 0.9×	155 0.7×	95 0.8×	15 0.4×	24 0.8×	14	436
Mercedes Rey Spain	10	227 0.9×	261 1.2×	192 1.6×	34 0.9×	18 0.6×	12	610
Linhua Tian United States	9	223 0.9×	224 1.0×	72 0.6×	27 0.8×	17 0.5×	26	490
Aizhang Xu China	12	157 0.7×	142 0.7×	102 0.8×	48 1.3×	27 0.9×	19	389

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yim Ling Cheng

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Cheng, Yim Ling, et al.. (2024). Multiplexed single-cell lineage tracing of mitotic kinesin inhibitor resistance in glioblastoma. Cell Reports. 43(5). 114139–114139. 3 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yim Ling, et al.. (2021). Isoform-specific roles of the Drosophila filamin-type protein Jitterbug (Jbug) during development. Genetics. 219(2). 3 indexed citations

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Levitin, Hanna Mendes, Jinzhou Yuan, Yim Ling Cheng, et al.. (2019). De novo gene signature identification from single‐cell RNA ‐seq with hierarchical Poisson factorization. Molecular Systems Biology. 15(2). e8557–e8557. 43 indexed citations

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Szabo, Peter A., Hanna Mendes Levitin, Michelle Miron, et al.. (2019). Single-cell transcriptomics of human T cells reveals tissue and activation signatures in health and disease. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4706–4706. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Yim Ling & Deborah J. Andrew. (2015). Extracellular Mipp1 Activity Confers Migratory Advantage to Epithelial Cells during Collective Migration. Cell Reports. 13(10). 2174–2188. 7 indexed citations

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Abrams, Elliott W., Yim Ling Cheng, & Deborah J. Andrew. (2013). Drosophila KDEL Receptor Function in the Embryonic Salivary Gland and Epidermis. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e77618–e77618. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Feiran, Shridhar Bhat, Sandra B. Gabelli, et al.. (2013). Pyridinylquinazolines Selectively Inhibit Human Methionine Aminopeptidase-1 in Cells. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 56(10). 3996–4016. 13 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yim Ling, et al.. (2009). Total Synthesis of Spiruchostatin A via Chemoselective Macrocyclization using an Accessible Enantiomerically Pure Latent Thioester. Organic Letters. 11(9). 1971–1974. 28 indexed citations

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