Alex X. Lu

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 537 citations indexed

About

Alex X. Lu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex X. Lu has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 537 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Biophysics and 5 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Recurrent topics in Alex X. Lu's work include Cell Image Analysis Techniques (9 papers), Tendon Structure and Treatment (5 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers). Alex X. Lu is often cited by papers focused on Cell Image Analysis Techniques (9 papers), Tendon Structure and Treatment (5 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers). Alex X. Lu collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Alex X. Lu's co-authors include Alan M Moses, Alex Scott, Kevin Yang, Oren Kraus, Taraneh Zarin, Hayedeh Behzad, Ava P. Amini, Sam Cooper, Nicolò Fusi and Robert G. McCormack and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alex X. Lu

22 papers receiving 527 citations

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What are hit papers?

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.

Protein structure generation via folding diffusion

2024 76 citations Kevin Wu, Kevin Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Zero-shot evaluation reveals limitations of single-cell foundation models

2025 18 citations Lorin Crawford, Ava P. Amini et al. Genome biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex X. Lu Canada	14	263	111	97	74	51	25	537
Hui-Ling Huang Taiwan	16	402 1.5×	11 0.1×	46 0.5×	96 1.3×	45 0.9×	26	730
Nóra Szász Uruguay	8	79 0.3×	12 0.1×	19 0.2×	42 0.6×	65 1.3×	29	403
Stefan Hoehme Germany	14	249 0.9×	6 0.1×	49 0.5×	103 1.4×	7 0.1×	29	864
Eugene van Someren Netherlands	6	491 1.9×	8 0.1×	20 0.2×	17 0.2×	40 0.8×	11	667
Woochang Hwang United States	16	533 2.0×	13 0.1×	10 0.1×	10 0.1×	27 0.5×	41	817
Tomoya Mori Japan	17	306 1.2×	4 0.0×	16 0.2×	45 0.6×	23 0.5×	60	937
Marcin Kociołek Poland	9	41 0.2×	8 0.1×	94 1.0×	11 0.1×	82 1.6×	17	315
Christian Wiwie Denmark	4	196 0.7×	12 0.1×	10 0.1×	12 0.2×	64 1.3×	7	326
Ryoma Bise Japan	14	111 0.4×	3 0.0×	289 3.0×	20 0.3×	145 2.8×	54	636
Caroline B. Adiels Sweden	17	328 1.2×		74 0.8×	71 1.0×	6 0.1×	34	716

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex X. Lu

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lu, Alex X., et al.. (2025). Exploring Collaboration to Center the Deaf Community in Sign Language AI. PubMed. 1. 1–18.

Crawford, Lorin, et al.. (2025). Zero-shot evaluation reveals limitations of single-cell foundation models. Genome biology. 26(1). 101–101. 18 indexed citations breakdown →

Yang, Kevin, Nicolò Fusi, & Alex X. Lu. (2024). Convolutions are competitive with transformers for protein sequence pretraining. Cell Systems. 15(3). 286–294.e2. 43 indexed citations

Wu, Kevin, Kevin Yang, Rianne van den Berg, et al.. (2024). Protein structure generation via folding diffusion. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1059–1059. 76 indexed citations breakdown →

Daumé, Hal, et al.. (2024). ASL STEM Wiki: Dataset and Benchmark for Interpreting STEM Articles. 14474–14490. 2 indexed citations

Lu, Alex X. & Alan M Moses. (2024). Using Dimensionality Reduction to Visualize Phenotypic Changes in High-Throughput Microscopy. Methods in molecular biology. 2800. 217–229.

Lu, Alex X., Amy X. Lu, Iva Pritišanac, et al.. (2022). Discovering molecular features of intrinsically disordered regions by using evolution for contrastive learning. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(6). e1010238–e1010238. 17 indexed citations

Yang, Karren, Samuel Goldman, Wengong Jin, et al.. (2021). Mol2Image: Improved Conditional Flow Models for Molecule to Image Synthesis. 6684–6694. 11 indexed citations

Lu, Alex X., Hui Liu, Rongye Shi, et al.. (2020). Application of droplet digital PCR for the detection of vector copy number in clinical CAR/TCR T cell products. Journal of Translational Medicine. 18(1). 191–191. 23 indexed citations

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Lu, Alex X., Amy X. Lu, Wiebke Schormann, et al.. (2019). The Cells Out of Sample (COOS) dataset and benchmarks for measuring out-of-sample generalization of image classifiers. arXiv (Cornell University). 32. 1852–1860. 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Alex X., Oren Kraus, Sam Cooper, & Alan M Moses. (2019). Learning unsupervised feature representations for single cell microscopy images with paired cell inpainting. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(9). e1007348–e1007348. 57 indexed citations

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Lu, Alex X., et al.. (2019). YeastSpotter: accurate and parameter-free web segmentation for microscopy images of yeast cells. Bioinformatics. 35(21). 4525–4527. 54 indexed citations

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Lu, Alex X., Louis‐François Handfield, & Alan M Moses. (2018). Extracting and Integrating Protein Localization Changes from Multiple Image Screens of Yeast Cells. BIO-PROTOCOL. 8(18). e3022–e3022. 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Alex X., et al.. (2016). Influence of repetitive mechanical loading on MMP2 activity in tendon fibroblasts. Journal of Orthopaedic Research®. 34(11). 1991–2000. 13 indexed citations

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Lu, Alex X. & Alan M Moses. (2016). An Unsupervised kNN Method to Systematically Detect Changes in Protein Localization in High-Throughput Microscopy Images. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0158712–e0158712. 12 indexed citations

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Scott, Alex, Alex X. Lu, Gholamreza Safaee Ardekani, et al.. (2015). Angiopoietin‐like 4 promotes angiogenesis in the tendon and is increased in cyclically loaded tendon fibroblasts. The Journal of Physiology. 594(11). 2971–2983. 22 indexed citations

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Thornton, Gail M., Hayedeh Behzad, Aishwariya Sharma, et al.. (2014). Accumulation of Oxidized LDL in the Tendon Tissues of C57BL/6 or Apolipoprotein E Knock-Out Mice That Consume a High Fat Diet: Potential Impact on Tendon Health. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e114214–e114214. 39 indexed citations

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Lu, Alex X., et al.. (2014). Enhanced collagen type I synthesis by human tenocytes subjected to periodic in vitro mechanical stimulation. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 15(1). 386–386. 36 indexed citations

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Pang, Linyong, et al.. (2003). Enhanced dispositioning of reticle defects for advanced masks using virtual stepper with automated defect severity scoring. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5256. 461–461. 6 indexed citations

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Lu, Alex X., et al.. (2003). Application of simulation-based defect printability analysis at mask qualification control. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5038. 33–33. 1 indexed citations

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