Chao Li

38.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
546 papers, 13.9k citations indexed

About

Chao Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Chao Li has authored 546 papers receiving a total of 13.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 274 papers in Molecular Biology, 185 papers in Immunology and 136 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Chao Li's work include Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (125 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (75 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (69 papers). Chao Li is often cited by papers focused on Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (125 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (75 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (69 papers). Chao Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Chao Li's co-authors include Harikrishnan Mohan, Dortje Golldack, Eric Peatman, Baofeng Su, Qiang Fu, Baohong Zhang, Benjamin H. Beck, Zhanjiang Liu, Shikai Liu and Chengbin Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chao Li

521 papers receiving 13.8k citations

Hit Papers

Tolerance to drought and salt stress in plants: Unravelin... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2014 2014 2012 2016 2022 250 500 750
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.

  1. Tolerance to drought and salt stress in plants: Unraveling the signaling networks
    2014 843 citations Chao Li et al. profile →
  2. Highly Multiplexed Subcellular RNA Sequencing in Situ
    2014 693 citations Chao Li et al. profile →
  3. The mitigation effects of exogenous melatonin on salinity‐induced stress in Malus hupehensis
    2012 453 citations Chao Li et al. profile →
  4. Exosomes Derived from Hypoxic Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells Deliver miR-21 to Normoxic Cells to Elicit a Prometastatic Phenotype
    2016 436 citations Ling Li, Chao Li et al. Cancer Research profile →
  5. Increasing the resilience of plant immunity to a warming climate
    2022 141 citations Chao Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chao Li China 53 6.5k 3.8k 2.9k 2.8k 1.4k 546 13.9k
Colin N. Dewey United States 27 11.0k 1.7× 2.2k 0.6× 2.3k 0.8× 4.3k 1.5× 540 0.4× 53 19.2k
Yang Zhang China 44 9.8k 1.5× 2.2k 0.6× 2.1k 0.7× 3.1k 1.1× 726 0.5× 342 19.0k
Alicia Oshlack Australia 45 11.8k 1.8× 1.9k 0.5× 2.8k 1.0× 3.2k 1.1× 355 0.2× 98 18.8k
Xun Xu China 62 6.6k 1.0× 2.6k 0.7× 984 0.3× 2.5k 0.9× 296 0.2× 400 14.4k
Mihaela Pertea United States 24 12.0k 1.8× 1.6k 0.4× 2.5k 0.9× 6.6k 2.4× 461 0.3× 44 19.8k
Tania Nolan United Kingdom 21 9.8k 1.5× 1.5k 0.4× 1.8k 0.6× 2.1k 0.7× 340 0.2× 35 17.6k
Brian A. Williams United States 24 16.7k 2.6× 2.0k 0.5× 4.1k 1.4× 6.2k 2.2× 473 0.3× 34 25.4k
Ana Conesa Spain 51 10.3k 1.6× 1.2k 0.3× 1.6k 0.6× 5.0k 1.8× 351 0.2× 165 17.5k
Shujiro Okuda Japan 35 8.4k 1.3× 1.1k 0.3× 1.1k 0.4× 2.5k 0.9× 417 0.3× 184 14.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chao Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chao Li

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Chao, Feifei Shi, Jing Liu, et al.. (2025). BestopCloud: an integrated one-stop solution for single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis. BMC Genomics. 26(1). 905–905.
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Luo, Dan, et al.. (2025). Advances in micro-/nanorobots for cancer diagnosis and treatment: propulsion mechanisms, early detection, and cancer therapy. Frontiers in Chemistry. 13. 1537917–1537917. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Feng, et al.. (2025). Mitochondrial Dysfunction as a Therapeutic Target in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: Progress and Prospects. Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications. 10(1).
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Li, Chao, et al.. (2024). Causal relationship between circulating levels of cytokines and bone mineral density: A mendelian randomization study. Cytokine. 182. 156729–156729. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoli, et al.. (2024). LncRNA (BCO1-AS) regulate inflammatory responses in bacterial infection through caspase-1 in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus). International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 279(Pt 2). 135131–135131. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jing, Hui Liu, Yang Shen, et al.. (2024). Macrophage AHR-TLR4 cross-talk drives p-STAT3 (Ser727)-mediated mitochondrial oxidative stress and upregulates IDO/ICAM-1 in the steatohepatitis induced by aflatoxin B1. The Science of The Total Environment. 923. 171377–171377. 6 indexed citations
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Iehata, Shumpei, Mhd Ikhwanuddin, Md Asaduzzaman, et al.. (2024). Transcriptome signature of juvenile Litopenaeus vannamei cultured under different salinity levels in response to Vibrio harveyi infection. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 200173–200173. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaoyan, et al.. (2023). Comprehensive analysis of long noncoding RNAs and lncRNA-mRNA networks in snakehead (Channa argus) response to Nocardia seriolae infection. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 133. 108558–108558. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Chao, Xiao Han, Xiuxia Zhang, et al.. (2023). Deep genome-wide divergences among species in White Cloud Mountain minnow Tanichthys albonubes (Cypriniformes: Tanichthyidae) complex: Conservation and species management implications. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 182. 107734–107734. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Donglei, Haishen Wen, Xin Qi, et al.. (2023). Comparative study of candidate sex determination regions in snakeheads (Channa argus and C. maculata) and development of novel sex markers. Aquaculture. 575. 739771–739771. 10 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhe, Peng Liu, Xuan Chen, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide identification and functional characterization of inhibitor of nuclear factor-κB (IκB) kinase (IKK) in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus). Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 134. 108619–108619. 2 indexed citations
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Jiang, Yanliang, et al.. (2023). Comprehensive analysis of circRNA-miRNA-mRNA networks in the kidney of snakehead (Channa argus) response to Nocardia seriolae challenge. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 151. 105099–105099.
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Liu, Peng, Xuan Chen, Zhe Liu, et al.. (2023). Identification and functional characterization of caspases in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) in response to bacterial infection. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 137. 108757–108757. 7 indexed citations
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Gao, Chengbin, et al.. (2023). Systematic analysis of circRNA-related ceRNA networks of black rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii) in response to Aeromonas salmonicides infection. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 135. 108648–108648. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Chao, Jie Zhang, Mian Wu, et al.. (2022). Reshaping the binding channel of a novel GH113 family β-mannanase from Paenibacillus cineris (PcMan113) for enhanced activity. Bioresources and Bioprocessing. 9(1). 3 indexed citations
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Ai, Dongmei, HoJoon Lee, Noemi Andor, et al.. (2018). SVEngine: an efficient and versatile simulator of genome structural variations with features of cancer clonal evolution. GigaScience. 7(7). 10 indexed citations
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Li, Ling, Chao Li, Shaoxin Wang, et al.. (2016). Exosomes Derived from Hypoxic Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells Deliver miR-21 to Normoxic Cells to Elicit a Prometastatic Phenotype. Cancer Research. 76(7). 1770–1780. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

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