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SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Youchun Xu
Tsinghua University
84
2
Peng Liu
Beijing Tsinghua Chang Gung Hospital
72
3
Javed Alam
Chandigarh University
69
4
Bin Su
Zhejiang University
68
5
Hung‐Wei Yang
National Cheng Kung University
64
6
Liwei Lin
University of California, Berkeley
63
7
Jiyang Liu
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
63
8
Shobhit K. Patel
Marwadi University
63
9
Catherine H. Bozio
Unknown
60
10
Judith Chui Ching Wong
National Environment Agency
56

Rising Stars Papers

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Ying Zhang
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics
99
2
Xiaowei Zhuang
Cleveland Clinic
97
3
Mariel Pérez-Zabaleta
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
97
4
Wenshang Guo
Harbin Institute of Technology
94
5
Amal Mathai
McMaster University
94
6
Da Huang
London Centre for Nanotechnology
85
7
Benrui Weng
Wuhan University
84
8
Alyssa Thomas DeCruz
London Centre for Nanotechnology
75
9
P. Nagarajan
Lincoln University College
69
10
Shuhao Zhao
Xi'an Jiaotong University
69

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Compact highly sensitive photothermal RT-LAMP chip for simultaneous multidisease detection
Science Advances|2024
14 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Marion Koopmans
Erasmus University Rotterdam
99
2
Roy Parker
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
98
3
Yang Yang
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
98
4
Mélanie Ott
Gladstone Institutes
95
5
Edward C. Holmes
The University of Sydney
91
6
Marco Metra
University of Brescia
79
7
Feng Ye
First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
79
8
Gili Regev‐Yochay
Sheba Medical Center
79
9
Chun Zhang
Union Hospital
78
10
Anke Brouwer
KWR Water Research Institute
76

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Circular RNAs: diversity of form and function
RNA|2014
1.3k cit.
2
tRNA cleavage is a conserved response to oxidative stress in eukaryotes
RNA|2008
579 cit.
3
Proposal for a unified norovirus nomenclature and genotyping
Archives of Virology|2013
575 cit.
4
P bodies promote stress granule assembly in <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae </i>
The Journal of Cell Biology|2008
533 cit.
5
RNA Degradation in<i>Saccharomyces cerevisae</i>
Genetics|2012
390 cit.
6
Whole-Genome Analysis of Human Influenza A Virus Reveals Multiple Persistent Lineages and Reassortment among Recent H3N2 Viruses
PLoS Biology|2005
382 cit.
7
The RNase Rny1p cleaves tRNAs and promotes cell death during oxidative stress in <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>
The Journal of Cell Biology|2009
338 cit.
8
Biochemical Properties and Biological Functions of FET Proteins
Annual Review of Biochemistry|2014
233 cit.
9
Limited cross-variant immunity from SARS-CoV-2 Omicron without vaccination
Nature|2022
213 cit.
10
RNA partitioning into stress granules is based on the summation of multiple interactions
RNA|2020
96 cit.

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