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D-Index
49
Citations
7497
World Ranking
4599
National Ranking
32

Young Chul Sung publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Young Chul Sung sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 169 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Young Chul Sung D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Young Chul Sung sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Young Chul Sung is affiliated with Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology with an emphasis on Immunology as a subfield. Additional areas of focus include Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

The scientist's work centers on topics related to immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, immune cell function and interaction, CAR-T cell therapy research, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, cervical cancer and HPV research, as well as animal virus infections studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Young Chul Sung include:

  • You Suk Suh (9 publications)
  • Jung Won Woo (8 publications)
  • Minkyu Heo (8 publications)
  • Yoonjeong Choi (6 publications)
  • Su-Hyung Park (6 publications)

The scientist has published multiple papers in notable venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 6 publications
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology with 3 publications
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts with 2 publications
  • The Lancet Oncology with 1 publication
  • Clinical and Translational Science with 1 publication

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Pembrolizumab plus GX-188E therapeutic DNA vaccine in patients with HPV-16-positive or HPV-18-positive advanced cervical cancer: interim results of a single-arm, phase 2 trial," 2020, The Lancet Oncology
  • "hIL-7-hyFc, A Long-Acting IL-7, Increased Absolute Lymphocyte Count in Healthy Subjects," 2020, Clinical and Translational Science
  • "Soluble Spike DNA Vaccine Provides Long-Term Protective Immunity against SARS-CoV-2 in Mice and Nonhuman Primates," 2021, Vaccines
  • "Combined IgE neutralization and Bifidobacterium longum supplementation reduces the allergic response in models of food allergy," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "A single administration of hIL-7-hyFc induces long-lasting T-cell expansion with maintained effector functions," 2022, Blood Advances

Best Publications

  • STAT3 and NF-κB Signal Pathway Is Required for IL-23-Mediated IL-17 Production in Spontaneous Arthritis Animal Model IL-1 Receptor Antagonist-Deficient Mice

    Mi La Cho;Jung Won Kang;Young Mee Moon;Hyo Jung Nam

  • Local structural elements in the mostly unstructured transcriptional activation domain of human p53.

    Hyun Lee;K. Hun Mok;Ranjith Muhandiram;Kyu Hwan Park

  • Clearance of persistent HPV infection and cervical lesion by therapeutic DNA vaccine in CIN3 patients

    Tae Jin Kim;Hyun-Tak Jin;Soo-Young Hur;Hyun Gul Yang

  • 2.8 A resolution crystal structure of human TRAIL, a cytokine with selective antitumor activity.

    Sun-Shin Cha;Min-Sung Kim;Yo Han Choi;Byung-Je Sung

  • Dual roles of human BubR1, a mitotic checkpoint kinase, in the monitoring of chromosomal instability

    Hyun Jin Shin;Kwan Hyuck Baek;Ae Hwa Jeon;Moon Taek Park

  • Hepatitis C Virus Core from Two Different Genotypes Has an Oncogenic Potential but Is Not Sufficient for Transforming Primary Rat Embryo Fibroblasts in Cooperation with the H-ras Oncogene

    Jun Chang;Se-Hwan Yang;Young-Gyu Cho;Soon Bong Hwang

  • Gene therapy of intracranial glioma using interleukin 12-secreting human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells.

    Chung Heon Ryu;Sang-Hoon Park;Soon A Park;Seong Muk Kim

  • Transactivation Ability of p53 Transcriptional Activation Domain Is Directly Related to the Binding Affinity to TATA-binding Protein

    Jun Chang;Do-Hyung Kim;Seung Woo Lee;Kwan Yong Choi

  • IL-12 Provides Proliferation and Survival Signals to Murine CD4+ T Cells Through Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/Akt Signaling Pathway

    Jae Kwang Yoo;Jae Ho Cho;Seung Woo Lee;Young Chul Sung

  • Hepatitis C virus NS5B protein is a membrane-associated phosphoprotein with a predominantly perinuclear localization.

    Soon B. Hwang;Kyu-Jin Park;Yong-Sun Kim;Young Chul Sung

  • Cross-Priming as a Predominant Mechanism for Inducing CD8+ T Cell Responses in Gene Gun DNA Immunization

    Jae Ho Cho;Jin Won Youn;Young Chul Sung

  • Pembrolizumab plus GX-188E therapeutic DNA vaccine in patients with HPV-16-positive or HPV-18-positive advanced cervical cancer: interim results of a single-arm, phase 2 trial.

    Jin Won Youn;Soo-Young Hur;Jung Won Woo;Yong-Man Kim

  • HCV core protein promotes liver fibrogenesis via up-regulation of CTGF with TGF-β1

    Ju Yeop Shin;Wonhee Hur;Jin Sang Wang;Jeong Won Jang

  • Protective immunity against heterologous challenge with encephalomyocarditis virus by VP1 DNA vaccination: effect of coinjection with a granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor gene

    Jeong Im Sin;Jun Ho Sung;You Suk Suh;Ann Hwee Lee

  • A Novel Function of IL-12p40 as a Chemotactic Molecule for Macrophages

    Sang Jun Ha;Chu Hee Lee;Seong Beom Lee;Chang Min Kim

  • Immunoglobulin fusion proteins

    Young Chul Sung;Sehwan Yang

  • Cutting Edge: CpG DNA inhibits dendritic cell apoptosis by up-regulating cellular inhibitor of apoptosis proteins through the phosphatidylinositide-3'-OH kinase pathway.

    Yunji Park;Seung Woo Lee;Young Chul Sung

  • Enhanced cellular immunity to hepatitis C virus nonstructural proteins by codelivery of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor gene in intramuscular DNA immunization.

    Jae Ho Cho;Seung Woo Lee;Young Chul Sung

  • Optimal Induction of Hepatitis C Virus Envelope-Specific Immunity by Bicistronic Plasmid DNA Inoculation with the Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Gene

    Seung Woo Lee;Jae Ho Cho;Young Chul Sung

  • Complete Regression of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma by Multiple Injections of Engineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells Expressing Dodecameric TRAIL and HSV-TK

    Sae Won Kim;Su Jin Kim;Sang Hoon Park;Hyun Gul Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hee-Sup Shin
Hee-Sup Shin Institute for Basic Science
Charles D. Surh
Charles D. Surh Pohang University of Science and Technology
Gerhard Hunsmann
Gerhard Hunsmann University of Göttingen
Su-Hyung Park
Su-Hyung Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Sang-Nae Cho
Sang-Nae Cho Yonsei University
Ho-Youn Kim
Ho-Youn Kim Catholic University of Korea
Eui-Cheol Shin
Eui-Cheol Shin Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Sei Kwang Hahn
Sei Kwang Hahn Pohang University of Science and Technology
Doo Hyun Chung
Doo Hyun Chung Seoul National University
Kimoon Kim
Kimoon Kim Pohang University of Science and Technology

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