Cheng Hu

13.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
274 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Cheng Hu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng Hu has authored 274 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Molecular Biology, 75 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 63 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Cheng Hu's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (42 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (31 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (31 papers). Cheng Hu is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (42 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (31 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (31 papers). Cheng Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Cheng Hu's co-authors include Weiping Jia, Yuqian Bao, Congrong Wang, Xuhong Hou, Xiaojing Ma, Feng Jiang, Weihui Yu, Kun‐san Xiang, Rong Zhang and Chung-Ming Chang and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Cheng Hu

257 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Diabetes in China: Epidemiology and Genetic Risk Factors and Their Clinical Utility in Personalized Medication

2017 295 citations Cheng Hu, Weiping Jia profile →
Local hyperthermia therapy induces browning of white fat and treats obesity

2022 141 citations Yu Li, Dongmei Wang et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cheng Hu China	42	2.5k	1.4k	1.2k	1.2k	1.1k	274	6.2k
Luigi Laviola Italy	42	2.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	876 0.7×	952 0.9×	126	6.2k
Cristina Hernández Spain	60	3.0k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	922 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	760 0.7×	287	11.1k
Mark O. Goodarzi United States	47	1.8k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	819 0.7×	928 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	168	7.7k
John Cijiang He United States	61	3.9k 1.6×	1.1k 0.8×	921 0.8×	945 0.8×	766 0.7×	243	10.3k
Davide Lauro Italy	50	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	1.9k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	206	7.3k
Hyun Chul Lee South Korea	41	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	925 0.8×	215	6.1k
Adam Krętowski Poland	37	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	959 0.8×	739 0.6×	861 0.8×	336	5.5k
Takeshi Nishikawa Japan	35	3.0k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.7×	854 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	109	8.1k
Lulu Chen China	39	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	667 0.6×	294	5.9k
Jiajun Zhao China	43	2.8k 1.1×	2.7k 1.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	991 0.9×	335	7.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Cheng Hu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cheng Hu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cheng Hu

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

Hu, Cheng, et al.. (2025). “Warp and weft combined”: A meta-ethnography of nursing students' experiences participating in geriatric care services. Geriatric Nursing. 64. 103410–103410.

Zhang, Lina, Xinyu Wang, Rong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Fam172a Mediates the Stimulation of Hypothalamic Oxytocin Neurons to Suppress Obesity‐Induced Anxiety. Advanced Science. 12(14). e2414723–e2414723.

Xu, Yuejie, Ying Chen, Ningning Bai, et al.. (2025). Deubiquitinating enzyme USP2 regulates brown adipose tissue thermogenesis via controlling EBF2 stabilization. Molecular Metabolism. 96. 102139–102139. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Hong‐Wei, Jing Zhang, Dandan Jiang, et al.. (2025). Ioning out glioblastoma: ferroptosis mechanisms and therapeutic frontiers. Cell Death Discovery. 11(1). 407–407.

Lu, Jie, Yuejun Liu, Ni Zhang, et al.. (2024). Improvement of MASLD and MASH by suppression of hepatic N-acetyltransferase 10. Molecular Metabolism. 89. 102030–102030. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Zhuo, Hong Zhang, Lina Zhang, et al.. (2024). Histone lactylation mediated by Fam172a in POMC neurons regulates energy balance. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10111–10111. 8 indexed citations

Jiang, Qing, et al.. (2024). Improved cardinalized probability hypothesis density filter for multitarget tracking using formation priors. IET conference proceedings.. 2023(47). 1613–1618.

Wang, Shiyun, Jingyi Lu, Rong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Interaction between haptoglobin genotype and glycemic variability on diabetic macroangiopathy: a population-based cross-sectional study. Endocrine. 82(2). 311–318. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Hong‐Ren, Haoyong Yu, Rong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Targeted gene panel provides advantages over whole-exome sequencing for diagnosing obesity and diabetes mellitus. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology. 15(6). 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Yanhao, Xiaoshan Wu, Yongxu Zhao, et al.. (2023). Acute liver steatosis translationally controls the epigenetic regulator MIER1 to promote liver regeneration in a study with male mice. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1521–1521. 25 indexed citations

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Bai, Ningning, Yansu Wang, Xiaoya Li, et al.. (2023). Transcript profile of CLSTN3B gene in human white adipose tissue is associated with obesity and mitochondrial gene program. PubMed. 2(6). load037–load037. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Yu, Dongmei Wang, Yankang Zhang, et al.. (2022). Local hyperthermia therapy induces browning of white fat and treats obesity. Cell. 185(6). 949–966.e19. 141 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Jin, et al.. (2021). CD28 Genetic Variants Increase Susceptibility to Diabetic Kidney Disease in Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross‐Sectional Case Control Study. Mediators of Inflammation. 2021(1). 5521050–5521050. 6 indexed citations

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Xu, Jie, Nadeeja Wijesekara, Dana Al Rijjal, et al.. (2021). Pancreatic β cell–selective zinc transporter 8 insufficiency accelerates diabetes associated with islet amyloidosis. JCI Insight. 6(10). 19 indexed citations

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Jiang, Feng, Qing Li, Cheng Hu, et al.. (2012). Association of a SLC30A8 genetic variant with monotherapy of repaglinide and rosiglitazone effect in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients in China.. PubMed. 25(1). 23–9. 10 indexed citations

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Ma, Xiaojing, Yuqian Bao, Jian Zhou, et al.. (2010). Defining the relationship between glycated albumin and HBA1c in individuals with a diverse spectrum of glucose metabolism. Zhonghua neifenmi daixie zazhi. 26(6). 452–455. 1 indexed citations

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Jia, Weiping, et al.. (2008). Characteristics of glycemic stability in subjects with different glucose tolerance:the results of continuous glucose monitoring. 31(1). 10–13.

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Zhou, Jian, Weiping Jia, Yuqian Bao, et al.. (2007). [Study on prevalence and risk factors of fatty liver of patients with type 2 diabetes].. PubMed. 87(32). 2249–52. 10 indexed citations

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Hu, Cheng, H C Hsu, Ah Kau Ng, et al.. (1989). Expression of class I and class II major histocompatibility antigens on human hepatocellular carcinoma.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 83(2). 421–429. 31 indexed citations

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Chou, Chao‐Kai, L.‐T. Ho, L P Ting, et al.. (1987). Selective suppression of insulin-induced proliferation of cultured human hepatoma cells by somatostatin.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 79(1). 175–178. 46 indexed citations

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