Chao Liang

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Chao Liang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Chao Liang has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Oncology and 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Chao Liang's work include RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (11 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (11 papers) and Bone Metabolism and Diseases (10 papers). Chao Liang is often cited by papers focused on RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (11 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (11 papers) and Bone Metabolism and Diseases (10 papers). Chao Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Chao Liang's co-authors include Aiping Lü, Ge Zhang, Jie Huang, Xuekun Fu, Bao‐Ting Zhang, Daogang Guan, Lei Dang, Yühong Huang, Zheng Li and Xinxin Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Chao Liang

78 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Promising Therapeutic Targets for Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

2021 225 citations Jie Huang, Xuekun Fu et al. Frontiers in Immunology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chao Liang China	30	1.5k	474	377	315	282	83	2.4k
Stephen R. Pennington Ireland	31	1.5k 1.0×	273 0.6×	295 0.8×	244 0.8×	411 1.5×	133	3.0k
Tokuhiro Chano Japan	31	1.4k 1.0×	542 1.1×	498 1.3×	170 0.5×	168 0.6×	108	2.7k
Saverio Francesco Retta Italy	36	1.6k 1.1×	276 0.6×	295 0.8×	201 0.6×	80 0.3×	83	3.9k
Hon S. Leong Canada	33	1.6k 1.1×	727 1.5×	683 1.8×	349 1.1×	71 0.3×	85	3.0k
Takeshi Hori Japan	27	698 0.5×	195 0.4×	285 0.8×	334 1.1×	185 0.7×	151	2.7k
Tae‐Young Jung South Korea	31	595 0.4×	260 0.5×	411 1.1×	240 0.8×	145 0.5×	216	3.2k
Li Song China	27	1.3k 0.9×	561 1.2×	293 0.8×	177 0.6×	84 0.3×	91	2.3k
Jianfeng Chen China	30	1.4k 1.0×	396 0.8×	436 1.2×	177 0.6×	92 0.3×	105	3.2k
Jin Zhu China	30	1.3k 0.9×	341 0.7×	1.0k 2.7×	296 0.9×	170 0.6×	132	2.9k
Darren C. Tomlinson United Kingdom	34	2.5k 1.7×	375 0.8×	448 1.2×	317 1.0×	79 0.3×	95	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Chao Liang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chao Liang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chao Liang

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Yuliang, Ke-Wei Chen, Kai Zhao, et al.. (2025). MnO₂-Assisted Photosynthetic Bacteria Interfering with the Adenosine-A2AR Metabolic Pathway to Enhance Tumor Photothermal Immunotherapy. ACS Nano. 19(8). 7962–7980. 6 indexed citations

Huang, Jie, Xuekun Fu, Zhuqian Wang, et al.. (2025). snoRNA Snord3 promotes rheumatoid arthritis by epigenetic regulation of ESM1 in fibroblast-like synoviocytes in mice. Science Translational Medicine. 17(824). eadt5340–eadt5340.

Yan, Jianhua, Chao Liang, Yuping Chen, et al.. (2025). Injectable multifunctional hydrogels for adipose tissue remodeling to treat obesity and alleviate metabolic syndrome. Journal of Controlled Release. 381. 113585–113585. 1 indexed citations

Fu, Xuekun, Jin Li, Xinxin Chen, et al.. (2024). Repurposing AS1411 for constructing ANM-PROTACs. Cell chemical biology. 31(7). 1290–1304.e7. 13 indexed citations

Guo, Wangxin, Pengfei Shao, Chao Liang, et al.. (2024). JAK/STAT signaling maintains an intermediate cell population during prostate basal cell fate determination. Nature Genetics. 56(12). 2776–2789. 5 indexed citations

Qiu, Fang, et al.. (2024). Development of hybrid aptamers-engineered PROTACs for degrading VEGF165 in both tumor- and vascular endothelial cells. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 281. 117027–117027. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Hongzhen, Xuekun Fu, Xiaohao Wu, et al.. (2024). Gut microbial metabolite targets HDAC3-FOXK1-interferon axis in fibroblast-like synoviocytes to ameliorate rheumatoid arthritis. Bone Research. 12(1). 31–31. 20 indexed citations

Li, Jie, et al.. (2023). A20 haploinsufficiency caused by loss‐of‐function TNFAIP3 mutation likely leads to progression of antiphospholipid syndrome to marginal zone lymphomas following coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination: A case study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2).

Huang, Jie, Lingqiang Zhang, Aiping Lü, & Chao Liang. (2023). Organoids as Innovative Models for Bone and Joint Diseases. Cells. 12(12). 1590–1590. 29 indexed citations

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Mi, Chao, Xun Zhang, Jianqun Wu, et al.. (2023). Bone disease imaging through the near-infrared-II window. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6287–6287. 37 indexed citations

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Bai, Ying, Xin Zhang, Jiawei Zhou, et al.. (2023). A2aR on lung adenocarcinoma cells: A novel target for cancer therapy via recruiting and regulating tumor-associated macrophages. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 382. 110543–110543. 11 indexed citations

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Liu, Qi, et al.. (2022). Anatomical study of the inferior extensor retinaculum and the oblique superolateral band: implications for the Brostrom-Gould procedure. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 23(1). 28–28. 3 indexed citations

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Huang, Jie, Xuekun Fu, Xinxin Chen, et al.. (2021). Promising Therapeutic Targets for Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 686155–686155. 225 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Zhuqian, Jie Huang, Duoli Xie, et al.. (2021). Toward Overcoming Treatment Failure in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 755844–755844. 31 indexed citations

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Liang, Chao, Songlin Peng, Jie Li, et al.. (2018). Inhibition of osteoblastic Smurf1 promotes bone formation in mouse models of distinctive age-related osteoporosis. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3428–3428. 44 indexed citations

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Yu, Yuanyuan, Feng Jiang, Daogang Guan, et al.. (2016). Molecular Mechanisms and Translational Therapies for Human Epidermal Receptor 2 Positive Breast Cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 17(12). 2095–2095. 41 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaohao, Bing He, Jin Liu, et al.. (2016). Molecular Insight into Gut Microbiota and Rheumatoid Arthritis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 17(3). 431–431. 69 indexed citations

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Liang, Chao, Defang Li, Guang‐Xian Zhang, et al.. (2015). Comparison of the methods for generating single-stranded DNA in SELEX. The Analyst. 140(10). 3439–3444. 24 indexed citations

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Li, Dahu, Heng Zhu, Chao Liang, et al.. (2014). CKIP-1 suppresses the adipogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells by enhancing HDAC1-associated repression of C/EBPα. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology. 6(5). 368–379. 24 indexed citations

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Doody, J., B. Lipschultz, Lihua Zhou, et al.. (2013). An approach to explore the eddy currents of the new type divertor for EAST device using ANSYS code. Science China Technological Sciences. 57(1). 9–13. 8 indexed citations

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