Anan Li

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Anan Li is a scholar working on Biophysics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Anan Li has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Biophysics, 42 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 40 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Anan Li's work include Cell Image Analysis Techniques (60 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (48 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (28 papers). Anan Li is often cited by papers focused on Cell Image Analysis Techniques (60 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (48 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (28 papers). Anan Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Macao. Anan Li's co-authors include Hui Gong, Qingming Luo, Xiangning Li, Shaoqun Zeng, Jing Yuan, Jingpeng Wu, Tonghui Xu, Qingtao Sun, Cheng Yan and Qian Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Anan Li

152 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Microglia regulate sleep through calcium-dependent modulation of norepinephrine transmission

2024 51 citations Chenyan Ma, Bing Li et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Anan Li	1.4k	1.1k	1.0k	883	434	161	4.0k
Xiangning Li	517 0.4×	960 0.9×	861 0.9×	729 0.8×	319 0.7×	168	3.4k
Shaoqun Zeng	2.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	762 0.9×	1.2k 2.7×	238	5.0k
Jing Yuan	574 0.4×	565 0.5×	697 0.7×	453 0.5×	458 1.1×	177	3.0k
Tonghui Xu	466 0.3×	986 0.9×	604 0.6×	763 0.9×	339 0.8×	41	2.5k
Hans‐Ulrich Dodt	1.9k 1.3×	2.2k 2.1×	1.8k 1.7×	1.1k 1.3×	923 2.1×	86	5.2k
Marcel Egger	459 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	486 0.6×	536 1.2×	90	3.4k
Vincenzo De Paola	469 0.3×	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	692 0.8×	206 0.5×	57	3.7k
Nicolas Renier	777 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	552 0.6×	362 0.8×	35	3.8k
Pascal Jourdain	413 0.3×	1.6k 1.5×	839 0.8×	495 0.6×	419 1.0×	38	3.3k
Peter Saggau	622 0.4×	2.4k 2.2×	1.7k 1.7×	894 1.0×	469 1.1×	71	3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anan Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anan Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Anan Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Anan Li 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 Anan Li. Anan Li 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

Li, Anan, et al.. (2025). Adolescent campus bullying and non-suicide self-injury: chain mediating effect of negative affect and sleep quality. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1449646–1449646.

Li, Qianqian, Miao Ren, Anan Li, et al.. (2025). Single-nucleus transcriptome atlas of the basal forebrain reveals diverse ageing-related pathways. Brain. 148(7). 2493–2508.

Ren, Miao, Yuxiao Li, Tao Jiang, et al.. (2025). Long‐range inputome of prefrontal GABAergic interneurons in the Alzheimer's disease mouse. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(2). e14552–e14552. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Yuxiao, Anan Li, Rui Liang, et al.. (2024). Sharing massive biomedical data at magnitudes lower bandwidth using implicit neural function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(28). e2320870121–e2320870121. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Chenyan, Bing Li, Daniel Silverman, et al.. (2024). Microglia regulate sleep through calcium-dependent modulation of norepinephrine transmission. Nature Neuroscience. 27(2). 249–258. 51 indexed citations breakdown →

Jiang, Tao, Lingfeng Gou, Biyu Ren, et al.. (2024). Single-neuron projectomes of mouse paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus oxytocin neurons reveal mutually exclusive projection patterns. Neuron. 112(7). 1081–1099.e7. 25 indexed citations

Chen, Simeng, Zhao Feng, Xiangning Li, et al.. (2024). Knowledge mining of brain connectivity in massive literature based on transfer learning. Bioinformatics. 40(12).

Li, Anan, Shijiang Wang, Jiangbo Nie, et al.. (2024). USP3 promotes osteosarcoma progression via deubiquitinating EPHA2 and activating the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. Cell Death and Disease. 15(3). 235–235. 9 indexed citations

Cao, Ruifang, Yunchao Ling, Ao Jiang, et al.. (2023). SMDB: a Spatial Multimodal Data Browser. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(W1). W553–W559. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Changhao, et al.. (2023). An unsupervised real-time spike sorting system based on optimized OSort. Journal of Neural Engineering. 20(6). 66015–66015. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaoyu, Tao Jiang, Anan Li, et al.. (2023). Deep self-learning enables fast, high-fidelity isotropic resolution restoration for volumetric fluorescence microscopy. Light Science & Applications. 12(1). 204–204. 19 indexed citations

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Li, Yuxin, Xuhua Liu, Xueyan Jia, et al.. (2023). A high-performance deep-learning-based pipeline for whole-brain vasculature segmentation at the capillary resolution. Bioinformatics. 39(4). 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Zihao, Zihao Liu, Anan Li, et al.. (2023). Alpinetin inhibits neuroinflammation and neuronal apoptosis via targeting the JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway in spinal cord injury. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 29(4). 1094–1108. 62 indexed citations

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Chen, Ruixi, Anan Li, Xiaofeng Cheng, et al.. (2021). Chemical Sectioning for Immunofluorescence Imaging. Analytical Chemistry. 93(25). 8698–8703. 7 indexed citations

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Sun, Jingjing, Shuo Yang, Xiaocui Zhang, et al.. (2020). Chromatin-Binding Protein PHF6 Regulates Activity-Dependent Transcriptional Networks to Promote Hunger Response. Cell Reports. 30(11). 3717–3728.e6. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Anan, Hui Gong, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2019). MT volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Front matter. Microscopy Today. 27(2). f1–f6. 1 indexed citations

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Ren, Jing, Alina Isakova, Drew Friedmann, et al.. (2019). Single-cell transcriptomes and whole-brain projections of serotonin neurons in the mouse dorsal and median raphe nuclei. eLife. 8. 180 indexed citations

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Li, Anan, et al.. (2011). Microstructure and creep behavior of A 9%W single crystal nickel‐based superalloy. Rare Metals. 30(S1). 462–466. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Anan. (2007). Radar System of Through-wall Detection and Two Dimensional Imaging Based on UWB. Tance yu kongzhi xuebao. 2 indexed citations

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Luo, Feng, Anan Li, Jie Ma, et al.. (2006). Spectrotemporal characteristics of echolocation pulses and frequency tuning by inferior collicular neuron of Rhinolophus pusillus. 52(3). 528–535. 5 indexed citations

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