To cite hoodscanR in publications use:

Liu N, Martin J, Bhuva DD, Chen J, Li M, Lee SC, Kharbanda M, Cheng J, Mohamed A, Kulasinghe A, Chen Y, Tan CW, Li F, Polo JM, Davis MJ (2026). “hoodscanR: profiling single-cell neighborhoods in spatial transcriptomics data.” Bioinformatics, 42(8), btag609. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btag609. https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/42/8/btag609/8761375.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{Liu2026hoodscanR,
    title = {{hoodscanR}: profiling single-cell neighborhoods in
      spatial transcriptomics data},
    author = {Ning Liu and Jarryd Martin and Dharmesh D Bhuva and
      Jinjin Chen and Mengbo Li and Samuel C Lee and Malvika Kharbanda
      and Jinming Cheng and Ahmed Mohamed and Arutha Kulasinghe and
      Yunshun Chen and Chin Wee Tan and Fuyi Li and Jose M Polo and
      Melissa J Davis},
    journal = {Bioinformatics},
    year = {2026},
    volume = {42},
    number = {8},
    pages = {btag609},
    doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btag609},
    url =
      {https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/42/8/btag609/8761375},
  }