Boxiang Liu

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Boxiang Liu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Boxiang Liu has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Organic Chemistry and 7 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Boxiang Liu's work include RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers). Boxiang Liu is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers). Boxiang Liu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Boxiang Liu's co-authors include Stephen B. Montgomery, Liang Huang, Kaibo Liu, Liang Zhang, He Zhang, Michael J. Gloudemans, Thomas Quertermous, Shifa Zhu, David H. Mathews and Trieu Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Boxiang Liu

43 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Algorithm for optimized mRNA design improves stability and immunogenicity

2023 232 citations He Zhang, Liang Zhang et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boxiang Liu United States	18	707	164	139	113	102	45	1.2k
Yuping Yang China	19	971 1.4×	118 0.7×	122 0.9×	335 3.0×	69 0.7×	88	1.6k
Ziqian Zhang China	20	487 0.7×	94 0.6×	165 1.2×	92 0.8×	49 0.5×	86	1.2k
Qinggang Meng China	24	746 1.1×	221 1.3×	76 0.5×	68 0.6×	19 0.2×	102	1.6k
Lulu Liu China	28	945 1.3×	119 0.7×	341 2.5×	264 2.3×	81 0.8×	125	2.2k
Xueyan Li China	17	1.2k 1.6×	126 0.8×	95 0.7×	89 0.8×	13 0.1×	41	1.5k
Juan Wen China	21	598 0.8×	87 0.5×	178 1.3×	151 1.3×	28 0.3×	97	1.4k
Zongming Song China	22	664 0.9×	116 0.7×	47 0.3×	27 0.2×	29 0.3×	87	1.3k
Ruyi He China	17	738 1.0×	70 0.4×	94 0.7×	178 1.6×	17 0.2×	36	1.3k
Chi‐Yuan Chen Taiwan	30	1.2k 1.8×	260 1.6×	221 1.6×	350 3.1×	62 0.6×	82	2.1k
Michael I. Sadowski United Kingdom	18	1.2k 1.7×	178 1.1×	94 0.7×	89 0.8×	24 0.2×	32	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boxiang Liu

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Chen, Songjie, Ruiqi Jian, M Snyder, et al.. (2025). The 40S ribosomal subunit recycling complex modulates mitochondrial dynamics and endoplasmic reticulum - mitochondria tethering at mitochondrial fission/fusion hotspots. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1021–1021. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Yichao, Lisha Zhu, Hyunki Kim, et al.. (2025). scPrediXcan integrates deep learning methods and single-cell data into a cell-type-specific transcriptome-wide association study framework. Cell Genomics. 5(5). 100875–100875.

Hu, Yuxuan, et al.. (2024). The rational design of mRNA vaccine: From empirical method to artificial intelligence-based design. Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version). 69(33). 4805–4812.

Han, Da, et al.. (2024). siRNADiscovery: a graph neural network for siRNA efficacy prediction via deep RNA sequence analysis. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(6). 2 indexed citations

Zhang, He, Liang Zhang, Ang Lin, et al.. (2023). Algorithm for optimized mRNA design improves stability and immunogenicity. Nature. 621(7978). 396–403. 232 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, He, Liang Zhang, Kaibo Liu, et al.. (2021). LinearTurboFold: Linear-time global prediction of conserved structures for RNA homologs with applications to SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(52). 12 indexed citations

Li, Yingmei, Dina Polyak, Ian D. Connolly, et al.. (2021). Comprehensive RNA analysis of CSF reveals a role for CEACAM6 in lung cancer leptomeningeal metastases. npj Precision Oncology. 5(1). 90–90. 19 indexed citations

Church, Kenneth & Boxiang Liu. (2021). Acronyms and Opportunities for Improving Deep Nets. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 4. 732381–732381. 1 indexed citations

Corces, M. Ryan, Anna Shcherbina, Soumya Kundu, et al.. (2020). Single-cell epigenomic analyses implicate candidate causal variants at inherited risk loci for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Nature Genetics. 52(11). 1158–1168. 198 indexed citations

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Zhao, Quanyi, Michael Dacre, Trieu Nguyen, et al.. (2020). Molecular mechanisms of coronary disease revealed using quantitative trait loci for TCF21 binding, chromatin accessibility, and chromosomal looping. Genome biology. 21(1). 135–135. 13 indexed citations

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Liu, Boxiang, Kaibo Liu, He Zhang, et al.. (2020). CoV-Seq, a New Tool for SARS-CoV-2 Genome Analysis and Visualization: Development and Usability Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(10). e22299–e22299. 22 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhongdong, Boxiang Liu, & Gaowei Chen. (2019). Retrospective analysis of the development history of the Chinese food additive standards system based on the CODEX principles. npj Science of Food. 3(1). 27–27. 4 indexed citations

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Balliu, Brunilda, Matthew G. Durrant, Nathan S. Abell, et al.. (2019). Genetic regulation of gene expression and splicing during a 10-year period of human aging. Genome biology. 20(1). 230–230. 47 indexed citations

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Liu, Boxiang, Melissa A. Calton, Nathan S. Abell, et al.. (2019). Genetic analyses of human fetal retinal pigment epithelium gene expression suggest ocular disease mechanisms. Communications Biology. 2(1). 186–186. 20 indexed citations

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Li, Yingmei, Boxiang Liu, Ian D. Connolly, et al.. (2018). Recurrently Mutated Genes Differ between Leptomeningeal and Solid Lung Cancer Brain Metastases. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 13(7). 1022–1027. 23 indexed citations

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Liu, Boxiang, Milos Pjanic, Ting Wang, et al.. (2018). Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms of Smooth Muscle Cells Map to Coronary Artery Disease Risk Loci. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 103(3). 377–388. 52 indexed citations

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Han, Summer S., Sonya Aggarwal, Boxiang Liu, et al.. (2018). Clinical factors associated with mortality within three months after radiosurgery of asymptomatic brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 140(3). 705–715. 4 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhihao, Yan Wang, Junghyun Lim, et al.. (2018). Ubiquitination of ABCE1 by NOT4 in Response to Mitochondrial Damage Links Co-translational Quality Control to PINK1-Directed Mitophagy. Cell Metabolism. 28(1). 130–144.e7. 63 indexed citations

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Kim, Juyong Brian, Milos Pjanic, Trieu Nguyen, et al.. (2017). TCF21 and the environmental sensor aryl-hydrocarbon receptor cooperate to activate a pro-inflammatory gene expression program in coronary artery smooth muscle cells. PLoS Genetics. 13(5). e1006750–e1006750. 51 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhongdong, Boxiang Liu, Mengxing Li, et al.. (2013). Scanning probe acoustic microscopy of extruded starch materials: Direct visual evidence of starch crystal. Carbohydrate Polymers. 98(1). 372–379. 4 indexed citations

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